Category: Academics Under Attack

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tariq Ramadan | The Chicago Tribune | 31 August 2004 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, without offering an explanation, has revoked a visa that was granted to me to teach at the University of Notre Dame. In Sunday’s Chicago Tribune on the Commentary page, Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, provided

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Peter Walshe | The Guardian | 1 September 2004 The department of homeland security’s de facto veto of the University of Notre Dame’s appointment of the Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan to a chair in the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies is offensive, not least as a denial of academic freedom (An oft-repeated ‘truth’,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Phil Baty | Times Higher Education Supplement | 6 August 2004 Reverend Stephen Sizer may have expected that his controversial thesis on Christianity’s role in the Middle East conflict would cause a few ripples. But the Church of England vicar could hardly have been prepared for the bitter, personal and very public row it

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) VICKIE CHACHERE | The Online Ledger | 5 August 2004 Prosecutors putting a former professor on trial on charges he raised money for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad will have to prove financial contributions to the group were used for terrorist attacks rather than charitable purposes, a federal judge has ruled. The ruling from U.S.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Paul Donnelly | The Washington Post | 20 August 2004 Tariq Ramadan, a professor at the College of Geneva and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, is the author of a book that is perhaps the most hopeful work of Muslim theology in the past thousand years. This month he was to come to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) American Association of University Professors | AAUP.ORG | 3 February 2005 We have witnessed an extraordinary outpouring of criticism aimed both at Professor Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado at Boulder, for his written remarks describing victims of the attacks on September 11, 2001, as “little Eichmanns,” and at the invitation for him

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Howard Pankratz | Denver Post | 2 February 2005 Ward Churchill, who quit as department chair over his 9/11 comments, insists he won’t resign as teacher. Hamilton College in New York has canceled the panel discussion featuring controversial University of Colorado ethnic- studies professor Ward Churchill, citing dozens of threats to the college and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ward Churchill | Znet | 2 February 2005 In the last few days there has been widespread and grossly inaccurate media coverage concerning my analysis of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, coverage that has resulted in defamation of my character and threats against my life. What

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) AK Press | AK Press | February 2005 After finding himself at the center of a media firestorm–and receiving a barrage of death threats–AK Press author, Ward Churchill, has stepped down from his position as Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado. Not satisfied with this, Colorado Governor Bill Owens

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michelle York | New York Times | 1 February 2005 A University of Colorado at Boulder professor who became the target of widespread outrage after he called the Sept. 11 victims “little Eichmanns” has resigned as chairman of that school’s ethnic studies department, though he will continue to teach there. The professor, Ward Churchill,