Solomonia Archive: Northeastern Professor compares 9/11 Hijackers to Founding Fathers

Thursday, December 30, 2004

Northeastern Professor compares 9/11 Hijackers to Founding Fathers

I'm not even sure what to do with this. Comparing 9/11 to the "shot heard 'round the world"...the American Revolution as a tool of the elite "landed classes," (you know, like...farmers...), you know you're stepping into Marxist la la land when you read the word "class" in an essay involving the American Revolution and the author feels the need to remind you that the nascent USA was a "slave-holding" sovereign.

You know you're stepping into something far worse - a difficult task considering Marxism's bloody history - when you see the rest. Here's a taste of where we're going:

Iviews.com: America and Islam - Seeking Parallels by Shahid Alam

...On September 11, 2001, nineteen Arab hijackers too demonstrated their willingness to die - and to kill - for their dream. They died so that their people might live, free and in dignity. The manner of their death - and the destruction it wreaked - is not merely a testament to the vulnerabilities that modern technology has created to clandestine attacks. After all, skyscrapers and airplanes have co-existed peacefully for many decades. The attacks of 9-11 were in many ways a work of daring and imagination too; if one can think objectively of such horrors [In other words, throw out your moral compass as the author does in order to follow the logic here. -Sol]. They were a cataclysmic summation of the history of Western depredations in the Middle East: the history of a unity dismembered, of societies manipulated by surrogates, of development derailed and disrupted, of a people dispossessed. The explosion of 9-11 was indeed a "shot heard 'round the world."...

The author is not some Islamist kook writing for Arab News. The author is a professor of Economics employed by Northeastern University here in Massachusetts who believes the "real America" is one that "...daily employs its might to mangle the lives of hundreds of millions..." Read the piece in full and lament - your taxes subsidize this man's salary. (Hat tip: Miss Kelley)

Update: Seems LGF was already on this. One of their readers got a response:

Why is it that the only hateful mail I have received is signed by Levitt, Hoch or Freedman?

Posted by Solomon at 3:58 PM on Thursday, Dec 30, 2004
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