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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:18 pm Post subject: Professor blasts critics as..... |
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islamophobes! Of course!!
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A Canadian political scientist excoriated for attending what was widely labelled a Holocaust-denial conference in Tehran has retaliated with a blistering published attack on his university president and his colleagues for being illiterate Islamophobes.
Writing in the influential Literary Review of Canada, Shiraz Dossa, a tenured professor at Nova Scotia's St. Francis Xavier University, said that his academic integrity and academic freedom were grossly impugned by the university administration, an assault on his reputation that he said has yet to be remedied.
He accused the president and chancellor of authorizing a "small Spanish Inquisition" to denounce him - a campaign he said was initiated by two Jewish professors and the Christian chair of the political science department.
Prof. Dossa also wrote that the attack on his reputation was launched by The Globe and Mail's editorial board and by columnists John Ibbitson and Rex Murphy, whom he described as being "intellectually just a cut above the Trailer Park Boys" and ignorant of the Middle East. |
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070528.DOSSA28/EmailTPStory/National
So, do you dirty, illiterate kuffar get it? Criticism of someone who attends a Holocaust denial conference is islamophobia.
Nope, there is no whiff to mind-control totalitarianism here.
Writing about those who criticised him:
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"Riley and Lahey have no scholastic expertise on Islam, Iran or the Holocaust. ... I believe they wanted to assure the white, mainstream Canadian community, including Canadian Jews, that 'Catholic' St. FX was on their side and that this desire far outweighed their obligation to defend academic freedom. |
So he is a muslim supremacist, and a racist. And a professor! Rest assured, his tenure will protect him from being fired, multicult will protect him from being deported and PC will protect him from being charged with hate-crimes.
And all is well in Canada. |
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jinju
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I hope nothing will protect him from getting his lights punched out. |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder if he would like to discuss it with me personally if I visit the faculty club. Perhaps i could convince him of the error of his ways - or cut him a new rectum. |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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Ahhh....
Nice to now a PH.D doesn't necessarily improve one's critical thinking skills...
What a nutjob! |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow boys, way to show us lefties how to support free speech. Do as I say, not as I do indeed. |
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freethought
Joined: 13 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know, guys. I read the globe article, did some background research as well, and I'd say that while islamophobia may not be the best description of what happened, the man has been unfairly and I'll go so far as to say blindly attacked.
I can find no reference to anything the man has ever personally written to be an example of holocaust denial. I can find no reference to any prior complaint that he's a 'denier' either.
His area of research/specialty is the holocaust. That means he not only has the right to attend conference on holocaust denial, about holocaust denial, or that actively engage in holocaust denial, but I would say he has the academic responsibility to read such work and attend such conferences. This is especially true given his stated area of interest; the holocaust and zionism/jewish homeland. I can think of numerous ways that such a conference would be highly relevant to his studies, moreover, the conference in question might even be said to be of paramount importance to his studies, since it directly involved the main opponents to Israel's existence and their arguments/views about the holocaust.
To attack the man for attending is blind, unfair and violates academic integrity. Any real academic would realize that, and anyone who doesn't see this is equally blind.
If his work were actively, or even passively linked or involved in holocaust denial that would be one thing, but under the circumstance this is nothing more than a completely unjustified attack on the professor.
As I said, I'm not sure it qualifies as islamophobia, but the attack is wrong. |
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khyber
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Yes, read the essay.
Another case BJWD, of you using anything remotely related to Islam, to Muslim bash. Nice words, shows you come from the gutter.
Please, I won't argue at all. I'll just post what the Literary Review said about the issue of academic and "thought" freedom.
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Four months later, Professor Dossa wanted to tell his version of the story, including the real purpose of the conference (not Holocaust denial), who organized it (not Dr. Ahmadinejad), who attended, and what he thought and felt about the all-out attack on him back home in Canada, particularly from The Globe and Mail and from his own university, St. FX. At the LRC we read his manuscript, which seemed to us a serious exploration of the right of academic freedom in Canada and who gets to exercise that right. After rigorous fact-checking that went on for a number of weeks, we agreed that the essay was ready for publication.
Academic freedom, like all freedom of speech issues, calls on thoughtful citizens to broaden their horizons. It's never individuals who are voicing mainstream or non-controversial thoughts - ideas we can all agree with - who find themselves on the wrong side of academic freedom debates. It is always individuals who are raising uncomfortable ideas that the majority would rather not hear who end up excoriated or denigrated in the media and who are left twisting in the wind by the institutions within which they work. Reading Shiraz Dossa�s essay gives us all the opportunity to confront some important and controversial ideas that go to the heart of our identity as a multicultural nation.
We hope you agree.
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
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If it walks like a skunk, smells like a skunk, has a white stripe down its back. It is a skunk. This guy is Islamic, he attneds a conference of fools, which conference makes Rense and Zundel sound like Bar Mitzva boys, and then he whines about being misunderstood like an Islamist I would pick him to be a denier.
All he has to do to lose the "unfair label" is to confirm the holocuast. He hasn't done that yet. Shall I hold my breath while I'm waiting? |
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freethought
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I guess your post is just another sign as to why mormons sleep with their siblings, their too stupid to tell people apart...
Three examples:
1. Black university student writing a thesis on the black panthers. The student in questions feels that blacks get discriminated against in the United States. For research, they attend a black panther meeting. Does this make the person a black panther member or an advocate for violence by blacks?
2. A jewish person who thinks the holocaust is one of the greatest crimes in human history. This person reads the Torah every day. This person also attends a conference on the origins and implications of zionism. Are they a zionist?
3. White person professor who is doing research into and making a documentary on the modern KKK. The professor thinks that affirmative action has not worked, they feel that illegal immigration is a major issue in AMerican politics and they are from Alabama. This professor attends a KKK rally. Are they a KKK supporter?
I love how all the nutbars on this board are showing just how obtuse they really are... |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:52 am Post subject: |
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duhduh:
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| Please, I won't argue at all. |
Excellent. Is this new?
OH:
I would not prevent him from going to a "kill the Jews" conference (aka Friday prayers at any mosque) but I object to him using the langauge of anti-bigotry to shield himself from criticism.
He did something that should be criticized. His calling those who criticize his actions "islamophobic" and his racist jabs towards white Canadians are deeply offensive, and quite dangerous. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:57 am Post subject: |
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I guess your post is just another sign as to why mormons sleep with their siblings, their too stupid to tell people apart...
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What are you about? Oh, and that final clause is quite ironic. Who is too stupid? Oh right, "their" too stupid. Well done. |
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