Professor who attended Holocaust conference blasts critics as Islamophobes

Globe and Mail ^ | May 28, 2007 | Michael Valpy

[Alouette]

A Canadian political scientist excoriated for attending what was widely labelled a Holocaust-denial conference in Tehran has retaliated with a blistering published attack on his university president and his colleagues for being illiterate Islamophobes.

Writing in the influential Literary Review of Canada, Shiraz Dossa, a tenured professor at Nova Scotia's St. Francis Xavier University, said that his academic integrity and academic freedom were grossly impugned by the university administration, an assault on his reputation that he said has yet to be remedied.

He accused the president and chancellor of authorizing a "small Spanish Inquisition" to denounce him - a campaign he said was initiated by two Jewish professors and the Christian chair of the political science department.

Prof. Dossa also wrote that the attack on his reputation was launched by The Globe and Mail's editorial board and by columnists John Ibbitson and Rex Murphy, whom he described as being "intellectually just a cut above the Trailer Park Boys" and ignorant of the Middle East.

[dighton]

Prof. Dossa said the presenters, himself included, were invited, but he said he had no idea in advance that Holocaust deniers were on the list.

Take your pick, dishonest or stupid beyond description.

[denydenydeny]

I’ve always believed that the biggest public-relations problem the Nazis had was that they didn’t play the victim card often enough and shamelessly enough. This is a lesson that the Islamists have noted very carefully.

[the invisib1e hand]

great graphic. right up there with John Belushi and the Killer Bees.

[oakcon]

He would look at his beloved Spain and die of a broken heart all over again. Then we’d bring him back again and he’d go in there and bring the Wrath of G-d on the Islamophiles and sodomite-supporters there.

[Reform Canada]

ping

[steamroller]

hmmm-ibbotson and murphy-no doubt a couple of those perfidious joooos :))

[JasonC]

"St. Francis Xavier", currently revolving at a high rate of speed in a darkish location...