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Mohamed Abdou is an “Islamic scholar” who is lost in admiration for Hamas, and how it managed to launch its “stealth” attack on October 7. What most of the world sees as unspeakable atrocities, with Hamas operatives beheading babies, burning children alive, raping, torturing, mutilating, and murdering Israeli girls, cutting the breasts off women and using them to play catch, cutting off the genitalia and gouging out the eyes of men, murdering children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children, Mohamed Abdou sees as glorious deeds of derring-do, by a greatly outnumbered force of brave Muslim warriors, and he wants the whole world to know it.
Abdou is now teaching at Columbia, where he was appointed as that appetizing thing, a visiting professor, for the Spring Term. He’s already in his third month of teaching, no doubt singing the praises of Hamas in a lecture hall on Morningside Heights to a captive audience of entranced undergraduates. Why, if he performs to the satisfaction of Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Massad, and Hamid Dabashi, three other admirers of Hamas on the permanent faculty at Columbia, he may even be made an offer for a permanent appointment to the Middle East Institute.
Robert Spencer wrote briefly about Abdou here, and more on this man, the latest moral monster to slither through the underbrush on Morningside Heights can be found here: “He Endorsed Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Then He Landed a Professorship at Columbia University.” By Jessica Costescu, Washington Free Beacon, February 27, 2024:
During a Jan. 5 interview with socialist podcast Revolutionary Left Radio, Islamic scholar Mohamed Abdou declared his support for Hamas and “the resistance.” The terror group’s “dedicated few,” he said admiringly, worked in “stealth mode” on Oct. 7 to defeat a “larger enemy” in Israel….
It wasn’t a “dedicated few” who swooped into Israel to rape, torture, and murder unarmed civilians both at the Nova dance party and at nearly two dozen kibbutzim where people were just waking up by the dawn’s early light, only to find 3,000 well-armed and fanatical killers arriving on motorcycles, pick-up trucks, and paragliders, determined to rape, torture, and murder as many innocent Israelis as they could find at the just-ended Nova dance party and at more than 20 kibbutzim. There were also members of Israel’s security services who died on that day, including several dozen unarmed soldiers guarding the border with Gaza, 58 police, 10 members of the Shin Bet, and about 250 other soldiers, killed as they tried to repel the Hamas invaders. In the fighting that day, those Israelis managed to kill 1,500 Hamas operatives, or half of those who had initially invaded. Mohamed Abdou wants us to think that those Hamas combatants fought a “larger enemy,” but in fact the total number of Israeli security forces involved in fighting the invaders on October 7 was about 300, that is, one-tenth the size of the invading force of 3,000.
Abdou teaches a weekly class on “Decolonial-Queerness & Abolition,” where his students discuss “transnational feminist discourses” and “queer of color critiques.” The self-described “Muslim anarchist” has also emerged as a friend to Columbia’s anti-Israel community. In a Feb. 11 social media post, Abdou revealed that he organized a protest in which Columbia students interrupted a panel featuring Hillary Clinton. One demonstrator called the former secretary of state a “war criminal” who “will burn” before chanting, “Free, free Palestine.”
“Really proud of these students & deeply honoured to have been a part of organising this,” Abdou wrote.
So he thinks the organising of an anti-Israel protest on campus is an accomplishment? After all, he’s “really proud of these students” who took part. Why is he “really proud”? Did they risk anything? Not at all. It’s the easiest thing in the world. Hold up a Palestinian flag in the middle of the quad — any quad, on any campus, from sea to shining sea, and watch as the keffiyeh-clad students come running from every dormitory room and classroom to yell and scream about Intifada Now! and Genocidal Jews, and that old-standby “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free.”
Columbia’s embrace of Abdou reflects what some Jewish students have described as a “severe and pervasive antisemitic hostile educational environment” seen on the school’s campus in the wake of Oct. 7.
Oh, those thin-skinned Jews, always moaning about antisemitism. What’s antisemitic about praising to the skies the Hamas “fighters” who gang-raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered 1,200 people just because they were Jews?
More reasons to totally cut all public funding of these leftists run Campuses by 100%
This is a terrorist not a scholar
“Machammed” is the Hebrew title “Holy One”…found in “Song of Solomon” in the Bible, an ancient term…belongs to prophesied Christ…a Jewish title…taken by Muslims long after their ” prophet” had died. More investigation needs to be done into this.
I didn’t realise this – thank you. Should not have surprised me, though – Jesus’ promise of “another Comforter” is interpreted by Islam to refer to Mohammed rather than the Holy Spirit. (Interesting how the NT is “corrupt” when it disagrees with the Qur’an, but verses like this one are obviously held to be valid).
It must be hard to find actual Muslim scholars (I know, a contradiction in terms) so I guess a guy clearly in need of bath, spouting jihadi nonsense will have to do these days at Columbia.
Probably very similar to all of the tweed suit wearing Professor/Commie intellectuals at Columbia in the 70s and 80s that all of the rich little white girls dropped their drawers for.
Terrorist chic and radical chic at it’s finest.
And we wonder why the Poison Ivy League is in such a pathetic state. What a joke.
Take one look at this RABID ANIMAL and you know he was WHELPED from a SWINE.
The TRUTH will set you free.
It is obvious that the people who run places of (supposed) higher learning are actually looking to destroy America and everything we stand for.
I’m sure his day is coming…..
I hear he has an excellent missile making seminar, and goes out on Friday nights with his student chums to do a little jihad on NYC.
What a guy, so generous he’ll kill you for free!
Exactly the talent Columbia Univ is seeking…
US denounces racist Anti-Semitic record of UN’s Francesca Albanese after her PallyWeid accusation..
Department Press Briefing – March 27, 2024 – United States Department of State
…QUESTION: Yeah, so let me ask you – have you – did you see or read the report made by Francesca Albanese yesterday in Geneva…
MR MILLER: I did see the report. Let me say a couple things about it. First, we have long – for longstanding – for a longstanding period of time opposed the mandate of this special rapporteur, which we believe is not productive. And when it comes to the individual who holds that position, I can’t help but note a history of antisemitic comments that she has made that have been reported. And —
QUESTION: She has – she made antisemitic comments?
MR MILLER: And – she has. And comments she made in December that appeared to justify the attacks of October 7th, so I think it’s important to take that into account. But with respect to the report itself, we have made clear that we believe that allegations of genocide are unfounded…
https://www.state.gov/briefings/department-press-briefing-march-27-2024/
It should be remembered that it was Columbia University that gave a home to the Frankfurt School when they fled Nazi Germany, from which they could infiltrate and subvert every university in the nation.