As the incomparable Daniel Greenfield puts it, #OnlyTerroristLivesMatter.” Neel Ahuja is identified in this College Fix article as “an associate professor of English, comparative literature, and geography at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.” However, UNC’s website lists him more specifically as “associate professor of postcolonial studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC.” “Postcolonial studies”: that’s as likely to present a positive or even fair view of the United States of America as the Department of “Queer Theory” is to present a course entitled The Wisdom of Pat Robertson.
“According to Ahuja’s Blinkness rating page – which is similar to Rate My Professors but specific to Chapel Hill – he seems to be popular with his students, and received generally positive reviews. However, several students also warned not to disagree with Ahuja, especially in a graded assignment.” Of course. UNC, like virtually all major universities today, is not a center of higher learning, but a center of far-Left indoctrination, and woe unto you if you dare get out of step. UNC is a particularly ugly and virulent center of this indoctrination, employing the likes of Carl Ernst, who has won an award from the genocidally antisemitic Islamic Republic of Iran for his work on whitewashing Islamic jihad, and Omid Safi, the desperately dishonest Islamic supremacist who has since moved on to even greener dawah opportunities at nearby Duke. In any case, I’m sure that UNC’s embarrassment at having me as an alumnus is outstripped only by my disgust at having gone there. But nowhere else would the situation have been significantly different.
Of the dismal and one-sided offerings in this propaganda session masquerading as a college class, the only one I have read is The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Speaking of regrets, I was sorry I had wasted my time. The book was an extended exercise in grievance-mongering, intending to show how U.S. policies were driving thoughtful, reasonable people to become jihad terrorists. Despite the word “fundamentalist” in the title, there was little in the book about Islamic texts and teachings, and what effect they could have upon a devout believer. No, it was all the fault of the big bad U.S.
Neither Neel Ahuja nor UNC is some egregious anomaly. This is what most all college and university students are learning today, all over the country. How will that work out in twenty or thirty years, unless there is some massive change? With a country voluntarily surrendered to and subjugated by its enemies — delivered over to them by leaders who didn’t think there was, in America and Judeo-Christian civilization, anything worth defending.
“UNC’s ‘Literature of 9/11’ course sympathizes with terrorists, paints U.S. as imperialistic,” by Alec Dent, The College Fix, August 28, 2015 (thanks to Elizabeth):
An English class offered at UNC Chapel Hill this fall called “Literature of 9/11” explores the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks from the perspective of radical Islamists and those who view America as an imperialist nation.
The reading assignments for the class, which includes poems, memoirs and graphic novels, present terrorists in a sympathetic light and American political leaders as greedy, war hungry and corrupt, according to a review by The College Fix.
The readings mostly focus on justifying the actions of terrorists – painting them as fighting against an American regime, or mistaken idealists, or good people just trying to do what they deem right. None of the readings assigned in the freshman seminar present the Sept. 11 attacks from the perspective of those who died or from American families who lost loved ones.
“ENGL 72: Literature of 9/11” is taught by Neel Ahuja, an associate professor of English, comparative literature, and geography at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill….
As for “Literature of 9/11,” its online description states it aims to “explore representations of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath in literature and popular culture.”To that end, the class covers a wide variety of readings, according to a list detailed by the campus bookstore’s website.
In the Shadow of No Towers by Speigelman
Poems from Guantanamo: Detainees Speak by Falkoff
Reluctant Fundamentalist by Hamid
Sand Opera by Metres
Sirens of Baghdad (Trans Cullen) by Khadra
Stuff Happens by Hare
In the Shadow of No Towers is a collection of 9/11 comics by celebrated graphic artist Art Speigelman, who witnessed the attacks from his home in lower Manhattan. None of his family died in the attack, but Speigelman told Democracy Now he felt anger at how the incident was turned into a patriotic rallying cry, and his Towers work is an extension of those emotions.
The horrors his family survived that morning “were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish was quickly displaced by fury at the U.S. government, which shamelessly co-opted the events for its own preconceived agenda,” according to the book’s Amazon description.
Poems from Guantanamo: Detainees Speak is a collection of poems penned by Guantanamo detainees; The Reluctant Fundamentalist is the fictional tale of a successful Pakistani in America who gradually comes to believe America is imperialistic and evil; Sand Opera is a collection of poems on torture, race and war; The Sirens of Baghdad is a thriller depicting a good man turning into a terrorist; and Stuff Happens – taking a line from Donald Rumsfeld – is an anti-war, anti-government, anti-military play that mixes fact with fiction in its dramatic interpretation of the decision to invade Iraq.
According to the course’s online description, “following an introduction to the concept of terrorism and to the production of knowledge about political violence in the fields of law, politics, religious studies, and terrorism studies, we will explore a diverse array of themes related to the 9/11 attacks and the ‘war on terror’ as depicted in memoirs, poetry, novels, public art, graphic novels, film, and music: explanations of the causes and consequences of political violence; the role of religion in public culture and state institutions; national security discourse; mourning, trauma, and public memorials; depictions of the US military in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan; and the perspectives of detainees and minority communities on the attacks and their aftermath.”
According to Ahuja’s Blinkness rating page – which is similar to Rate My Professors but specific to Chapel Hill – he seems to be popular with his students, and received generally positive reviews. However, several students also warned not to disagree with Ahuja, especially in a graded assignment.
An online database of professor salaries maintained by the News & Observer states Ahuja’s annual salary is $72,100.
cs says
It looks as this was taken from a comic sketch of Monty Python, but it is the real deal, people went mad on the campus. The lost contact with reality, about completely.
jihad3tracker says
HERE IS PROFESSOR AHUJA’S BLOG — AND IT HAS WHAT EVERY GOOD PRO-ISLAM WEBSITE SHOULD CONTAIN . . .
Check this out with your own eyeballs : http://neelahuja.blogspot.com/
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cs says
I think I just read a typical goat abuser indulging in self victimization as usual. This being teaches something at a university? Really?
RonaldB says
This is one of the most mediocre blogs I have ever seen.
Karen says
An assemblage of sameness; the usual simpleton, broken-record, dishonest, boring viewpoints; ‘X’ good, America bad, the devil made me do it.
Jaladhi says
Neel Ahuja is of Hindu origin whose ancestors were brutalized, raped, beheaded, converted by Muslim invaders in India. With such a background one would think he will understand Muslims and their supremacist and genocidal culture and behavior. Alas, that is not be for that happens when people forget their own history. Us is going through exactly the same transformation for which there will be price to pay!
daniel sebold says
He is right at the top of the English and Comparative Literature web page. It would be interesting to see where he got his Ph D from. So many universities in the States are awarding watered down English Ph D’s to non native speakers these days.
If he is incapable of hiding his biases, if he is incapable of evaluating a work on its literary merits alone–these degrees no longer hold any real value in the work place and should be discontinued. Young people badly need to be taught how to think rationally and scientifically, and English departments with half of their professors being Christian creationists or Muslim apologists are intellectually worthless domains. How could any thinking person stand to be around these people for any length of time?
Robert Spencer says
“English departments with half of their professors being Christian creationists…”
Where is that true, anywhere in the country? Certainly not at UNC, either when I was there or now.
Mirren10 says
” Young people badly need to be taught how to think rationally and scientifically, and English departments with half of their professors being Christian creationists … ”
And you know this, how ?
Thinking rationally and scientifically, you’re obliged to provide evidence for what you say, rather than making assertions. Evidence please.
Waiting.
Mo says
@ daniel sebold
“Young people badly need to be taught how to think rationally and scientifically, and English departments with half of their professors being Christian creationists or Muslim apologists are intellectually worthless domains.”
“English departments with half of their professors being Christian creationists”
Provide the evidence. (And how dare you lump Christians in with Muslims, as though they teach the same things? You know you’ve never read either the Bible nor the Koran in your life, much less compared the two.)
When you’re done with that evidence, provide the evidence of where “Christian creationists” are slaughtering people around the world in obedience to the Bible, encouraging others to do so, or condoning others who do it.
Do not ignore me. People such as yourself love to spew their accusations and then disappear. Provide your evidence.
Don Foss says
Scratch UNC of the list of possible universities I will help to pay for my kid’s education.
Don Foss says
Fort Bragg is nearby. How about for just two weeks we enroll an ODA (Alpha team) from the 7th Special Forces into this class? They can get back to Bragg after the professor submits his resignation.
Jay Boo says
You have obviously never been to liberal Chapel Hill NC
I can only imagine the horror of being surrounded by a pack of smug Leftist sheeple as they glare looks of disapproval. I see images of them wagging their fingers in unison after suddenly being emboldened at the thought of stealing the moral high ground behind a veil of political correctness.
Oh the humanity!
Mirren10 says
I just , really, have *no* words to describe this sort of mindset.
It really is just * unbelievable*.
Three thousand innocent people were *murdered* by fucking *monsters*, and this is transmogified into a situation where the victims, their families, their children, are transformed into the *protagonists* !!
But I suppose I shouldn’t be so astonished, and horrified.
This is the sick mindset of the left.
I’ve just been reading “The collected letters of Jessica Mitford”. In one of her letters, she describes the experience of being ‘almost’ raped, by someblack bloke. She describes how she was held down in a ditch, and then describes how the only worry she had was that she, if murdered, wouldn’t be able to read the newspapers the next day.
Then she goes on to make absolutely gobsmacking excuses for her attacker, , it’s just totally surreal.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Say, this is the Spencer’s school, that campus is where he learned Arabic. Seeing this tells me that not only the hoops program has gone down.
American says
So, what is anyone doing about this?
Davegreybeard says
@daniel sebold
“Young people badly need to be taught how to think rationally and scientifically, and English departments with half of their professors being Christian creationists or Muslim apologists are intellectually worthless domains.”
“…half of their professors being Christian creationists…” Right.
What is it about atheists and their blind, rabid hatred of Christians?
Tim says
“According to Ahuja’s Blinkness rating page he seems to be popular with his students…”
His name indicates he is from India. I therefore have as little trust in the accuracy of his reviews as I have in his weather forecast. As we say in the UK: If an Indian says it rains outside, I would go check and verify before I would believe a word.
Reviews are often purchased by people from his country (they always do it) just like their degrees, before they come to the West.
Know Thy Enemy says
Do some basic research before you write. According to a webpage on UNC’s web domain (link below), Neel grew up in Topeka, Kansas and went to US based universities for higher education. That rules out him having “purchased” his reviews or degrees!
Know Thy Enemy says
…. oops, forgot to post the link- http://ahuja.web.unc.edu/about/
Davegreybeard says
For Robert, if you’re still here, the title of the course “911 Literature,” begs the question why isn’t there a “Literature of the Counter-Jihad” course?
I would be overseen by you of course and have many guest lecturers. And if not you, there must be someone?
Davegreybeard says
Typo alert:
The first word in my last sentence above should be “It” not “I,” I have no pretensions as to be in any way qualified to be responsible for such a project
Angemon says
Which is no different, in nature, to justifying rape on the basis of the victim’s clothing or demeanor.
bullfrogger says
Really want to know how it all plays out? Just look at California where the left controls all minds from toddler to adulthood . The liberals , unions , and press have conspired for years to dictate the type of individual likely to reach adulthood in the state through the school system and their success has surely exceeded their most wild expectations . Except for the underpopulated north and the mostly rural San Juaquin valley , it is next to impossible to elect a republican to any state office . They now have this state in the grasp of a huge boa constrictor . Every time the right exhales , the left squeezes tighter . Make no mistake , If they thought they could finish us off they would do it without a second thought . Their sick , disgusting , flagrant , corruption of a state larger than most countries is how it all plays out and i would love to hear how the pendulum has any chance of swinging back the other way by peaceful means .