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 Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:53 am Post subject: Imam Teaches Propaganda at Diablo Valley College |
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Imam Teaches Propaganda at Diablo Valley College
Written by Lee Kaplan
Friday, January 27, 2006
An imam who teaches false information and history has his course load tripled by campus administrators.
Readers who follow academic infiltration by subversives on our college campuses are probably familiar with my previous article about my attendance in Imam Amer Araim’s class, Politics of the Middle East 155B, during the last spring semester at Diablo Valley College (DVC), as well as my follow-up article after meeting with DVC’s President Mark Edelstein, and Vice President for Academic Affairs Alice Murillo.
So what was the outcome of my investigative reports? Did Diablo Valley College decide to remove Araim from its list of part-time instructors for incompetence or for indoctrinating his students rather than educating them? Did administrators take responsibility for course curriculum taught by the imam or make corrections like they should?
Nope. DVC’s administration drew the wagons in a circle instead.
After meeting with college President Mark Edelstein and giving him time to “investigate” the matter, and not receiving a promised response as to the disposition of Araim’s teaching courses, and repeatedly not having my phone calls returned, I called college Dean Lyn Krause to ask if Araim was still teaching Politics of the Middle East 155B. I was assured he was not. “The course catalog shows the course is not being offered this semester,” I was told. I assumed that Araim, a temporary part-time faculty member, had been removed. But the student who tipped me off to Araim’s teaching methods during a previous semester (which spurred me to attend Araim’s course) did a little checking and found Araim still on the schedule for the Fall 2005 semester through Spring 2006, only now he was teaching three courses at DVC instead of just one. I called the dean back.
I then learned how things really operate at Diablo Valley College.
You have to hand it to the administrators at Diablo Valley College in Northern California, especially President Edelstein and VP for Academic Affairs Alice Murrillo, but also Sociology Department Dean Lyn Krause and Department Chair John Dravlin. When confronted with an imam who teaches blatant Middle Eastern fabrications against the United States and Israel in his classes, what do they do to take action? They increase his teaching load from one class the previous semester to three, including adding courses in Introduction to U.S. Government!
What’s wrong with Araim, a Muslim imam, teaching Introduction to U.S. Government to lower level college students? Aside from the fact he may not even be a U.S. citizen (something the college district refused to reveal), the man has a track record of conveying to his students the impression that American foreign policy is only a matter of duplicity and opportunism against the Muslim world. He lauds democracy coming to the Middle East, but America gets no credit for it. What’s more, Araim has no background in teaching or research on the U.S. government on his resume. A former diplomat for Saddam Hussein, his Ph.D. dissertation was on OPEC and the economics of oil.
When I attended his lecture, some of the juicier bits of knowledge imparted to students at DVC in Politics of the Middle East 155B included:
1) Israel is an “apartheid state” was taught repeatedly every session. (Israel is a pluralistic democracy with equal civil rights for all its citizens and does not practice apartheid like South Africa).
2) Women are not stoned in Iran. (Women are stoned in Iran for adultery and other offenses, including sometimes even for refusing to be raped).
3) Jews, Christians and women are not discriminated against in Middle Eastern Muslim countries. (Common knowledge, anyone who reads a newspaper knows this isn’t the case).
4) Hamas and Hezbollah are "liberation" movements, not terrorist groups.
5) Jordan was not part of the Palestine Mandate of 1922 as promised in the Balfour Declaration and reneged by the British against the Jews.
6) Jewish Zionists prior to 1948 stole land from Arabs. (All land that was in fact legally purchased by the Jewish Agency).
7) Israel is a “colonial state” (It was set up by the United Nations much like the Arab states, colonies of Great Britain that were set up after World War I and is not a colony)
 U.N. Resolution 242 says that all land in the West Bank belongs to the Arabs (it does not say that per its author, Eugene Rostow).
9) Israel initiated all wars against the Arabs who were victims of Israeli aggression (the Arab League has refused to make peace with Israel for nearly 50 years).
10) The Sheba Farms region of Israel, an area Hezbollah uses as a reason to carry out terrorist attacks on Israel, belongs to Lebanon (the U.N. even signed off on the area as belonging to Israel when it withdrew from Lebanon in the 1980’s).
11) According to the student who originally tipped me off to the class, Araim also stated that Saddam Hussein did not gas the Kurds, the Iranians did it.
12) The United States is “hypocritical” in its approach to democracy in Arab states such as Jordan and elsewhere.
13) Araim also provided reading material that claimed that reform Jews practice the Sabbath on Sunday (it’s Saturday) and suggests that Jews are not the same as “Zionists.”(This separation of Jews from Zionism is used by anti-Israel advocates to claim they are not really anti-Semitic).
14) Tiny Israel intends to conquer all the lands from the Nile River to the Euphrates in Iraq (we were given a one-hour lecture during the last class with this conclusion).
15) Sharia, or Islamic Law, as state law is compatible with democracy (despite its misogyny and denigration of religious minorities
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