October 22, 2016

Is Iran Ratcheting Up Influence-Peddling in American Universities?

The American academy, which has revealed itself to be markedly susceptible to the intrigues of the Saudi-based radical Wahhabi sect and the Muslim Brotherhood, now faces the challenge of an Iranian radical presence. Since 2014, admission of Irania...

April 29, 2015

Don't Believe the Hype about Zaytuna College

The accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) of tiny Zaytuna College, an Islamist project with seventeen professors and fifty students in Berkeley, California that has been called “America’s first Musli...

August 13, 2013

'Islamophobia' in the Bay Area?

According to "The Bay Area Muslim Study: Establishing Identity and Community,"  (BAMS) the San Francisco Bay Area, long known for its tolerance towards minorities and adherence to multiculturalism, is a hotbed of "Islamophobia." Its principal a...

March 10, 2013

The Iran Lobby Buys a Friendly Face for Despotism

The funding of a significant pro-Iran lobby that funnels money to American universities was disclosed to the wider public for the first time during the U.S. Senate's recent confirmation battle over Chuck Hagel's successful nomination as secretary of ...

November 17, 2012

M. Shahid Alam: Northeastern University's Historical Hoaxer

What need be said of a professor at a large American university who declares that to be called an anti-Semite is "a sign of distinction" for an academic or an activist? That he is crudely and arrogantly heedless in his biased declamations? That the A...

October 14, 2012

Northeastern University's Islamists

Northeastern University in Boston has big ambitions.  As a private and popular institution, with more than 20,000 students, it rose from a night school to a commuter college to a leading research facility in health, homeland security, and other ...

April 15, 2012

Hartford Seminary's Shameful Ties to Syria's Dictator

The Hartford Seminary has occupied a leading position among theological faculties around the nation in accommodating Islam, particularly in its radical forms, since appointing its first Muslim faculty member more than twenty years ago.  Today, t...

February 17, 2012

John Louis Esposito for the Defense (of an Alleged Would-be Terrorist)

Professor John Louis Esposito of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. is one of the most outspoken and prolific defenders of radical Islamist ideology in Western academia.  But in addition to his tenured employment in Middle East Studies, E...

February 5, 2012

Harvard's Middle East Outreach Center: Propaganda for Teachers

In 2005, Saudi prince Alwaleed Bin Talal donated $20 million dollars each to Harvard and Georgetown Universities.  In the years since, Georgetown has earned considerably more press for its use of the prince's largesse, through which it renamed a...

December 11, 2011

Rashid Ghannoushi: John Esposito's Islamist in Tunis

Rashid Ghannoushi (or Rachid Ghannouchi in French) is the ideological elder of Tunisia's Ennahda, or the Renaissance Party, the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.  He arrived in Washington on Monday, November 28, 2011, in the halo of a skew...

September 18, 2011

John L. Esposito: Apologist for Wahhabi Islam

Three things are immediately obvious when one examines the biography of John Louis Esposito, American academic expert on Islam.  The first is that -- as noted by his official biographical listing of more than forty-five books and monographs, alo...

July 17, 2011

Berkeley-CAIR Islamophobia Report: 'No There, There'

Gertrude Stein, the controversial modernist author, spent part of her childhood in Oakland, California, a city on the southern border of Berkeley, home of the flagship campus of the University of California system.  Returning to Oakland later in...

June 24, 2011

Georgetown and the Islamist Money Changers

John L. Esposito, professor of religion and international affairs and director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (CMCU) at Georgetown University, is the leading defender of radical Islam in U.S. higher educati...

May 22, 2011

Moosa and the Madrassas

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May 8, 2011

Radical Islam at UC Berkeley Law

The exploitation of the University of California's Bay Area law schools as a platform for Arab and Islamist propaganda continues. A convocation on "Litigating Palestine," replete with extreme rhetoric against Israel, was held at Hastings La...

April 24, 2011

'Litigating Palestine' at a Public-supported Law School

The University of California's Hastings College of the Law recently demonstrated its utility in the "lawfare" offensive against Israel by hosting a conference on March 25-26, 2011, titled, "Litigating Palestine: Can Courts Secure Pales...

February 20, 2011

Ingrid Mattson: No Longer Leading ISNA, but Still Advancing Radical Islam

Ingrid Mattson, a professor of Islamic studies and Christian-Muslim relations at Hartford Seminary, recently ended a term as the first female and first Muslim convert to serve as president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).  But she...

September 28, 2010

'Zaytuna College' and Its Continuing Media Circus

With the beginning of the 2010-2011 academic year, it was doubtless predictable that mainstream media as well as the educational trade press would resume its biased and inaccurate publicity, only lightly presented as reportage, on Zaytuna College. Ba...

August 3, 2010

John Esposito, Islamophobia, and the Ground Zero Mosque

John L. Esposito, professor of religion and international affairs and director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University, is America's best-known apologist for Saudi Wahhabism, the Turkish fun...

March 29, 2010

Islamist Gülen Movement Runs U.S. Charter Schools

A secretive foreign network of Islamic radicals now operates dozens of charter schools -- which receive government money but are not required to adopt a state-approved curriculum -- on U.S. soil. The inspirer of this conspiratorial effort is Fethulla...

January 31, 2010

Model Middle East Indoctrination

Most Americans, even many of those concerned with the problems of academic Middle East Studies, have probably never heard of the Model Arab League (MAL), an American exercise similar to the better-known Model United Nations. The stated aim of such ef...

August 28, 2009

Tariq Ramadan Repudiated

In an important development for the fight against extremist Islam in the West, the Dutch city of Rotterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam have dismissed Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss-born Islamist academic, from his two local jobs.Born in Switzerland, R...

July 20, 2007

Moderate Islam and Its Muslim Enemies

On Sunday, July 15, The Washington Post published a landmark article in its history -- admittedly inconsistent -- of legitimizing radical Islamists.  Signed by staff writer Michelle Boorstein, it was titled "From Muslim Youths, a Push for C...