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Reader comment on item: [Hamid Dabashi:] Columbia University's Hysterical Professor
Submitted by Paul Jackson (United Kingdom), Jan 31, 2005 at 05:15
Political correctness is MAD!A magistrate who, when considering a publican's request for an extra hour's drinking, ruled that St George's Day was not ‘a special occasion' – even though the publican had not encountered any such problem with a similar request for the Chinese Year of the Goat.
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| 2 | about Hamid Dabashi: Columbia University's Hysterical Professor [174 words] | Allen | Nov 30, 2012 14:37 | 201079 |
| Self-delusion and confusion [265 words] | Borzooyeh Zendig | Sep 25, 2007 01:52 | 109619 | ||
| Nut job [19 words] | Tom | Aug 7, 2007 10:08 | 105619 | ||
| Freedom of speech!! [49 words] | Brad | Jul 15, 2007 07:27 | 103704 | ||
| you ruined iran [236 words] | somebody | Dec 6, 2005 20:07 | 29550 | ||
 "somebody" ... [49 words] | Nima | Jan 20, 2007 16:03 | 29550 | ||
| What Arab? [46 words] | Matthew Steinberg | May 4, 2005 08:24 | 21986 | ||
 Madness [48 words] | Paul Jackson | Jan 31, 2005 05:15 | 20011 | ||
| Hysterical! [16 words] | Dennisw | Jan 18, 2005 06:12 | 19717 | ||
| 1 | Liberalism is a Mental Disorder [213 words] | Jer Valentine | Jan 7, 2005 08:12 | 19497 | |
| 1 | EUROSTAN [125 words] | DONVAN | Dec 27, 2004 12:43 | 19140 | |
| Left-wing institutions [8 words] | Octavio Johanson | Dec 23, 2004 19:02 | 19123 | ||
| Political Correctness Gone Mad [54 words] | Octavio Johanson | Dec 21, 2004 08:18 | 19059 | ||
| 1 | british welcome islamification [90 words] | steve omara | Nov 30, 2011 13:31 | 19059 | |
| This is unbelievable [112 words] | Karim | Dec 14, 2004 16:44 | 18992 | ||
| Response to Sid [62 words] | Brutus | Dec 13, 2004 04:16 | 18970 | ||
| Why is that Arabs are never the object of the critique? [84 words] | Ignacio | Dec 7, 2004 18:22 | 18915 | ||
| reason why muslims are not criticised [18 words] | steve omara | Dec 1, 2011 16:51 | 18915 | ||
| 2 | Mr Dabashi's factual errors [398 words] | J Schamroth | Dec 7, 2004 06:09 | 18890 | |
| Re: comment "A pox on both houses." [185 words] | John | Dec 6, 2004 14:10 | 18880 | ||
| Shame on Columbia University [87 words] | Brian Gold, Esq. | Dec 6, 2004 11:49 | 18876 | ||
| A pox on both houses [614 words] | Irfan Khawaja | Dec 5, 2004 13:22 | 18864 | |
| Columbia University's Hysterical Professor [117 words] | Marcia Peters | Dec 5, 2004 10:15 | 18863 | ||
| Empty vessels make the loudest noise. [5 words] | Brad | Dec 4, 2004 12:08 | 18855 | ||
| Dabashi, a dangerous paranoid professor [47 words] | Molly Kafes | Dec 4, 2004 07:22 | 18852 | ||
| The antiracist racism [269 words] | R. HARANDIAN | Dec 3, 2004 23:27 | 18846 | ||
| Response to Vivi Andreson's comment [81 words] | Sid Badakhsh | Dec 3, 2004 23:18 | 18845 | ||
| It's very simple really [51 words] | Report | Dec 3, 2004 20:18 | 18843 | ||
| Response to Nima [360 words] | Victor Luria | Dec 3, 2004 19:33 | 18842 | |
| Debating An Islamist [80 words] | Report | Dec 3, 2004 19:19 | 18840 | ||
| The professor's harassment claims seem disingenuous [365 words] | Yoel Natan | Dec 2, 2004 19:16 | 18831 | |
| The usual tactic [95 words] | Doug Guillory | Dec 2, 2004 18:24 | 18830 | ||
| Security vs Morality [54 words] | John | Dec 2, 2004 16:46 | 18828 | ||
| The truth? [141 words] | Nima | Dec 2, 2004 15:08 | 18824 | ||
| Hypocrite [28 words] | Emad Nekoo | Dec 2, 2004 14:45 | 18822 | ||
| boundaries of academic freedom [437 words] | Michael Weiss, M.D. | Dec 2, 2004 14:23 | 18821 | |
| 3 | Iranian are not Persian and Iran is not Persia [210 words] | Hayden Ataune | Dec 2, 2004 13:42 | 18820 | |
| real persians are kurds? [8 words] | vsb | Feb 18, 2010 20:40 | 18820 | ||
| totally agree with you [26 words] | sam | Feb 26, 2012 01:28 | 18820 | ||
| Contact Information [156 words] | S. Brown | Dec 2, 2004 11:35 | 18817 | ||
| 1 | Columbia University Hysterical Professor is Behaving Predictibly [2813 words] | William Gawthrop | Dec 2, 2004 07:18 | 18815 | |
| 1 | SLANDER [1027 words] | YOUSUF GABREIL | Aug 25, 2009 03:14 | 18815 | |
| Revolting Remarks [155 words] | Marcos Berenstein | Dec 2, 2004 06:31 | 18813 | ||
| If Dr Dabashi were a politician? [242 words] | Romesh Chander | Dec 2, 2004 03:46 | 18812 | ||
| Love? [236 words] | John | Dec 2, 2004 02:07 | 18811 | ||
| MISUSE OF UNIVERSITY CACHET [326 words] | IVAN CHER | Dec 2, 2004 01:44 | 18810 | ||
| Hamid Dabashi. evidence of an Arab Coward [65 words] | David La Rochelle | Dec 2, 2004 01:32 | 18809 | ||
| The Iranian Hysterical Professor [114 words] | M.J. | Dec 1, 2004 22:34 | 18808 | ||
| The Mouse Who Roared [65 words] | Marilyn Abramovitz | Dec 1, 2004 20:51 | 18805 | ||
| The poor little professor [202 words] | Arlinda DeAngelis | Dec 1, 2004 20:15 | 18804 | ||
| How could people send their children to Columbia? [54 words] | Sarah Cipriano | Dec 1, 2004 20:06 | 18803 | ||
| Did I Miss Something? [106 words] | Yonason | Dec 1, 2004 18:09 | 18802 | ||
| Dabashi an Arab? [55 words] | Allen Bates | Dec 1, 2004 17:44 | 18799 | ||
| 2 | Entire critique [87 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | Sidney Klawansky, M.D., Ph.D. | Dec 1, 2004 17:18 | 18797 | |
| This Website [64 words] | FT | Nov 5, 2009 16:33 | 18797 | ||
| Mr Dabashi is an Islamist. [19 words] | Reza | Jul 16, 2013 21:25 | 18797 | ||
| Hardly surprising! [70 words] | Darwin Barrett | Dec 1, 2004 15:57 | 18795 | ||
| Support [39 words] | Howard J Schwartz | Dec 1, 2004 12:46 | 18791 | ||
| Dabashi the Moslemite [17 words] | John Patterk | Dec 1, 2004 12:25 | 18790 | ||
| Columbia U. [27 words] | Kermit J. Halperin, D.D.S. | Dec 1, 2004 10:31 | 18786 | ||
| Dabashi's cowardice [159 words] | Bob Copps | Dec 1, 2004 10:10 | 18785 | ||
| Dethroning Dabashi [135 words] | Carmen Waggoner, Ph.D. | Dec 1, 2004 10:03 | 18784 | ||
| Follow the Money [49 words] | Abraham Irwin | Dec 1, 2004 09:03 | 18783 | ||
| When a man has no moral compunction about telling a lie [153 words] | V. Thogersen | Dec 1, 2004 08:59 | 18782 | ||
| Dabashi doeth protest too much [64 words] | Herbert J. Nevyas, MD | Dec 1, 2004 08:43 | 18781 | ||
| There's Method to Hamid's madness - Basic Manipulation [93 words] | RPaine | Dec 1, 2004 08:36 | 18780 | ||
| Arab hysteria can be hysterical [179 words] | Ken Besig | Dec 1, 2004 07:58 | 18779 | ||
| Take a look... [58 words] | vivi andersen | Dec 1, 2004 07:32 | 18778 |
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