How long can a nation endure the presence within it of large numbers of people who hate the very country in which they live, and wish it ill? It looks as if the United States of America is going to find out the answer to that question. As the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear sites, some Americans openly expressed their desire that Iran would bomb American bases in retaliation. Not surprisingly, they’re academics. The academic establishment in America has hated America for years; why should it stop now?
Foremost among the America-haters was a confident young academic named Jonathan Brown, who holds the illustrious position of Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Alwaleed bin Talal is a Saudi billionaire who is one of the richest men in the world and who has devoted a good many of his billions to making massive donations to American universities, including Georgetown. It is likely not a coincidence that Georgetown’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding produces little, if anything, more than Islamic apologetics and character assassinations of opponents of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women.
Brown fits right into this environment. A convert to Islam who is married to an Al Jazeera journalist (who is herself the daughter of a man who was deported for his activities on behalf of Palestinian Islamic Jihad), Brown gained considerable notoriety by justifying the rape and enslavement of captured non-Muslim women. He argued that Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, engaged in such behavior, so how could it be wrong? Brown explained: “Slavery is in the Quran and the precedent of the Prophet Muhammad. You can’t say that the Quran prohibited slavery, because it didn’t.” He has also said: “A male owner of a female slave has the right to sexual access to her.”
Last Sunday, Brown wrote on X:
I’m not an expert, but I assume Iran could still get a bomb easily. I hope Iran does some symbolic strike on a base, then everyone stops. I’m surprised this is what these FDD/Hasbara people have been auto-erotically asphyxiating themselves for all these years. Ironically, the main takeaways (in my non-expert opinion, and I’m happy to be corrected) from all this have nothing to do with a US attack: 1) Iran can take a licking; 2) if Israel attacks Iranian cities, it gets f***ed up pretty bad. I mean I’ve been shocked at the damage Iranian missiles caused; 3) despite his best efforts, Reza Pahlavi HVAC repair services still only third best in Nova.
After the firestorm that ensued, Brown deleted this post and explained: “I deleted my previous tweet because a lot of people were interpreting it as a call for violence. That’s not what I intended.” He also made his X account private.
Brown may be embarrassed, or at least determined to ride out the controversy with as little drama as possible, but he is not alone in longing for Iran to rain down death and destruction upon his fellow Americans. Dr. David Yaghoubian, a history professor at California State University, San Bernardino, recently stated that Iran should “just build more Shahab missiles. Shahab missiles, that is what is going to decide this – not the United Nations, not the G3, the E3, the P5+1, not a benevolent American president, who is going to be elected to bring about hope and change or change and hope. No. It is going to be Iran's ability to defend itself against this murderous sociopathic Zio-American global empire. That is what is necessary.”
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Yaghoubian added: “I'm sure I'm not alone,” and there’s no doubt that he isn’t. “I even secretly hope,” he added, not quite secretly, “my God, would they just ask me what they need so I could tell them and they could be safe. You need to build more missiles and you need to build nukes now, otherwise, this is all for naught. I have also said, because I have referenced a few of these things online... Look, I am sorry, I am not a religious person, I am a heathen, so I don't have the same restraints that Sayyed Ayatollah Khamenei has, I am just David Yaghoubian from Sherman Oaks, California, and I think Iran should build nukes, like yesterday.” And use them, apparently, against the “murderous sociopathic Zio-American global empire,” in which Yaghoubian himself lives. Don’t give him too much credit for linear thinking.
Then there’s Helyeh Doutaghi, who was an associate research scholar at Yale until she was recently fired over her ties to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which the U.S. and Canada have designated “a sham charity that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization.” Doutaghi has called on Iran to target “all US military bases in the region.”
These are just three of them, but there are hordes of academics all over the country with the same mindset. How long can a nation survive when its educators are indoctrinating a generation of young people to hate the land of their birth? We’re going to find out.
