List of known Sami Al-Arian defenders with direct quotes

Re-instate Sami Al-Arian Petition ^ | Thursday 02/20/03

[alisasny]

Salon.com "The prime-time smearing of Sami Al-Arian By pandering to anti-Arab hysteria, NBC, Fox News, Media General and Clear Channel radio disgraced themselves -- and ruined an innocent professor's life." Salon Eric Boehlert January 19, 2002

Please add all known defenders with quotes they made in defense of Sami AL-Arian that you can find so we have a record of all of them.

[TLBSHOW]

Someday people will listen?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/845727/posts?page=

[Jack Stephens]

Should Al-Arian be granted a trial, or is that just a waste of time in your view?

Who gets to decide who gets fired?

[Rummyfan]

If Mr Al Arian is convicted I hope they lock him up and throw away the key, followed quickly by the expulsion of Little Abdullah from Duke and his deportation!

In the name of PC these are the types of people in our universities!

[dennisw]

I never said he was blameless. Do you think Al-Arian should be given a trial, or is that just a waste of time?

What do you think, fool? 

So, who decides who gets fired?

If he's a law breaker he should get his a$$ fired and I hope he does. He was just arrested and the US Government is accusing him of breaking laws.

Should university administrators be empowered to fire anyone they disagree with?

They should fire those who raise funds for Islamic terror groups. There are laws on the books concerning this.

[johniegrad]

2791. Leah Sawalha: Let us work together to create an environment of love and friendship rather than continue to promote prejidism, especially in academia were people are expected to rise above this petty notion of ethnic differences.

[johniegrad]

2759. shakeel hussaini: don't dance on Jews tune

[mabelkitty]

People can say anything they want - they don't have the right to be heard. His "forum" for such illegal propoganda is a tax payer subsidized university, and because of his position with the university, he exploited and abused his position.

[johniegrad]

2711. Tarek Sharif: prejudice, racial discrimination, racism, favoritism, ethnic cleansing, zionism etc... all are adopted by the great U.S.A.
2710. Tarek Sharif: It's worse than an asian third-world country
2709. Tarek Sharif: USA more disgusting day after day...
2708. Tarek Sharif: statue of freedom should be moved out of the ****ing USA

[Camachee]

To equate the canning and arrest of a KNOWN terrorist with going after Saddam is mentally, morally, and ethically deficient and proves that one cannot think logically, let alone operate on a NORMAL level.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Well, that didn't take long, did it? Rush Limbaugh always says that people with weak arguments always resort to name calling.

Have a nice day.

[cyncooper]

Shermy, thanks for your additional inputs to this thread.

SO, how do you two interpret that picture?

Do you think it some monstrous foul up that President Bush's bosom buddy (*as you would have it*) was arrested today?

Is Ashcroft staging some kind of resistance to the lid Bush was trying to keep clamped down on his nefarious scheme?

Please--enlighten us! Don't be coy!

[cyncooper]

Someday people will listen?

Please explain, IN YOUR OWN WORDS, whatever do you mean?

Spare the cut and paste. Just say what it is you are hinting at.

I take it you are saying AGAIN that President Bush supports terrorists, despite today's arrests by his Justice Department.

So, tell us what people will listen to someday.

[mabelkitty]

I don't know. I had my picture taken with Mariah Carey, but we aren't best friends.

[I got the rope]

So now we can't set standards for professors. What does calling on the death of Israel and America have to do with academic freedom. Al-Arian is a computer engineering professor...not a Terrorist studies professor...by the way...you're stupid.

[tutstar]

Darn tootin', they should be fired! I have been wondering today just how many more of them are lurking in other schools or in the government. They got us good!! Planning the destruction of our nation while making a living off the taxpayers....

yeah.....by the way.....give peace a chance...(sarcasm)

[Lizard_King]

1. Al Arian had been spouting his anti-American "Orientalist" garbage for a long time before he was hired and given tenure by USF.

2. Many would argue that it was precisely out of a PC, multi-culti agenda embracing his viewpoint that he was hired at USF.

3. All of a sudden, USF leadership decided to feign patriotism after 9/11 and wash its hands of this scumbag.

4. They then focused on an article he published in a third party newspaper (not whatever crap he was teaching in class) saying the standard leftist "America has no one to blame but herself for 9/11" b.s. USF had no evidence that he was an actual terrorist of any sort (beyond what a decent person would have used as a reason not to hire him in the first place); they were looking to cover their asses, pure and simple.

5. Although Al Arian had not violated any of his contract, they sought to fire him irrespective of the guarantee of free inquiry and thought that the tenure system is supposed to provide professors.

6. That made it a question of principle automatically with those who are concerned about academic liberty. There is no doubt that many, if not most of those who defended Al Arian were doing so because of their sympathies to his opinions. But there is also no doubt that many were simply adhering to principle. That same adherence to the principle of tenure is often the only thing that keeps conservative professors employed at all in most universities. Violating that principle might get Al Arian fired, but it would certainly get a whole lot more conservatives fired.

7. All along, every single Al Arian defender who was doing so out of principle would make the following explicit allowance: UNTIL AN ACTUAL CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY IS REASONABLY SUSPECTED, there are no grounds whatsoever for firing Al Arian simply because the administration has suddenly decided that his ideas are unpalatable after 9/11. They should have thought of that before public opinion pressured them; they should have thought of that when they first encountered this sniveling worm of a man and his hateful opinions.

8. Now that said criminal conspiracy has been established, by all means throw the book at him. Now his firing is absolutely justified if even half of what he is being charged with is true (which I think it is).

9. Firing Al Arian would not have made America one bit safer. Imprisoning Al Arian (as they are seeking to do now) is what it is all about; I refused to allow USF to cleanse itself with a symbolic academic lynching when they should be eating crow for the rest of their miserable lives.

Thank God for Ashcroft and his men and women, using real evidence instead of demagoguery to enforce the laws of our nation.

[Jack Stephens]

"Have a nice day."

Yes, I'm done as well.

You folks just try not to hurt yourselves accidentally with all those pitchforks and torches.

[Howlin]

IN YOUR OWN WORDS

Aren't you the dreamer......LOL.

[cyncooper]

I had my picture taken with Mariah Carey, but we aren't best friends.

Exactly. Now, during the clinton years there were many, many pictures of both of them (not to mention Algore and other members of the administration) taken with nefarious types. The point then was it was time and again, and they were never held to account, but let go or slaps on the wrist once the media light was shining.

O'Reilly's interview was way back two weeks after 9/11/01. Hardly the media and such keeping the administration's feet to the fire. Rather, it is clear the DOJ was doing their job and there is ZERO evidence, as you illustrate, that President Bush is a supporter of this professor and his terrorist associations.

[GirlShortstop]

Laura and George W. Bush (3rd and 4th from left) with Islamic Jihad frontman Sami Al-Arian (third from right) and family (son, Abdullah "Big Dude" Al-Arian, is on far left).

Is ole sami W's "source" for the Islam is Peace^® tommyrot?    Will he drop the lie now?   Inquiring minds want to know.

[cyncooper]

Aren't you the dreamer

A girl can always hope!