Here is my article on the plight of Middle Eastern Jewry, which is regularly neglected by academia. From Pajamas Media:
One cannot grasp the complicated reality of the Middle East by ignoring half the suffering.
October 23, 2008 - by Reut Cohen
In May 2007, Jimmy Carter went on a speaking tour and made a stop at the University of California, Irvine. During his talk, the former president made an offer to assist in funding a trip between Jewish and Muslim students to Israel and the Palestinian territories with the intention of bringing awareness to the plight of the Palestinians.
In August 2008 a group of students, primarily composed of Jewish students and students who are involved with the Middle Eastern Studies Student Initiative (MESSI) or the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, participated in a program to visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Jimmy Carter did not subsidize the trip according to the students and departments involved, but Carter's suggestion in 2007 definitely helped to inspire this trip. Now that students have returned to the United States they will be sharing their experiences and the perspectives they heard at a series of events sponsored by university departments throughout the year.
My outlook regarding this trip is neither optimistic nor reassured just because the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding endorsed this program and UC Irvine's vice chancellor briefly met with students during the trip. After all, I am very familiar with the vice chancellor at my alma mater. He is the same vice chancellor who made a rather asinine remark that he would not seek to curtail hate speech against Jews because "one person's hate speech is another's education."
Another concern is that students, who probably had good if not extremely misguided intentions, were only afforded the ability to see two parts of the Middle East — developed Israel and the underdeveloped Palestinian Authority. Certainly students, especially students who went into the trip knowing little about the conflict, will only have a prospering, developed nation to compare the Palestinian territories to. In order for a well-rounded, honest approach to understanding the Middle East, students should have seen how Jordanians and Egyptians live. Anyone who has visited the Middle East will recognize that there are distinct similarities of impoverishment, lack of sanitation, and infrastructure in villages.
Conversely, Israel is not much different than Western nations. Innovation, advancement, proper health, and infrastructure are obvious components of Israeli society....
The historic Nazi connection to today's Islamic terrorism is Haj Amin al-Husseini, one of the initial members of the Muslim Brotherhood. He became a Nazi agent after meeting Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Holocaust, in the Palestine Mandate (also known as the spoils of the Turkish Empire) in 1937. With Nazi funds he organized the Arab Revolt of 1936-39 which led to the British stopping Jewish immigration to modern day Israel. This facilitated the "Final Solution" by closing off the avenue of refuge. In 1941, the mufti orchestrated a short-lived, Nazi-backed generals' coup in Iraq.
The Iraq coup was followed by the Farhud, a pogrom against Baghdad's Jews, an event viewed by Sephardic/Mizrahi Jews as comparable to the German "Kristallnacht." The Mufti obtained Hitler's assurance in November 1941 that after dealing with the Jews of Europe, Hitler would treat the Jews of the Middle East similarly.
The Third Jihad exposes the war the media is not telling you about.
It reveals the enemy our government is too afraid to name.
One person who is not afraid to tell you the truth is Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim American and former physician to the US Congress.
After the FBI releases a radical Islamist manifesto describing how to destroy America from within, Dr. Jasser decides to investigate. The Third Jihad is about what he discovered.
Interviews are conducted with radical Islamists in the US and the leaders trying to stop them, such as Rudy Giuliani, Clinton CIA Director Jim Woolsey, NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Senator Joe Lieberman, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, and former terrorist group member Tawfik Hamid.
On a website devoted to Ramadhan, the Muslim Brotherhood posted a series of articles by Dr. Ahmad 'Abd Al-Khaleq about Al-Walaa Wa'l-Baraa, an Islamic doctrine which, in its fundamentalist interpretation, stipulates absolute allegiance to the community of Muslims and total rejection of non-Muslims and of Muslims who have strayed from the path of Islam.
In his articles, the writer argues that according to this principle, a Muslim can come closer to Allah by hating all non-Muslims - Christians, Jews, atheists, or polytheists - and by waging jihad against them in every possible manner.
Lebanese officials are planning to sue Israel because of chumus (a popular dish composed of chick peas that is frequently eaten in Israel). According to Lebanese officials, Israel stole chumus.
I'd like to say I'm amused, but I'm actually disgusted.
More than half of Israelis are Middle Eastern and indigenous to North Africa and the Middle East. Historically, Jews were treated like third-class citizens despite being indigenous people and having a legitimate claim to living in the region. Around the 1930s and 1940s, due to extreme persecution, Jews found that they had no choice but to leave what became Islamic countries (most went to Israel). When they arrived in Israel, they took with them the customs and culture that belonged to their ancestors for thousands of years. This included prayer, language, music, etc.
And these Jews also ate chumus.
The decision by the Lebanese Industrialists Association is an arrogant one and maliciously aimed at Israel. Chumus is a Middle Eastern dish and there is no proof regarding origins. It may have originated in pre-Islamic Egypt, Syria or elsewhere.
However, this situation is absolute nonsense and does not deserve the media attention it has been receiving. It would be akin to having Israel file a suit against any country that sells jelly doughnuts.
I wonder which Islamic nation will grab the international claim on suicide bombing.
A Lebanese official says his country is preparing to file an international lawsuit against Israel for claiming ownership of traditional dishes it believes were originally Lebanese.
The president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association, Fadi Abboud, accuses Israel of "stealing" its northern neighbor's cuisine by marketing dishes such as humous - found across the Middle East - as its own.
Abboud says that while Lebanon is partly to blame because it has never registered its main food trademarks, Israel's adoption of these dishes causes it major losses.
He told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the lawsuit would be based on the 2002 precedent in which Greece won a ruling that only its cheese could be called Feta.
Jalil Dabit, the chef at Samir's Restaurant in Ramle, who serves humous with whole chickpeas, olive oil and a secret blend of spices, agrees with the Lebanese move.
"It is the right thing to do. The Israeli people are taking a product that does not officially belong to them. It originates among the Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese people," he said.
Since Ron Arad was taken captive, thousands of terrorists who have massacred Jewish babies and blown up innocent civilians have been freed in fruitless peace negotiations.
In 1987, three letters in Ron's handwriting and two photos of a bearded Arad were received, proving Ron was alive. The Israeli government negotiated for his release, but talks failed in 1988. There are inconclusive indications that Arad was then "sold" to Iran. After this time, credible information about Arad has been hard to discover, though unsubstantiated claims of new information are made regularly.
Muslim Brotherhood leader Ibrahim al-Houdaiby's peremptory, if not indignant snub of UCI English teacher Gary Fouse's question about a damning government exhibit about the Brotherhood's association with the Holy Land Foundation wasn't surprising, as it represents the seemingly immutable strategy of the archetypal Islamist: lie, cheat, and deny your motives, conveniently retake your oath in the spirit of jihadist pragmatism:
Bukhari 5,59,369 Mohammed asked, "Who will kill Ka'b, the enemy of Allah and Moham-med?" Bin Maslama rose and responded, "O Mohammed! Would it please you if I killed him?" Mohammed answered, "Yes." Bin Maslama then said, "Give me permission to deceive him with lies so that my plot will succeed." Mohammed replied, "You may speak falsely to him."
Mr. al-Houdaiby wants to call himself a reformer, an advocate for "justice, equality, and peace," and opposes the corruption and oppression that has defined the nearly 30 year reign of Hosni Mubarak. But during his lecture, al-Houdaiby expressed his deference for Hasan al-Bannah, extricating the Muslim Brotherhood founder from the movement's succeeding scholar Sayyid Qtub, the latter taking a supposedly more radical view of Islam. The New Yorker's Lawrence Wright writes about Qtub in his book the Looming Tower:
His revolutionary argument placed nominally Islamic governments in the crosshairs of jihad. "The Muslim community has long ago vanished from existence," Qtub contends. It was "crushed under the weight of those laws and teachings which are not even remotely related to the Islamic teachings." Humanity cannot be saved unless Muslims recapture the glory of their earliest and purest expression. "We need to initiate the movement of Islamic revival in some Muslim country," he writes, in order to fashion an example that will eventually lead Islam to its destiny of world dominion. (18-19)
Extricable from his predecessor? Wright continues with al-Bannah's thoughts on "world dominion:"
Their founder, Hasan al-Banna, had refused to link of his organization as a mere political party; it was meant to be a challenge to the entire idea of politics. Banna completely rejected the Western model of secular, democratic government, which contradicted his notion of universal Islamic rule. "It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations, and to extend its power to the entire planet, he wrote." (p. 25)
While the regime of Hosni Mubarak is less than favorable, the imposition of Sunni-style theocracy is far less favorable. By generally dismissing a government exhibit that mirrors the al-Bannah's goals as forgery, and more ambiguously describing the prospect an enlightened pluralistic society to mollify the fears of an over arching application Sharia law, al-Houdaiby is attempting to re-package the Brotherhood's vision as presentable. However nuanced and modern it may seem, it constitutes a modern tactic to exploit the good nature of Western society. Yet, he still remains far from convincing.
Despite the fact that Iranian officials have called for the annihilation of Israel, Israeli doctors will be treating a 12-year-old Iranian cancer patient in the same country that the Iranian president threatens to annihilate and refers to as a "stinking corpse" in his speeches.
Gary Fouse sent me the following regarding his thoughts on the Irvine City Council Campaign. Here is what Gary has to say regarding the campaign of a local attorney for CAIR:
For the past couple of years, I have been writing about the outrageous events and speakers being brought to UC-Irvine by the campus Muslim Student Union. I have posted many of my comments on the Red County blog of Orange County, a center-right blog. This has led many back and forth exchanges with other Red County readers, most agreeing with my posts, some disagreeing.
One of the figures who has occasionally commented in defense of the MSU and accused its critics of being anti-Muslim is none other than the local attorney for CAIR (Council of Islamic American Relations), Todd Gallinger.
Guess who is running for the Irvine City Council.
Not only is Mr Gallinger running for the City Council, he is upset that one of the incumbents running for re-election, Dr Steven Choi, recently spoke to a group of people and warned them about voting for someone who is associated with a "dangerous" organization (Gallinger-CAIR). Gallinger and CAIR are demanding an apology from Choi, which Choi refuses to give.
(CAIR's website today is reporting that Gallinger has just received a telephone death threat from an unidentified person. If that is the case, I certainly condemn it.)
Here's my 2 cents worth. CAIR insists that it is a moderate group which represents mainstream Muslims. It says it condemns terrorism (in all its forms), which, in my view, is a convenient add-on that opens the door to equate Israel with Islamic terrorism. Its Communications Director, Ibrahim Hooper, has refused to condemn Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations. In addition, CAIR has engaged in lawsuits on behalf of US Muslims alleging discrimination and racial profiling. One example is the case of the "Flying Imams".
Finally, CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Homeland Foundation charities case.
Gallinger himself has participated in some of CAIR's lawsuits including suits against the Dept of Homeland Security and the FBI over those agency's roles in alleged delays in processing citizenship applications of Muslims due to background checks.
He also was involved in a lawsuit against Yale University Press representing a group called KinderUSA and trying to stop publication of a book entitled; "Hamas:Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad", by Matthew Levitt, who is director of the Stein Program on Terrorism, Intelligence and Policy at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. This book linked KinderUSA to groups raising money for terrorism under the guise of charity. The case was settled in August 2007. An article from the New Haven Independent dated 5-9-07 by Paul Bass entitled; "Alleged terror front group sues Yale Press" may be found at the below website:
As for CAIR, it is fair and accurate to say that it is under a great deal of suspicion. Many of its critics charge that CAIR is connected to terrorist organizations overseas, which CAIR denies.
So, is CAIR a "dangerous" organization? I don't know, but I would be very comfortable in saying that CAIR is a suspicious organization.
Which means that I would not be voting for Mr Gallinger. But, of course, I don't live in Irvine anyway. gary fouse fousesquawk
Gary Fouse, an adjunct professor at UCI, attended an event that was co-sponsored by the UCI History Department on October 8th. Fouse's recap of the event suggests that the Muslim Brotherhood speaker contradicted himself, attempting to present his organization in a positive way despite evidence which suggests that Muslim Brotherhood is extremely repressive.
Today, Ibrahim Al-Houdaiby, a spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, appeared at UCI. He was invited to UCI by the Center for Research on International and Global Studies and the History Department. His topic was Religion and Democracy in the Middle East. Al Houdaiby portrays himself-and the Muslim Brotherhood as moderate and seeking to establish understanding between Islam and the West. They are opponents of the current Egyptian Government. The event took place as part of a class by Professor Mark LeVIne, a Middle East expert who is considered sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. (His critics consider him anti-Israel.) Members of the public were invited to attend the talk and the question and answer session. Aside from the students in the class, most of the attendees were Muslim students with a handful of Jewish members from the community. There were no incidents or heated exchanges.
Prior to the event, the Brotherhood's website, Ikhwan Web.com, posted an article describing opposition to the appearance. The article linked to a Frontpage.com article. (Al-Houdaiby is a member of the Ikhwan Board.)
Due to my class commitments, I arrived about 30 minutes late, and shortly before the conclusion of Al-Houdaiby's remarks. I was able to attend the Q&A, however. My question was one of the last because Dr LeVine wanted to give his students the chance to ask questions first in the limited time.
I would have liked to claim that I was the only skunk at the garden party, but a few students voiced skepticism about the Brotherhood in their questions about women's rights, the alleged role of the Brotherhood in the assassination of Anwar Sadat and other issues. One young lady described herself as a Coptic Christian and voiced concern about their rights in a Muslim society. (Coptic Christians are a religious minority in Egypt.) Al-Houdaiby denied any Brotherhood invovement in the Sadat assassination and tried to reassure the Coptic lady about the situation in Egypt. He insisted that the Brotherhood seeks democracy in Egypt.
While Al-Houdaiby speaks fluent English, he tends to speak quite fast and gives lengthy answers that tend to ramble, so (at least for me), it is difficult to follow his monologue. In his statements, Al-Houdaibi insisted that the Brotherhood renounces violence, condemned 9-11 and only seeks understanding with the West.
When I was called upon, I explained that I had arrived late and may have missed remarks that would pertain to my question, which was related to a Muslim Brotherhood memo dated May 22, 1991. I was holding a copy of the memo and passed English and Arabic copies up front for Mr Al-Houdaiby and Dr LeVine.
I digress at this point to explain this memo to the reader. The memo in question is entitled: An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America-5/22/1991. It was written by Mohamed Akram and consists of 18 pages in English. It is addressed to several Muslim groups in North America. This document is stamped, "US v HLF (Homeland Foundation) and bears prosecution exhibit number 003-0085, which identifies it as a government exhibit in the the Homeland Foundation prosecution. It is now in the public venue.
I directed Mr Al-Houdaiby's attention to page 7 of the document, section 4, which is entitled: "Understanding the Role of the Muslim Brother in North America". I then read aloud the passage, which follows below:
"The process of settlement is a 'Civilization-Jihadist Process' with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all religions. Without this level of understanding, we are not up to this challenge and have not prepared ourselves for Jihad yet. It is a Muslim's destiny to perform Jihad and work wherever he is and wherever he lands until the final hour comes, and there is no escape from that destiny except for those who chose to slack. But, would the slackers and the Mujahedeen be equal".
I then asked Al-Houdaibi to comment and asked if this is the position of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Al-Houdaiby expressed wonderment at where I had obtained the document, declared it false and stated that it had already been revealed to be false adding that there is no Muslim Brotherhood in the US. He went on to state that it did not reflect the position of the Brotherhood and was against the words of the Brotherhood founder, Hasan Al-Banna. I then followed up by asking if one of the founding principles of the Brotherhood was the imposition of Islam worldwide under Shariah law. This he denied. I then pinned him down by asking if it was his answer to me that the document was a forgery, reminding him that it was a prosecution exhibit used in the above-mentioned trial. He insisted the document was false.
(I should add that I am paraphrasing his answers as I did not record them and I am writing from memory.)
At this point, LeVine suggested that since time was short, perhaps I could chat with Al-Houdaiby later, and he could point out in the Ikhwan website the document was refuted. I mentioned that I needed to rush off (since I had to take my mother to the doctor.) I then left at the conclusion of the talk while LeVine's class resumed. Al-Houdaibi was scheduled to meet informally with students later in the afternoon. I had no further exchange with him.
Was I satisfied with Al-Houdaibi's answer? No. I don't see how he could look briefly at the document as I read one paragraph and conclude that the document was fake. Of course, I would have liked to delve further, but in these forums, you can't hog the floor. I will check out Ikhwan in the coming days to see if this document is addressed.
If anyone is interested in reading the entire document (in Arabic or English), it can be found here.
2121 Alton Parkway, Suite 250, Irvine, CA 92606 October 07, 2008
Islamic Totalitarianism’s Threat to Civilization
What: A panel discussion about the nature of Islamic totalitarianism and how to defeat it. A Q&A will follow.
Who: Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, and Dr. Wafa Sultan, outspoken critic of Islam
Where: HIB (Humanities Instructional Building), Room 100, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
When: Monday, October, 13, 2008, at 7 pm
This event is open to the public. Admission is FREE.
Description: From the Iranian hostage crisis to September 11 to the London subway attacks to the Iraqi insurgency--it is clear the West faces a grave threat from a committed enemy. Conventional wisdom holds that the enemy is a rogue group of fanatics, who have hijacked a great religion in order to justify their crimes. It tells us there is no way to permanently eliminate these violent groups, that we have entered an “age of terror” and that we must give up the desire for a decisive victory . . . but is the conventional wisdom right?
Bios: --Dr. Yaron Brook is executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute and a recognized Middle East expert who has written and lectured on a variety of Middle East issues. Dr. Brook has served in the Israeli Army and has discussed the Israeli-Arab conflict and the war on Islamic totalitarianism on numerous radio and TV programs, including FOX News, CNN and a C-SPAN panel of experts on terrorism.
--Dr. Wafa Sultan is a secular Syrian-American writer and thinker, best known for her participation in Middle East political debates, widely circulated Arabic essays and television appearances on CNN, FOX News and Al-Jazeera. She named the Islamic threat to the West as “abattle between modernity and barbarism which Islam will lose.” Her outspokenness has brought her both threats and praise. Dr. Sultan is currently working on a book to be titled “The God that Hates.”
For more information: e-mail media@aynrand.org
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Dr. Yaron Brook is available for interviews now and after this event. Contact: Larry Benson E-mail: media@aynrand.org Phone: (949) 222-6550, ext. 213
Please note: The above event is organized, hosted and sponsored by an individual campus club. Although ARI provides financial support, educational materials and speakers for eligible student clubs, campus clubs are organizations independent of ARI. ARI does not necessarily endorse the content of the lectures and sessions offered.
Founded in 1928 by the Egyptian activist Hasan al-Banna, the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood is one of the oldest, largest and most influential Islamist organizations. Egypt has historically been the center of the Brotherhood's operations, though the group maintains offshoots throughout the Arab-Muslim world -- including in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, the Palestinian territories (Hamas), Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Sudan -- and is also active in the United States and Europe. Islam expert Robert Spencer has called the Muslim Brotherhood "the parent organization of Hamas and al Qaeda."
The Brotherhood was founded in accordance with al-Banna's proclamation that Islam be "given hegemony over all matters of life." Accordingly, the Brotherhood seeks to establish an Islamic Caliphate spanning the entire Muslim world. It also aspires to make Islamic (Shari'a) law the sole basis of jurisprudence and governance. Toward this purpose -- encapsulated in the Brotherhood's militant credo: "God is our objective, the Koran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, struggle is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations" -- the Brotherhood since its founding has supported the use of armed struggle, or jihad. The Brotherhood supports the waging of jihad against non-Muslim "infidels," and has expressed support for terrorism against Israel, whose legitimacy the Brotherhood does not recognize, and against the West, particularly the United States.
Title: Religion and Democracy in the Middle East Office: International Studies Event Date: 10/8/2008 - 10/8/2008 Details: The Department of History, Middle East Studies Student Initiative (MESSI), Center for Research on International and Global Studies (RIGS), and Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies (CGPACS) present:
"Religion and Democracy in the Middle East: A New Generation of the Muslim Brotherhood Takes the Stage" with Ibrahim El Houdaiby, leading young member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Cairo
El Houdaiby will discuss the history and current positions of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the situation of democracy in Egypt today, the rise of a new generation of secular and religious cyber-activists, the challenges and successes they've encountered in struggling for democracy, and the role of U.S. policy in furthering or stifling democracy in the Middle East.
Ibrahim El Houdaiby is a leader of the emerging generation of political and social activists associated with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest religiously-founded group of its kind in the Middle East. He is a board member of ikhwanweb.com, the Muslim Brotherhood's Official English Website. A graduate of the American University in Cairo, he holds a B.A. in political economy, and is currently working towards an MA in Islamic Studies at the High Institute of Islamic Studies in Cairo. He is a freelance columnist and researcher, with published articles and research papers in Arabic and English periodicals and journals. His Arabic works were published on IslamOnline.net, IkhwanOnline.com, Weghaat Nazar Monthly, Contemporary Muslim Quarterly, Al Badeel Newspaper and Al Dostoor Newspaper. His English works were published in th Guardian, Daily News Egypt, Jewish Daily Forward, World Politics Review, CommonGroundNews.org, Conflics Forum and CEPS.
This event is free and open to the public. For further information, please contact Mark LeVine, 949.824.8304.
Lacing higher education with indoctrination is nothing new on U.S. campuses.
By: Reut R. Cohen
On September 18, Metro State College in Denver announced that campus officials would investigate a college professor who assigned an essay in an English composition course which explicitly called for a critique of the Republican vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
According to students, their instructor, Andrew Hallam, told them that their assignment was to write an essay to critique the “fairy tale image” of the governor that was presented at the Republican National Convention.
Students in the class who did not agree with the instructor’s views reported that the instructor and students ridiculed them and that they had felt like they were singled out. The college officials will be investigating students’ claims of bias and bullying in the classroom.
One student, Jana Barber, suggested that the professor used the classroom setting as “just an open door for him to discuss politics with us.” She has filed a complaint against the professor.
Another student suggested that the professor allowed other students to bully him and his peers who disagreed with the professor. “I said something to him like, ‘Well, there may be five of us, but we’re ready to debate this,’ and he cussed us out,” said Ben Faurer. “He’s trying to avoid all this, go along like nothing is happening,” Faurer said about the instructor who is in his first semester at the college.
A spokesperson for the college, Cathy Lucas, agreed that the professors need to foster free thinking. “The faculty’s responsibility is to provide opportunity for critical thinking and civic engagement, so bringing something of relevancy into the classroom was the faculty’s goal.”
These scenarios, unfortunately, have become far too common in academia. Consider that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a non-profit organization which has intervened successfully in defense of liberty-related issues on behalf of students and faculty, often finds itself intervening on behalf of students and faculty who are not part of the “campus left.”
Many of us will remember the “affirmative action bake sales” that were being shut down by campus administrators in 2003 and 2004. Consider that during the last day of “Welcome Week” at UC Irvine in 2003, the College Republicans set up a booth to sell pastries and recruit members, but quickly found that the campus administration was about to shut them down. The College Republicans issued different prices for their bake sale for certain races and genders. For example, a white male would pay $1.00 for a doughnut while a non-white male would pay $0.75. The obvious intention of the event was to satirize affirmative action programs within the University of California. The event at UCI was similar to events on other campuses and was sponsored by UC Regent Ward Connerly. When members of MEChA, the Chicano student group, noticed the bake sale, they contacted administrators and the bake sale was closed down. One MEChA member even ripped down the poster that the College Republicans had hanging at their booth. Sally Peterson, the dean of students at UC Irvine, shut down the event and claimed that selling pastries at different prices for students was a violation of policy and discriminatory....
Obsession is a film about the threat of Radical Islam to Western civilization. Using footage from Arab television, it reveals an 'insider's view' of the hatred the extreme Muslims are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination. The film also traces the parallels between the Nazi movement of WWII, the Radicals of today, and the Western world's response to both threats. Featuring interviews with Sir Martin Gilbert, Professor Robert Wistrich, Dr. Khaleel Mohammed, a former PLO terrorist, and a former Hitler Youth Commander.
As many know, the Watch Obsession Citizen Education Campaign is a nation-wide educational project designed to get every American to Watch - Obsession, Radical Islam’s War Against the West, as preparation to understanding the complex problem of radical, militant islam. Over the past couple of months, millions of copies of Obsession have been distributed in America, through newspapers, direct mail, street distribution, radio give-a-ways, premium for donations, free copies mailed to any who want them and every conceivable way you can imagine. The Watch Obsession program is the largest distribution of DVD’s ever attempted in the United States, and it is about to get dramatically larger!
A STRONG TEAM
The Watch Obsession Campaign is joining with two outstanding America educational organizations, Horowitz Freedom Center and Leadership Institute, both with long-standing records of educating university students on some of the most critical and controversial issues of the day. This year, we combine our efforts to extend the impact of Islamofascism Awareness Week, with the distribution of Obsession, to approximately 500 college campuses, all across this wonderful country!
If you're a student who wants to screen Obsession on your campus and/or distribute copies of this critical film, e-mail Jeffrey at jeffrey@horowitzfreedomcenter.org or sign up here.
I am a journalist and researcher, and have written numerous research and investigative pieces. My work has been published with several notable organizations, including CAMERA on Campus, the Jewish Policy Center, Pajamas Media, and the Investigative Project on Terror.
My interests include ethics and epistemology, history, economics, and international relations.
I graduated from the University of California, Irvine with distinguished honors, earning a Bachelor of Arts in English. Presently I am pursuing a Master's degree at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism in the field of Broadcast Journalism. I can be reached at Reut AT reutrcohen DOT com.
