He was inundated with threats. He was denounced as a traitor. He was vilified and excoriated. Why? Did he advocate violence in the name of Islam, thereby twisting and hijacking the Religion of Peace? No, he took students on a field trip to Auschwitz to teach tolerance and empathy. The guardians of the “‘Palestinians’ are innocent victims of a genocidal apartheid Jewish State” myth couldn’t stand for that.
“Palestinian professor resigns over students’ trip to Auschwitz,” by Inna Lazareva, the Telegraph, June 8, 2014:
A Palestinian professor who took his students on a field trip to Auschwitz has resigned from his post following months-long campaign of death threats, campus riots and intimidation against him.
Prof Mohammed Dajani, head of the American Studies Department and director of the library at Al Quds University, was denounced as a “traitor” and “collaborator” by some of his colleagues, students and members of the public, after he organised the trip to the site of the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. It was announced that Prof Dajani was also “fired” from the university staff union, despite never having joined the organisation in the first place.
27 Palestinian students attended the trip in March as part of a project to learn more about the Holocaust and teach tolerance and empathy. The programme, run in conjunction with an Israeli and a German university, also took Israeli students on trips to meet Palestinians living in refugee camps.
Prof Dajani condemned the campaign of “incitement” directed against him in an interview with Israeli daily Haaretz, saying that he submitted his resignation as “a litmus test to see whether the university administration supports academic freedom and freedom of action and of expression as they claim, or not”. He said he had hoped the university president would “take a stand” by refusing to accept his resignation.
“I put my job on the line to expose the double-talk we live”, Prof Dajani told Haaretz. “We say we are for democracy and we practice autocracy, we say we are for freedom of speech and academic freedom, yet we deny people to practice it”.
Relations between Al Quds University and Israel deteriorated sharply following the Israel-Gaza war in 2008. In recent years, the university has been criticised for increasingly turning a blind eye to demonstrations glorifying violence on its campus. In March 2014, Al Quds University President Sari Nusseibeh resigned after masked pro-Hamas demonstrators carrying replica rockets and lauding attacks on Israel held several rallies on university grounds.
John C. Barile says
Academic freedom, democracy, free speech and pluralism? Apparently not.
Virulent anti-Semitism, genocidal aspirations, and tyranny? Yes.
I’m glad that there is a dim flicker of rationality and decency in Judenrein “Palestine.”
Jacksonl03 says
And we wonder why there are no peaceful, moderate, fair minded Muslims speaking the truth or condemning atrocities or advocating fairness or making friends with non Muslims or . . . .
Well, this incident certainly clears things up: In Islam, the religion of peace, they’d get killed if they did.
Kepha says
Look at the bright side. Prof. Dajani got 27 Arab students to go on the field trip. Maybe they’re willing to learn something about the other side. Perhaps next, they’ll talk to some elderly Iraqi, Moroccan, Libyan, Egyptian, Yemeni, Iranian, or Afghan Jews who might talk about what it was like to grow up as 2d class Dhimmi citizens of lands where their people had lived long before Islam came along. Such people are, after all, the parents and grandparents of the slight majority of Israeli Jews.
I’ll give Mohammad Dajani the benefit of the doubt for now.
BC says
Dr Dajani is a very courageous human being. However I would like to know what happened to the students who went on the trip. Were they persecuted as traitors as well?
I think any Muslim who tries to see the other point of view or even questions Islam is a traitor to most Muslims
gravenimage says
Kepha, I don’t believe that Mr. Spencer is implying that there is any problem with the decent actions of Professor Dajani, but rather of the death threats he has received and the complete lack of support from his Islamic university.
Kepha says
Agreed, gravenimage and a few others. I said I was looking on the bright side here. Dajani and his students made an honest effort to look at the other side.
As for what was done to Dajanii (NOT by him), I think it despicable.
PJG says
There’s that word again: “tolerance”. Was it “intolerance” which caused the Holocaust and will it be “tolerance” which prevents another Holocaust? No, it was not “intolerance”, it was pure hatred. There is a big difference. I suppose all academics have to use this terminology – or maybe it was the journalist rather than the academic.
Intolerance is not in itself a bad thing, when it is a healthy reaction to evil. But I see too much tolerance around for all manner of things we should vigorously oppose, such as the halal certification racket, the corruption of councils which bend council rules to allow mosque-building, the lies told in “Islamic” museum exhibitions and in our schools, fake “asylum seekers”, you name it.
voegelinian says
Schizophrenic Stockholm Syndrome: i.e., the absolute best one can expect from a mind deformed by islam. This professor still reveres Muhammad, the monster who is the source of everything threatening his life.
thomas_h says
“I put my job on the line to expose the double-talk we live”, Prof Dajani told Haaretz. “We say we are for democracy and we practice autocracy, we say we are for freedom of speech and academic freedom, yet we deny people to practice it”.
Is that “mind deformed by Islam“? or “Schizophrenic Stockholm Syndrome”?
I suspect the man has more courage than I could manage to muster had I lived in the hell he does. Do you think you would be able to openly come up with the statement even remotely as courageous as Mr. Dajani if you lived in Ramallah?
Well, I really don’t think so, even though your mind doesn’t appear to have been “deformed by Islam”.
Saleem Smith says
The local “Palestinian” Muslims will likely declare the professor an apostate and demand he be put to death for considering the holocaust to be a real thing.
We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Islam is a complete fraud.
The “Palestinian Muslims” will only be satisfied with the total annihilation of the State of Israel and the Jewish people despite what they say to the Islamophilic media.
Muslims tend to believe what is written in the Qur’an and Muhammad’s Sunnah and unless they abandon Islam there will likely be many more dead Jews in future unfortunately.
Hadith, Sahih Muslim, Book 041, No. 6985:
“Abu Huraira reported Allah’s messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.”
Quran, 5:82
Surely you will find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah;
Hadith, Bukhari, Vol. 4, Book 53, No. 392:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
While we were in the Mosque, the Prophet came out and said, “Let us go to the Jews” We went out till we reached Bait-ul-Midras. He said to them, “If you embrace Islam, you will be safe. You should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and I want to expel you from this land. So, if anyone amongst you owns some property, he is permitted to sell it, otherwise you should know that the Earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle.”
Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:
“One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…
The statement continues,
Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified. ”
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Main_Page
citycat says
Who ever heard of such a thing as democracy and freedom in Islam?
Well at least some students seen something different to their Islamic conditioning.
mariam rove says
Exactly. There seems to be a little hope here. M
eib says
Again, every Muslim claim on democracy and freedom is a mockery of these things, and should provoke instant contempt from every Westerner.
richard Sherman says
Muslims actually “love” the Holocaust. Muhammad perpetrated the first Holocaust when he PERSONALLY DECAPITATED 900 UNARMED JEWS of the Banu Quarayza tribe. Hitler simply copied what MUHAMMAD did to the JEWS. That is why there was such a close relationship between the Muslims led by the Grand Mufti and the Nazis.
JIMJFOX says
For Chrisake Richard, don’t persist with lies. It debases your opinions.
Muhammad ORDERED the decapitation of the Banu Quarayza, he did not/COULD NOT (probably) behead them ALL himself.
Several accounts note Muhammad’s companions as executioners, Ali and Al-Zubayr in particular, and that each clan of the Aws was also charged with killing a group of Qurayza men.[28][52]
Try to keep to the facts, as best we know them.
Saleem Smith says
Sharia law for “Palestine” !!!!!
After all, who wouldn’t want to live life according to Islamic law?
Champ says
Death threats? Murder and mayhem? …yeah islam and ‘mob rule’ go hand in hand!
EYESOPEN says
I do give this professor credit for trying.
mariam rove says
same here. Also those students who opted to go and their families as well. m
thomas_h says
Same here
london jim says
Hello. Test.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The test case has been running for 1,400 yrs now, London Jim. The results are in, and they ain’t good. For us Infidels, at least.
Jay Boo says
Where is the human rights outcry from Muslims on this.
Where is their moral indignation.
Good morning Muslim world.
It is time to wake up from Islam’s nightmare.
The world of light awaits.
Jay Boo says
I am beginning to suspect that Muslim leaders are scheming two-faced hypocrites.
eib says
No different from their false prophet. The ultimate two-faced coin.
dadd says
Because it never happened as far as imams are concerned, and here is the site it did, and you don’t question islam. The last thing islam needs is muslims who saw the lies of islam, and were exposed to light and truth. These are not tools Satan uses.
Dennis Trisker says
Prof. Dajani did a brave and honest act. I am surprised at the reaction of some of the commentators on this website. It seems that some peope cannot see beyond the religious name of a person. Many Muslims only call themselves such because of birth. Otherwise they only want to get on with their life. The Professor should be lauded for going against the stream!
voegelinian says
“Many Muslims only call themselves such because of birth. Otherwise they only want to get on with their life. ”
How many? Where are they? How can you identify them as such?
Questions which no one of Dennis Trisker’s persuasion ever answers adequately enough for our #1 priority — the safety of our societies from a metastasizing global revival of Islamic jihad.
eib says
Important, important questions! How many? Indeed!!!
The claims of most Muslims to civilization, tolerance, social justice, egalitarianism and peace should be viewed with unbridled and loud contempt.
Jay Boo says
@voegelinian
It appears that Robert Spencer does not support your all Muslims are subhuman meme voeg
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/kenya-muslim-cleric-accused-of-not-supporting-jihad-teaching-shot-dead
Jay Boo says
“How many? Where are they?”
voegelinian says
Where have I said “all Muslims are subhuman”?
Put up, or shut up.
PJG says
In defence of Voegelinian/Hesperado: he is merely saying we do not know and cannot know which Muslims are harmless and which are not.
This is the fundamental problem, as we allow more and more Muslims to enter our lands, and hope for the best.
I have been helping a friend with his “Counter-terrorism” university assignment. The police have a problem with Muslims who are unco-operative in counter-terrorism investigations. The article to be discussed in the essay proposes that police improve their methods of interrogation, bearing in mind the importance of “respect and dignity” towards angry and resentful Muslims who don’t like being targeted.
Incredibly (well, not), the writers propose that we change our procedures and laws in deference to Muslim “anger”, in the hope that terrorism will be avoided. In other words, submit to Islam to avoid trouble. Even though we don’t know how many Muslims are “angry”. Just a few are enough, apparently, for our lawyers to consider changing our laws.
The police are being used to take the responsibility for Muslim rage and bend over to accommodate it. Of course we all pay. But how many angry Muslims does it take for our “peace-loving” governments to change the laws ? Who knows? Hundreds? Five or six? Why validate their anger?
Jay Boo says
@voegelinian
I must admit the professor did not condemn the prophet Muhammad before all his neighbors but honestly would you do that?
Risking his career and possibly his life, Prof Mohammed Dajanitook took Palestinian students from the Holocaust denying land of (East Jerusalem?) on a field trip to Auschwitz to teach tolerance and empathy.
The “Muslim” did a good thing in spite of being a Muslim.
voegelinian says
“In defence of Voegelinian/Hesperado: he is merely saying we do not know and cannot know which Muslims are harmless and which are not.”
Not only do I say that:
”
…a fact that we have pointed out many, many times at Jihad Watch: there is no reliable way to distinguish jihadists from peaceful Muslims…
…what we have pointed out many times over the years: that there is no reliable way to distinguish between Islamic “extremists” and Islamic “moderates”…
Robert Spencer wrote those in two different Jihad Watch articles years ago. If one does the math one would multiple the two instances by the “many, many times” avowed therein. If one then applies elementary reason to that fact of our lack of knowledge, we are faced with the broader fact that, on the macro level (the only level our general safety concerns) there are only two responses to this most disturbing lack of certainty:
1) recognize that we cannot tell the difference, but go ahead and give innumerable Muslims the benefit of the doubt;
or
2) 1) recognize that we cannot tell the difference, but put our society’s safety above our ethical narcissism to feel better about ourselves by refraining from the hard choice of #1.
We see the apparent fault line among those in the Counter-Jihad in threads like this among, reflecting a broader division in the Counter-Jihad — between those who care more about their ethical narcissism than they do about the safety of their societies. Sitting on this ever-growing mountain of horrible data (viz., “Jihad Watch”) about Islam and about Muslims, I find the JW Softies to be outrageously offensive in their evident inability to digest the full horror of these thousands of articles they have, over the years, been reading and commenting on. The victims of Islam cry out, and the JW Softies desperately grasp at straws looking for the Moderate Needle in the haystack, while the one that broke the camel’s back long ago should have buried that futile search.
voegelinian says
Correction — delete that “1)” from the “2)”
mariam rove says
I am surprised at the reaction of some of the …
Same here.
london jim says
Amen to that, Dennis.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Oh poor Prof Mohammed. He tried to buttress his Moslem teachings with a reality-based fact or two, and his students, followers of the same belief system, are so outraged that they’re threatening violence on him.
Welcome to your religion Islam, professor. And, as they say, you can look it up.
Jay Boo says
What would you do different if you grew up in an Islamic country APF
Draw Muhammad cartoons?
Jay Boo says
@ APF furthermore, I suspect that you would probably run away screaming and screeching “please don’t hurt me” like a little girly when confronted by Islamist fanatics but I can’t blame you because I would probably be running two steps ahead of you doing the same thing.
So just give the man his due credit.
Let’s not be petty like the lowly prophet Muhammad
PJG says
Jay Boo asked “What would you do different if you grew up in an Islamic country APF
Draw Muhammad cartoons?”
If I grew up in such a country and had the chance and the money, I would leave. If not, I would do what some other Muslims do, and ignore Islam as much as possible. Train as an optician or musician or something. Stay away from the mosque and certain university departments. Being brave isn’t for everyone, but being a more-or-less fanatical Islam-promoter isn’t the only alternative for the Muslim trapped in his Muslim country.
eib says
Quote:
Prof Mohammed Dajani, head of the American Studies Department and director of the library at Al Quds University, was denounced as a “traitor” and “collaborator” by some of his colleagues, students and members of the public, after he organised the trip to the site of the Nazi concentration camp in Poland.
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I am honored and pleased to pray for this wise and caring man who has paid an unjust price for his knowledge and perspective.
Lord Jesus Christ, you see him and his community does not. Bring him dignity somewhere on this earth, a place in this world where he may teach and share his thoughts. Shield him from cruelty. Help him fare well in the future.
Kepha says
And let us say “Amen”.
dumbledoresarmy says
Pray that the twinges of cognitive dissonance he may be experiencing – dissonance such as people like “Mark Gabriel” (author of “Islam and Terrorism” and Magdi Cristiano Allam (who *before* his exit from Islam had already visited Israel and written a book called “Viva Israele”) experienced *before* their public apostasy – may continue, and get stronger, and unstoppably resolve into 1/ recognition that Mohammed and Mohammed’s teachings are in fact evil and false and then, therefore, 2/ outright apostasy from Islam. Pray that the soul-eater, ‘allah’, the arab demon of blood and war, may be *exorcised* from his body, mind and spirit.
such a prayer will do no harm and might do a lot of good.
Remember Walid Shoebat.
voegelinian says
Dajani also seems to be heavily burdened by that kind of self-righteous pride one sees so typically in the Leftist, arrogantly knowing they are on the side of the angels — the problem here being, of course, that (at best, if he’s only schizophrenic) his heart and mind are following both an angel and a demon, yet he has this self-righteous sense that both are angels. This would be, in effect, the Leftist twist on that species of Muslim slowly, torturously molting out of his spiritual Gulag.
Meanwhile, these malformed missing links of Islamic Evolution morphing back into the human race are a distraction to our main priority — the safety of our men, women and children.
gravenimage says
“Palestinian” prof resigns after death threats for taking students to Auschwitz
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More of Islam’s twisted relationship to the Holocaust, where pious Muslims both deny that it ever happened and at the same time taunt Jews with the specter of “finishing the job” and chants like “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas!”, and revere Adolph Hitler as the architect of the “final solution”.
More, also, of the way devout Muslims react to *anything* they don’t like—with death threats and violence.
I feel badly for what happened to Professor Dajani, but I am hardly surprised by it. Even after his resignation, I hope he can stay safe from his vicious coreligionists.
God, I hate Islam.
voegelinian says
And I hope graven reads the evidence I found above about Dajani.
gravenimage says
Voegelinian wrote:
And I hope graven reads the evidence I found above about Dajani.
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Voegelinian, I not only read your posts, I did my own further research here:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/06/palestinian-prof-resigns-after-death-threats-for-taking-students-to-auschwitz/comment-page-1#comment-1075932
This is another case—of which there are so very many in Islam—where pious Muslims routinely accuse other pious Muslims—or even out-and-out Jihadists—with being “insufficiently Islamic”, with the predictable ensuing death threats or worse.
voegelinian says
By the way, when you read Dajani’s website and read some of the students’ words who went on his field trip to Auschwitz, you get glimpses of a problem. Example, one student said he liked the idea of taking the field trip, so that he could get a different perspective on the Holocaust from the usual narrative that the Israelis push. Hmmm…
citycat says
Bernard Manning the comedian got “the realm of deconstructionism” down to a fine tee.
“First there was a muslim, then there wasn’t”
Deconstructionism- the new religion?
citycat says
Hmmm…. Yeah maybe a student or visitor could build up a tolerance to the residue of evil and therefore to the ongoing propagation of YKW
voegelinian says
This is a test for large print.
voegelinian says
This is another test for hopefully very large font.
voegelinian says
Yet another test for come on now, bigger font size.