Over at PJ Media I explain how a UNC spokesman claims they “challenge students,” and don’t “advocate one viewpoint over another.” So, will they accept my offer to come debate any professor on the topic, free of charge?
Alec Dent, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, broke the story in The College Fix:
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 course represents virtually everything wrong with American academia today.
The reading list consists entirely of writings by Leftists who view the War on Terror as a massive exercise in American racism and imperialism. Most of the other writings are by Muslims who … view the War on Terror as a massive exercise in American racism and imperialism.
As the incomparable Daniel Greenfield puts it: ”#OnlyTerroristLivesMatter.”
The course’s professor, Neel Ahuja, is identified in the 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 titled “The Wisdom of Pat Robertson.”
Writes Dent:
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 the dismal and one-sided offerings in this propaganda session masquerading as a college class, the only one I have read is Mohsin Hamid’s 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 effects they could have upon a devout believer.
No, it was all the fault of the big bad United States.
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 walk out of step. UNC is a particularly ugly and virulent center of this indoctrination: they employ the likes of Carl Ernst, who has won an award from the genocidally anti-Semitic 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.
I myself am a UNC graduate, and I’m sure that UNC’s embarrassment at having me as an alumnus is outstripped only by my disgust at having gone there.
But this course, and the situation it reflects — is it taught significantly different elsewhere?
Neither Neel Ahuja nor UNC is some egregious anomaly. Most college and university students are learning this 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 America and Judeo-Christian civilization was anything worth defending.
When the furor over this course broke nationwide, UNC tried to save face: Jim Gregory is the director of media relations there, but if that gig doesn’t work out, he really ought to try standup comedy. In defending the university and this nakedly propagandistic course, Gregory says:
Carolina offers academic courses to challenge students — not to advocate one viewpoint over another.
Really?
Then where is the counterpart course to this one, in which students read accounts by 9/11 victims and the relatives of those who were killed?
What courses does UNC offer about the Islamic doctrine of jihad, and the contemporary global jihad?
What courses does UNC offer about Sharia and dhimmitude, in which students read the works of Bat Ye’or?
What courses does UNC offer about the early origins of Islam, in which students read Alphonse Mingana and Christoph Luxenberg?
The reality is that UNC, like most other universities today, does nothing but advocate one viewpoint over another. Dissenting voices are not welcome….
Read the rest here.

Ann Inquirer says
Can’t alumni complain about this? It worked to stop Duke when they were going to broadcast call to prayer from their tower.
Wellington says
Go to this silly young man’s own website and you will find listed such “topics” as Postcolonial Theory, Multiethnic Literature, Transnational Literacy, Disability Studies, Gender and Sexuality, and Ecocriticism. Total barf and bogus material to be sure.
Yes, this silly young man, who is yet another example of what I call a DWD (Dodo With a Doctorate) is dispositive in microcosm of the descent of higher education (now more accurately referred to as “lower education”) in America. He puts forward shit masquerading as something to be seriously considered—-in fact, if a student doesn’t seriously treat with this shit in class and in exams they have a good chance of being marked down by control-freaks like this guy (I feel 99% certain this young fool is not interested in those who oppose his opinions). And parents aplenty pay plenty for their sons and daughters to attend a place of lower education such as UNC, which is full of overeducated fools like this nothing and full of something else as well.
Insane world. Upside-down world. Courtesy of Left-Think, which gets almost everything wrong, is totalitarian in sundry ways (e.g., hate speech codes) and, arguably worst of all, continues to provide cover for Islam, a fellow totalitarian ideology.
Meanwhile, the forces of liberty—–traditional America and Israel—–are treated as enemies #1 and 2 by idiots like this young fool (and with far worse consequences by the fool presently occupying the Oval Office). Makes perfect sense though because a fool like Ahuja has no understanding or respect for liberty. None at all. Those suffused with totalitarian and victim-oriented thinking never do.
Raja says
Wellington,
I like your addressing of DWD but in a more serious vein it is sad that people have lost sight of what is good and what is bad.
In US all the sensible people should oppose this indoctrination of Islam in the guise of “no one thought over other” like they did with the theory of evolution..
If they continued with this evil teaching / full-of-lies teaching they are doomed sooner than later !!!!!
Pride goes before fall !!!!
Lia Wissing says
Surely he also teaches underwater basket weaving? It’s another prime qualification to have.
Angemon says
You’re not supposed to ask that kind of questions. If Chairman Jim says they’re not advocating one viewpoint over another then they’re not advocating one viewpoint over another, and anyone saying otherwise needs to be re-educated…
Linde Barrera says
A New Era in critical thinking would materialize if this debate took place. I can see the marquee sign now: Professor of English 9/11 Radical Islamist Literature, Neel Ahuja debates Director of JihadWatch.org, Robert “Kiss My Cupcakes” Spencer. (Of course, I am prejudiced in favor of Mr. Spencer, as all JW commenters know.)
Sam Hawkins says
So, will they accept my offer to come debate any professor on the topic, free of charge?
Dear Mr. Spencer,
Please excuse the delay in responding to your kind and generous offer.
We look forward to having you as a speaker on our campus.
Due to security concerns, we have scheduled your talk for this coming Sunday 6 am in the broom closet of Why Do They Hate Us Hall.
Refreshments — dishwater and potato peels — will be served.
Please confirm your attendance by return mail.
–Office of the President, UNC
Jay Boo says
We need to teach Muslims about Muhammad’s disgrace.
When Muslims stop being so ego defensive to finally realize what a total buffoon Muhammad was, and how their Islamic vanity is without merit they will mock professors like him themselves.
Raja says
I hope Ahuja is not a converted to Islam. Anyway, you have “professionals”who would defend Islam, the ugly “religion” for job or money.
The surname Ahuja was / is primarily from Sindh province of present day Pakistan. Sind was forcefully converted to Islam and from what I remember thousands got killed/raped. Post independence from Brits the Hindu Sindhi communities crossed over to India in sizable numbers (Millions got killed and millions migrated to either side on the basis of religion around the year 1947, similar to what Greece faced with Turkey).
The Sindhi’s on the Indian side are very industrious and really well off economically.They hate anything Islam. More recently they are converting to Christianity.
To think of this Ahuja being what he is is simply mind boggling.
Alas, we are in the times of “haters of good” (2 Timothy 3:3) What else to expect from self centered people?
Lia Wissing says
II Thessalonians 2: 11.
BC says
It is all stemming from PC. PC was invented in USA, by whom I know not, and is destroying America
before your very eyes. As things American are passionately embraced by the liberals and left in UK and EU it is also destroying them too. There needs to be a movement to eradicate PC everywhere.
The Muslims are also using your precious constitution to destroy you, as they are also using Human Rights legislation in the EU
bernie says
Read the book “Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man” (Clarke and Grady) which talks extensively about this topic, and how many Islamofascist terrorists and extremists have been heavily influenced by certain polemecists of the American Left, such as Michael Moore.
Steve says
This just leftist type of promotion further substantiates Ben Shapiro’s book about brainwashing in academia. It’s just taking it a step further with the progressive promotion of Islamism. I remember having a course in leadership and management at the university about a year ago and the professor invited a muslim get together to one of our classes and fortunately we didn’t have to be exposed to women in burkas. The two representatives that showed up to discuss a few things about business and their country really didn’t have too much to say and seemed to be nice people and perhaps they really were however I could not help but feel that in an academic setting one is a captive audience. In other words, you tend not to always express your true feelings when there’s a grade involved and your professor is in attendance at events or classes. Furthermore, we as americans did not know whether the two representatives were presenting a true picture about their topic or some watered down discussion to ingratiate themselves to us.
Donovan Nuera says
A little off topic….but I was at Heathrow Airport last week and I noticed on one of their signs, it said that the Prayer/Meditation Room was between such-and-such gates but the little sign had a person knelling down with their legs folded behind him with his butt on their heels totally muslim-style. Yup!! (I did nothing to calm my nerves that a passenger who looked like he just escaped Tora Bora got on my flight….)
bullfrogger says
I have seen first hand the results of intentional , concerted efforts to use the educational system to ensure a steady stream of liberal voters for years to come . Just look at California . Liberals and unions have conspired to create a curriculum and an environment where a new homogenous crop is turned loose each spring . And knowing how strong peer pressure is on children , only a very strong ,enlightened child can formulate alternative beliefs and not fold to the status quo . So their voters are homegrown and bought by the taxpayers , our conservatives are folks who somehow saw the light or they moved here . How many times have you heard liberals say all they want is a level playing field?