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Fifth Column
Sami al-Arian wants his job back
2002-02-08
  • One way American residents used to get money into the pipeline for Islamic Jihad terrorists was to make a check out to the Islamic Committee for Palestine (ICP). The ICP was once "the active arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine," as an imam named Fawwaz Damra put it during a 1988 fund-raising event that was captured on video and made public a while back by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The ICP, a U.S.-based "charity" affiliated with the state-funded University of Southern Florida, was a front organization for Islamic Jihad until the FBI shut it down in 1995. So, too, was the World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE), another campus-affiliated group until the middle 1990s. And both groups were run by a University of Southern Florida computer science professor named Sami Al-Arian. USF President Judy Genshaft fired Mr. Al-Arian in December.

    St. Petersburg Times reports that the faculty union has voted "to throw its full support" behind the fired prof, while the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has threatened to censure the university. The AAUP's chief concern: that Mr. Al-Arian have "the academic freedom as a citizen to speak out on controversial topics."
    Exercising my own freedom as a citizen to speak out on controversial topics, I'd say Sami should be booted out of this country to someplace pleasant, like Ivory Coast. His house should be razed and his name expunged from the phone book. And South Florida University's faculty should go right after him, followed by the AAUP. Take your damned multiple jihads someplace else.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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