[ April 20, 2024 ]
The University of Cincinnati has just proven yet again that colleges and universities in the United States today are not centers of higher learning, but radioactive wastelands of hard-Left indoctrination. The university has fired Clifford Adams, a music professor, for touching the third rail of American public discourse today: Adams dared to offend a Muslim student.
Adams tried to stave off his fate, issuing the abject apology that totalitarian regimes require of those whom they have targeted for thoughtcrime: “As I reconsider what I wrote from an online student’s vantage point,” Adams wrote in a letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer, “I now realize that I did come across like a religious bigot and that makes me feel horrible. I have inadvertently hurt feelings and offended many and for that I am deeply sorry.”
What terrible thing did this bigoted boor say? This was, after all, a music class, not a political one, and Adams was asking his students to give their impressions of the song “Walk on Water.” A Muslim student wrote that in an atmosphere of “Trump’s presidency and all the hate he has promoted,” the song reminded listeners that America was “built off the idea of freedom.”
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Adams responded: “The U.S. President’s first sworn duty is to protect America from enemies, and the greatest threat to our freedom is not the President, it is radical Islam. Review this list of Islamic terrorist attacks and then tell me about your hurt feelings.”
That’s all: he invited her to examine and ponder some unpopular truths. Adams explained: “I wanted a lively exchange of views and ideas about closed minded bigotry and a discussion about how it is incorporated in modern music through a smart, academic, collegiate argument. Instead, I have given my students the wrong impression that I am a religious bigot.” He lamented in the wake of the controversy that “we would have enjoyed a lively, provocative, scholarly argument.”
Continuing his apology, Adams wrote: “It is, above all, important that it is understood that I do not wish to disparage anyone’s religion. My remarks were intended to amplify our ongoing discussion on the pervasive abuse and objectification of women in today’s popular music culture.”
Despite the abjectness of Adams’ self-incrimination and apology, the University of Cincinnati’s offices of Academic Personnel, Equal Opportunity & Access and Title IX opened an investigation of him. Meanwhile, university spokesman Greg Vehr hastened to contain the damage done by Adams’ venture off the politically correct reservation, assuring the public that the University of Cincinnati was “committed to excellence and diversity.”
Except, of course, diversity of thought. The investigation ended with Adams being forced to resign. What Clifford Adams wrote to the Muslim student was entirely accurate, but truth is not a factor on university campuses anymore. What matters is how much what is being said comports with Leftist dogma. Anything that contradicts that dogma is excoriated, and the person who dared to say it vilified and removed from contact with all right-thinking people.
This isn’t just happening in universities, either. It is rapidly becoming the norm in the wider society as well. Anyone who questions the Leftist dogmas that Islam is a religion of peace and that Muslims are persecuted and harassed in Donald Trump’s America is pilloried and destroyed. The freedom of speech is a despised and misunderstood concept, as it has become widely accepted that “hate speech” is not protected by the First Amendment, and the slightest negative word about Islam constitutes “hate speech.”
Note also the totalitarian pattern. Adams, subject to Hillary Clinton’s recommended peer pressure and shaming, issues an abject apology. But it isn’t good enough. He must be made an example for anyone else who might dare to dissent.
The University of Cincinnati ought to be picketed and inundated with protests until Clifford Adams is reinstated. But it is unlikely that there are enough lovers of freedom there who understand the implications of this case and are willing to stick their necks out.
Meanwhile, in which Muslim country would Greg Vehr or anyone else at the University of Cincinnati venture to say that Muslim women are safer than they are in the U.S.?
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His new book is Confessions of an Islamophobe. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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28 Comments
D
6 years ago
He was correct, indeed. He could have modified his original comment by stating, ‘consider all the attacks by muslims upon other muslims- the horrendous slaughterings of other mosques by muslims and then ask what are their beliefs.
6 years ago
University of Cincinnati’s offices of Academic Personnel, Equal Opportunity & Access and Title IX…need to add Enablers of hijrah to that long list.
6 years ago
Sharia law is the guiding document at any liberal dominated institution. Most universities go out of their way to demean Christianity and it’s followers and those professors normally are promoted.
6 years ago
When was the last time grovelling helped anyone targeted by the PC Inquisition?
This weak, little man gave up his dignity and humiliated himself for nothing.
6 years ago
Reply to
Nimadan
USA, Europe, Canada, Australia, etc started invading and bombing muslim countries. now is payback time. Millions of muslims are entering USA, Europe, Canada, Australia, etc and step by step are taking over those countries. Islam will dominate
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
Before 2100, somebody is going to nuke Mecca. If the modern West doesn’t have the stones to do it, that just means somebody else will, Russia and China being the likeliest candidates. Neither suffers from the mental illness of worrying about the “rights” of their mortal enemies.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
Trump blessed Israel as true Americans love and may our eternal uncreated father drive Islam out. Islam will succeed to a degree before it is utterly destroyed.
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
Truth rules here in the USA …eventually.
Mohammed the pedophile goat fkr’s mentally ill followers, need to join up with their mortal frenemies the Libtards. So we can start this party right and get a twofer.
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Trump can't ban islam
TRUMP will CRUSH piss-lam. TRUMP will DOMINATE. It is written……
6 years ago
Once again Mr. Spencer says it all and hits the bulls eye. He makes it crystal clear that opinions (or commentary) that speak to the clear and present dangers that the free world and its citizens are facing from the belief system that is Islam will now result in the ostracising and categorizing of the speaker as a “deplorable.” I have always stated that based on the actual conduct of the radical believers of Islam, being Islamophobic is totally justified. I do not see our President as the horrible man he is painted to be by the liberals and the media, and it should be obvious to all of us that the media continues to report every event involving Trump with a negative spin, a spin without merit. The left, as presented in this Spencer article, is likewise acting in the same manner, and their conduct has become suppression of thought and opinion. That is the kind of conduct you would expect from and within the theocratic Islamic States, not here in America. In America we allow people like Farrakhan to present views, without actual prosecution, meaningful condemnation or retribution of any kind, that are a call for violence against non-believers, especially the Jews; yet this music teacher, who apparently was responding to a students’ expressed thought that he believed did not sufficiently understand the actual purported facts and he intended nothing violent about his response, is called on the carpet and loses his job. As stated by Spencer, we all should be revolted by this man’s firing and we should let the school know that we are ashamed of those who used that type of retribution in such an unjustified way. I am disgusted with the failure of so many people in our society who refuse to accept the reality of what we are facing today from the radical world of Islam. Sure, I hope that future generations of Muslims living in the U.S.A. will assimilate like all other immigrants into becoming first and foremost American, with their faith being modified to accept the secular nature of our society, but right now, promotion and preaching of those of Islamic faith still involves violence towards non-believers, and that is the reality that we face.
6 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
“Sure I hope that future generations of Muslims living in the USA will assimilate like all other immigrants into becoming first and foremost American” Let’s all hope in one hand and spit in the other and see which one fills up first.
6 years ago
This article aptly summarizes the issue with the alt left. They have cleverly enacted an education curriculum that pushes their views, not free thought. And it doesn’t wait till university; indoctrination starts in kindergarten. That’s why so many kids experiment with drugs and don’t pay any attention to academics; the alt left wants us all to be unemployed pot heads. And if you try to convince your kids to study hard, you are considered abusive. So they waste time trying out for professional sports, acting and other bs jobs. And the alt left media glorifies those idiots too. Hence they are so brazen to protest while the national anthem is sung.
6 years ago
‘Video: CAIR-Cincinnati Welcomes U’s Ending Relationship with Prof Who Harassed Muslim Student’
… i.e. monster worshipper, ‘amputate hands’ https://quran.com/5/38-40
vs. Art 1; 2, 2 German Basic law https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_gg/englisch_gg.html#p0030 (Constituion) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Coar6RLCV_o
6 years ago
Never apologize to a muslim, they are violent liars, all any consideration to them does is encourage aggression.
6 years ago
In every case like this, where the ‘offending’ party, offers an apology, it never mitigates the circumstances and it is never enough. So, why do it. Just once, it would be refreshing to see someone in the same shoes as Mr. Adams and not back down. To proclaim in their letter, that he or she was exercising his or her first amendment rights and that if there are those who were offended, tough sh*t! After all, theyre going to be fired anyway, so how much worse could it get.
No, Mr. Adams blew it with that apology letter.
6 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
someone outed Geller’s 3 daughters who had high profile jobs I read. They all 3 lost their work, .Saw it on twitter
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Merchantseamen
Ive seen no followup so will wait & see. It was on twitter. I dont follow so someone can look into it.
6 years ago
deserved firing for grovelling, not for telling the truth.
6 years ago
Can’t offend Moslems because the left look down on them like they do with Negroes. Very telling they do not treat them as your equal. 😉
One Negro got 8 years a free ride because the left DARE not offend Negroes and treat them the same way as whitey. With CONTEMPT! 😉
6 years ago
How on earth has the MARXIST LEFT got such a hold on American Publically Funded Campuses?
6 years ago
Her feelings were ‘hurt’ and so it is only fair that his entire professional life must be obliterated.
6 years ago
Retracting a statement of fact to make PC scum feel better…. Is ALWAYS a dumb idea. Now you simply look like a confused pusssy
6 years ago
Peace and freedom are incompatible with muslims !
No muslims = no hassle, no terror.
Push them out the countries ! ALL of them !
6 years ago
So, you get fired for telling the truth.
D
6 years ago
Reading his goobly gook excuse sounds like his progressiveness turned around and bit him. The student is the one who bought politics into the music class. He figured he was above the fray and got bit. He will be teaching a high school band soon tho.
