Sami Al-Arian, the Left's favorite sob story

Various ^ | 2/20/03 | Various

[IowaHawk]

"By pandering to anti-Arab hysteria, NBC, Fox News, Media General and Clear Channel radio disgraced themselves -- and ruined an innocent professor's life."

Eric Boehlert, 'The Prime Time Smearing of Sami Al-Arian' Salon 1/19/2002

"The Ordeal of Nahla and Sami Al-Arian"

Alex Lynch Counterpunch February 25, 2002

"Before Sept. 11 Dr. Al-Arian was a popular professor here at the University of South Florida. After Sept. 11, he has been told he will be fired. Not because he's not a good professor, not because the students have complained about the quality of his work, but because, according to the university, he is a disruption: because controversial statements that he made a decade ago have led to other people threatening his life."

Attorney David Cole

"Following the appearance, Judy Genshaft, President of the University of South Florida, announced that she was seeking to fire Al-Arian--clearly because of his political work."

Campuswatch Watch

[IowaHawk]

It goes on and on, but you get the point. Not coincidentally, these are the same folks who think Mumia is innocent.

[EggsAckley]

oh,......sob story.........for a minute there I saw S.O.B. story.

[Thorondir]

Oh, gosh! How sad! Well, I can top his story right here:

Click here and never forget the face of Islam and what it wants for you infidels.

[Interesting Times]

Very good.

The extent to which the Left supports terrorists is a distinctly underreported story.

[aeronca]

"the Left's favorite sob story

The leftist, pandering, pity-party crowd should start a defense league for misunderstood Paper-Hangers and Professors.

[gaspar]

Another under-reported story from the nineteen nineties was the ineptitude qua bureaucratic cowardice of the FBI, it wnet after Al-Arian in 1995 and then backed off smartly when Gore and the White House got into the act.

[Interesting Times]

Yep. And Janet Reno, of course...

[Enterprise]

I had the same thought. Oh boy, another poster child for the left, like Mumia.

[Joe Boucher]

What burns my butt is that the teacher union supported his reinstatement as a professor. Socialist a holes.

[mewzilla]

John Gibson said on FOX a little while ago that he talked today to an FBI agent who told Gibson that they could have had more evidence earlier, but some Muslim FBI agents refused to wear a wire when talking to Al-Arian. Muslims, the agents said, don't tape Muslims.

[votelife]

I was at USF last fall. You see bumper stickers over there saying "Academic Freedom" which was code for fascist right wingers are tearing a good professor down...

[mewzilla]

Just another indication of why the term higher education is an oxymoron.