Berkeley lecturer urges 'uprising' against U.S.

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 04/16/2004 | WorldNetDaily.com

[BushisTheMan]

GLOBAL JIHAD Berkeley lecturer urges 'uprising' against U.S.

Muslim scholar declares at rally 'you haven't seen radicalism yet!'

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

A University of California at Berkeley lecturer speaking at an anti-war rally Saturday called for a Palestinian-style intifada, or uprising, against the United States in response to American actions in the Middle East.

Hatem Bazian, a native Palestinian with a Ph.D. in Islamic studies, stirred up the San Francisco crowd, asking three times, to resounding affirmations, "Are you angry?"

U.C. Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian

The comments at the outdoor rally held at United Nation's Plaza were caught on a digital camera's movie format by a reader of the popular weblog Little Green Footballs.

An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people attended the "emergency" action organized by the radical anti-war group International A.N.S.W.E.R. in response to the increased fighting in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

The International A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition is an umbrella group tied to the World Workers Party, a Marxist organization that supports authoritarian regimes and communist dictatorships.

The lecturer in Berkeley's Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments continued:

"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!"

On his website, Bazian says he teaches courses on Islam, Islamic law, Sufisim, Arabic, and politics of the Middle East at U.C. Berkeley as well as at San Francisco State University, Berkeley Graduate Theological Union and Diablo Valley College.

He also provides "guidance to the community on issues pertaining to Islam and Muslims in the Bay Area."

Bazim, his website says, was chairman 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," which sought to eliminate affirmative action programs in California.

He is co-host and assistant producer of the radio program "Islam Today" in the Bay Area and was a translation consultant for the San Francisco Chronicle on stories relating to Islam, Muslims and world politics.

Vietnam will be 'child's play'

At the rally Saturday, Bazian said the Vietnam War will be regarded as "child's play" compared to the U.S. experience in Iraq:

"And the people in Iraq understand who's the foreigner in the country. It's not the Arabs who are coming to help. Even if more Arabs who come to help, they understand who's helping and who's opposing them. The – it took the British three years to unite the Iraqis against them. And it took less than a year for the – for the Bush administration to unite all the Iraqis. And they need to understand: what took place in Vietnam will be child's play to what will take place in Iraq ... ." A Berkeley student at the rally expressed support for Iraqi attacks on U.S. troops, charging "the occupation is a source of tremendous violence against Iraqis."

"In light of that, you know, I think we've got to support the resistance; we've got to say that we support attacks against the occupying forces," he said. 'So I mean – and you can imagine what kind of an inspiring thing that is for people in Palestine, for people in Bolivia, for people in Argentina, Colombia, all over the world, facing down the barrel of a US-supplied gun. Seeing the people of Iraq fight back, that's what we need." An unidentified speaker encouraged attacks on U.S. troops worldwide:

"We stand here – we stand here recognizing that the war on Iraq is illegal, that the war on Iraq is illegal, and that resistance, that resistance against this war is protected by international law. It is legitimate, and that we – and we in this movement support the resistance against American imperialism by any means necessary."

[SpyGuy]

When the sustained war erupts on US soil, Hatem Bazian will be one of the first to go down.

[Mr. Mojo]

Here's to him going down before war erupts.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I say wax the little focker.

[Thumper1960]

If, or when, a sustained terror war erupts on US soil, it won't be only those such as at the rally in Berkely that will feel the heat of a backlash, it will be those who have given aid and comfort in its myriad forms to ME terror. Those politicians, journalists, luminaries and left/liberal activists who refuse to acknowledge the responsibility of their sort who allowed 9/11 to occur. Those who gutted intelligence and military abilities to defend this nation. They know who they are. Sadly for them, we do, too.

[camas]

time for the old greased pig act

[Pharmboy]

Yes...we ARE angry. At him and his feelthy kind.

[madison10]

Is this anarchist an American citizen? If not,arrest & deport him...yesterday. If so,arrest & try him today. We are a nation of fools if we allow this "call to intifada" & Islamofascist doctrine to get a foothold. (maybe I should say MORE of a foothold)

Probably haven't heard much about him in the mainstream press because---they agree with him

[Dutch Boy]

I say wax the little focker.

Thanks for making me shoot grape juice though my nose and on to my keyboard....

[eleni121]

So this Islamic "scholar", the professor who teaches the religion of "peace", is calling for Muslim thugs to take out our people? A fine dissertation that must have been---"Islam and International Jihad Using the Naive Left of the West"

Can someone tell explain why he hasn't been arrested and imprisoned or even deported?

[bygolly]

sedition,
in law, acts or words tending to upset the authority of a government. The scope of the offense was broad in early common law, which even permitted prosecution for a remark insulting to the king. Although there have been several statutes in the United States forbidding seditious utterances and writings, the protection guaranteed to speech and press by the First Amendment to the Constitution has made them difficult to enforce except during periods of great national stress. The Sedition Act of 1798 generated so much opposition (see Alien and Sedition Acts) that similar statutes were not enacted until the 20th cent. During World War I the Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) punished speeches and writings that interfered with the war effort or caused contempt for the government. Vaguely worded and broadly interpreted, they resulted in over 2,000 prosecutions, mostly against radicals and the radical press. The Smith Act of 1940, restricted in scope to the advocacy of violence against the government, was invoked only infrequently during World War II, though it was later used successfully to prosecute Communist party leaders, as in Dennis v. United States (1951). The libel decision of Sullivan v. New York Times (1964), by granting special protection to criticism of public officials, largely eliminated what remained of the crime of sedition in the United States.

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[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - TROP - TREASON ALERT

[Missouri]

Is this guy a legal citizen or is he here on some kind of visa? Either way he needs to be deported immediately. If we can deport 90 year old nazis, we should be able to throw this interloper out.

[freebilly]

Hatem Bazian, a native Palestinian with a Ph.D. in Islamic studies, stirred up the San Francisco crowd, asking three times, to resounding affirmations, "Are you angry?"

A hatem speech....

[fishbabe]

what he is saying ,he supports an uprising....against all libs [especially,those in congress]....after all,if libs can talk about uprisings,so can everyone else....unless,libs want to admit they feel their better than everyone else in this country and have special rights the rest of us don't have!!!!!!!!

[Mikey_1962]

a native Palestinian with a Ph.D. in Islamic studies

Isn't kinda like a Roman Catholic with a PHd in Christian studies?

[broadsword]

Oh yeah? Well I urge immediate deportation of Hatem Bazia, on a coastline catapult, with a suicide vest strapped on.

Makes for good fireworks when he is way up there.

[broadsword]

Holy crap! Sasquatch DOES exsist!

[freebilly]

"...and it's about time that we have an intifada in this country that change[s] fundamentally the political dynamics in here...."

Sure, sure..., I can just see the leftists in San Francisco and Berkeley strapping on explosive sex toys....