UC Berkeley Lecturer Hatem Bazian calls for an intifada in the United States:

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[ElisabethInCincy]

GF reader “Zombie” took movies of the unbelievable events in San Francisco this weekend: Movies of the April 10, 2004 Rally in San Francisco.

Here, UC Berkeley Lecturer Hatem Bazian calls for an intifada in the United States:

“Are you angry? [Yeah!] Are you angry? [Yeah!] Are you angry? [Yeah!] Well, we’ve been watching intifada in Palestine, we’ve been watching an uprising in Iraq, and the question is that what are we doing? How come we don’t have an intifada in this country? Because it seem[s] to me, that we are comfortable in where we are, watching CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox, and all these mainstream... giving us a window to the world while the world is being managed from Washington, from New York, from every other place in here in San Francisco: Chevron, Bechtel, [Carlyle?] Group, Halliburton; every one of those lying, cheating, stealing, deceiving individuals are in our country and we’re sitting here and watching the world pass by, people being bombed, and it’s about time that we have an intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political dynamics in here. And we know every— They’re gonna say some Palestinian being too radical — well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet!”

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[UWhusky]

Fighting words are NOT protected by the Constitutional guarantee of free speech. I've heard similar rantings from professors here in Seattle.

[InsensitiveConservative]

Oh.. intifada. I thought you said empanada.

Great. Now I'm hungry.

[RinaseaofDs]

As much as I believe that discriminating against all middle easterners of islamic religion is only prudent, I think that armed US troops anywhere in the US is a very bad thing, even to joke about.

Starr Jones was joking about lobbing a WMD at Bush for pre-empting American Idol tonight, and the St. Petersburg Democratic Club just put an ad in the paper calling for Rumsfeld to be put up against a wall and shot.

What are we doing here? What happened to discourse?

Make no mistake, I believe that the current platform of the D party is actually treasonous, not just anti-American.

Don't look forward to a day when tanks or troops are going through any city in the US. I suspect you were being facetious, but we're all creeping so far in that direction.

[arly]

the really sad part is that he probably got a standing ovation from the scum at UC Beserkly

[Billthedrill]

There's fairly good reasons, actually. (1) People who throw rocks at other people in the street get shot; (2) there isn't a large, disaffected population to do the rock-throwing, and (3) there's nowhere for the rock-throwers to hide.

Academics are always in this "let's you and he fight" mode. In the real world people hit back.

[GOP_1900AD]

Therefore, I call for a counterintifada against leftists, Marxists, Nazis, anti semites, anti Westerners, Islamists, Ba'athists, anarchists and all other forces who wish to undermine the USA and the West, particularly such individuals who either work at or attend the University of California. As a life member of the UCSB Alumni, I hereby declare war against the vermin within. I call for a purge to commence at the earliest possible point.

[TexKat]

Is he locked away yet. The next sound that we should hear from him is a moaning sound (cause by whatever comes to the imagination)from a prison cell.

Hang um high.

[GOP_1900AD]

And I'll bet you thought COINTELPRO was a step too far? What will it take you to want to protect our own country from hard core revolutionaries who want to foment war within, so that we can easily be attacked from without?

[zygoat]

"They all are. It's not like there is a hierarchy with a central authority. It's a total amateur hour."


Yep. It's Arabian Idol. Unfortunately, Bush has preempted them.

[TexKat]

We seriously need to get these arabs out of our Country while we still can.

IslamicValley

[ZULU]

Precisely why the DemonRats want to disarm us, and to psychologically brainwash Americans into becoming pacifistic sheep - starting in grade school.

[freeangel]

Let me guess. If they picked this terrorist up-- it would be called racial profiling.

[samtheman]

I wonder if the 9/11 Circus Commission has any interest in actual threats against our country today... or if they're only interested in analyzing what George Bush had for breakfast on August 7 and how that proves he knew the whole thing was scheduled for September.

[dirtboy]

There's fairly good reasons, actually. (1) People who throw rocks at other people in the street get shot; (2) there isn't a large, disaffected population to do the rock-throwing, and (3) there's nowhere for the rock-throwers to hide.

And there's always (4) - the United States restrains Israel from full retaliation. But nobody restrains us from such, except when we have a Dem president and we restrain ourselves.

[7.62 x 51mm]

Precisely right, ZULU.

If we don't soon get control back of the schools and governments, we're going to lose to the liberal-demokkkRATs and the UN socialists, in 4-5 generations.

This current generation is badly-crippled in the blue states, and partially-crippled in some of the red states, already.

It's been going on for 50+ years, and the results are well evident in Europe, Australia and many other parts of the world.

[ohioman]

I was being partially facetious. OF course the troops entering Berkeley would only be after they had declared themselves as being an independent republic. As always, it is hard for me to eloquently express my disdain for those traitors in Berkeley and elsewhere.

[bc2]

You know what? I say maybe these idiots SHOULD have a little intafada over here... some of us will be nice enough to give these jihadis a taste of home if the ever get the inclination...

[Redbob]

"Hatem Bazian?"

Hate 'em?

C'mon, you're making these names up!

[Keith]

It's a possible violation of the "clear and present danger" restriction on the First Amendment...

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

Jewish students protest pro-Palestinian divestment forum at the University of Michigan

“The Day of Judgment will not happen until you fight the Jews.”
Hatem Bazian

His employer, a public institution last I heard: (510) 642-6000

His E Mail at Berkley: hats@igc.org
(510) 642-7792

His website: Hatem Bazian

Biography of Hatem Bazian

Dr. Hatem Bazian, a native Palestinian with a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from U.C. Berkeley, and currently a lecturer in Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments at the same university. He has taught courses on Islam, Islamic law, Sufisim, Arabic, and Politics of the Middle East at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, Berkeley Graduate Theological Union, and Diablo Valley College. He is a member of the University Religious Council, and provide guidance to the community on issues pertaining to Islam and Muslims in the Bay Area.

Hatem served as Chair of the U.C. Berkeley Graduate Assembly and from 1995-1999 was coordinator of the Graduate Minority Students Project of the Graduate Assembly, through which he spearheaded statewide efforts to defeat proposition 209. Bazian was also active in the anti-Apartheid and Central American solidarity movements. In 1990, Hatem was the Chair of the National People of Color Student Coalition and executive member of the Board of the United States Student Association.

Bazian is currently a co-host and assistant producer of "Islam Today," a 94.1 KPFA, KBFB in Berkeley and KFCF in Fresno weekly magazine show covering Islam and its diverse people around the world. You can listen to his program on the web every Wed. from 1-2 PM West Coast time and on the web http://www.kpfa.org. Since September 11, he has appeared in many TV and Radio interviews and was a translation consultant for the San Francisco Chronicle on a number of stories relating to Islam, Muslims and world politics.

His courses: ISLAM IN AMERICA: COMMUNITIES AND INSTITUTIONS

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UC Berkeley: A Safe Harbor For Hate

In support of a fellow protestor charged with felony assault on a police officer, Hatem gets to the real reason for the charges.

If you want to know where the pressure on the university [i.e., to prosecute the trespassers who were arrested] is coming from, look at the Jewish names on the school buildings." (UC Berkeley is a state institution whose main buildings are Sproul Hall, Dwinelle Hall and Wheeler Auditorium.

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Students Express Anti-War Sentiments at Rally

Hatem Bazian, a UC Berkeley lecturer and director of the Al-Qalam Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, said the United States poses a greater threat to the world than Iraq because it is the only country in the world that has used nuclear arms in war.

"In this university and institutions of higher learning, we have been responsible for more weapons of mass destruction than Iraq has ever dreamed about," he said.

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Students for Jihad

Reports of last year's exhortations to "kill the Jews" by organizers like UC Berkeley professor Hatem Bazian and featured guest of honor, Sami Al-Arian, currently in federal prison as a leading fundraiser for Islamic Jihad, have not slowed this event down a bit.