The view of violent uprisings in the Middle East, and collateral threats in the United States, is a bit different in the Ivory Tower than it is closer to the action. “In Libya and Egypt, we have uprisings that to some degree relate to the internal political competition in the country, between the Muslim Brotherhood and other political groups.” Boston College political science professor Peter Krouse said recently on the New England Cable Network. “In Yemen, … it seems like this might have been both a response to U.S. counterterror operations in Yemen that have taken out some of al-Qaeda’s leaders in the region.”
Krause is also associated with the International Studies Department and the Islamic Civilization and Societies Department at Boston College. He does aver of the recent demonstrations abroad that “There absolutely was organization here.” He also told the BC Observer that “This is something that will get more intense before it calms down.”
Within the past two weeks, at least three American universities—Louisiana State University, the University of Texas at Austin and North Dakota State University— were evacuated due to bomb threats.
“What is coming to America, courtesy of the Obama Administration, is more scrutiny of and threats against those who are labeled Islamophobes by such groups as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress,” Cliff Kincaid asserts in a column distributed by Accuracy in Media. “Europeans are already experiencing these frightening developments, as critics of the prophet Muhammad are being physically attacked, murdered, or subject to prosecution for ‘hate speech.’”
“In order to counter this threat here and abroad, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer launched the ‘International Freedom Defense Congress’ of Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), on whose board I serve. It is designed to safeguard our constitutional rights before they are stripped away by an administration working hand-in-glove with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a group of Muslim countries which wants to silence critics of Islam.”
For example, “Lars Vilks, the Swedish artist who drew Islam’s prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog and lives under a constant death threat, was in New York City on 9/11, as anti-American violence started to unfold in the Middle East. He described how the Islamists have repeatedly tried to injure or kill him over the last several years,” Kincaid pointed out. “Vilks spoke at an ‘International Freedom Defense Congress’ sponsored by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer amid tight security, proving that the problem regarding Islam isn’t a drawing or a film but rather an ideology that sanctions violence against its perceived enemies and which has a presence on American soil.”
Kincaid will be speaking at a conference organized by AIM on September 21, 2012 entitled, “ObamaNation: A Day of Truth.”
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia.
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