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The 'Angry Arab' Goes Mad
Campus Watch ^ | 12/8/11 | Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima Greene

Posted on 12/08/2011 1:04:30 PM PST by SmithL

As'ad AbuKahlil—a political science professor at California State University, Stanislaus—spoke last month at a day-long "teach-in" at the University of California, Berkeley titled, "Building Solidarity with the Arab Spring." It consisted of a number of "workshop sessions" at the Valley Life Sciences Building, followed by a "plenary session" at the Multicultural Center, and was co-sponsored by the Arab Resource Organizing Committee, the Berkeley Muslim Students Association PAC, the International Socialist Organization, and the Syrian American Council.

AbuKhalil's workshop on "The U.S. and the Arab Uprising" was held in a tiny, hot, windowless room filled with students wearing hijabs and keffiyehs. Immediately visible to all who entered was a sign leaning against the black board that set the anti-American atmosphere:

Victory to the Arab Revolutions!

U.S. Out of the Middle East!

AbuKhalil, author of the "Angry Arab" blog, was introduced as "the most influential Arab blogger in English and Arabic." Wasting no time living up to his self-caricature, he presented the demise of Israel as his life's work, referred repeatedly to the "usurping Zionist entity," and characterized the U.S. as the source of all that ails the Arab world. For instance:

Obama and Hillary always pat themselves on the back and say they are on the side of the Arab people. . . . They are on the side of counter-revolution. . . . There is a tyrannical order in the Arab world . . . in place since 1979 . . . the year Egypt was forced by the United States to sign a peace treaty with Israel. A dictator Anwar Sadat was conveniently armed, an unrepentant anti-Semite and Nazi.

He did not explain the origin of these descriptions of Sadat, but no one questioned him or objected.

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AbuKhalil was exultant over the latest bombing of the gas pipeline from Egypt to Israel, a signal to him that the U.S. is no longer "all-powerful":

The United States wants to take our agency from us, they want to convince us, as Israel has tried to do all these decades, that we are incapable of changing the situation, the enemy is too strong . . . invincible.

Displaying a lust for violence, AbuKhalil boasted:

I am in favor of chaos because I'm really enjoying what's happening in Egypt, especially what's happening against Israel [the attack on the Israeli embassy]. I've played these scenes on YouTube more times than I've played songs.

The audience laughed in agreement as he spoke.

AbuKhalil made his hatred of Israel clear in his description of hearing Israeli soldiers screaming—so he claimed—as they retreated from Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon in 2006. "It shows you if Arabs are allowed freedom to fight Israel, this is the kind of Palestine you will see," he bragged.

More shocking was his blithe dismissal of Hamas's constant barrage of rockets into southern Israel, which he called, "those firecrackers from Hamas [fired] at a town in occupied Palestine." He then belittled the suffering the bombardment has caused:

You will notice there were like ten injured and sometimes they had shocks . . . they actually list the injured; they [listed] those whose feelings were hurt; those who were startled. This war crimes thing is for victimhood reputation.

Again, the audience laughed heartily.

Later, a member of the audience challenged him by asking about the recently released International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) report showing that Iran's nuclear program has military dimensions. AbuKhalil dodged the question by raising Israel's alleged nuclear program and what he called the "racist content of the notion that nuclear weapons are dangerous in the hands of Muslims, but safe in the hands of Christians and Jews." He apparently has no worries about the Iranian regime's threat to wipe Israel off the map, its constant threat to its neighbors, or the apocalyptic nature of the mullah's theology; only Israel can threaten peace in the region.

During the plenary session that followed, AbuKhalil said he was angered that the work of the Canadian-Muslim feminist and author Irshad Manji, and "other Islam-haters" has been translated into Arabic. Yet he describes himself as "secular" and a "feminist"—under the right circumstances, one supposes, meaning that Western liberal concepts don't apply to those who criticize Islam.

He also condemned the translation into Arabic of a tract on non-violence aimed at the Arab uprisings. "Very boring," he declared:

The United States wanted the revolution to be non-violent. They started the myth in the New York Times. It's not. It's a violent struggle by Arabs. And please, I am not making an apology. It's justifiable. They want to bring down these regimes in any way possible.

Whether glorifying violence, exalting in the death and misery of Israelis, or blaming the U.S. for the ills of the Arab world, AbuKhalil lived up to his moniker as an "angry Arab." Presumably, he brings the same radicalism to the classroom, which is a frightening prospect for his students. When anger replaces reason, there's little hope for an education, no matter how many "teach-ins" universities offer.Please email your concerns and comments to California State University, Stanislaus, Political Science and Public Administration (LRiddell@csustan.edu).

1 posted on 12/08/2011 1:04:40 PM PST by SmithL
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2 posted on 12/08/2011 1:08:13 PM PST by SmithL (Proud Tennessee Volunteer)
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To: SmithL

So, Islamic Rage Boy has moved from Pakistan to Berkeley.

He preaches his hate from the safety of a Leftist pulpit, and not from the front lines in Israel.

Typical Muslim coward.


3 posted on 12/08/2011 1:09:48 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: SmithL
The 'Angry Arab' Goes Mad

Or was it, "The Mad Arab Goes Awry." Don't know for sure.

4 posted on 12/08/2011 1:11:20 PM PST by PapaNew
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To: SmithL

Hey Cal State, let’s get some folks who believe in a four thousand year old earth for the geology dept, and get some physicists who insist that relativity and quantum physics don’t work, and some mathematicians that still think that pi is equal to 3.0.

That way, the STEM departments will contain as much blithering idiocy as does your liberal arts departments.

Take that arab and dip him in pig...er..democrat fat.

Now.


5 posted on 12/08/2011 1:13:28 PM PST by Da Coyote (Liberalism - when you absolutely, positively have no ability to produce wealth.)
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To: SmithL
Radical Arabs should be doing everything they can to protect Israel.

If something happens to Israel, who will Arabs blame for their backward, poor, ignorant cultures?

Israel's the best friend they have - without Israel the world will see them for what they really are...

6 posted on 12/08/2011 1:14:25 PM PST by GOPJ (Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred - Proverbs 15)
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Islam has been an insane murder cult since Mad Mo crawled out of the bat cave and barked at the moon.

No wonder his most ardent followers are also barking mad.


7 posted on 12/08/2011 1:14:44 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Da Coyote

Oops, lest some English major (working at McDs) objects...let’s make that “...as do...” instead of “...as does...”


8 posted on 12/08/2011 1:15:05 PM PST by Da Coyote (Liberalism - when you absolutely, positively have no ability to produce wealth.)
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To: SmithL
AbuKhalil's workshop on "The U.S. and the Arab Uprising" was held in a tiny, hot, windowless room filled with students wearing hijabs and keffiyehs.

How long did it take to get the smell out after the meeting ended? Or maybe they just decided to demolish and rebuild the entire building?

9 posted on 12/08/2011 1:15:08 PM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25 percent more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: SmithL

In regards to Egypt I have three words:

Aswan High Dam

Yawwn....


10 posted on 12/08/2011 1:18:35 PM PST by buffaloguy
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...was held in a tiny, hot, windowless room filled with students wearing hijabs and keffiyehs.

How long did it take to get the smell out after the meeting ended?

AbuKhalil put out a press release saying a joo had been seen going into the room after everyone left - and the "joo was sweating"...

11 posted on 12/08/2011 1:19:51 PM PST by GOPJ (Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred - Proverbs 15)
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To: SmithL

Mohamed goes mohamecidal? Whoda thunk it?


12 posted on 12/08/2011 1:20:27 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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This guy is teaching in our schools...


13 posted on 12/08/2011 1:38:15 PM PST by thesaleboat (Pray The Rosary Daily (Our Lady, July 13, 1917))
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To: buffaloguy
I believe there was another occasion when a wall of water took out the Host of Egypt. Operation 10th Plague.
14 posted on 12/08/2011 1:39:53 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Travis McGee; SmithL
You all might find Quigley's definition of what he calls the The Pakistani-Peruvian axis explains a great deal of what we're seeing and why. It's a jaw-dropping analysis, and provides a set of ideas and premises that make sense out of the sociopathic hate and cruelty that inhabits the mids of those in the Arab world.
15 posted on 12/08/2011 3:33:22 PM PST by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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To: Travis McGee

Most Muslims are lazy about this but the Koran ordains that Muslims emulate Muhammad. Emulate his life. Mo was a mass murderer and the Jihadists try to emulate this


16 posted on 12/08/2011 7:19:57 PM PST by dennisw (A nation of sheep breeds a government of Democrat wolves!)
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Goes mad, implies they weren't mad before they went "there". I'm not so sure.

17 posted on 12/08/2011 7:21:07 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do !)
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To: SmithL

Thread bump.


18 posted on 12/09/2011 1:02:30 AM PST by Cindy
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To: massgopguy

I had never thought of that.......

Operation 11th Plague?

Nice post.


19 posted on 12/09/2011 6:16:35 AM PST by buffaloguy
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Thanks SmithL.
As'ad AbuKahlil -- a political science professor at California State University, Stanislaus -- spoke last month at a day-long "teach-in" at the University of California, Berkeley titled, "Building Solidarity with the Arab Spring." It consisted of a number of "workshop sessions" at the Valley Life Sciences Building, followed by a "plenary session" at the Multicultural Center, and was co-sponsored by the Arab Resource Organizing Committee, the Berkeley Muslim Students Association PAC, the International Socialist Organization, and the Syrian American Council.

20 posted on 12/09/2011 4:49:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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