Copyright 2010 Campus Watch Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:48:49 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Campus Watch :: Writings http://www.campus-watch.org myers@meforum.org (Campus Watch) webmaster@meforum.org en-us http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2010/02/reviving-the-islamic-spirit-or-promoting-islamic Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:21:00 EST Jonathan Usher reports today at FrontPage Magazine on his experience at Canada's "largest Muslim convention," held in late December in Toronto: Billed as "Canada's largest Muslim convention," Reviving the Islamic Spirit – 8th Convention was held in http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9101 Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST Billed as "Canada's largest Muslim convention," Reviving the Islamic Spirit – 8th Convention was held in Toronto on December 25 – 27, 2009. Having heard the reports that 17,000 attendees from Canada and the U.S. were expected, I decided to see for myself http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2010/02/new-campus-watch-research-the-model-arab-league Mon, 1 Feb 2010 18:58:00 EST CW-commissioned pieces appeared today and yesterday. Stephen Schwartz takes a close look at the Model Arab League in "Model Middle East Indoctrination," which appeared Sunday at American Thinker. What he found should concern parents of students in high http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9069 Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST [Ed. note: This version differs somewhat from than that posted at FPM.] 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 http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9068 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST Most Americans, even many of those concerned with the problems of academic Middle East Studies, have probably never heard of the Model Arab League (MAL), an American exercise similar to the better-known Model United Nations. The stated aim of such http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2010/01/new-muslim-cool-promotes-dialogue-as-toronto-prof Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:34:00 EST Brendan Goldman's latest report from campus juxtaposes the recent debut of a documentary, "New Muslim Cool," with the decidedly uncool diatribe delivered just ahead of the screening by University of Toronto professor Sherene Razack. It appears today at http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9058 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST [Ed. note: FrontPage Magazine title, "The Roots of Muslim Radicalism"] "Too often when we think of Muslims in America we think only of the immigrant experience," said Zaheer Ali, a doctoral student at Columbia University who studies America's indigenous, http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2010/01/tariq-ramadan-may-return-to-usa-notre-dame-says Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:07:00 EST Tariq Ramadan has been invited by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to re-apply for a visa to the United States. Ramadan had been awarded the Henry R. Luce Chair at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8998 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST The State Department has said that Tariq Ramadan, a controversial Islamist philosopher,will now get a visa to the United States, should he request one. The case for Ramadan usually rests on descriptions of Ramadan as a moderate — something which his http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2010/01/cecilie-surasky-tries-to-wish-campus-watch-away Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:56:00 EST In a rambling diatribe that substitutes assertion for argument, Cecilie Surasky of Muzzlewatch, a project of Jewish Voice for Peace, poses false premises about Campus Watch research from which she draws necessarily false conclusions. She begins with the http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2010/01/correcting-nora-barrows-friedman-of Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:28:49 EST In "Uphill Battle for Academic Freedom in U.S. Universities," which appeared at the Electronic Intifada January 11, Nora Barrows-Friedman confuses criticism with censorship, and accuses CW of launching "smear campaigns" against former North Carolina http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2010/01/andrew-march-of-yale-apologist-for-radical-islam Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:07:00 EST In "Islam and the West: 'Overlapping Consensus or Capitulation?,'" Janet Doerflinger examins the disturbing work of Yale political scientist Andrew March. Not only does March's scholarship soft-peddle the danger of radical Islamism, it argues that the http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/8958 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST In his recent book, Islam and Liberal Citizenship: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus, Yale political scientist Andrew F. March argues that fears of an inherent conflict between Western and Islamic political norms are overblown. If true, this would http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2010/01/sunny-hundals-pseudo-scholarship-on-campus-watch Thu, 7 Jan 2010 17:35:01 EST In the aftermath of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's attempted bombing of Northwest flight 253 on Christmas day, Guardian blogger Sunny Hundal seeks to defend University College London (where Abdulmutallab studied) from charges that it and other universities http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2009/12/more-politicized-scholarship-at-columbia-u-iran Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:04:00 EST A December 12 conference at Columbia University, "Iran after the Election," displayed not only the politicized scholarship the public has come to expect from Morningside Heights, but included verbal fireworks from Columbia professor Hamid Dabashi.