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		<title>The YAF Celebrates &#8216;No More Che Day&#8217; on Campuses Nationwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/che.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242623" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/che-267x350.png" alt="che" width="240" height="315" /></a>“From the first moment I heard about Che, Ernesto Guevara,” gushes Columbia University’s SDS (Student’s for a Democratic Society) leader in 1968 Mark Rudd, “he was my man, or, rather, I was his. Brilliant, young, idealistic, a daring commander of rebels, willing to risk his life to free the people of the world, I wanted to be like him. I was a member of the cult of Che.  Who wouldn’t fall for this rifle-toting poet … ?”</p>
<p>Columbia University College Republicans, for one. The Young America’s Foundation (YAF) for another. Indeed such is these organizations’ penchant for blowing raspberries and horse-laughs at the staggering imbecilities swallowed (and spouted) by gasping groupies like Mark Rudd that they’re a staging a <a href="http://www.yaf.org/eventdetails.aspx?id=12815">“No More Che Day”</a> at Mark Rudd’s own Columbia University on Oct. 9th.</p>
<p>Worse still (for such as Rudd and fellow Che groupies), this event features a speaker who &#8212; you might say &#8212; “wrote the book” on exposing the r<em>eal</em> Che Guevara and the staggering stupidity (or other mental malfunctions) that motivate those who idolize this <a href="http://www.yaf.org/eventdetails.aspx?id=12815">amazing sadist, coward and epic idiot.</a></p>
<p>For starters, most of Che’s “rifle-toting” was done in the face of utterly unarmed enemies. &#8220;When you saw the beaming look on Che&#8217;s face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad,&#8221; said a former Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez to your humble servant here, &#8220;you saw there was something seriously, <em>seriously</em> wrong with Che Guevara.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even as a youth, Ernesto Guevara&#8217;s writings revealed a serious mental illness. &#8220;My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any <em>vencido</em> that falls in my hands!” This passage is from Ernesto Guevara&#8217;s famous Motorcycle Diaries, though Robert Redford somehow overlooked it while directing his heart-warming movie.</p>
<p>The Spanish word <em>vencido</em>, by the way, translates into &#8220;defeated&#8221; or &#8220;surrendered.&#8221; And indeed, &#8220;the &#8220;acrid odor of gunpowder and blood&#8221; very, very rarely reached Guevara&#8217;s nostrils from anything properly describable as combat. It mostly came from the close-range murders of defenseless men (and boys). Carlos Machado was 15 years old in 1963 when the bullets from the firing squad shattered his body. His twin brother and father collapsed beside Carlos from the same volley. All had resisted Castro and Che&#8217;s theft of their humble family farm, all refused blindfolds and all died sneering at their Communist murderers, as did thousands of their valiant countrymen. &#8220;<em>Viva Cuba Libre! Viva Cristo Rey! Abajo Comunismo</em>!&#8221; &#8220;The defiant yells would make the walls of La Cabana prison tremble,&#8221; wrote eyewitness to the slaughter, Armando Valladares.</p>
<p>The one genuine accomplishment in Che Guevara&#8217;s life was the mass-murder of defenseless men and boys. Under his own gun dozens died. Under his orders thousands crumpled. At everything else Che Guevara failed abysmally, even comically.</p>
<p>During his Bolivian &#8220;guerrilla&#8221; campaign, Che split his forces whereupon they got hopelessly lost and bumbled around, half-starved, half-clothed and half-shod, without any contact with each other for 6 months before being wiped out. They didn&#8217;t even have WWII vintage walkie-talkies to communicate and seemed incapable of applying a compass reading to a map. They spent much of the time walking in circles and were usually within a mile of each other. During this blundering they often engaged in ferocious firefights <a href="http://www.hfontova.com/che.html"><em>against each other</em></a><em>!</em></p>
<p>&#8220;You hate to laugh at anything associated with Che, who murdered so many defenseless men and boys,&#8221; says Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban-American CIA officer who played a key role in tracking him down in Bolivia. &#8220;But when it comes to Che as &#8220;guerrilla&#8221; you simply can&#8217;t help but guffaw.&#8221;</p>
<p>Che&#8217;s genocidal fantasies included a continental reign of Stalinism. And to achieve this ideal he craved, &#8220;millions of atomic victims&#8221; &#8212; most of them Americans. &#8220;The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!&#8221; raved Ernesto Che Guevara in 1961. &#8220;Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination. We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies&#8217; very home, to his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we&#8217;ll destroy him! We must keep our hatred against them [the U.S.] alive and fan it to paroxysms!&#8221;</p>
<p>This was Che&#8217;s prescription for America almost half a century before Osama bin Laden and ISIS appeared on our radar screens. Compared to Che Guevara, Iran’s Ahmadinejad sounds like the Dalai Lama.</p>
<p>So for many, the question remains: how did such an incurable doofus, sadist and epic idiot attain such iconic status?</p>
<p>The answer is that this psychotic and thoroughly unimposing vagrant named Ernesto Guevara de la Serna y Lynch had the magnificent fortune of linking up with modern history&#8217;s top press agent, Fidel Castro, who &#8212; from the New York Times&#8217; Herbert Matthews in 1957, through CBS&#8217; Ed Murrow in 1959 to CBS&#8217; Dan Rather, to ABC&#8217;s Barbara Walters, to most recently, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg &#8212; always had American reporters anxiously scurrying to his every beck and call and eating out of his hand like trained pigeons.</p>
<p>Had Ernesto Guevara not linked up with Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico city that fateful summer of 1955 &#8212; had he not linked up with a Cuban exile named Nico Lopez in Guatemala the year before who later introduced him to Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico City &#8212; everything points to Ernesto continuing his life of a traveling hobo, panhandling, mooching off women, staying in flophouses and scribbling unreadable poetry.</p>
<p>Che&#8217;s image is particularly ubiquitous on college campuses. But in the wrong places. He belongs in the marketing, PR and advertising departments. His lessons and history are fascinating and valuable, but only in light of P.T. Barnum. One born every minute, Mr. Barnum? If only you&#8217;d lived to see the Che phenomenon. Actually, ten are born every second.</p>
<p>His pathetic whimpering while dropping his fully-loaded weapons as two Bolivian soldiers approached him on Oct. 8 1967 (&#8220;Don&#8217;t shoot! I&#8217;m Che! I&#8217;m worth more to you alive than dead!&#8221;) proves that this cowardly, murdering swine was unfit to carry his victims&#8217; slop buckets.</p>
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		<title>Hatred Masquerading as Scholarship in the Classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;[T]hey will bomb Gaza back to the Stone Age they said, and that they did&#8211;and yet there are very few spots on planet earth today nobler to the human spirit of resistance to tyranny and injustice than Gaza&#8211;now held like a shining jewel on the loving ring of humanity around the globe&#8211;I kiss that noble ground and hold it dearer than cities full of ignoble postmodern architecture built on the stolen land of other people.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, referring to Israel&#8217;s Operation Protective Edge; Facebook, August 6, 2014. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dabashi/photos/a.268551769831776.65317.267326509954302/795332067153741/?type=1"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>(link to source)</i></span></a></p></blockquote>
<p>The above quote, replete with biases and omissions, does not simply represent the viewpoint of one lone professor. It represents an extensively held perspective that has become a rigid orthodoxy that permeates through many of our nation’s Middle Eastern Studies Departments. This bias is being spoon-fed to our nation’s college students and sold to them as scholarship. As American parents who save for years for their youngsters’ college tuitions, many of us should be outraged that this bigotry is masquerading as solid erudition to our youngsters. As American citizens, we should be outraged that this sort of thinking is being subsidized by the American government in the form of Title VI grants to universities, and is shaping the thinking of our current and future American thinkers and leaders.</p>
<p>In fact, so blatant are the biases of the program, that 218 scholars from Middle Eastern Studies programs across the country, ranging from Columbia University and New York University on the East, the University of Chicago University of Illinois, and Michigan State University in the Mid-West to University of California in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, San Diego, Riverside, Santa Cruz, and hundreds of points in between, have all recently signed a petition for an academic boycott of Israeli Universities and any joint program with Israeli scholars.</p>
<p>How did this come about?</p>
<p>Title VI of the Higher Education Opportunities Act, which had formerly been known as The National Defense Education Act was implemented in 1958, during the height of the Cold War, in order to ensure that we were prepared to confront the challenges of the Soviet threat.  At that time, it was felt that our students were woefully ill-equipped to be competitive in the world against the Soviets in their knowledge of foreign languages and regions. It was then determined that certain universities were to be granted sizeable sums of money from the federal government in order to establish and help maintain regional or area studies centers, such as African Studies, Asian Studies, Latin Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies etc. in order to ensure that our nation had a generation of well-trained regional experts to meet the national security and defense challenges arising out of the former Soviet Union.</p>
<p>Our government therefore provided tax payers’ dollars to give birth to a regional studies industry in order to meet a specific national and security need. However, with the ensuing years, the original legislative intent of Title VI was totally ignored, and the universities simply took the money without any sort of oversight.</p>
<p>Universities have always been the vanguard of the latest political fashions and trends. The very first institutions in Germany to willfully adopt Nazism were the universities. Indeed, Martin Heidegarr who was a famous philosopher and a Nazi sympathizer, fired the James Husserl, the father of phenomenology because he was a Jew.</p>
<p>Many products of the ‘70s, who had been profoundly affected by the anti-Viet Nam war movement, have ended up teaching on college campuses, where a rigid liberal orthodoxy has set in and dominated the classroom instruction.  This was reflected in a classic survey by Prof. Robert Lichter of George Masson University, Professor Stanley Rothman of Smith College and Professor Neil Nevitte of the University of Toronto,  which was based on a survey of 1,643 full-time faculty at 183 four-year schools.</p>
<p>The survey found that 72 percent of those teaching at American universities and colleges are liberal and 15 percent are conservative, says the study being published this week. The imbalance is almost as striking in partisan terms, with 50 percent of the faculty members surveyed identifying themselves as Democrats and 11 percent as Republicans. In elite universities, the disparity is even greater, with 87 per cent of faculty describing themselves as “liberal” and only 13 per cent describing themselves as “conservative.”</p>
<p>Another study that came out in 2012 by Professor Yoel Inbar and Professor Jorris Lammers, indicated that more than one third of the respondents said that they would discriminate against a conservative candidate for a faculty position. One respondent openly admitted that “if faculty members could figure out who was conservative, they would never have hired them.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the Middle Eastern Studies programs have enthusiastically embraced this liberal orthodoxy as a knee-jerk sympathy for the Palestinian cause, as the under-dog. Most classes reflect no appreciation for the struggles of the state of Israel, which they often describe in the most distorted, vulgar and hateful of terms, as “racist,” “imperialist,” “colonialist,” even as “war criminals” and “Nazi-like.”</p>
<p>Much of what passes for scholarship in the Academy in the United States has emanated from a simplistic treatise by the late professor of comparative English literature of Columbia University Edward Said, entitled, “Orientalism.”  “Orientalism,” which came out in 1978, is considered a foundational text of post-colonial theory that revolutionized the field. It tends to regard as suspect any scholar who, himself, is not a native of the Arab world. So that means scholars such as Bernard Lewis or Efraim Karsh are castigated as “orientalists” who have no <i>real </i>understanding of the field, and Edward Said, and his disciples, such as Joseph Mossad and Rashid Khalidi, are considered to be the <i>genuine </i>experts.</p>
<p>Much of the scholarship is oriented along this rigid, one-sided political agenda and is of an inferior quality, replete with errors of omission and commission. Students who are Jewish or whose beliefs do not conform to this agenda are often made to feel marginalized, as though their beliefs are antiquated and bigoted. Many students have reported being singled out for harassment in the classroom by professors when they challenge any of these ideas.</p>
<p>On the campus, this pseudo-scholarship has given an intellectual patina for the ancient hatred of anti-Semitism. We see this every year as the “Divest-Boycott-Sanctions,” (BDS) movement grows, and “Palestinian Solidarity Week” or “Israel Apartheid Week” grows in popularity on our nations’ college campuses.</p>
<p>A one-sided political agenda, at taxpayer’s expense, has often become a paltry substitute for a good, solid education in regional studies. Many of this is reported in the late Dr. Gary Tobin’s excellent book, “The Uncivil University: Politics &amp; Propaganda in American Education.”</p>
<p>In many of these departments, not only is Israel portrayed as the cause for all the problems in the Middle East, the United Sates is depicted as “the mother of all ills” in the world. Many students who are graduates of Title VI programs tend to be more sympathetic to some of our nation’s foes than to their own nation. It is almost reflexive to blame America first in these programs for our “colonialism” or “imperialism.”</p>
<p>They are equally likely to blame Israel first when anything, whatsoever, erupts in the Middle East, including the Sunni-Shiite conflict, or ISIS taking over parts of Iraq, saying that this is &#8220;the underlying root cause of the problem,” and “our relationship with Israel is the source of our resentment, overseas.”</p>
<p>Of course, the more one studies the Middle East, the more one realizes that this is wholly ludicrous; that the region is replete with many ancient, tribal and atavistic rivalries that are not easily remedied. Yet, when one speaks to most graduates of Middle Eastern programs, they predictably pin the blame for everything that goes awry in the Middle East on this, or as a minimum say, “We will be more likely to win the favor of the parties if we get to the root cause, if we first resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.”</p>
<p>One doubts that it is ever mentioned in the classroom that the Palestinians have been taught to despise and to vilify the Israeli, the Christian and the Jew, and that since 1993, they have been fed a steady diet of anti-Semitism that has metastasized like a cancer throughout the Palestinian body politic. When one of the parties can’t even say they recognize Israel’s right to live as a Jewish state, without choking over the words, that makes the odds of resolving this conflict rather low.</p>
<p>Almost as reflexively, when the United States is forced to enter into any conflict, the United States is almost reflexively blamed in the university classroom for meddling and inflaming the region. President Barack Obama’s policies seem to be almost wholly reflective of this sort of rigid analysis</p>
<p>One readily sees therefore, how the original intent of the Title VI legislation has been turned on its head. By now, many of the students who are graduates of these programs have already entered into positions of leadership, and one does not have to search any further than these programs when one fears that America is in a period of decline in our international standing in the world. Practically any step the United States takes as a moral leader is automatically looked upon with cynicism.</p>
<p>What makes this even more pernicious is that in order to get the Title VI grant from the government, the university professors in these departments must conduct “teacher training workshops” for teachers of kindergarten through twelfth grade, ensuring that these biases get transferred to our most vulnerable and impressionable youngsters who lack critical thinking skills.</p>
<p>From 2004 through 2008, I had been privileged to work with two of the most renowned experts in the field, Martin Kramer, author of many books including the seminal study on Title VI centers, “Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America,” and Stanley Kurtz, himself a former scholar of Indian Studies and renowned columnist for National review Online, in order to work with Congress to correct this.</p>
<p>We were successful in passing certain amendments to Title VI in 2008. These included a statuary requirement for: 1.) The Secretary of Education to develop a survey from a wide range of Federal agencies to find out what it is that they need for expertise in world regions and languages 2.) The Secretary of Education is to assist the universities who were recipients of Title VI funding in developing a survey to students to determine their areas of employment or post-graduate study. This survey should be administered by the university once every two years, and the results of the survey should be reported to the Secretary of Education. And most importantly: 3.) Each university which receives Title VI funding is to reflect “an explanation of how the activities funded by the grant will reflect diverse perspectives and a wide range of views and generate debate.”</p>
<p>The funding for this program is up for congressional renewal this year. From our discussions with educational congressional staffers on Capitol Hill, it appears as though it will automatically be put on “continuous resolution,” (which means, that because they don’t have the time or the inclination to take it up, the program, and its funding will remain in place).</p>
<p>However, it does not appear that any of these legally mandated requirements have been taken seriously. There has been zero congressional oversight, zero accountability and zero transparency to the revisions in the law that I had helped to enact.</p>
<p>I strongly suspect that all of these requirements, particularly the one which asks the university to describe what steps they have taken  “to encourage diverse perspectives,” are wholly glossed over, and that the DOE is simply rubber-stamping any university that applies for a grant from this program.</p>
<p>In the meantime, the use of our taxpayers’ dollars to fund these programs which trade flimsy propaganda as a paltry substitute for firm scholarship continues unabated. Much of this has simply served to give an intellectual patina to the ancient virus of antisemtism, a virus that has survived centuries of mutations, and for which there is no known antidote.</p>
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		<title>Andrew Klavan: The Newest Threat on College Campuses: Microaggression</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>In this special episode, our brave and compassionate host takes a look at some real-life examples of microaggression and the deep harm such assaults can really do. See the video and transcript below:  </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">OUR MICRO-AGGRESSIVE UNIVERSITIES</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Well, it’s back to school time and all across our country, college students are suffering from an insidious form of oppression called microaggressions.  These are defined as commonplace verbal or, behavioral indignities&#8230;  that communicate racist or sexist slights or insults&#8230;”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Microaggressions take place when, for instance, a woman sees a black male and clutches her purse more tightly making it too damn hard for him to snatch the thing away from her&#8230; or when two men hear a woman speaking and look at one another like this [makes a face] the universal sign language for “irrational woman.”  So don’t let them see you do that because you know women.  [makes the face]</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">To combat the tragedy of microagression, we here at the Revolting Truth have collected some real life MA experiences and submitted them to experts for commentary and advice. Trigger warning:  these are genuine examples of microaggression and may cause you to experience some of the terrifying injustice of being a minority or female college student in today’s America.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">All right, here’s one from the website, The MicroAgressions Project:  [quote] “I wanted to get my nephew a My Little Pony coloring book since I like MLP&#8230;  My brother, however, objected&#8230;  I ended up getting my nephew a Batman one, but I don’t like Batman.  It made me feel angry and sad that my brother is so entrenched in stereotypical gender roles.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Wow.  We submitted this sad story to Aran, an Iraqi Yazidi women, who sent this reply:</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">“Dear American College student.  I am very sorry to hear of your My Little Pony incident.  I perhaps can identify with some of your suffering as I was forced to watch while Islamists murdered my beloved husband and children before selling me into sexual slavery.  Like you, I too felt forced into stereotypical gender roles.  I hope your nephew enjoys his Batman.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Here’s another tragic tale of micro-aggressive woe from a powerful performance piece called I Too Am Harvard:  [quote] “I am a Harvard university student of mixed race, and people sometimes come right up to me and ask, ‘What are you?’”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">We sent this description to our friend Lisa in the Central African Republic.  Lisa gave this helpful reply:</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">“Dear Harvard student.  How rude to be asked what race you are. It reminds me of the time I was hunted down by Muslim Seleka Rebels, dragged into the jungle and raped for hours before being set on fire.  Even though I know how difficult it is there, I too sometimes dream of going to Harvard.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Well, thanks to Lisa for that sympathetic reply.  Here’s one more true life atrocity from an American female pre-med student.  [quote]  “My MCAT instructor keeps referring to the unnamed writers of certain passages with male pronouns. It made me feel stupid and unvalued&#8230;”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Our correspondent Fairly in Afghanistan responds&#8230;  “Dear American pre-med student.  How terrible to have to overcome such difficulty as male pronouns in getting to go to school.  I too have suffered difficulties getting to school when men rode by on motorbikes and threw acid in my face.  Of course this is nothing compared to male pronouns, but I do sort of miss my face sometimes. I used to be very pretty.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Well, I hope this advice has been helpful to all those American college students suffering from microaggression.  We here at the Revolting Truth understand that this sort of savage oppression can really harsh your buzz, especially if you already have a hangover and crabs.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.</p>
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		<title>Activism: The Ideal of a ‘Liberal Arts Education&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ideal that’s bad for the academy and bad for the world.
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/6231486313_489935fc2e_b.sm_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235485" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/6231486313_489935fc2e_b.sm_.jpg" alt="6231486313_489935fc2e_b.sm" width="278" height="226" /></a>Dinesh D’Souza’s latest documentary, <i>America: Imagine a World without Her, </i>features interviews with such leftist academic rock stars as Howard Zinn. However, it’s crucial for Americans, and particularly those American who are parents, to realize that the contemporary academic world is chock full of lesser known Zinns.</p>
<p>The traditional academic ideal of the disinterested pursuit and dissemination of knowledge has fallen on hard times.  Professors in the humanities and social sciences have spent no small portion of the 20<sup>th</sup> century lambasting it as, at best, incorrigibly naïve.  Usually, though, they’ve gone further, rejecting the traditional ideal as a noxious, indeed, an <i>oppressive,</i> fiction.</p>
<p>In its stead, academics have replaced it with a new ideal, one more suited to their own ideological agenda: the purpose of academia, it is now widely held, is to promote the pursuit of “<i>social justice.” </i></p>
<p>In other words, a “liberal arts education” should have as its aim the production of, <i>not </i>“well rounded” individuals, as had been traditionally thought, but <i>social activists—</i>i.e. committed leftists.<i> </i></p>
<p>A more disastrous turn of events couldn’t have been imagined for academia.  For centuries, it was recognized that the academic world’s contribution to the preservation and enrichment of Western civilization lay precisely in the fact that, unlike most of our activities, <i>its</i> activities were most decidedly not <i>utilitarian </i>or <i>practical.  </i>Vocational schools, for example, are utilitarian in that students are <i>trained</i> for the sake of accomplishing some predetermined <i>goal: </i>mastery in one’s vocation and the monetary benefits that are expected to accrue from this.</p>
<p>College and university students, in stark contrast, are supposed to receive, not training, but an <i>education.  </i>This education, in turn, is no more oriented toward some goal over and above itself than is friendship so oriented.  The education is <i>its own reward</i>: learning for learning’s sake—not the sake of money, fame, fortune, or any other extrinsic goal.</p>
<p>Given this vision of academia, even the traditional ideal of the disinterested <i>pursuit</i> of <i>truth</i> is problematic, for it suggests that the raison d’ entre of university learning is some transcendent purpose—the acquisitions of knowledge—that can be attained only <i>after </i>students acquire an encyclopedic collection of “facts” or “propositions.”</p>
<p>But if the traditional ideal is problematic, the activist ideal is ruinous.  It isn’t just that, in its current manifestation, the latter is enlisted in the service of a <i>leftist </i>political agenda.  The primary problem is that it promotes a <i>political </i>agenda of any sort.</p>
<p>The activist ideal transforms academia into a political institution.  Education is now “politicized,” as we say, but say confusingly, for a “politicized education” is a contradiction in terms.   <i>Education</i> has been jettisoned in favor of <i>training</i>.  Only the training in question is not training in a vocation, but in an <i>ideology, </i>and in the methods and ways by which this ideology can be spread to the four corners of the Earth. <i> </i></p>
<p>“Education” has now been rendered a thoroughly <i>practical </i>or <i>utilitarian </i>matter like any other political endeavor.</p>
<p>This being so, it promises to cultivate in students intellectual and moral habits that are anything but virtues.</p>
<p>The political activist is forever focused on <i>the future.  </i>The past—specifically the past of Western civilization—is treated as a history of unmitigated oppression. The present is considered to be either an impediment to a brighter tomorrow or the means by which the promised land of the activist’s imaginings will be brought to fruition.</p>
<p>But it is from exactly <i>this</i> temporal orientation—this future-centered vision—that a liberal arts education is meant to <i>emancipate </i>students.</p>
<p>For one, a training in social activism renders students ignorant of their inheritance by essentially severing them from their past and immunizing them against delighting in the nuances of the present.  That is, when it isn’t tempered with an understanding of the past and an appreciation for the present—a knowledge of its location in the time continuum—this eagerness for the future embodies a shallowness that impoverishes the imagination.</p>
<p>This in turn breeds arrogance—an invincible arrogance—insofar as it nourishes the belief that humanity’s liberation from the darkness in which it remains mired will only be achieved once this present generation drags the rest of us—kicking and screaming, if need be—to our salvation.</p>
<p>And this brings us to another critical point: Because every utopia requires for its realization an activist <i>government, </i>the activist ideal encourages in students a partiality toward coercion over persuasion, a disposition—no, a <i>determination</i>—to use <i>force </i>rather than engage in <i>dialogue.  </i></p>
<p>Simply put, the activist ideal inculcates <i>bellicosity. </i></p>
<p>D’ Souza’s film features footage in which Howard Zinn unabashedly declares that his scholarship and teaching is driven by a desire to <i>change the world</i>.  In doing so, he expresses the activist ideal of the contemporary academy.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the ideal is bad for academia and bad for the world.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2014 04:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the entire learning atmosphere is effected by university rape hysteria. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ww.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225416" alt="ww" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ww-450x320.jpg" width="324" height="230" /></a>There seems to be a full-court press on to get colleges to &#8220;do something&#8221; about rape on campus.</p>
<p>But there seems to be remarkably little attention paid to two crucial facts: (1) rape is a crime and (2) colleges are not qualified to be law-enforcement institutions.</p>
<p>Why are rapists not reported to the police and prosecuted in a court of law?</p>
<p>Apparently this is because of some college women who say that they were raped and are dissatisfied with a legal system that does not automatically take their word for it against the word of someone who has been accused and denies the charge.</p>
<p>There seem to be a dangerously large number of people who think that the law exists to give them whatever they want — even when that means denying other people the same rights that they claim for themselves.</p>
<p>Nowhere is this self-centered attitude more common than on college campuses. And nowhere are such attitudes more encouraged than by the Obama administration&#8217;s Justice Department, which is threatening colleges that don&#8217;t handle rape issues the politically correct way — that is, by presuming the accused to be guilty and not letting Constitutional safeguards get in the way.</p>
<p>Anything that fits the &#8220;war on women&#8221; theme is seen as smart politics in an election year. The last thing Attorney General Eric Holder&#8217;s Justice Department is interested in is justice.</p>
<p>The track record of academics in other kinds of cases is not the least bit encouraging as regards the likelihood of impartial justice. Even on many of our most prestigious college campuses, who gets punished for saying the wrong thing and who gets away with mob actions depends on which groups are in vogue and which are not.</p>
<p>This is carried to the point where some colleges have established what they call &#8220;free speech zones&#8221; — as if they are granting a special favor by not imposing their vague and arbitrary &#8220;speech codes&#8221; everywhere on campus.</p>
<p>The irony in this is that the Constitution already established a free speech zone. It covers the entire United States.</p>
<p>Have we already forgotten the lynch mob atmosphere on the Duke University campus a few years ago, when three young men were accused of raping a stripper?</p>
<p>Thank heaven that case was handled by the criminal justice system, where all the evidence showed that the charge was bogus, leading to the district attorney&#8217;s being removed and disbarred.</p>
<p>If all the current crusades to institutionalize lynch law on campuses across the country were motivated by a zeal to protect young women, that might at least be understandable, however unjustified.</p>
<p>But those who are whipping up the lynch mob mentality have shown far less interest in stopping rape than in politicizing it.</p>
<p>Many of the politically correct crusaders are the same people who have pushed for unisex living arrangements on campus, including unisex bathrooms, and who have put condom machines in dormitories and turned freshman orientation programs into a venue for sexual &#8220;liberation&#8221; propaganda.</p>
<p>They laughed at old-fashioned restrictions designed to reduce sexual dangers among young people on campus. Now that real life experience has shown that these are not laughing matters, the politically correct still want their sexual Utopia, and want scapegoats when they don&#8217;t get it.</p>
<p>There is a price to pay for allowing unsubstantiated accusations to prevail, and that price extends beyond particular young men whose lives can be ruined by false charges. The whole atmosphere of learning is compromised when male faculty have to protect themselves from accusations by female students.</p>
<p>People today are amazed when I tell them about a young African woman who had just arrived in America back in 1963, and who was so overwhelmed by everything that she fell far behind in my economics class. I met with her each evening for an hour of tutoring until she caught up with the rest of the class.</p>
<p>There is no way that I would do that today, and there is no way that she would have passed that class otherwise. Instead, she would have returned to Africa a failure. There are many unintended consequences of lynch law policies that poison the atmosphere on campus and diminish American life in general.</p>
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		<title>Campus Free Speech: For Jew-Haters Only</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 04:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A torrent of anti-Semitism follows the university's suspension of Students for Justice in Palestine. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/55.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222668" alt="55" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/55-450x343.png" width="284" height="216" /></a>Two weeks ago in Boston, Northeastern University suspended a student group &#8212; Students for Justice in Palestine (NU SJP) &#8211; for an assortment of infractions against Jewish students and those who support Israel. The stunts that got them suspended were consistent with the strategy of anti-Israel forces at universities around the country: Campus enemies of Israel directly target the free speech of pro-Israel student groups by having their speakers disinvited, their members </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/pro-israel-students-called-kike-dirty-jew-at-university-of-michigan/">intimidated</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, and their events </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/vassar-and-the-bds-war-on-campus/2014/03/27/">shouted down</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.  So it is with a fair amount of gall that SJP has now launched a shrill campaign, aided by Massachusetts media, claiming that free speech is a value they cherish and that theirs has been abrogated by the University.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The reason this duplicitous campaign has gotten a warm response in some circles has to do with a double standard in academia and the media. When it comes to certain protected groups, free speech is trumped by “sensitivity.” Two-thirds of universities have speech codes meant to provide a safe environment for minority groups. The use of certain offensive words is forbidden and the use of certain offensive symbols can shut down a campus. However, these protections hypocritically do not extend to pro-Israel Jews. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Anti-Semitism is defined as treating Jews as you would treat no others. SJP attacks the only Jewish state. It does not deny post-WWII Germans or genocidal Sudanese or Rwandans their right to self-rule. Only the Jewish people may not have a state. SJP is an anti-Semitic organization and anti-Semitism is the only hatred still accepted on American campuses.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On February 16</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, members of a Mississippi State University student group </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/students-wanted-desecrating-university-mississippi-statue-article-1.1664367">vandalized</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the statue of Ole Miss’s first black alumnus with a noose and a Confederate-type flag. Campus police posted a $25,000 reward for finding the suspects, the three students were caught and the FBI is planning to charge them with hate crimes. Their student group was suspended. The students’ actions were widely covered and roundly condemned in the national media.</span></p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Among the infractions that got Northeastern SJP suspended was vandalizing the statue of a Jewish alumnus twice in two days by taping over the statue’s mouth with the message: “Zionism = Racism” superimposed over a Jewish star.  Upon seeing a photo of the vandalism posted to Facebook, the group’s president, Tori Porell, commented, “This is my favorite thing ever.”</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> National and local media also covered the act of racist vandalism at Northeastern and SJP’s suspension, but in this case, media sympathy (</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/03/28/crossed-lines-protest-and-free-speech-northeastern/PrRFtt0WUHCiZoBEcDGtDI/story.html">led by the Boston Globe</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, of course) was not for the victimized minority group, but for the punished victimizer’s supposed loss of “free speech.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the current campus climate, ‘free speech” arguments are typically invoked on behalf of those who offend and intimidate Jews, Christians and conservatives. When NU SJP </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Dv_PcP4aU">marched</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> across campus a little over a year ago shouting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” &#8212; a genocidal call for the destruction of the only Jewish state, nothing was done in response. In contrast, when Yale’s Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity members marched across campus in 2010 shouting, “No means yes, yes means anal,” Yale </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://bigthink.com/focal-point/no-means-yes-yes-means-anal-frat-banned-from-yale">suspended</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the frat for 5 years and the US Department of Education forced the university to institute greater protections for female students.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When Arizona State University’s Tau Kappa Epsilon posted pictures of themselves at an MLK party this past January dressed in urban street clothes and sipping alcohol from watermelon cups, the university immediately </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/01/21/Arizona-State-University-frat-suspended-after-using-watermelon-cups-during-MLK-Day-party/3771390327283/">suspended</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the chapter.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yet SJP leaders have posted photos of themselves posing with terrorists’ machine guns. They come to protests wearing t-shirts glorifying gun violence and designated terrorist groups like Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. These terrorist groups explicitly call for the murder of all Jews and have murdered hundreds of Israelis (and in the case of Hezbollah, Americans as well). Yet nothing has been done to sanction these particular Northeastern University students.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The offense that finally earned SJP its suspension was what Northeastern terms “dorm storming” in the student conduct list of don’ts.  They entered student dorms in the middle of the night and slipped fake eviction notices under bedroom doors telling students that they are being kicked out for no reason, because that’s exactly what Israel does to the Palestinians. Even the ACLU considers the violation of privacy with the intent to intimidate and single out students to be outside the bounds of free speech at universities. In 2013, three San Jose State University students were </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_24566367/san-jose-state-students-charged-hate-crime">charged with hate crimes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> for writing racial slurs on a black student’s dorm room message board. Nobody would dare call that “free speech.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Indeed, SJP’s message wasn’t meant for the uninvolved student, who will maybe take a half second look at the piece of paper before throwing it away. This action was aimed directly at Jewish pro-Israel students. The clear message was:  “We who hate you can reach you at the very door to your room. We can come back again. And we will try to make others hate you as we do.”</span></p>
<div id="attachment_222567" style="width: 325px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/unnamed.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-222567" alt="unnamed" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/unnamed-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">NU SJP protest against free speech for pro-Israel students.</p></div>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While demanding freedom of speech for themselves, SJP and its supporters are perfectly happy to suppress the free speech of pro-Israel Jews. An SJP violation that contributed to its suspension was the disruption of a Holocaust Awareness Week event put on by Huskies for Israel in 2013. In this case, NU SJP actively plotted to violate the free speech rights of Jewish students. SJP sent an email to its members calling for a “creative disruption” of the event. The goal: “we need to show them that war criminals are NOT welcome at Northeastern,” emphasis theirs. At the event, SJP members </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppCV6EHksK0">chanted slogans</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> en-masse and disrupted the free speech of the speakers. </span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;"><br />
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Speaking to an SJP meeting in 2013, SJP faculty advisor M. Shahid Alam </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://youtu.be/mUS2XAGq4Bg">bragged</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> how he has made pro-Israel students in his classes afraid to argue with his anti-Israel lectures, “because they can sense that they will get no support from the class.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Northeastern Law School’s chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, which is closely affiliated with SJP, has put out a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/03/northeastern-concerned-influenced.html">poorly-argued legal brief</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about supposed violations of SJP’s free speech rights. Yet the brief demands the suppression of free speech rights for Zionist groups like Americans for Peace and Tolerance:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At the same time, it is important that groups such as ZOA and APT not be allowed to marginalize politically oppressed student groups through hate speech. To that end, we ask the University to adopt a more comprehensive hate speech policy that provides for transformative justice, anti-oppression training and, at the prerogative of the victim, disciplinary action.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(Stalin must be smiling in his grave.)</span></p>
<div id="attachment_222568" style="width: 282px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/unnamed2.png"><img class=" wp-image-222568" alt="unnamed2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/unnamed2-389x350.png" width="272" height="245" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Anti-Semitic cartoon posted by NU SJP.</p></div>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The National Lawyers Guild even invoked a standard anti-Semitic smear, claiming that Northeastern has bowed to pressure from wealthy Jewish donors when it suspended SJP. </span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;"></b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(“No free speech for rich Jews!”) This was echoed by NBC News “journalist” Nona Aronowitz, who interviewed us, NEU’s Hillel director and pro-Israel students and then simply ignored in her “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/pro-palestinian-students-charge-universities-censorship-n58896">report</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">” every one of our points which did not fit her preconceived narrative.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On March 19</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, as Northeastern SJP held a rally demanding that the university reinstate it, a Jewish student was watching. Here is his reaction:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I stood across the street and watched in complete awe as they shouted messages of hate, screamed how Zionism was racism, and that they were in no way being anti-Semitic. They continued with their chants of &#8220;from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.&#8221; When I hear that, I hear anti-Semitism, I hear a call for the complete destruction of the Jewish state and all that they call home.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I am what they call a member of the &#8220;Zionist war/propaganda machine,&#8221; and while I stood across the street and watched this rally, I kept a folded Israeli flag underneath my jacket. I kept on wanting to unfold it and hold it up high, but I was scared. I was afraid for one of the first times in my life as I heard their chants of anti-Semitism, full of hatred and shouting for intifada and increased violence. I was scared, but I am even more afraid of the idea of what happens when nothing is done, when nobody stands up.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When it comes to women, blacks, Latinos and gays, hate speech that creates a “hostile campus environment” is punished. Their right to live hostility-free limits the free speech rights of those who hector them. Yet the right to hate and hector Jewish students, argue the mainstream media and the National Lawyers’ Guild, is “protected free speech.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jewish students need our help. Brownshirt tactics cannot be tolerated even when masquerading as free speech or academic freedom.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is about time that the only hatred still acceptable on college campuses – the hatred of Jews and the only Jewish state &#8211; is treated like all other hatreds. The entire Jewish community must publicly stand up and fight to protect our students.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The following is the promotional video for the New Orleans-area pro-Israel event &#8220;<a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/declare-your-freedom-2-0">Declare Your Freedom 2.0</a>,&#8221; hosted by Allies of Israel (University of New Orleans) and Tulane United For Israel. The event will be held at 12 p.m. at Tulane University on March 30, 2014. Featured in the video is &#8220;Allies of Israel&#8221; founder and president Chloe Valdary, who was recently <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/defender-of-israel-responds-to-racist-attack/">interviewed</a> by FrontPage Magazine:</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2014 05:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/maxresdefault.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217842" alt="maxresdefault" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/maxresdefault-442x350.jpg" width="309" height="245" /></a>For the past couple of weeks the Radical Left in Israel has been screaming about the &#8220;right&#8221; of communist teacher Adam Verete, employed as a civics teacher in a northern Israeli high school, to turn his classroom into an anti-Israel indoctrination center.  He used his classroom time to urge his students to refuse to serve in the Israeli military.  In other words, the Left insists the communist teacher has the &#8220;right&#8221; to advocate law breaking in his classroom, all in the name of freedom of speech.  After launching an investigation of the teacher, the ORT school system, to which his school belongs, at the insistence of the Minister of Eductaion, merely slapped Verete&#8217;s wrist and did nothing.  Had Verete been a &#8220;Kahanist&#8221; using his classroom to advocate his agenda, he would have been dismissed faster than you can say Jiminy Cricket, and probably also jailed.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The leading far Leftists defending the right of Verete to indoctrinate in the classroom include <a href="http://new.bostonreview.net/BR21.3/Tamir.html">Yuli Tamir</a>, w</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ho once led the campaign to fire a different teacher (and rabbi), Yisrael Shiran, because Shiran wrote a letter OUTSIDE HIS CLASSROOM with which Tamir disagreed.  Shiran in that letter claimed that the school curriculum was improperly teaching the controversial ideas of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as unchallengeable dogma.  He was dismissed for this &#8220;crime&#8221; at the initiative of Tamir, but later sued the Ministry of Education for wrongful dismissal and won a large damages award.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Other defenders of the communist teacher include those Israeli &#8220;intellectuals&#8221;  and &#8220;academics&#8221; who insisted that the Nobel Prize-holding Prof. Yisrael Aumann be proclaimed a pariah undeserving of an honorary PhD because he holds opinions disliked by the Left.  Many of the same leftists defending the &#8220;right&#8221; of Verete also lead the campaign to indict and prosecute rabbis who wrote a controversial book; they insist these rabbis are guilty of the thought crime of expressing opinions that the Left considers to be &#8220;intolerant.&#8221;   And a great many of these leftists were among those who demanded that the freedom of speech of non-leftists be suppressed after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin based on their &#8220;theory&#8221; holding that non-leftists exercising freedom of speech produce murder.  It goes without saying that not a single leftist in Israel has ever protested the selective denial of free speech rights to &#8220;Kahanists.&#8221;  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While the radical Left in Israel has a very long record of demanding that the freedom of speech of non-leftists be suppressed, one of the most outrageous examples of the anti-democratic assault by the Left has been ignored in recent years and overlooked in the debate over freedom of speech in recent days.  It involves the case of Prof. Nahum Rakover.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Rakover is retired professor of law from Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv Universities and now serves as president of a small college in Israel.  In the past he served also as deputy attorney general.  He is an expert in Jewish law.  In the early 1990s he held a side position as deputy legal advisor for the government of Israel, this in the days of the Rabin-Peres government and the initiation of Oslo appeasement.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It was at this time that Israel’s Supreme Court made a controversial ruling recognizing homosexual &#8220;marriages,&#8221; when it ordered El Al to allow a gay steward to receive a spousal ticket for his partner.  The judges in that learned opinion cited Michel Foucault, gay Marxist deconstructionist and pseudo-philosopher, as a legal basis for the decision. The Court&#8217;s decision was written by leftist Justice <a href="http://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/haaretz-reporter-uri-blau-to-be-indicted-for-possessing-classified-documents/">Dalia Dorner</a>.  (She later prevented the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3262325.stm">defamation suit</a> proceeding against Arab propagandist and film maker Mohammed Bakri for falsely claiming that Israeli soldiers carried out atrocities in the Battle of Jenin.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Knesset (parliament) then held hearings on the Dorner decision about the stewards.   In these hearings, Rakover was invited in to say what Jewish Law and the Torah think of gay marriage. Rakover answered truthfully that the Torah considers it an abomination and that granting a spouse ticket to a gay partner is no different from giving it to someone practicing bestiality with his dog.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That sent the PC camp into ionospheric orbit.  The Left launched a merciless venomous ad hominem assault against Rakover, demanding his dismissal from his civil service post.  It should be noted that Rakover did not even state his OWN opinion about &#8220;gay marriage,&#8221; only the Torah’s, a task for which he was getting paid as part of his job.  The real issue of course is not whether you agree with the opinion described by Rakover.  The real issue is whether Rakover or the Torah have the right to hold an unfashionable opinion about anything.  The Israeli Left unanimously said no!</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Within days, Professor Itzhak Galnoor, a Hebrew university leftist from political science, who had earlier been a Peace Now leader, attacked Rakover.   Galnoor, today part of the semi-Marxist <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/Varieties-Marxism-Jerusalem-Leer-Foundation/11196992329/bd">Van Leer Institute</a>, has long advocated the position that any criticism of the Radical anti-Israel Left or questioning of its motives amounts to &#8220;McCarthyism&#8221; and should be suppressed.  See <a href="http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Steven%20Plaut%20-%20Itzhak%20Galnoor%20-%20The%20Leftwing%20McCarthyism.htm">this</a>.   Galnoor was at the time serving as the Labor Party-appointed head of the civil service, a position from which he introduced affirmative action quotas and dumbed-down standards.   Galnoor opened up internal persecution of Rakover in the civil service and led the campaign to get him dismissed from his position.  Demands for the dismissal of Rakover also filled the leftist press.  Among those demanding that Rakover be prevented from exercising his freedom of speech were the far-leftist Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), whose current <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11860">president</a> is a Stalinist,  and Tel Aviv University Prof. Asa Kasher, who claims to be an expert on ethics.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Rakover’s reputation and name were dragged through the mud by the anti-democratic McCarthyist Left.  Never mind that he is one of Israel’s greatest legal minds and was only stating what appears in black and white in the Torah.  Citing the Torah became in effect a hate crime in PC Israel.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 2002 the Israel Prize in Jewish Law was given to Prof. Nahum Rakover.  This was newsworthy because Rakover had been the victim of the McCarthyist assault against freedom of speech launched by the Israeli Labor Party and the rest of the Left in the 1990s.  It is also noteworthy because in recent years the Israel Prize has so often been granted to radical anti-Israel leftists.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But the radical Left&#8217;s selective devotion to freedom of speech, where everyone has the right to agree with the radical Left but no one has the right to disagree with it, continues to run amok.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But the academic organization opens its arms to the Marxist "Red Wedge." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/steve-benen03DEF055-E58A-3A85-DB31-97080711B286.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-215158" alt="steve-benen03DEF055-E58A-3A85-DB31-97080711B286" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/steve-benen03DEF055-E58A-3A85-DB31-97080711B286.jpg" width="302" height="229" /></a>A regular column dedicated to reporting on the slanted teaching, mis-administration and sheer insanity of our nation’s colleges and universities.</i></p>
<p><b>Top Stories:</b></p>
<p>• The Modern Language Association (MLA) a far-left academic organization, has <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/04/modern-language-associations-fascist-douchebags-outlaw-the-daily-caller-from-convention/">banned</a> the conservative publication, the <i>Daily Caller</i>, from attending its 2014 convention. According to an email received by the <i>Daily Caller</i> from the MLA’s press liaison, “The convention office reviewed you request but will not be issuing media credentials for the <i>Daily Caller</i>.”  The MLA did not respond to the <i>Daily Caller</i>’s requests for an explanation for this denial. Publications represented at past MLA conventions include <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Nation</i>, and the Marxist <i>Red Wedge</i>.</p>
<p>• Tulane political science professor and MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/31/no-joke-msnbc-mitt-romney-and-black-child/">mocked</a> Mitt Romney’s family Christmas card on her weekend program. The card shows Romney holding his adopted black grandchild on his lap, surrounded by his many other grandchildren.  Harris-Perry later apologized for her remarks, and those of her on-air guests (one of whom claimed the photo “really sums up the diversity of the Republican party, the RNC”), stating “I apologize to all families built on loving transracial adoptions who feel I degraded their lives or choices.”  Romney accepted her apology.</p>
<p>• The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF), a statewide union which represents faculty and personnel on Pennsylvania state campuses, has <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2014-01-08/news/45958873_1_pennsylvania-state-college-university-faculties-faculty-members">voiced its opposition</a> to a proposed policy that would permit the carrying of weapons, including firearms, in open areas on campus such as parking lots and sidewalks. The policy would not permit weapons inside buildings or at class activities, sporting events, or other organized outside events. The taskforce recommending the policy includes police officers, students, faculty, members of the system’s board of governors and university presidents.  The taskforce’s recommendation echoes the guidance provided by lawyers for the system who note that wholesale bans on weapons on the grounds of public campuses have been declared unconstitutional in recent years.</p>
<p>• A student at The College of New Jersey has courageously come forward to <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15812/">expose the pro-Obamacare and anti-Republican rantings</a> of her German professor.  In a recent exposé, student Emma Colton recounts how her German for Beginners professor John Benjamin used his classroom lectern to encourage students to “examine the great benefits of Obamacare” while insulting the Tea Party as “very moronic.”  Colton notes that it is only now after her final grade has been recorded in this course that she feels comfortable in coming forward with her experience of classroom indoctrination.</p>
<p><b>Further News from the Campuses:</b></p>
<p><b>ASA-Awarded Scholars Denounce Israeli Boycott, Call For Revote </b>[TheCollegeFix.com]</p>
<p>One dozen decorated members of the American Studies Association have denounced the scholarly group’s recent controversial decision to boycott Israeli academic institutions and have called for a revote.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15793/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>The Humanities Have Forgotten Their Humanity</b> [Wall Street Journal]</p>
<p>In 2011, the University of California at Los Angeles wrecked its English major. Such a development may seem insignificant, compared with, say, the federal takeover of health care. It is not. What happened at UCLA is part of a momentous shift that bears on our relationship to the past—and to civilization itself.</p>
<p><a href="http://m.us.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702304858104579264321265378790-lMyQjAxMTA0MDAwNDEwNDQyWj?mobile=y">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>A Dangerous Policy</b> [InsideHigherEd.com]</p>
<p>For decades, the Supreme Court has kept vigil over the campuses of state universities as, in the words of one memorable 1995 ruling, &#8220;peculiarly the marketplace for ideas.&#8221; No opinion, the Supreme Court has emphasized, is too challenging or unsettling that it can be banned from the college classroom.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/01/02/essay-criticizes-new-kansas-policy-use-social-media-university-employees">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Orange Hush: OSU Student Media Adviser Says University Tried to Quash Her Quest for Public Records </b>[Corvallis Gazette-Times]</p>
<p>Oregon State University student media adviser Kate Willson thought she was just doing her job when she filed a public records request with the university. Now she’s worried it could get her fired. OSU’s chief spokesman says Willson’s job is safe and the university was not trying to muzzle her. But he also says Willson was out of line when she tried to obtain public records from the institution she works for and that all such requests should be filed by student journalists, not their adviser.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/education/orange-hush-osu-student-media-adviser-says-university-tried-to/article_90e0f708-6f6c-11e3-8c46-001a4bcf887a.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Universities Continue to Ignore the Lessons of Litigation on Campus Free Speech Zones </b>[HuffingtonPost.com]</p>
<p>A student at Modesto Junior College in California who wanted to silently <a href="http://thefire.org/case/930">distribute copies</a> of the U.S. Constitution to his fellow students &#8212; on Constitution Day &#8212; was stopped by the police. A student group at the University of Cincinnati looking to <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/24/right-to-work-students-sue-university-of-cincinnati-over-free-speech-area/">collect signatures</a> for a statewide &#8220;right to work&#8221; ballot initiative is threatened with charges. Students and community members at Sinclair Community College in Ohio who merely sought to <a href="http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/sinclair-students-sue-over-protest-sign-ban-2/nPwZr/">hold signs</a> made for a campus rally were told that they must lay them flat on the ground.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/azhar-majeed/universities-college-free-speech-zones_b_4499105.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Longtime MU Fan Chants Deemed Offensive, Banned From Arena </b>[TheCollegeFix.com]</p>
<p>“<i>Scum, scum, scum – go back to where you’re from</i> . . .” is a chant that could be heard at any given University of Missouri Tiger basketball game over the years as Mizzou fans taunted opponents.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15791/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Union Decries Proposal to Allow Weapons in Open Areas on Campus</b> [CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>The statewide union for Pennsylvania state college and university faculties is opposing a proposed policy to allow firearms in open areas of fourteen of the state’s public institutions of higher education.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5347">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Kansas Board of Regents to Review Controversial Social Media Policy </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>The Kansas Board of Regents <a href="http://www.kansasregents.org/board_recommends_workgroup_to_review_policy">announced</a> Tuesday that it will create a “workgroup” to review the new <a href="http://www.kansasregents.org/policy_chapter_ii_c_suspensions">policy</a> on “improper use of social media” by faculty that has earned a <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2013/12/24/4711853/critics-challenge-kansas-board.html">steady</a> <a href="http://www.kansas.com/2014/01/02/3205236/barbara-shelly-social-media-policy.html">stream</a> of <a href="http://thefire.org/article/16601.html">criticism</a> from academic freedom advocates since it was adopted two weeks ago.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16622.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>University-Sponsored Production Glorifies White-Shaming </b>[CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>The University of Oregon (UO) put on a production about race in which one student repeatedly asked &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m white.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t choose to be white. As a matter of fact, I don&#8217;t even know why I&#8217;m white,&#8221; said Eric Braman during <a href="http://exploreidentity.uoregon.edu/2013/11/22/if-you-missed-michele-norris-on-campus/"><b>the Nov. 13 event</b></a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5334">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Editorial: Colleges Flunk Free Speech Test</b> [The Wilson Times]</p>
<p>College students returning to class for the spring semester this week might find themselves in hot water for exercising the rights they learn in lecture halls.</p>
<p>Two North Carolina schools — Appalachian State University in Boone and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — were recently named to a list of the 10 worst colleges in America for free speech. The Philadelphia-based Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonpartisan rights advocacy group, released the annual list on Dec. 27.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wilsontimes.com/News/Feature/Story/28166382---State-colleges-flunk-free-speech-test">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Cornell Diversity Group &#8216;Lost&#8217; $8,000 But Cuts Deemed Discriminatory</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 05:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sara Dogan]]></dc:creator>
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<p>• Attempts by the student government at Cornell to cut the budget of the African, Latino, Asian, Native American Students Intercultural Programming Board (ALANA) <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15684/">were rejected</a> and characterized as discriminatory despite drastic overspending by the group and the outright loss of $8,000 in unaccounted funds. While the Cornell Student Assembly recommends a funding limit of $10 per attending student at events, ALANA funded some events at a cost of up to $92 per student and wasted student funds on trivialities such as $450 for pins for the group’s executive board. Ultimately, ALANA’s budget was reduced only slightly to $108,000 for the next two years as opposed to $118,000 for the 2012-2014 allocation after attempts to dramatically reign in the budget were characterized by supporters as failing to be “sensitive to the needs of cultural umbrella and programming organizations like ALANA.”</p>
<p>• As part of an art project on racism, a black student at Sacramento State University designed an outdoor exhibit featuring the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/18/black-student-stages-fake-lynching-of-white-people-in-highly-offensive-art-stunt/">apparent lynching of two white people</a>. The white individuals were actors who were displayed dangling from a tree on campus with nooses encircling their necks. Student Christina Edwards who designed the piece stated that it was meant “to bring to light social injustices and the issue of inequality that impacts me and my community as a whole.” Edwards did not seek University approval to set up her display and administrators are looking into whether any campus rules were violated.</p>
<p>• The American Studies Association (ASA) voted in December to support a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/16/u-s-academic-group-votes-to-boycott-israeli-universities/">boycott of all academic institutions in Israel</a>, the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, while taking no action against the numerous tyrannical states and dictatorships across the globe.  The resolution stated that the ASA “endorses and will honor the call of Palestinian civil society for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. It is also resolved that the ASA supports the protected rights of students and scholars everywhere to engage in research and public speaking about Israel-Palestine and in support of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement.” Dozens of colleges and universities in America, including Harvard and Yale, have spoken out opposing the ASA’s vote as prejudiced and several have withdrawn from ASA membership entirely.  Among the testimony considered by the ASA was that of Communist terrorist Angela Davis who compared the situation of Palestinians to the Jim Crow South and Richard Falk, a 9/11 “truther” and anti-Semite.</p>
<p>• The University of Michigan chapter of Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian campus group, has <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/23/libertarian-students-sue-umich-for-political-discrimination/">filed a lawsuit</a> alleging that the University’s decision to deny them funding constitutes unconstitutional political discrimination. Officials from the university stated that they were ineligible for university funding because their events and activities were “political.”  But other campus groups with a clear left-wing political agenda, including the NAACP and Immigrant Rights Advocacy do receive university funding. The lawsuit against the University was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group, on behalf of Young Americans for Liberty.</p>
<p><strong>Further News from the Campuses:</strong></p>
<p><b>False Threats Graduate to The Ivy League </b>[TheCollegeConservative.com]</p>
<p>This past Monday morning, students at Harvard University had more than just the stress of finals to deal with.</p>
<p>Harvard University Police were given an <a href="http://www.harvard.edu/emergency">unconfirmed tip that explosives</a> were placed in four academic buildings on campus.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecollegeconservative.com/2013/12/20/false-threats-graduate-to-the-ivy-league/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>University of Colorado May Cut Hours on Student Jobs Due to New Obamacare Regs</b> [CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>Officials at the University of Colorado (CU) are scrambling to figure how new regulations stemming from the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may negatively affect student employees, top administrators told <i>The Scribe</i> this month.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5310">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>California College Suspends Speech Restrictions Amidst Settlement Talks </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>FRESNO, Calif., Dec. 18, 2013—Modesto Junior College (MJC) has agreed to suspend enforcement of its “free speech zone” as it negotiates an end to a federal <a href="http://thefire.org/article/16327.html"><b>lawsuit</b></a> filed by a student prevented from handing out copies of the Constitution on campus on Constitution Day.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16588.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Black student Stages Fake Lynching of White People in Highly Offensive Art Stunt </b>[DailyCaller.com]</p>
<p>A black student at Sacramento State University staged a fake lynching of two white people as part of an art project exploring racism.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, students at the public university campus saw two white people hanging from a tree with nooses around their necks. They were actors who had been hired by Christina Edwards, an artist and senior at the college.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/18/black-student-stages-fake-lynching-of-white-people-in-highly-offensive-art-stunt/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Were Vassar Hoax Bias Perps Also Involved in a False Rape Prosecution? </b>[Daily Caller]</p>
<p>The two former Vassar College students who were expelled for creating hoax bias incidents and then filing false reports about them were also actively involved with the college’s Sexual Assault and Violence Prevention committee, which currently faces a lawsuit for prosecuting a wrongful rape conviction.<br />
<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/11/were-vassar-hoax-bias-perps-also-involved-in-a-false-rape-prosecution/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Speech Codes of the Year: 2013</b> [TheFire.org]</p>
<p>While all of 2013’s Speech Codes of the Month flagrantly violated students’ or faculty members’ right to free expression, two of them were so egregious that they deserve special mention as 2013’s Speech Codes of the Year.<br />
<a href="http://thefire.org/torch/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>ACLU: College Cancelled Concert Because Band Members were &#8216;Not Black Enough&#8217; </b>[Campus Reform]</p>
<p>Administrators at Hampshire College (Hampshire) cancelled a Halloween concert last month because the lead singer of the band scheduled to perform was &#8220;not black enough,&#8221; the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleged in a letter to the school&#8217;s president.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5291">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Notre Dame Renews Litigation Against HHS Mandate </b>[The Irish Rover]</p>
<p>On December 3, Notre Dame announced that it has refiled its lawsuit to seek judicial protection relief from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) insurance mandate that would require Notre Dame to provide, either through its insurance plans or a third party administrator, various drugs and products which the government describes as “contraceptive,” but which include abortifacients (such as Ella and the IUD).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.irishrover.net/?p=4573">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>University of Michigan Student Group Files Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Funding Decisions </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>Last Friday, a student group at the University of Michigan (UM) filed a <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/files/YALcomplaint.pdf">federal lawsuit</a> (PDF) against the university, claiming that UM violated the First Amendment when it refused to grant the group student fee funding for one of its activities on the basis that it was a “political activity.” The suit is being brought by Alliance Defending Freedom.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16603.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Kenyon College Withdraws from ASA, Citing Call to Boycott Israel </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Kenyon College is <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15732/">the latest institution</a> to reject the American Studies Association’s call for an academic boycott of Israel. But Kenyon has taken its response a step further and is actually withdrawing from the ASA.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15741/">Read more</a></p>
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		<title>Legal Support for Terrorism at the University of Haifa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2013 04:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/haifa-university.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210754" alt="haifa university" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/haifa-university.jpg" width="245" height="194" /></a>In recent days the University of Haifa in northern Israel, where I am also employed,  has come under intensive criticism because the &#8220;legal clinics&#8221; operated by its School of Law here are assigning law students the task of counseling and defending convicted Arab terrorists and mass murderers of Jews.   The President of the University recently issued a statement defending the activities of these &#8220;clinics.&#8221;  The <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2207730">Dean of the Law School</a> together with the head of the &#8220;clinics&#8221; went on the attack and denounced those who criticize the practice of the &#8220;clinics&#8221; to counsel and defend the terrorists.</p>
<p>The Dean, <a href="http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/he/Faculty/barzilai/Publications/29_FantasiesofLiberalism_prepub.pdf">Prof. Gad Barzilai</a>, <a href="http://www.tau.ac.il/law/plilim/abs5.html">is a radical</a> active in leftist &#8220;human rights&#8221; groups and involved in academic <a href="http://israel-academia-monitor.com/index.php?type=large_advic&amp;advice_id=8662&amp;page_data%5Bid%5D=171&amp;cookie_lang=en">politicization </a>in Israel (<a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2008682441_opinb29gaza.html">Barzilai</a> was a defender of the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University &#8211; the worst anti-Israel agitprop center in the country &#8211; when an international panel of experts called for shutting it down).  He claims that all criticism of the law school for its involvement with terrorists is politically motivated.  In particular he denounced the Zionist student movement &#8220;<i>Im Tirtzu</i>&#8221; for <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=13065">criticizing the law school</a>.  Several faculty members at the University called for filing SLAPP suits against the students to silence them, and <a href="http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/HaifaU%20-%20Micah%20Leshem%20-%20Pens%20Anti-Semitic%20Cartoon.htm">one anti-Israel faculty extremist</a> complained that the clinics were not defending the terrorists <b><i>enough</i></b>.</p>
<p><i>Im Tirtzu</i> <a href="http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/518/845.html">claims that 80% of the cases</a> taken on by the University of Haifa legal clinic for &#8220;prisoner rights&#8221; involved Arab terrorists and spies.  <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/173559#.UoR3dK8UHQw">One involved a terrorist and convicted rapist</a> seeking a furlough.  Dean Barzilai insists that the law school is simply devoted to &#8220;repairing society&#8221; and defending the &#8220;weakened populations&#8221; of Israel.  In the past, the law school <a href="http://zioncon.blogspot.co.il/2011/06/university-of-haifa-bans-hatikva.html">prohibited the singing</a> of Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem, at its graduation ceremonies, claiming it would offend the sensitivities of Arab students.</p>
<p>On a discussion list for faculty members in the University of Haifa, I posted the following statement on November 13, 2013 as a response to the statement from the Dean of Law:</p>
<p>To:  The Segel-Plus Discussion List<br />
From:  Prof. Steven Plaut<br />
Re:  Some more Ideas for the Law Clinics to Achieve Social Justice and Help the Weak<br />
Date:  November 13, 2013</p>
<p>I am sure we are all grateful for the amazing statement distributed by the Dean of Law and the head of the &#8220;law clinics&#8221; in the school of law.  It is chock full of impressive claims and arguments.  There we learn how the law school is dedicated to achieving reforms of and repairs of society without any need for students (or faculty?) to study social science.  We learn how the law school is dedicated to rehabilitation of prisoners without the need to take any courses or training in social work. We learn there is such a discipline taught at the law school entitled &#8220;feminist law,&#8221; as well as dedication to supporting &#8220;Palestinian Israelis,&#8221; whatever that is, and not only via prohibition of the singing of <i>Hatikva, </i>the national anthem.  How fortunate that, unlike the <i>Im Tirtzu</i> student group, the law school is not politicized!  And most importantly, we learn that the law school is dedicated to recruiting students to counsel and serve imprisoned terrorists and mass murderers because of the school&#8217;s concern for &#8220;weakened populations,&#8221; but clearly not counseling and serving the families of the victims of these terrorists.</p>
<p>Numerous questions arise from reading the distinguished statement by the Dean of Law and the head of the &#8220;clinics.&#8221;  First of all, we would all like to know whether the University&#8217;s law clinics will be defending the gentleman who stabbed the soldier Eden Atias in the neck this morning in Afula, after which he bled to death.  It goes without saying that the law school will not be sending any students to help the family of Atias defend itself or litigate.  After all, they live in Upper Nazareth and so are not part of any &#8220;weakened population.&#8221;  After that, can we expect the law clinics to be sending out students to counsel and defend the convicted murderers of the child Dani Katz, who was kidnapped and murdered by Arab terrorists just a few steps from the campus? Surely they are as deserving of such counseling as the other terrorist clients of the law school clinics.  And since the family of Dani Katz lives in Denya (a luxurious upscale neighborhood), they clearly are not part of any &#8220;weakened population&#8221; in need of any special attention from the clinics.</p>
<p>But why stop here?  What about the terrorists who participated in the massacre of children in Maalot in 1974?  I do not know if any of the perps are now in prison or will ever be, but &#8211; if they are &#8211; surely they are deserving of a special clinic in which students are sent out to promote social justice by defending them.  As for the victims of the massacre and their families, these are no doubt well entrenched in the middle class these days and so there is no need for them to be treated as clients of the clinics.  And why not get ahead of current events?  Why should not the law school clinics offer their services to the leaders of Iran, so that, if Iran ever uses nuclear weapons against Israel, those Iranian leaders will know they can expect to get qualified legal counseling and representation from the clinics?</p>
<p>Among the folks who clearly can never be part of the &#8220;weakened population&#8221; are settlers, Ultra-Orthodox <i>Chareidim</i>, Russian immigrants, soldiers, and members of <i>SHAS</i> (religious party of Oriental Jews). More generally, would it not be simpler just to announce openly that the test for being part of a weakened population is participation in anti-Israel activities, while the test for being in a non-weakened population is to be the victim of any of the former? And since all anti-Israel political groups in the universe these days define themselves as &#8220;human rights defenders,&#8221; while never of course defending the Jewish victims of Arab terrorism because <b><i>clearly those</i></b> folks are entitled to no human rights, the law school can form alliances with such anti-Israel groups in the name of human rights.  Just as long as it never forms any alliances with any non-leftist or pro-Israel NGOs.</p>
<p>Finally, it is always refreshing when people openly promote the idea that the purpose of a university is to indoctrinate students in far-Leftist ideology and to engage in political advocacy.  It helps prevent confusion of purpose. It helps to convey the single correct point of view.  After all, alliance, collaboration, and semi-merger with far-Leftist anti-Israel activist groups is not political at all for a university department.  Only the <i>Im Tirtzu</i> student group is political.</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Jamie Glazov&#8217;s</strong> video interview with <strong>Mudar Zahran, </strong>the leader of Palestinians in Jordan who now resides in the U.K. as a political refugee. He discusses his support of Israel, points to the Palestinian homeland in Jordan, and denounces the Islamists. He also calls out the western media for being Israel haters and not caring about the Palestinians:</em></p>
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		<title>The Brotherhood on Campus: Your Tax Dollars at Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2013 04:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Endowment for the Humanities' disturbing funding activities. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/va-shenandoah.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209045" alt="va-shenandoah" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/va-shenandoah-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>The National Endowment for the Humanities <a href="http://www.neh.gov/about">says</a> it “strengthens our republic by promoting excellence in the humanities.” Apparently, the federal agency believes that funding student outreach by the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/international-institute-islamic-thought">International Institute of Islamic Thought</a> (IIIT), a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, fits this description.</span></b></p>
<p>On October 24, IIIT held an <a href="http://www.iiit.org/NewsEvents/UpcomingEvents/tabid/63/ModuleID/434/ItemID/154/mctl/EventDetails/Default.aspx?selecteddate=%5bEventDateBegin%5d">outreach event</a> at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA with the school’s <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/muslim-students-association">Muslim Students Association</a>, another group founded by the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>The IIIT summary states that the program “is offered in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities” and the event is supported by Student Life’s Intercultural Programs, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Alson H. Smith Jr. Library.</p>
<p>The FBI had informants inside the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network that <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/159.pdf">warned</a> about IIIT’s plan to “institute the Islamic Revolution in the United States” as far back as 1988. A declassified FBI document shows that a spy recalled the leadership “stated that the Muslims in the United States have to be prepared for martyrdom.”</p>
<p>The spy said that IIIT was currently focused on “peacefully get[ting] inside the United States government and also American universities.” Therefore, in this case, IIIT is using a taxpayer-funded federal agency to pursue the objective it has pursued for decades.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum">1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memo</a>, later seized by the authorities, substantiated the FBI informant’s reporting. The secret document listed IIIT as one of the Brotherhood’s secret fronts as part of its “work in America as a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”</p>
<p>Skeptics will point out that 1988 and 1991 were a long time ago, but 2002 isn’t. That’s the year when IIIT’s offices were raided as part of a terrorism-financing investigation. The probe continued until at least 2007 when the U.S. government was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062102032.html">pressuring</a> Sami al-Arian, a convicted terrorist, to testify about his strong links to IIIT.</p>
<p>In 1992, the President of IIIT wrote a <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/redirect/Exhibit325.pdf">letter</a> to Sami al-Arian that said, “For us, we deem all of your institutions our own…” The letter discussed IIIT’s financial support of al-Arian’s group.</p>
<p>As recently as 2011, an IIIT official in London was <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/iiit-official-us-gov%E2%80%99t-military-are-terrorists">writing articles characterizing the U.S. government and military as terrorists.</a> He accused the U.S. of “killing literally millions of people and setting a dozen of countries on fire” since 2001. That IIIT official, Dr. Jasser Auda, also has links to Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi, the terrorism-supporting spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>The IIIT website proudly <a href="http://www.iiit.org/NewsEvents/IIITVisitors/tabid/323/Default.aspx">hosts a photo</a> of two of its leaders meeting with then-President Morsi on September 27, 2012 in New York. At that time, Morsi was moving the Brotherhood’s Sharia agenda in Egypt full speed ahead. And, according to the caption beneath the photo, he “welcomed the participation of IIIT in the rerform [sic] of higher education in Egypt.”</p>
<p>To sum it up: The same organization that the Muslim Brotherhood wanted to “reform” education in Egypt is now educating American students with the help of a taxpayer-supported federal agency.</p>
<p>Despite IIIT’s record, it has <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/mb-front-succeeds-partnering-us-universities">relationships with American schools around the country.</a> Politicians and professors <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/professors-politicians-join-iit-iftar-dinner">attend IIIT Iftar dinners</a> and some teachers took part in a recent <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/us-professors-participate-brotherhood-linked-program">IIIT summer education program for selected students.</a> One even teaches at the U.S. Naval Academy.</p>
<p>Shenandoah University is just a case study in what IIIT is accomplishing. Dr. Calvin Allen, Dean of its College of Arts and Sciences, <a href="http://iiit.org/AboutUs/Agreements/Shenandoah/tabid/111/Default.aspx">signed a Memorandum of Agreement with IIIT</a> so the Brotherhood front could “designate an instructor to co-teach with Dr. Allen a course on Islamic civilization.”</p>
<p>Allen signed the agreement with Jamal Barzinji, IIIT’s Vice President and one of the founding fathers of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network. In 2003, the authorities <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/891.pdf">searched</a> Barzinji’s residence because he “is not only closely associated with PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad]…but also with Hamas.” Allen also <a href="http://iiit.org/NewsEvents/News/tabid/62/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/228/IIIT-Hosts-Friends-of-IIIT-IftarDinner.aspx">spoke at a IIIT fundraiser on August 24, 2011.</a></p>
<p>IIIT is just one Islamist group that is building relationships with academia. The <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/alavi-foundation">Alavi Foundation</a> in New York is a front for the Iranian regime and it has <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/iranian-regime-front-funded-30-universities-us-canada">donated to 30 schools in the U.S. and Canada</a>. In addition, it financed <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/iranian-govt-front-group-funded-over-60-islamic-sites-us">over 60 Islamic sites in America</a> and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/irans-secret-interfaith-outreach-in-america/">many other non-profit organizations.</a> <i>The Blaze</i> is the only television program to cover the Alavi Foundation’s donations (<a href="http://youtu.be/ZAxr4GF1xJs">watch my segment here</a>).</p>
<p>Readers are encouraged to send this article and the <i>Clarion Project</i>’s <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/international-institute-islamic-thought">full profile of IIIT</a> to Shenandoah University. The listed contact for the event is Dean Cal Allen (<a href="mailto:callen@su.edu">callen@su.edu</a>). The school can also be contacted at <a href="mailto:shenuniv@su.edu">shenuniv@su.edu</a> and 540-665-4500.</p>
<p>The National Endowment for the Humanities can be contacted at <a href="mailto:info@neh.gov">info@neh.gov</a> and 202-606-8400. You can also write the agency at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, D.C., 20506.</p>
<p>Every cent given to a Muslim Brotherhood-linked organization is a cent wasted. American taxpayers need to make their voices heard.</p>
<p><em>This article was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a></em></p>
<p>*<br />
<em>Don&#8217;t miss<strong> Jamie Glazov&#8217;s</strong> video interview with <strong>Steven Emerson</strong> about the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s penetration of our government and society:</em></p>
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		<title>Liberal Academia and My Struggle for Survival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Firester]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A daring effort to inject balance into the leftist curricula.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Photo-college-student-in-a-classroom.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-208919" alt="Photo - college student in a classroom" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Photo-college-student-in-a-classroom-450x334.jpg" width="315" height="234" /></a>When Stephen Hawking decided to boycott Israel earlier this year based on the opinions of academics like <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/david-calling/348361/stephen-hawking%E2%80%99s-boycott-israel">Noam Chomsky</a> I was astonished.  How can it be that one of the smartest people in the world can hold such a dumb view?  It turns out that this is quite common.  As I began to teach at Queens College (City University of New York), I have seen firsthand how this can be.</p>
<p>It has often been said that there is no cure for stupid, while ignorance is easily treated through education.  What happens when educators willfully steer their ships in an ignorant direction?  It seems that many academic ships are sailing in this direction.  I happened to board one myself recently.</p>
<p>I began teaching “Introduction to Political Science” (PoliSci 101) at Queens College as a Graduate Teaching Fellow this semester.  As I am new, I was given a “mentor” whose syllabus I essentially mirrored.  After a brief review of the content I got a sense of what textbooks are being used in the practice of college-level teaching.  I researched syllabi elsewhere to get some more ideas.  It seems that what is being assigned at Queens College is not all that different from what professors assign elsewhere.</p>
<p>When I looked a little deeper into the material I was assigning I began to notice what I could only say is <i>institutionalized</i> liberal bias.  As a Ph.D. student who has sat through some of the most virulent professorial liberal rants, I knew it was quite common.  (In the past I had attended numerous schools, mostly in New York; they include State University of New York Orange, the City University of New York that included study at Brooklyn College, Hunter College, City College and the Graduate Center).  I swore that my pedagogical style would be centered on the presentation of opposing viewpoints and not descend into the sort of demagoguery that thrives on sycophant head bobbing.</p>
<p>In reviewing some of the chapters of the “textbook” I was requiring students to read I saw a clear socialist trend.  When I think of a textbook a few adjectives come to mind.  It should be a technical guide on concepts.  It should be dispassionate and devoid of fiery ideology.  Well, that isn’t quite how it works.</p>
<p>The “textbook” pushed the agenda of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, denigrated any conservative viewpoints, assaulted libertarianism, and promoted <i>only</i> Democratic presidents and liberal/progressive interests.  I decided that since the ship was listing to the left I would give it a shove toward the center by assigning two chapters of Mark R. Levin’s book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Tyranny-A-Conservative-Manifesto/dp/1416562877/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1382879703&amp;sr=8-3&amp;keywords=Mark+Levin"><i>Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto</i></a>.</p>
<p>That didn’t go over too well.  The department chair called for a submission of all syllabi, which I promptly complied with.  I guess this is the first time they were seeing some conservative heresy being assigned.  I found it odd that shortly thereafter I was informed by my “mentor” that I would be observed in the classroom.  Routine observations do occur.  However, I was informed that they don’t generally take the form that mine had.  It was quite interesting that he chose the specific day that I would be reviewing Levin’s material with the students.</p>
<p>Following the observation, I had a brief discussion with my reviewer/mentor.  He seemed to make some useful critical remarks, which I immediately recognized as helpful.  Then he spoke about Levin’s book (I had sent him two chapters in advance of the observation).  He didn’t like that I used a “polemical radio personality” to teach.  I told him that Levin is an accomplished constitutional attorney and former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese.  He sort of nodded and the conversation ended.</p>
<p>A few days later I got the written version of my observation report.  The same matters discussed were now on paper.  I was told that the observation process requires that I must seek a full-time professor to be a rapporteur.  That person’s job is to simply note my comments in a neutral fashion and convey them to the chairperson.  I was told that I should see a particular professor, whom I decided not to see. I was then told that the department chair would suffice.  So, I went into her office and exchanged polite greetings with her.  As I began to tell her that I needed a rapporteur she took out a scratch pad and started to take notes, while barking at me that I have a “big issue” in assigning Levin and that she agrees with my observer’s remarks.  I was dumbfounded.</p>
<p>When a person goes to court they don’t expect that the judge will be play the roles of stenographer and prosecutor.  She told me that I needed to get that material out of the syllabus.  I tried to defend my usage of the material as being consonant with what I would think the school values: the presentation of facts from various perspectives.  She laughed and said that since Levin’s book was not a textbook it did not qualify as being on an equal footing as the (leftist) textbook.  As much as it pains me to say so, she is right.  Textbooks don’t seem to present arguments that folks like Levin are making.</p>
<p>When I told her that I merely assigned Levin to provide a counterpoint to the biased arguments being made in a so-called textbook that was “peer-reviewed” she suggested that perhaps I couldn’t find an alternative because the viewpoint is not legitimate.  Then I got to thinking, if one’s peers are all liberals and academics tend to be the same then the jury is rigged.  One cannot expect to be published in a peer-reviewed textbook when what they have to say is so unpopular among those who publish.</p>
<p>This is what people mean when they describe academia as a cesspool of liberal ideologues.   Over the years, I had come to see the students and professors (in New York City) as overwhelmingly liberally biased.  What I now can see is how such a bias is sustained by willfully suppressing any material that conflicts with the agenda.  As I have also been informed, the concept of “academic freedom” applies to professors with tenure.  I am not a member of such a privileged class.  Hence, I have no academic freedom.  One can safely conclude that since I (and my students) am not academically free, a liberal autocracy is the system that I must bow before.</p>
<p>I am left to understand that my place in this system is akin to that of an insurgent.  I am therefore compelled to brand myself as a “Conservative Insurgent.”  The difference is, however, that I will never seek to indoctrinate the students (as the liberal incumbents do).  I only desire to grant conservatism a voice amongst the cacophony of liberalism.</p>
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		<title>Universities to Students: No &#8216;Offensive&#8217; Halloween Costumes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beware the PC horrors of cowboy, Indian and geisha get-ups. ]]></description>
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<p><b>Top Stories:</b></p>
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<li>Several universities across the country have taken action to warn students not to wear “offensive” costumes on Halloween. At the University of Colorado Boulder, Dean of Students Christian Gonzales <a href="http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/cu-boulder-asks-students-to-avoid-racist-and-stereotype-costumes-parties">urged students</a> to “consider the impact your costume decision may have on others in the CU community.”  Among the costumes she deemed offensive are cowboys, Indians, geishas, “squaws” and those including sombreros or blackface. At the University of Minnesota, the Office of Student Affairs issued an email to students <a href="U%20of%20M:%20Be%20careful%20with%20Halloween%20costumes%20-%20KMSP-TV%20http:/www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/23758980/u-of-m-be-careful-with-halloween-costumes#ixzz2ibL2R27i">cautioning them</a> against costumes that &#8220;inappropriately perpetuate racial, cultural and gender stereotypes.&#8221;  The Multicultural Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison posted a blog, <a href="http://mscthreads.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/does-this-costume-make-me-look-racist/">&#8220;Does this costume make me look racist?&#8221;</a>, which lists several categories of outfits to be avoided including “costumes that appropriate a culture,” those guilty of <b>“</b><strong>Romanticizing a culture” including</strong><b> </b>“’poca-hottie,’ gypsy, belly dancer, and geisha” which “have ties to oppression, rape, and genocide” and those which stereotype cultures including “The Mariachi, the Kimono princess and the kung fu.”</li>
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<li>Dan Kehan, a professor of psychology at Yale University, wrote a <a href="http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/10/15/some-data-on-education-religiosity-ideology-and-science-comp.html?lastPage=true&amp;postSubmitted=true">blog post</a> on a site dedicated to the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School noting that he was “embarrassed” to discover a positive correlation in research he was conducting between respondents who identified themselves as belonging to the Tea Party movement and “science comprehension”— a correlation that he found “surprising.”  Kehan went out of his way to note that “I don&#8217;t know a <em>single person</em> who identifies with the Tea Party.”  Despite his findings, Kehan added “Of course, I still subscribe to my various political and moral assessments&#8211;all very negative&#8211; of what I understand the ‘Tea Party movement’ to stand for. I just no longer assume that the people who happen to hold those values are less likely than people who share my political outlooks to have acquired the sorts of knowledge and dispositions that a decent science comprehension scale measures.”</li>
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<li>University of Arizona associate professor Pat Willerton was <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15003/">caught on video</a> telling his “Politics, Policy and Governing” class that viewers who watch Fox News are less informed than their counterparts who get their news from liberal media sources: “you look at MSNBC, ABC, CNN, all of these cases, the average viewer knows more than the person who doesn’t consult any source. When they survey people who watch Fox News regularly, they know less.”  Willerton exhorted his students to “look at the studies” by which he meant a much-derided 2010 survey by WorldPublicOpinion.org. Prof. Willerton neglected to mention any  criticism of this study or Fox New’s <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/05/truth-fox-news-viewers/">point-by-point refutation</a>.  An Arizona administrator defended Willerton stating that “To all indications, he is conducting the class responsibly and within his authority and expertise.”<b><br />
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<p><b>Further News from the Campuses:</b></p>
<p><strong>Prof: Conservatives Guilty of &#8216;Tyranny&#8217; for Holding the Government &#8216;Hostage&#8217; [CampusReform.org]</strong></p>
<p>A professor from the University of Georgia (UGA) on Friday told a local paper that conservatives were guilty of “tyranny” for holding the government “hostage” during the budget negotiations.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5160">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Lawsuit Claims JCTC Wrongly Fired Official [The Courier-Journal]</strong></p>
<p>A former director of human resources at Jefferson Community and Technical College is suing the college and its president, claiming he was wrongly fired in 2012 for criticizing employment decisions and expressing his conservative and religious beliefs.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20131010/NEWS01/310100146/Lawsuit-claims-JCTC-wrongly-fired-official?nclick_check=1">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Yale Professor &#8216;Embarrassed&#8217; to Discover Tea Party Members are Scientifically Literate</b> [CNSNews.com]</p>
<p>You know that line liberals love to lob at the Tea Party: you&#8217;re stupid.  Well, obviously that&#8217;s not the case, nor has it ever been true.  Now, a Yale professor has <a href="http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/10/15/some-data-on-education-religiosity-ideology-and-science-comp.html?lastPage=true&amp;postSubmitted=true" target="_blank">released some new research</a> showing that the so-called &#8220;Tea Party radicals&#8221; are actually scientifically literate.</p>
<p><a href="http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/matt-vespa/yale-professor-embarrassed-discover-tea-party-members-are-scientifically#sthash.lIxTTmLx.dpuf">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>UPenn Students Stage Hoax Event to Mock Bristol Palin, Abstinence </b>[Campus Reform]</p>
<p>Fliers on the University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s campus announcing a speech by Bristol Palin turned out to be a hoax students created to mock the daughter of former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin who is a an adamant advocate of abstinence.</p>
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<p><strong>Pasadena Professor who Taught Porn Class Resigns [Associated Press]</strong></p>
<p>PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&amp;action=search&amp;channel=news&amp;search=1&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;query=%22Pasadena+City+College%22">Pasadena City College</a> professor who drew protests after inviting porn actors to his class has resigned.</p>
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<p><strong>Appeals Court to Consider Calif. School&#8217;s Cinco de Mayo American Flag Ban [Associated Press]</strong></p>
<p>Racial tensions and gang problems were plaguing a Northern California high school when three students arrived for classes in 2010 wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/17/appeals-court-to-consider-calif-school-cinco-de-mayo-american-flag-ban/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Pro-Life Students Ignore Bullying to Stand Up for Babies Killed in Abortion [LifeNews.com]</strong></p>
<p>Tuesday, October 15, 2013 was the ninth annual Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity. Every year thousands of people around the world are willing to give up their voices for those who will never have one because of abortion.</p>
<p>This week was no different.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2013/10/18/pro-life-students-ignore-bullying-to-stand-up-for-babies-killed-in-abortion/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Tribe Leads Charge to Scrap Redskins Name [NYPost.com]</strong></p>
<p>VERONA, N.Y. — Last winter, a group of student leaders approached the school board in upstate Cooperstown about changing their team’s mascot — the Redskins.</p>
<p>The movement caught on quickly and by May, Cooperstown Central School was known as the Hawkeyes.</p>
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<p><strong>What I Learned in Comparative Politics: White People Exploit All Others [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p><em>Earlier this year, my Arizona State University government professor told my class that white people are successful because they have exploited all other people, and that Americans are not all born equal because of slavery.</em><em></em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14961/">Read more</a></p>
<p><em></em><strong>Lawsuit! Student Ordered to Stop Handing Out Constitutions on Constitution Day Files Suit [TheFire.org]</strong></p>
<p>FRESNO,<strong> </strong>Calif., Oct. 10, 2013—A student who was ordered by college administrators to stop handing out copies of the Constitution on campus—on Constitution Day—<a href="http://thefire.org/article/16329.html"><strong>filed suit</strong></a> today in federal court. Modesto Junior College (MJC) student and Army veteran Robert Van Tuinen is suing the Yosemite Community College District and MJC administrators for violating his First Amendment rights. Van Tuinen is represented by the law firm of <a href="http://www.dwt.com/offices/WDC/"><strong>Davis Wright Tremaine</strong></a> and is assisted by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).</p>
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<p><strong>CSUN professor sparks a debate regarding academic freedom of speech for professors [Daily Sundial]</strong></p>
<p>CSUN mathematics professor David Klein has spent years defending his right to express his views about boycotting the state of Israel. His name was recently brought up during the CSU board of trustees meeting regarding the legality of his website.</p>
<p><a href="http://sundial.csun.edu/2013/10/csun-professor-sparks-a-debate-regarding-academic-freedom-of-speech-for-professors/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Professor Tells Students Fox News Viewers Are Ignorant [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>People who watch Fox News are less informed than people who get their news from other outlets such as MSNBC and CNN, a University of Arizona professor told his upper-level government class recently, according to a recording of the comments obtained by <i>The College Fix.</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15003/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>Will the Tolerance Agenda Destroy Christian Higher Education? [PJMedia.com]</strong></p>
<p>Last weekend my husband and I visited our son at the little Bible College he attends in Pennsylvania… The school doesn’t promote a political agenda, it simply quietly goes about the business of educating young people who desire a Christian education. As we drove away from the beautiful campus on Sunday, I couldn’t help but wonder how long this school and other conservative Christian schools will survive as the new conformity enforcers continue their march through our country’s institutions.</p>
<p><a href="http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/10/20/will-the-tolerance-agenda-destroy-christian-higher-education/">Read more</a></p>
<p><strong>MIT Magazine&#8217;s Funding Restored Following Title IX Concerns [TheFire.org]</strong></p>
<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student newspaper <a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N45/finboardvoodoo.html"><em>The Tech</em></a> reported last Friday that funding to another MIT student publication, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/voodoo/www/"><em>Voo Doo Magazine</em></a>, has been restored after a Title IX complaint against the magazine resulted in MIT’s Undergraduate Association (UA) cutting its funding. But even with <em>Voo Doo</em> back on its feet, UA’s response to the magazine’s content suggests MIT students might be developing worrisome attitudes about speech and censorship.</p>
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		<title>Activism: The New Goal of &#8216;Liberal&#8217; Education</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/gardner_activistbazaar-13-630x420.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-206602" alt="gardner_activistbazaar-13-630x420" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/gardner_activistbazaar-13-630x420-450x339.jpg" width="270" height="203" /></a>The ideal of liberal learning is among the most noble, the most beautiful, that has ever been thought. Though never perfected, it was an ideal toward which generations of academics strived.</p>
<p>Academia was always supposed to be a place devoted to “the disinterested pursuit of truth and knowledge,” a place where prejudice is subordinated to reason, wishful thinking to the demands of logic and a cultivated sensibility.</p>
<p>And because it is <i>the pursuit </i>of truth—and not Truth itself—for which a “higher education” prepares students, a liberal arts education, then, has always been interpreted, at least in part, as an education in certain types of <i>habits, </i>excellences of character or <i>virtues </i>without which the pursuit could never get under way<i>.  </i>In pursuing truth, students (and teachers alike) cultivate the virtues needed to pursue truth.</p>
<p>In short, liberal learning is designed to produce a certain type of person, a person who, to put it in the terms in which the educated of the eighteenth century described it, could effortlessly navigate his way around “the conversible world.” A liberal arts education, that is, is an education into a<i> conversation </i>between the many academic voices—disciplines—that have defined and, in ways yet unbeknownst to us, will continue to define Western civilization.</p>
<p>Yet one disposition that is indispensable to this quest for truth is a particular orientation toward <i>time.  </i>More exactly, liberal learning presupposes partiality toward the past and the present: to be “conversible,” to be conversant in the inheritance of his civilization, the educated person obviously needs to know his past.  However, beyond this—well beyond this—he needs to genuinely appreciate his ancestors, for there can be no conversation with those toward whom one is contemptuous or dismissive.  If his reverence may be too much for his ancestors to ask of him, his honor is not, for in paying them with this coin the educated person humbles himself—an act in the absence of which he can hope to learn nothing.</p>
<p>The present is also of value for the educated person, for the pursuit of truth, this conversation across the generations, is not valued on account of anything other than its own intrinsic pleasures: it is delightful, even exhilarating, in itself.</p>
<p>How things have changed.</p>
<p>Whether today’s academy trains students for the labor force or for political activism, the point is that, all too frequently, students are supplied with a <i>training—</i>not an <i>education.  </i>And whether it is for the sake of making money or saving the world, this training focuses on—indeed, is obsessed with—<i>the future.  </i>The past is either neglected or disdained, and the present is viewed as, at best, an unavoidable stepping stone to future bliss; at worst, a hindrance to be surmounted.</p>
<p>The great tragedy to have befallen our times is that liberal arts programs throughout the West have succumbed to this love for the future (at the cost of marginalizing the past and the present).  But here, for the most part, academics are interested in producing good little activists.</p>
<p>And what this amounts to is good little political leftists.</p>
<p>The University of Pennsylvania’s Anthea Butler is beyond a classic textbook illustration of the activist academic. In fact, she’s bordering on being a caricature.</p>
<p>This past summer, immediately following George Zimmerman’s acquittal of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, Butler—a professor of religious studies—blogged that God is “a white racist god with a problem.” She added that “he is carrying a gun and stalking young black men.”</p>
<p>Racism in America has its underpinnings in Christianity, Butler wrote, and “the good Christians of America” are “some” of the country’s “biggest racists” “who clearly are not for human flourishing, no matter what ethnicity a person is.”  She likened Christians to the KKK and blamed Republicans like Governor Rick Perry of Texas, the NRA, “capitalism,” and the Koch brothers for bringing about Trayvon Martin’s death.</p>
<p>Now, Professor Butler is at it again.</p>
<p>According to Campus Reform, she has recently tweeted that <i>the Republicans</i> have shut down the government for no reason other than that of Barack Obama’s <i>race. </i></p>
<p>Unlike Bill Clinton, our country’s first “fake black president” under whom the last shut down transpired, Obama is America’s “first real black president” that the GOP has had to “mess with.” Butler told her followers that they must “be blind to think race does not play into this stupidity.” If only Republicans like House Speaker John Boehner—who Butler charged with being “drunk”—“would quit trying to regulate vaginas they could practice governance.”</p>
<p>Sadly, Butler is not at all atypical of today’s academics.  For this reason, perhaps like the Western world itself, academia—traditionally <i>the place </i>where students could engage in the unhindered pursuit of knowledge by learning how to become conversant in the modes of imagination that compose their civilization—will be destroyed from the inside.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Students-on-Campus-6.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-200148" alt="Students on Campus 6" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Students-on-Campus-6-450x330.jpg" width="270" height="198" /></a>Reprinted from the <a href="http://www.popecenter.org/commentaries/article.html?id=2885">John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The historian Polybius famously observed that empires deteriorate either internally or from without.  In some cases, however, they fall apart in both ways. This latter situation applies to American higher education, which has succumbed to numerous corrupting influences all at the same time.</p>
<p>To make my point, I’ll discuss the transformation that befell the college where I was employed between 1989 and 2011. Elizabethtown College, located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was for most of its history a sleepy Anabaptist college, affiliated with the Church of the Brethren. When the college offered me a position as a full professor, I accepted, welcoming the opportunity to live in a charming setting and to teach at a socially traditional college.</p>
<p>I also imagined that I would be able to converse with a scholarly community, but my teaching experience at Elizabethtown, with a few notable exceptions, was far from stimulating. Most of the students didn’t seem eager to learn and when given the chance, were happy to disparage me and other equally demanding professors on the compulsory “evals.” Worse than the hostility of the disengaged students was the reaction of antiwar faculty colleagues who disliked my philosophy, despite my own reservations about a militantly interventionist foreign policy. Attempts at civil debate with them proved futile.</p>
<p>A new administration took over in 1996. It was headed by<strong> </strong>a sociologist of religion with Lutheran theological training. He pushed the college in an unmistakably ideological direction from which it would never turn back.</p>
<p>The new president enjoyed going to conferences with other college presidents and schmoozing with the Middle States accreditation agency that the college uses to validate its degrees.  Each time he attended such meetings, he would come back with a new diversity program to implement, or he would decide to increase the responsibilities of the college’s diversity dean in fighting for “tolerance.”</p>
<p>This typically took the form of being more “welcoming” to our modest number of non-Christian, non-white students. For awhile, any mention of Christmas by the faculty and staff was frowned on; and even a “Yule Bowl” celebration was awkwardly renamed Holiday Bowl at the last moment, in case a non-Christian student might take offense at a gathering associated with a Christian holiday.</p>
<p>My wife, who was a bookstore employee, brought up certain facts in a letter to the college newspaper: Yule festivals were a pre-Christian Germanic thing and it was ridiculous for a Protestant college to try to obliterate its specifically Christian roots.</p>
<p>My black student assistant (one of the few non-whites on campus) found it strange that the entire school was celebrating Kwanzaa as a “black religious festival,” when his Baptist family in New Jersey cared only about Christmas. I explained to him that his parents were not politically correct blacks, unlike the white administration at the college.</p>
<p>From my conversations with the president, I found nothing to suggest that he believed any of the multicultural doctrines he so energetically pushed. He was just taking his lead from the presidents of other colleges, and undoubtedly trying to make the increasingly leftist faculty like him.</p>
<p>And the faculty seemed delighted with his initiatives. When the administration came forth with an extensive program to integrate multiculturalism into the curriculum, there was enthusiastic faculty approval.</p>
<p>The multicultural pedagogy would furnish the principles for the orientation of new students, inspire the list of guest speakers who would be invited to campus to edify us, and justify the stress on diversity and social justice that went into the college’s new mission statement.  Even without injecting the righteous odor of PC into every core course, the entire college would emit its fragrance.</p>
<p>In its effort to get the faculty to vote to make diversity the overriding goal of the institution, the administration, aided by the social work and religion faculties, relied upon the supposed need to fight “hate crime.”<strong>  </strong>We were confronted by events that never occurred, but which were said to throw a pall over the college. The administration spoke as if there were torrential outbursts of hate against Hindu, Muslim and Jewish students, based solely on the assertion by one Catholic faculty member who had converted to Hinduism that some students looked at him in a “bigoted way.” (Those looks were better explained by the fact that he wore a pony tail.)</p>
<p>And though the president proposed a solution (recruiting more minorities from inner cities) that had nothing to do with the alleged offenses, that didn’t matter. One after the other, faculty members stood up to proclaim, “It’s time we make a statement.”</p>
<p>To make matters worse, there was a low endowment at Elizabethtown, and the tuition-driven college became heavily dependent on certain cash cows. These were primary education, communications, and social work, which all served as vehicles of leftist indoctrination.</p>
<p>The students and faculty who were associated with those majors hardly distinguished between leftwing activism and traditional college study. They were expected to assume certain political attitudes and to act on the basis of them as part of their college education. Students in certain majors were expected to hear all of the politically correct speakers (such as education radical Jonathan Kozol) who were brought to campus and to write papers on what they learned from the speeches.</p>
<p>Even staying in the dorms required getting along with a dean of students, who imposed her political values on recalcitrant residents. Students of mine were dressed down by this dean and the provost for not being sufficiently sensitive to uncorroborated “hate crimes.” In more than one case, honor students (from the political science department) were threatened with expulsion for disputing the diversity dogma that had been proclaimed for the “college community.”</p>
<p>Note that there was an aspect of the college’s Brethren heritage that worked against maintaining college standards. The school claims to “be educating for service,” and one frequently heard students emphasize the joys of being “hands on.” In primary education, one could be “hands on” by joining the National Education Association and by demonstrating with its members. One had an especially good opportunity to be “hands on” by attending the speech by black communist activist Angela Davis last fall, which was sponsored by the college.</p>
<p>Equally significant were the multiple “hires” that took place during this time. Most of the younger people who came on board have better credentials than the older generation of faculty. Unfortunately, they are not much interested in serious scholarship, but delight in complaining about any hints of sexism and racism they claim to have spotted on campus. The primary effect of the younger faculty has been to radicalize the institution beyond recognition.</p>
<p>Elizabethtown’s pitiable transformation corresponds to a widespread degradation of learning. What bothers me about such glib generalizing, however, is the unwillingness of those of my generation to acknowledge that what they are deploring <em>happened on their watch.</em></p>
<p>This process of change took place in different places and varied contexts, and so when I hear from those who lament what has befallen our college that “it’s really the same all over” I get intensely annoyed. I have no doubt that at Elizabethtown something could have been done to make things less crazy if fewer professors had hidden their heads in the sand. There was rarely a vote on any issue that radicalized the school in which the “nays” could not have won or at least held their own. The critics were just too cowardly or self-centered to let their opposition be known at the appropriate time.</p>
<p>Although this passage from Burke may now be overworked, it seems particularly apt looking back at my college experience: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 04:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Picture-12.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196996" alt="Picture 12" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Picture-12.png" width="211" height="136" /></a>A Muslim student’s vandalization of a university seminar’s cartoon exhibit at the <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/en/">Universität Duisburg-Essen</a> (UDE) in Germany’s Ruhr region has once again manifested Islamic intolerance of critical commentary and independent intellectual inquiry.  The affair’s aftermath, moreover, sadly shows yet again how democratic public authorities are often less than vigilant in defending freedom against the encroachments of Muslim faith.</p>
<p>The controversy began with the exhibit “<a href="http://www.uni-due.de/~hy0555/weblog/inhalt/ausstellung-what-comics-can-do-recent-trends-graphic-fiction">What comics can do &#8211; Recent trends in graphic fiction</a>,” opened by UDE’s <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/anglistik/">Department of Anglophone Studies</a> (DAS) on May 23, 2013, in the university library.  In the exhibit department students used posters to analyze the cartoon genre Graphic Novels.  The students examined 14 of these novels in which book-length cartoon series treat mature subject matter.</p>
<p>One of the Graphic Novels examined in collage posters was <a href="http://www.habibibook.com/about/"><i>Habibi</i></a>, a tale of child (sex) slaves in Muslim Arab society by the award-winning American graphic novelist <a href="http://www.habibibook.com/author/">Craig Thompson</a>.  As the <i>Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung</i> (WAZ) <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/comic-ausstellung-an-uni-duisburg-essen-sorgt-fuer-eklat-id8123031.html">reported</a>, this widely available, 2011 published book has aroused no indication “of being orient-hostile.”  Thompson himself in a 2011 German <a href="http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/comics/interview-ich-bin-ein-hoffnungsloser-romantiker/5811122.html">interview</a> described <i>Habibi</i> as “among other things a reaction to the increasing Islamophobia in the United States after 2001.”</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/uni-duisburg-essen-erstattet-nach-plakat-eklat-strafanzeige-gegen-muslimin-id8172671.html">Muslim doctoral student</a>, though, complained to library personnel multiple times that the UDE student poster presenting <i>Habibi</i> hurting her “religious feelings.”  The <i>Habibi</i> collage showed a rape scene from the book juxtaposed next to the word “Allah” in Arabic calligraphy along with an English-text explanation.  The doctoral student, <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/ranghoher-uni-mitarbeiter-gibt-nach-plakat-eklat-erstmals-fehler-zu-id8152139.html">who had previously obtained notoriety</a> by devoting one of her class presentations to “Allah,” <a href="http://www.taz.de/!119656/">finally took it down on June 17, 2013</a>.</p>
<p>The following June 24, the doctoral candidate used scissors to cut out part of a poster analyzing the award-winning graphic novel <a href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/shopCatalogLong.php?item=a451165f22c05b"><i>Exit Wounds</i></a> by Israeli <a href="http://www.icexcellence.com/prodtxt.asp?id=32">Rutu Modan</a>.  The destroyed book scene, viewable above and in a July 10, 2013 <a href="http://www.taz.de/!119656/">story</a> by Berlin’s left-wing <i>Tageszeitung</i> (TAZ), showed Israeli peace rally participants packing their bags with three signs inscribed with “Stop the Occupation” in Arabic, English, and Hebrew.  TAZ author <a href="http://www.beucker.de/">Pascal Beucker</a> speculated that the doctoral student&#8217;s anger derived from seeing the Arabic language depicted in the much-hated Israel.  “It is more than probable,” Beucker suggested in <a href="http://www.taz.de/Streit-um-Comic-Ausstellung-in-Essen/!119282/">an earlier TAZ article</a>, that the Muslim student had an “anti-Israeli, if not anti-Semitic motive,” given that <i>Exit Wounds</i> deals with the Palestinian terror threat faced by Israelis.  The UDE student government publication <a href="http://akduell.de/2013/07/eine-einseitig-gefuhrte-debatte/"><i>ak[due]ll</i></a>, in contrast, countered TAZ, stating that library director Albert Bilo explained to the student senate that the Muslim student took offense at what she considered as a depiction of a sign with “Allah” on it going into the trash.</p>
<p>The vandalism led to a <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/professoren-der-uni-in-essen-verteidigen-das-vorzeitige-ende-der-comic-ausstellung-id8145373.html">premature closing of the exhibit</a>, described on its website as scheduled to last until the end of July but in various press accounts as only lasting a few more days.  DAS also took down an exhibit Internet posting.  DAS managing director <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/anglistik/heyl/">Christoph Heyl</a> stated that he wanted to avoid any impression of acquiescing in partial censorship.  Moreover, Heyl cited a desire to protect the involved students and normal operations of the library.  Security concerns at the university could be particularly acute, as that WAZ noted that over one-third of UDE’s student population comes from an immigrant background.</p>
<p>Yet although UDE social sciences dean <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/philosophie/ag-hartmann/ag-hartmann.shtml">Dirk Hartmann</a> understood in a <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/ranghoher-uni-mitarbeiter-gibt-nach-plakat-eklat-erstmals-fehler-zu-id8152139.html">July 7, 2013 WAZ story</a> that security concerns prompted the exhibit’s closing in a “heated atmosphere,” he complained that UDE had not yet taken legal action against the perpetrator.  Hartmann considered her “active repression of freedom” to be “unacceptable.”  Likewise, an internal DAS letter to UDE rector <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/en/university_board_rector.php">Ulrich Radtke</a> considered the affair’s academic freedom implications “scandalous.”</p>
<p>UDE’s student government (<a href="http://www.asta-due.de/de/suche.html"><i>Allgemeiner Studierenden-Ausschuss</i></a> or AStA) similarly expressed “concern and astonishment” at the exhibit closure.  A July 10 <a href="http://www.taz.de/Kommentar-Comic-Streit-Uni-Essen/!119654/">Beucker TAZ editorial</a> as well judged university refusal to resume display of the posters as a “scandalous act of self-censorship.”  The conservative Christian Democrats (<a href="http://www.cdu.de/">CDU</a>) and libertarian Free Democrats (<a href="http://www.fdp.de/">FDP</a>) in Essen’s city government <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/nach-eklat-uni-gegen-neue-ausstellung-mit-comics-id8142211.html">also expressed disappointment at the exhibit’s premature end</a>, proposing thereby that Essen’s city hall exhibit the posters.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.uni-due.de/de/presse/meldung.php?id=8107">July 3, 2013 UDE press release</a> on the affair, meanwhile, emphasized in the words of Radtke that a university could not tolerate “thought prohibitions.”  After the doctoral student refused to meet university officials, UDE lodged a criminal complaint on July 10.  “Whoever violates hard won basic rights like freedom of opinion and scholarship,” Radtke stated, “must count on serious consequences with us.”  Radtke <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/uni-duisburg-essen-erstattet-nach-plakat-eklat-strafanzeige-gegen-muslimin-id8172671.html">apologized</a> for the delay in bringing charges for property destruction, citing a prudent desire to become fully informed of the case.  <a href="http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/essen/strafanzeige-gegen-studentin-nach-eklat-bei-comic-schau-in-der-uni-essen-aimp-id8134702.html">Already on July 1</a> the Essen lawyer <a href="http://www.kanzlei-essen.de/index.php?id=126">Marc Grünebaum</a> had brought charges in light of this “attack upon freedom of opinion and art by a religious fanatic,” his letter to authorities stated.</p>
<p>Yet the release stated that Islamic scholars would nonetheless examine how the posters might have offended Muslim sensibilities.  Beucker’s editorial deemed this step “ludicrous,” as it “implied that there could be a substantial justification for the censorship.”  A less than resounding defense of freedom also came from Ali Nuhi, chair of UDE’s Islamic Student Union (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/ISB-Islamischer-Studierendenbund-Campus-Essen/146771025398771"><i>Islamischer Studierendenbund</i></a> or ISB).  Citing UDE Muslim sentiment against the <em>Habibi</em> collage, Nuhi stated that “<a href="http://akduell.de/2013/06/verletzte-gebote-verletzte-gefuhle/">it was a good sign that the poster was not hung up again</a>.”  The two contributions of <i>ak[due]ll</i> on the affair, meanwhile, saw in the matter a need to discuss “<a href="http://akduell.de/2013/07/eine-einseitig-gefuhrte-debatte/">anti-Muslim racism</a>.”  Such is Germany’s uncertain chorus of freedom as the posters remain concealed from view pursuant to the perpetrator’s original <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler's_veto">heckler’s veto</a>.</p>
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<li>The regents of the University of Colorado <a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_23502551/cu-regents-debate-political-diversity-perception-liberal-bias">moved to go forward</a> with an independent survey to determine whether there is sufficient respect for political diversity on the Boulder campus. A second measure, which would have banned discrimination based on political affiliation or belief, was considered by the regents but postponed for further review.</li>
<li>Members of the University of Buffalo’s chapter of Students for Life have <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/02/university-buffalo-charged-pro-life-student-group-650-in-unconstitutional-fees/">filed a lawsuit</a> against the University charging that administrators violated their constitutional rights by forcing them to spend over $600 on unnecessary security for a campus event because university officials deemed it “controversial.”</li>
<li>An instructor at Florida Atlantic University, who was barred from campus last fall after instructing students in his class to <a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/24/florida-atlantic-rehires-adjunct-center-controversy-over-class-exercise">write the word “Jesus” on a piece of paper and then step on it</a>, has been rehired by the university. Administrators came to the conclusion that the instructor had done nothing wrong.</li>
<li>Foundation for Individual Rights co-founder Harvey Silvergate has <a href="http://portland.thephoenix.com/news/154615-silenced-on-campus/#ixzz2XoYdMk7q">released his picks</a> for the 16<sup>th</sup> Annual “Campus Muzzle” awards – the campuses in New England featuring the worst record on free speech. Among his picks for this year are Yale University, which was singled out because its leaders “cheerfully accepted restrictions of academic and political freedom on its new Singapore campus” and Tufts University, which refused to allow the Tufts Christian Fellowship to enact standards requiring candidates for leadership to follow “basic Biblical truths of Christianity.”</li>
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<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Further News from the Campuses:</span></b></p>
<p><strong>CU Regents Approve Political Diversity Climate Survey [Boulder Daily Camera]</strong></p>
<p>The University of Colorado regents approved a measure Thursday requiring an independent climate survey to help determine whether the school respects political diversity.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_23502551/cu-regents-debate-political-diversity-perception-liberal-bias">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Yale, NYU Get an ‘F’ in Academic Freedom [The College Fix]</strong></p>
<p>It is the worst kind of hypocrisy to see a radical liberal administrators of elite U.S. universities, the type who normally speak of nothing but “tolerance” and “diversity,” turn around and throw all those principles out the window in order to expand among the most corrupt, and illiberal regimes of the world.</p>
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<p><strong>FAU Professor in Jesus-Stomping Controversy Reinstated, Will Teach Online Courses [Daily Caller]</strong></p>
<p>The Florida Atlantic University professor who was placed on administrative leave over a now-infamous Jesus-stomping assignment now has his job back.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/25/fau-professor-in-jesus-stomping-controversy-reinstated-will-teach-online-courses/">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Supreme Court Sends Affirmative Action Case Back to Lower Court, Keeps Challenge Alive [FoxNews.com]</strong></p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Monday sent a major challenge to affirmative action back to the lower court, leaving the issue unresolved for at least another year. In a 7-1 decision, the court technically ruled against the University of Texas, which was facing a challenge from a white woman who sought to overturn the school&#8217;s use of race-based affirmative action.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/24/supreme-court-punts-on-affirmative-action-case-sends-issue-back-to-lower-court/#ixzz2XodAQk1g">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>University at Buffalo Charged Pro-Life Student Group $650 in &#8216;Unconstitutional Fees,&#8217; Lawsuit Alleges </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>How much does free speech cost?</p>
<p>The University at Buffalo charged a pro-life student group nearly $650 in “unconstitutional fees” to exercise its freedom of speech during an event in April, a lawsuit alleges.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/02/university-buffalo-charged-pro-life-student-group-650-in-unconstitutional-fees/#ixzz2XwKxcjPF">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Inside the Environmentalist Echo Chamber [Dartmouth Review]</strong></p>
<p>If you haven’t yet encountered the divestment movement, you will soon. Ever since its inception in the pages of <em>The Rolling Stone</em> last summer, it has crept up on college campuses throughout the nation, leaving bewildered administrators and conservatives in its wake.</p>
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<p><strong>Victory for Academic Freedom: Wisconsin Governor Vetoes Unconstitutional Ban on Faculty Speech [TheFire.org]</strong></p>
<p>Yesterday, in a victory for academic freedom, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-makes-57-vetoes-signs-68-billion-wisconsin-budget-b9944038z1-213757881.html">issued a line-item veto</a> to strike an unconstitutional ban on faculty speech and research from the Wisconsin state budget. A late addition to the budget proposal, the broad, vague ban would have prohibited University of Wisconsin faculty “from doing any work related to” the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization.</p>
<p><strong>Silenced on Campus: The College Muzzles [The Portland Phoenix]</strong></p>
<p>If freedom of speech, the right to associate with whomever one might wish, and other constitutionally protected liberties had a home, you would think that it would be on the nation&#8217;s college campuses. But that assumption, sad to say, is dead wrong. As this list drawn from campuses around New England demonstrates, liberty — as defined by the American constitutional tradition — is under constant assault.</p>
<p><a href="http://portland.thephoenix.com/news/154615-silenced-on-campus/#ixzz2XoYdMk7q">Read More</a></p>
<p><strong>Public University Unfairly Raising Grades of Black Students, Say Three Former Faculty Members [CampusReform.org]</strong></p>
<p>School administrators at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) are systematically raising the final grades of African-American students, three ex-faculty members told Campus Reform last month.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4819">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>Conservatives Seek New Groups Inspired by Federalist Society in Graduate Schools </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>A new conservatism is beginning to emerge on some college campuses, spurred in part by opposition to President Barack Obama&#8217;s signature health care law.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/01/conservatives-seek-new-groups-inspired-by-federalist-society-in-graduate/#ixzz2YBYmeZtU">Read More</a></p>
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<li>In an open letter sent to the University of California Board of Regents, David Horowitz <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz-and-jeffrey-wienir/open-letter-to-the-uc-regents/">urged the Board to reconsider</a> its selection of Berkeley student Sadia Saifuddin as UC Student Regent for the 2014-2015 school year, noting her leadership in multiple campus organizations tied to Islamic terrorism which promote anti-Semitism and a threatening environment for Jewish students on UC’s campuses. “Appointing Sadia Saifuddin to the Board of Regents would be an offense to the ‘Principles of Community’ for UC Berkeley which are supposed to be core values in the UC system, and which call on UC students to ‘respect the differences as well as the commonalities that bring us together and call for civility and respect in our personal interactions,’’ Horowitz wrote to the Regents.</li>
<li>Sadia Saiffudin also figures in another recent campus scandal—the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/richard-cravatts/no-free-speech-for-exposers-of-campus-anti-semitism/">persecution of UC Santa Cruz lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin</a> who has dedicated herself for years to defending Jewish students from campus anti-Semitism.  Saiffudin has led these attacks on Rossman-Benjamin through her role in pro-Palestinian campus groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Muslim Students Association, which slandered the lecturer as an instigator of “Islamophobic hate speech” and “inflammatory, hostile and racist assumptions” for her efforts to counter the hostile and threatening tactics of these same pro-Palestinian groups on campus.</li>
<li>Professor Linda Brunton at Columbia State Community College in Tennessee <a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/professor-orders-students-to-support-gay-rights.html">crossed the line from instruction to indoctrination</a> when she ordered students in her psychology class to wear “Rainbow Coalition” ribbons expressing support for gay rights and defamed those who oppose gay marriage as “uneducated bigots” who “attack homosexuals with hate.”</li>
<li>Conservative pundit Caleb Bonham revealed the extent of anti-conservative sentiment on college campuses by asking students at the University of Colorado – Boulder to <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4770">sign an oversize thank-you card addressed to the IRS</a> expressing their gratitude for the institution’s targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups. Many of the student signatories eagerly offered their own commentary explaining why the IRS demonstrated good judgment by harassing conservative groups.</li>
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<p><b>Links to these and other recent campus stories may be found below:</b></p>
<p><b>Open Letter to the UC Regents </b>[Frontpagemag.com]</p>
<p>Dear Regent: We are concerned by your nomination of Sadia Saifuddin, a leading figure in two organizations that conduct an annual hate campaign against the state of Israel and Jewish students on UC campuses to be a University of California student regent for 2014-15.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz-and-jeffrey-wienir/open-letter-to-the-uc-regents/">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>No Free Speech for Exposers of Campus Anti-Semitism </b>[Frontpagemag.com]</p>
<p>In her controversial book, <i>From Time Immemorial,</i> which examined the false narrative concerning the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Joan Peters referred to something she identified as “turnspeak,” “twisted rhetoric artfully aimed at the hearts and minds of the West, originated by the Arabs, and rivaling the Soviets, who are veterans of ‘semantic infiltration’ and the word war. Just as, in their lexicon, totalitarianism translates into ‘democracy,’ and degradation becomes ‘freedom,’ so has the flawed but democratic Israel been branded ‘Zionist imperialist’ and ‘racist.’” First used in 1939 to describe German propaganda after its invasion of Czechoslovakia, “turnspeak” in that instance was used to invert truth, enabling Germany to blame the Czechs for the aggression and belligerency they themselves were perpetrating.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/richard-cravatts/no-free-speech-for-exposers-of-campus-anti-semitism/">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>Professor Orders Students to Support Gay Rights </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>A Tennessee community college professor ordered her students to wear ribbons supporting gay rights and said those who believed in the traditional definition of marriage are just “uneducated bigots”  who “attack homosexuals with hate,” according to a legal firm representing several of the students in the class.</p>
<p><a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/professor-orders-students-to-support-gay-rights.html">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>College Students Thank IRS for Illegally Targeting Conservative Groups</b><b> </b>[CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>Students at the University of Colorado – Boulder (UCB) signed an enormous thank you card to the Internal Revenue Service for its apparent harassment of conservative groups during the lead-up to President Obama’s reelection. In the viral video, posted on YouTube Tuesday, conservative pundit Caleb Bonham asked students to sign the large card that read “Thank you IRS! Tea Party Deserves it!”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4770">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>University of Colorado to Survey on Respect for Political Diversity </b>[Denver Post]</p>
<p>After a vigorous three-hour discussion on intellectual diversity, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted unanimously Thursday to conduct a survey to determine whether political discrimination exists on the Boulder campus.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23506124/university-colorado-survey-respect-political-diversity">Read More</a></p>
<p><b>Survey: Most Commencement Speaker Controversies Targeted Conservatives </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Of the Top 10 biggest controversies surrounding graduation speakers this commencement season, seven specifically targeted conservatives or business leaders, a survey by The College Fix found.</p>
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<p><b>Texas High School Silences Valedictorian&#8217;s Microphone During Speech on Constitution, Report Says </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>A Texas high school silenced its Valedictorian’s microphone during his speech when he diverted from his pre-approved remarks and instead spoke about the Constitution.</p>
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<p><b>Academia Downplays IRS Scandals </b>[Campus Report]</p>
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<p>The University<b> of Leipzig has voted to adopt the feminine version of the word for &#8220;professor&#8221; as its default. In German <i>Professorin</i> refers to a female professor while <i>Professor</i> is the male equivalent.</b></p>
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		<title>Sheikh Al-Bouti Dies By the Means He Promoted</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Durie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assad-supporting cleric meets the same bloody fate he prescribed for infidels and blasphemers. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-durie/sheikh-al-bouti-dies-by-the-means-he-promoted/000_nic6201239-jpg-1000x297x1/" rel="attachment wp-att-182924"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-182924" title="000_Nic6201239.jpg.1000x297x1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/000_Nic6201239.jpg.1000x297x1-450x262.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="157" /></a>On March 21, Sheikh Dr Mohamed Said Ramadan Al-Bouti of Syria was killed, along with 40 others, by a suicide bomber at the Iman mosque in Damascus.</p>
<p>A 2009 publication edited by John Esposito and Ibrahim Kalin listed the 500 most influential Muslims in the world. Al-Bouti was no. 23.  He was Imam of the Ummayyad Mosque and Dean of the Department of Religion at Damascus University, where he had taught Islam for more than half a century. Aged in his eighties, Al-Bouti was regarded as one of the eminent Sunni jurists of the modern era.</p>
<p>Al-Bouti had long been a critic of Salafists and the Muslim Brotherhood.  More recently, the Brotherhood&#8217;s spiritual leader Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawy has been fanning the flames of unrest across the Middle East, reaching millions of viewers on Al-Jazeera.  When asked the question on Al-Jazeera TV,  &#8220;Is it permissible to target those who support the [Syrian] regime, especially government scholars?&#8221; Al- Qaradawy replied: &#8220;We should fight to kill all those who work for the government, whether civilians, army, scholars, or ignorant.&#8221;  Al-Qaradawy has also mocked Al-Bouti (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WNaReoAGRU">here</a>) and called him a mad imbecile (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbLSgkrEhfU&amp;feature=youtu.be">here</a>) and threatened him with Allah&#8217;s wrath and people&#8217;s anger if he did not repent.</p>
<p>Also stirring the pot from the safety of Saudi Arabia has been <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21564913-influential-rebel-preacher-who-needs-tone-things-down">Adnan al-Aroor, an exiled Syrian Sunni Cleri</a>c, who has cursed Al-Bouti and called for his death.</p>
<p>The loss of Al-Bouti will be sorely felt by the Assad regime.  Well-known for his opposition to revolution, he was the most senior Sunni cleric who still supported Assad.</p>
<p>Al-Bouti&#8217;s support was consistent with a sharia principle which states that it is unlawful for Muslims to revolt and take up arms against their Muslim ruler, even if he is unjust.  Most scholars agree that this is forbidden.  Ibn Taymiyyah made the famous comment that &#8220;sixty years under an oppressive ruler are better than one night without any ruler.&#8221;</p>
<p>Muhammad himself said:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The best among your rulers are those whom you love and they love you in turn, those who pray (make supplication) for you and you pray for them. The worst of your rulers are those whom you hate and they hate you in turn, and you curse them and they curse you.&#8221;</p>
<p>Someone asked: &#8220;O Messenger of Allah! Shall we confront them with swords?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: &#8220;No, as long as they hold prayers among you (i.e. as long as the ruler is a Muslim). If you see from your rulers what you hate, hate the action they do but do not rebel against them.&#8221;  (<em>Sahih Muslim)</em></p></blockquote>
<p>In order for Muslims to rebel, the ruler should first be declared to be a <em>kaffir</em> &#8220;unbeliever&#8221; who has abandoned Islam.  Declaring Muslims to be <em>kaffir</em> is known as the practice of <em>takfir</em>. There have been many <em>takfir</em> rulings against President Assad and his supporters in recent times to justify fighting and killing them (for example <a href="http://ahlusunnahwaljamaah.com/2012/02/14/takfeer-alawi-assad/">these two</a> rulings against Assad and Alawites on a Salafist website).</p>
<p>It is not surprising that in a statement released after Al-Bouti&#8217;s death, President Assad, after declaring Al-Bouti to be a martyr, <a href="http://www.syriaonline.sy/?f=Details&amp;catid=12&amp;pageid=5379">pledged to continue to work to eliminate &#8220;<em>takfiri thinking</em></a>.&#8221;</p>
<p>In recent years there have been concerted efforts by leading Muslim scholars to suppress the practice of <em>takfir</em>, notably the <a href="http://www.ammanmessage.com/http://www.ammanmessage.com/">Amman Message</a>, sponsored by King Abdullah of Jordan and signed by over 500 leading Muslim scholars, including Al-Bouti and Al-Qaradawy. Nevertheless many Muslims accept the use of <em>takfir</em> against apostates from Islam, against groups regarded as heretical such as the Ahmadis, and against those who, like Salman Rushdie, are considered to be blasphemers.</p>
<p>Islam has a long doctrinal tradition of warfare &#8211; the institution of jihad &#8211; which offers Paradise to those who die fighting. Indeed in Islam, all warfare should be religious, because it is forbidden to wage war without a religious mandate.</p>
<p>The principle of Islamic law that Muslims should not take up arms against Muslim rulers is pragmatic.  It helps protect Islamic societies from being torn apart by sectarian conflict.  The dogma of jihad and practice of <em>takfir</em>, if invoked by competing parties in a conflict, can produce extraordinary devastation, as was witnessed in the Iran-Iraq war, in which there were more than a million &#8220;martyrs.&#8221; It was on such grounds that Al-Bouti supported Assad &#8211; and opposed the more radical <em>takfiri</em> Muslims, who now constitute the opposition forces in Syria.</p>
<p>His distaste for armed rebellion notwithstanding, Al-Bouti was a theological conservative who endorsed the classical principles of Islamic jihad.  In <em>Fiqh Al-Sira </em>(&#8220;Jurisprudence of the Life of Muhammad&#8221;) he defined the doctrine of jihad to consist of the duty of Muslims to impose Islamic government on the world if they have sufficient military force. In support of this principle he cited Sura 9:123:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him).&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>As well as the words of Muhammad:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: &#8216;None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,&#8217; and whoever says, &#8216;None has the right to be worshipped but Allah&#8217;, Allah will save his property and his life from me [i.e. from Muhammad], except justly [i.e. he has committed a crime], and his account will be with Allah?&#8221;  (<em>Sahih Al-Bukhari</em>)</p></blockquote>
<p>Al-Bouti also taught that atheists, idolaters and polytheists could be fought against, to compel them into Islam, while Christians and Jews could be permitted to live alongside Muslims provided they submit to sharia law and pay tribute to the Islamic authorities.  He pooh-poohed the distinction often made between offensive and defensive jihad:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is nonsense to want to distinguish the two aspects of defensive and offensive warfare in the struggle for the cause of Allah.  The legitimacy of jihad does not depend upon the right of attack or defense as such; it is based upon the necessity of establishing an Islamic society which follows the laws and principles of Islam, therefore it matters little how one pursues jihad towards this end, whether offensive or defensive.&#8221; (<em>Fiqh Al-Sira</em>, from the French translation of Z. Diab, pp. 187-188).</p></blockquote>
<p>Like many other leading Muslim scholars, Al-Bouti issued a fatwa endorsing &#8220;martyrdom operations&#8221; &#8212; suicide bombings &#8212; in Israel.  This fatwa was cited by Nawaf Hayel Al-Takrouri in <em>Martyrdom Operations in Islamic Jurisprudence</em> (<em>al-Amaliyat al-Istishhadiyya fi Mizan al-Fiqhi</em>) along with 31 other similar rulings:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;These operations are one hundred percent legal if the one who carries it out intends to inflict defeat upon the enemy, but not to kill himself. If he intended to kill himself, he has committed suicide and he is not a martyr. His intention must be to inflict defeat upon the enemy and not death [to himself]. Allah might save him supernaturally.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then he [Prof. Al Bouti] gave an illustration.  He said:</p>
<p>&#8220;A man says, &#8216;Since I am tired of life, I am going to carry out a [martyrdom] operation.&#8217; This [person] would be committing suicide.</p>
<p>Someone else says, &#8216;I am pursuing jihad in the cause of Allah to strike the enemy. If I die, that is good; if I don&#8217;t die, that is better.&#8217; This [person] will be a martyr, Allah willing. Furthermore, this an act of vengeance.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>It is a bitter irony that this respected scholar was killed at the end of a long and productive life by someone who was acting out the very belief he had promoted against Israelis: that a Muslim who blows himself up to inflict defeat upon &#8220;the enemy&#8221; has not committed suicide, but is a martyr enjoying the delights of paradise, provided his intentions are &#8220;good.&#8221;</p>
<p>Muslim armies down the centuries have found the doctrine of jihad to be a potent weapon against their non-Muslim foes. However bellicose dogmas, which even &#8220;moderate&#8221; Muslims, such as Al-Bouti espouse, have the capacity to tear societies apart in a bloodbath if conditions for their implementation are triggered. The recent slaughter of 41 civilians in the Iman mosque in Damascus was but a microcosm of the larger theologically-driven tragedy which is engulfing Syria, and threatens to make mince-meat of much of the Middle East. For too long Arab states have tolerated and even invested heavily in the promotion of jihadist dogma in their societies.  Those who stoke the fires of jihad better watch out for the blowback.</p>
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