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Penman for the terrorists Edward Said was the Harriet Beecher Stowe of radical Islam's war on the WestBy Gene Edward Veith WHY IS IT THAT THE WORLD'S UNIVERSITIES ARE hotbeds of support for the cause of radical Islam? This, despite the fact that they are also hotbeds of support for feminism, gay rights, and free sex, causes the radical Muslims would put to the sword? Why do even Jewish professors and students at major universities feel constrained to denounce "Zionism" and support the Palestinian cause? Outside of the ivory towers, why did Islamic radicalism break out just now in...

far as we know, Saddam Hussein is on the loose in Iraq, Osama Bin Laden is hiding somewhere in the tribal lands of Pakistan and Sheik Ahmed Yassin is still dodging Israeli bombs in Gaza. But the jihad just lost a hero right here in New York City. Edward Said, Columbia University's famous warrior-scholar, is dead, felled at age 67 by leukemia. Columbia mourns. "This death is an irreplaceable loss to the realm of ideas," said President Lee Bollinger. Bollinger's grief is shared by many. CounterPunch, a journal of the radical left, has run a series of fervid tributes to...

King Features Syndicate Inc.Charley Reese 10/06/2003 A Giant Among MidgetsLast week, television news shows took note of the deaths of Donald O'Connor, an actor-dancer; of George Plimpton, a high-toned journalist; and of some rock 'n' roll singer I'd never heard of. Completely missing from the shows I scanned was any mention at all of the death of a giant in this era of mental and moral midgets. I refer to Edward Said, a professor of literature at Columbia University; a Palestinian and a fearless champion of human rights; a musician and a music critic; and a writer of great note....

A Giant Among Midgets Last week, television news shows took note of the deaths of Donald O'Connor, an actor-dancer; of George Plimpton, a high-toned journalist; and of some rock 'n' roll singer I'd never heard of. Completely missing from the shows I scanned was any mention at all of the death of a giant in this era of mental and moral midgets. I refer to Edward Said, a professor of literature at Columbia University; a Palestinian and a fearless champion of human rights; a musician and a music critic; and a writer of great note. Said died after a long...

Edward Said, the American scholar (born in Jerusalem) who died last week, is often regarded as the man who invented the "blame-it-on-the-West" theory. His "Orientalism," a polemical pamphlet masquerading as historical analysis, presented the study of the Muslim world by European scholars as a "colonialist plot." The premise of the polemic is simple: The West is an "imperialist" monster out to dominate the world, devour its resources, impoverish other nations, and plunge mankind into perpetual war. The conclusion is equally simple: The only relationship possible between "the West" and "the rest" is one of perpetual conflict. Almost two decades before...

Edward Said, the American scholar, who died last week, is often regarded as the man who invented the "blame-it-on-the-west" theory. His "Orientalism", a polemical pamphlet masquerading as historical analysis, presented the study of the Muslim world by European scholars as a "colonialist plot". The premise of the polemic is simple: the West is an "imperialist" monster out to dominate the world, devour its resources, impoverish other nations, and plunge mankind into perpetual war. The conclusion is equally simple: the only relationship possible between "the West" and "the rest" is one of perpetual conflict. Almost two decades before Said, the Iranian...

If enormous influence in the academic world is a reliable indicator of intellectual distinction, then Edward Said merited his reputation as one of America's intellectual eminences. He taught a whole generation of English professors to search for racism in writers (like Jane Austen) who did not think as the professors do. He induced a generation of Middle East scholars not only to believe that "since the time of Homer...every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist" but to ridicule "speculations about the latest conspiracy to blow up buildings, sabotage commercial airliners and poison...

As far as we know, Saddam Hussein is on the loose in Iraq, Osama Bin Laden is hiding somewhere in the tribal lands of Pakistan and Sheik Ahmed Yassin is still dodging Israeli bombs in Gaza. But the jihad lost a hero last week right here in New York City. Edward Said, Columbia University's famous warrior-scholar, is dead, felled at age 67 by leukemia. Columbia mourns. "This death is an irreplaceable loss to the realm of ideas," said President Lee Bollinger. Bollinger's grief is shared by many. CounterPunch, a journal of the radical left, has run a series of fervid...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Return to article pageTo print: Select File and then Print from your browser's menu. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------This story was printed from FindArticles.com, located at http://www.findarticles.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Commentary Sept, 1999"My Beautiful Old House" and Other Fabrications by Edward Said.(Palestinian Arab rights advocate has fabricated his earlier life) Author/s: Justus Reid Weiner AMONG SPOKESMEN for the Palestinian cause in our day, surely none is so articulate, or so well-known, as Edward W. Said. The holder of an endowed chair in English and comparative literature at Columbia University, a prolific author of books and articles both scholarly and popular, a frequent lecturer and commentator...

An Arab-American examines the legacy of Edward Said, who passed away last week. Was he truly interested in peace in the Middle East? IIt is somehow fitting that Edward Said passed away the very day that George Plimpton also died, robbing Said of some of the notoriety and tribute he so richly deserved. That, alas, is one of the strange twists of Said’s life and career during his final decade -- unfortunate in timing, in cause, and in death. That is a strange thing to say I suppose about a man who enjoyed as much success as Edward Said....

It's a generally good rule not to speak ill of the dead. I wish Professor Said had observed it in the days after September 11th when his almost every utterance was an insult to his fellow New Yorkers vaporized a few blocks from his ivory tower. He was a hugely influential academic, who found a way to make the institutional "counter-tribalism" (in John O'Sullivan's phrase) of America's elites pay off for him big time. His bestselling Orientalism is a deeply disingenuous work riddled with factual errors and with a selectivity of focus that negates its main claim. But it remains...

It's a generally good rule not to speak ill of the dead. I wish Professor Said had observed it in the days after September 11th when his almost every utterance was an insult to his fellow New Yorkers vaporized a few blocks from his ivory tower. He was a hugely influential academic, who found a way to make the institutional "counter-tribalism" (in John O'Sullivan's phrase) of America's elites pay off for him big time. His bestselling Orientalism is a deeply disingenuous work riddled with factual errors and with a selectivity of focus that negates its main claim. But it remains...

Said's dangerous thinking (Filed: 27/09/2003) A secularised culture cannot wholly suppress the devotional urge. Ignorant or impatient of genuine saints, the Left tends to sanctify intellectuals instead. The late Edward Said, who died on Thursday aged 67 (News, Sept 26), was such a figure. His academic career was devoted to fuelling the Palestinians' sense of grievance and the post-colonial guilt of the West. His passionate advocacy of the Palestinian cause led him to make excuses for Arab terrorism, including the attacks of September 11. He rejected the 1994 Oslo peace accords as a "Palestinian Versailles" and denounced Yasser Arafat, for...

[Sadly, I've read through a good dozen articles and obits, and this is the only one I've found so far that both gives a broad range of facts, and is not brimming over with b.s. and whitewash. --Stultis] Edward Said(Filed: 26/09/2003) Edward Said, who has died aged 67, was the American literary scholar responsible for launching "post-colonial studies"; he was also a strenuous advocate of Palestinian rights, although his own identification with refugees and victims became the subject of bitter dispute after it emerged that he had exaggerated details of his childhood.Said was born in Mandate Palestine, and for many...

AAI Mourns Professor Edward Said -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- September 25, 2003 WASHINGTON - It is with great sorrow that the Arab American Institute mourns the loss of Professor Edward Said. A prolific writer and lecturer, he leaves Americans, and the world, a legacy of profound scholarship on music, literature, history and the struggle for Palestine. During the course of his life, Professor Said articulated a vision of Palestine and the Arab world that not only recalled the significant contributions of the region’s people but also offered hope for the future. In doing so, he countered the institutionalized anti-Arab bias, which prevails in...

NEW YORK -- Edward W. Said, a Columbia University professor, literary critic and leading spokesman in the United States for the Palestinian cause, has died, his editor at Knopf publishers said Thursday. He was 67. Said died at a New York hospital, said editor Shelly Wanger. He had suffered from leukemia at least since the early 1990s.

Consider the following observations on the state of affairs in the contemporary Arab world : “ The history of the modern Arab world – with all its political failures , its human rights abuses , its stunning military incompetences , its decreasing production , the fact that alone of all modern peoples , we have receded in democratic and technological and scientific development – is disfigured by a whole series of out-moded and discredited ideas , of which the notion that the Jews never suffered and that the holocaust is an obfuscatory confection created by the Elders of Zion is...

<p>August 25, 2003 -- THIS week, Rashid Khalidi starts his new job as the first Edward Said Chair of Middle East Studies at Columbia University, as well as director of the school's Middle East Institute. His arrival augments the school's already acute problems of extremism and intolerance on the Middle East.</p>

Turbans of the mind are disallowing and disavowing proper intellectual engagement with Islam. Aldous Huxley once defined an intellectual as someone who had found something in life more important than sex: a witty but inadequate definition, since it would make all impotent men and frigid women intellectuals. A better definition would be a freethinker, not in the narrow sense of someone who does not accept the dogmas of traditional religion, but in the wider sense of someone who has the will to find out, who exhibits rational doubt about prevailing intellectual fashions, and who is unafraid to apply critical thought...

Last Thursday, June 19, I testified at a contentious hearing of the House Subcommittee on Select Education. The hearing was convened to examine charges of bias leveled against programs of international education funded under Title VI of the Higher Education Act. Title VI-funded programs support the academic study of the Middle East, and other areas of the world. (You can read my testimony here and you can view the hearings on video by going here. Note that the first two of the five witnesses were not involved in the controversy. You can safely skip their testimony, if desired.) Having laid...