Monday, February 1, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Joseph Massad at UCLA: Gay-Bashing 101 - 'A lecture last week at the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) offered a delightful mixture of intellectually deficient material mixed with a dash of bigotry. It was delivered by Joseph Massad, associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. People in the private sector compensate for inadequacies by purchasing expensive cars. In academia, they just give themselves long titles. The topic of Massad's lecture was – I kid you not – "Pre-Positional Conjunctions: Sexuality and/in Islam." While past CNES lectures resulted in Israel-bashing and anti-Semitism, UCLA finally decided to honor its commitment to diversity by attacking another minority group. This time, homosexuals had their turn in the multicultural bile wheel...'
