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The Failure of Western Universities |
"Western universities have been reduced to little
hippie factories, teaching about the wickedness
of the West and the blessings of barbarism."
The Failure of Western Universities
By The Brussels Journal | September 1, 2006
Kari Vogt, historian of religion at the University of Oslo, has stated
that Ibn Warraq's book "Why I am Not a Muslim" is just as
irrelevant to the study of Islam as "The Protocols of the Learned
Elders of Zion" are to the study of Judaism. She is widely considered
as one of the leading expert on Islam in Norway, and is frequently
quoted in national media on matters related to Islam and Muslim
immigration. People who get most of their information from the
mainstream media, which goes for the majority of the population, will
thus be systematically fed biased information and half-truths about
Islam from our universities, which have largely failed to uphold the
ideal of free inquiry. Unfortunately, this situation is pretty similar
at universities and colleges throughout the West.
London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), scene to a
growing number of anti-Semitic incidents from an increasingly
pro-Islamic campus, issued a threat to one of its Jewish students to
cease his protests against anti-Semitism at the University. Gavin
Gross, an American, had been leading a campaign against the
deterioration of conditions for Jewish students at SOAS, which is part
of the University of London. SOAS had witnessed an escalation of
anti-Jewish activity, in both severity and frequency. At the beginning
of the year, the Islamic Society screened a video which compared
Judaism with Satanism.
Meanwhile, in a move to "promote understanding between Islam and the
West," Saudi Arabia donated about SR13 million to a leading British
museum. The officials said the money from Prince Sultan would pay for a
new Saudi and Islamic gallery, which would help to portray Islamic
culture and civilization in right perspectives. It would also help fund
scholarships for Saudi students at Oxford University.
The Saudis and other oil-rich Arabs are busy buying influence over what
Westerners hear about Islam. Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz
Al-Saud, a member of the Saudi Royal Family, is an international
investor currently ranked among the ten richest persons in the world.
He is known in the USA for a $10 million check he offered to New York
City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in October 2001 for the Twin Towers
Fund. Mayor Giuliani returned the gift when he learned that the prince
had called for the United States to "re-examine its policies in the
Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian
cause."
Prince Talal is also creating a TV channel, Al-Resalah, to target
American Muslims. He already broadcasts in Saudi Arabia. In 2005, Bin
Talal bought 5.46% of voting shares in News Corp, the parent of Fox
News. In December 2005 he boasted to Middle East Online about his
ability to change what viewers see on Fox News. Covering the riots in
France that fall, Fox ran a banner saying: "Muslim riots." Bin
Talal was not happy. "I picked up the phone and called Murdoch [...]
[and told him] these are not Muslim riots, these are riots out of
poverty," he said. "Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from
Muslim riots to civil riots."
A survey conducted by Cornell University found that around half of
Americans had a negative view of Islam. Addressing a press conference
at the headquarters of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), Paul
Findley, a former US Congressman, said that the cancer of anti-Muslim
and anti-Islamic sentiments was spreading in American society and
required corrective measures to stamp out. It was announced that the
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) would be launching a
massive $50 million media campaign involving television, radio and
newspapers. "We are planning to meet Prince Alwaleed ibn Talal for
his financial support to our project. He has been generous in the
past."
The World Assembly of Muslim Youth, founded by the nephew of Osama Bin
Laden in the US, is sharing offices with the Islamic Society of North
America and the Islamic Centre of Canada. WAMY Canada runs a series of
Islamic camps and pilgrimages for youth. US Special Agent Kane quoted
from a publication prepared by the WAMY that said: "Hail! Hail! O
Sacrificing Soldiers! To Us! To Us! So we may defend the flag on this
Day of Jihad, are you miserly with your blood?! And has life become
dearer to you? And staying behind sweeter?" According to him, 14- to
18-year-olds were the target audience for these teachings.
Harvard University and Georgetown University received $20 million
donations from Prince bin Talal to finance Islamic studies. "For a
university with global aspirations, it is critical that Harvard have a
strong program on Islam that is worldwide and interdisciplinary in
scope," said Steven E. Hyman, Harvard's provost. Georgetown said it
would use the gift - the second-largest it has ever received - to
expand its Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. Martin Kramer,
the author of "Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern
Studies in America," said: "Prince Alwaleed knows that if you want
to have an impact, places like Harvard or Georgetown, which is inside
the Beltway, will make a difference."
Georgetown professor John Esposito, founding director of the Center for
Muslim-Christian Understanding, has, probably more than any other
academic, contributed to downplaying the Jihadist threat to the West.
Kramer states that during his early days in the 1970s, Esposito had
prepared his thesis under his Muslim mentor Ismail R. Faruqi, a
Palestinian pan-Islamist and theorist of the "Islamization of
knowledge." During the first part of his career, John L. Esposito
never studied or taught at a major Middle East center. In the 80s, he
published books such as Islam: The Straight Path, the first of a series
of favorable books on Islam. In 1993, Esposito arrived at Georgetown
University, and has later claimed the status of "authority" in the
field.
In 2003, officials from the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
recognized Esposito as the current "Abu Taleb of Islam" and the
Muslim community, not only in North America but also worldwide. In
appreciation of his "countless effort towards dispelling myths about
Muslim societies and cultures," Dr. Sayyid Syeed, Secretary General
of the ISNA compared the role of Esposito to that of Abu Taleb,
Muhammad's non-Muslim uncle who gave unconditional support to the
Muslim community in Mecca at a time when it was still weak and
vulnerable.
The rise to prominence of Esposito symbolizes the failure of critical
studies of Islam - some would argue critical studies of just about
anything non-Western - in Western Universities in the 1980s and 90s.
Frenchman Olivier Roy as early as 1994 published a book entitled The
Failure of Political Islam and wrote of the Middle East as having
entered the stage of "post-Islamism." As Martin Kramer puts it,
"the academics were so preoccupied with "Muslim Martin Luthers"
that they never got around to producing a single serious analysis of
bin Laden and his indictment of America. Bin Laden's actions,
statements, and videos were an embarrassment to academics who had
assured Americans that "political Islam" was retreating from
confrontation.
At least U.S. Universities are noticing bin Laden now. Bruce Lawrence,
Duke professor of religion, has published a book of Osama bin Laden's
speeches and writings. "If you read him in his own words, he sounds
like somebody who would be a very high-minded and welcome voice in
global politics," Lawrence said. Lawrence has also claimed that Jihad
means "being a better student, a better colleague, a better business
partner. Above all, to control one's anger."
Others believe we make too much fuss about this whole Jihad business.
John Mueller, Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University,
in the September 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs asked whether the
terrorist threat to the USA had just been made up: "A fully credible
explanation for the fact that the United States has suffered no
terrorist attacks since 9/11 is that the threat posed by homegrown or
imported terrorists - like that presented by Japanese Americans
during World War II or by American Communists after it - has been
massively exaggerated." "The massive and expensive homeland
security apparatus erected since 9/11 may be persecuting some, spying
on many, inconveniencing most, and taxing all to defend the United
States against an enemy that scarcely exists."
Lee Kaplan joined a conference of MESA, the Middle East Studies
Association, in San Francisco: "Free copies of a glossy newsmagazine
called the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs were being
distributed to the academics in attendance. Most people, upon seeing
the publication, might assume it was similar to Newsweek or Time."
"What most people don't know is that the Washington Report on
Middle East Affairs magazine and Web site - indeed, the entire
organization behind it - are funded by Saudi Arabia, a despotic
regime that has been quietly buying its way onto every campus in
America, particularly through Middle East Studies centers in the
U.S."
"I met Nabil Al-Tikriti, a professor from the University of
Chicago." "I'd invite those academic Middle East scholars who
actually support America's war effort overseas and security needs
here at home. People like Daniel Pipes or Martin Kramer." I
continued, "Why aren't they here at the MESA Conference?"
"They'd be shouted down," replied Al-Tikriti.
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald shares his worries
about MESA: "As an organization, MESA has over the past two decades
slowly but surely been taken over by apologists for Islam." "The
apologetics consists in hardly ever discussing Jihad, dhimmitude, or
indeed even introducing the students to Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira."
"Books on the level of [Karen] Armstrong and Esposito are assigned,
and feelgood nonsense like Maria Rosa Menocal's The Ornament of the
World."
"No member of MESA has done as much to make available to a wide
public important new work on Muhammad, on the origins of the Qur'an,
and on the history of early Islam, as that lone wolf, Ibn Warraq. No
one has done such work on the institution of the dhimmi as that lone
louve, Bat Ye'or. It is an astounding situation, where much of the
most important work is not being done in universities, because many
university centers have been seized by a kind of Islamintern
International."
Hugh Fitzgerald is right. The Legacy of Jihad, one of the most
important works on Jihad to appear in recent years, was written by
Andrew Bostom, a medical doctor who was dissatisfied with much of the
material available on the subject following the terror attacks in 2001.
Bat Ye'or, perhaps the leading expert on the Islamic institution of
dhimmitude, is self-taught. And Ibn Warraq has written several
excellent books on the origins of the Koran and the early days of
Islamic history while remaining outside of the established University
system. This is all a great credit to them personally, but it is not a
credit to the status of Western Universities.
It is difficult to understand why American or Western authorities still
allow the Saudis to fund what is being taught about Islam to future
Western leaders, years after several Saudi nationals staged the worst
terror attack in Western history. The United States didn't allow Nazi
Germany to buy influence at US Universities. Although the Soviet
Communists had their apologists in the West as well as paid agents, the
US never allowed the Soviet Union to openly sponsor its leading
colleges. So why are they allowing Saudi Arabia and other Islamic
nations to do so? The Saudis are enemies, and should be banned from
exerting direct influence over our Universities and major media. It is
a matter of national security.
Still, although bribes and Saudi oil money represent a serious obstacle
to critical Western studies of Islam, they do by no means make up all
of the problems. Quite a few academics are so immersed with
anti-Western ideology that they will be happy to bash the West and
applaud Islam for free.
Few works have done more to corrupt critical debate of Islam in Western
institutions for higher learning during the past generation than the
1979 book Orientalism by Edward Said. It spawned a veritable army of
Saidists, or Third World Intellectual Terrorism as Ibn Warraq puts it.
According to Ibn Warraq, "the latter work taught an entire generation
of Arabs the art of self-pity - "were it not for the wicked
imperialists, racists and Zionists, we would be great once more" -
encouraged the Islamic fundamentalist generation of the 1980s, and
bludgeoned into silence any criticism of Islam."
"The aggressive tone of Orientalism is what I have called
'intellectual terrorism,' since it does not seek to convince by
arguments or historical analysis but by spraying charges of racism,
imperialism, Eurocentrism" on anybody who might disagree. "One of
his preferred moves is to depict the Orient as a perpetual victim of
Western imperialism, dominance and aggression. The Orient is never seen
as an actor, an agent with free-will, or designs or ideas of its
own."
Ibn Warraq also criticizes Said for his lack of recognition of the
tradition of critical thinking in the West. Had he delved a little
deeper into Greek civilization and history, and bothered to look at
Herodotus' great history, Said "would have encountered two features
which were also deep characteristics of Western civilization and which
Said is at pains to conceal and refuses to allow: the seeking after
knowledge for its own sake." "The Greek word, historia, from which
we get our "history," means "research" or "inquiry," and
Herodotus believed his work was the outcome of research: what he had
seen, heard, and read but supplemented and verified by inquiry."
"Intellectual inquisitiveness is one of the hallmarks of Western
civilisation. As J.M. Roberts put it, "The massive indifference of
some civilisations and their lack of curiosity about other worlds is a
vast subject. Why, until very recently, did Islamic scholars show no
wish to translate Latin or western European texts into Arabic? Why when
the English poet Dryden could confidently write a play focused on the
succession in Delhi after the death of the Mogul emperor Aurungzebe, is
it a safe guess that no Indian writer ever thought of a play about the
equally dramatic politics of the English seventeenth-century court? It
is clear that an explanation of European inquisitiveness and
adventurousness must lie deeper than economics, important though they
may have been."
Martin Kramer points out the irony that novelist Salman Rushdie praised
Said's courage: "Professor Said periodically receives threats to
his safety from the Jewish Defense League in America," said Rushdie
in 1986, "and I think it is important for us to appreciate that to be
a Palestinian in New York - in many ways the Palestinian - is not
the easiest of fates." But as it happened, Said's fate became
infinitely preferable to Rushdie's, after Khomeini called for
Rushdie's death in 1989. It was ironic that Rushdie, a postcolonial
literary lion of impeccable left-wing credentials, should have been
made by some Muslims into the very personification of Orientalist
hostility to Islam."
In his essay, "The Intellectuals and Socialism," F.A. Hayek noted
decades ago that "Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a
working-class movement. It is a construction of theorists" and
intellectuals, "the secondhand dealers in ideas." "The typical
intellectual need not possess special knowledge of anything in
particular, nor need he even be particularly intelligent, to perform
his role as intermediary in the spreading of ideas. The class does not
consist of only journalists, teachers, ministers, lecturers,
publicists, radio commentators, writers of fiction, cartoonists, and
artists." It also "includes many professional men and technicians,
such as scientists and doctors." "These intellectuals are the
organs which modern society has developed for spreading knowledge and
ideas, and it is their convictions and opinions which operate as the
sieve through which all new conceptions must pass before they can reach
the masses. The most brilliant and successful teachers are today more
likely than not to be socialists."
According to Hayek, this is not because Socialists are more
intelligent, but because "a much higher proportion of socialists
among the best minds devote themselves to those intellectual pursuits
which in modern society give them a decisive influence on public
opinion." "Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely
to its visionary character." "The intellectual, by his whole
disposition, is uninterested in technical details or practical
difficulties. What appeal to him are the broad visions."
He warns that "It may be that as a free society as we have known it
carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom
has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and
that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society
will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it
depends." "Does this mean that freedom is valued only when it is
lost, that the world must everywhere go through a dark phase of
socialist totalitarianism before the forces of freedom can gather
strength anew?" "If we are to avoid such a development, we must be
able to offer a new liberal program which appeals to the imagination.
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual
adventure, a deed of courage."
In his book Modern Culture, Roger Scruton explains the continued
attraction of left-wing ideology in this way:
The Marxist theory is as form of economic determinism,
distinguished by the belief that fundamental changes in economic
relations are invariably revolutionary, involving a violent overthrow
of the old order, and a collapse of the political "super-structure"
which had been built on it. The theory is almost certainly false:
nevertheless, there is something about the Marxian picture which
elicits, in enlightened people, the will to believe. By explaining
culture as a by-product of material forces, Marx endorses the
Enlightenment view, that material forces are the only forces there are.
The old culture, with its gods and traditions and authorities, is made
to seem like a web of illusions - 'the opiate of the people,'
which quietens their distress.
Hence, according to Scruton, in the wake of the Enlightenment, "there
came not only the reaction typified by Burke and Herder, and
embellished by the romantics, but also a countervailing cynicism
towards the very idea of culture. It became normal to view culture from
the outside, not as a mode of thought which defines our moral
inheritance, but as an elaborate disguise, through which artificial
powers represent themselves as natural rights. Thanks to Marx,
debunking theories of culture have become a part of culture. And these
theories have the structure pioneered by Marx: they identify power as
the reality, and culture as the mask; they also foretell some future
'liberation' from the lies that have been spun by our
oppressors."
It is striking to notice that this is exactly the theme of author Dan
Brown's massive international hit The Da Vinci Code from 2003,
thought to be one of the ten best-selling books of all time. In
addition to being a straightforward thriller, the novel claims that the
entire modern history of Christianity is a conspiracy of the Church to
cover up the truth about Jesus and his marriage to Mary Magdalene.
Australian writer Keith Windschuttle, a former Marxist, is tired of
that anti-Western slant that permeates academia:
For the past three decades and more, many of the leading opinion
makers in our universities, the media and the arts have regarded
Western culture as, at best, something to be ashamed of, or at worst,
something to be opposed. The scientific knowledge that the West has
produced is simply one of many 'ways of knowing.' Cultural relativism
claims there are no absolute standards for assessing human culture.
Hence all cultures should be regarded as equal, though different. The
plea for acceptance and open-mindedness does not extend to Western
culture itself, whose history is regarded as little more than a crime
against the rest of humanity. The West cannot judge other cultures but
must condemn its own.
He urges us to remember how unique some elements of our culture are:
The concepts of free enquiry and free expression and the right to
criticise entrenched beliefs are things we take so much for granted
they are almost part of the air we breathe. We need to recognise them
as distinctly Western phenomena. They were never produced by Confucian
or Hindu culture. But without this concept, the world would not be as
it is today. There would have been no Copernicus, Galileo, Newton or
Darwin.
The re-writing of Western history has become so bad that even
playwright William Shakespeare has been proclaimed a closet Muslim.
"Shakespeare would have delighted in Sufism," said the Islamic
scholar Martin Lings, himself a Sufi Muslim. According to The Guardian,
Lings argued that Shakespeare's "work resembles the teachings of
the Islamic Sufi sect" in the International Shakespeare Globe
Fellowship Lecture at Shakespeare's own Globe Theatre in London.
Lings spoke during Islam Awareness Week.
"It's impossible for Shakespeare to have been a Muslim," David N.
Beauregard, a Shakespeare scholar and coeditor of Shakespeare and the
Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England, told. Shakespeare
"maintained Roman Catholic beliefs on crucial doctrinal
differences." Beauregard notes that "this is not to say that
Shakespeare was occupied with writing religious drama, but only that a
specific religious tradition informs his work."
According to Robert Spencer, "Shakespeare is just the latest
paradigmatic figure of Western Christian culture to be remade in a
Muslim-friendly manner." Recently the [US] State Department asserted,
without a shred of evidence, that Christopher Columbus (who in fact
praised Ferdinand and Isabella for driving the Muslims out of Spain in
1492, the same year as his first visit to the Americas) was aided on
his voyages by a Muslim navigator. "The state of American education
is so dismal today that teachers themselves are ill-equipped to counter
these historical fantasies."
The Gates of Vienna blog quoted a report by The American Council of
Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) on US Universities. Their survey revealed
"a remarkable uniformity of political stance and pedagogical
approach. Throughout the humanities and social sciences, the same
issues surface over and over, regardless of discipline. In courses on
literature, philosophy, and history; sociology, anthropology, and
religious studies; women's studies, American studies, [...] the focus
is consistently on a set list of topics: race, class, gender,
sexuality, and the "social construction of identity";
globalization, capitalism, and U.S. "hegemony"; the ubiquity of
oppression and the destruction of the environment."
"In class after class, the same essential message is repeated, in
terms that, to an academic "outsider," often seem virtually
unintelligible." "In short, the message is that the status quo,
which is patriarchal, racist, hegemonic, and capitalist, must be
"interrogated" and "critiqued" as a means of theorizing and
facilitating a social transformation whose necessity and value are
taken as a given." "Differences between disciplines are beginning
to disappear. Courses in such seemingly distinct fields as literature,
sociology, and women's studies, for example, have become mirror
images of one another."
Writer Charlotte Allen commented on how Harvard University President
Lawrence Summers caused a storm by giving a speech speculating that
innate differences between the sexes may have something to do with the
fact that proportionately fewer women than men hold top positions in
science. Summers in 2006 announced his intention to step down at the
end of the school year, in part due to pressure caused by this speech.
"Even if you're not up on the scientific research - a paper Mr.
Summers cited demonstrating that, while women overall are just as smart
as men, significantly fewer women than men occupy the very highest
intelligence brackets that produce scientific genius - common sense
tells you that Mr. Summers has got to be right. Recently, Harvard's
Faculty of Arts and Sciences passed a vote of no confidence in Mr.
Summers. Wouldn't it be preferable to talk openly about men's and
women's strengths and weaknesses?"
Yes, Ms. Allen, it would. Summers may have been wrong, but it's
dangerous once we embark on a road where important issues are not
debated at all. One of the hallmarks of Western civilization has been
our thirst for asking questions about everything. Political Correctness
is thus anti-Western both in its form and in its intent. It should be
noted that in this case, feminists were in the vanguard of PC, the same
ideology that has blinded our universities to the Islamic threat.
It makes it even worse when we know that other feminists in academia
are asserting that the veil, or even the burka, represent "an
alternative feminism." Dr. Wairimu Njambi is an Assistant Professor
of "Women's Studies" at the Florida Atlantic University. Much of
her scholarship is dedicated to advancing the notion that the cruel
practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is actually a triumph for
Feminism and that it is hateful to suggest otherwise. According to
Njambi "anti-FGM discourse perpetuates a colonialist assumption by
universalizing a particular western image of a 'normal' body and
sexuality."
Still, there are pockets of resistance. Professor Sigurd Skirbekk at
the University of Oslo questions many of the assumptions underlying
Western immigration policies. One of them is the notion that rich
countries have a duty to take in all people from other nations that are
suffering, either from natural disasters, political repression or
overpopulation. According to him, it cannot be considered moral of the
cultural, political and religious elites of these countries to allow
their populations to grow unrestrained and then push their excess
population onto other countries.
Skirbekk points out that European countries have earlier rejected the
Germans when they used the argument of lebensraum as a motivation for
their foreign policy. We should do the same thing now when other
countries invoke the argument that they lack space for their
population. According to him, there is plenty of literature available
about the ecological challenges the world will be facing in this
century. Running a too liberal immigration policy while refusing to
confront such unpleasant moral issues is not a sustainable alternative
in the long run. We will then only push difficult dilemmas onto future
generations.
In Denmark, linguist Tina Magaard concludes that Islamic texts
encourage terror and fighting to a far greater degree than the original
texts of other religions. She has a Ph.D. in Textual Analysis and
Intercultural Communication from the Sorbonne in Paris, and has spent
three years on a research project comparing the original texts of ten
religions. "The texts in Islam distinguish themselves from the texts
of other religions by encouraging violence and aggression against
people with other religious beliefs to a larger degree. There are also
straightforward calls for terror. This has long been a taboo in the
research into Islam, but it is a fact we need to deal with."
Moreover, there are hundreds of calls in the Koran for fighting against
people of other faiths. "If it is correct that many Muslims view the
Koran as the literal words of God, which cannot be interpreted or
rephrased, then we have a problem. It is indisputable that the texts
encourage terror and violence. Consequently, it must be reasonable to
ask Muslims themselves how they relate to the text, if they read it as
it is," says Magaard.
The examples of Skirbekk, Magaard and others are indeed encouraging,
but not numerous enough to substantially change the overall picture of
Western academics largely paralyzed by Political Correctness and
anti-Western sentiments.
Writer Mark Steyn comments on how "out in the real world it seems the
true globalization success story of the 1990s was the export of
ideology from a relatively obscure part of the planet to the heart of
every Western city." "Writing about the collapse of nations such as
Somalia, the Atlantic Monthly's Robert D. Kaplan referred to the
"citizens" of such "states" as "re-primitivized man."
"When lifelong Torontonians are hot for decapitation, when
Yorkshiremen born and bred and into fish 'n' chips and cricket and
lousy English pop music self-detonate on the London Tube, it would seem
that the phenomenon of "re-primitivized man" has been successfully
exported around the planet. It's reverse globalization: The
pathologies of the remotest backwaters now have franchise outlets in
every Western city."
It is possible to see a connection here. While Multiculturalism is
spreading ideological tribalism in our universities, it is spreading
physical tribalism in our major cities. Since all cultures are equal,
there is no need to preserve Western civilization, nor to uphold our
laws.
It is true that we may never fully reach the ideal of objective truth,
since we are all more or less limited in our understanding by our
personal experiences and our prejudice. However, this does not mean
that we should abandon the ideal. That's what has happened during the
past decades. Our colleges aren't even trying to seek truth; they
have decided that there is no such thing as "truth" in the first
place, just different opinions and cultures, all equally valid. Except
Western culture, which is inherently evil and should be broken down and
"deconstructed." Western Universities have moved from the Age of
Reason to the Age of Deconstruction.
While Chinese, Indian, Korean and other Asian universities are
graduating millions of motivated engineers and scientists every year,
Western universities have been reduced to little hippie factories,
teaching about the wickedness of the West and the blessings of
barbarism. This represents a serious challenge to the long-term
economic competitiveness of Western nations. That's bad, but it is
the least of our worries. Far worse than failing to compete with
non-Muslim Asians is failing to identify the threat from Islamic
nations who want to subdue us and wipe out our entire civilization.
That is a failure we quite simply cannot live with. And we probably
won't, unless we manage to deal with it.
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03 Sep 2006 09:05:15 PM |
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The West is the White race.
The goal of America is to destroy the White race. The
multi-culture and pluralism they push is only at the expense of
Whites. No one is trying to push multi-culture in China or Japan or
anyplace but on the Whites. And they promote racial intermarriage.
If things continue as the are the White race is doomed.
And who is doing all of this? It is the USA government and the
media, in other words the Jews.
Many Whites are traitors. They support the USA government and their
own destruction. We should look for allies. And anyone who wants to
remove the Jews from power is our ally. In the past the Japanese were
our allies. Today it is the Muslims.
Osama bin Laden
September 24th statement published in Pakistan
"I have already said that we are not hostile to the United States. We
are against the system, which makes other nations slaves of the United
States, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic
freedom. This system is totally in control of the American Jews, whose
first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is simply that the
American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced
to live according to the principles and laws laid by them. So, the
punishment should reach Israel. In fact, it
is Israel, which is giving a blood bath to innocent Muslims and the
U.S. is not uttering a single word."
http://www.nationalvanguard.org http://www.natvan.com
http://www.thebirdman.org http://www.ihr.org/
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03 Sep 2006 03:46:56 PM |
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wrote:
"Western universities have been reduced to little
hippie factories, teaching about the wickedness
of the West and the blessings of barbarism."
The Failure of Western Universities
By The Brussels Journal | September 1, 2006
Did it rain more than usual in Belgium recently?
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| Title: Re: The Failure of Western Universities |
03 Sep 2006 04:05:19 PM |
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Spartakus wrote:
leonard78sp@gmail.com wrote:
"Western universities have been reduced to little
hippie factories, teaching about the wickedness
of the West and the blessings of barbarism."
The Failure of Western Universities
By The Brussels Journal | September 1, 2006
Did it rain more than usual in Belgium recently?
| No, but apparently Spartakus has water on the brain.
| He could not read past the title.
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| Title: Re: The Failure of Western Universities |
03 Sep 2006 04:12:19 PM |
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Spartakus wrote:
leonard7...@gmail.com wrote:
"Western universities have been reduced to little
hippie factories, teaching about the wickedness
of the West and the blessings of barbarism."
The Failure of Western Universities
By The Brussels Journal | September 1, 2006
Did it rain more than usual in Belgium recently?
| No, but apparently Spartakus has water on the brain.
| He could not read past the title.
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Political correctness is destroying Europe.
America will be the next down the PC tube
greased by academic idiots like Scott Erb,
Noam Chumpsky and Ward Churchill
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