University atrocities

Submitted by Lee Stewart (United States), Dec 27, 2002 at 22:06

Thank you for speaking out on these issues. The first truth I heard about the terrorist threat to this country came from seeing you on CSPAN. It took great courage to speak out then, and great courage to speak out and call for an attack on this atrocity.

My experiences in a major university as an adult undergraduate confirm your point of view. You are right . These people must be stopped. They are not teaching -they are engaged in indoctrination into an anti-American point of view. I can't imagine how they're getting away with it, how parents are being held up to pay for it. Could the parents possibly not know what's going on, or are they so cowed by the threat of the loss of middle class status that comes with neglecting college for their children that they cannot speak out effectively against particular institutions with specific examples?

Just days after the attack on my country, on the opening night of one of my courses, the professor, a small American flag in his lapel, reported that he had been shunned and confronted for this expression.

This same major institution of education offers a course I completed this semester on the Middle East that concentrates on Israel from the Palestinian point of view, taught by a Lebanese naturalized U.S. citizen, featuring the views of Edward Said; from the point of view of the terrorist in a novel; from the point of view of an Egyptian home movie trivializing the wearing the "veil" (it has nothing to do with the suppression of women); from the point of view of a novel about a wife-killer, so deranged because of his colonial era upbringing; from the point of view of an hour and a half film on Islam and Mohammad appropriate for children; from the point of view of a chronology of the history of Israel by an organization called "Jews for Justice" with no author attribution on a 36-page print-out from the Internet; etc., etc.

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