Linda Sarsour is a pro-Sharia anti-Semite; that means the New York Times loves her.
Comments interspersed below.
“A Muslim-American Activist’s Speech Raises Ire Even Before It’s Delivered,” by Eli Rosenberg, New York Times, May 26, 2017:
Linda Sarsour, one of the most prominent Muslim-American activists in New York, says the messages have been arriving by the hour recently.
“Your time is coming.”
“A good Arab is a dead Arab.”
“You’re getting two bullets in your head.”
She “says” she has been receiving threats. This is news as far as the New York Times is concerned, although “journalist” Eli Rosenberg apparently doesn’t make any attempt to verify her claim. Meanwhile, Pamela Geller is the target of a fatwa from the Islamic State (ISIS). The Times, when it speaks about her, never leads with that information. Apparently, some death threats are just fine with the New York Times, if their targets are the Times’ ideological enemies.
Ms. Sarsour, one of the lead organizers of the Women’s March on Washington, has tackled issues like immigration policy, mass incarceration, stop-and-frisk and the New York Police Department’s spying operation on Muslims — all of which have largely inured her to hate-tinged criticism.
Note that everything the Times list shows her to be working actively to impede and obstruct counterterror efforts. The New York City of Sarsour’s dreams is supine and defenseless before the advancing jihad.
But it is the commencement address she is to deliver next week to about 100 students at the City University of New York School of Public Health that she says has drawn the most hostility and ire she has ever experienced.
“Linda Sarsour is a Sharia-loving, terrorist-embracing, Jew-hating, ticking time bomb of progressive horror,” the conservative media personality Milo Yiannopoulos said at a rally on Thursday outside CUNY’s main office, as protesters held signs with images associated with the often racist and anti-Semitic language used by what is known as the alt-right, a far-right, white nationalist movement.
Note that the Times makes no attempt to determine whether or not Milo’s charges are true (they are). It just quickly changes the subject to signs “with images associated with the often racist and anti-Semitic language used by what is known as the alt-right.” Associated by whom? Why, by the New York Times, of course. This paragraph is tantamount to saying, “Milo made some charges against Sarsour, but protesters were holding signs bearing images that we have previously smeared as racist.”
The controversy over Ms. Sarsour’s appearance is the latest dispute in a heated national dialogue over free speech on university campuses.
But in this instance, the roles have been reversed. Other protests have largely pitted left-wing students against conservative speakers like Mr. Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter, Gavin McInnes and Charles Murray. This time, conservatives are leading the charge against Ms. Sarsour.
This is false. The controversy is not over her appearance at CUNY. We who are routinely barred from speaking on college campuses, or shouted down by fascists when we do, would never dream of saying she should not allowed to speak. In fact, I would be happy to go to CUNY at my own expense to debate her. The controversy is over whether she should be celebrated and lionized, given the honor of delivering the commencement address, in light of her numerous hateful, anti-Semitic, and pro-Sharia statements.
Her critics are a strange mix, including right-leaning Jews and Zionists, commentators like Pamela Geller, and some members of the alt-right.
They accuse her of sympathizing with terrorists, supporting Sharia law and anti-Semitism for statements she has made about politics in the Middle East.
And with good reason, although the Times never presents this evidence or bothers to debunk it.
The CUNY chancellor, James B. Milliken, has defended the appearance on the basis of free speech, and a group of CUNY professors, some prominent progressives and liberal Jewish groups have spoken in her support.
Free speech? Funny how universities seldom remember that principle when a conservative speaker comes around.
Fred Smith Jr., a constitutional scholar and assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, said the controversy was a reminder of the bipartisan nature of the outcry over free-speech issues.
“There are a few people who have been very effective in branding the left at shutting down free speech, but the moment they are confronted with leftist speech they don’t like, they are equally outraged and poised to suppress that speech,” he said. “I don’t think that’s the answer for either side. The more you try to suppress speech, the more the ideas of the suppressed speaker become salient to more people. It makes the person more well known and attracts more people to those ideas.”
Once again, this is off the point, and an apparently deliberate obfuscation. The controversy is not over whether or not she can speak. It is over whether or not she should be the commencement speaker.
The debate about Ms. Sarsour’s speech began last month with Dov Hikind, a conservative Democratic state assemblyman who represents a largely Orthodox community in Brooklyn. Mr. Hikind said Ms. Sarsour should not have been chosen, pointing to her recent appearance in Chicago with Rasmea Odeh, who was convicted in Israel of playing a role in the bombing of a supermarket that killed two civilians in 1969.
Mr. Hikind also pointed to a picture Ms. Sarsour once posted on Twitter of a Palestinian boy standing across from police officers with rocks in his hands. Ms. Sarsour wrote that the photo was “The definition of courage.”
Mr. Hikind said in a phone interview, “You can’t support a terrorist and then be the commencement speaker at a university that my taxes help pay for.”
Indeed. And there is no doubt that her speech will be a pep rally of anti-Israel, anti-American agitprop, with heavy helpings of self-righteousness and self-pity.
….Brad Lander, a Democratic city councilman from Brooklyn, described the accusations against Ms. Sarsour as “preposterous,” and pointed to her help in raising money to repair two Jewish cemeteries that were vandalized in St. Louis and Pennsylvania in February.
“She’s been in my synagogue,” he said. “She and my rabbi are friends. There’s no doubt that part of what this is is backlash against the idea of having a Palestinian-American as a visible leader and inheritor of the civil rights movement.”
He added, “One terrible feature of the Trump regime is that it threatens to tribalize all of us.”
The fact that she repaired these cemeteries does not negate her pro-Sharia or viciously anti-Israel statements. She even declared recently that feminists could not support Israel. Lander is taking an incident that was an obvious bid to wrongfoot her opponents as a reversal of her entire stance regarding Israel. It wasn’t.
At the protest, even Mr. Yiannopoulos briefly acknowledged Ms. Sarsour’s right to speak, before making a racially tinged joke about her getting paid in goats. He was more restrained in an emailed response to a question.
“Unlike some of the other speakers, I don’t want Sarsour canceled,” he wrote. “I want as many people as possible to hear her odious thoughts. That doesn’t mean I can’t explain why she is dangerous and wrong.”
Once again: the problem is that she is the commencement speaker. She should be canceled as the commencement speaker. And brought back to debate with Pamela Geller or some other defender of freedom.
Ms. Sarsour said she had nothing to apologize about for her views.
She said there were questions about the integrity of Ms. Odeh’s conviction many decades ago. The photo of the Palestinian boy was taken during a week when about 200 Palestinians had been killed, she said. And she said she had never planned to speak about Israel in the commencement address.
We’ll see about that. In any case, note how the Times gives Sarsour space to rebut the charges, and never bothers to check on her claims about Odeh’s conviction or the photo. The Times never offers this service to those who aren’t Leftists.
Ms. Sarsour said she believed she became a target for far-right conservatives in the days after the Women’s March, which she said was evidence of a larger “Islamophobia industry.”
The claim that there is a well-heeled “Islamophobia industry” churning out hateful material against Muslims is a staple of Leftist propaganda. Ironically, the organizations such as the Center for American Progress and others that have produced lavishly printed “Islamophobia” reports have budgets exponentially larger than those of the organizations they defame as “Islamophobic.” If there is any “industry” here, it is that of the truly well-heeled effort to defame and destroy those who oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression.
She has hired two private bodyguards to accompany her to public events. She says she regrets that she has not been able to shield her three children, all teenagers, from the vitriol and threats she has received online. Still, she said, she does not plan to be silent.
“I’m Muslim, I’m Palestinian, I’m a woman in a hijab,” she said. “I’m everything they stand against.”
She added, “I have a bigger mission here.”
In reality, she is a foe of counterterror efforts, a supporter of the jihad against Israel, and a woman who normalizes and legitimizes the Sharia oppression of women. Indeed, everything we stand against.
mortimer says
Milo Yiannopoulos has given the most accurate assessment of Sarsour the Supremacist: “Linda Sarsour is a Sharia-loving, terrorist-embracing, Jew-hating, ticking time bomb of progressive horror…”
Sarsour is a self-loathing women and supremacist-bigot who pretends to be modern, while in reality, her mindset is vicious, bigoted and barbaric and stuck in the 7th century Arabian desert.
As supremacist like Sarsour only wants one thing: SUPREMACISM.
Supremacism is opposed to the principles of equality, human rights and women’s rights. Islamic rights are rights for Muslim males and the repression of the rights of women and others.
Sarsour is a faux feminist… she’s lying. Sarsour is a mendacious taqiyya-artist.
WPM says
Would CUNY have Hitler or one of his flunkies get the commencement speech in 1935? Linda Sarsour is not Hitler ,but she supports people who have Hitler beliefs ,Hitler ideas, Hitler like violence. She is a flunky pushing Sharia law on to the people of America, the progressives that follower her are useful idiots ,they the (progressives) will be the first to feel the blade on there necks if Sharia law takes over.
Jenny H says
“City University of New York School of Public Health”
The above article containing these words is the first time I’ve seen anything to help me know what CUNY stands for.
If Linda Sarsour didn’t have her even features and was physically uglier, the main stream media wouldn’t feature her as prominently.
Don Foss says
When you compare and contrast cultures, for just one example, if Sarsour was a Christian doing this in Islamic country, how do you think it would go over?
Will says
Cut the cockroach { meaning of sarsour in Arabic } some slack ,I suspect that chick can’t experience an orgasm because of izzlam and now wants to take other women’s vaginas away …. Must suck to live in the 7th century and that pathetic gang-wear of hers, gurrrryl PLEASE ……. Will she eventually become someone’s 2nd/3rd/4th wife …. she could be so lucky…..
Bwaaa-haaaaa-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! Choke. Gasp. Sniff……..
Sheikh Yabooti says
This NYT article is not only slanderous, as usual, against the counter-jihad; it is also, rather humorously, internally inconsistent. In the beginning, the author writes about angry counter-jihadis waving “signs with images associated with the often racist and antisemitic language”. Several paragraphs down, the writer makes the point that “her critics… accuse her of sympathizing with terrorists, supporting Sharia law and antisemitism for statements she has made about politics in the Middle East.”
Did those protesters actually carry signs bearing “antisemitic language” at a rally ostensibly condemning antisemitism?! Wow, this really is a major scoop; another intrepid NYT reporter has apparently uncovered one of the tiniest political factions in American (or even world) history: “Antisemites Against Antisemitism”. The hidden editorial message embedded throughout this article seems to be: any good, correct-thinking person ought to stay away from a rally led by antisemites – even when the purpose of that rally is to condemn a leading proponent of antisemitism!
Karl Marx made the well-known statement, “history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” While the powerful totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century utilized Orwellian double-speak to foment great tragedy, the progressive writers of the NYT and their fellow travelers are quite adept at using double-speak as a form of farce. However, their single, frequently repeated joke is going stale pretty quickly. Beyond the self-deluded like the city councilman quoted in the article, I doubt that there are many members of the real Jewish community (as opposed to leftist media props, like the “Jewish Voice for Peace”) who view Linda Sarsour as their ally, and Milo Yiannopoulos as their enemy.
Kay says
NYT has produced a commodity that many want to buy– blindfold reinforcement.
ibrahim itace muhammed says
Mortimer, do you want Linda sarsour to be anti_ sharia and at the same time be a muslim.sharia means islam and islam means sharia.they are inseparable as church and Christians mean the same thing.kemal Atatürk who rejected sharia is now in the midle of hellfire.Likewise,anyone who says jihad is wrong is not a muslim.we are only saying isis terrorists are not doing valid jihad because they are prosecuting it not in accordance with sharia which laid down conditions before fighting is resorted to, and those not be attacked like soft targets.
CogitoErgoSum says
ibrahim, Islam is such a dualistic, duplicitous and two-faced religion that anyone can find anything in the Quran to support any act they wish to commit against any non-Muslim. It’s a schizophrenic religion which sprang forth from the mind of madman …. and a little bit of his madness inevitably infects anyone who is exposed to his ideas for too long.
Greyhound Fancier says
Once oneself or family or sect of mohammedanism is declared “hypocritical” — and the jihadists find a supportive religious authority — what is to stop jihad against the “hypocrites”?
WPM says
Your Brain is a soft target, what was the attack in the London concert hall last week, what was that gunning down of Christians on the bus the other day? We know it is the Jews, a USA CIA plot, some other rubbish you have running around in your head like a hamster in its cage running in it wheel ! At least come up with a new interesting lie! Being Islamic is like living in groundhog day the same lies day after day no wonder they are so ready to kill themselves just to brake the cycle of running in that wheel.
TJ says
Today’s jihad lesson for Ibrahim Itace Muhammed is Psalm 68. There, David says in verse 22, “I will bring them from Bashan (Jordan), I will bring them from the depths of the sea, (Egypt) that you may trample in the blood of your foes, while the tongues of your dogs have their share”. This word was fulfilled just recently for the first time. David is comparing the defeated jihadists to Jezebel. The dogs licking their blood is the same judgment given to her by God and Elijah after she murdered Naboth and took possession of his property. By biblical law, the jihadists deserved the same judgment as her because of the price of the land of Israel. Israel is named for a messianic prophet. Israel also contains some murdered Jewish prophets who helped identify Jesus as the Messiah and helped produce evidence human beings can be raised from the dead. These same prophets also say many Jews have to be on the land there. Their valued testimony is not valid if the Jews were eliminated. Unfortunately, the jihadists from Egypt and Jordan who were trying to drive out the Jews were attempting to exult themselves over the important word of these murdered prophets. This is why giving them the same judgment as Jezebel is valid. This psalm by our prophet David can not be used to produce any evidence Attaturk is in hell. It shows, rather, the Turkish leaders weren’t foolish enough to throw their men into this fight.
Greyhound Fancier says
Jezelbel (“fly droppings”) came after David. She and her husband, Ahab, lived about 150 to 175 years after David.
mgoldberg says
‘Likewise,anyone who says jihad is wrong is not a muslim’
Of course, I understand you to be correct. And I also understand that the Sharia a set of laws that is not to me, what you believe. It is not the ‘divine’ law of the ‘perfect man’, but rather laws that are dualistic in nature.
There are one set for ‘believers’ and another for ‘non believers’
And the homiciding of non believers is not holy, nor righteous, the enslavement of non believers is not holy nor righteous. Of course the blasphemy laws of Sharia would have such as myself executed for that, but then, you would feel this to be just, and my stopping you would be not merely reasonable, but absolutely necessary.
shone says
ibrahim, again with a islamic apologetics! The cult of lunar god, the cult of a black meteorite, the cult of blood, hatred, hypocrite dual standards, declared by an illiterate thief, pedophile, hateful lunatic is in the ride again. When is west going to comprehend that islam is not a “religion of peace”, not even a religion at all but a death cult of supremacists? That islam is more equal to the followers of the left swastika than to the Judaism or Christianity! When all we going to realize that the god of islam is not the same with God of Judaism and Christianity! They want to rule over us, and that is the fact! We are to be blamed for diminishing our own values in order to not to offend them. Not to offend murderers and butchers, not to offend brainless zombies. Sansour is just a example of it. Did we forgot how to deal with zombies? They are not to be dealt with let them live.
Sarah says
“sharia means islam and islam means sharia.they are inseparable as church and Christians mean the same thing.”
Yes. We know. The rest of the civilized world is slowly waking up to this reality, too.
PRCS says
Memo to NYT: Islam is a far-right ideology.
abad says
Sarsour would probably be much happier living in Syria instead of the USA.
WPM says
She grew up and still lives in Brooklyn. She does not know the true hardship of living under Sharia law in the middle East as a woman.
maghan says
She can easily pass for a man, so she avoid the hardship of being a woman in her trip to the ME.
Zub says
Burnish Linda SourSewer’s image??? It’s pretty hard to polish a turd.
Georg says
“Lander is taking an incident that was an obvious bid to wrongfoot her opponents as a reversal of her entire stance regarding Israel. It wasn’t.”
“Useful idiot” comes to mind.
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“In reality, she is a foe of counterterror efforts, a supporter of the jihad against Israel, and a woman who normalizes and legitimizes the Sharia oppression of women. Indeed, everything we stand against.”
Irrefutable. We know what the paper-of-record stands for.
jewdog says
Maybe she will run for president. The leftist media could rationalize away everything.
Lou says
Too bad Milo was on the pannel criticizing Ms Croach.
Having had enough of what he professed in the past, I would not seriously consider anything else he has to say.
And I’m afraid I’m not the only one….
ibrahim itace muhammed says
Cogito Ergo sum,consider the genesis of present day christianity invented by the satan from Roman paganism of mithraism of old and the satan appears to Christians like a dove refered to in the evil bible as holy ghost.It is this satanic possession that makes every christian to behave like a madman and rascal spiting all kinds of nonsense statements.In one of my comments i narrated my story when i was a young boy in Nigeria when my parents were expatriate university teachers there where i passed near a christian graveyard with christian friends.We saw some creatures dressed in white.i asked my christian friends what are these creatures? They said it is holy ghost descended on dead men of god showing that they are now in heaven with god.I said in mind this is exactly the satan showing that the dead christians are now in the midle of hellfire burning.It is such appearance of the satan as holy ghost christians consider as miracle; while in reality it is a magic like dancing idol of Fatima in portugal.If you enter christian churches,especially in Africa,you notice pastors shaking telling their blind followers that it is holy spirit appearing to them. Look at this savagery!!true jesus( prophet issa ) has nothing to do with this nonsense.idiots!!
CogitoErgoSum says
I shall pray that the Holy Spirit will descend upon you, ibrahim. You can thank me later.
CogitoErgoSum says
P.S: Dear Ibrahim,
On your behalf and for the next nine days I will recite the prayer narrated in the video that I have posted below. The special favor for which I will ask is that your heart, your mind and your soul, as well as mine, shall find peace and harmony and that one day we both shall know and understand the mystery of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFlq22N9Jdc
WPM says
If you do not believe in the Holy Spirt or Jesus in the Christian form why does it both you I do not believe in a lot of things. The only reason to get upset of a belief is if you fear it or its a threat to you. No one is forcing you to be Christian , no one is threating your life if you do not believe in the Holy Spirt ..There is a third reason you get upset about some else belief if you have doubt over your own belief in your heart. You protest too much itrahim itace muhammed The Holy Spirt is not some jin that will force it way into your heart if you doubt your faith examine others.
WPM says
I meant the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirt is a wood beatle
mgoldberg says
And your quran has nothing of the Torah except a bad copy. slaughtering all his ‘enemies’.
I recall asma bin marwan- she murdered while her baby was suckling at her breast, along with her other children. Butchered by the henchman of mo bin abdullah.
No… the vast outlay of the slaughtered, then, and going for for 1400 yrs is an obliquy to your source and sight.
Jesus is Christ and God says
First of all, from your remark about Issa I conclude you’re a muslim, so I’ll answer you using the Quran itself.
Qur’an 5:68—Say: “O People of the Book! Ye have no ground to stand upon unless ye stand fast by the Law, the Gospel, and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord.”
This tells Christians to stand fast on the revelation of the Gospel.
That the Gospel is not corrupted, is stated in the Quran itself
Qur’an 3:3—He has revealed to you the Book with truth, verifying that which is before it, and He revealed the Torah and the Gospel aforetime, a guidance for the people, and He sent the Qur’an.
Qur’an 6:115—The word of thy Lord doth find its fulfillment in truth and in justice: None can change His words: for He is the one who heareth and knoweth all.
Qur’an 18:27—And recite what has been revealed to you of the Book of your Lord, there is none who can alter His words; and you shall not find any refuge besides Him.
This states that Allah revealed the Gospel, and no one can change the words of Allah. Hence the Gospel is uncorrupted according to the Quran.
If the Gospel is uncorrupted, clearly the history of Jesus is authentic, and talking about it being but a copy of Mithraism is heresy. Furthermore, science has it that Roman Mithraism came AFTER Christianity appeared, hence Christianity CANNOT a copy of it.
Furthermore, if we read 1 John 4:2-3
2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
“Jesus has come in the flesh”, or incarnation, means that Jesus existed as God before his (human) birth.
We know that an angel or spirit (Gabriel) revealed the Quran to Muhammed.
One of the revelations of this spirit has been QS 4:171
People of the Book! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, and attribute to Allah nothing except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was only a Messenger of Allah, and His command that He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him (which led to Mary’s conception). So believe in Allah and in His Messengers, and do not say: (Allah is a) trinity. Give up this assertion; it would be better for you. Allah is indeed just one God. Far be it from His glory that He should have a son To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and in the earth. Allah is sufficient for a guardian.
So here we have the testimony of a spirit, which explicitly denies that Jesus incarnated (only a messenger. do not say trinity).
Hence we have: According to the Quran, the Gospel are words of Allah, which cannot be corrupted, and which testify that Jesus incarnated, and that every spirit that denies it is not from God. About 600 years later, a spirit specifically denies the very things warned about, and these are recorded in the Quran. Hence according to the Quran itself, it is a revelation not from God, but from a false spirit, also known as demons.
What to do? Jesus has come to show who God is. Everyone who believes in Him will be saved. He has come to give eternal life to people, in this life, and in the afterlife.
shone says
ibrahim, this who you call Issa is not just a prophet, He is God incarnate. and He have defeated your “god” who have offered Him all the kingdoms of the Earth. Jesus has refused to bow to him. Some of Christians will pray for you, but I won’t. I will do what the Saint Apostle Paul said in Galatians 1. Anathema! Or if you want: To hell with islam!
maghan says
Your parents as “expatriate lecturers” did a poor job training your intellect. You are barely literate and you believe in that bunch of primitive nonsense known as Islam. a well-trained mind on attaining the “age of reason” must summarily dismiss Islam as so much silly nonsense based on wild superstitions. Plus, those who believe in Islam’s irrational stupidities are often prone to murderous violence and destructive behavior.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
patriotliz says
Why even “reformist” Muslims living in a free county don’t reject Islam in toto is a mystery to me. It’s the only “religion” w/ ongoing acts of abuses of basic human civil rights. And why would anyone w/ half a brain want to adhere to an ideology invented by such an evil and barbaric man as Mohammad?
emmett says
The garbage that runs CUNY , would invite hitler if he was still sucking air !!!!
Pal says
Another Palestinian – A Christian and A Reaj Woman – Who Believes God gave Israel to the Jews — Says she had to flee Bethlehem after Death threats:
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2014/04/27/palestinian-christian-woman-who-believes-god-gave-israel-to-the-jews-says-she-had-to-flee-bethlehem-after-death-threats
Pal says
“Real”
Atheist Kaffur says
What goes around comes around. What happened to Pamela Geller must happen to Sarsewer. Pamela was demonized, defamed, threaten, etc. Lets start exposing Sarsewer with the truth. She can’t handle the truth.
Atheist Kaffur says
Linda Sarsewer gutter mouth of hate speech. Sarsewer must be allowed to speak. If she isn’t allowed she can’t be exposed. Free speech is wonderful. Girl speak all you want however we are listening to your veil words which will be criticized.
I don’t know who coined her Sarsewer but I like it.
Henner720 says
She is selfexplanatory. She is a verbal oratorial giftet sponsered islam promoter.she is good for democratic disqus. She is a human loudspeaker.she is the realization of the communique strategies of palestines. Chosen due to her non stop speaking abilities, and her tough.she would have been equaly giftet as a auktion speaker, but here she found a reason for nonstop speaking.she just keeps insensitively talking agenda. Sharia enforcer, a paria in us.
patriotliz says
“I’m Muslim, I’m Palestinian, I’m a woman in a hijab,” she said. “I’m everything they stand against.” …and….she apparently doesn’t identify as an American even though she was born here. But I think we should deport her anyhow–she hates America. She is a #fakefeminist and a master of taqiyya who easily dupes the Leftist “useful idiots” that Islam is victimized by “xenophobes.”
Maybe it could be because we “xenophobes” have had enough of the Islamic barbaric behavior, Islamic terror attacks and anti-Americanism and don’t like this totalitarian political ideology of Islam in our country that threatens our lives and the very freedoms we cherish. It’s called “survival instinct.”
CUNY students who want to denounce her should protest this piece of trash by WALKING OUT on her during her taqiyya commencement speech.