Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3968-1007008119-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com>
Delivered-To: fc@all.net
Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 28 Nov 2001 20:31:07 -0800 (PST)
Received: (qmail 19586 invoked by uid 510); 29 Nov 2001 04:29:05 -0000
Received: from n35.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.85) by all.net with SMTP; 29 Nov 2001 04:29:05 -0000
X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3968-1007008119-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com
Received: from [10.1.4.55] by n35.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Nov 2001 04:28:39 -0000
X-Sender: ozair_rasheed@geocities.com
X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com
Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 29 Nov 2001 04:28:38 -0000
Received: (qmail 75340 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2001 04:28:38 -0000
Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m11.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Nov 2001 04:28:38 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO proxy) (208.242.128.175) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Nov 2001 04:28:32 -0000
Received: from ozair ([192.168.1.99]) by proxy with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.1600); Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:26:03 +0500
To: "Info War" <iwar@yahoogroups.com>
Message-ID: <002101c1788f$b5eab980$6301a8c0@crestech.com>
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616
In-Reply-To: <200111282028.fASKSZ913622@red.all.net>
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Importance: Normal
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Nov 2001 04:26:03.0727 (UTC) FILETIME=[F4E22DF0:01C1788D]
From: "Mohammad Ozair Rasheed" <ozair_rasheed@geocities.com>
X-Yahoo-Profile: ozair_rasheed
Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com
Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com
Precedence: bulk
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:38:36 +0500
Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [iwar] [fc:A.professor.is.falsely.accused]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Why 11 weeks later? Transcript would have been available there and then
:).
Regards,
Ozair
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cohen [mailto:fc@all.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:29 AM
To: Information Warfare Mailing List
Subject: [iwar] [fc:A.professor.is.falsely.accused]
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?
------------------
http://all.net/
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
Universal Inkjet Refill Kit $29.95
Refill any ink cartridge for less!
Includes black and color ink.
http://us.click.yahoo.com/3FDzZA/MkNDAA/ySSFAA/kgFolB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->
------------------
http://all.net/
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : 2001-12-31 20:59:59 PST