Posted on 12/30/2004 5:51:10 PM PST by velocityguy
Northeastern University Prof likens 9/11 hijackers to American Founding Fathers In this fiendishly obscene essay, Professor Shahid Alam of Northeastern University portrays the mass-murdering thugs of 9/11 as heroes on the order of the American patriots of Lexington and Concord. Check out also (at LGF) the sneeringly anti-Semitic reply he made to an email reproaching him for his hateful views. From Dissident Voice, with thanks to Anthony and MB:
On April 19, 1775, 700 British troops reached Concord, Massachusetts, to disarm the American colonists who were preparing to start an insurrection. When the British ordered them to disperse, the colonists fired back at the British soldiers. This “shot heard ‘round the world” heralded the start of an insurrection against Britain, the greatest Western power of its time. And when it ended, victorious, in 1783, the colonists had gained their objective. They had established a sovereign but slave-holding republic, the United States of America. The colonists broke away because this was economically advantageous to their commercial and landed classes. As colonists, they were ruled by a parliament in which they were not represented, and which did not represent their interests. The colonies were not free to protect and develop their own commerce and industries. Their bid for independence was made all the more attractive because it was pressed under the banner of liberty. The colonial elites had imbibed well the lessons of the Enlightenment, and here in the new world, they had an opportunity to harness liberty in the service of their economic interests. Backed by the self interest of their landed and commercial elites, and inspired by revolutionary ideas, the colonists had a dream worth pursuing. They were prepared to die for this dream – and to kill. They did: and they won.
On September 11, 2001, nineteen Arab hijackers too demonstrated their willingness to die – and to kill – for their dream. They died so that their people might live, free and in dignity. The manner of their death – and the destruction it wreaked – is not merely a testament to the vulnerabilities that modern technology has created to clandestine attacks. After all, skyscrapers and airplanes have co-existed peacefully for many decades. The attacks of 9-11 were in many ways a work of daring and imagination too; if one can think objectively of such horrors. They were a cataclysmic summation of the history of Western depredations in the Middle East: the history of a unity dismembered, of societies manipulated by surrogates, of development derailed and disrupted, of a people dispossessed. The explosion of 9-11 was indeed a “shot heard ‘round the world.”
There is a very big difference for one thing. In 1775, it was armed colonists fighting armed redcoats. In 2001, it was islamic criminals flying aircraft into buildings containing unarmed civilians. To equate them with the colonists of 1775 is a disgrace and he does not deserve to be teaching. For a university to condone this kind of irresponsible BS they should have their certifications removed and the university sent to the trash heap in which they currently reside.
This guy is too eveil to see his reflection in a mirror.
He is an excuse maker for murderers, and emboldened by getting away with his previous documented support of murdering innocent women and children - as you have kindly reprinted for us - he now wants to make bizarre moral relationships between Patriots at War against a military and Muslim murderers of iinnocents.
This guy has the brains of a turtle, and his writing demonstrates that. There is no reason he should not be removed from the University for cause - he is an idiot. If he does not know the difference between an army and mudering an unarmed secretary, or Hitler vs an unarmed school child on a bus, then he should be removed from teaching with cause - how can his logic be trusted on any topic?
Keep him on the payroll, but ostracise him.
Diva's Husband
Dear All,
Please call/email the President of the Northeastern University. Please do this for your country. DO NOT SIT AND WAIT ON SOMEONE TO DO GOOD FOR AMERICA. Let us all start a e-mail demand to the President of Northeastern University. This is important we do this to prevent these "academic terrorists" spoiling the fabric of USA.
Here is the e-mail address of Dr. Richard M. Freeland. He is the President of the Northeastern University. I beg you, let us all please e-mail to the President of Northeastern University demanding the termination of this "academic terrorist".
Dr. Richard M. Freeland
Phone number: 617 373 2101
Room number: 110 CH
Title: President
Department: Office of the President
e-mail address: r.freeland@neu.edu
Thank you to all in advance.
Regards,
Vineet
Alumni of Northeastern need to withhold all contributions until this putz is terminated. That is the only language that the universities really understand.
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Professor Shahid Alam"
A muslim I presume ..?? Must have been watching Moore's movie.
Here's what he thinks of the United States.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar04/Alam0323.htm .
World’s Greatest Country:
Do the Facts Lie?
by M. Shahid Alam
www.dissidentvoice.org
March 23, 2004
It's long article, but to sum it up, he goes on and on about how inferior we are.
I am really unhappy with this SOB. My daughter starts NE on January 3, 2005. I am sure that his mailbox is overflowing now and I will help add to it.
This islamofascist piece of sh*t should be put down like a diseased animal.
The colonists were also fighting for the highest ideals; the islamic maniacs are fighting to set up a woldwide caliphate with a seventh century mentality, amputations, floggings, stonings for adultery, death to apostates and infidels, women in veils, etc. But of course, he won't be fired, for this wonderful liberal university values tolerance and diversity!/sarcasm off
"But of course, he won't be fired, for this wonderful liberal university values tolerance and diversity!"
There is no way this professor should live in peace. We must definitely act on this. If the University does not take action, then we have to do everything in our power to get this guy to aoplogize.
I will research some more. If this guy is from India, I promise my life on this, I WILL confront this a$$hole.
Vineet.
Perhaps if students refuse to take his course, the university might get the message.
Better yet, send this article to Bill O'Reilly.. love him or hate him he gets on this kind of thing like a dog with a bone.
This is the same liberal garbage I have been hearing from several sources (maybe it's a fashion now).
Chris Matthews made this comparison on MSNBC a while ago.
I have a liberal acquaintance who asked me how I would feel if someone invaded my home. Wouldn't I try to kill him? He said the Iraqis are fighting for their country, the same as the American Revolutionaries.
I think liberals have an identity crisis - they have to invent these fantasies so they can seem relevant (in their own eyes).
The scumbag doesn't seem to have an e-mail address. Very brave of him. I spit on him. He is a coward and a liar.
Hello, I have put the e-mail address of the President in post number 25. So please use that e-mail address and let the Northeastern University's administration know that you want this anti-American "academic terrorist" to be terminated.
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