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.

[alloysteel]

If you have a list of all the defenders who have spoken in favor of the good professor, you will have a list of most of his co-conspirators. Pleasure doing business with this crowd, they are the most accommodating villains we have come up against in this century or the last.

[Lexington Green]

Professor Roy Weatherford, President of the Faculty Union, rushed to defend this murdering terrorist, alArian. Professors like these should be fired.

[Jack Stephens]

No! Stop tarring defenders of academic freedom as "villains"! Once you start firing professors for saying things you disagree with, then where do you stop?
In any case, this forum should not be used to gather lists of domestic "enemies."
Shame on you.

[alisasny]

Abdullah Al-Arian,their eldest son, a Duke University undergrad and intern to Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., was asked to leave the White House without explanation while attending a briefing with members of the Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The incident caused all other groups participating to walk out in protest.

http://www.counterpunch.org/lynchnahla.html

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

If that professor is found guilty, I would imprison every single individual who defended him. If Chavez can take over a country for evil motives, then we can stop evil people here by good motives...to protect our nation and our people. It is time.

[Lexington Green]

"defender of academic freedom" or "accessory to terrorism"?

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

No! Stop tarring defenders of academic freedom as "villains"! Once you start firing professors for saying things you disagree with, then where do you stop? In any case, this forum should not be used to gather lists of domestic "enemies." Shame on you.

NO!!!! Shame on you. I was not allowed to state CONSERVATIVE opinions and was shown the door for doing so. The time is quickly coming where you and your ilk will be shown the door.

[William McKinley]

Here is a five page article from Salon in defense of him.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/847567/posts

[William McKinley]

Reflexively defending someone because they claim that they are just expressing academic freedom strikes me as the utmost in silliness.

How anyone ever got the idea that academic freedom that fosters radicalism was desirable or good is beyond me. Where does this come from? And where did the idea come that professors should be immune from public scrutiny or accountability for their extremist views?

[Shermy]

Baghdad Bonior

"... Bonior also championed the case of Dr. Mazen Al-Najjar, jailed before Sept. 11 because the FBI and Immigration officials suspected the Gaza native was a mid-level terrorist operative, and because he had violated the terms of his visa.

He was unsuccessful in this endeavor. Al-Najjar was ultimately deported to the United Arab Emirates.

Bonior, who lost a bid to become Michigan's governor, also took campaign contributions from Dr. Sami Al-Arian, the University of South Florida professor said to be Islamic Jihad's front-man in the United States. Al-Arian and his wife, Nahla, donated at least $3,450 to Bonior's campaigns. Al-Arian also raised funds for Islamic Jihad – an ally of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network.

What did such campaign contributions buy for Al-Arian? We got a clue in June 2001, just three months before the terror attacks on the U.S. During a White House meeting on President Bush's "faith-based initiatives" that month, a uniformed Secret Service officer felt compelled to remove a 20-year-old Muslim intern working for Bonior. Apparently the young man was seen as a security threat – and understandably so. The intern's name was Abdallah Al-Arian – the son of Sami Al-Arian. .."

[cynicom]

Shame on you Jack.

[Claire Voyant]

Well hello Newbie.....these people ARE villians....WAKE UP!

[Claire Voyant]

Good Memory! I wonder if Sami's son is still working for some Democrat on the hill...anmyone know???

[William McKinley]

Never mind- I see you linked to the same thing I posted before. :-)

[MamaLucci]

ALL anti-American college professors should be fired!
BTW, post 911, hysterical screaming of
"McCarthyism" vis a vis domestic enemies doesn't wash.
Just as there really WERE commies in Congress and Hollywood,
there really ARE domestic terrorists in the United States.

[piasa]

He didn't say anything about firing anyone for saying things we don't agree with.

Nor is he the one with the power to fire them.

There is nothing wrong with keeping track of who said what, though. It's always a good excercise, and if people don't want to be on the record, maybe they shouldn't shoot off their mouths.

[alisasny]

Transcript: O'Reilly Interviews Al-Arian in September 2001

[piasa]

Well, you would have to imprison me, because before I knew much about the case I defended him, mainly because I knew Reno was dishonest and I was concerned about the administration's use of the law to cover their own fudges, and their "stacking" of US attorneys and the like, and the secrecy which at that time seemed extreme for the little we were told about him. Once I found out he was linked to PIJ and what he was preaching, though, I switched, and have followed the case intently since then hoping to see him nailed.

[carmelanne]

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