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Volume XIV, Issue # 64, April 3, 2012
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UCLA HONORS SHARIA APOLOGIST KHALED ABOU EL FADL
By Cinnamon Stillwell & Judith Greblya
AMERICAN ACADEMIA, ISLAMIST PROFESSORS, & ISLAMIC LAW: HONORING A UCLA PROFESSOR & APOLOGIST FOR SHARIA LAW, THE ISLAMIST WORLD
MOVEMENT, & THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN IN THE U.S.A. -- CONFERENCE SPEAKERS USING THE OCCASION AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CLAIM WIDESPREAD
RACISM & ISLAMOPHOBIA & TO SLAM ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & THE WEST -- DEMONSTRATION OF RADICAL ISLAM'S CONTEMPT FOR JEWS, ISRAEL, & AMERICAN
CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
FULL STORY:
Academic self-congratulation reached new heights at the University of California at Los Angeles on March 21, 2012, with "An Event Honoring Professor Khaled
Abou El Fadl." Abou El Fadl — Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law and Chair of the Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program at
UCLA — was feted by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA School of Law Journal of Near Eastern and Islamic Law, the UCLA School
of Law Muslim Law Students Association, and the UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program. Eighty students, professors, and community members
gathered to commemorate "the world's leading authority on Islamic law and Islam, and the prominent scholar in the field of human rights," according to the event
description. In reality, Fadl is an apologist for radical Islam, who routinely denies valid concerns over the human rights abuses inherent to Sharia (Islamic) law,
while charging its critics with "Islamophobia."
Cheryl Harris, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights at UCLA, opened the event by hailing Abou El Fadl as a hero in "the
struggle against Islamophobia in America." Persecuted for the "sins he has committed . . . from the sin of being a scholar to standing up against the egregious
vilification of Muslims in the West," Abou El Fadl — in Harris's fevered imagination — is a victim of slander from both Liberals and Conservatives. Ratcheting up
the melodrama even further, she then declared that "the Korematsu trope has been recycled in the post-9/11 world against Muslims," referring to the 1944 United
States Supreme Court case deciding the constitutionality of the order to intern Japanese-Americans during World War II. This ludicrous comparison has been
made on more than one such occasion; it never seems to lose its appeal to academic peddlers of victimhood.
Continuing this theme, George Bisharat, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, reveled in sinister — albeit imaginary —
campaigns to stifle academic freedom. He focused on a March, 2011, Hastings conference that he organized titled, "Litigating Palestine: Can Courts Secure
Palestinian Rights?" The conference featured a roster of anti-Israel speakers advocating the delegitimization of Israel through the U.S. Courts — otherwise known
as lawfare. Because of the radical, one-sided nature of the conference, local Jewish leaders expressed their reservations to Hastings Dean, Frank Wu, who
subsequently canceled his welcoming address and the Law School's official co-sponsorship. Bisharat objected to Wu's actions, telling the San Francisco
Chronicle that "opponents had wrongly accused the conference of 'Israeli-bashing.'" Yet journalist Stephen Schwartz, who attended the conference and
reported on it for Campus Watch, wrote:
"In fact, that's exactly what took place at the conference. The anti-Israeli
rhetoric of the participants was notably extreme, and even bizarre. . . .
Hastings officials were correct in withdrawing their sponsorship and
canceling the participation of their Dean in this effort."
Bisharat's bitterness lingers, for he again chastised Hastings officials for withdrawing their sponsorship and, in the process, revealed his anti-Semitic conspiracy
mongering. Claiming he initially believed that opposition came from "a few alumni who were troubled by the one-sided group of speakers," he added:
"[B]ut when I dug deeper and spoke with the Dean, it was clear to me
that it was the Jews. The Jews were behind a united attempt to
silence academic freedom."
So, anti-Semitism had no place at the conference — if only those conniving Jews who attempted to silence it had known that!
Sherman Jackson, who now occupies the Saudi-funded (and grandiosely titled) King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and
American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, followed, explaining that it was a "matter of duty to come and speak here today." Adding
to the chorus of voices lauding Abou El Fadl's heroism against the supposed onslaught of American Islamophobia, Jackson — also known as Abdal Hakim
Jackson — then noted:
"I am an African-American convert to Islam. I live in a socalled
democratic country. America has been a 'democratic' country
for two-hundred years, and yet has a past of deep racial issues. . . .
Fadl's struggle is our struggle as a nation. What happens to
Khaled happens to us."
Having stated at a December, 2009, convention that "his primary commitment was to Allah, not to America," Jackson's contempt for American democracy is no
surprise.
Jackson congratulated the students in attendance for having the "courage to stand up against Islamophobia" by celebrating Abou El Fadl's storied career and
concluded his talk with an Arabic adage: "Those who are silent in the face of injustice are dumb mutes." As an advocate for implementing the barbarism of Sharia
law in the U.S.A., Jackson clearly does not apply the same standard to himself. Moreover, it takes no "courage" to participate in an event characterized by
intellectual and political uniformity.
Echoing the previous speakers, Susan Slymovics, UCLA Anthropology Professor and Director of its Center for Near Eastern Studies, concluded the evening with
another fawning tribute to Abou El Fadl, whose "brave research," she claimed, "has raised awareness about racism and Islamophobia both domestically and
abroad." If "raising awareness" about a phenomenon that does not exist — Muslims in America and throughout the West continue to thrive and enjoy the same
rights and privileges as everyone else — and that is designed to silence legitimate criticism, while avoiding much-needed reform, is a mark of courage, then Abou
El Fadl is the bravest of men.
Using the occasion as an opportunity to claim widespread Islamophobia and to bash Israel, the U.S.A., and the West — all the while demonstrating a comical
capacity for self-regard — these four speakers provided a fitting tribute to Abou El Fadl, who has made a career out of doing exactly the same thing. He should
feel honored, indeed.
Republished with the Permission of Campus Watch
Reprinted from Campus Watch, April 3, 2012
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/04/03/ucla-honors-sharia-apologist-khaled-abou-el-fadl/
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12216
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Education, Training, & America's Schools:
U.S. Institutions of Elementary, Secondary, & Higher Education:
Schools, Colleges, & Universities As Instruments of Political Propaganda:
Propaganda Platforms in the Islamist Jihad Against America & the West
The Islamist Fifth Column -- America's Internal Enemies:
Disloyalty, Subversion, Sedition, & Treason
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States,
& Their Middle Eastern Neighbors
American Foreign Policy -- The Middle East
International Politics & World Disorder:
War, Peace, & Geopolitics in the Real World:
Foreign Affairs & U.S. National Security
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Judith Greblya co-wrote the foregoing article with Cinnamon Stillwell, the West Coast Representative for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East
Forum, which commissioned this work.
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