[ May 14, 2024 ]
The class was slated to discuss “Islam and the West,” “The origins of Jihad,” “Al Qaida,” “9/11,” “The Islamic State” and “Jihad in Africa,” along with non-jihad terrorism topics such as the KKK. So what was the problem? Does this Muslim student, Ali Khan, actually want us to believe that al-Qaeda and the Islamic State and the 9/11 attacks were not terrorism, and should not be discussed in a terrorism class? That is exactly what he wants us to think, and he knows how to push the right politically correct buttons to get what he wants, complaining about “an American exceptionalism perspective to advance a zionist, orientalist, and/or neocolonialist agenda.” This academic terrorist is trying to make sure that only one perspective is represented, and is stigmatizing defense of the United States (as well as Israel) against the jihad as out of bounds. Watch for the University of Wisconsin Madison to pressure the professor to alter the course, or to fire him outright. That’s the state of academia these days.
“Outrage erupts over terrorism class with section on Islamic terror,” by Rita Loffredo, College Fix, October 3, 2018:
‘An American exceptionalism perspective to advance a zionist, orientalist, and/or neocolonialist agenda …’
Story continues below advertisementThis month, University of Wisconsin Madison students enrolled in a political science class focused on terrorism will study acts perpetrated by radicals in the name of Islam.
Lectures slated for October include topics such as “Islam and the West,” “The origins of Jihad,” “Al Qaida,” “9/11,” “The Islamic State” and “Jihad in Africa,” according to a syllabus screenshot.
But one Muslim student, who is also a campus leader and activist, was briefly enrolled in the class. And after the very first day, student Ali Khan took to social media to express outrage over the content of “Political Science 347: Terrorism” and the way the professor approached the subject.
Khan’s complaint prompted a campuswide conversation on alleged culturally insensitive classes. He also published the professor’s contact information, asking peers to take stand.
Khan, in his Facebook post, accused the scholar of approaching the topic of terror only from “an American exceptionalism perspective to advance a zionist, orientalist, and/or neocolonialist agenda.” Khan, who described himself as “livid” over the course, also denounced its Jihad section.
“You cannot define terrorism singularly by the actions of terrorist groups or non-state actors without including state-sponsored terrorism,” he said.
“There’s a whole module titled ‘Jihad.’ This legitimizes a perception that the concept of Jihad is one-dimensional, single-faceted, and inherently violent and connected to terrorism,” he added. “Will we be discussing the different types of jihad (by the heart, tongue, and hand)? Is the professor an Islamic scholar who can accurately speak about jihad?”
The professor, Andrew Kydd, is a white male.
Khan ended his post by publishing the professor’s name and email address, and told his peers “for all those who ally with the Muslim and/or Student of Color community, this is your chance. For us, constantly debating with professors, stepping up to always teach others, and simply being present around this type of rhetoric, is emotionally taxing. This is where you come in. Do the work and educate your peers.”
Khan’s post spread throughout the campus community, prompting praise, “outcry,” promises of action, and several articles in campus newspapers at UW Madison.
Khan did not respond to requests from The College Fix for comment. Kydd also did not respond to requests from The College Fix seeking comment.
Khan has dropped the class but has also met with Kydd and plans to provide the professor with “alternative academic readings to broaden the scope of the class,” the Badger Herald campus newspaper reports, adding Khan also plans to lobby administrators to require a cultural competency review of liberal arts courses….
As for the terrorism course, its online description states it “will introduce the student to the subject of terrorism.”…
Other topics listed on its syllabus include the history of terrorism, which delves into the KKK, nationalist terrorism and communism and fascism….
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34 Comments
5 years ago
Islamic exceptionalism beats american exceptionalism. So if you don’t accept islamic demmands peacefully, muslims will radicalize! This is democratic America of the XXI century, not the islamophobic spain of the XVI century which will live in infamy. Curb your islamophobia or face the consequences
5 years ago
Reply to
spacearcadian
muzzlims will lose their jihad on all fronts, it’s all a matter of time. The word izlam will no longer exist, and freedom will be the new norm. For example it’s already happening in ir an ,little by little.
5 years ago
Reply to
spacearcadian
What exactly has islam done other than conquer and steal from others?
Answer: NOTHING!!!
5 years ago
Reply to
spacearcadian
Come get me. Bring your fellows. I might not survive nor will some of you but I am willing to marter myself for a greater good. News is continually spreading of your vile deeds and will continue to intensify as you continue. Btw it will go viral.
5 years ago
This at the same university that photo-shopped a black student’s face into an all white audience to “prove” the “diversity” that has NEVER existed on that pathetic campus of moo-moo-wearing, incense-burning, high-5-ing, fist-bumping idiots constantly wailing about “multi-culti-mumbo-jumbo” BS…
Total sad collection of blue-haired, manny-bunned, nipple-ringed unicorn-riding idiots…SMH
5 years ago
Reply to
Medina-Merino
Left/Libs welcome jihadis and run around like cowards after they start committing gang rapes, assaults
http://bit.ly/2uHm0YC
5 years ago
9/11 was indeed terrorism, but surely not only by Muslims. I think that these Muslims were just useful idiots (they told them that they should do this in the name of Allah or such a crap). The puppet masters in the background planned these attacks, since the arm industry and the financial industry wanted to earn or did not want to loose money. Before 9/11 USA didn’t have any enemies in the world left, so they needed new enemies. Moreover, 2 planes can never totally destroy 3 big buildings. WTC 7 was a controlled demolition. A lot of scientists and demolition experts agree with that.
5 years ago
Reply to
markzona
rubbish. But go hand out at the rathskellar- you’ll find lot’s of like minded people there to nod their heads at your thinking.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Goldberg
oh…. perhaps you might dig into history and find out why 9/11 was a date chosen by the Jihadists to do their homicidism. 9/11 1685, was the date the ottoman turks, the muslims, were defeated by the combined armies of Poland and Germany under Gen Sobieski. We forgot- Islam never forgets.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Goldberg
Brilliant…unfortunately most Americans got their Islami “insights” from our previous 1/2 Kenyan “I’m-not-really-a-muslim” fake “president” who spent his childhood kneeling on a prayer rug with his ass in the air and then told us that they were a “religion of peace” and that many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were “Muslims” too…there you have it…a nation of politically-over-corrected lambs being led to slaughter as they sing songs about “diversity”, “inclusion” and Hate-America-First lies…
5 years ago
Reply to
Medina-Merino
It is not proof of anything, but I remember looking at a picture of Obama’s ‘father’ the kenyan and thinking, hmm…. Obama doesn’t look anything like him, at all?!? Then the part from his first book where he describes Frank Marshall Davis- the stalinist black man who moved to Hawai, who actually fertilized the young man in the early seventies with his ideas. Davis wrote a book, which you still might be able to download as a pdf, where he describes his sexual dalliances, with multiple women, men, below age kids, Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet), (written under pseudonym “Bob Greene”); Greenleaf Publishing Company (Evanston, IL), 1968 He looks like Obamas father, and his stalinist mind is what fertilized young Obama for sure. As another aside, after the hideous week of leftists trying to sabotage the Kavanaugh appt., accusing after all else was totally without any proof at all, of …. throwing ice, maybe, in a bar, you can youtube a video from 2001? where obama speaks of his youth, using alcohol, illegal substances, getting into trouble, acting like a thug….. but no one minds any of that from a guy like him or the other democrats
5 years ago
Khan discussed adding ‘cultural competency’ review for all liberal arts courses. Meaning…. don’t in any way resort to actually discussing history, ideas, ideology, theology lest you ‘offend’ someone who denies others the right to critique, criticise or as they used to assert in the U of Wisc. ‘to sift and winnow’.
All this muslim student demonstrates is the utter denial of Jihad and Islam, even as Mohammed declared the ‘Jihad’ the killin unbelievers in the name of Allah the highest form of spiritual action. And that… is what the Jihadists themselves assert and declare basing it all upon Islam’s Qu’ran, hadiths and sunna of Mohammed.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Goldberg
The UW-Madison has fallen into very hard times over the last 20years….today it is a maggot-swarm of politically-over-corrected, geriatric, bald-headed, pony-tailed, blue-haired losers crying about “multi-culti-mumbo-jumbo-diversity-because-I-said-so-damn-it” from inside their all-white gated communities and Prius Hybrids…
it is essentially a gaggle of FAKE white-guilted cowards and frauds being black-mailed by the campus “coloreds” riding around in their BMW convertibles with their blonde slags…
it is a case-study in hypocrisy, mediocrity and COLOSSAL stupidity…just read their campus newspaper on the web…it is all about pampering knuckle-dragging ghetto-dwellers to come to campus to play some inane “ball” game and taste of their idiot spread-eagled, blonde skanks…
they are still feasting off their 60s reputation as a campus filled with unrest and political upheaval, but today they are more likely to be agonizing over their Frappucino’s whip cream separating as they wait for their FB feed to load up…a wasteland of political hypocrisy and cowardice….
5 years ago
Reply to
Medina-Merino
I was there back then. The hypocrisy was germinating then and it disgusted me to watch it unfold.
The university motto contained the words ‘to sift and winnow’ and yet, the bloviating marxism spread there, as it has across the majority of colleges with the socialist tyranny and iron curtained walls of thought. Only correctness now, never the once upon a time honored liberal arts meme of learning how to think, how to debate, how to build upon arguments- instead- it’s what to think, or else.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Goldberg
If you just look at the last 2 decades of idiot “governance” the picture emerges very grotesquely…a succession of mediocre, politically-over-corrected “best-fit” posers from cowering, passive white men, to vicious fake “feminist” incompetents to “alternative-life-style” cart-wheeling idiots who barely last one academic year and the administrative sub-strata below them is even worse…every incompetent, dishonest porch-dancing minority token they could “bring on board” their sinking ship of state from Bascom Hall’s coterie of giggling geishas and Taco-dancers…the founders of this once-noble institution are writhing in their crypts to see what patronizing political correctness has done to rot the university from within…as alumnus and former faculty/staff I have CANCELLED every dime I ever pledged and have not allowed even 1 family member to send their children there…ever again…that school IS the dead Canary in the bottomless mine of contemporary American H/E…sad
5 years ago
This is islam. Destroy every culture except theirs. I wonder if anyone in Wisconsin will wake up or will they bow to islam
5 years ago
Reply to
Abby
the women are spread-eagled for “diversity”
the men are spread-eagled for “tolerance”
A sorry state from any angle…their Viking ancestors are writhing in their coffins…
5 years ago
Reply to
Abby
They don’t have culture – they like coyotes running all over the world to rape and kill.
5 years ago
More of the faux victimhood outrage, LOL
5 years ago
From Bundists to Dhimmis..wtf is wrong with the Cheese State??
5 years ago
Reply to
Sifter
political correctness
political cowardice
political wussyism
a toxic blend…
5 years ago
If you were a peace loving Muslim, you’d be hanging your head in shame.
5 years ago
I am an alumni of the UW.
Do not wash this with crap. Tell me what you really believe not the shariah approved lines. I will never approve your take as it stands.
Do you think that shariah is above the constitution?
Tell the truth, no lies?
5 years ago
What happened to universities being the stage to express and bring to light differing opinions and ideas ?
5 years ago
Aww, poor baby couldn’t handle the truth about jihad, and islam!
5 years ago
Culturally insensitive??
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Mr. Kahn, this is America, and the ONLY culture that matters is American culture.
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If you do not like this fact, you are welcome to leave and return to whatever 3rd world crap-hole you crawled out of.
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Sincerely, All of US
5 years ago
The left gained control of universities decades ago as well as boards of education that determine what is to be taught and discussed. This all took place under the noses of the right, who had given no thought to this threat ever taking place.
As a result this has given the left control of much of the country ! If the country is to be saved, if the constitution is to be honoured, a major fight is on the horizon.
5 years ago
This SAME action happened at the Joint Forces War College! When 9/11 happened, the war college offered a course on who we will be fighting to all military students attending the college and government and contract civilian workers working at Joint Forces Command. Because the course painted Islamic radicals in a bad view, CAIR and the muslim brotherhood asked the obama administration to do away with the course. The CJCS, General Dempsey, caved in and sacked the instructor who was also a West Point graduate. So much for the West Point Protective Society!
5 years ago
People in Wisconsin and Michigan vote and tolerate Muslims overpowering them. How you can be sorry for American citizens afraid of such primitive and vicious creature hating our culture and people.
