Felix Coe was until very recently an associate professor of biology at the University of Connecticut. He is a convert to Islam who had posted on his office door demands that directed students to “REMOVE SHOES BEFORE ENTERING” and “KNOCK FIRST, THEN REQUEST ENTRY Say: Bismillah.”
When one student asked politely — and recorded in an undated audio — why he insisted that she remove her shoes, Coe gruffly replied “Get the hell out of here. I don’t want to see you.”
“I am a Muslim,” Coe explained to the student. “You don’t come into my office with dirty shoes; that’s a curse.”
Two other people — who tell Coe that they are parents of students — came to Coe’s office in December 2017 to ask about the demands posted on his door:
“I want to know why these [signs] are necessary,” one of the men asks Coe. “Why would a student have to take their shoes off? Why would a student have to say [Bismillah]?”
“Because I am a Muslim and I don’t want them coming in my office with dirty shoes,” Coe stated.
“But this is your office, this is not a prayer [place],” the man tells Coe. “We have a separate place for a prayer” (where shoes are to be removed).
Coe doesn’t answer, and the visitor then makes an obvious point about the “Say: Bismillah” command:
“If a Christian put in here ‘In Jesus’ name’…would this happen?”
Felix Coe doesn’t answer, but instead goes to his phone, no doubt calling Campus Security to come and remove these people who have the gall to question him. The video ends at this point, and we don’t know if the visitors then left voluntarily or were escorted out. But their points have been made, and Coe’s blustering nastiness recorded, not least for the benefit of the administrators at the University of Connecticut, a public institution.
What everyone of sense will realize is that Felix Coe thought he could get away with treating his office as a space for Muslim prayer, where shoes are to be left at the entry, and where, he further insisted, all those coming to see him, including non-Muslims, were required to say the Bismillah (“In the name of Allah”), the invocation made before any undertaking by devout Muslims. What was it that gave him that idea? Might it have been the general attitude, abroad in the land, and especially in academic settings, of deference to Muslims and to Islam? This last demand (“Say: Bismillah”) was especially outrageous at a public university. We all know that if a Christian professor had required students to say “in the name of Jesus” before entering his office at a public university, he would immediately be in big trouble. Coe could say nothing coherent to defend that “Say: Bismillah,” but he was not, either, about to remove the command.
Then something unexpected happened. The University of Connecticut administrators, having learned of the unusual demands made on visitors by the bullying botanist, ordered the immediate removal of “Say: Bismillah” from Coe’s office door. According to Campus Reform, “UConn promptly resolved the issue in a manner that respects the rights of all involved, and affirms the University’s values of civility and inclusivity. Regarding this instance, the sign that had directed guests to precede their conversations with a specific Arabic phrase was immediately removed at the University’s direction,” a university spokesperson stated.
And that was not the end of the matter. Sometime after December 2017, we now learn, Felix Coe “retired.” Was he forced to retire from the University of Connecticut, given the outrageousness of his behavior? Or did he retire because he didn’t like being told what he could and could not require of visitors? It hardly matters. He is gone. The administration, the faculty, and above all the students, are free from his bullying. The students and parents who helped draw attention to his behavior will be models for activist students, and their parents, on other campuses. And Muslim faculty, who might have emulated him, will now learn from the example of former associate professor, Felix Coe, now suddenly retired, that there are limits to what the Infidels will endure.
mortimer says
Felix Coe is an example of the OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER that is systemically a part of Islam. Mohammed’s CO-MORBID personality disorders must be imitated by all Muslims, and when they behave like Mohammed, Muslims become more and more absurd and insane.
No one can believe that Mohammed is a valid prophet and retain a connection to reality and emotional health. Mohammedanism perverts the human personality and makes people emotionally and mentally ill to one degree or another as they progress to absolute fanaticism and detachment from reality.
JawsV says
Fantastic news! I believe “forcefully” precedes “retires.” Another Muslim convert nutcase.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
A victory.
Now on to the next problem.
Gjallarhornet says
Fanatical, grumpy converts like Coe should be force-marched into ISIS-held territory with a sign on them saying “I am a muslim, but the wrong kind. Punish me harshly”. That would be a way to give intolerant fanatics a taste of their own medicine.
Linda says
Students shouldn’t have other people’s religious practices heaped on them at any school. Now Coe is free to become more and more insane on his own time.
No Muzzies Here says
The left condemns all religions except Islam. Why is it, that the one religion that they embrace and worship, is the one that promotes murder of Christians and Jews? The one religion that preaches hatred and intolerance. The one religion that practices hatred and intolerance. The one religion that rejects everything that science has discovered in the past 1400 years. If you can understand the answer to that one, you will have succeeded in understanding insanity.
RichardL says
I think a very likely explanation is that the was old enough to retire and just let his loveliness show when it didn’t matter anymore. He really hated students, it seems. I doubt that the university actually forced him out. He left at a time and in a manner of his own choice.
He had good publications and should have made full professor. The fact that he didn’t means that he was a horrible teacher and terrible member of the university community.
Mark Berlinger says
Appears that U of Conn authorities swept the Islamic dirt under the rug. The Campus Reform piece lacks important details, like when did complaints about the professor’s sign begin?
Mr. Fitzgerald, fine reporting as always, but may I suggest an appropriate modification of tense.
The students and parents who helped draw attention to his behavior are models for activist students, and their parents, on other campuses. And Muslim faculty, who will emulated him, can learn from the example of former associate professor, Felix Coe, now suddenly retired, that there are limits to what the Infidels will endure.
roberta says
Losing his power over his students will probably kill this sick person.
TWG says
I watched this video the other day and just imagined what I would have said and done if some ahole like him spoke to me in that manner. To put it lightly, I’d have (figuratively) chewed his face off. The people in the video were firm and polite, and I especially enjoyed the part where the man said “No. We’re not going anywhere.” when being ordered to follow the jihadist somewhere.
I’m always glad to see these bullies exposed via undercover camera. Bravo to the students and parents who addressed this situation.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes. Exactly.
One hopes that this may prove to be a “straw in the wind”; **infidel pushback**.
Here, there and everywhere.
Perhaps the years and years of effort and education by Mr Spencer and Mr Fitzgerald, and many many others, along with the activism of groups such as ACT for America, still steadily and quietly expanding, *are* starting to bear fruit, here and there.
An encouragement, this story, to all the resistance to keep on keeping on.
Remember: neither the Portuguese, the Spanish, nor the Greeks, gained their freedom from Muslims – and *they* weren’t just dealing with ‘encroachment’ they were having to throw off a full-scale occupation of *centuries* – all at once. But they never gave up, never stopped pushing.. and in the end, they did it. (That their descendants, especially those of the Greeks, look like having to do it all over again, today, is sad.. but at least the example is *there*, to show what is possible, that the Ummah *can* be pushed back, turfed out).
Rarely says
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Do you think this might have radicalized him? Time to worry: MAD EX-BIOLOGY PROFESSOR ON THE LOOSE!!!
JawsV says
Wouldn’t surprise me if he chose Jihad. He’s obviously a fanatic who takes Allah’s commands seriously. Churchill’s “fanatical frenzy” (1899).
Wellington says
The most pathetic of losers is an old loser. Exhibit #1 here: Felix Coe.
Begone, old fool.
Lydia Church says
This is why I keep saying it, don’t back down, don’t just ‘go along to get along,’ be bold, return the favor, if you know what I mean. In a case like that, I would enter saying, “in Jesus’ name!” and I really would! Things could never get better if people just cower and go yellow spined, or just want to avoid ‘problems.’ Because trust me, you won’t, they will just come back bigger tomorrow.
Guts of steel. Remember that.
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IanB says
“He is gone”.
Good riddance.
Bernice says
Happy to hear that UConn 1) did the right thing, or 2) Coe got the hell out. Either way, no one should have to accept that kind of bullying so typical of Islam.
Minas says
I wouldn’t doubt if this insane jackass gets the order from his devil god to return and shoot up the place
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Felix Coe Retires
……………….
*Good*. Of course, the university never did address his abuse of Infidel students.
Dale Netherton says
A dumb professor that couldn’t dissect Islam.