March 27, 2007

More on Dalton State's Terror Supporting Professor

Alex from Sigmund, Carl and Alfred weighs in:

Dalton State College is not being asked to 'abridge the constitutional rights of any individual, including freedom of expression, even when we do not agree with it,' but rather, to consider whether having Dr. Elnajjar on their staff and as such, representative of Dalton State College is in the best interest of the Dalston State College students and the University System of Georgia. We would ask Dalton State College president Dr. Jim Burran and others who have used similar nonsensical arguments if they would afford similar courtesies to a professor who called for the genocide of blacks or other minorities, or if they thought that having faculty that openly espoused those very beliefs are in the best interests of students. We question whether or not the parents of students who attend Dalton State College and taxpayers in the great state of Georgia would find Dr. Elnajjar's appointment to that college and Dr. Burran's vigorous defense of that appointment an appropriate expenditure of public dollars.
The rest of the post goes on about the pathologies of Arab society in general. These pathologies of self-loathing, he suggests, are the real reason behind the raging antisemitism one finds in the Middle East. I differ from Alex inasmuch as I do not believe it is Arab society that suffers these pathologies as much as it is Muslim societies. Those same pathologies are found in North Africa, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and wherever Islam becomes the dominate cultural force.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 12:36 PM | |