You have yet to contradict a single element to my original article, and you have repeatedly shown your grasp of the facts in the matter is entirely lacking. You refused to bother to read the evidence I initially provided and have beclowned yourself in the process. It seems that Sherifa Zuhur is not the only “fifth-rate academic hack”. And now that the USAWC has had enough of her encore grievance-mongering performance originally delivered at AUC, I stand entirely vindicated.

So how is it that you claim that you were there, and yet be so ignorant about the facts of the matter? And how is it that I have a better grasp of the facts while you continue to beclown yourself in blind defense of grievance-monger Zuhur?

The simple fact of the matter is that Sherifa Zuhur is a fifth-rate academic hack that by her own admission has been chased out of every respectable academic institution that she has been affiliated with (AUC, UC-Berkeley, USAWC). I suspect that’s also why you are also “Former” AUC as well. You hacks have to stick together. And with Zuhur’s recent monograph she has come out in defense of a murderous terrorist organization. I will continue to criticize and expose terrorist bootlickers regardless of their race or religion. On that count I’m an equal opportunity critic. You might want to ponder the fact that YOU are the one who wants to make this about race or religion and keeps injecting it into these discussions. Clearly you have your own racist and bigoted issues to deal with.

You’ve posted here twice and been proven wrong both times. Time to give it up. And again, at least I have the courage to post my criticisms openly and in my own name. It is telling that you will only defend Sherifa Zuhur when you do it anonymously. Considering your factually-challenged performance here, I can understand why you wouldn’t want to do it in your own name.

AUC is totally unlike USAWC. And you have never stopped critiquing and criticizng Arabs or Muslims — that appears to be your career.

In your stupidity and zeal to Arab-bash, you are attacking one of a small minority of democracy-defenders and a person who really did uphold academic freedom.

You had to be there. And you weren’t.

You state: “Zuhur never made an appeal on her own behalf.”

Um, how about this: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0005&L=ARABIC-INFO&P=R1480&D=0&I=-3

Again: “Tim Sullivan never issued a “response” – the College’s PR department did.”

Duh: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0006&L=ARABIC-INFO&P=R25&D=0&I=-3

See the second part of the post:

“To the AUC Community:
From: Tim Sullivan”

How about doing some fact-checking of your own? But thank you for making my point once again that the academic climate at places like AUC and the USAWC have deteriorated so far that one cannot critique and criticize without being labeled a racist or whatever-phobe-of-the-day. It is people like yourself and Sherifa Zuhur’s identity grievance-mongering that has brought academia to this place.

Oh, and at least I have the courage to put my name to what I write, “Former AUC”.

Your post about Zuhur and AUC is all wrong. You don’t do any real research, apparently you take whatever is in print as the truth, without fact-checking.

Here’s what you wrote ” A few days later, Zuhur made an open appeal for others to send letters to the AUC president, provost, the committee on academic freedom, and the board of trustees pleading her case. She also solicited signatures for a petition demanding her reinstatement.

Having flooded the academic community with her side of the story, AUC provost Tim Sullivan issued a response providing a very different set of facts.” NOT HOW IT HAPPENED, I WAS THERE. Zuhur never made an appeal on her own behalf. Some students organized a petition, and Hale circulated a petition because Zuhur had in the prior year, organized support for Samia Mehrez (these are not your Islamist enemies!)

Tim Sullivan never issued a “response” – the College’s PR department did.

Other professors were much more quietly terminated, or denied tenure, or gotten rid of – what makes them better educators?

Having said that here’s hoping that the War College continues to fight the good fight against becoming an insular, close minded bureaucracy like the rest of the world’s institutions of “higher learning”.

Would you care to explain how and why you insist on staying in a place that oppresses and humiliates you as a woman, a Moslem, and a scholar?

It sounds like a battered woman who won’t leave home and refuse divorce.