CAIR and Academic Freedom.....not!!

Is there no depth to which CAIR will stoop to stop anyone from speaking honestly and critically about Islam?  Rhetorical question, obviously, but with their ever-increasing desperation to silence their critics, this story should be another wake-up call for those who value free speech and all that goes with western culture. 

This story is of a 14 year teacher who, when questioning the Israeli/Palestinian problem caused such an uproar among those poor, blighted Palestinians in his class that they complained, and he was fired.  Sound familiar?

Of course it was CAIR to which the students complained, and it is CAIR who helped the students to file their grievance against the teacher.  The thugs at CAIR, an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, an organization the FBI refuses to work with, and who's top members are now serving federal prison time for supporting Hamas, have a grip on those individuals and organizations who refuse to tow the Islamic party line.

DePaul, like LCC appear to know about CAIR yet stubbornly refuses to let anything stand in the way of their rainbow-filled world.  It is, ultimately the students who suffer, no only from a lack of context on a subject, but in the wider world where they will find opinions and truths they were never told about, and had never been informed on what to do when such disparate dialogue confronted them.

Our freedom of speech is slowly eroding, and there is nary a cry against this assault on the constitution.  Those who see sharia law as so much nothing willingly abet CAIR in their march to stifle any dissenting talk about Muhammad.  This grevious example is but one more brick in the wall, removed to allow for the melding of church and state.

From Marathon Pundit Dec 10

For over 14 years, Thomas Klocek was a well-liked adjunct professor at DePaul University School of New Learning. One course he taught was "Critical Thinking." So it's ironic that he was essentially fired by the Chicago Catholic university after engaging in a spirited discussion about Middle Eastern politics with members of Students for Justice in Palestine and United Muslims Moving Ahead at a new students fair at DePaul's downtown campus in 2004. The groups were promoting the usual inflammatory tripe peddled by campus extremists such as comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.

Unaccustomed to critical thinking, the SJP and UMMA members complained to Klocek's deal--and Klocek became a former DePaul adjunct professor. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) got involved--of course they sided with the Muslim groups. Outside of a mathematics professor and some campus conservatives, no one at DePaul defended Klocek. As for Klocek, a devout Catholic, he learned that standing up for Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, can be a career-ending move....

Read it all.