Um, you were lied to moron!
How much would I bet that this student was merely spewing back to his professor of "Islamic studies" exactly what he thought his prof would love to hear???? I would bet major $$$ that this prof spewed hate-America bile for a whole semester, and the student thought it would be a nice way to suck up to such an America-basher by retailing this preposterous story. The professor's extreme bias can easily be seen in the fact that the idiot relayed the tall tale to the media without first being sufficiently skeptical about such a ludicrous tale. The media bias can be seen in the fact that such tripe made it quickly into the mediastream without any adequate investigation.