Professor Muhammad Abdou, who until recently taught students at Columbia University, appeared online this week to spread calls for religious-based violence and glorify the murder of Jews. He did so as part of an event at the Union Theological Seminary, an institution associated with Columbia. While the university recently ended Abdou’s teaching, it is important to remember that this unhinged fanatic was previously chosen by Columbia faculty and administrators to teach their students. Those individuals remain at Columbia, and Abdou is just the latest example of the radical chic of higher education.
The Islamic studies scholar called on students to “be a threat” as part of the event titled “Death to the Akademy: How to be a thorn in their throat amidst snakes in the grass.” Teachers in higher education are often called “the academy.”
According to a video on X from Manhattan Institute investigative analyst Stu Smith, the talk involved deeply disturbing and hateful comments.
Abdou told the students: “Let us engage in jihad, and there are rules for jihad, and Muslims know that Allah has commanded rules. We don’t engage in wanton violence, but we don’t accept the negative peace either.”
One of the most chilling moments came when he praised Elias Rodriguez, the man facing multiple charges for the murder of a young Jewish couple. In what Abdou called the “assassination of two Zionists,” Rodriguez is accused of murdering Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, the two Israeli employees in 2025 in Washington.
Abdou does not discuss how this young couple dreamed of a life together or sought to bridge religious divides. They are just a couple of “Zionists” in his eyes. He then reportedly praised their accused killer: “God bless him. He took action. … Take action. Not only that kind of action, just to be very clear, because there’s also building. We need to destroy. We need to create alternatives.”
The seminary stopped his in-person appearance, which led to condemnations from student groups. In an Instagram post, Queer Muslims NYC accused the seminary of “flagrant Islamophobia and utter disregard for Muslim students.” However, they claimed that the union continued to support the event with a virtual component.
This video is reminiscent of the speech of other radical faculty like Cornell Professor Russell Rickford, who celebrated the massacre in Israel on Oct. 7th. Their extremism was not a barrier to being hired. It was likely an enhancement.
They are examples of why faculty members are unlikely to change the overwhelmingly liberal appointments. Conservatives and libertarians have been largely purged from most departments. While even a moderately conservative faculty candidate will often face organized opposition, radicals like Abdou and Rickford find an eager audience on faculties.
I encourage you to watch this video. This is the man who was interviewed and selected by faculty and administrators, not just at Columbia but at Cornell University and the University of Toronto. He was appointed as the Arcapita Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Middle-Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS) Program at the Middle-East Institute. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Scholar at Cornell.
According to his bio, “he is a self-identifying Muslim anarchist and diasporic settler of color.” His credentials include “his organizing towards BIPOC and Palestinian liberation and involvement with post-anti-Globalization Seattle 1999 movements.”
That appears to be the perfect resume for someone who wants to teach at leading universities. Those faculty and administrators are still at these institutions, and so is the radical culture that has taken hold of higher education in the United States.
What is most striking about this video is how Abdou offers just pure hate. There is no discernible intellectual content or insight. Just rage masquerading as scholarship.
Wikipedia says:
“In 2022, Abdou published “Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances” with Pluto Press, arguing for a spiritually rooted, anti-authoritarian, decolonial interpretation of Islam.”
Indeed, the “new” Islamic understanding of jihad is the killing and elimination of all who oppose Islam. -And under the protection of First Amendment “religious freedom” in America, you can cloak your violent need to destroy all who oppose Islam and instead spread Islam across the nation.. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/11/966
Because, here in the U.S., foreign teachers motivated by religious violence can tell our young students, “Let us fulfill that threat, and you know what I mean, with all the details, with the full blunt force. Let us engage in jihad… We need to destroy. We need to create alternatives.” And our AMERICAN professors can celebrate the death of Jews and Zionists
-But if you tell your audience, “We are going to march to the Capitol… peacefully and patriotically…and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women…because if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,”
—you’re up for impeachment and execution for “insurrection.”
(–Not that I approve of or support Trump’s New York-style rhetoric and personality, but I DO liken Left-wing radical rhetoric to Islamic extremism, to wit, and i.e., (my words imitating the Left): ‘we must suppress/censor/eliminate/ostracize all things conservative, liberalism, Republican. Keep them out of our schools and universities, out of politics, out of our way of life.’)
Lin,
Well said and I like your comparison.
^^^^I meant libertarianism, not liberalism. sorry
Lin, I find your analysis of the radical rhetoric both correct and persuasive. Regarding the ‘New York-style’ disclaimer: I see that style simply as speed, directness, and high-intensity engagement, where brevity and wit crowd out non-productive words. When the logic is this sound, it requires no apology. The strength of your point stands entirely on its own merit.
lin, what alarms me most in all of this is not only the content of the rhetoric. It is the weakness of our response as a people. A healthy republic produces citizens who hear calls for hatred and violence and rise up against them through more speech, organizing, and social pressure, long before the police or the courts get involved.
We have drifted into a placid culture that waits for the government to act first. Then we act shocked when the response comes late, only after the threat is active and any serious solution starts to strain constitutional limits. We want Washington to be both censor and savior, while we sit quietly in the audience.
A free country cannot live that way. The First Amendment was never a promise that the government would filter out all the bad ideas for us. It was a bet that free men and women, formed as citizens, would answer bad ideas themselves, and in doing so would keep both liberty and order alive. Right now, our biggest deficit is not law. It is citizen capacity.
Which citizens, Olly? Lin makes a case of using the cloaking device of 1A. It’s not just radical Islam. It’s Islam itself. Many have ancestors hacked by Islam while fleeing for their lives. The old shah was European and at least he wasn’t murdered.
Take away the religious label. Does the immigrant share American values?
😂 It’s so passed citizen capacity It’s laughable. Ben Franklin probably had never heard about a house divided. 😏
Olly, Elena Kagan is your favorite Justice I’ve heard. 😂
It’s really a repulsive world. What luck! ☺
Pluto Press? He must be one of Satan’s angels who serve the lord of the underworld.
OK…alright….I got it!
The dude has called us out and told us he means us harm…serious bodily harm…deadly harm.
He is free to say all of that…..but…a very big BUT…..our Right to Self Defense is a God given Right.
When folks talk like the does we should remind them that kind of business is a two way street. Not talk….but actions.
Perhaps when those folks who go with the Fatwa school of thought thinking their religion grants and requires them to comply…just maybe we might look at them square in the eye….and compare and contrast the difference between “Allahu Akbar” and the Infidel version which is “Aloha Snack Bar” .
At some point folks….that is what is going to have to happen. Either they figure out how to fit in society in peace and harmony or we are going to have deal with the problem in a manner that even they can understand.
I have a problem with a religion that promotes violence and murder. You want to live as my neighbor you best be a good neighbor where we look out for one another otherwise you shall never be welcome in the neighborhood.
Let’s be honest…after Austin, New York, Michigan, and Virginia in just a single week….the hand writing is on the Wall.
Are you prepared and willing to stand up to this kind of evil?
Some unarmed college kids did in Virginia!
We all should be….and for the record I am not Jewish, am not married to a Jew, and cannot off hand say I have Jewish friends or neighbors and hold no malice towards anyone but I refuse to be a Sheep knowing there are Wolves attacking the flock. Those Kids in Virginia were Sheep Dogs….which we all should be. Being a Sheep means you are just hoping the Wolves will take someone else forgetting in time it might just be you.
Look out for one another and confront evil when it threatens you or others.
Professor, thank you for yet another example of higher education gone wild. In my opinion, “Professor” Muhammad Abdou, albeit despicable, is not the most serious, immediate threat to our American values. Instead, I believe the most serious threat was yesterday at the intersection of two main streets in the small Texas town in which I live. At that intersection about twenty-five people, all Democrats, stood holding and waving signs (many of them hateful) condemning Trump. This time, instead of “No Kings”, the signs mainly were because of the war in Iran, the holders obviously unconcerned about an Iran armed with nuclear weapons. These were ordinary looking Texans, someone you would see everyday at the local grocery store. In the recent Democrat Senate primary, both candidates, U.S. Rep. Crockett and Tex. Rep. Talarico enjoyed a very large turnout of Democrat voters even though both are comfortably ensconced in the far left wing of the party. As just one example, in years past in the Texas House, Talarico’s office worked to add pronouns to all House staffers’ business cards as “a small way to tell trans Texans: You are welcome here” and recently when asked to describe a very moving event for him, he talked about the day trans children came to the Capitol. He has described white men (of which he is one) as the greatest violence threat to the US, and supports taxing the rich, along with all of the other left-wing policies. A recent poll showed him with a slight lead over either of his two possible Republican opponents. I say all of this to say that the Professor Abdous in US education appear to have already succeeded in shaping the minds and values of many, if not most, “ordinary” Americans. If far left Democrat ideas have found a home in central Texas, our society and its western values may already be circling the drain.
@honestlawyermostly
Yes, and it is due to complacency.
The, ‘Texas can never flip.’ Mentality has to go. Yes, yes it can, and quite easily. All the left needs is Austin, Houston, and Dallas/Ft. Worth. They already have two and have made ground in the third. Popular sentiment has nothing to do with it, just enough population in the voting bloc. And when it’s done, it’s done: everyone in a state is subject to state law – such as, say, changing voting laws – regardless of their opinion.
Obviously this is why dems want to skip ahead and simply federalize everything, which they will if given the opportunity. It is the very definition of tyranny.
This same logic can be applied to education, corporate culture, what have you. Alas, we are lazy people, both physically and intellectually.
HLM, they’ve been hypnotized and manipulated. Where and how is the question. An approach is to de-hypnotize them. Specialists in these things must be utilized. Some cannot be reclaimed.
My only comment today is that.
Islam is primitive. The world moved forward and Islamic nations did not. They want to kill what they don’t understand. It’s common for primitive people to be confused, frustrated and then kill.
How did Islam claim so many people? That’s the true quandary. The shah recognized the fact that the nation was primitive and wanted to join the 🎉 party forward.
Sad day- the United States is 4% of world population? Well, good things once came in small packages. The US has been invaded. 🤔
While no one was noticing Michigan now share a bridge with Canada. Canada and Michigan own it. Nice invasion route.
Olly, citizen capacity isn’t the problem. Basic IQ is. Reports say children pre-k- 3 grades have trouble with motor skills, toileting and tying their shoes.
Nice knowing ya
All good points! You might be interested to know that Upstate New York’s Elise Stefanik, has written a book about the rot that plagues the “elite” colleges and universities. The book, which is scheduled to be in book stores on April 16, is titled Poison Ivies. Ms. Stefanik is a Harvard graduate and currently represents a district here in Upstate New York.
I watch Texas for the reasons you anticipate with keen precision. Your thoughts are my greatest worry because they often mirror the truths I’m not yet ready to face.
“no discernible intellectual content or insight. Just rage”
The lefts “Final Boss”, mask off. Age of leftard rage.
One of the problems in these discussions is that criticism gets shut down instantly with the label “Islamophobia.” But that accusation only works if we pretend there is no difference between Muslims, Islam, and Islamism.
A Muslim is a person and deserves the same protection of law and dignity as anyone else. Islam is a religion practiced by over a billion people. But Islamism is a political ideology that seeks to impose religious doctrine through political power, and in its more extreme forms openly celebrates hostility toward Jews, the West, and America itself.
Opposing that ideology is not hatred of Muslims. It is a rejection of a political doctrine that is incompatible with a free society.
The problem is that too often the word “Islamophobia” is used to blur those distinctions so that any criticism of Islamist rhetoric, antisemitism, or calls for violence is treated as bigotry rather than legitimate criticism.
A free society cannot function that way. People must be protected. Religions can be debated. Political ideologies must be open to criticism.
Calling out hatred of Jews or calls for violence is not Islamophobia. It is simply moral clarity.
More stupid from olly. You get that from a Hallmark card?
Anonymous, I began reading the comments with the hope that you might condemn this mans glorification of a man who killed Jews. On more than one occasion you have compared Trump to Hitler but you can’t even bring yourself to say that this man who wants to kill Jews is no different than Hitler’s desire to kill Jews. I understand. Your desire to pick a fight on this forum everyday is more important than calling out this mans glorification of a Jew killer. Obsession to the point of considering nothing else a symptom of mania. You and this man are brothers of a kind.
TiT,
Oh, the annony only comes here to throw around insults. Never makes a coherent thought on any issues.
The idea is to be rid of yahweh, jehovah, adonai. There’s a major problem-Christianity. It’s brilliant!
😂 Islam is a cult, not a religion as the profit is false. Wake up. They don’t have 1A except for trash talk and trash press.
Stupid is coming from Ano and no one else.
Do you even have a life?
What I said is true.
RE: “More stupid from OLLY. You get that from a Hallmark card? The first of today’s comments from beneath the nation’s rug. One does not have great expectations. Merely certainty that there will be more.
How many times are you going to post this same comment?
Like YOU just did.
OLLY,
Well said.
Unfortunately many Muslims and those who practice Islam are more inclined to remain silent while others call for violence against Jews and all non-believers.
Then there are those students who chant from rive to sea as if it is some benign slogan.
There is a schism within Islam that began 100 years ago, the move toward secular governing begun by Ataturk.
That said, we have yet to see the secularist branch organize militarily to defeat the Islamists. The Iran War is yet another indication that the monarchist states of the Gulf don’t have the moral rectitude to go to war to overthrow the Islamist regime in Tehran (which has attacked them with missiles and drones).
President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu are expected to do the “dirty work” for these Sheiks and Emirs?
There is moral weakness afoot in the secular Moslem nations. It’s not clear at all that they are deserving allies of the US and Israel based on that attitude. Only Turkey and Pakistan hold meaningful elections. The rest of the secular Moslem nations still cling to dynastic leadership. The peoples of these nations are not living their potentials under this obsolete system.
pbinca, Part of what you are getting at is how politics gets built in the first place. I have written before about what kind of citizens a constitutional republic needs. The basic idea applies everywhere: political systems tend to shape the kind of people they need in order to keep going. A constitutional republic needs citizens who can govern themselves and take part in civic life. If people cannot do that, the system just does not work. Schools, families, churches, and local communities all teach people how to be that kind of citizen, and over time those citizens also push back and shape how the system works.
Monarchies and authoritarian systems run on a different deal. They tend to produce subjects, not citizens. The main bargain is simple: you get stability and security if you accept order and control from above. That deal shapes the kind of leaders who rise to the top and the way those governments act. Saddam Hussein is a good example. His regime was built around crushing rivals and keeping a tight grip on the country. That kind of rule can hold a state together in a rough neighborhood, but it is not built to rally ordinary people around a big idea or a shared cause. Its first job is control, not participation.
You can see the same pattern in other parts of history. Napoleon Bonaparte came to power after the chaos of the French Revolution. The French people were worn out from violence and turmoil. What Napoleon really offered them was order and a sense that someone was finally in charge. Once you see that pattern, a lot of what Gulf regimes do makes more sense. When they deal with ideological movements like Islamism, their main goal is to keep things contained and manageable, not to fight a grand civilizational war. Their top priority is staying in power and keeping the home front quiet.
At the bottom of all this is a simple truth. The kind of leaders a society gets depends on the kind of people it has and on the kind of government those people are able and willing to keep going. Different citizens. Different systems. Different leaders.
I think that you recently published a book, Olly. If I am correct about that, please remind us of the title.
Catherine, you remembered correctly, and I humbly thank you for asking. I did publish a book titled Awakening a Forgotten Republic in December 2025, and it is available on Amazon for anyone who is interested. I have actually tried not to talk about it much here because some of the regular trolls have accused me of ‘promoting’ it, but since you raised the question I at least owe you a straight answer.
RE: “There is moral weakness afoot in the secular Moslem nations.” It takes a collective will and a spine of steel to rise up against the radical, fanatic fringe who consider those of whom you speak as ‘mubtadi’ or ‘kafir’. That lot will ‘off heads’ as retribution for same without reservation. The faithful transcend national borders and governments whose authorities the teaching of Islam forbid its adherents to owe any loyalty to. Such is the province of The Prophet and Allah. We are seeing manifestations of such in the news headlines this very day.
I am not sure Islam is a “religion”. Is there any size limit to a “cult”? Is Satanism a religion? Was Jim Jones a priest? Was Charles Manson a religious leader?
Wiseoldlawyer, I get why people reach for words like “cult” here, but that move ends up dodging the real issue. In our system, we do not let the government decide which belief systems are “real” religions and which are not. The state protects peaceful exercise of belief and judges actions under neutral laws. That is the only workable rule in a pluralistic society.
The more useful distinction is not between “religion” and “cult.” It is between people who live within the law and people who use belief to justify violence, coercion, or the denial of basic rights to others. The first group is entitled to full protection. The second group is subject to the criminal law, whatever label it uses for itself.
That is exactly why the distinction between Muslims, Islam, and Islamism matters. A Muslim is a person and is owed equal protection. Islam is a faith tradition with a wide range of interpretations, many of them fully compatible with constitutional order. Islamism is a political project that tries to turn one set of religious claims into a totalizing system of power.
We do not need to relabel Islam as a “cult” to confront Islamism. We only need the courage to name and oppose any movement, religious or secular, that preaches violence and the destruction of others, while still protecting the rights of peaceful believers.
The hell with that, Olly. When a 1A right goes with it and it’s a murderous cult begun by a goatherder we most certainly have the right not to confer honors. You can call it an ideology of death if it pleases you. Cults get speech and press to push their trash talk, quackery.
You have my disrespect in that, Olly.
You are free to disrespect me. That is your right. I am not asking anyone to “confer honors” on any religion. I am saying the government does not get to decide which beliefs count as a religion and which are just “trash” or a “cult.” Once you let the state pick and choose like that, you do not have the First Amendment anymore. You have a speech and religion license that can be revoked whenever the majority decides your beliefs are dangerous, backward, or offensive. If you are a serious person about liberty, you do not want that power in the government’s hands, even when you are sure you are on the “right” side at the moment.
The Constitution does not protect Islam because it is “nice.” It protects the free exercise of religion, and it protects speech, and it protects the press. That means it covers things you and I may strongly dislike, including what you are calling “ideologies of death,” so long as they stay on the protected side of the line and do not move into criminal threats or violence.
The real test of principle is whether we will defend neutral rules even when they benefit people and ideas we despise. If we will not, then we are just arguing about who gets to be the next censor.
Confer honors, honorific of religion designation. Btw I am the State and so too are you. Look up the components if a cult.
No respect for cults outside of their native land after the goatherder. Raising a false prophet to religion within the United States is error.
😂 Rachel Levine says she’s a woman. I guess you believe that too, Olly.
As an American citizen can I say Islam has the status , the honor of religion and deserves all protections afforded under 1A within the United States? Everyone on earth once thought the sun orbited the earth. Does it? 1 billion people believe Islam is true. Is it?
What about reciprocity, Olly? Will Iran give Jewish people the honor of existing? Will Islam give the United States the honor of existence?
Islam is protected as a false religion within United States borders. 1A doesn’t specify if a religion is true or false.
There is the matter of 1C- no other Gods. Why is that, Olly. The land will be divided? I personally cannot honor a lie.
It seems I must but olly I don’t think 1A says it. It’s all so grand isn’t it. Wars are made of it. Government can’t say anything at all but at the State level? You’ve just committed harikari, 1C.
We’ll see. Caitlin Jenner is a woman.
Regarding cults, I don’t recognize gay marriage as valid either.
Islam is prehistoric it’s incredibly primitive and hasn’t validity, Olly. It’s without free will and man becomes a slave. It doesn’t achieve religion status within the educated world.
It’s merely a way to oppress by theocratic. Confined to pitiful regions it’s not anyone’s business but as it attempts to spread its divine right it becomes everyone’s business.
It’s harmful to human beings. The harm principle comes into the consideration. It remains an archaic cult practiced in regions. It is antithetical to American freedom. They do have freedom of speech and press within 1A and assembly.
Mr. Abdou has a personal hatred? Were his family killed in a war? If so his grief has overtaken his ability to be rational. He qualifies as a lost soul imo.
BRAVO, HLM! 👏
Look up the components of a cult, WOL.
Try wearing a godawful hijab burka for a time. My god the discomfort is astounding. Amazing their necks still function.
Masterful! Thank you, Olly! You rock!
WHY did Americans give Islam the status of religion? It’s a cult. THAT’S THE MISTAKE. Sick little goatherder from which century wanting to kill everyone? Islam is NOT a 1A right! Freedom of cult? WAKE UP.
The whole point of the First Amendment is that the government does not get to sit in judgment on which beliefs are “real” religions and which are “cults.” If you hand that power to the state, it will not stop with the beliefs you dislike. It will eventually come for yours too.
Americans did not “give Islam the status of religion.” We wrote a rule that protects peaceful belief and practice under neutral laws. That rule covers Jews, Christians, Muslims, atheists, and anyone else who is not violating the criminal law.
The mistake is not protecting religion. The mistake is refusing to draw a hard line between people who practice their faith peacefully and people who use any ideology, religious or secular, to justify violence and hatred. The first are protected. The second should be prosecuted.
😂 right, Olly, IT’S A CULT. The state doesn’t recognize it. Freedom of cult just isn’t there, olly. You’re elevating the goatherder…jeez
“The problem is that too often the word “Islamophobia” is used to blur those distinctions “
The problem we face is distinguishing the religious Muslim from the Islamist radical, and why Sharia Law is unacceptable to all other beliefs. We need more voices from the Muslim community to help us make that distinction.
SM, I agree. The crucial distinction is between ordinary Muslims, Islamist radicals, and any Sharia based political project that would replace equal civil law and strip basic rights from people who do not share the faith. We badly need more Muslim voices in public who help draw that line clearly, and we need to make sure they are heard.
After a lecture, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a patriot whose 2012 book, A Battle for the Soul of Islam, led to his ostracization and harassment by extremists. It is tragic that we sideline genuine reformers like Jasser, while the West remains inclusive of dangerous groups like CAIR and SJP. I was told that since the book, his rhetoric has at least been partially silenced because of fears for his family and himself.
These are not “civil rights” groups; they are front organizations. The case of Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, a convicted “master manipulator” for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, proves that academia and advocacy are used as structural cover for terror. By legitimizing these entities, we deny peaceful Muslims the platform they deserve to challenge this architecture of hate.
SM, that is a powerful story, and it tracks with what others have said about Jasser and people like him. The tragedy is that genuine Muslim reformers who argue openly for an Islam that can live inside a constitutional order end up sidelined or threatened, while groups with much murkier ties and agendas are welcomed as “civil rights” partners and campus fixtures.
We have to learn to tell the difference between a Muslim who risks his standing to confront extremism, and organizations that use the language of rights as structural cover for an entirely different project. Whatever label we put on it, that kind of organized political deception is the problem I am trying to describe. In classical terms, taqiyya is a narrow doctrine about concealing your faith under persecution, not a blanket license to mislead non‑Muslims, and I am talking about front work and bad faith inside our institutions, not that technical doctrine.
This is also where the human side gets complicated. I work every day with a practicing Muslim, and a colleague who has known him for nearly 30 years has admitted that even he sometimes wonders if he really knows the man. That is what this mix of Islamism, front groups, and genuine reformers has done to basic trust. It has put ordinary Muslims and their neighbors in a kind of mutual doubt that a healthy republic cannot live with for very long.
That is why I keep coming back to citizen formation and clarity. We need institutions and leaders who are honest about the reality of Islamist front work, but also honest enough not to turn every Muslim neighbor into a permanent suspect, because a republic built on that kind of fear will not hold together for long.
OLLY, we are on the same wavelength. One of our lecturers was Zuhdi, which is how I got to meet and talk to him personally. Years ago, one of our commitments was education, specifically addressing the Islamist doctrine in Florida schoolbooks, not the Muslim religion itself.
Our group reviewed several dozen textbooks across Florida, identifying over 200 instances of what we categorized as historical inaccuracies or biased content. We put those corrections into a book sent to teachers so they could fix the problems in the textbooks on the fly. It worked, and Prentice Hall ended up giving us a six-month window to review their future textbooks before they ever hit the shelves.
I recognize wolves in gramma outfits, too.
Yes, we need more whirling dervishes…
4get it
As long as pedophilia and the treatment of women as chattle is also accepted , Olly.
My comment was censored. I was nicer in this comment.
Islam is a cult based on what Christians know as a false prophet. Americans do have the freedom to not give false ideologies the honorific title of religion. The religion is recognized in Islamic nations. That is sufficient for their dignity.
I really didn’t take Twin Towers lightly. It’s people like you misinterpreting the constitution and philosophy that do harm with your sojourn. Citizen capacity is built on truth. There is no truth in Islam outside of Islamic nations.
Americans absolutely have the right to criticize any doctrine, including how some Islamic societies treat women or children. We also have the right to refuse that model here. The line I am drawing is this. In our system you fight bad ideas with truth, law, and civic action, not by asking the state to strip an entire religion of legal protection because you judge its prophet to be false.
Citizen capacity really is built on truth. One of those truths is that evil and abuse have appeared under many banners, including Christian ones. Another is that millions of Muslim women and men in this country reject the worst practices done in the name of their religion and live within our constitutional order as neighbors, colleagues, and fellow citizens. If we cannot hold two ideas together, that some interpretations are deeply wrong and that the state must still stay neutral on religion, then we are not defending the Constitution. We are only defending our own team.
You also say I am misinterpreting the Constitution, but you never identify where. If you think the First Amendment lets the government decide which faiths are real religions and which are only cults, then please point to the text that gives Washington that power, because the religion clauses were written to stop government from favoring or disfavoring particular religions in exactly that way.
Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles may be correct…..
The first confirmed sighting of an Ogles-ite.
If you subtract “iversity”, all you have left is “Un”. It is the absence of balance from the absence of conservative thought on campuses. It’s trying to get an airplane to go beyond Mach 1 without understanding the Area Rule. Abdou’s message is the sequel to Hollywood’s Ed Wood grade of intellect that we see from the Auto Da Fe in 15th century Spain, to Ahctung Juden in 1930’s Germany, to “from the river to the sea” recently. Do those ideas have a place on campus? Yes. To the exclusion of conservative countervailing ideas? No. If you want critical thinking to be the product of university, the mental pugil sticks practice requires balance. There is arguably more diversity of thought here on Res Ipsa than on too many higher education campuses.
Has Columbia U (along with Harvard and a cr@plo@d of other Fascist “liberal” colleges) been completely cut off from all Federal funding and aid? Or has that proven to be nothing but another in a seeming endless litany of BS empty threat rhetoric from the Trump administration? When is Linda McMahon going to actually take care of the business of removing the Dept Education from all activities that are not authorized by the Constitution (after which, the no-brainer conclusion would be dismantling the Department itself)?
” When is Linda McMahon going to actually take care of the business of removing…’ There is a pesky thing called laws.
The DOE is not authorized under the Constitution? You are obviously not a sober or serious person.
In a few minutes X (George) will come on here and state that the Republicans are worse, this guy isn’t bad, Columbia doesn’t have him on their staff any longer and Turley should write a column about Trump or something.
Come on George (X), come here and say that this is an abomination, that Columbia should be ashamed for hiring this guy, that this guy’s rhetoric is abhorrent and that he needs to be shunned. Come on X, just once do the right thing. I bet it is impossible because you are just a contrarian weirdo.
The same stupid crap you post here non-stop. Why don’t you go put a bullet in your head. End your misery.
His problem is that he thinks everyone has to swear allegiance to his ideology. Or else get bullied nonstop. Just go away hullbobby.
HullBobby has never demanded anyone to swear allegiance to anything. That is just you projecting.
Anonymous is obviously a child, the type that the left in academia has so riled up that they post videos of themselves screaming and even threatening officials. This is what the left has done to our colleges and universities, they have crippled a huge part of an entire generation or two.
Please note how every time the child Anonymous comments he adds a supporting comment thinking we all don’t know it is the same person. Not to worry child, I will not harm myself because I have a nice life and I am not living in my mother’s basement like you as you work your two part time jobs trying to pay off your gender studies degree loans.
You first Ano.
Same old sick ano. As usual. Life must really hard for you.
Come On Man! The Columbia Illuminati recruited Jihadi Abdou so they could have a diversity of opinion for the students, right? The impressionable MORON students need to hear Global Hate from any and all sources so they can freely choose to join the hate movement as well and become pariah’s of society! Besides, Jihadi Abdou just wants to ensure Islam takes its rightful place in the world as the destroyer of Infidels and the Caliphate stretches across the planet! Could this possibly be a problem for more than half the worlds population? What absolute nit wits are in LOW IQ HIGHER EDUCATION!
Just thinking how empty the lives, emotionally vapid, of the kids must be that they are so easily indoctrinated. At 20 I was looking for booty, drinking, and other “normal” male pursuits, while at college. Decades later, still am.
In an Instagram post, Queer Muslims NYC accused the seminary of “flagrant Islamophobia and utter disregard for Muslim students.” Queer Muslims NYC? Seriously?
I suspect many/some of these groups are fake. Front groups with ulterior motives. Despite having a glut of home grown, domestic, far left nuts who hate America, foreigners may even be funding some of these groups.
They were told by the high priest of the prophet Muhammadami to go jump off a roof or we will throw you…
What is even more disturbing is the failure of our Government to take the threats and actions seriously. We have apparently entered the stage of the Islamic Jihad in America that our Legislative and Judicial branches have been infiltrated sufficiently by Islamic combatants and sympathizers that these voices and Islamic Soldiers feel comfortable enough to expose themselves. Wake up America!!!!
Which government are you referring to? Every 4 years were have a new gov. with diff. goals and policies. Think Bush, then Obama, then Trump, then Biden, now Trump again. Can’t run a stable gov. if there is no stability. I got no answer to fix gov. other than fight like hell to preserve what we have today. Vote, get like minded people to vote.
GOP President Trump
END ALL Federal Aid and Loan backing to Colleges
End Federal Aid to cities, states, nonprofits
Outlaw Public Unions
BREAK Democrats by Defunding them!
Jail this psycho
Really? You obviously are a stupid person. All those programs are mandated by laws. And it’s already been tried. Guess what the outcome was?
Most of the money is foreign money and unreported to boot. It’s laundered.
‘Just rage masquerading as scholarship’, indeed. It’s madness, and anyone that doesn’t see it by now is willfully blind. Then again, ‘Queer Muslims NYC’ should tell you the level of intellect involved on the receiving end. Not to mention our truly, epically vile media that manages to invent new lows to sink to every week.
This is not tenable, and this IS the modern left. As always, it’s madness, and we all need to wake up before November.
Talk with a licensed firearms instructor, purchase a handgun/weapon appropriate for you, study and take a concealed carry class and be prepared to protect yourself and your family from these psychos if and when the need arises.
Does that only apply to Jews?
No.
It should apply to every law abiding American citizen. I would hate to see vigilantism here but we cant wait until we end up like our European cousins.
Okay. I’m thinking that vigilantism already exists in the USA but not the way we normally think. How about at the neighborhoods, schools, colleges, work places levels. Dems are infusing their hate into very aspect of daily existence… to hurt conservatives at their core. Walking around with a hidden gun ain’t gonna solve the problems.
So you exist in a world where your daily existence is threatened by unseen evil forces?
“So you exist . . .”
The far greater threat is the likes of you, who willfully refuse to see the obvious.
Paranoid much Sam?
Being prepared to act if necessary isn’t being paranoid. Being unprepared to act, by design, when necessary is foolish.
Prepared huh? You seem like the kind of guy with a monstrous chip on your shoulder.
Ever kill someone? Not yet huh?
He’s talking about self-defense fool.
Re: “He’s talking about self-defense fool.” Precisely! Yet that sort is the virtue seeking, self-righteous, self-satisfied fool who will remain as such until there is no one left to protest, and then cry ‘victim’! In Florida, the ‘Sheriff Grady Judd Doctrine’ is in force. The weapons training programs and gun ranges are well attended. We will NOT be overcome.
Democrats let monsters like this guy out of jail, time and time again.
How Many Times Does This Have To Happen?
Americans are shocked and appalled after Virginia Democrat policies let ILLEGAL ALIEN R*PIST Abdul Jalloh kill a 41-year-old mother at a Virginia bus stop
30 prior arrests. 30.
The woman’s mom is FURIOUS with leftist prosecutors: “DO YOUR JOB! PROTECT THE PEOPLE,… pic.twitter.com/MEAEsN792k
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 12, 2026
https://modernity.news/2026/03/12/how-many-times-does-this-have-to-happen/
Tell that to the people of England. They have to be on the look out for dangerous folks with knives.
So do you, Odysseus.
Be sure it’s registered 😂
“I will remember not the words of my enemies, but the silence of my friends.” —MLK
This is a great piece. I particularly appreciated your description of a titillated faculty as the “radical chic of higher education.” These withered professors, far removed from their own era of activism, seem to seek vicarious excitement when a colleague incites students toward violence. Remarkably, they still cling to the fantasies of benevolent communism and honest politburos.
Geez Don, a rare logical comment from you.
@gdonaldallen
So do their coddled students who missed out on it in the first place. Having grown up with the fruits of the struggles of others in the most peaceful and prosperous time the Western world ever saw, they manufacture crises, and at every level of their lives. We also have the aging hippies who think they are still voting for JFK, fighting Nixon, and not trusting anyone over 30 when they are supposed elders. None of them are well.
James,
Aging hippies. Yep. Saw them at the “No Kings” protests.
There is no doubt among honest historians that today’s Democrat party is the direct descendant of the National Socialist party. None. Democrats foment violence against their perceived enemies, and some of them single out the Jews for particular attention. Yet, Democrats are nearly universally silent in condemning the violent speech in their midst. Silence is complicity.
“today’s Democrat party is the direct descendant of the National Socialist..” No it is not. Saying so does not make it so. Just because Jews are a target? Idiot.
There are far more evil political parties on this planet, even in this country, than just Nazis. Peruse the extremist groups in Camboia, Japan, Soviet Union, China (Maoist), put the Nazis to shame. Try comparing them to Democrats; lots of similarities. But using only Nazis is the lazy man’s option.
BTW, democrat’s can’t speak German. Can’t be a Nazi if you can’t speak German.
But Jonathan, you have to acknowledge his genius, his passion for peace, his devotion to love and inclusion. He’s really just a big sweetie-pie.
“…queer Muslims and queer Egyptians across various demarcations of colonialism/imperialism, race, gender, class, nation, and religion. Puar’s seminal Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times examines the particular paranoia surrounding the War on Terror, and the appropriation of sexuality and queer bodies by U.S. patriotic discourses.”
I confess. My Homonationalism, particularly, the paranoid plagues of imperialism, given the appropriation of queer bodies in the erotic pleasures, specified scrupulously with deviant donations of colloquy and donutisms, far far more than the oppressed proletariat, but fortunately less than obese tree climbers threatening Peace Keepers in downtown Nigeria.
His Majesty, The One, The Only, The Most Distinguished, The Dr. Professor Muhammad Abdou IX.
Book by Jasbir Puar
The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability is a 2017 book by Jasbir K. Puar that analyzes how states use the concepts of debility, disability, and capacity to control populations, arguing that “maiming” (debilitation) has become a biopolitical tool alongside killing, exemplified by Israeli policies in Palestine.
I seen the kingdoms of the world and it’s making me feel afraid. I need a shot of love
Seems even the crazies are attracted to Turley’s brand of liberalism. Whew …..
What the heck are you talking about? Uttering total nonsense.
I begin my morning with 2 things every day; my Bible reading from Day-By-Day and JT’s latest. What a contrast in religions. Our government is concerned about “sleeper cells.” These folks aren’t sleeping—they are in plain sight and they are not stopped. Not by government, as it is now just talk, but by the people of this country. If they don’t have an audience it would help tremendously. (Queer Muslim Union—🤦)
So priming the bible every morning for your jihad on liberals?
Where did JG say say anything about jihad on liberals?
Just maybe you have issues.
The radical leftist takeover of academia has given rise to an institution rife with the self-righteous fanaticism of ideologues. These are the intellectual descendants of the Jacobins of the French terror, whose guillotine filled the streets of Paris with blood, and the fanatics responsible for the deaths of millions under Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
It’s one thing to harbor heinous political views, but when you combine such ideologies with political power, the results are inevitably heinous.
The takeover was happening in front of everyone for decades; the spawn of the 7o’s have entered the system with their ideas of a newer, better society, aka progressivism. Now radial Islamists have made inroads and are greeted as ideological brethren by the now Marxist generation, in the great struggle to destroy conservatives. Oh woe is us.
online this week to spread calls for religious-based violence and glorify the murder of Jews
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Just maybe these colleges should check on the history of the folks they hire.
What am I saying, liberals would never do that. They support this craziness.
Can you translate that into an understandable comment.
Simple even for you. Don’t hire crazies. But libs never listen. They support this.
Just sitting there and waiting for someone to comment eh dustoff? Tell us about your two “collage” degrees? Are they in stupidity or basket weaving?
Medical
UCSD
Really upsets you. Nice
Have you ever applied for a teaching job at a college or university?
Why do you keep repeating the same, worn out ad hominem attack?
Bereft of ideas? Have no arguments? Are intellectually impotent? Just like to sting?
All of the above?
It obvious with you too Sam. Nothing to add eh, just attack? You SF.
Sam,
Just another poor annony with no life, nothing to offer other than hate and rage.
Dustoff, they not only do check the history of these professors but they support most of their ideology and therefore they hire them. It is sad, scary and a fait accompli.
So what? All jobs require some degree of background check. People put their employment resumes on the internet for all to see. Does that make them liberals?
HullBobby,
Quite right.
That is why we are seeing the failure of high education. They do not hire the best and the brightest but the ideology they support. And if they check enough DEI boxes.