Yeah, this is like posting that water is wet. Mohamed Abdou will fit right in at Columbia, and won’t meet any professors there who don’t share his point of view, or who dare to say so if they really do dissent. What would be news would be if Columbia or any other university hired an opponent of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. But that would never happen in a million years.
“He Endorsed Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Then He Landed a Professorship at Columbia University.” By Jessica Costescu, Washington Free Beacon, February 27, 2024:
During a Jan. 5 interview with socialist podcast Revolutionary Left Radio, Islamic scholar Mohamed Abdou declared his support for Hamas and “the resistance.” The terror group’s “dedicated few,” he said admiringly, worked in “stealth mode” on Oct. 7 to defeat a “larger enemy” in Israel.
Just days later, on Jan. 16, Columbia University’s Middle East Institute extended a “warm welcome” to Abdou, the Ivy League school’s latest visiting professor in modern Arab studies.
As part of that role, Abdou teaches a weekly class on “Decolonial-Queerness & Abolition,” where his students discuss “transnational feminist discourses” and “queer of color critiques.” The self-described “Muslim anarchist” has also emerged as a friend to Columbia’s anti-Israel community. In a Feb. 11 social media post, Abdou revealed that he organized a protest in which Columbia students interrupted a panel featuring Hillary Clinton. One demonstrator called the former secretary of state a “war criminal” who “will burn” before chanting, “Free, free Palestine.”…
Abdou offered a more explicit endorsement of Hamas four days after the terrorist group’s attack on Israel. “Yes, I’m with the muqawamah (the resistance) be it Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad,” he wrote in an Oct. 11 Facebook post, which also lamented “false reports accusing Arabs and Muslims of decapitating the heads of children and being rapists.” Months later, Abdou’s assessment remained the same.
“I might be with Hamas and support the resistance, absolutely,” the Columbia professor told Revolutionary Left Radio in January. “Look what 1,500 did … they were organized and they worked in stealth mode and they divested.”
“And nobody expected that this was the direction that Hamas and the Hamas leadership, or at least the political leadership, was going to take,” Abdou continued. “But look what the dedicated few [did] … how much a small group have defeated a larger enemy.”
Neither Columbia nor Abdou responded to requests for comment. Abdou’s role as a visiting professor will keep the Islamic scholar on Columbia’s campus through the spring 2024 semester. Abdou on his website acknowledges that the campus sits “on the ancestral and traditional homelands of the Lenni-Lenape and Wappinger peoples.”
While Abdou has already worked to organize anti-Israel protests at Columbia, he encourages those who oppose the Jewish state to go further.
“DON’T just go to Pro-Palestinian rallies DON’T just post on social media,” he wrote in November. “ORGANIZE revolutionary alternatives to capitalism & the state ON THE LAND you live alongside BIPOC kin who share similar anti-imperialist & anti-settler-colonial ETHICAL-POLITICAL commitments as YOU.”
SC says
Track em all. If they are pro-terrorist then their freedom of speech needs to be monitored to ensure it remains just speech rather than incitement to action or dare I say it “Hate speech” against the US and its allies.
FYI says
“An islamic scholar”
Would the “scholar” be prepared to follow allah’s suggestion to muhammed in koran 10:94 and check with the Bible people concerning..
1}allah’s preposterous claim that christians worship THREE gods{allah,muslim jesus and..MARY}
koran 5:116{pickthall}
2}If allah says{“WE gave unto moses the scripture” koran 2:87}then how did allah MISS the entire contents of that scripture i.e the Laws of Moses
3]allah’s boast that “allah is knower of ALL things”{koran 2:29}is DEMOLISHED by all the koran’s errors{scientific,Theological,Historical}
so..
How can allah be God if he is PROVABLY NOT OMNISCIENT?
Omniscience means knowing ALL things but clearly allah does not understand Science or Theology or the Biblical laws.
allah is knower of ALL things….EXCEPT science,theology etc..
There can be no exceptions if you are claiming to be omniscient!!
A really good scholar would check the sources.
A really good muslim scholar would become an ex-muslim on seeing the koran’s errors.
An islamic “scholar” who sees the koran’s errors yet chooses to claim to be a scholar is like a professor who specializes in the field of Square Tire Engineering.A Dawah man is merely a square tire salesman.You wouldn’t be dumb enough to buy a square tire now would you as you would know that wouldn’t work
maria says
Can you fire this muslim? How does he dare to have a high position in
at Columbia university?
He should be sent back to his muslim holes
FYI says
Yes it is ridiculous but the Universitys are so Far left today it does not surprise me at all these “academics” and bogus fields like Gender studies,Diversity issues etc.I am sure they have “islamophobia” seminars.
FYI says
An example of such “academic” nonsense is a Leftard-neocommunist concept called “White Privilege”
Do Australian Aboriginal people have Black privilege simply by living in their ancestral homelands?Do Africans in Africa?
Of course not.That is ridiculous.
Do Scots/Irish etc have White privilege simply by living in their ancestral homelands?
Of course not.That’s equally ridiculous.
So this “white privilege” nonsense is pseudo academic Leftardism .
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
If looks could kill. RIP Columbia University.
Another Ivy League University sacrifices itself on the altar of woke ideology.
40 rounds says
I thought that was viva frei for a second!
James Lincoln says
The value of a degree from Columbia is dropping faster than Biden’s poll numbers.
Scotsman48 says
This dude speaks against Capitalism while taking a Pay Check from Columbia while teaching what kind of classes?..WHY do they have such courses like Arab studies, is there such a thing as European/Western Studies Program in Arab Countries ?..
The people who send their kids to these schools are fools that are wasting their money and the Alumni that sends them millions every year need to stop doing so.
Clean out the entire school.
I never let my lack of schooling get in the way of my education.
James Lincoln says
Scotsman48 says,
“The people who send their kids to these schools are fools that are wasting their money and the Alumni that sends them millions every year need to stop doing so.”
Yes.
And shut down ALL US government – as well as ALL foreign government funding.
Get rid of all woke / islamic propaganda courses.
And at least 50% of the faculty: conservatives.
OLD GUY says
So this is what we get for Joe paying off all those student loans.. Another professor who will teach hate America at our educational institutions. This guy shouldn’t even be in the country yet alone teaching our children.
Skai says
Agree, I think we in
USA are doomed