There are still so many people who maintain the innocence of Sami Al-Arian; for them I recommend careful study of this article, "Indictment Details Paper Trail," from the Tampa Tribune (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
Sami Al-Arian sat with a blank expression, bowing his head, as a cleric described him as the leader of the Islamic Committee for Palestine, ``the active arm of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine.''It was 1991, and U.S. troops were fighting the Persian Gulf War in Iraq and Kuwait. Al-Arian, a Palestinian born in Kuwait, was in Cleveland for a fundraiser.
Al-Arian stepped to the lectern. Holding a microphone in his left hand, he gestured emphatically with his right, lecturing the audience in Arabic about the ``oppressive war,'' asking, ``Why did we stop'' the protests?
``Let us damn America!'' he fumed, according to a U.S. government translation of the videotaped event. ``Let us damn Israel! Let us damn their allies until death!''
The next year, Al-Arian, a popular computer science professor, was granted tenure at the University of South Florida.
Read it all.
Is this tape "top secret"?
Will someone please explain how come the university gave him his job?
Would they have ignored this or similar information?
It's amazing how some of these people get jobs without much scrutiny. In California,USA,anyone seeking employment for most any state position, must undergo a rigorous background check, credit check, arrest record, conviction record, driving record and drug test.
Many in the private sector require the same, even for low level jobs like janitor ect.
That universities seem to ignore those items when hiring seems out of kilter considering that you have to pass a drug test in California, just to clean a toilet.
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_TERRORISTS?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME
check this out!
The "basic human rights" Al-Arian fights for apply only to Muslims. He has demonstrated on numerous occasions in speeches that he has no interest in promoting the extension of basic human rights to Infidels.
And as we all know from their own mouths we learn that they consider all Israelis, men, women, children, elderly and the infirm, as legitimate "military" targets. The "innocents" she refers to are Muslim bystanders who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Only a defense lawyer of a bona fide terrorist living in a parallel universe could convolute his thinking so much to even suggest that suicide bombing could be justified under any circumstance.
There is so much to say in response to the information in this article. Al-Arian and many others are using U.S. soil to fight battles in lands that there were supposed to abandon when coming to America as immigrants hoping for a new life. In doing so they are violating the terms of citizenship and other U.S. laws as well as putting the rest of us at risk.
Islamists notoriously care nothing for the well being of the populations that they are invading. They have come for conquest, manipulating the laws of the U.S. that are favorable to immigrants against the mainstream population. They have no intention of becoming Americans or citizens of the West, rather they intend that America and other Western countries cease to exist as a political or cultural entity, becoming part of the international Islamic movement that they are pushing.
They may explain themselves but they can not be allowed to justify their actions that are in violation to U.S. law nor to manipulate the laws of the United States to their advantage.
"Al-Arian's daughter, Laila, testified at a bail hearing after her father's arrest that... her father believed the killing of innocent people was "abhorrent". "
-- That's an easy problem to fix: simply re-define what "innocent" means: all Israeli citizens are really guilty soldiers, not innocent civilians; by extension, all infidels are really guilty threats to Islam, not innocent civilians.
"Al-Arian's attorneys argued in a court filing, "...the people who have suffered at the hands of this never-ending conflict [in Israel] … have the right to explain even why suicide bombings are justified." "
-- Yes, they are "justified" because all innocent Jewish civilians have been re-defined as guilty.
Chevalier de st george, I believe the confessional statement '"Let us damn America!"' is required for the granting of tenure at most American univesities now....or at least one would almost have to conclude that given the projected ethos from many American universities.
Re: Dilophos' observation: American Leftists (and Western Leftists in general) in their sincere enthusiasm to do good often err by conceptualizing a paradigm for diagnosis & change that attenuates the line between
1) reasonable amelioration of defects
and
2) quasi-mystical transfiguration of nature in order to purge primal evils and eradicate imperfection.
The conceptual attenuation of that line then invites too many Leftist do-gooders to cross over from #1 to #2, either without realizing they are doing so (perhaps a John Kerry), or while cleverly knowing they are doing so but disingenuously claiming they are not (a Ward Churchill or a Noam Chomsky).
A good article
It Doesn’t Stop. Ever.
We need to be careful about allowing Muslim ownership of land, particularly if such ownership can be used to justify, however obliquely, statements such as Osama bin Laden’s. And, harsh as it may sound, we need to check our cemeteries too. The principles behind the dispute over the ownership of the Taj Mahal may, one day, extend to land here in the United States.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/
Universities employing terrorist supporters and sympathizers? Man, what a shocker.
What still amazes me is how any right minded human being doesn't believe in Horowitz's Unholy Alliance between the Do-gooders and Moslems.
And, please, all you Do-gooders out there who feel compelled to deny this point save your breath. Nobody, accept maybe another naiive do-gooder, will respect any of your claims to the contrary.
And, also, my do-gooder friends, please save your breath on saying there are religious right arabists and anti-semites. There are SO few of them compared to the arabist do-gooders on the left that this argument is not credible or worth the space you devoted to type it.