[Peace] [Peace-discuss] Steven Salaita speaks

[David Green via Peace]

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. 


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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