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Provost review clears Barrett to teach class on Islam [U. Wisc. Hires 9/11 Conspiracy Whacko]
University of Wisconsin ^ | July 10, 2006

Posted on 07/10/2006 5:01:18 PM PDT by Alouette

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1 posted on 07/10/2006 5:01:21 PM PDT by Alouette
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

enjoy


2 posted on 07/10/2006 5:01:45 PM PDT by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 72-76)
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To: Alouette
Knowledge grows from challenging ideas in a setting that encourages dialogue and disagreement. That's what builds the kind of sophisticated, critical thinking we expect from our graduates..."

He went on to say, "Which is why the Young Republican's afirmative action bake sale MUST BE STOPPED!!"

3 posted on 07/10/2006 5:04:46 PM PDT by Dutchgirl (Jeg er en dansker (I am a Dane.))
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To: Alouette; Watery Tart; KRAUTMAN; reformedliberal; Mygirlsmom; codercpc; s2baccha; ozaukeemom; ...

Thanks. I was just about to post the same article from "Das Kapital Times."

Pinging the Usual Suspects...


4 posted on 07/10/2006 5:20:08 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Here is his website...
5 posted on 07/10/2006 5:21:09 PM PDT by cardinal4 (John Kerry-National Embarrassment)
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Yep. A certifiable NUT shaping young minds. But...Socialist Utopias are all the same. Look how long Ward Churchill got away with this type of stuff? Our University System is full of them...and I'm thinking more will be seeing the light of day in the coming months.

Another Red Flag as to why conservative parents need to think long and hard about wasting their tuition dollars at UW Madistan. We've been telling our son that we REFUSE to fund a college education for him at UWM. He's opted for Tech College which will actually teach him a trade without the 'Communist Manifesto Homework Caseload.' *Rolleyes*

Publik Skrool was bad enough! The "De-Programming Sessions" over dinner and homework were often quite intense. ;)


6 posted on 07/10/2006 5:28:09 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Alouette
I also believe that he will attempt to provide students with a classroom experience that respects and welcomes open dialogue on all topics,"

Why of course. That's what islam is all about. If that doesn't work, someone can kill the students.

7 posted on 07/10/2006 5:40:03 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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This is from his web site.

From a Muslim perspective, it hardly seems worthwhile to engage in dialogue with non-Muslims who believe that 9/11 was an act of "Islamic terrorism." Either we discuss the compelling evidence that 9/11 was an inside job, or there is precious little to talk about.

Sure sounds like he "will attempt to provide students with a classroom experience that respects and welcomes open dialogue on all topics," doesn't it?

8 posted on 07/10/2006 6:35:00 PM PDT by knuthom
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To: Alouette
BERKLEY east.
9 posted on 07/10/2006 6:37:01 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: Alouette; Diana in Wisconsin

Anyone up for a protest outside of Bascom???


10 posted on 07/10/2006 7:05:28 PM PDT by Thunder90
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To: Don Corleone
BERKLEY east.

No, that's ITHACA.

Madison is Berzerkley Central.

11 posted on 07/10/2006 7:06:27 PM PDT by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 72-76)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Bump!
Related thread: Lecturer denounces critics of his 9-11 teachings (Kevin Barrett)
12 posted on 07/10/2006 7:50:42 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: Thunder90; Diana in Wisconsin

Sure.

OTOH, and no offense to all the current (and former) UW students--but in a way, kinda glad I didn't choose Madistan this year. Probably would have jacked up my bp by 40 points and an aneurism (sp?)...

Rather, xfering to UWM in the fall...8^)


13 posted on 07/10/2006 8:25:34 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (ASCII and ye shall receive... (Computers 3:14))
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To: Alouette

Idiots.

We have gone from Academic Excellence, to Academic Freedom, to "The Closing of the American Mind", to the "Losing of the American Mind". Degeneration in 3 generations. ...

"There is no question that Mr. Barrett holds personal opinions that many people find unconventional," Farrell says. "These views are expected to take a small, but significant, role in the class. To the extent that his views are discussed, Mr. Barrett has assured me that students will be free - and encouraged - to challenge his viewpoint."

... there is no question that such intelligence could be applied to rationalizing the selling of botulism-infected meat, with a flippant "but they need not eat it" addendum. Yet that doesn't make it any less poison!

note the hype-non-judgemental "views that some find unconventional". There is a place out there that explains how the University is set to favor totalitarian thinking, and this mindlessness is a part of the philosophical nihilism that leads to it. If no ideas can be judged, then no ideas are better than other ideas. If no ideas are better than others, than a sort of intellectual Grisham's Law sets in, and bad ideas chase out good ideas in the debasement of the intellectual climate.

And so it goes.


14 posted on 07/10/2006 9:05:35 PM PDT by WOSG
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To: knuthom
Unbelievable that they give this guy a job.
15 posted on 07/10/2006 9:13:52 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Madison="Chock full a nuts".


16 posted on 07/11/2006 10:49:40 AM PDT by pankot
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To: Alouette
"Our students are not blank slates. They are capable of exercising good judgment, critical analysis and speaking their minds," Farrell says.

Unfortunately University of Wisconsin-Madison Provost Patrick Farrell can’t say the same about himself as he hires the abominable Mr. Barrett.

17 posted on 07/11/2006 10:57:32 AM PDT by RJL
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From his website:

A growing list of ex-administration officials, historians, philosophers, politicians and others have been calling attention to the overwhelming evidence that 9/11 was an inside job--that the US Air Force stood down, the Twin Towers and WTC-7 were destroyed in controlled demolitions, the "hijackers" (who are not even Muslim, much less extremists) are still alive, the story of the Pentagon strike is ludicrous, flight 93 was shot down and the "heroic passengers say let's roll" story is a myth, many FBI agents had specific foreknowledge of the date and target of the attacks months in advance, the alleged Commander-in-Chief was left in a pre-announced location for more than an hour during an alleged surprise attack while thousands of potentially hijacked planes were still in the skies...the list of prima facie smoking guns is too long to list here, and not one of them has yet been refuted by anyone, least of all the 9/11 Coverup Commission led by neocon Bush associate Philip Zelikow. (For an irrefutable debunking of the 9/11 Commission Report, see David Griffin's The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions.)

And its just one sentence.

18 posted on 07/11/2006 11:16:59 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: FOXFANVOX

Ping! Think this is the guy you were talking about.


19 posted on 07/11/2006 11:19:50 AM PDT by Primetimedonna (Charter member of the San Francisco SnowFlakes! We love our Tony! It's SAN FRANCISCO, not Frisco.)
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To: Alouette
Mr. Barrett is such an open minded, free thinker, as witnessed by this paragraph from his webpage:

From a Muslim perspective, it hardly seems worthwhile to engage in dialog with non-Muslims who believe that 9/11 was an act of "Islamic terrorism." Either we discuss the compelling evidence that 9/11 was an inside job, or there is precious little to talk about.

I can hear all the open debate in his class now: "Well, do you think Bush did it or Cheney?

20 posted on 07/11/2006 11:24:39 AM PDT by DeFault User
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