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Harvard hires Iran regime supporter who warned of “Jewish threat”

Jun 2, 2016 7:31 am By Robert Spencer

“My research project at Harvard is The Islamic Model of peaceful Coexistence” — which is, if he is honest, the subjugation of non-Muslims under the hegemony of Sharia. “I have never work on Judaism or leadership.” What? He can barely write English, and is teaching at Harvard? That’s what holding politically correct opinions — support for jihad terror, hatred of Jews and Israel — will get you today.

Imagine if Ali Akbar Alikhani opposed jihad terror and explored how jihadis use Islamic texts and teachings to justify hatred and violence. Do you think Harvard would have hired him? Not in a million years.

Ali Akbar Alikhani

“Harvard Hires Iranian Regime Supporter Who Warned of ‘Jewish Threat,’” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, June 2, 2016:

Harvard University is currently employing as a “visiting scholar” an Iranian hardline regime supporter who has warned against the “Jewish threat” and has been critical of Judaism and Israel, according to multiple sources.

Ali Akbar Alikhani, an associate professor at the University of Tehran, is currently serving as a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, where he is on a project centered on “peace and peaceful coexistence in Islam.”

Alikhani is a member of Tehran University’s Faculty of World Studies, which is closely tied to the Iranian ruling regime and has supported scholars who espouse the regime’s hardline ideology….

Alikhani’s academic work has been critical of Israel and Zionism and adheres closely to the hardline philosophy espoused by Iran’s top leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a review of his work.

Alikhani praised an Arabic language book titled The Jewish Threat-Danger to Christianity and Islam as “strong and good,” according to a Farsi language review he published.

He went on to explain that the book should “show the quality and the method of the Jewish threat,” according to translations provided to the Free Beacon.

Alikhani added, “Considering the practical perspectives of this book, it was expected that the author at least in the areas of thoughts and beliefs, would provide practical and noticeable solutions or reject and refute the foundations of Judaism and Zionism himself.”

In another of his academic works on Zionism, Alikhani argued that criticism of Israel was justified because it is “a country that from its inception was based on force, coercion, and oppression of others.”

Alikhani argued that “the Jewish dissidents of Zionism” were in fact “propagandistic exploitations” created by the “Jewish government” to “pretend that Israel is a free country.”

His paper cited several controversial academics, including Roger Garaudy, a French scholar known for denying the Holocaust. Garaudy’s death in 2012 was commemorated by the Iranian regime.

Alikhani’s other works have touted Rachid Ghannouchi, a Tunisian Islamist figure who has promoted violence against Jewish people and heads a group that is accused of having ties to Hamas.

The academic also has close ties with other Iranian regime-backed academics and political leaders.

Alikhani’s emergence at Harvard has sparked accusations that the school is giving credibility to Iran’s hardline regime, which continues to rail against America and Israel….

Alikhani defended his work at Harvard when contacted by the Free Beacon for comment.

“My research area always has been on political thought in Islam and [the] Islamic world,” he said via email in response to questions about his past and current work. “In recent years, I am focusing on peace and peaceful coexistence in Islam. My research project at Harvard is The Islamic Model of peaceful Coexistence. I have never work on Judaism or leadership [sic].”…

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  1. Larry A. Singleton says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 7:42 am

    No surprise here. Universities across America, led by Harvard and its president, embraced the Nazis in the 30’s while they were brutally murdering Jews and kicking them out of Germany’s universities. They had active student exchange programs and welcomed Nazi bigwigs and notorious antisemites onto campus.

    The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses by Stephen H. Norwood.

    Really interesting but depressing book. We obviously haven’t learned a thing.

  2. Larry A. Singleton says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 8:07 am

    I’m reading Ann Mayer’s Islam and Human Rights and Robert Wistrich’s A Lethal Obsession. I’ve been plowing through these and several others like Andrew Bostom’s “Legacy” books. Sometimes I get so pissed off I’ll get up and pace around the house. It’s not good sometimes as I end up going on rants on the Internet.

    Liberals sneer when I mention I was a rabid racist as a kid. But I see the stupidity of grown and otherwise “educated”adults, and it just drives me up a wall.

    I’ve worked construction all my life and I’m seeing the same degenerates who sold me and millions of other construction workers out to Mexico now selling us out to Islamic terrorists.

    I just watched Daniel Greenfield on Jamie Glasov’s show talking about liberals and rape-ugees. And it’s like the whole world’s gone insane.

    I keep harping on those Audio Terrorists in their “boomer cars”, these social predators who have destroyed the quality of life of whole cities in the last 10 or 15 years. I call this obscenely rude behavior the “New Rude”. Our local police and “representatives” give these thugs a pass to assault us with this ungodly noise on an almost hourly basis in some neighborhoods and I keep thinking of the terrorist attack in my hometown of San Bernardino. Where this same type of collective community shoulder shrugging is going to happen once terrorist attacks becomes another New Rude.

    I just read here on JW that the social media groups are going to get together and target “hate speech”. Of course we all know what hate speech they’re going to target. And I’m off all four walls and kicking over the furniture thinking about how much worse it’s going to get when this liberal plague will graduate from the media right into every aspect of the Internet. And I’ll tell you right now; I’d go to jail thinking what I’d like to do that sissy punk fascist Zuckerberg who has already blocked me five times per his “Community Standards” policy.

    This king of the self-hating Jews already censors comments on websites that use the Fakebook comment feature. That’s right; if you’re blocked on Fakebook, you can’t comment, (or Like or Share) on websites that aren’t even a part of Fakebook. That’s pure CENSORSHIP and the websites that use this feature could seem to care less. Now we’re seeing what happens when people remain silent; the Nazis are taking it to the next level. Congratulations to all those people who didn’t squawk when Fakebook told them to bend over.

  3. mortimer says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 8:12 am

    Harvard is a business and people are being bribed behind the scenes. What other conclusion can be made?

    Our Western elites are being bribed by oil money we are transferring to the Gulf States and Iran and we are buying their taqiyya.

    BRIBERY BY MOHAMMED

    Bukhari #005.059.716 Military Expeditions led by the Prophet (pbuh) (Al-Maghaazi)

    Narrated Ibn Abbas:

    Thursday! And how great that Thursday was! The ailment of Allah’s Apostle became worse (on Thursday) and he said, fetch me something so that I may write to you something after which you will never go astray.” The people (present there) differed in this matter, and it was not right to differ before a prophet. Some said, “What is wrong with him ? (Do you think ) he is delirious (seriously ill)? Ask him ( to understand his state ).” So they went to the Prophet and asked him again. The Prophet said, “Leave me, for my present state is better than what you call me for.” Then he ordered them to do three things. He said, “Turn the pagans out of the ‘Arabian Peninsula; respect and give gifts to the foreign delegations as you have seen me dealing with them.” (Said bin Jubair, the sub-narrator said that Ibn Abbas kept quiet as regards the third order, or he said, “I forgot it.”)

    Mohammed’s final order was an order to give BRIBES to NON-MUSLIM LEADERS.

    • occupant 9 says

      Jun 2, 2016 at 12:59 pm

      I think it’s beyond our buying their taqiyya; Westerners are writing it for them (most don’t even have to be hired!) in the unfortunate event various Muslim mouthpieces trip over themselves and accidently say something relevant and truthful about Islam the kafir shouldn’t know.

  4. Angemon says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 8:58 am

    “My research area always has been on political thought in Islam and [the] Islamic world,” he said via email in response to questions about his past and current work. “In recent years, I am focusing on peace and peaceful coexistence in Islam. My research project at Harvard is The Islamic Model of peaceful Coexistence.

    That’s easy: convert to islam, pay the jyzyiah and subject yourself to a set of humiliating conditions or die.

  5. Jay Boo says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 9:29 am

    Professor Alikhani said,
    “My research project at Harvard is The Islamic Model of peaceful Coexistence”

    I would bet, his COEXIST bumper sticker is missing the Star of David.

  6. Jay Boo says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 9:33 am

    Only racist genocidal ARABS are Muslim.

    All others are conquered slaves to Arabic speaking Allah.

  7. linnte says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 9:56 am

    How typical that his description of Israel is identical to the state of Iran. They would love to Nuke Israel, but I never hear Israel publicly threatening Iran. Can you imaging what would happen if Israel said on the news “we have intercontinental ballistic missiles that will reach Iran”? Iran would launch the first bomb. Peaceful coexistence my you know what!

  8. wtd says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 10:38 am

    Apparently, dividends continue to become evident from the tens of millions of dollars invested in Harvard by the Saudis
    December 2005 NYT: Saudi Prince give millions to Harvard and Georgetown

    2007 Reuters: Harvard in biggest curriculum overhaul in 30 years

    • mortimer says

      Jun 2, 2016 at 11:03 am

      Bribery makes it easy to betray your society and the founding principles of an organization such as a university.

      Rather than investing in the pursuit of UNIVERSAL IDEALS of SCIENCE AND ETHICS, Harvard has chosen to invest in Islamic OBSCURANTISM and SUBJECTIVISM.

    • Judi says

      Jun 2, 2016 at 6:57 pm

      wtd – exactly. Saudi Arabia has invested millions in Harvard. It is inevitable that they would employ a Jew hating so-called visiting “scholar” (whatever that is). Fast forward a couple of years and this will be the norm wherever arab money is invested.

      • Donovan Nuera says

        Jun 3, 2016 at 2:57 am

        The Law School has set up an “Islamic legal library”……why the HELL FOR??!! So that future judges can bring in tenets of Sharia and stupid government into our already-failing (due to liberalism) jurisprudence??

  9. vlparker says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 11:22 am

    Well, I have never work on Judaism either. I wonder if they’ll hire me.

  10. Buckaroo Banzai says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 12:18 pm

    I’d like to send a message to all students giving money to these scam artists posing as professors. Take back your money, a community college diploma is worth more than the roll of toilet paper this fraudulent school would give you.

  11. Philip Mann says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 1:27 pm

    Be VERY careful of hiring Harvard graduates. If Harvard is hiring suspect terrorist Professors, students will be propagandized. These same students will cause dissension among your employees… they may cause your business to implode…these students will have a hate agenda taught to them.

  12. Mac Skiba says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 3:23 pm

    Maybe he should get the same treatment our sailors got?

  13. KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    Doesn’t Barry Soetoro (aka B.H Obama) claim to have graduated from Harvard?

  14. Larry A. Singleton says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 6:44 pm

    We’ve all heard of Fakebook going “Full STASI Against Facebook Users That Criticize Islam ” and turning their “Community Standards” policy into hit lists for patriots for the crime of “hate speech”. People should use this once useful venue to post on Harvard’s (and Zuckerberg’s personal Fakebook page) your opinions and relevant articles……while you still can.

  15. Kathy Brown, Esq. says

    Jun 2, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    ‘Israel from its inception has been based on force, coercion and oppression…’ Oh dear God in heaven above: Does any of that sound familiar?

    ISLAM ‘from its inception has been based on force, coercion and oppression’ you idiot you, Ali! What are you-mentally ill?

    Oh wait. He’s a muslim. Of course he’s mentally ill. Sorry.

    How right is Michael Savage when he says, ‘Liberalism is a mental disease’? Answer: Very. And that applies to Ali’s hirers, the unspeakably doctrinaire libtards at Harvard. Exhibit One: Elizabeth Warren.

  16. Donovan Nuera says

    Jun 3, 2016 at 3:01 am

    Don’t worry, Michael Bloomberg, recent donor of a huge multimillion dollar gift to the B-school across the Charles, probably will support this turd…just like he supported the duplicitous Imam Rauf and Daisy Khan and their Victory Mosque at Ground Zero…

    When he gave the College Commencement Address a few years ago, he was still basically calling Americans who stood against the victory mosque as bigots like a sore loser.

    Bloomberg should walk down a street in Riyadh or Gaza City or Cairo or Malmo or Tower Hamlets….

  17. Donovan Nuera says

    Jun 3, 2016 at 3:02 am

    I wish the writers at the Harvard Lampoon would do a parody of the koran. They used to be much braver in the old days.

  18. Dennis says

    Jun 3, 2016 at 10:01 am

    I was once offered a scholarship to Harvard. I turned it down. Now I am glad I did!

  19. Gail Griffin says

    Jun 3, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    Well maybe someone will learn something.

  20. Ali Kimiai says

    Jun 3, 2016 at 3:55 pm

    This is not the first time Harvard doing that, I remember about 10 years ago they had another regime stooge as an AP at Harvard and that guy also could not speak any English. We made a fuss and Harvard got rid of him and I am sure he was replaced by another one. The main spy nests are Columbia University and Berkeley.

  21. Ali Kimiai says

    Jun 3, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    This is not the first time the last time the guy, Abbas Malaki, had a seat at Harvard and the only essay we found of him was about 4 pages long with bunch of pictures and the English command about the level of a high School Jr.

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