Columbia University's Hysterical Professor

War to Mobilize Democracy ^ | 12/1/2004 | Daniel Pipes

[zygoat]

This whining piece of camel dung needs to be deported. Like, yesterday.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Indeed. With the left foot of fellowship planted on his sorry backside as he's escorted out of the USA!

[pikachu]

Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies

Calling Dr. Kevorkian, calling Dr. Kevorkian...

[zygoat]

Better hope he doesn't read that! He'll have the F.B.I. checking you out! LOL!

[LtKerst]

He's a Leftist scumbag....

The proof is how he so expertly manipulates his "victimhood"

[bikepacker67]

Maybe I'll drop ol' Hamid a line...

[Landru]

"Others may have sympathized on learning that Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Middle East studies at Columbia University, felt threatened by a graduate student...Victor Luria, a Ph.D. candidate in genetics and a former soldier in the Israel Defense Forces..."

Sympathy, no.

But the Hamid-clown's concern's completely justified if he's feeling somewhat *insecure*?

That guy could snap his neck.

...like a dry twig.

[Trippin]

Aawwwww.... poor professor. He spews hate and then gets irritated when he is inconvenienced with some facts challenging his hatred. In his world, everybody must just roll over and bow before the "great" god Allah. Well, that anint gonna happen. Id' rather pray to a pile of steaming dogsh_t.

[derheimwill]

I'm trying to get my lies straight so,

if I could please not be interrupted

[derheimwill]

nice

[Convert from ECUSA]

"In his world, everybody must just roll over and bow before the "great" god Allah. Well, that anint gonna happen"

Amen and right-on!

[Cicero]

In the course of the past 20 or 30 years, Columbia has shed its most eminent scholars in the humanities and social sciences by deaths and retirements. To replace them they have hired an incredible number of politically correct bozos. Multiculturalists, Marxists, feminists, gender benders, postcolonial theorists, and so on.

Now they are starting to reap the fruits of their stupidity. Ideas have consequences. You can't have a gang of terrorist sympathizers and revolutionary theorists without risking the probability that some of them will actively support terrorism, revolution, and war against the west.

Beside the fact that they have pretty well destroyed their English department, their history department, and so on.

[Vicomte13]

Columbia's as liberal as liberal can be.
BUT it's in New York City, and the administrators who run the place are New Yorkers.
In New York, offensive things go an all the time, everywhere. Life in New York is both very good and extremely offensive, all at the same time.

Manhattan is not the place for eggshell-thin egos, and Columbia is in Manhattan. So, liberal as Columbia is, the hysterically sensitive liberal who whines about something somebody said is going to get told to grow a thicker skin.
Just like what happened.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Others may have sympathized on learning that Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Middle East studies at Columbia University

Is it my imagination or is it true, every time I read about Columbia University, some embedded socialist, communist, or Islamic terrorist makes the news. Who is sending their kids to this dump? How is this bastion of terror funded?

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Others may have sympathized on learning that Hamid Dabashi, a professor of Middle East studies at Columbia University

Is it my imagination or is it true, every time I read about Columbia University, some embedded socialist, communist, or Islamic terrorist makes the news. Who is sending their kids to this dump? How is this bastion of terror funded?

[tom h]

Here's a photo of the d-ckhead and his contact information. I think a Freep is warranted.

Hamid Dabashi

Department Chair

610 Kent Hall

212-854-7524

hd14@columbia.edu

[Vicomte13]

"Is it my imagination or is it true, every time I read about Columbia University, some embedded socialist, communist, or Islamic terrorist makes the news. Who is sending their kids to this dump? How is this bastion of terror funded?"

Well, it's not such a dump. Even though the campus is in Harlem, it is quite nice, actually. You probably read about Columbia more than elsewhere, because Columbia's the Ivy League school in New York, so the media outlets all have the most immediate direct access to Columbia professors as compared to other schools outside of the City. Columbia ends up being cited more often in media sources than any other school for that very reason.

It's a private university, funded by tuition (about $25,000 a year and rising) and by a massive endowment fund.
Students from all over the world attend, so of course there is a broad diversity of opinion.

And yes, the social studies department and law school is liberal indeed. The business school and engineering school are not. But there is no suppression of speech at Columbia. This is New York. People are free to have any crazy damned idea they want, and to express it too. And those who disagree are free to call them psycopaths, or worse. If you're going to live in New York, you've gotta learn to grow a thick skin, and going to college in New York teaches you that in addition to other things.


So you needn't worry your head about your tax dollars going to fund the place. They don't, much, except for research the government wants done there, and the standard educational institution tax exemption that all such institutions get.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

He's the department chair? Why am I not surprised?

[Mr. Mojo]

This is far from the first leftist/Islamist Columbia professor to have made the news the past couple years. That school is beginning to make Cal Berkeley look like Bob Jones U.