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 Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:33 pm Post subject: CNS: Jihad-Supporting Prof in PA Calls US 'Great Deceiver' |
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| Quote: | Jihad-Supporting Prof Calls US 'Great Deceiver'
By Sherrie Gossett
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
July 12, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - A journalism professor at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, who previously described the United States as the "Great Deceiver," is criticizing the "attempt to involve U.S. Muslims in London guilt," a reference to the July 7 terrorist attacks in England that killed at least 52 people and may have been the work of al Qaeda.
Dr. Kaukab Siddique, who also teaches English at the university named for Abraham Lincoln, is warning readers in his New Trend online magazine not to try to "appease the people in power by subservience, or 'uncle tomming.'"
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), one of the most vocal Muslim advocacy groups in the U.S., has sent condolences to the British people for the train and bus bombings that left 700 people wounded. CAIR also sent a delegation to meet with the British ambassador to the U.S. on July 8.
However, Siddique chided CAIR and the U.S. for not sending sympathies to Iraqi cities that were bombed or Afghans who were subjected to what he described as the American "reign of terror."
Apologies related to the London bombings are damaging to the self-respect and dignity of American Muslims because they imply that all Muslims are responsible, according to Siddique.
For Muslims who are "depressed" over CAIR's call to "kow tow to the embassy of an aggressive military power, which has occupation forces in two Muslim countries," Siddique offers the following advice: don't break the law, know your rights, pray, and if depression persists, go clean the bathroom at the local mosque.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, called Siddique's comments "beyond shocking" and "mind-boggling." Noting that New Trend Magazine also has a London address, Cooper wondered whether Siddique was "embracing the goal of the people who did this (London bombings).
"Where's the outrage?" Cooper asked. "These statements supply an insight into someone who cannot bring himself to condemn terrorism. Human instinct is to cry out against such outrages, but he's telling people to go clean the toilet."
Siddique has published controversial commentary on Jews, the Holocaust and armed jihad. As a leader of Jamaat al-Muslimeen (the Islamic People's Movement) International, Siddique has delivered some of these messages at mosques.
Siddique has authored a booklet that referred to America as the "Dajjâl," a term that is variously translated by Muslims as either the "Antichrist" or "Great Deceiver." Siddique has argued that previous Muslim efforts to link Israel to the anti-Christ were wrong, that the United States had to be the anti-Christ since it was providing Israel with so much financial assistance.
He has also labeled the U.S. the "Evil Empire" of our age. "Muslims must engage in jihad to defeat Dajjâl," he wrote, adding: "The ideas of guerilla warfare, denial of easy occupation to the enemy, and ability to use small weapons should be made available to every Muslim."
On a New Trend webpage dedicated to three female suicide bombers, Zionism is equated with "systematic genocide" and readers are urged to support a boycott of "major supporters of Zionism," including McDonald's, Coca Cola, Starbucks, Home Depot and Disney.
The Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz is categorized as a "Jewish milk cow" by Siddique, which has "netted billions of dollars for Israel, owing to the pity it creates for Jews who run that terrorist entity."
While Siddique has publicly insisted that he does not oppose Jews "as a collective," a recent issue of New Trend warned that Jews today are the most powerful, the wealthiest and the most oppressive people in the world.
American Jews are among the "powerful negative forces" subverting freedom in the U.S., Siddique wrote. They control the media through a network of "communications experts and entertainers," such as Larry King, Ted Koppel, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Also listed were the Washington Post, the New York Times and producers for the CBS News program, "60 Minutes."
Jews are also in control of international banking as well as the Bush administration, according to New Trend.
Within the pages of New Trend, Siddique has offered support for scholars Ernst Zundel and David Irving, who are among the most prominent writers denying that the Jewish Holocaust occurred. New Trend contends there is no evidence Jews were gassed and credits Irving with being "able to help people see the REAL Hitler, rather than the devil incarnate the victors have made him out to be."
Cooper, from the Wiesenthal Center, admitted that Siddique is "honest, open and it's all here on his website for all to read." But he added that Siddique is "a bigot, an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier. He shows more concern for the goals -- if not the operational aspects -- of Islamic terrorists rather than to the innocent victims of terror."
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) defended Siddique Monday when contacted by Cybercast News Service.
Jonathan Knight, director of academic freedom for the AAUP, argued that "however unpopular or distasteful the views of professors are, their freedom to express them is an essential condition of a truly free institution.
"What may be desirable is one thing. What is punishable is another," Knight said. He added that there was no evidence Siddique's views had entered his classroom at Lincoln University.
"If he had somewhat less radical ideas that gave someone offense, he would not be subject to admonishment either," Knight said.
Lincoln University, a historically black college 50 miles outside of Philadelphia, honors the "Great Emancipator," America's 16th president. Numerous African-American leaders, including the late Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall and the late poet and author Langston Hughes, were students at the school. |
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