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."

[broadsword]

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

LOL! Sasquatch has two or three of them hidden in that chin bush.

[White Eagle]

So doesn't that make this a hate crime? Or does he have to actually blow somebody up first?

[BushisTheMan]

I want to write Berkeley and ask for his resignation.

Anyone have an e-mail address?

[broadsword]

Islam is a hate crime, but people are too PC-whipped to say it out loud.
(Say THAT three times fast!)

[broadsword]

Here. In the compassionate interest of understanding this angry man, I offer this list of Ialsmic terms for better understaaaaaaanding between our two morally equivalent and equally good and productive cuuuuuultures:

Mosque = Terrorist Barracks

Red Crescent Ambulance = Munitions Supply Truck

Radical Muslim = REAL Muslim who follows the Koran

Moderate Muslim = A Trojan horse who quietly smiles and nods his head at the terrorists

Koran = a call to terror, murder, oppression, slavery, misogyny and backward culture

Infidel = all non Muslims and Muslims who are not on jihad (all doomed to die)

Holy Lands = all lands unfortunate enough to be or ever have been under the heavy yoke of Muslim terror, murder, oppression, slavery, misogyny

Islamic Pride = an insanely jealous hatred for every other culture that has left Islam groveling in its seventh-century dust.

CAIR = Crying Arabic Islamic Retrogrades

Minaret = Satan's jukebox

Burkha = Misogynistic Mobile Women's Prison

Rape = something the guys get to do, especially to those hottie infidel chicks! (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)

Modern Technology = "Huh? Oh yes, that stuff the evil infidels make and maintain for us to use and kill them."

Allah = the Moon God, whose most important representative here on earth is that meteorite worshiped in Mecca

Little Boys = a man's pleasure machines

Paradise = a giant rape orgy for you - if you die while ruthlessly murdering innocent unsuspecting infidel women and children

U.S. Armed Forces = things to run away from or kill with booby-traps, unless you can take a cheap shot at them and then hide behind women and children or hide in a Mosque.

Christian Church = firewood

Synagogue = firewood

Buddhist Temple = firewood

Hindu Temple = firewood

Confucian Church = firewood

Jewish Restaurant = Bomb Demolition Depot

[Pompah]

A native Palestinian. So where exactly is Palestine.? I can't seem to find it on any map. This guy simply shouldn't be here in my Country. Anybody having second thoughts about "Profiling".??

[Gritty]

Why is this little swine still standing, much less teaching?

[beavus]

Maybe this guy is a mole for the CIA, gaining the confidence of Islamic militants so as to infiltrate the highest eschelons of Al-Qaeda and destroy it from within thus making use of one advantage of a free society in the realm of intelligence--the right to speak like a villain. Maybe this is the beginnings of a new and brilliant intelligence strategy that will turn the vulnerabilities of a free society into assets. Maybe this man will one day almost single-handedly end the Islamic cult of death.

Nah. Guantanamo the freak.

[Gorzaloon]

Sadly for them, we do, too.

Brokaw's Mine, OK?

[demkicker]

Why is this little swine still standing, much less teaching?

Good question. Another one is WHY ISN'T ANY MAINSTREAM MEDIA (INCLUDING FOX) COVERING THIS DAMN STORY?

I understand Glen Beck has an audio recording of this guy speaking. FReepers need to get it and demand a response!!!

[Thumper1960]

While I am not the dispensor of lists, you do whatever you feel necessary.

But, *I* have dibs on closet Red diaper babies. :-)

[3catsanadog]

donkey cart - a munitions transport vehicle

[I'mPeach]

Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl
Office of the Chancellor
200 California Hall #1500
Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
Telephone: (510) 642-7464
chanclor@calmail.berkeley.edu

[demkicker]

Thanks for the contact info. I just wrote to Glen Beck pleading with him to link the audio of Hatem Bazian's speech on his website. Glen played the speech on his radio show yesterday and was amazed that NOT ONE other news source had called to ask for it!

I wrote begging him to spread it to any and all news outlets. I'm horrified at the possiblity that this nutcase is influencing students and might get away with this outrage!

[BushisTheMan]

Thanks for the information. I was very busy last week and was going to look it up myself but, thanks to you, now I don't have to.

Glenn Beck has this news information on his Web site also.