An update on the Manchester (Connecticut) Community College professor who was fired after telling the truth about jihad, from the indefatigable anti-jihadist Jerry Gordon, who went with Michael Abdelmessih to talk with MCC officials today:
Today was a moment of truth for Coptic Christian Michael Abdelmessih. He was dismissed by Manchester Community College (MCC) here in Conecticut for his views on radical islam and alleged "poor grammar."Michael got a certified letter from MCC dated yesterday, April 20th, indicating that he was dismissed as an instructor for the Islamic radicalism course he had been hired for and that he would be paid until the term of the current contract. His contracts for a summer term teaching Arabic and a fall one on Middle East history and culture were terminated as well.
When Michael and I went to meet with the MCC Dean of Academic Affairs, Ann Savage and the Director of Human Resources, Debra Wilson, they barred me from participating in the meeting. I advised Michael that he could continue by himself, if he so chose. Before I exited, I asked Ms. Wilson if there had been any interrnal or FBI investigation of the threats made against Michael by either Muslim woman faculty members or the local Muslim community. Ms. Wilson replied: "this is a personnel problem." The stonewalling mantra of the day! We heard it last night here in the Nutmeg State during an 11:00PM newscast interview with Michael on CBS affiliate Channel 3, WFSB-TV.
Then I had a surpirse for them both. I told them, after having conferred with the legal counsel of the Connecticut chapter of the ACLU, that the "ACLU had an interest in this matter." Hurray, maybe the ACLU has finally woken up and smelled a real First Amendment case for the first time.
Michael went into the short meeting and came out and explained that he voiced all the allegations about threats and coercion from the two Muslim women faculty members in the ten weeks preceding the ill-fated first and only session on April 9th. That included modifying the orignal course outline and bibiography. Stony silence.
The HR director dropped the bomb and told him he was dismissed because of the following language in a handout he had prepared on Pycholical Fundamentalism after consulting with his former thesis advisor, Dr. Richard Welch at Southern Connectcut State University:
"This education starts at a young age. Children from the age of six start to regularly attend classes, although the families teach them the religion in the house from birth. The violence within the religion originates with its sick leaders who teach hatred, anger, and retribution. This is one of the major differences between the Muslim religion vs. its Judeo-Christian counterparts. The Muslim religion does not teach forgiveness, instead, it vehemently preaches revenge."Michael explained that he had derived this information from texts by Muslim authors, and not from critiques by either Christian or Jewish authors.
No matter, these views were enough to get him thrown out without so much as a by-your-leave.
They groused about his grammar.
He shook hands and said "Have a nice day," and left the MCC administrative suites.
We then called WFSB TV-3 reporter Len Besthof and arranged to hold a second interview that will air on 11:00PM (EST) late night news for your Nutmeggers who are up at that hour tonight.
For you global Internet talk show junkies you can listen to this story of Islamic fundamentalism run riot in local community colleges here in the US by going to the Tovia Singer show on Israel national radio at: www.toviasingershow.com. Among the persons on the segment from 10:30PM to 11:15PM EDST in the USA will be Mike Meunier of the US Copts, Michael Abdelmessih (the aggrieved party), Lee Kaplan, contributing editor at FrontPageMagazine, and moi.
Len Besthof lingered after the interview and made an interesting observation: "Do you think, Michael, that you were done in by two radical fundamentalist Muslim women faculty members?" His response was "Yes!"
Were his First Amendment free speech rights and academic freedom violated? Big time.
Are we going to fight this? You bet.
Watch and listen in and wonder why this country is susceptible to an insidious cultural Jihad by Muslim fundamentalists in the lower depths of our public educational system.
Manchester Community College relies on money from taxpayers, who may not wish to fund Fatma Antar and her supporters. Why should they?
It will be up to Connecticut State representatives, properly apprised of the matter, and given detailed information about te whole dismal affair, to demand that those who attempted, without success, to intimidate Michael Abdelmessih are terminated. And those who fired Michael Abdelmessih should be asked to explain themselves, and then let go as well. And this can continue up the chain, depending on who wishes to continue to stand up for this kind of silencing of an instructor for suggesting something of which he has personal experience, and for which the evidence is overwhelming.
If you seek to find out more about the kind of prayers denouncing Infidels that young Egyptian children are routinely taught, simply start with Edward Lane's Customs and Manners of the Modern Egyptians. Or simply google "Edward Lane" and "prayers" and "Andrew Bostom" (the author of an article that includes samples of these prayers) and see what you come up with.
Sadly this attitude is prevalent in most American universities. People rally to support the Ward Churchill type of "professor", who can freely rant against America and mock the 9/11 victims under the cloak of "academic freedom". But apparently that cloak is not available to anyone daring to criticize Islam like Michael Abdelmessih. Such is the hypocrisy of academia today. And your tax dollars go towards such subsidizing such egregious behavior
ISLAM IS NOT IN ANY RUSH, THEY WILL PICK OF PEOPLE ONE AT A TIME
THEN ONE DAY MUSLIMS RUN THE SCHOOLS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
More power to him but unless Michael Abdelmessih is a far left liberal the ACLU won’t help. The ACLU will always side with leftist academia and since professor Abdelmessih is also…GASP! Christian this will go nowhere. He needs to start sending our resumes. He can do better than MCC.
I believe the best and the only quality of muslims is PATIENCE...
After their ancestors have spent immemorial times in the monotony of the desert,for them,the time is irrelevant.'
If they have to wait a year,or ten,or maybe a century for their Kilafa,they don`t mind,but they maintain their resiliency and determination...something that people in western countries lack.
Prim and PeeCee New England! I'll bet that Abdelmassih's crime against grammar was, after having had rules of number agreement beaten into him by female teachers, he wrote something like "If someone is in trouble, you should help him" rather than "If someone is in trouble, you should help them", and thus proving himself an MCP as well.
I hope the ACLU does live up to its name on this one. If not, I hope Abdelmassih gets a lawyer who will [figuratively] take Manchester Community College by the heels and sweep the courtroom floor with its hair.
Michael made comments which can be fought over and debated and refuted with words and intellect.
This woman MADE A DEATH THREAT and yet he is the one who is punished.
It is truly Orwellian, that a Copt is persecuted even in America by a Jihad minded Islamic fundamentalist who masquerades as a liberal.
It is cases like this that hit a raw nerve and expose many issues. If you push it, you cant take it national, and it becomes a test case exemplifying the insidiousness of Jihad-Fascism, it becomes a Dreyfus case.
Top of the campaign should be the constant reiteration that this sinister woman made a Jihadic death threat to Michael.
Michael made comments which can be fought over and debated and refuted with words and intellect.
This woman MADE A DEATH THREAT and yet he is the one who is punished.
It is truly Orwellian, that a Copt is persecuted even in America by a Jihad minded Islamic fundamentalist who masquerades as a liberal.
It is cases like this that hit a raw nerve and expose many issues. If you push it, you cant take it national, and it becomes a test case exemplifying the insidiousness of Jihad-Fascism, it becomes a Dreyfus case.
Top of the campaign should be the constant reiteration that this sinister woman made a Jihadic death threat to Michael.
To Reiterate:
The Leftist Academia’s islam propaganda machine. It's the perfect Anti-Science: Mention only the facts that back you up, ignore contradictory data, vilify anyone that questions you, stamp out calls for reform, repeat the lies again and again, and eventually you will win. ~ kj
The distinction between education and indoctrination:
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17621
We must take back our schools. What those two are (so far) getting away with, only serves to further the goals of the Leftist Elite who have been indoctrinating the upcoming generations for nearly 30 years. It is going to take a Loong time to reverse these anti-Western, anti-US teachings.
I would be grateful for URLs and other details that might make it easier to follow and support the actions on behalf of Michael Abdelmessih. I saw links on the other page to the opponents of MA but I have seen only names ("Jerry Gordon") of those working with him. If I missed the links perhaps someone can post a summary or a recap for inattentive folks like me. Perhaps someone could even create a web page that is a directory of such links, and news as it becomes available. I know the U.S. Copts have a web site but I don't have the link at hand. How about links to the bureaucratic layers above the community college? to the relevant ACLU chapter? Academic freedom folks of various stripes?
Pilgrim
An afterthought. If I hired someone to teach Arabic, I would be much more concerned about his Arabic grammar than his English grammar.
Pilgrim
@Cross: "More power to him but unless Michael Abdelmessih is a far left liberal the ACLU won’t help."
If the ACLU doesn't help, today Michael Abdelmessih has some other options:
ACLJ - American Center for Law and Justice
FIRE - Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
And there may be additional organizations out there.