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Author: U.S. Liberals
Defending Islam Are Supporting Terrorists'
Agenda
By Chad Groening and Jenni Parker
(AgapePress) - A best-selling author who once
had to escape from Afghanistan says America
needs to evaluate seriously the meaning of free
speech in light of wartime realities in the
contemporary environment of Islamic terrorist
aggression.
Dr. Phyllis Chesler is a former college
professor and the author of numerous books
examining historical and contemporary culture,
including About Men (1979); Women of
the Wall: Claiming Sacred Ground at Judaism's
Holy Site (2002); and The New
Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We
Must Do About It (2005). In addition to her
teaching and writing, she has been a strong
opponent of anti-Semitism and waged several
political, legal, religious and human rights
campaigns in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Far
East and the Middle East.
In 1961, however, Chesler was only 20 years old
when she fell in love and married a man from
Afghanistan. And when the American woman
accompanied her Afghan husband to Kabul, her
U.S. passport was confiscated, and she learned
very quickly all about the treatment of women in
an Islamic society. Chesler managed to escape
and says she literally kissed the ground at the
airport when she arrived back home in the
States.
But now the retired college professor believes
Americans are increasingly unable to recognize
the vast difference between a Muslim-dominated
society and their own because they are being
what she calls "Islamized." She claims the
liberal media and the largely liberal academic
community in America have turned the U.S.
Constitution into a tool to defend anti-American
rhetoric and pro-Islamic propaganda against the
truth.
"If you have students and professors saying
America is to blame for everything and Israel
has to be exterminated and is to blame for
everything also, and Islam cannot be
criticized," Chesler posits, "and you cannot
tell the truth about Islam lest you be branded a
racist or, worse, a neoconservative, this is the
way in which America might be Islamized."
By this means, the retired academic says,
liberal college and university campuses are
being turned into ideological sanctuaries where
radical Islamists can hide behind the
Constitution of the United States while they
foment their hatred against the America and
Israel.
"We have a culture, beginning with the left-wing
media and with the largely progressive and
left-wing university systems, that wants us to
be very sensitive to different cultures and to
different religions," Chesler contends. But as
liberal students and professors blame the U.S.
and Israel for the conflicts in the Middle East
and everything else, she says, they close their
eyes to any and all criticism of Islam.
In so doing, the best-selling author maintains,
the Left in America is playing right into the
hands of radical Islam and promoting Muslim
extremists' global agenda. As a result, she
asserts, "We are now using First Amendment
rights and academic freedom rights to protect
hate speech and to protect lies."
Chesler is a co-founder of The National
Women's Health Network and a charter member
of the Women's Forum. She has also been a
columnist and Editor at Large for "On The
Issues" magazine.
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