Recently, on radio shows discussing my book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies), I have detailed the hostile reception I got at three campuses this past spring, and suggested that a Gitmo detainee screaming “Death to America” in the middle of those campuses would have been welcomed. Here is an illustration of the truth of what I was saying: a Muslim leader calls for armed insurrection by Muslims and others at CUNY, and I am sure he got a rousing ovation and many affirmations of support. But a counter-jihadist at CUNY, if one were ever to be invited at all, would be treated as if Jack the Ripper were coming to campus. There would be protests, petitions, and he or she would have to come with heavy security or risk being physically attacked. Sekou Odinga and the other Leftists speaking at CUNY had no such worries; nor should they have. College campuses ought to be places where ideas can be freely expressed and discussed on their merits. But if you express a point of view that dissents from the hard-Left line on a campus today, you’re risking academic suicide if you’re a student, and physical injury.
Meanwhile, the very claim that Muslims and the other groups that Odinga names are oppressed in the United States is hysterical, baseless, and designed to foster a sense of grievance that will result in the armed insurrection Odinga wants.
“American Muslim Activist Sekou Odinga: Minorities and Immigrant Communities in the U.S. Have the Right to Armed Struggle and Self-Determination,” MEMRI, June 2, 2017:
American Muslim activist Sekou Odinga said that the “internally oppressed nations” – including the indigenous people, the “New Africans,” Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Hawaiians – had the right to conduct armed struggle for their “self-defense and liberation.” Speaking at the opening plenary session of the annual Left Forum convention, held at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, on June 2, Odinga claimed that the U.S. was using the war on terror and the “xenophobic war on immigrants” to repress minorities and immigrant communities. Odinga, who served a long prison sentence for attempted murder and for RICO violations, was presented by moderator Laura Flanders as a former “U.S.-held political prisoner of war.” He said that it was the responsibility of the left to agitate and organize the people “to resist the oppressor state by any and all means.” Other panel members were artist and author Molly Crabapple, journalist and black activist Glen Ford, and American Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour. Oscar Lopez Rivera, a leader of the Puerto Rican FALN paramilitary organization, who was recently released from prison, addressed the audience by phone. A video of the session was posted on the YouTube channel of Other Voices, Other Choices on June 26.
Sekou Odinga: “For the US to acknowledge the existence of political prisoners and prisoners of war would be to admit that there are fundamental injustices that stem from the settler colonialism that built this country, that the internally oppressed nations, the indigenous people, New Africans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Hawaiians, etc., have the right to freedom and self-determination. They have the right to struggle, using whatever tactics and strategies – armed and otherwise – for their self-defense and liberation.
[…]
“Mass incarceration has been used to repress, control, and destroy black self-determination, in the same way that the war on poverty and the war on drugs was used. This is the same way that the war on terror and the xenophobic war on immigrants is being used to control and repress Muslims and immigrant communities today. These are strategies of war, meant to dismantle, disrupt, and otherwise neutralize poor working-class families and communities. They are meant to prevent self-determination and the potential for militant resistance.
[…]
“It is the responsibility of the left to educate, agitate, organize the people, especially young people, to resist the oppressor state by any and all means.”
John A. Marre says
Far from being oppressed, they are the oppressors of Blacks, women, Christians and Jews.
Mac-101 says
Satan. Always twist everything 180
Andy says
California bakers refuse to make pro-Trump birthday cake for little boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcYxE3JIxJY
gravenimage says
This is what Leftists consider “brave” these days.
Mac-101 says
Like dead people and sex slaves are not oppressed?
gravenimage says
Only Muslims who are not allowed to rape and kill people are oppressed as Islam sees it.
Andy says
Born to Hate Jews and Christians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQEmeGfFmY
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ncoDKL4Kg8&t=50s
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMOJ3IR23YA&list=PLllY5CxFaPWX6Q4nZUMLzuKqxCobmOJBh&index=1
Johnny Cuyana says
I have not the time to do any research on this video clip; as, with ALL video clips I see on the ‘net, none of them do I accept as “true” until I get independent verifications.
That being said, and, if this is indeed a true representation then I say “God bless them and may a thousand flowers bloom.” “Romeo and Juliette” is not the only instance of love-friendship developing in the innocent absence of bigotry and hate.
OTOH, the cynic in me is willing to bet some cash that this has been staged … entirely. Of course, at this moment, I have no way to prove it — one way or the other — but that is why I am willing to make that bet. [Note: should someone want to take the opposite side, before I would accept any challenge, depending on the magnitude, I would reserve the right to do my homework while further reserving the right to change my mind.]
miriamrove says
Andy: Thank you for this video. It is great. M
mgoldberg says
just a thought. Why isn’t this guy formally asked to leave the nation? Isn’t his little screed, a call to
insurrection a violation of either his green card, his work visa or however he’s here in the US?
Isn’t it at least a crime to call for violence against this nation?
Too bad tar an feathering isn’t the cultural norm…. riding his ass out of town with that accompaniment
would be satisfying.
Johnny Cuyana says
mg., that’s a good thought — actually, I prefer the tar/feather thing so jokers like this can do a most interesting “show and tell” with all of his good buddies and girl friends — but, IMO, that is not the solution.
The reality is — I suspect you will agree — is that in our country, sadly, in addition to him, there a 1000’s of additional deceiving [criminal?] blowhards; over which nationally, pursuing the prosecute-convict-sentence route, we could waste vast amounts of time and treasure, until kingdom come, making rich lawyers and politicians and building mega-prisons. And, after that, if the citizenry is not much the wiser, we can start the process all over again.
IMO, and that of many others, instead I advocate for promoting NATIONALLY truly open and competitive classically liberal education to one and all; where the foundation of such education is a Judeo-Christian moral code by which our coming generations of young people could be armed with well-developed critical thinking skills. [Some of us used to refer to this as a “bullshit meter”.]
A truly free society MUST have a well-educated electorate … which understands and appreciates the need for a universal code of law … which, at its base, is the respect for the inalienable rights of EACH and EVERY individual … equally and fairly.
Armed nationally in this way, my bet is that criminal blowhards such as this anti-freedom dictator-wannabe, and most like him, will be recognized quickly and flushed naturally, from the public stage, and, if he is lucky, back into the filthy gutter from which he came.
Note: this is not a dream for a Utopia, as, wherever humanity is involved, there is NO such thing; however, there is such a thing as the pursuit of excellence, and, the pursuit of a truly classical education via our educational system is a good place to start. Note: unfortunately, not only are we far from this state of things, we have way too many “confused people”, many in high-level positions of responsibility, in such educational departments who are refusing to recognize, let alone address, the proper paradigm. IMO, the fight MUST begin here.
mgoldberg says
You raise some excellent points. The old Liberal education until the 1960’s was consisted of learning how to think far more than what to think-despite naysayers. Rhetoric and logic were studies in how to reason and how to support arguments, and if you couldn’t reason so, then you were expected to listen to others who could. The marxist corrosion, and the elimination of western civilization by the left and islam have cocktailed a corrosive mixture of denial and hatred. A free society must insist on it’s individual liberty, and the first movement should be to make it criminal for any college or university that disallows free speech should have the administrators arrested. Got that!
That means that any disruption by agitators, deniers, of speakers should bring arrests of those doing this and if not, denial of all federal funds to such colleges and universities, and the arrest of administrators for the assaults upon the freedom of expression. Then we can demand that debate means hearing the sides that the 90% of liberal education has silenced and brought down to fear. Enough already. This bum, this criminal with his phony religion of submission and hatred of others- let’s start the movement to overthrow them and the left by taking back the colleges.
Keys says
Given that he is a US citizen, he should be arrested, tried, and speedily convicted for sedition and treason; then incarcerated at Gitmo.
I wonder if he was one of those 100s released by Obama just before he left office, given what Wikipedia says about him in mgoldberg’s next post.
mgoldberg says
Sekou Odinga
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Sekou Odinga (born Nathanial Burns) is an American activist who was imprisoned for actions with the Black Liberation Army in the 1960s and 1970s.[1]
In 1965, Sekou joined the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), founded by Malcolm X. After Malcolm’s death the OAAU was not going in the direction he wanted and in 1967 he was looking at the Black Panther Party. In early 1968 he helped build the Bronx Black Panther Party. On January 17, 1969 two Panthers had been killed by members of Organization Us (a rival Black Nationalist group) and a fellow New York Panther who was in police custody was brutally beaten. Sekou was informed that police were searching for him in connection with a police shooting. At that point, Sekou joined the black underground with the Black Liberation Army.
The two Black Panthers murdered in January 17, 1969 in the grounds of UCLA were Alprentis “Bunchy” Carter and John Huggins. Both were UCLA students and leaders of the Los Angeles Black Panther Party Chapter. Brothers George and Larry Stiner and Donald Hawkins turned themselves in to the police, who had issued warrants for their arrests. They were convicted for conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of second-degree murder, based on testimony given by Black Panther Party members. The Stiner brothers both received life sentences and Hawkins served time in California’s Youth Authority Detention.
Sekou Odinga remained underground, partaking in revolutionary clandestine activity for twelve years until his capture. Upon being captured in 1981 he was charged with six counts of attempted murder, nine predicate acts of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO), stemming from his involvement in the escape of Assata Shakur from prison and the Brink’s armored car robbery. He was convicted in 1984 and sentenced to a consecutive twenty-five years to life state sentence and a forty-year federal sentence.[2]
Odinga was released from prison on November 25, 2014.[2]
Personal life[edit]
Odinga has eight children and 18 grandchildren. He is the father of late rapper Yaki Kadafi.
gravenimage says
Yes–the “perfect” mash-up of Islamic and Marxist violence. *Ugh*.
Paul N Silas says
There are more Patriotic Deer hunters than members of our Military. If this clown wants an “armed struggle” it will be open season on him and his Mud-slime pals.
Johnny Cuyana says
The real shame here is that disillusioned anti-freedom blowhards, such as this loser and many more like him, have any followers whatsoever. Way too many of us, in our supposedly ‘free society”, continue to be DUPED by these uneducated, close-minded self-important dictator-wannabes.
In order to be able to reduce substantially such “duping”: STOP the fed-govt sanctioned brainwashing of our young people in our public education systems; instead, advocate strongly for truly competitive and open — classically liberal — education, based on the Judeo-Christian moral code, where young people may develop — not be spoon-fed govt doctrine — critical thinking skills.
We will never reach perfection in this matter; and, speaking for myself and many others I suspect, that is NOT what we expect; however, we should strive for and expect, particularly, primary school educational EXCELLENCE … by which, jacked-up demagogies such as this will sooner rather than later be flushed out, as a natural default, from our national cultural system.
Truly free societies, which possess and employ a working moral compass, recognize quickly and have NO patience for such anti-freedom, anti-individual-rights vermin.
PS: this blowhard is NOT advocating for “freedom fighters”; rather, he is advocating for a “centralized command and control govt” … one in which HE gets to make the laws, which, of course, will best suit him and his politically-affiliated people. Have we not read about such deceivers … throughout ALL of our human history? It is way past time to toss this guy, and all his moronic minions, on that ash heap. True liberal education, for one and all, is the key.
Westman says
He’s thrown himself on the trash heap. CAIR and ISNA can’t afford to be seen with him. There are haters who will applaud him while the majority will feel less safe around such an unreformed thug. Open hostility and aggression only hurts the all-time-low image of Islam in the US.
somehistory says
It’s a great thing that he changed his name from the one given at birth. Nathanial is too good for this criminal creep.
” Jack the Ripper might be invited to the cam pus in this time we are living…every other creepy criminal in favor of serial and mass murder seems to be welcome…from instructors to *guests*…any msolum will do.
Keys says
Yes, somehistory, the name Nathanial definately does not fit any Mohammadan.
In John’s Gospel Nathanial goes from saying “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” to “Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel.”
Jesus says Nathanial is “an Israelite in whom there is no deceit”.
An Israelite; calls Jesus the Son of God; and has no deceit in him.
That’s three strikes for any Muslim !
somehistory says
Absolutely, Keys.
That is one of my favorite Bible accounts of Jesus and His interactions with His human brothers. It tells a lot about our Savior and the things He values.
marina says
What a great team this Odinga and Linda cockroach would make. Both are ready to wage war against U.S.
Wellington says
Any black who is voluntarily a Muslim is a fool. No exceptions. Not one. Hey, so much for Malcolm X who NEVER figured this out. Mohammed owned black slaves and spoke derogatorily about blacks (e.g., calling them “raisinheads” and “pug-nosed”).
Islam NEVER, unlike the Western world, concluded on its own that slavery was a great evil. The Islamic world has never apologized, contra the Western world, for its role in black slavery, which role, which record, is far worse than that of the Western world, not only because it began such some eight centuries before the West did (seventh versus the fifteenth century), but because of the sheer numbers of blacks sold into slavery by the Islamic world compared to those by the Western world, i.e., both because of this temporal factor and the sheer volume element. And on and on along these lines.
Show me a Muslim and I will show you a confused human being (very possibly an evil one too but at least confused and ignorant). Show me a black Muslim and I will show you an extra confused human being. Show me a black Muslim female, considering Islam’s sorry record on women as well as on blacks, and I will show you someone so effed up that she is probably beyond redemption. But then even the ordinary white Muslim male tends to be. Ah, the problem is deep, very, is it not?
The burden which is Islam continues for all the world. It will for a long time to come. Count on this.
gravenimage says
Muslim leader, speaking at CUNY, says Muslims and other “oppressed” have right to armed struggle
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How are Muslims “oppressed” in the United States? Well, they haven’t been allowed to take over and impose brutal Shari’ah law. All the rest–as violent as it is–is just window dressing for Leftists.
tedh754@gmail.com says
Morons like him are oppressed by their own stupidity. Armed struggle for self-determination? I’m all for it if it means they don’t get anymore welfare. Let them live on their own.
gravenimage says
What he means is that Muslims have the right to murder us, overthrow our leaders, and impose brutal Shari’ah law on us.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I see this over and over again with imams and other Mohammadin leaders, they all incite violence by dressing it up as self-defense.
gravenimage says
So true.
SOEBARKA MINIONS says
OBAMA RELATIVE!!!!!
Lydia says
So… what he basically just did was say that the Crusades against the terrorist islamists back in the day were justified.
Haaa!
And they were justified, (fyi Obama…no, Christians are not guilty of murder like the muslims are!)
If a Christian murders innocent people it is like denying their faith, you can’t be one and do these things (like what the muslims do or nazis did).
brane pilot says
Nowhere else on earth could such wretches spend an evening spewing hate in front of a microphone and cameras on a university campus, and go home to sleep safe in their beds.
It makes me proud to be an American.
It would make me more proud if those who do not spew hate could to the same.
pdxnag says
Resistance to your megalomaniacal demand for world domination by Muslims and Islam must mean only that you should be expelled. Seek your “self determination” (aka word domination) from far far away – however far away that we remain safe, from you.
James Stamulis says
The only ones oppressed today are Christians, Jews and Patriots!
Henner720 says
It is used to limit the damage from a willful opposed and to – way to even – spiritual approch.overemphazised on victimhood, stopping everything, consequensing a rot epidemic.to there joy, as rebel muslims.all while they concieve.and currupt with oilmoney.
Tom says
So using the logic of this leftist islamic agitator “any and all means” can be employed to resist the violent uprising of Islamists.
That seems fair and equitable to me.
They want to play big boy games then they have to play by big boy rules.
It is called self defense in the western mind and is logical as an attack and the appropriate use of force to stop the threat of death or grevious bodily harm is legitimate in our legal system.