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Michelle Malkin
[Note: Michelle Malkin is a syndicated columnist]
November 28, 2001
A professor is falsely accused
A week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America, four Muslim
students claimed that their public college professor called them
"Nazis," "murderers" and "terrorists." The media ate up the story.
Muslim activists rallied. School officials panicked.
The college administration kicked the political science professor --
Kenneth Hearlson of Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif. -- off
campus without a hearing, placed him on paid leave, and then launched
an investigation that remains unfinished.
Now, 11 weeks later, the Muslim students' story is unraveling. But the
professor is still sitting at home, barred from teaching because he
upset some hypersensitive young people with overactive imaginations.
Here's what the fuming Muslim students alleged two months ago:
-- C.C. Abdelmuti, a 20-year-old student in the group, told the Los
Angeles Times on Sept. 22 that Hearlson "accused us of killing 5,000
people."
-- "He was saying lots of horrible things," added Zayneb Saidi in the
same article. "'You're terrorists, murderers and rapists.'"
-- Also quoted in the Sept. 22 Times piece: Mooath Saidi, an
18-year-old sophomore and Zayneb's brother, who claimed Hearlson said:
"'It was you who flew the planes into the World Trade Center. You are
a terrorist.' He needs to get fired, if not prosecuted, for what he
did."
-- Abdelmuti was quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education on Sept.
25: "He was telling class that Muslims shouldn't be trusted and
shouldn't have any rights."
-- Mooath Saidi repeated his assertions in the Los Angeles Times on
Sept. 30: "He pointed at me and called me a terrorist. I stand by what
I have believed from day one. He should be fired."
-- Mooath Saidi again reiterated his allegations to the Orange County
Register on Nov. 14: "He pointed in my direction and said, 'You drove
two planes into the World Trade Center. You killed 5,000 people. You
are a terrorist.'"
Hearlson acknowledges that the weekly lecture he gave during his Sept.
18 introductory government course was impassioned. He is, after all, a
passionate man -- a 57-year-old conservative former Marine who grew up
poor in rural Kansas, became a born-again Christian, and began
teaching nearly two decades ago. Hearlson "pushes hot buttons to make
students think," he told me this week, but he says he has never made
personal attacks against anyone during class. "I just tell the truth."
The evidence supports Hearlson, not the hysterical Muslim students.
A transcript of the taped discussion reveals that Hearlson never
accused any of his students of being terrorists. He did criticize the
Clinton administration's half-hearted attempt to retaliate against
Osama bin Laden in 1998 ("he didn't make much of an attempt to get
him"). And he unabashedly praised the resurgence of patriotism and
religion after the attacks ("I've never seen so many flags in my
lifetime ... God all of a sudden came alive in America, didn't he?").
Hearlson also repeatedly asked why Arab states refused to condemn
terrorism against America and Israel unequivocally. And challenging
the politically correct mantra that all Muslims are peaceful, he
mentioned an incident in which Muslim students plastered hate flyers
across his campus last year. "I am not going to lie to you," he told
the class, "I am not going to tell you they were nice people."
The only time during the lecture that Hearlson used the word "you"
came when he discussed Arab attacks on Israel dating back to 1948.
When a student questioned what he meant, Hearlson clarified that he
was referring to Arab nations, not any student personally. Even a New
York Times reporter concluded after hearing the taped discussion that
"while Mr. Hearlson's criticism of Muslim nations was unrelenting, the
claims of personal attacks were exaggerated or fabricated."
Alan Charles Kors, president of the Philadelphia-based Foundation for
Individual Rights in Education, which supports Hearlson, says: "This
is a case that should concern not only the citizens of California, but
all individuals who care about liberty and academic freedom." He's
right.
If higher education is an enlightened search for truth, these
misguided Muslim students have chosen a dead end paved with lies. They
want Hearlson "prosecuted" and "taught a lesson" for offending them.
It is the students who need to be schooled. In America, we don't
punish professors for speaking their minds.
Or do we?
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