[Peace-discuss] Steven Salaita speaks

[ya'aQov via Peace-discuss]

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On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 11:58 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> You are ashamed of everyone, and unwilling to work cooperatively with
> anyone. You only ought to be ashamed of yourself. I don't know how the SDAS
> puts up with someone like you; what an embarrassment to them.
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>   On Thursday, September 11, 2014 11:00 AM, ya'aQov via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Salaita champions himself as someone representing the diversity within the
> Moslem world; he uses the academic terminology (echoing
> that of Native-American studies). He's quick to point out Islamophobic
> characteristics, the world seeing one dimension where in fact there are
> many.
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> I read his tweets and encourage all of you to do so. Note how he does NOT
> represent in his tweets any diversity within Moslems, he does not represent
> the protest withing the Moslem world.
> Nothing is said there about the reign of Hamas, or PA, nothing said about
> any calls for democracy crashed after 2011, Arab Spring turned into
> atrocities of
> Moslems slaughtering each other and non--Moslems. Nothing about Gazans
> beheaded because of voicing criticism of ruling Hamas. Nothing about how
> Muslim world propagates itself, rather than
> looking for a way out of exploitation and misery for millions of its
> people.
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> I am ashamed by UIUC's conduct with Salaita on the level of academic
> speech and freedom. I am ashamed of peace-discuss friends falling for
> propaganda, refusing to dig into
> ways to move out and forward from well oiled systems maintaining misery.
>
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