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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Judith Greblya</title>
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		<title>Willful Blindness Toward Terrorists at UCLA a Decade After 9-11</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Judith Greblya]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of California hosts a peculiar roundtable discussion.]]></description>
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<p>The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Near Eastern Studies hosted a <a href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9002">roundtable discussion </a>last month titled, “After a Decade of the ‘War on Terror’: The Middle East, Human Rights and American Muslims.” Sponsored by the UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program, the event featured UCLA law professor Asli Bali, University of California, Santa Barbara sociology professor Lisa Hajjar, and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Southern California attorney Ahilan Arulanantham. The audience of approximately twenty people was comprised mostly of law and graduate students, along with a few members of the community.</p>
<p>According to the introduction, the speakers were to “examine this decade on the war on terror in the broader context of the international community,” but the two-hour event quickly descended into a forum for America-bashing. All three speakers called the existence of Islamic terrorism into question and, what’s worse, behaved as if the attacks of September 11, 2001 never occurred.</p>
<p>Bali of UCLA Law began by framing the discussion around how “the war on terror has affected the international law community and American Muslims.” She argued that the “war on terror has created a political entrepreneurial class that has benefited from the war” and called the Patriot Act a “violation of the Fourth Amendment” that has played out “quite viciously on the global stage.”  The U.S., Bali maintained, has been allotted extraordinary executive license and now has the “power to detain anyone, even U.S. citizens.”</p>
<p>Presenting <a href="http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/sc7158.doc.htm">U.N. Resolution 1373</a>—a counter-terrorism measure passed unanimously on September 28, 2001 to restrict the movement, organization, and fundraising activities of terrorist groups—as evidence of America’s overarching power, Bali concluded that this “is a case in point of how the U.S. has sculpted and shifted the global community to do what they want.” With no evidence, she then asserted that the American “and the Israeli government benefit economically from the resolution.” In sum, Bali whitewashed the events of 9/11, bashed the U.S., and ignored countries that harbor Islamic terrorists.</p>
<p>ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham followed and called America’s detention program abroad into question. Urging the U.S. to have “some sort of accountability for abusing and torturing humans,” Arulanantham limned a portrait of America as a dictatorial state that “secretly detains people abroad.” Building on Bali’s insinuation that the U.S. conducts secret and illegal missions worldwide, he called upon the audience to “look into worldwide cases of people being secretly detained and tortured, some of whom are U.S. citizens.” Labeling the U.S. “a surveillance industrial complex,” Arulanantham advised audience members to obtain a “freedom of information act form in order to acquire information from the government about what is happening on your own campus.” Arulanatham’s paranoid assertion that the U.S. government, with the assistance of local FBI cells, is secretly “monitoring the lives of students on college campuses” illustrated the level of fear mongering at this event.</p>
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		<title>Using the ‘Arab Uprisings’ to Bash America and Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Judith Greblya]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arab Spring]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Gelvin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professors speaking at UCLA put the Great Satan and Little Satan on trial. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_112937" style="width: 385px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cole-gelvin-pic-kc-kte.gif"><img class="size-full wp-image-112937" title="cole-gelvin-pic-kc-kte" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cole-gelvin-pic-kc-kte.gif" alt="" width="375" height="253" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Juan Cole and James Gelvin</p></div>
<p>On Thursday November 10, 2011, approximately sixty people gathered for a lecture hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles’s Center for Near Eastern Studies. The <a href="http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=9001">event</a> was titled, “Taking Stock: The Arab Uprising on the Eve of Their First Anniversary” and it featured two history professors, <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=james+gelvin&amp;sa=Search">James Gelvin</a> of ULCA and <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=juan+cole&amp;sa=Search">Juan Cole</a> of the University of Michigan.</p>
<p>Though the two-hour event promised to illuminate the various particulars and multi-layered realities of the Arab uprisings, it quickly dwindled into a platform for the type of postcolonial, anti-American, and anti-Israel rhetoric typical to the field of Middle East studies, and certainly to the notoriously biased <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2609/the-israel-palestine-conflict">Gelvin</a> and <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11109">Cole</a>.</p>
<p>Gelvin began by noting that although each Arab uprising has its own historical roots and contexts, there were four principle causes: failed neoliberal U.S. policies; demographics; the international food system; and the “brittle” nature of Arab countries. Under the aegis of “benefits for compliance,” he claimed, the Middle East was introduced to a form of “crony capitalism” that led to economic inequality. He went so far as to insist that the “Arab world, the recent strikes in Israel, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the Chilean student strikes” were all reactions to these allegedly failed economic policies. In Gelvin’s myopic and reductionist view of the world, all revolts result from an egregious “rift between the rich and poor.”</p>
<p>Cole followed suit by claiming that “progressive youth . . . spearheaded this movement with real sympathies for the working class.” Downplaying the role of religion in each revolt, he scoffed at suggestions that the Muslim Brotherhood has been a major player in the Egyptian uprising. “These revolutions,” he maintained, “are largely secular and national.” Cole must have missed the June 2011 <a href="http://thequeue.gallup.com/2011/06/inside-new-egypt-what-egyptians-tell.html">Gallup</a> poll showing that:</p>
<blockquote><p>[A] majority of Egyptians (69 percent) want religious leaders to have an advisory role in writing national legislation. Egyptians say they support the Muslim Brotherhood more than support other parties.</p></blockquote>
<p>When a woman from the audience asked him about <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-14/tunisian-islamist-party-victory-confirmed-after-election-appeals.html">the success</a> of the Islamist Ennahdha party in Tunisia’s recent election, Cole, after deeming the question “good,” proceeded to change the subject. “Most of our news is capitalist news,” he stated, and then asked the audience: “How many of you heard about the strikes in Israel this summer?” A fourth of the audience raised their hands. “There’s a reason that so few heard about the revolts,” he added conspiratorially. What this had to do with the Tunisian election remains a mystery to which, apparently, only the “capitalist news” is privy.</p>
<p>During the question and answer session, both Cole and Gelvin—engaging in an ahistorical and asinine comparison—insisted that the Occupy Wall Street movement and last summer’s tent protesters on Israel’s Rothchild Avenue took “inspiration from Tahrir square.”</p>
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		<title>Pushing ‘Islamophobia’ at UCLA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 04:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Judith Greblya]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Khaled Abou El Fadl pinpoints what's really wrong with Sharia: the people who oppose it. ]]></description>
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<p>Should an academic lecture on Sharia (Islamic law) become a platform for promoting fear of “Islamophobia”? This is exactly what occurred on April 14, 2011, when the University of California, Los Angeles, held the third and final <a href="http://www.humanities.ucla.edu/eventstalks/icalrepeat.detail/2011/04/14/475/-/MjA1YTRiOGMyMDhkYTAzMzIwOTQzYjUwNWU2OGQ5ZmI=">lecture</a> from Khaled Abou El Fadl—Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law and chair of the Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA—in the series, “Sharia Watch: AView from the Inside.” The lecture was cosponsored by UCLA’s School of Law, Center for Near Eastern Studies, <em>Journal for Islamic and Near Eastern Law</em>, and Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program.</p>
<p>The receptive audience of approximately 30 people consisted mostly of members of the local Muslim community and graduate students from UCLA’s Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department.</p>
<p>In her introductory remarks, UCLA law professor Asli Bali explained that the aim of the series was, “to better understand Sharia, as there is a lot of misinformation on what it is in the West.” But, as in <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/10523">previous lectures</a>, only 15 minutes of the hour-long lecture were actually devoted to Sharia; the bulk of the lecture focused on Islamophobia in America and the West.</p>
<p>Abou El Fadl claimed that the phenomenon of Islamophobia is due to racism and that it originated in medieval Europe where, as he put it, “Jews and Muslims were repeatedly constructed in European literature as ‘folkloric monsters.’” This is incorrect, for both race and ethnicity were alien ideas in medieval Europe. In fact, the terms “race” and “racism” appeared for the first time in European <em>belle-letters</em> in the eighteenth century.</p>
<p>Continuing the anti-Western diatribe, Abou El Fadl later added that, “the construction of the racial and ethnic alien stems from the West’s ethnocentrism.” Of Islamic supremacy, he had nothing to say.</p>
<p>He even blamed the West for the very concept he was espousing:</p>
<blockquote><p>The term ‘Islamophobia’ is inadequate as it is limited. Discourse on Islam has a long history but the word itself, Islam, is problematic for it is constructed and reconstructed by the West.</p></blockquote>
<p>Without citing a single piece of evidence—and in contradiction to FBI <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2009/victims.html">statistics</a> on anti-religious hate crimes—Abou El Fadl alleged that in the U.S., “every single week there are new victims of Islamophobia.”</p>
<p>Employing a false correlation popular among those advocating the view of Muslims as victims, Abou El Fadl insisted that Islamophobia is similar to anti-Semitism:</p>
<blockquote><p>Those crazy right wing nuts who keep on telling the public that Muslims want to impose Sharia on Americans have in common<em>[sic]</em> with anti-Semites who to this day propel the ideas of the <em>Protocols of the Elders of Zion</em>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Betraying the disingenuousness of this comparison, Abou El Fadl and Basli later circulated a December 2010 <em>Huffington Post </em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/the-great-islamophobic-cr_b_799277.html">article</a> by leftist journalist Max Blumenthal alleging an “Islamophobic crusade” on the part of, among others, “right wing ultra-Zionists” and the “pro-Israel lobby.” Such rhetoric, paradoxically, hearkens back to the <em>Protocols of the Elders of Zion</em>. It was, they asserted, “great literature.”</p>
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