Posted on 08/12/2006 3:44:29 AM PDT by graced
Chicago, IL July 20, 2006 - Klocek said that he was suspended by DePaul administration and ultimately lost his position and teaching benefits after engaging in an out-of-class argument with pro-Palestinian students at a student activities fair on campus.
But after engaging in heated discussion with two Muslim student groups at a Student Involvement Fair on DePaul’s campus, the student groups Students for Justice in Palestine (SPJ) and United Muslims Moving Ahead (UMMA) went to the administration to call for Klocek’s firing. Both groups were backed by CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) Chicago, and other local Muslim advocate groups, some of whom called for even harsher punishment.
Klocek said that although no 3rd party witnesses were provided by the offended parties, DePaul’s Dean of the School of New Learning, Susanne Dumbleton, had him suspended without any hearing, and held his insurance benefits in jeopardy. Once Klocek was removed from his teaching position, Dumbleton then publicly castigated Klocek in DePaul’s student newspaper, The Depaulia, stating that Klocek was being punished by the DePaul Administration for expressing what she deemed to be Klocek’s "erroneous assertions" to the Muslim student groups.
Christina Abraham, Civil Rights Coordinator for CAIR's Chicago branch office, granted an interview to Walking Eagle Productions to explain their reasons for filing the original complaint to DePaul on behalf of the student groups. Abraham stated that she believed all of the student group’s allegations, and that they were serious enough to demand Klocek’s immediate firing.
"While DePaul may now argue that the issue is one of professionalism, its public statements at the time of Klocek’s punishment make it clear that Klocek’s real crime was offending students during an out-of-class discussion of a controversial and emotional topic." said French. Supporters can fill out the Klocek petition at www.spme.net.
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Time for some DePaul alumni to suspend their annual donations.
What harsher punishment? The traditional beheading?
Dumbleton? How fitting. How many "no-shows" has DePaul turned in?
Ward Churhill still has his job.
There is a cost for standing with Israel. Look what it has cost the Jews over time. It is a sacrifice.
Had he been a professor offending the Baptist Student Union by defending immorality, he would have been guaranteed a job for 50 yrs by the administration.
Someone send this to Bill O'Reilly care of Fox News. He loves this kind of stuff.
Did that a few years ago.
CAIR now controls speech at De Paul. How sad. De Paul will pay for their stupidity.
The only way that parents and sponsors and alumni can stop these traitorous profs and hacks is to eliminate donations. Period. Stop giving as I have to my university, American U in DC. They only hire left wing nuts and the Islamic Union on campus is a hotbed of sedition. CAIR and its ilk is un-American. It is time to write and say it out loud. And the Dems are the allies of these nutjobs as is the media. Write and say it so the great mass of the uninformed realize it.
Mega Dittos!
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