When on October 1, 2013, Samantha Bowden crept unannounced
into the classroom of University of Central Florida communications professor Jonathan Matusitz, she wasn’t
hoping to advance her education on the sly. Rather, Bowden, the communication and
outreach director for the Florida branch of
the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL), was doing something of which Campus
Watch has been frequently accused, but has never done: spying on a
professor in an effort to embarrass him and,
with luck, even harm his career.
Since its inception in 2002, Campus Watch (CW)—a project
of the Middle East Forum that reviews and critiques Middle East studies in
North America with an aim to improving them—has been charged with an array of outrageous calumnies. They include paying students to
infiltrate classrooms as “spies” or “informers”; targeting “pro-Palestinian”
professors; and tracking “anti-Israel” comments.” (Click here for a full collection of examples.)…...Campus Watch challenges these professors to denounce CAIR’s harassment with the same fervor they’ve demonstrated over the years leveling spurious accusations of spying against CW. To do otherwise would be to demonstrate the hollowness of their concerns.....To Read More….
My Take - Another example that academic integrity is an
oxymoron. The cowardliness of these academics was on total display in the
1960's when they cravenly cowed to rioting leftists and black radicals. Nothing
has changed except now the leaders in academia are leftists and black radicals.
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