Posted on 03/28/2024 6:31:32 AM PDT by SJackson
Mohamed Abdou is an “Islamic scholar” who is lost in admiration for Hamas, and how it managed to launch its “stealth” attack on October 7. What most of the world sees as unspeakable atrocities, with Hamas operatives beheading babies, burning children alive, raping, torturing, mutilating, and murdering Israeli girls, cutting the breasts off women and using them to play catch, cutting off the genitalia and gouging out the eyes of men, murdering children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children, Mohamed Abdou sees as glorious deeds of derring-do, by a greatly outnumbered force of brave Muslim warriors, and he wants the whole world to know it.
Abdou is now teaching at Columbia, where he was appointed as that appetizing thing, a visiting professor, for the Spring Term. He’s already in his third month of teaching, no doubt singing the praises of Hamas in a lecture hall on Morningside Heights to a captive audience of entranced undergraduates. Why, if he performs to the satisfaction of Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Massad, and Hamid Dabashi, three other admirers of Hamas on the permanent faculty at Columbia, he may even be made an offer for a permanent appointment to the Middle East Institute.
Robert Spencer wrote briefly about Abdou here, and more on this man, the latest moral monster to slither through the underbrush on Morningside Heights can be found here: “He Endorsed Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Then He Landed a Professorship at Columbia University.” By Jessica Costescu, Washington Free Beacon, February 27, 2024:
During a Jan. 5 interview with socialist podcast Revolutionary Left Radio, Islamic scholar Mohamed Abdou declared his support for Hamas and “the resistance.” The terror group’s “dedicated few,” he said admiringly, worked in “stealth mode” on Oct. 7 to defeat a “larger enemy” in Israel….
It wasn’t a “dedicated few” who swooped into Israel to rape, torture, and murder unarmed civilians both at the Nova dance party and at nearly two dozen kibbutzim where people were just waking up by the dawn’s early light, only to find 3,000 well-armed and fanatical killers arriving on motorcycles, pick-up trucks, and paragliders, determined to rape, torture, and murder as many innocent Israelis as they could find at the just-ended Nova dance party and at more than 20 kibbutzim. There were also members of Israel’s security services who died on that day, including several dozen unarmed soldiers guarding the border with Gaza, 58 police, 10 members of the Shin Bet, and about 250 other soldiers, killed as they tried to repel the Hamas invaders. In the fighting that day, those Israelis managed to kill 1,500 Hamas operatives, or half of those who had initially invaded. Mohamed Abdou wants us to think that those Hamas combatants fought a “larger enemy,” but in fact the total number of Israeli security forces involved in fighting the invaders on October 7 was about 300, that is, one-tenth the size of the invading force of 3,000.
Abdou teaches a weekly class on “Decolonial-Queerness & Abolition,” where his students discuss “transnational feminist discourses” and “queer of color critiques.” The self-described “Muslim anarchist” has also emerged as a friend to Columbia’s anti-Israel community. In a Feb. 11 social media post, Abdou revealed that he organized a protest in which Columbia students interrupted a panel featuring Hillary Clinton. One demonstrator called the former secretary of state a “war criminal” who “will burn” before chanting, “Free, free Palestine.”
“Really proud of these students & deeply honoured to have been a part of organising this,” Abdou wrote.
So he thinks the organising of an anti-Israel protest on campus is an accomplishment? After all, he’s “really proud of these students” who took part. Why is he “really proud”? Did they risk anything? Not at all. It’s the easiest thing in the world. Hold up a Palestinian flag in the middle of the quad — any quad, on any campus, from sea to shining sea, and watch as the keffiyeh-clad students come running from every dormitory room and classroom to yell and scream about Intifada Now! and Genocidal Jews, and that old-standby “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free.”
Columbia’s embrace of Abdou reflects what some Jewish students have described as a “severe and pervasive antisemitic hostile educational environment” seen on the school’s campus in the wake of Oct. 7.
Oh, those thin-skinned Jews, always moaning about antisemitism. What’s antisemitic about praising to the skies the Hamas “fighters” who gang-raped, tortured, mutilated and murdered 1,200 people just because they were Jews?
Just another Demoncrat.
Star Chamber time.
The fact that NYC Jews sit around and tolerate this shiite should be unbelievable, but it’s not.
How much does a Colombia “education” cost? This guy, war pig Nuland and war sow Hillary are all teaching there.
UK is rapidly approaching in the USA! The evil religion of pieces has already conquered Britain now the cockroaches are in the beginning stages of conquering the Un-UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
“..The fact that NYC Jews sit around and tolerate this shiite should be unbelievable, but it’s not...”
so true, and then vote in the people who support this type of behavior.
All you need to know about Islam:
1. Mohammed was a pedophile with mental issues.
2. He picked the pagan moon god to worship and named him al-Lah.
3. He hated Jews and anyone else who would not follow is false “religion”.
4. He assembled an army of thugs by promising them they could keep the possessions of those they slew in battle or in their homes.
Does that make me an Islamic scholar too?
“”The Middle East Institute (MEI) is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank and cultural centre in Washington, D.C., founded in 1946.[2] It seeks to “increase knowledge of the Middle East among the United States citizens and promote a better understanding between the people of these two areas.”[3]””
NON PARTISAN!!!! I guess they get to define the meaning of “non-partisan” in addition to “increasing knowledge”. “Better understanding?” Only an idiot could fail to understand what the “OTHER area” stands for!
Is this guy even a citizen?
Parents pay money for their kids education at Columbia? OR do we get to forgive student loans that were paid to Columbia?
Why isn’t every decent parent in the country pulling their kids out of that cesspool along with their alumni contributions?
As always - too many questions without logical answers.
Columbia took the Oil Money a long time age. Dear Alma Mater on the steps to Low has got a throbbing vibrator lubed with middle eastern crude.
Why do people give to this school?
Say somehting with even a very faint hint of negativity towards minorities, and the left go ballistic and demand that the person go to re-education camp to “learn to be a better person”
But by golly, if one is a Muslim, and they call for the slaughter of innocent Jews, and celebrate the slaughter of innocent Jews, then nope, no re-education needed because in racist and bigotted liberal la-la land, vile, disgusting and violent rhetoric about Jews is perfectly acceptable!
GOP “should be” demanding that muslims spouting such vile belligerent talk about Jews be sent to re-education camps and told “no, we don’t tolerate hate speech (and then watch the left, who th3mselves won’t tolerate speech that they don’t like, scream their fool brains out about “suppression of speech” and claim that anti-Jewish rhetoric isn’t hate speech like anti-minority speech is-) back them right into a corner!
They get to define everything and the feckless liberals bow and lick the terrorists feet clean for them
I am all for free speech and opposing view points.
I’m also all for being fully responsible for your views and actions and that “fighting words” are a very real thing.
End him. Problem solved.
shoulda happened a century ago with their Frankfurt School ...
Yet Moses Maimonides considered Judaism closer to Islam than to Christianity.
From the Jewish Press:
Twelfth century scholar, philosopher and religious commentator Mosheh ben Maimon, known in the west as Moses Maimonides, is considered one of the main foundations of modern Jewish law, and the most widely accepted authority on Jewish philosophy.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve mentioned in several JewishPress.com articles that there are huge differences between our views of Islam and of Christianity -- the former generally considered a fine religion for gentiles, the latter considered, essentially, idol worship.
My source for those statements, which most yeshiva-schooled Jews are familiar with, is Maimonides. And since it’s difficult to describe traditional Judaism without Maimonides, what he says on these issues is followed and adhered by the vast majority of observant Jews.
Each time I mentioned the fact that a religious Jew is permitted to pray in a mosque, but forbidden to even enter a church, I would be challenged by a few readers, and answer on the spot. But as the issue of Islam vs. Christianity keeps coming up, I decided to offer this essential article which we could all refer to in future exchanges...
Duh. Because Islam is bizzaro judaism. Halal is just creepified Kosher.
It would be a terrible shame if Mo had an accident. I would be very sad.
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