I am working on my remarks for tomorrow night at Columbia University as part of Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week on the American campus.
I will speak in solidarity with Muslim and ex-Muslim dissidents in the Islamic world and in the West. I am especially mindful today of the student activists in Iran who were tortured and who have now just been given prison sentences. Iranian Muslim and perhaps ex-Muslim students are protesting this.
Incredibly, in America, some campus “activists” are not protesting these harsh sentences but are, instead, protesting our right to hassle-free “free speech” on campus if we dare expose such obvious facts about Islam.
“Free speech” on campus is only hassle-free for those who view the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the Bush Presidency as the only High Crimes that count. Anyone who does not demonize western imperialism, colonialism, racism, and capitalism requires a bodyguard on campus. As does anyone who dares mention Islamic imperialism, colonialism, racism, misogyny and capitalism on campus.
As Orwell knew: Not all pigs are equal.
Please read the following Comment that we have published at my blogsite. I have not had the time today to research this down to the ground but surely, someone should. I am not saying that the Comment is true, only that it deserves some investigation.
The Commentator is referring to my blog of yesterday about the hostile “mean girl” reception that Nonie Darwish received at Wellesley. At issue is whether Nancy Khalil, who is listed as the Muslim Chaplain at Wellesley, actually did any of these things or not.
I will give Nancy Khalil space to rebut these charges here if she so chooses.
THE COMMENT POSTED reads as follows:
“If this can happen at Wellesley then the intimidation level at other schools may be outside the scale.
How is that possible?
Here are some research questions for students. They should find the answers and many of their concerns will be proven legitimate.
Q1. How did Nancy Khalil (The Muslim Chaplain? An impersonator of Nancy Khalil?) project herself into Wellesley? Trace her whole history, the agitation about the former Muslim Student Adviser, etc.
Q2. Why is it that the name of the Muslim Student Association was changed?
Q3. Is the role of an adviser to be that of a link to outside organizations (that do not reveal their denomination) and to coerce students to join retreats (weekend jaunts, away from campus, with holy men who also do not reveal their denomination? (Do the parents know, this is happening? Wellesley may be in for a big lawsuit…)
Q4. How many times (has) Nancy Khalil take(n) Wellesley students to the Islamic Society of Boston in Cambridge to be lectured to by Mr. Basyouny Nehela during the overnight Tarbiya sessions? Does Wellesley have a complete biography of Mr. B. Nehela or at least his “denomination”? (Then parents can intelligently discuss the MSA scene at Wellesley with students.)
Q5. Has Nancy Khalil revealed to Wellesley Administration the money flow through her hands to the Wellesley students? Where she gets it? Why it is given as “scholarships” to certain students and secretly? Is it not against the honor code to keep financial help secret and against the financial aid office rules to keep financial awards hidden?
Would Wellesley allow an adviser to continue who has built a secret financial kingdom unknown to the Scholarship Committees? (It exists. Have her deposed under oath and the truth will come out.)”
I am appalled that the type of hateful slander being used against a loved presence at Wellesley College. No one should have to defend or credit such accusations with a response, because they are baseless and simply a manifestation of hateful, rascist, rhetoric. And I am saddened that a published author like yourself would resort to personally attacking a fellow human being on a blog. That certainly lessens your legitimacy, but do not think that your words will affect anyone expect your own credibility.
Nonie Darwish not Popular with Local Muslim Students
Miss Kelly reports that the ladies at Wellesley weren’t very lady-like when it came to respecting Nonie Darwish at her lecture last week: Nonie Darwish Gets the "Mean Girl" Treatment at WellesleyDo NOT miss the comment from a local Muslim…
Dear anonymous saddened Wellesley student,
I’m very saddened to hear you’re saddened. Sigh. It is so sad!
But I wonder if you can provide ANY evidence that the post in question is actually “slander”? You see, there’s some fairly explicit material provided in that post, whereas your accusation of “slander” isn’t backed by any corroboration whatsoever.
Surely if you know for certain that this material amounts to “slander”, something more substantive would be easy to supply for the curious readers at this site.
Otherwise, I’d suggest those allegations are at least worth more than a flighty dismissal.
Very truly yours,
M.D.
p.s. One might surmise that a Wellesley student would be able to spell “racist” no matter how sad she happens to be feeling!
Just another Jihadist ‘front’ boring from within. I suspect that’s how it will work out.
The self-proclaimed Wellesley Student may not be as advertised. Hints:
1. She’s ignorant; she confuses libel and slander.
2. Her (probable) typo is just one error in her message. She does not write like a well-educated native speaker of English; she could be a foreign student at Wellesley, of course, but she does need tutoring in basic writing skills.
3. Most of all, her reasoning is alien. Once a serious charge is made, no one has the legal or ethical authority to prevent investigation into it. Yet she presumes to such power, demanding that we stand down at once on her command. That officiousness is typical of those who adhere to strict, authoritarian ideologies.
Wellesley student? Maybe, but if so, an underqualified candidate who slipped through. She’s not schooled in Western Civilzation’s fundamentals.
That observation should raise a great many questions about the role of educational institutions in our “postmodern” age. I understand “postmodernism” to be nothing less than a declaration of war on the Enlightenment.
Whatever this sad “student” is, she appears to me to be a soldier in that war, fighting to replace reason with faith. I beg leave to quote Sam Harris: “Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse — constraints like reasonableness, internal coherence, civility, and candor.”
Sam Harris: “Faith is what credulity becomes when it finally achieves escape velocity from the constraints of terrestrial discourse — constraints like reasonableness, internal coherence, civility, and candor.” ~ Per Benson
Excellent *s* Proof that the Left is a practicing faith.
Benson, I just wanted to point out my own anecdotal experience which indicates the “saddened Wellesley student” could very well be considered highly educated in today’s post-modern academia. The first three months of on the job training for any newly hired college graduate since about 1995 has always concentrated on basic writing skills.
I can’t say anything about whether there are “unusual” financial transactions going on between Nancy Khalil and MAS. I doubt if Wellesley would know anything about this. I do know that Nancy Khalil is a speaker with the Muslim American Society, and is active with Muslim student organiations at Boston College, Harvard, and others too.
Muslim Chaplain
Office of Religious and Spiritual Life
Wellesley College
nkhalil@wellesley.edu
Director, MAS Youth Boston
Speaker, MAS Boston Speaker’s Bureau
Muslim American Society
Somerville, MA
boston@masyouth.org
Research Assistant
Muslims in Boston Survey
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
Khalil is a big proponent of hijab, and according to some Wellesley Muslim students, there is heavy peer pressure in the Wellesley Muslim student group to wear scarves and cover up. Otherwise, you are not a “real Muslim.” Here’s what Khalil has to say about the Egyptian “religious leader” Amr Khaled (also spelled Khalid), in an e-mail to selected Wellesley students:
“Amr Khaled has actually motivated thousands of women to put the hijab on:) – over the last few years in Egypt there has been an enourmous societal shift from no hijab to mostly hijab – and many accredit it to him. He really is amazing at putting things into perspective and just talking about Islam as it is. He does not ssue any fatwas, he does not re-interpret anything…he just tells the true story – I make a lot of du’aa for him.”
Wearing hijab has become a test of how authentic a Muslim you are. If the religious clerics can convince these students that the Koran must be taken literally about hijab, the strict Wahabi way, then the brain-washing is well underway. It’s a form of power over these women. Getting Muslim women, especially converts, to wear hijab has enormous psychological consequences. Not all good!
More about Al-Muslimat, Wellesley’s Muslim student group, this from an e-mail I received by an unhappy Muslim student last year:
“…it was not particularly welcoming towards those who did not pray 5 times a day or believe in a lot of the cultural norms. This most stood out to me on a retreat last year where all the women were required to wear the hijab. It frustrated me that we were not given a choice beforehand, but I went along with it just because I had initially signed up for the retreat. The whole retreat was divided among men and women. We were seated a majority of the time on opposite sides of the room. When we played a game of “treasure hunt” there became a great concern that women were not supposed to run, but walk quickly and the men were allowed to play soccer outside with one and other while we “walked quickly” around outside and then back into the building. The retreat gave me a feeling of being ashamed that I was a woman. It was so frustrating that I could not even bend down to tie my shoe since it was considered inappopriate.”
“All of last year I constantly fought with the other more Conservative Muslims on the Al-Muslimat conference. There was one thread about hadiths about what modesty for a woman meant and how it differed from men. Things included on the list were not wearing perfume, not running, not laughing out loud. These were all things I did and was never criticized by my family for them. It was such a dissapointment that I had to quarrel over women’s rights on a woman’s campus. I never quite understood the reasons for these requirements since men were not expected to follow the same regulations.”
Amazing. A Wellesley woman going on a retreat apparently sanctioned by Wellesley College is told not to run and not to laugh too loudly. What would Hillary think about that?
The more liberal members of Al-Muslimat were waiting for the conservatives to graduate. But I don’t think the tide has turned there.
You are a great writer. You have grasped the issue. Please keep my ID secret. These are lethal people.
You can edit the following comment…since Misskelly mentions Nancy Khalil and Amer Khalid, I am sending this in a hurry.
1. Qardawi, spiritual leader of MB(Ikhwan al Musalameen, Egypt Muslim Brotherhood) was a trustee of ISB (the mosque of Basyouny Nehela). What is the denomination of Mr. Nehela?
2.What is the denomination of Nancy(she has been with Nehela since her undergraduate days, and as teacher in his school, Alnoor)?
3.What is the denomination of Amer Khalid? (Stealth Muslim Brotherhood.
He follows same theology as Qardawi.)
4.’I do believe Hijab is not just a dress code, it’s a statement, a behavior and an attitude that you embrace,’ said Naira.
5.Still the President of Wellesley college has doubt as to what Nancy is upto?
Following is links you may find useful.
Mark these words: from the link below.
‘I do believe Hijab is not just a dress code, it’s a statement, a behavior and an attitude that you embrace,’ said Naira.
Mark these words: from the link below.
If you listen to Khaled’s sermons, you won’t detect any significant theological disagreement with Qaradawi.
http://snefru.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/egypt-egypt-egypt/
http://www.hahmed.com/blog/2006/05/01/nytimes-article-on-ustadh-amr-khaled/ relavant portions from this link:
When I was in Egypt, I frequently heard rumors that Khaled was secretly allied with the Muslim Brotherhood, the longstanding religious movement that is today the largest opposition political party in the country. Although the Brotherhood’s political activities are still largely restricted by the government, its leaders have said that if the party should someday win a parliamentary majority, they will govern the world’s largest Arab nation according to the principles of Islam. (Khaled says that he currently has no affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood.)
angelists.” Khaled stands in stark contrast to the most respected and popular Muslim religious figure on television, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who appears on Al Jazeera and is widely considered to be the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. Qaradawi, 79 years old, fully bearded and cloaked in robes, hands down opinions on, for example, whether viewers should or should not join the resistance in Iraq or Palestine.
If you listen to Khaled’s sermons, you won’t detect any significant theological disagreement with Qaradawi. But unlike Qaradawi, Khaled doesn’t present Muslim law, or Shariah, as something to be imposed by an authority; rather, he says, it is something to be discovered on a journey of personal growth and awareness. Olivier Roy
In December, I went with Khaled to Leverkusen, Germany, where he was the keynote speaker at a conference organized by the Islamic Community in Germany, an organization affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Khaled has also attracted the attention of a number of multinational corporations that have financed individual conferences and projects his nonprofit organization has set up. Rick Little, a devout Christian, runs a foundation based in Maryland called the ImagineNations Group, which works with the World Bank and philanthropic organizations to promote entrepreneurship in the Middle East. Little learned about Khaled recently and has helped arrange financing for some of his projects, and later this year, Little says, he hopes to introduce Khaled to a wider audience of potential benefactors when Khaled makes his first trip to the United States
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/features/article_1252962.php/Veil_off_-_one_womans_life-changing_decision
‘I do believe Hijab is not just a dress code, it’s a statement, a behavior and an attitude that you embrace,’ said Naira. Nevertheless, she said that the society ‘has come to expect so much from a veiled women.’