If the professor of a college has seriously bigoted views and expresses those views on a routine basis to students in class, and the administration does nothing to change the status quo after repeated complaints from students. They should be exposed to the public and the administration which hired him/her, should be held accountable.
I would expect no less if the person was a racist, homophobe or communist desiring to overturn our government.
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Pipe exlpain in his own words...
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College Campuses. There is of course much about the Forum today that stands no comparison to ten years ago. An example is Campus Watch (CW)http://www.campus-watch.org/, an initiative in operation only 17 months that exposes lapses in professionalism in Middle East studies in North American universities, especially its guild, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). The subject of a front page article in the January 13, 2004 issue of the Washington Post campus-watch.org, CW focuses on five areas: analytical failures; the mixing of politics with scholarship; intolerance of alternative views; apologetics; and the abuse of power over students. Staffed by Jonathan Harris and Asaf Romirowsky, CW’s influence has provoked this lament from a Middle East writer in the Lebanese Daily Star campus-watch.org “You can’t mention MESA without mentioning its nemesis: Campus Watch.”
Our efforts have caught on among college students who frequently report their travails to us, ask for guidance in dealing with the radicalized faculty, or contact our Campus Speakers Bureau to invite MEF staff to give talks. In addition, students at Yale and Brandeis have formed MEF Clubs, adopting the MEF mission statement as their own in an effort to bring more balanced voices to their campuses.
Visibility
Our success has made us the target of much hostility; and while this is not pleasant, especially given its crude nature, the name-calling, and the inaccuracies, noisy opposition has given us much publicity and thus an unprecedented opportunity to get our views heard. Two examples from 2003 illustrate this point:
In January, when I was invited to York University in Toronto, Palestinian, Islamist, and far left groups tried to prevent me from speaking, prompting not just an immense security operation (one hundred security personnel, including Royal Canadian Mounted Police actually on horseback) but national coverage across Canada of my message.
In April, when President Bush nominated me to the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Council on American-Islamic Relations led a campaign of vilification that led to hundreds of publications about my views and culminated in my being Borked by Ted Kennedy danielpipes.org, then recess appointed by the president.
Another interesting indication of this visibility; I am one of the very few analysts in any field with over 100,000 citations at google.com. |
