Over the Christmas holiday my father asked me to read an article in the alumni magazine of his alma mater, Ithaca College, that he found particularly offensive. In this case, professor of politics, Asma Barlas, proclaimed that people like Osama bin Laden, as well as all sorts of "moderates" hate America because America's foreign policy since World War II has been one that "seeks control over the entire world by any means necessary." **** Left-wing America-haters in our universities, or at least at Ithaca College, are apparently suffering from shell shock. Ithaca is the City of Evil.
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I call the Hope Education Tax Credit the "Hope they go to college for two years and become liberals tax credit." I call the continuing education tax credit "We hope they continue in college and remain liberals tax credit". I refuse to give any money to my university alumni associations - and they are probably better than most. I resented using my money (student fees) to sponsor all the homosexual organizations (and this was the midwest 30 years ago).
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Barlas convincingly asserts that the Qur'an affirms the complete equality of the sexesFrom Barlas' book.
Barlas' home page.
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Having spent twenty years in the Ithaca area, contending with the students of Ithaca College and Cornell U, I got to know many of those looney toons that were turned out there every year.
The best assessment I ever heard for those people was by an area scientist. He said, "These people are manipulators of words, with the agenda of manipulating minds, most have no conception of a real education"...
11 posted on
02/05/2002 5:37:39 AM PST by
cynicom
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"The visage of academia trying to excuse, or even to justify the unspeakably evil acts of Sept. 11 has given the American public reason to take a more serious view of what is going on in our universities."Dear sweet Jesus; do ya think?
"Though language like this may be common in lecture halls, typically one doesn't find this sort of ugly rhetoric in a college alumni magazine. Such magazines, after all, are tools to keep alumni feeling good about their school in order to encourage donations."
Money doesn't mean anything to the devote Socialists running these organizations.
The exact same Socialists the professorate created?
Hellooo??
"These are the type of people that many college professors are dedicated to turning out of our universities -- people ignorant of their American heritage, yet hateful of it, and, as a result, open to the dictatorial and enslaving philosophies of communism and socialism."
Bingo.
...Ithaca may in fact be evil; however, someone named "Brandon Crocker" at the IJ sure has heard the alarm clock.
13 posted on
02/05/2002 6:31:26 AM PST by
Landru
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My wife went to Ithaca for film school when we were dating, and I had a riot going up to visit her and being around all her nutty neo-socialist film school friends. They couldn't stand me, and I loved pushing their buttons. Every one of them was a spoiled, rich kid type who never worked in their life. And all the girls were big time man-hater feminists, even though they slept around.
My wife was pretty liberal then, she almost didn't have a choice, being fed that crap on a daily basis. My favorite memory of one of my visits was her taking me by a place called the "free speech rock." It was a big rock on campus where students lined up to make speeches espousing the causes of the day. The favorite topic that day was Rodney King and his assault and the oppression of inner city blacks. I watched one white trust fund kid after another walk up and bemoan the plight of black America and declare their solidarity with Mr. King, knowing that 90% of them had never lived around, worked with or gone to school with black people.
After a while, I got in line. Panicked, my wife (then girlfriend)asked me what I wanted to say on the Free Speech Rock. I told her I just wanted to tell the other side of the story, the truth about Rodney King, the fact that he wouldn't obey the officers, the drugs in his system, etc. Mortified, she begged me and begged me not to, saying that we would be attacked, that everyone would hate her and that she would risk being retaliated against by the school. I said, "Wait a minute, you said this was the Free Speech Rock."
She said, "Yeah, but not that kind of Free Speech."
Knowing that she was probably right about what would happen if I went through with it, I got out of the line. I still laugh thinking about the terror in her eyes at the thought of my free speech.
Ten years later, she's a stay at home mom and has dropped all or nearly all of the liberal crap from college. She is one of the few people I know who truly is an Independent. And I am much more of a libertarian that I was then, and now I'm pretty disturbed by the beatings administered to Rodney King and others. Funny how things change.
14 posted on
02/05/2002 6:37:52 AM PST by
NCLou
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Unfortunately, this is exactly what one gets when the "counterculture" undergrad from the late '60s has become of tenured status.
Regardless of the Level of the educational institution, be it Preschool, Elementary, Middle, High School, or at the University, we have these leftist flacks who are totally untouchable, and who, also predictably, begin indoctrination from day 1 of a child's educational experience. It has taken a long time to get to this state, but unfortunately, it has arrived.
I can remember in the early 1970's, when I was trying to get this message across to anyone who would listen. I was just out of the military, a Vietnam Vet,trying to get through college myself without drawing fire ;-) and, at that time that fact just about ruined my credibility.
It didn't matter if you were a very right-wing conservative, everyone was trying to put as much distance between them and someone who had served "there" as possible. I was trying to explain to the then "Silent Majority" that these "counterculture" people were not just "Kids, they'll get over it", but were going to one day control the education system, and through it, the governmental process. Saying that back then was usually met with derision.
I just hope the people I tried to convince then, when something could have been done to stop the dominos from falling, are hanging their heads in shame realizing that the danger was real, imminent, and would in time become, like a juggernaut, unstoppable.
Keep the Faith for Freedom
18 posted on
02/05/2002 7:28:47 AM PST by
gwmoore
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the old radical boy/girl network, He almost had it right. It is really: The Good Ol' Radical-Boy Network.
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>From Harvard to Michigan to UC San Diego, editorial comment from our future "journalists" admonish us that the Sept. 11 attacks were "not unwarranted" given our "arrogance" in dealing with the rest of the world. Terrorism is a counter-balance to political arrogance?
What if the issue were cast in personal terms...
Imagine that there is some cocktail party at a college hall. Imagine Bill Gates is there, among all the 30k/yr professors. If Bill Gates acts "arrogantly" toward the hoi polloi, would they be "warranted" to, say, brutally murder a couple dozen of Bill's family members in retaliation for his "arrogance?"
This "arrogance" argument has been around since 9/12. It's amazingly pervasive and it's amazingly bogus. How can such educated media types continue to put this crap forward? Just how irresponsible can the media be?
Mark W.
36 posted on
02/11/2002 6:19:31 AM PST by
MarkWar
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50 posted on
02/11/2002 8:38:47 PM PST by
VOA
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BTTT.
56 posted on
02/14/2002 7:17:39 AM PST by
aculeus
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Check out this web site hosted on the University of California at San Diego's server:
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/
MTRA, FARC, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and other groups linked to are on the US list of terrorist organizations. This site has been up for several years. Be interesting to see who is behind it. Student or faculty member?
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At the center of the ring lies a crater 200 feet deep and 1000 feet in diameter. The rim of this crater is 1,000 feet wide and is composed of highly radioactive soil and debris. Nothing recognizable remains within about 3,200 feet (0.6 miles) from the center, except, perhaps, the remains of some buildings' foundations. At 1.7 miles, only some of the strongest buildings -- those made of reinforced, poured concrete -- are still standing. Ninety-eight percent of the population in this area are dead. |
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
"In this case, professor of politics, Asma Barlas, proclaimed that people like Osama bin Laden, as well as all sorts of "moderates" hate America because America's foreign policy since World War II has been one that "seeks control over the entire world by any means necessary." Furthermore, the professor says, "people everywhere are sick and tired" of our "political economy based on their systematic abuse, exploitation, expropriation, and degradation."
Higher education my hiney!. What a case of verbal diarrhea. I love how liberals can spew it out.
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Someone needs to wake up the students so that they are not taken in by these losers.
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There must be a nice college in, say, Saudi Arabia or Iran
which could make good use of such a "professor." Of course, the plumbing facilities may not be as hygienic as they generally are in Ithaca.
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future "journalists" admonish us that the Sept. 11 attacks were "not unwarranted" given our "arrogance" in dealing with the rest of the world.
By the lefties own logic their execution would be warranted since who can be more arrogant than a lefty professor or student? The fools know not what they say. ;-)
120 posted on
07/06/2002 3:02:51 PM PDT by
cgbg
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