Posted on 07/12/2005 6:51:27 PM PDT by CHARLITE
A journalism professor at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, who previously described the United States as the "Great Deceiver," is criticizing the "attempt to involve U.S. Muslims in London guilt," a reference to the July 7 terrorist attacks in England that killed at least 52 people and may have been the work of al Qaeda.
Dr. Kaukab Siddique, who also teaches English at the university named for Abraham Lincoln, is warning readers in his New Trend online magazine not to try to "appease the people in power by subservience, or 'uncle tomming.'"
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), one of the most vocal Muslim advocacy groups in the U.S., has sent condolences to the British people for the train and bus bombings that left 700 people wounded. CAIR also sent a delegation to meet with the British ambassador to the U.S. on July 8.
However, Siddique chided CAIR and the U.S. for not sending sympathies to Iraqi cities that were bombed or Afghans who were subjected to what he described as the American "reign of terror."
Apologies related to the London bombings are damaging to the self-respect and dignity of American Muslims because they imply that all Muslims are responsible, according to Siddique.
For Muslims who are "depressed" over CAIR's call to "kow tow to the embassy of an aggressive military power, which has occupation forces in two Muslim countries," Siddique offers the following advice: don't break the law, know your rights, pray, and if depression persists, go clean the bathroom at the local mosque.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, called Siddique's comments "beyond shocking" and "mind-boggling." Noting that New Trend Magazine also has a London address, Cooper wondered whether Siddique was "embracing the goal of the people who did this (London bombings).
"Where's the outrage?" Cooper asked. "These statements supply an insight into someone who cannot bring himself to condemn terrorism. Human instinct is to cry out against such outrages, but he's telling people to go clean the toilet."
Siddique has published controversial commentary on Jews, the Holocaust and armed jihad. As a leader of Jamaat al-Muslimeen (the Islamic People's Movement) International, Siddique has delivered some of these messages at mosques.
Siddique has authored a booklet that referred to America as the "Dajjâl," a term that is variously translated by Muslims as either the "Antichrist" or "Great Deceiver." Siddique has argued that previous Muslim efforts to link Israel to the anti-Christ were wrong, that the United States had to be the anti-Christ since it was providing Israel with so much financial assistance.
He has also labeled the U.S. the "Evil Empire" of our age. "Muslims must engage in jihad to defeat Dajjâl," he wrote, adding: "The ideas of guerilla warfare, denial of easy occupation to the enemy, and ability to use small weapons should be made available to every Muslim."
On a New Trend webpage dedicated to three female suicide bombers, Zionism is equated with "systematic genocide" and readers are urged to support a boycott of "major supporters of Zionism," including McDonald's, Coca Cola, Starbucks, Home Depot and Disney.
The Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz is categorized as a "Jewish milk cow" by Siddique, which has "netted billions of dollars for Israel, owing to the pity it creates for Jews who run that terrorist entity."
While Siddique has publicly insisted that he does not oppose Jews "as a collective," a recent issue of New Trend warned that Jews today are the most powerful, the wealthiest and the most oppressive people in the world.
American Jews are among the "powerful negative forces" subverting freedom in the U.S., Siddique wrote. They control the media through a network of "communications experts and entertainers," such as Larry King, Ted Koppel, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Also listed were the Washington Post, the New York Times and producers for the CBS News program, "60 Minutes."
Jews are also in control of international banking as well as the Bush administration, according to New Trend.
Within the pages of New Trend, Siddique has offered support for scholars Ernst Zundel and David Irving, who are among the most prominent writers denying that the Jewish Holocaust occurred. New Trend contends there is no evidence Jews were gassed and credits Irving with being "able to help people see the REAL Hitler, rather than the devil incarnate the victors have made him out to be."
Cooper, from the Wiesenthal Center, admitted that Siddique is "honest, open and it's all here on his website for all to read." But he added that Siddique is "a bigot, an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier. He shows more concern for the goals -- if not the operational aspects -- of Islamic terrorists rather than to the innocent victims of terror."
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) defended Siddique Monday when contacted by Cybercast News Service.
Jonathan Knight, director of academic freedom for the AAUP, argued that "however unpopular or distasteful the views of professors are, their freedom to express them is an essential condition of a truly free institution.
"What may be desirable is one thing. What is punishable is another," Knight said. He added that there was no evidence Siddique's views had entered his classroom at Lincoln University.
"If he had somewhat less radical ideas that gave someone offense, he would not be subject to admonishment either," Knight said.
Lincoln University, a historically black college 50 miles outside of Philadelphia, honors the "Great Emancipator," America's 16th president. Numerous African-American leaders, including the late Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall and the late poet and author Langston Hughes, were students at the school.
Neither Siddique, nor anyone at Lincoln University, responded to Cybercast News Service requests for comment for this article.
How in the H is he holding a position at a University. This is pure anti-semetic hate speech at it's worst AND he his advocating sedition against the U.S. I hope people are going to start cleaning house at these Universities and especially when these traitors are paid by YOU and ME.
Yes, yes, do not believe anything you hear from the American 'deceivers' like... Dr. Kaukab Siddique.
The Deceiver is clever, VERY clever. Making the Muslims think he is one of their own. Dr. Kaukab Siddique, if that is your REAL name...
:-)
Gotta admit, it is so very easy to turn the rat b@st@rd Muslim propaganda back on itself.
I can't say its easy for me to ignore this kind of crap but this A$$hole is in a position of teaching our kids. We cannot ignore this anymore. I believe there is a difference between academic freedom and outright subversion and this is purely subversion and at taxpayers expense. The American taxpayer should not have to pay for the corruption of their own kids. England is in the fix they are in now because they have tolerated and ignored the growing threat for too long. Their press is not even willing to call the terrorists that did the bombing terrorists because they fear a backlash. Whats really scary is that they don't even know the extent of radical islam in their own country...Tolerance and ignorance, no way.
If our founding fathers, in their wildest dreams, would have believed that we would one day give religious status to the mujahideen pirates, they would have defined religion in the Constitution.
They understood who the enemy was even way back then.
Do we need him? No. Is there a dearth of English Ph.D.s in the U.S.? No. Is he a citizen? Don't know. Should he be teaching in a country he likes? YES!
Did you know that Lincoln University of Pennsylvania is "America's first Historically Black University?" Maybe Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder and Walter Williams might like to comment on this.
Feel free to contact Siddique at:
ksiddique@lu.lincoln.edu
or register your displeasure with his America hating screed with the Lincoln college English Department (why is a Muslim teaching English anyway?) at Phone: 610-932-1245 Fax: 610-932-1256. Siddique's phone extension is x3515.
Other contacts include:
Division of Academic Affairs
221 Vail Hall
Extension 3436
Fax 610-932-1208
Dr. Grant D. Venerable II, Vice President
219 Vail Hall, Extension 3436
gvenerable@lu.lincoln.edu
The chairman of the English department is Sarala A. Van Dover, M.A., Assistant Professor, ext. 3517.
The school President is Ivory V. Nelson, Ph.D.
inelson@lu.lincoln.edu
610-932-8300, Extension 3400
Here is a taste of Siddique's thought processes:
http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/afghan/al-hibri-rebuttal.html
Taliban's Liquidation of Statues
Islamic response to Cultural Imperialism
Rebuttal of Prof. Azizah Hibri's views on Afghanistan by Kaukab Siddique, Ph.D
On March 12, 2001 someone named Azizah Hibri, a professor at University of Richmond, issued a FATWA against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's demolition of Budhha monuments. Her views reflect the position of an important segment of pro-U.S.-government Muslim organizations in America. As she herself states, she was "asked by concerned American and Canadian Muslim organizations" to comment on the Taliban's position. Thus an entire group of Muslim organizations considered Prof. Hibri their worthy spokesperson.
The entire structure of Prof. Hibri's views is very shaky and one wonders how she can possibly be taken seriously by anyone who knows of the war being waged against Islam by the western powers, particularly the Zionist lobby in USA.
Her very first paragraph indicates that she is out of touch with reality because she bases her views on a statement published in The Washington Post. Not that the Post is always wrong on Islamic issues (even a stopped clock is correct twice in 24 hours) but to base a supposedly Islamic Fatwa on a news item in the Washington Post indicates the mindset of the person who gave the Fatwa.
In Paragraph two Prof. Hibri claims that she relies "primarily on the Qur'an and Sunnah." But her statements in the same paragraph belie this possibility for she writes "in matters of jurisprudence I rely heavily on a fatwa issued earlier by Dr. Taha Jaber al-Alwani on a related matter" and that "in matters of Islamic history and world religions, I rely on statements made by Professor Seyyed Hussain Nasr on this and other occasions." Dr. al-Alwani is the same gentleman who supported the pro-government organizations' (CAIR, AMC, AMA etc) bid to get the Muslim community stuck in the swamp of U.S. presidential politics. The extent of Dr. Alwani's pro-U.S. government leanings can be guaged from the fact that he legitimized voting in a kafir power-structure for a kafir candidate and thus permitted the waste of massive Muslim resources urgently needed by Muslims in America and around the world. Alwani's Fatwa went against the Qur'an, the authentic hadith and the consensus of Muslim scholars for 1400 years. It went against Syed Qutb (who preferred death to acceptance of a secular government even though it was Muslim in name), against Maudoodi (who would not accept voting and elections even in an Islamic country, Pakistan, if the country did not formally accept Allah as soveriegn) and Dr. Omar 'Abdel Rahman (who does not compromise with this oppressive power even though he is in solitary confinement in a cell in Rochester, Minnesota). Thus in jurisprudence, Prof. Hibri has taken a source which is of no Islamic value.
As for Prof. Nasr, the less said the better. Whatever exalted heights of sufiism he might live on, there is no denying the fact that he did not support the Islamic revolution in his home country led by the illustrious Imam Khomeini.
Let us look at Prof. Hibri's methodology. She is giving a Fatwa about the Buddhist monuments but she begins by commenting on the Taliban's "oppressive limitations on Muslim women's rights." Other than the Washington Post, she has not given a source for her views on the Taliban. If she had read other views, she would have found that women are quite safe in Afghanistan and the Taliban are re-building the entire educational structure. Inspite of the ravages of war, 36,000 women are back to school in Kabul alone. Thus Prof. Hibri's pontification about the right to education etc of women (para.5) (in her attempt to discredit the Taliban) only indicates her lack of real information about Afghanistan. Impartial accounts, both Muslim and non-Muslim, indicate that women are active in every sphere of life in Afghanistan. Only the westernized, pro-Communist women in Kabul were subjected to restrictions after the city was taken by storm by the Taliban. As compared to the history of other conquered cities (the Americans in Nuremburg, the Russians in Berlin, the Americans in Vietnam), the Taliban's treatment of the conquered people was humane.
In her academic zeal, Prof. Hibri forgot the entire context of the situation in Afghanistan. Here is a country which was ravaged by Russian occupation and gave 1.5 million martyrs. I wonder if Prof. Hibri ever took the help of the organizations she supports to visit the women and children of Afghanistan when the Jihad was on in every Afghan village.
At this time the issue is that of children starving in Afghanistan,(although 95% of Afghanistan has achieved peace and unity under the Taliban.) Islam makes it incumbent on every Muslim to help the children of Afghanistan by BREAKING THE U.S. EMBARGO. The real issue is not that of the statues, but of the children. The Qur'an is very clear: THE BELIEVERS ARE NONE OTHER THAN ONE BROTHERHOOD/SISTERHOOD.
If Prof. Hibri is following the Qur'an, then she must speak and write against the sanctions and take emergency help to the children of Afghanistan.
Prof. Hibri has entirely misunderstood the Taliban's position on the statues. They have demolished the statues NOT BECAUSE ANYONE IS WORSHIPPING THEM. In fact the Taliban have assured the few Hindus in Afghanistan that their statues are quite safe.
The action against the statues has nothing to do with any antagonism towards Buddhism either. There are no Buddhists in Afghanistan and the Buddhists in other countries have no claims on Afghanistan and in fact were totally unaware of any such statues till the Zionist media raised a hue and cry about them.
The Taliban acted against the statues when they found that the UNITED NATIONS (the tool of U.S. imperialism) was acting as if it is custodian of the statues. The same UNO which sanctioned US embargo on Iraq resulting in the death of 750,000 children and has okayed US sanctions on Afghanistan, is interested in the safety of the statues!
It was the issue of children versus statues.
Mullah Umar, who knows at least as much Qur'an and Hadith as Prof. Hibri and Dr. Alwani, struck a blow at the unbelievers which made them stand naked in front of the whole world for the great wrongs they have done not only to Afghanistan but to every Muslim country. As the Prophet (pbuh) has taught: WAR IS DECEPTION. That is strike at the enemy in a way which he least expected.
READ MULLAH UMAR's HISTORIC ANSWER TO the SHAIKH OF AZHAR AND YUSUF QARADAWI: Why don't you go to Babri masjid?
That, dear Muslims, is the key question: Did these azhari shaikhs go to Babri masjid? Why are they accepting U.S. pressure to go to Afghanistan to teach Islam to mullah Umar (mujahid, Mu'min). Mullah Umar's blow has uncovered the worldwide oppression against Islam. Muslims are talking as never before about:
1. Mosques destroyed in Palestine.
2. Mosques destroyed in Chechnia
3. Mosques destroyed in Kashmir
4. Mosques destroyed in India
5. Mosques destroyed in Iraq
6. Mosques destroyed in Afghanistan (during Soviet occupation and then by 25 U.S.missiles during monica-gate.)
7. Mosques destroyed in Bosnia
8. Mosques destroyed in Kosova
9. Mosques destroyed in Macedonia
10. Mosques destroyed in various parts of ex-USSR
11. Use of beautiful Turkish mosques by pro-US generals for making dollars off tourists.
BEAUTIFUL ARTIFACTS IN IRAQ, perhaps the oldest civilization in the world, have been damaged and put in serious jeopardy by annual bombing raids by the British and US airforces and by the U.S. of uranium-tipped ammunition during the assault on Iraq.
Prof. Hibri and Alwani, etc also show their very narrow pro-US bias by ignoring the great wrongs done to artifacts of other nations.
1. Beautiful German churches and museums destroyed in Dresden, Hamburg and 35 German cities during area bombing by US/British air forces (WWII).
2. Destruction of Buddhist temples in Tokyo fire raids, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
3. Hindu army's invasion and desecration of the Sikh Temple in Amritsar.
Islam is not the name of a narrow pro-US tilt against a tiny Muslim country being targeted because it has given refuge to an Arabian mujahid. Islam must safeguard first the mosque of al-Aqsa and rebuild all the mosques which have been destroyed. Today even Makka and Madinah are under the shadow of the USA naval armadas.
Justice is not an academic exercise. It involves a wholeness of view. A fragmented vision which is blind to the tremendous evil of the sanctions against Iraq, Afganistan and Sudan should not presume to give fatwas about the destruction of historic relics. ONE AFGHANI CHILD IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN ALL THE STATUES OF BYGONE AGES. (To paraphrase the Prophet Muhammad, pbuh: the honor of the Muslim is more precious than the Ka'aba itself.
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Further readings from this Islamofascist:
http://www.oppression.org/europe/kosovo_reality.html Special thanks to www.Islamway.com for pictures!! /sarcasm
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0902/105.html
(Shaikh Omar Abdel Rahman Continues to Suffer in Prison) Bonus points for use of term "gulag" in association with American prisons.
‘Tide turning against Zionist Jews’
http://www.hvk.org/articles/0702/7.html
What a list of whoppers about Islam!!! Try not to laugh!
He is also a participant in the "Holocaust was not true" mindset:
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/04/Arlington280402.html Nice guy.
........and about 40% of Americans don't know the extent of radical Islam here in our blessed country, either. When America haters like Siddique, Ward Churchill and a host of others are openly practicing SEDITION with no consequences, then we have gone "soft in the head," and it is becoming extremely dangerous.
Thanks for your remarks, Scott.
Char
.and about 40% of Americans don't know the extent of radical Islam here in our blessed country, either. When America haters like Siddique, Ward Churchill and a host of others are openly practicing SEDITION with no consequences, then we have gone "soft in the head," and it is becoming extremely dangerous."
Having worked at UMASS Amherst, I can tell you the likes of Siddique is the rule, not the exception. The schools are overrun with American self haters and the likes of this imported trash.
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