Daniel Pipes in today's WorldNetDaily details the shocking extent that dhimmitude has spread into our nation's universities and schools:
"The United Muslims Association of Florida, Tampa Bay Area Chapter is a group that openly and closely aligns itself with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and other Islamist organizations. Not long ago, it posted with pleasure on its website news that the University of South Florida (known in the bad old days of Sami Al-Arian's tenure as 'Jihad U.') will include two courses on Islam in the Spring 2004 semester. (They are 'Islam in World History,' taught by William Cummings, and 'Islam in America,' taught by K. O'Connor).
"So far so good. But then UMA follows the news with this line: 'In order to make sure that these professors, of course all in good faith, insha'Allah, [if God wills] portray Islam correctly, having some Muslim students in the classroom would be beneficial, even though these courses do not fill general requirements.'
"There you have it, in black in white: Islam at the university must be taught in a pious, Sunday-school manner. Implicit in this demand (note the 'insha'Allah') is that such courses serve da`wa purposes, namely that they attract converts to Islam.
"To make sure this is the case, an Islamist organization recruits Islamist students to make their presence felt. Presumably, should the instructor say something they disapprove of, the students will complain loudly and their grievances will be dealt with as legitimate, to the point that the careers of professors Cummings and O'Connor could well be affected. They will presumably feel pressure to present Islam and Muslims uncritically.
"This process of apologetics is already well underway at university-level Middle East studies. I have documented one key symptom, the unwillingness of Middle East specialists to acknowledge the meaning of jihad. More broadly, my colleague Jonathan Calt Harris has shown how scholars avoid the whole topic of militant Islam.
"On the high-school level, a prominent textbook and a widely-used curriculum unit, both for seventh-graders, overtly recruit for Islam in public schools. One even finds da`wa of this sort in publicly-supported television documentaries. [On the documentary, see also this.]
"To which I say: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to incipient dhimmitude, a state in which (among other features) non-Muslims dare not say anything critical about Islam and Muslims.
"Back to the classroom: While students certainly have the right to attend the classes of their choice, in the spirit of staving off dhimmitude, I offer the services of Campus Watch to professors who find themselves subjected to pressure by an Islamist organization."
This crap would come to a screeching halt if the parents of these kids would just pull their kids out and put them somewhere else. Someone needs to alert the alumni of these schools.
Though it's highly unlikely to happen, it would be wonderful if students well acquainted with the works of Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, and Charles Johnson (aka LGF)were able to pack these course offerings to offset the influence of the Muslim fundamentalists who will be sitting in on the classes.
If Islam is being taught in the schools, then the life of dhimmis should be made known! So much for the tolerance allowed for non-believers in Islam!
jihan
Accurate historical and contemporary context is the product we need.
The means of production is the ability to think rationally.
We must be grateful indeed for the likes of Spencer, Pipes, etc. Very few people today are able to think through the problems facing us today given the mess our schools are in.
We need our entire population to be able, at the very least, to understand the problem we face. Far too many don't understand, or even when presented with the information, disagree.
We need our own schools, ones that teach Aristotelian philosophy. Only then we will have children who will grow up with the tools to figure out the difference between that which is good and that which is not good; children who gain knowledge through reason, not revelation; and children whose world view is fundamentally benign.
Can you imagine this happening in your average school today, where teachers are drawn from the bottom 25% of SAT scores, where colleges of education are a joke, where moral equivalency is a holy writ, where fraud in the form of grade inflation is rampant, where even the best and the brightest of American AP students are at the bottom of the list in tests of international assessment, and where some professors of education are so disgusted with the quality of students aiming to be teachers that they quit?
I could go on (and on and on and on), but I won't. But trust me, Allen Greenspan was right when he stated that the welfare of this nation depends on the quality of our education.
Another critic (wish I could remember who),correctly stated that if he were an enemy of this country, after assessing the quality of our educational system, he would sit back and wait for us to collapse.
We are doing just that. We are losing the battle because we can't think our way out of a paper bag. We don't know why "they" are so successful, and what it will take to win, or even why we should bother trying to win.
Three cheers for Ibn Rushd--class, does anyone know why Ibn Rushd should gain honorary status as a father of the Renaissance in Europe?
http://www.barrychamish.com
REVENGE OF THE CFR by Barry Chamish
Here is a short list of CFR members who have shoved the Oslo/Roadmap processes down Israel's throat, resulting in thousands of dead Israelis and Arabs in barely ten years, not to mention the total demoralization of Israel and the mass insanity of its Islamic neighbors:
Clinton, Christopher, Baker, Albright, Zinni, Powell, Rice, Kurtzer, Seigman, Bronfman, Tenet, Haass, Friedman, Stephen Cohen, Carter, Armitage, Burns, Wolfowitz, Berger, etc. etc.
Oh yes, and Pipes, but he's pretending otherwise for the time being. That is why he spends much of his waking hours plotting to eliminate my voice. Imagine the nerve of me pointing out that he is a proud member of the little think tank that could wreck Israel and is leaving a trail of blood throughout the Middle East.
Now let us look at just how tied up he is to the CFR establishment:
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http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/mef.php
The Middle East Forum has existed since 1990, but in 1994 it became a nonprofit organization with Daniel Pipes as its director.
MEF is closely linked to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where Pipes is an adjunct scholar. Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy is senior editor of MEF's Middle East Quarterly, and the institute's Robert Satloff and Samuel Lewis sit on the Quarterly's editorial board, along with Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, James Phillips of the Heritage Foundation, and Steven Plaut of the University of Haifa.
** I have thoughtfully provided a list of CFR members. Visit the site and confirm the facts. Now we all know that the Washington Institute For Near East Policy is the Martin Indyk - run monstrosity that became the locomotive for Oslo, so considering his public stance on Israel, Pipes' chair there is suspicious enough, but let's look at his own board:
From the 2001, Membership Roster Of The Council On Foreign Relations **
http://www.stanley2002.org/pfiles/a_f.htm
Robert B. Satloff - CFR
Samuel W. Lewis - CFR
Anthony H. Cordesman - CFR
** Continuing... **
"Virtually all 31 signatories of the MEF report, which was used to persuade Congress to introduce and pass the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act in 2003, were USCFL members, and several became high officials or advisers in the Bush foreign policy team, including Elliott Abrams, Paula Dobriansky, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser."
Elliot Abrams - CFR
Paula J. Dobriansky - CFR
Richard Perle - CFR
Douglas J. Feith - CFR
** Now look at the final name on Pipe's MEF board: why it's that pesky economics teacher from Haifa! Could that mean that the big fish and little minnow are coordinating their attacks against me? And what does the little minnow get for his effort?
You can be sure, there is a reward but it's not membership in the CFR. Searching his name
I came across one other namesake:
Peter Plaut, Managing Director and Head of European Credit Research, BANK OF AMERICA SECURITIES LTD.
He is not merely on the CFR members' list, he is also one of its biggest donors.
http://www.cfr.org/about/pdf/ar_2003/termmember.pdf.
I tried but couldn't prove a family tie to the minnow, But I'll bet you there is and it's close. But even if not, the story of Peter Plaut bears telling. Here's who he is: **
http://www.euromoney.com/?Page=792&P=/creditresearchpoll2004/hyOVERALL
In addition, he was responsible for helping the Korean and Malaysian governments re-establish capital markets access through their highly successful global debt offerings during this difficult time. He was also credited with anticipating the debt and currency crisis in Brazil and other Latin American sovereigns in late 1998.
Mr. Plaut worked at UBS Securities Inc. from 1992 to 1994, as a U.S. and international corporate and bank credit analyst and prior to that was an associate at JP Morgan Securities, Inc.
Mr. Plaut has been in Institutional Investor ranked analyst. In June 1998, he was elected as a term member to The Council on Foreign Relations and currently serves as an active participant in issues concerning U.S. and international economic and foreign policy.
** Lucky old Pete, he gets to bail out countries after the IMF has bankrupted them. And since JP Morgan was a founder of the CFR, naturally he gets to manipulate currencies for his bank while he's at it. But that's not all, look who was in Singapore, Malaysia's financial headquarters, when Pete was sorting out their World Bank debts. Why it was old Tom Plaut. And need we say that he also works for a JP Morgan affiliate?**
http://www.4-paragon.com/forex/key_executives.htm
Thomas F. Plaut
Mr. Plaut brings sixteen years of foreign exchange trading experience to F.X. Solutions. He is a former Member of Senior Management at Credit Suisse A.G. and Global Head of Proprietary Trading at Dresdner Bank A.G. While at Credit Suisse and stationed in Singapore, Mr. Plaut was in charge of all foreign exchange trading activities in the Asian region.
http://www.4-paragon.com/forex/company_profile.htm
FX Solutions currently holds client funds at JP Morgan Chase bank.
** How the Plauts diddle with the tills of nations while their peoples starve. Yes, Peter must be a very important component of the CFR's global economics plan. But then, so is Pipes, diplomatically. Look how the CFR funnels him the money he needs to carry on. **
Funding
Between 1996 and 1998, the Middle East Forum received $130,000 from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, one of the top right wing foundations. (9)
http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/bradley_foundation.htm
Mark O'Keefe
Newhouse News Service
VALUES AND PHILANTHROPY
September 18, 2003
Foundation Excels at Fueling Conservative Agenda
Name a conservative idea -- whether it's school vouchers, faith-based initiatives or the premise that there's a worldwide clash of civilizations -- and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is apt to have its fingerprints on it.
Milwukee Journal Sentinel
April 3, 2003
Bradley Fighting Vehicle
A comprehensive new report makes clear the foundation's import in the feeding and nurturing of the Neoconservative Movement that has led the US to war in the Middle East.
It directly ascribes the war on Iraq to the "playbook" of the neocons, a group of "mostly Republicans," "many of whom have gotten funding from Milwaukee's Bradley Foundation."
A Newly Enriched Foundation Hires Chairman
Things changed dramatically in 1985, when the Allen-Bradley Company was sold to Rockwell International, a leading defense and aerospace conglomerate, for a whopping $1.651 billion. The Foundation benefited heavily from the sale, seeing its assets shoot up overnight from less than $14 million to more than $290 million, catapulting it into the ranks of the country's largest foundations. At that point its name was changed to the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, to publicly separate it from the company. Flush with new money and an understanding that they were now poised to play a more national role, foundation trustees decided it was time to hire a professional to run the organization. They found their man in New York at the John M. Olin Foundation.
** Now I flip to page 106 of my 2000 CFR Annual Report which lists foundations that offered generous grants to the CFR and right after The Norwegian Ministry Of Foreign Affairs comes, surprise, surprise The John M. Olin Foundation. I said previously that I'd prove Pipes gets his money directly or indirectly from the CFR and I just did.
Now would you trust him with YOUR country? **
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My tour schedule looks like this:
April 24-25, Sacramento
April 26 - Berkeley
April 28 - Reno
May 1 -Denver
May 3-6 - Toronto
May 9-17 - Miami making a documentary, no lecture dates yet
May 18 - Birmingham, AL to record a religious network TV show
Write me if you'd like to attend and I'll pass you the organizers' details.
Of interest. I copied my English language video Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin to sell at my lecture venues. It's 2 1/2 hours long and really impressive. I now have NTSC copies if anyone would like to order before I travel.
When I get back, I'll be putting together a new book. In the meantime, as usual, you can order my English books, Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, Israel Betrayed, The Last Days Of Israel and Save Israel! by writing me at chamish@netvision.net.il