Islam in American Universities

May 1st, 2024 - “As you sow, so shall you reap” from the Bible’s Galatians VI means your deeds will repay you in kind, good or bad.

America is now reaping the evil seeds of Marxism and Islamism in our educational system. Cancel culture, anti-semitism, anti-Americanism, and anti-capitalism are running rampant in our education system and infiltrating our culture.

The fusion between Marxism and Islamism totalitarian ideologies is exploding in massive and coordinated protests against Israel and America. In elite universities, tent cities occupy campuses, and American flags burn in protest. The very existence of Israel and the Jewish people is threatened.

So-called elite schools have allowed Marxist Muslims to take control of school campuses. Tents of similar color and construction are set up in copycat tent cities throughout the country. Who are the organizations funding the protests? Harvard Yard is occupied, and the University of Southern California has canceled graduation ceremonies. Columbia University has told Jewish students to go home for safety reasons.

George Soros, through his “Open Society Foundation” (OSF), is paying radical students to agitate and fuel anti-Semitic protests. The radical students are “fellows” for the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). The fellows are paid up to $7,800 to organize campaigns for Palestinian organizations. They are trained to “rise up and revolt, not reform,” following the Marxist ideology of white supremacy, colonialism, and capitalism. USCPR has also received $355,000 in funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.

OSF has given millions to Palestinian organizations seeking the elimination of Israel. OSF is led by Alexander Soros, George's son, and Huma Abedin, a former top aide to Hillary Clinton. Abedin was born in Michigan to Indian/Pakistani parents but spent most of her youth in Saudi Arabia as a practicing Muslim before returning to the U.S. to attend George Washington University. Her mother, Saleha Abedin, sat on the Presidency Staff Council of the International Islamic Council of Da’wa and Relief, a group chaired by the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Her father was also associated with MB organizations.

The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), also funded by Soros, is a leading group in the campus protest movement. They were founded in the early 1990s at the University of California at Berkeley by Hatem Bazian, a longtime lecturer in the Islamophobia Project. SJP has 200 chapters in colleges and universities throughout the U.S. and overseas.

Shortly after the October 7, 2023, genocide attack by Hamas against Israel, where over 1,200 Jews were murdered, raped, and tortured and 240 taken hostage, SJP National distributed a five-page toolkit document to campus chapters. The document referred to the Hamas atrocities as a “historic win for the Palestinian resistance” and that Palestinian students in exile were part of the movement.

Some universities have had limited protests and occupations when college administrators have made it clear that law violations will not be tolerated. Florida ordered the deactivation of SJP in the Florida university system, and Governor DeSantis accused SJP of being in league with Hamas. Brandeis University banned SJP because it “openly supports Hamas.” U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik has called on the Biden administration to deport terrorist supporters here on visas.

American universities have become corrupt dens of anti-American propaganda. The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is the professional organization of professors of Middle East studies at colleges nationwide. MESA is siding with Hamas. No mention is made of Hamas atrocities or anti-Semitic campus attacks.

Foreign nationals with student visas are a major segment of the student population. Columbia had 23,246 international students out of a total enrollment of 34,000, and New York University had 24,496 international students enrolled in 2023 out of a total enrollment of 59,000. Diversity of backgrounds is paramount in recruiting. Chinese students represent the largest percentage of international students. At Columbia, the total is 9,000, or approximately 40%.

Summary

The culture of elite universities needs to change. Reintroduce academic freedom, diversity of thought (not race), rigorous studies, and critical thinking. Eliminate DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) departments and wokeness.

Larry Summers, former president of Harvard, called for “close investigations” of the funding sources of the recent protests on college campuses and for “a lot of soul searching” regarding changes in university governance because the “trustees, who are the ultimate fiduciaries, who make all these rules about tenure and everything else have been much too passive.”

Tenure can lead to incestual relations amongst faculty. Marxist/Islamist faculty control faculty hiring and awarding of tenure. Since they are ideologues, they hire like-minded educators. More than 80 percent of Harvard faculty characterized their political leanings as liberal.

Action

1. Trustees should be required to conduct and publish critical reviews of international money given to American universities.
2. Vet student visas from all international countries.
3. Enforce the rule of law and order. Students who don't follow it will be expelled, and outsiders will be arrested.
4. Alumni and others should stop donating to schools that promote anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism.
5. The government should hire more non-Ivy Leaguers. Why do the Supreme Court and Congress have so many Ivy grads? It is a circle back scratch of Ivies in power supporting other Ivies.
6. The American public needs to pressure Ivy League schools to be patriotic to America, as Budweiser was forced to do, instead of selling out to international money that propagates an un-American ideology.