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		<title>NY Jets Player Spoke at Event Hosted by Designated Terrorist Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Israel athlete regals the Muslim American Society after the group's banning from the UAE. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246943" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/unnamed.jpg" alt="unnamed" width="319" height="247" /></a>The media, the NFL and the New York Jets organization can no longer overlook the problem that is Jets player Oday Aboushi. People can argue that he has the right to have pride in his family’s heritage or even that he has the right to voice his opinion against Israel, albeit in a town that has a huge Jewish population. But it is quite another thing for those to look the other way if Aboushi chooses to speak in front of a group labeled terrorist, which is exactly what he did earlier this year, when he delivered a speech to the Muslim American Society (MAS).</p>
<p>Since coming to the New York Jets as a fifth round draft pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, Oday Aboushi has been very public in his stance against the nation of Israel. On a number of occasions, he has used social media to demean and denounce the Jewish state.</p>
<p>His latest set of infractions happened this past July, when Israel’s military entered Gaza in response to thousands of rockets being fired into Israel by Hamas. Aboushi took the opportunity to bash Israel on Twitter. One of his messages could not have been clearer: “<a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Shame_On_You_Israel.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">#SHAMEONYOUISRAEL</span></a>.”</p>
<p>There are over two million Jews who live in New York and New Jersey, the locations of the majority of Jets fans. Yet, the NFL, the Jets and the media have all stood by Aboushi, whitewashing his actions as if he is merely exhibiting pride in his Palestinian heritage.</p>
<p>Indeed, when this author pointed out in a previous article that Aboushi had spoken at a conference sponsored by the El-Bireh Palestine Society, a group that does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, whose 2013 conference Facebook site contained numerous photos of Adolf Hitler and Hamas leaders, it was not Aboushi who was attacked by the media, but it was instead this author and anyone else who appeared to voice concerns based on my information.</p>
<p>When Jonathan Mael, then-new media coordinator for Major League Baseball’s official website, MLB.com, compared Aboushi to New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, who had just been charged with murder, stating in a tweet that the Jets were “a disgrace of an organization,” there were calls for Mael’s firing. And those calls appear to have been successful.</p>
<p>Aboushi’s speaking in front of the bigoted El-Bireh Society, though, seems to have only been a prelude to his being featured at something far worse, as he has now spoken in front of a group that would soon be designated as a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>On the night of February 7, 2014, Oday Aboushi was the featured speaker at an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">event hosted by the Muslim American Society</span></a> (MAS), at the group’s youth center in Brooklyn, New York. The title of his speech was ‘The Easy Way vs the Right Way,’ and it was promoted by MAS on social media.</p>
<p>On November 15, it was widely reported that MAS was <a href="http://www.wam.ae/en/news/emirates-international/1395272478814.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">named a terrorist organization by United Arab Emirates</span></a> (UAE), on a list that included al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram. This was a fitting designation, as the links to terror from MAS are many and varied.</p>
<p>MAS was founded in 1993 by a group of individuals from the Muslim Brotherhood, which included the future global head of the Brotherhood (2004 &#8211; 2010), Mohammed Mahdi Akef.</p>
<p>In the recent past, MAS has used its official websites to praise Hamas and to call for violence upon and/or denigrate Jews, Christians, homosexuals and women.</p>
<p>The current National Executive Director of MAS is Mazen Mokhtar. From 1992 through 1996, Mokhtar made numerous statements on the internet in support of Hamas and suicide bombings. Prior to the September 11 attacks, Mokhtar served as a web designer for what was then the main website raising funds and recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda and the Taliban, Qoqaz.net. The site was a project of Azzam Publications, an organization named for Osama bin Laden’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam. In April 2007, Mokhtar was arrested for tax fraud.</p>
<p>The fact that Aboushi made his speech at a “youth center” does not lessen the harmful nature of his event, as MAS Youth facilities have been and remain havens for extremist activity. One must note that, prior to becoming the National Executive Director of MAS, Mazen Mokhtar served as the Youth Director of MAS-New Jersey and has been a featured speaker at a number of MAS Youth camps and children’s retreats.</p>
<p>The Youth Coordinator at MAS Youth Center, where Aboushi spoke, is Amal Hussain. According to Facebook, Hussain was an attendee at Aboushi’s speech.</p>
<p>The very first posting on Hussain’s personal Facebook page was an <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Siraj_Wahhaj.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">announcement for a speech that was to be given by Siraj Wahhaj</span></a>, the imam of the radical At-Taqwa Mosque, located in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. Hussain used the announcement as her Facebook cover photo.</p>
<p>In 1995, Wahhaj was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” for the federal trial prosecuting those involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Wahhaj had been linked to the bombmaker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial Wahhaj was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack – the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman – whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>On November 30, Amal Hussain posted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Amal_Hussain_Mohamed_Soltan.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">photo of Egyptian prisoner Mohamed Soltan on her Facebook site</span></a>, along with the following statement above it: “[Hosni] Mubarak walks away freely while Soltan is still ‘unjustly’ detained.” Soltan is awaiting trial for charges of funding a terrorist organization and conspiracy to commit violent acts. Soltan’s father, Salah Soltan, is a high-ranking official in the Muslim Brotherhood. Mohamed’s father is also a former leader of MAS.</p>
<p>Salah Soltan is the founder and former President of the MAS-run Islamic American University (IAU), which is based in Southfield, Michigan. The former Chairman of IAU is the current spiritual leader of the international Muslim Brotherthood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) refers to al-Qaradawi as “Theologian of Terror,” and about Salah Soltan, the ADL states that, in June 2013, Salah delivered a sermon labeling Jews “the enemies of God… the cursed ones.”</p>
<p>Prior to going to jail, Mohamed Soltan tweeted a photo of himself <a href="https://causingfitna.wordpress.com/there-is-no-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-united-states-ummm-correction/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">together with his father and al-Qaradawi</span></a>, at what he claimed was al-Qaradawi’s house. He also tweeted support for Hamas.</p>
<p>The day after his speech to MAS, Oday Aboushi tweeted a <a href="http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee431/kaufmanforcongress/Oday_Aboushi_Muslim_American_Society_2.jpg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">thank-you note to the group</span></a>. He stated, “Thank you @MASYouthCenter for having me last night. Being available for our youth is the biggest hand we can lend in times of need.”</p>
<p>Question: Just how far is Oday Aboushi willing to go to lend a hand to a designated terrorist organization? And how far does he have to go before the NFL, the Jets and the media end their relationship with and their support for him?</p>
<p>As a professional football player, Oday Aboushi is considered by many to be a role model for kids, but what kind of role model legitimizes bigotry and terror?</p>
<p><i>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of Militant Islam Monitor, contributed to this report.</i></p>
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		<title>Nigeria Wins Cup of Nations, but Islamists Continue Killing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Faith J. H. McDonnell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victory comes just hours after the north suffers wrath of jihadists. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/faith-j-h-mcdonnell/nigeria-wins-cup-of-nations-but-islamist-continue-killing/victor-moses/" rel="attachment wp-att-177598"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-177598" title="Victor Moses" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Victor-Moses.png" alt="" width="307" height="230" /></a>On Sunday, February 10, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nigeria’s national football (soccer) team, the Super Eagles, beat the Burkina Faso Stallions 1-0 <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/2013/2/10/3973680/africa-cup-of-nations-final-2013-nigeria-vs-burkina-faso-final-score-result">to win the prestigious African Cup of Nations title</a>. Back home in Nigeria, the Super Eagles’ victory came just hours after northern Nigeria once again felt the wrath of Islamist terrorists &#8212; most likely the group responsible for thousands of deaths, Boko Haram.</p>
<p>On Friday, terrorists killed one male and eight female health workers in two attacks in Kano. BBC News Africa <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21381773">reported</a> that first, polio vaccinators “were shot dead by gunmen who drove up on a motor tricycle.” In a second attack, gunmen shot the polio workers at a clinic at the town’s edge as they were starting work.</p>
<p>The BBC report reveals that “analysts”  believe<em> </em>that the killings are the work of Boko Haram. Although the group has not yet claimed credit, it would make sense that the killings were the work of the Islamists whose name translates as “western education is forbidden.” Some Muslim leaders oppose vaccines which they claim cause infertility. Sounds like a good way to cover up their own shortcomings.</p>
<p>On Saturday, the terrorists murdered three North Korean doctors in Potiskum, Yobe State, slitting the throats of two and beheading a third. According to the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/attackers-kill-3-north-korean-doctors-nigeria-133426830.html">Associated Press,</a> the bodies were found in the house that they shared with their wives in a quiet neighborhood off the grounds of the hospital. AP reported that when soldiers arrived, they found the doctors’ wives unharmed, but “cowering in a flower bed outside their home.” The doctors were part of a technical exchange program between the two countries and had been living in Yobe since 2005.</p>
<p>For one of the Super Eagle players, who prevailed over the past to become an international soccer star, the weekend’s events may seem a sad reminder that some things never change. Twenty-two year old Victor Moses, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/sports/soccer/nigeria-captures-first-africa-cup-of-nations.html?_r=3&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;seid=auto&amp;smid=tw-nytimessports&amp;adxnnlx=1360621325-lI+5gyGmIUemeu+ozTuSzQ&amp;">voted Best Player in Sunday’s match</a>, is a rising star from the famous <a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/first-team/player/42181/title/victor-moses">Chelsea Football Club</a> in London, but he was born in Kaduna, in northern Nigeria. He and two other Nigerian Chelsea players returned to Africa <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Moses-proves-key-for-Nigeria-in-African-Cup-final-4266950.php">to play the tournament with the Super Eagles</a>.</p>
<p>Moses had not been back to Nigeria since November 2002, when Islamists <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-11-22-nigeria-riots_x.htm">protesting the Miss World beauty pageant</a> being held in Nigeria <a href="http://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/nwabuzor/112302.html">turned Kaduna</a> and other nearby areas to piles of ashes and corpses. After sacking the local offices of <a href="http://www.worldpress.org/Africa/884.cfm">This Day</a>, a national Nigerian newspaper whose <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/feb/17/gender.pressandpublishing">reporter had dared to say</a> that Mohammed probably would have chosen a wife from the Miss World contestants, the mob had moved on to targeting Christians. According to <a href="http://www.domini.org/openbook/nigeria20021125.htm">reports</a> from The Barnabas Fund, the rioters barricaded the streets with burning tires and burned down Christians’ houses, shops, and churches.</p>
<p>Sadly, this not a new situation for northern Nigeria. The region has long been on a path to what one <a href="http://eastandsouth.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/nigeria-pakistanizationafghanization-of-a-country/">writer</a> calls the Pakistanization/Afghanization of the country. Hundreds were killed in these riots in contrast to the thousands (possibly as many as 5,000) who were killed during a previous series of <a href="http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/nigeria0703/1.htm">riots in Kaduna in 2000</a>. But to the victims and the families of the victims of the <a href="http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/nigeria0703/3.htm">2002 riots</a>, there was no noticeable difference. Death is death.</p>
<p>Among those killed were Pastor Austin and Josephine Moses, the soccer star’s parents. Naija Football 247 <a href="http://www.naijafootball247.com/2011/03/how-wigan-athletics-victor-moses.html">reported</a> that Moses “had his own church” and was therefore “a target of the Muslim extremists.” The rioters, mostly young men fueled by hate sermons from the local mosques, murdered both the pastor and his wife in their home. Eleven-year-old Victor was out playing football in the streets, unaware of what was going on, when his uncle found him. After hiding the boy with friends for a week, while the city – including Victor’s own house – smoldered around them, his uncle took him to England where he has lived ever since.</p>
<p>Even as a secondary school student recently arrived from Nigeria, Moses was a star footballer. One <a href="http://seyisanchez.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/story-of-victor-moses/">blogger</a> tells how in a 2005 game with his school, Whitgift, against a school whose players wore red shirts, the local newspaper quipped, “Holy Moses! Wonder Player Parts Red Sea!” The word-play on his Biblical name continues even today. <a href="http://allsports.com.ng/2013/01/29/moses-leads-nigeria-to-the-promise-land/">Headlines</a> after Nigeria’s victory read, “Moses leads Nigeria to the Promised Land.”</p>
<p>Moses, who declared, “It has been a long journey [from Nigeria] and I just want to keep strong and work hard for myself, whether it’s football or not football,” is proud of his Nigerian identity. He should also be proud of his ability to rise up from the ashes of Kaduna with the strength and determination that have kept him going in spite of the horrible, wrenching grief of having his parents and his home taken with such violence. His birth country is proud of him, and many find inspiration not only in his successes, but in his willingness to return to Nigeria.</p>
<p>A popular culture website <em>Trendy Africa</em> in a <a href="http://trendyafrica.com/sports/victor-moses-pro-soccer-player-inspiring-story/">story</a> on the young soccer star exclaimed ironically that Moses has brought joy “to every Nigerian, including those who may have inspired his parent’s death.” <em>Trendy Africa </em>observed that “On Sunday, Moses would stand for the National Anthem and pledge allegiance” but, in a sad commentary on Nigeria, “to a country that couldn’t defend his parents.” And as the ongoing killings by Boko Haram indicate, Nigeria still can’t defend the parents of hundreds of children who have been left as orphans by jihadists.</p>
<p>Moses’ ability to forgive the country in which his parents were killed just for being Christians is commendable. But what is unforgiveable is the U.S. State Department’s refusal to most effectively help stop Boko Haram’s terrorism, by designating them as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Last year, then Chair of the House Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA) wrote to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging the designation. Meehan’s Subcommittee had just released a bi-partisan report on Boko Haram as “an emerging threat to the U.S. Homeland.” But the State Department <a href="http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Carson_Testimony.pdf">response</a>, as delivered by Asst. Sec. of State for Africa, Johnnie Carson, was to see the terrorists as victims of poverty and marginalization and to downplay the targeting of Christians.</p>
<p>The threat has only grown as <a href="http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/boko-harams-international-connections">connections have emerged</a> between Boko Haram and other jihadists such as Ansar Dine, al-Shabab, AQIM, and the Janjaweed in Darfur. But some in the media are pushing the State Department’s talking points. Reuters reporter Tim Cocks offered up a <a href="http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE91409Q20130205?irpc=932">cock-and-bull story</a> on February 5. Cocks declared that “Rage over bad governance fuels Nigeria’s Islamists,” in spite of Boko Haram’s own <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/violence-against-christians-moves-nigeria-no-7-list-terror-affected-nations">insistence</a> that it will cleanse northern Nigeria of Christians and extend Sharia across the whole country, and that Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan must convert to Islam or step down. He says that Boko Haram “pledged to revive the 19th century rule of Islamic scholar Usman Dan Fodio, who led a revolution to overthrow Hausa kings he saw as corrupt and idolatrous,” but does not reveal that the reason Fodio, a bloodthirsty killer, saw them as corrupt and idolatrous was because they were “infidels” – like Christians in Nigeria today.</p>
<p>The General Secretary of the <a href="http://cannigeria.org/">Christian Association of Nigeria</a> (CAN), Dr. Musa Asake, has observed that there have been <a href="http://jubileecampaign.org/continued-inaction/">so many bombings and other attacks on churches and individual Christians</a> by Boko Haram that when families go to church, they don’t if they will come back home the same way they went, or even if they will come home at all. In addition to deaths, hundreds of northern Nigerian Christians have been grievously wounded, losing arms and legs in Boko Haram’s suicide bombing attacks, or mentally and emotionally scarred by trauma.</p>
<p>As Nigeria glories in winning the African Cup of Nations and in the particular triumph of one of its young sons, Victor Moses, the grief suffered by Moses, and by countless other sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers of Christians killed by Islamists in northern Nigeria, should not be forgotten. Perhaps President Jonathan will take advantage of the changing of the guard at the State Department to strengthen his own resolve not to allow American political correctness and appeasement politics to influence his response to Boko Haram. The House Committee on Homeland Security and the entire U.S. Congress should renew its calls to the State Department to designate the group as an FTO, and begin in earnest to root out this threat.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to remove the university's bronze statue of Joe Paterno? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/joe-paterno-statue.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-137377" title="joe-paterno-statue" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/joe-paterno-statue.gif" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></a>Jerry Sandusky, the former defensive coordinator of Penn State’s football program, was convicted on 45 counts of sexual abuse of children in June. Sandusky used his position of authority, the trappings of big-time college football, and the facilities and respected name of Penn State, to prey upon young boys. But as we now know, the sordid story doesn’t end there.</p>
<p>Sandusky’s crimes went on for more than a decade. And Penn State’s administration, athletics department and football program did nothing about it until Sandusky was indicted last fall. In fact, what many suspected at the time is now beyond dispute: Former football coach Joe Paterno, former president Graham Spanier, former athletics director Tim Curley and others served as enablers for Sandusky and his monstrous crimes. As late as 2007, Sandusky had full access to football facilities and even kept an office as a “coach emeritus.” That’s 13 years after Sandusky’s first known attack and nine years after the first Sandusky attack the Penn State hierarchy was made aware of.</p>
<p>As the Freeh report concludes, by granting Sandusky continued access to the football program, Paterno and others “empowered Sandusky to attract potential victims to the campus…Indeed that continued access provided Sandusky with the very currency that enabled him to attract his victims.”</p>
<p>In short, people in positions of respected authority allowed a predator to roam and hunt and destroy. If you think this language is too strong, read the information in Freeh’s <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/penn-state-freeh-report/REPORT_FINAL_071212.pdf?hpid=z2">report</a>—but only if you are ready to glimpse the most depraved and cowardly side of man.</p>
<p>That brings us to the legacy of Joe Paterno, who was fired last fall as the scandal unfolded and died just a few months later, succumbing to cancer. We have heard much about how Paterno donated millions, built libraries and student centers, and selflessly gave to the university he loved. Students and alumni marched in support of the sainted coach. But the hard truth is that Paterno covered up a heinous crime and allowed Sandusky to destroy the lives of young boys. In his press conference, <a href="http://www.thefreehreportonpsu.com/Press_Release_07_12_12.pdf">Freeh concluded</a> that Paterno and the Penn State hierarchy “showed no concern” for the victims, displayed a “total disregard for the safety and welfare of the victims” and “repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky’s child abuse from the authorities.”</p>
<p>Rather than protecting the innocent—the report scathingly concludes that Paterno and other higher-ups “failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade”—the goal was to protect the football program. For those who know Paterno’s many good works by heart, this is hard to hear. Indeed, it is hard to see heroes fall. But those who hold themselves to a higher standard—those who allow others to elevate them onto pedestals—must be held to that higher standard.</p>
<p>Paterno did many, many good things in his half-century of coaching. But one bad thing—especially something this appalling—can sweep away all the good. This truth applies to anyone: the good husband who has but one indiscretion and ruins a family; the good teacher who loses control for just a moment and ruins her career; the good surgeon or CEO who cuts a corner and ruins someone’s life. This truth—this frailty of reputation—hangs over all of us.</p>
<p>Soon, the NCAA will weigh in on the Sandusky-Paterno scandal. There are reports that the NCAA is investigating Penn State for a “lack of institutional control” (LOIC)—code for the most serious violations of the spirit and letter of NCAA rules. The punishment could be devastating for the football program, including the NCAA equivalent of the <a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/penn-state-should-lose-football-privileges-dealth-penalty-in-wake-of-freeh-report-child-sex-abuse-071212">death penalty</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How come diversity-driven administrators allow sports, the most visible part of a college, to be the least diverse and least inclusive?]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s not at all uncommon to watch a college basketball game and see that 90 to 100 percent of the players are black. According to the University of Central Florida&#8217;s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport report titled &#8220;The 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card,&#8221; the percentage of black male basketball players in Division I was an all-time high at 60.4 percent. It was 45.9 percent in football and 6.0 percent in baseball.</p>
<p>Diversity is worse in professional sports. In the National Basketball Association, almost 82 percent of the players are people of color, higher than last year&#8217;s 80 percent. This is the highest percentage of players of color since the 1994-1995 season. The percentage of black players increased to 77 percent from last year&#8217;s 76 percent mark. The percentage of Latinos remained constant at 3 percent. Football diversity is not much better. During the 2008 NFL season, the percentage of white players remained constant at 31 percent while the percentage of black players increased slightly from 66 to 67 percent. Casual observation shows that most sports lack sex diversity. Segregation by sex is the rule rather than the exception.</p>
<p>One can understand the absence of concern for diversity in professional sports; they are in it just for the money. But one is left flummoxed by the lack of sports diversity in college sports. After all, you can&#8217;t listen to any college president or provost speak for more than five minutes before the word &#8220;diversity&#8221; drops from his lips. Colleges take diversity seriously and they spend tens of millions of dollars on it. Juilliard School has a director of diversity and inclusion; MIT has a manager of diversity recruitment; Toledo University, an associate dean for diversity; Harvard, Texas A&amp;M, California at Berkeley, Virginia and many others boast of officers, deans, vice presidents and perhaps ministers of diversity. But, in what appears to be the height of deviousness and deceit, these diversity-driven administrators allow sports, the most visible part of the college, be the least diverse and least inclusive.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at George Mason University, where I&#8217;ve taught in its distinguished Economics Department for 29 years.</p>
<p>According to university race/ethnic statistics, its campus consists of: 7 percent blacks, 7 percent Hispanics, 12 percent Asians, 43 percent white and miscellaneous others. If there were true basketball diversity, we would see at least two white players, and one each Asian, Hispanic and black on the starting five. I don&#8217;t watch GMU basketball, and have no idea of whether our starting five looks like America, but I&#8217;d bet the rent money that our Office of Equity and Diversity has failed at producing basketball diversity.</p>
<p>You say, &#8220;Williams, the reason blacks dominate basketball and football is that they are better than whites.&#8221; Careful! That&#8217;s an attitude that could win you a charge of racism. It differs little from suggesting that the reason why not many blacks are nuclear physicists is because they are not as good as whites. It should be remembered that diversity creed holds that we are all equal and would be proportionately represented by race across all activities but for the fact of discrimination and oppression.</p>
<p>Basketball, football and nuclear physics aren&#8217;t the only areas of our lives sorely lacking diversity and proportional representation. American men are struck by lightning six times as often as American women. Men are about 54 percent of the labor force but suffer more than 90 percent of job-related deaths. Cervical cancer rates are five times higher among Vietnamese women in the U.S. than among white women. Pima Indians of Arizona have the highest diabetes rates in the world. Prostate cancer is nearly twice as common among black men as white men. Half of all Mexican wives are married in their teens while only 10 percent of Japanese wives are married that early.</p>
<p>These and many other statistics about racial differences suggests that there will be full employment for people in the diversity business for decades to come.</p>
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