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.
When do you start to believe that someone’s intent to do you harm is not bluster? Do you wait for the first volley: {as defined by The American Heritage Dictionary}: “…. remarks, expression, or actions directed toward a certain recipient or audience” or in military terms bullets or projectiles.
How do you interpret “Death to YOU”
Oh; they really don’t believe that now, do they?
Get ready for an assault,
Take them out,
Offer peace: but (how do you accomplish this with a pertinaciously biased theologian who sees you as a heretic?)
The subject of today’s post belongs in the corner office with a desk and chair; his thoughts have no added value to the conversation.
Evil Wickedness spewing from the Ivory Towers, Hear Ye, Hear Ye, follow the road to towering inferno and into searing heat of the abyss where the lordship awaits!
Rousseau wrote “…. we should not substitute books for personal experience because this does not teach us to reason; it teaches us to use other people’s reasoning; it teaches us to believe a great deal but never to know anything.”
GW, I think you are putting your finger on the question a lot of people are quietly asking: when do you stop treating threats as bluster and start taking them at their word.
History is full of moments when people announced exactly what they planned to do, and comfortable societies shrugged it off until the first real volley, whether that meant speeches, laws, or bullets. When crowds chant “Death to you” or “From the river to the sea,” we have to stop pretending it is just metaphor. At some point, words are not a metaphor. They are a warning.
A serious country does at least three things when it hears that kind of language. It prepares for the worst, it calls the bluff in clear moral terms, and it looks for any opening for peace that does not amount to surrender. That last part is hard when you are dealing with people who see you as a heretic and themselves as the only righteous side. You cannot bargain your way out of someone else’s theology.
You are right about the “Ivory Tower” problem. There is a whole class of thinkers who treat this as an abstract seminar. They enjoy the performance of radicalism while other people live with the risk. That is what happens when we raise generations on borrowed ideas instead of hard experience. Rousseau had a point. If all you do is absorb other people’s reasoning, you can become very clever and still know almost nothing about the real cost of what you are cheering.
In the end, we have to learn again how to hear plain speech as plain speech. When someone tells you who they are and what they want to do to you, believe them, and act accordingly, before the first shot is fired.
“When someone tells you who they are and what they want to do to you, believe them”
True!
Mein Kamph written by Hitler, told us his expansionist nature and racism, including the Holocaust.
Castro, in his defense speech, told us of his revolutionary and socialist ideas.
It is one thing for someone to say they are going to build a giant horse to invade your country. It is quite another thing to roll that giant horse through your own gates and pretend it is just a harmless gift.
Funny thing, no giant horse entered the USA. Gift? Who said anything of the sort was a gift?
That imagery is a chillingly precise warning.
Mein Kamph? Never heard of it. Nor have you.
Kampf is the correct spelling, indicating you never read it, and it states nothing about “expansionist racism”, whatever your deluded mind thinks it is. As for “expansionist nature” (whatever that is) , again obvious you have no idea what you’re spewing. Please if you want to pretend you’re smart in Nazi ideology, then get qualified,, go back in time you liar.
Really, you crazies are worse than liberals.
Mein Kamph? Never heard of it. Nor have you.
” (der) Kampf” is the correct spelling, indicating you never read it, and it states nothing about “expansionist racism”, whatever your deluded mind thinks it is. As for “expansionist nature” (whatever that is) , again obvious you have no idea what you’re spewing. Please if you want to pretend you’re smart in Nazi ideology, then get qualified,, go back in time you liar.
Olly
How many iterations of Theological Demigods have there been, preaching Death to You Ishmael! So many have died from their quest for singular perfection of what I’m not certain, but I will call it Soul. Where I become confused about the Muslim thought is the statement: “As-salamu alaykum” Peace be with you.
GW, where I get confused is this. In Christianity, we say the Bible is the word of God from end to end, and a lot of Christian apologetics is built on the idea that there are no real contradictions. If someone could clearly prove a genuine falsehood in the Gospels, it would shake the whole structure, because inerrancy is treated as an all or nothing proposition.
In Islam, the picture looks different. The Quran is treated as the direct word of Allah, while the hadiths are a huge body of later reports about what Muhammad said and did, graded and argued over. Many Muslims themselves say some hadiths contradict the Quran or each other, and whole schools and movements grow out of which ones they accept or reject.
My point is that Islam does not seem to be shaken when it is stirred. In historic Christianity, if a text clearly contradicts the Bible, it is rejected as heresy and cut off from the main body. In Islam, when texts or traditions conflict, the result is often another faction, another school, another sect that keeps growing alongside the others instead of being decisively cast out. The center does not seem to hold in the same way, so contradiction produces more Islam, not less.
Confused again? Because you pretend to be an Islamist scholar? This commenters here are delusional, thinking g they’re intellectuals and preaching to a crowd of simpletons. As is the author.
A few headlines per the Bee:
– Media: no motive yet in attack on Jewish synagogue by radical Muslim
– To save time, CNN will now run retractions simultaneously with news stories
– Democrats expel Senator Fetterman after repeated warnings to stop supporting America
– Democrats vow to destroy Earth if Trump brings world peace
– Google Maps subtrats hour from travel time after realizing Dad is driving
– SAVE Act passes after Sen. Mike Lee cleverly changes its name to “Give Congress a Raise Act”
– Democrats condemn Hegseth for using money to feed soldiers when it could have gone to Somali daycare centers
– Parents punish teen by forcing hi to stay up and watch Jimmy Kimmel monologue
– Iran cancels plan to attack California after seeing Gavin Newsom already destroyed it
– Tragedy: New Ayatollah dead after being accidentally left out in the rain
– Iran warns US it has huge stockpile of supreme leaders
– Dog identifies as gender fluid to avoid getting neutered
Bonus feature: 10 famous crimes as described by CNN:
– Oklahoma City bombing: “Veteran’s life dtrastically changed after truck explodes”
– Killing of John Lennon: “One starstruck man finally found the object of his musical obsession on a cold December night in what could have been a joyful (albeit chilly) encounter”
– 1972 Munich slaughter of Israelie athletes: “Mishap in Munich: Palestinian sports fans made a bucket list trip to Munich for what should have been an exciting day. But hours later, their lives would never be the same when they were caught trying to get autographs from Isareli athletes. Sadly, none of their demands were met.”
– “Die Hard” plot: “German businessman crosses into LA for what could’ve been a normal Christmas Eve enjoying the views from Nakatomi Tower. But early the next morning, his life would drastically change as he would fall from the top of the building while being confronted by a police officer for taking the entire office hostage and attempting to steal $640 million.”
– The Lion King plot: “The lion derisively called ‘Scar’ traveled to the Pride Lands for what might have been a beautiful day soaking in the majesty of the wildbeest herd. Later, Scar’s life would be inrrovocably changed as his nephew Simba would accuse him of orchastrating the wildbeest stampede that killed Simba.”
So your intellectual input is the Babylon Bee?
One of MAGA’s tropes is to attack higher education, so Turley takes aim at one outlier and implies that his extremism is an example of the views of ALL academics, leading to the conclusion that academia itself is not trustworthy. Most of MAGA’s base is non college educated whites–they are the ones who attacked the Capitol, they are the Neo-Nazis, the Proud Boys, the 3 Percenters, those who wear “Camp Auschwicz” t-shirts and who were carrying tiki torches at Charlottesville. They are being systematically indoctrinated to distrust educated people, whom they already resented, especially women and most especially those of color. So, when people in academia point out that Trump is following the same authoritarian playbook used by Moussolini, Hitler and others, that Trump had no valid basis for starting what is clearly a war without Congressional approval, despite trying to downplay it as “an excursion”–well, they can’t be trusted because they are extremists and probably lying. Someone wiser than me pointed out that the constant barrage of lies, aided and abetted by a phalax of MAGA media, started and supported by American oligarchs, wears people down. We have an president who is a pathological liar, an administration that backs up his lies and will not speak truth to power. We have a DOJ that breaks the law, flaunts court orders, vicitmizes child sexual assault victims by disclosing their names and nude images of some of them, and protects their abusers, and who hurls ad hominem attacks against members of Congress when they attempt to hold her to account, which the Constitution requires. Then, we have American citizens tear gassed and pepper sprayed for demonstrating against ICE in Minnesota, 2 of whom were murdered in cold blood with no accountability and with the head of Homeland Security lying and calling them “domestic terrorists”. Well, Turley has nothing to say about these radical departures from the way our government has always worked and the accountability of pulbic servants.
All of the lying makes people cynical, and it is all done for the purpose of convincing enough people that the truth is whatever Trump and MAGA say it is, no matter how outrageously and obviously false. So, despite the vote counts, audits and over 60 lawsuits dismissed for lack of evidence, Trump really DID win in 2020 because he said he did and anyone who says otherwise is lying. All of the lying paves the way for Trump to continue getting away with doing anything he wants–like starting a war without any valid basis, lying about Iran being on the verge of nuking us, after claiming in June, 2025 that its nuclear enrichment capability was “totally and completely destroyed”, and despite his own intelligence agency’s assessment and that of the International Atomic Energy agency; then, there’s the ever-shifting claims trying to justify the war–11 different reasons given so far, none of them valid– attacks against non-MAGA media who report the truth and all of the BS bluster by wife beater Whiskey Pete–“maximum lethality”–really? Is that how Americans feel about bombing school girls?
So Turley points to one radical person in academia as a reason to distrust academia? BS.
Cry harder Gigi, we can’t hear you.
@Anonymous
You are tired, you are wrong, and anyone that still has two brain cells to rub together after the ‘Biden’ years sees it.
The question is not that, it is if we can mitigate further dem election fraud in November. Nobody sane wants this, whatever you may have convinced yourself of, even if they are the low-fo and not particularly paying attention – they will not like the result.
You are preaching to a choir that simply does not exist beyond your own infantile fantasies, parsed with what your ‘superiors’ tell you to say, and we are done with that. It was never going to work in a free country for you, and that is why you and your ilk try to dismantle that free country. Go blow, you are pathetic. We will handle these things very differently than Britain or your other globalist pals.
Because you are insane, the rest of us cannot agree that you are not insane. This is why it is a shame that blue people decided you do not need to be in an institution. That also means you have family or friends that don’t care. And that is sad. You could have a peaceful life if you were not clinically troubled, and it has nothing to do with politics, just your own instability, and if you are under 40, which I suspect you are, that is not entirely your fault given that you were raised from birth with misconceptions about likely everything.
James – you’re responding to Gigi. Nobody reads her ten-thousand-word diatribes. She is know to be certifiably insane.
@Anonymous
I know, I have been around long enough. But if we don’t respond the ever increasing readership of the Professor’s blog will only see them. That is by design. They are paid to do it, we are only here out of interest or a sense of civic responsibility. It’s very stupid, but this is how you counter it in a space such as this. Believe me: I wish I were being paid per word; I am not.
James – godspeed.
Correction: Nutchachacha!
WHERE is the proof of “dem election fraud”? WHERE? Why hasn’t proof turned up? In 2020, the majority of the American people said, in poll after poll, that they didn’t want Trump. This was after Trump destroyed the successful economy created by Barak Obama, totally mishandled COVID and the country was mostly shut down–schools were distance learning only, businesses closed, restaurants were carry out only, unemployment was up, and new daily records were set for deaths and infections with COVID while Trump lied about quack cures–Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. Giuliani suggested to Trump that he just say he won anyway, so at 2:00 a.m. following election day in 2020, Trump took a victory lap, before all of the votes were counted, and when the counts that had been compiled up to that point showed he was behind. Since he can never be wrong, he continues to lie.
You MAGAts do not speak for “WE”–the American people. Trump never even received half of the votes that were cast in 2024, and a large number of the votes he did get were based on his lies about immediately bringing down the cost of groceries. Trump is historically unpopular. The war he started is unpopular. The economy is declining. There has been a net decrease in jobs since he took ofice. Gas prices are up. The stock market is down–all of last year’s gains are gone. Poof! Grocery prices are up and will continue to rise as the cost of gas keeps going up. These are facts. You claim that people who speak out against the most-unqualified and worst President in US history are mentally ill? You are either paid to attack us, or YOU are wilfully blind. AND, just like your hero and MAGA media, when you don’t have any facts with which to counter valid criticisms, you resort to ad hominem attacks. None of this is working. Americans are fed up, so Republicans are scrambling to try to rig the midterms by creating false problems–like huge numbers of unqualified voters, people voting several times, mail ballots were fraudulent…the list of lies goes on—but they are all lies. Trump and MAGA are threatening to federalize elections, and doing everything possible to intimidate people from voting. It’s not working, so call me insane all you want.
More of Gigi’s lies and gaslighting. We all know that is nothing more than lies and gaslighting from DNC MSM.
you mean Democrat tiki torch FBI psyop NAZIs?
Wow, if you’re going to write a virtual term paper on the evils of Trump’s administration and MAGA, I would think you’d use references or a bibliography. Clearly you are not among the elite intellectuals you value so highly.
And who fought under George Washington?
Who comprised most of George Washington’s base if not non-college-educated white men?
Who fought from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico, to build America if not non-college-educated white men?
Islam is not a religion; it is an unconstitutional form of government that includes compulsory Sharia law, and the American Founders denied the likes of Professor Muhammad Abdou admission to become citizens, all of whom should be summarily deported for insurrection and treason.
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Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, 1802
United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….
A DISCORDANT INTERMIXTURE MUST HAVE AN INJURIOUS TENDENCY
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“In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.”
– Alexander Hamilton, 1802
Anonymous, that is a killer quote, and the context makes it even better. Hamilton wrote it in 1802 to argue against rushing citizenship for immigrants. He said republics need a harmony of ingredients, shared habits, principles, and love of country built over time through living here. Too many newcomers too fast creates a discordant intermixture that weakens the whole thing.
This fits directly with citizen formation, which is what I’ve been talking about. A constitutional republic does not run on people who just showed up. It needs citizens formed by the place, self governing, attached to the country, and ready to defend it. Let that break down, and you get factions pulling different ways, especially when trouble hits.
Hamilton was not anti immigrant. He just wanted time, such as a long period of residency before full rights, so assimilation could happen naturally. Smart then, smart now. Rush it, and you dilute what holds us together.
My apologies. That was from me.
My God.
Public schools taught a couple of generations that the Crusades were fought to loot, rather than to push back the Muslim expansion. Leftwing activists taught that America is responsible for all of slavery, and hid the Muslim slave trade, which eclipsed that of Europe and the US.
As public school and universities turned into madrassas of Leftwing ideology, we have arrived at today, where a raving genocidal speech promoting terrorism, and a new Holocaust, gains support.
We did this, through apathy. We complained, but did not act to stop the spread, or maintain any diversity of viewpoints in academia or K-12.
Karen, I think you are putting words to something a lot of people feel but struggle to explain. We did not get to this point overnight. It took decades of bad history, shallow teaching, and one‑sided institutions to produce a generation that can hear open calls for genocide and think it is some kind of “resistance.”
Where I would add a wrinkle is here: the problem is not only “leftwing ideology in schools.” It is that we stopped forming citizens. We taught slogans instead of history, feelings instead of facts, and activism instead of responsibility. You can see it in how kids talk about the Crusades, about slavery, and now about Israel and the Jews. Everything is flattened into a cartoon of “oppressors” and “victims.” That is how you end up with students chanting for things they do not really understand, and some adults who do understand but do not care, because the narrative matters more to them than the bodies on the ground. Once you divide the world that way, almost any cruelty can be excused if it is done by the “right” side.
You are also right that apathy played a big role. People grumbled about what was happening in K‑12 and higher ed, but too few were willing to pay the price to push back: running for school boards, challenging curricula, building alternative institutions, supporting teachers who resisted the tide. We left the field open, and other people took it.
If we want something different, we have to rebuild the habits of a serious country: honest history, genuine debate, and the courage to say “no” when a cause crosses the line into calls for murder. That is not going to come from Washington. It will have to start with parents, local communities, and citizens who are finally done being apathetic.
Professor Muhammad Abdou enjoys the absolute and unqualified freedom of speech.
The 1st and 14th Amendments prohibit Congress and states, respectively, from abridging the freedom of speech.
That is:
The Speech
The Whole Speech and
Nothing But The Speech
[Incorrect and corrupt adjudication notwithstanding]
So help you God.
Not since Twin Towers, pentagon and the lies of Hussain O. Is that free speech.
I’m sure this is just a coincidence, but the Professor Muhammad Abdou, the shooter at Old Dominion University and the driver who rammed his truck into a Jewish Synagogue in an attempt to kill Jewish children, are all named Mohammed.
The shooter at ODU shouted “Allahu Akbar” before murdering people, and as I noted yesterday, that Arabic phrase means, “I’m going to murder you because you’re not a Muslim.”
OldManFromKS,
Interesting a AG in VA is trying to make the claim that it was Republicans and 2ndA rights is what inspired the ODU shooter to go into a ROTC class and commit murder.
It is also interesting how CNN is or was trying to spin it as Trump’s fault.
Now we have this guy openly saying, “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.”
Thing is, looking at history, this is nothing really new. This is a war that has been going on for thousands of years. It has had it’s calmer periods and then conflicts. Not likely to end anytime in our life time.
So the AG is blaming it on the Constitution? Interesting, I always thought the AG swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.
https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacodefull/title49/chapter1/
Every person before entering upon the discharge of any function as an officer of this Commonwealth shall take and subscribe the following oath: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties incumbent upon me as ________ according to the best of my ability, (so help me God).”
Please bring this to Marco Rubio’s attention, so whatever visa held by this monster with Canadian citizenship, is revoked.
Higher education and colleges are cults. Young people are being programmed by these cults. De-programming may not be possible.
Do not send young people into these programming cult institutions. Young people don’t have personal histories to call on as old people do have. This creates deprogramming more difficult if not impossible. Iranian Islam is a cult, not a religion. Some use ideology in place of the word cult. Techniques used as programming tools are known.
Islam is not a religion. It’s a cult. Shrouded women is an example of Stockholm Syndrome. There is no deprogramming. It’s an ill little religion with the horse stables of the Harem for stallion. WAKE UP. They once slopped the female hogs and used eunuchs to do it.
File your universities and colleges under Bizarre.
@Anonymous
Yup. Parents that think their kids are getting anything else, or at the least, a tangential teaching of their major with this attached and given prominence, are frankly, at this point, morons. It is not difficult to outclass modern doctorate students not just n the pragmatic, but in the intellectual, as well. They have great reason to feel bad they spent so much money to realize they are stupid; I am sure not going t pick up the paycheck for that. Look at their parents that pay so little attention they thought it was a good idea. The parents are likely more asleep than than the students because it keeps heaping year after year.
We have a bigger problem than universities. Nobody wants to talk about that. To many, actually participating in even the simple stuff in their lives is too much effort. We talk about history and laws here – that is not even blip on the consciousnessof modt of us. And this is what the result looks like.
Man, I wish we could edit posts here. sorry for the typos.
It’s not just oil that is being held up in the Strait of Hormuz.
One third of the world’s fertilizer supply comes in ships transiting Hormuz. Prices for fertilizer have skyrocketed just as American farmers are preparing for spring planting.
The American Farm Bureau just sent a letter to Trump warning of major disruption to the American food supply resulting from reduced crop yields due to lack of fertilizer, and subsequent huge increases in prices.
https://www.fb.org/files/AFBF-Letter-to-POTUS-Fertilizer.pdf
Another thing they didn’t see coming.
Famine and pestilence are on their way.
The only intelligence in this administration is artificial
Well, this is what happens when MAGA idiots in this country fall for Russian propaganda tactics.
Trump was installed by Putin to destabilize this country and he is doing a great job.
When does the MAGA mob just admit that Trump hates America?
Yawn… You poor Ano have nothing, so lets lie 7/24
Doubt it.
Buy it somewhere else or make it. It isn’t manure anymore.
Just transport water from the Ghanges River or dredge it.
OT, but legal: a spa in Washington State for women and girls to bathe without men present, was forced by the state government to admit naked grown men into a bathing area with nude women and girls as young as 13. They sought relief from the federal courts, but the majority of an en banc panel of the court said: “No, you have no constitutional protection against a state mandate that you must let nude biological men in a bathing area with nude women and girls as young as 13.” Is that a sane legal opinion by the 9th Circuit? (And does that question answer itself?) One of the judges in the dissent thought the majority view was not sane, and said so in a judicial opinion in some pretty graphic language.
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/03/12/judge-vandyke-this-is-a-case-about-swinging-dicks/
OldManFromKS,
Okay, this is a case of the absurd. And stupid.
Judge Vandyke’s use of the line, “Sometimes, it feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds.” is spot on and those who opposed the use of “collectively lost their minds,” his response is also spot on.
Upstate – I personally am opposed to coarse language in judicial opinions, as a judicial opinion is a government work that should be professonally rendered. However, when the government acts like a complete and total lunatic and forces women and girls to allow biological men into their bathing areas, then I can see Judge Vandyke’s point: that any court objecting to a realistic depiction of what the court is mandating should be less concerned with “icky” language than with the “icky” reality they are creating. It is that very reality they are forcing on others, and it is beyond the pale.
They want the spas closed. Successful…
Pete Hegseth this morning: “The only thing prohibiting transit in Hormuz right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that.”
What a goddamn verified genius we have running the Pentagon, folks
In his defense, he was probably drunk.
Again.
Translation:
“Despite the ongoing armed robbery, the bank is open. If you’re too cowardly to walk in and make a withdrawal, that’s your fault.”
— The Secretary of Alcoholism
Groundbreaking insight from Hegseth and the Pentagon: the Strait of Hormuz would be open if ships were not getting shot at.
Someone alert the naval war colleges immediately.
Get Barron to escort oil tankers.
He would be good at that.
It’s in his DNA.
His mom was an escort.
He’s also very tall, so he will be able to see anything in the water from a good distance away
Melania still is an escort, really.
Just with more job security and healthcare now.
Let me polish that line a bit:
You trolls are dumber than a fireplug in a dog kennel. There, that’s better.
Yep. That pretty well covers it! Thanks
Diogenes,
Well said!!!
ok boomer. MAGA comedy gold
What’s your age cohort? I’d love to send them my condolences.
You trolls are like a fireplug in a dog kennel. But the fireplug has a higher IQ.
Diogenes,
A fire hydrant is more useful.
You doing standup would love to see the show
🙂
If there was any currency in the teachings of Islam, the fanatics have broken the bank. More than 10 centuries of the history of humankind dealing with the manifestations of a death wish cult doctrine, and the West’s “movers and shakers”, save for one, remain clueless. The current Iran encounter might shake them out of their doldrums.
Maybe I’m old fashioned but sounds like incitement to me.
“Death to the Akademy: How to be a thorn in their throat amidst snakes in the grass.” To borrow from Talleyrand, this is worse than a crime. It’s an embarrassment.
Yes! to ‘old fashioned’ and the behaviour it stands for! and on the negative side of that coin.. Yes! it is good ‘old fashioned’ Islamic Extemism which can’t let others live in peace.. especially in this Country and in Israel, and which believe in killing people who do not agree with their religion.
Hegseth is achieving levels of dipshittery in his press conferences that makes it more and more difficult for Colin Jost to parody.
At some point SNL will just play tapes of Hegseth’s actual pressers.
It almost seems like Hegseth is trying to play Colin Jost playing himself
If Colin Jost did one of the press conferences no one would see the difference at this point
In the future they’ll have a TV game show that plays Trump administration press briefings alongside SNL skits and ask if it is real life or parody.
Could be a good drinking game
Hegseth is on the brink of just coming out in press conferences and going “Kapow! Kaboooom! Hazingggggg! Smaaaaaash! Pow! Blaaaaam!……..”
Get a room, you two. S&M door is to the left–as always.
you and upstate looking to join
..to the dimwat known as ‘Anon.’ your comments have nothing to do with Prof. Turley’s analysis here… you are a parasite here because you are too cheap to go fund your own forum where you can make your comments on subjects of your choosing………..
eighteenthhole,
Great comment!!
Anon is such a dimwat, thinks he is being funny by replying to his own comments.
Did you see what that dimwat said about us, Upstate?? Oh, he’s going to be drinking early tonight.
This Jihadi nutjob says “We don’t engage in wanton violence…”, then praises the nutjob who killed an innocent Jewish couple.
That tells you everything you need to know about these goat-banging Muslim terrorists, like Jihadi Mamdani, being embraced by Democrats, especially in education.
Also hilarious is the promotion of this religion by “Queer Muslims NYC” who are so ignorant, they don’t realize their heads would be slowly sawed off once those Muslims assumed any kind of power.
Thankfully, America is waking up to the presence of these POS murderers who Biden/Harris knowingly let into our country for 4 years with their open border.
“A rifle behind every blade of grass” wasn’t just the imagination of Yamamoto (allegedly).
More Americans than ever before are preparing for the inevitable, now that Democrats don’t even try to hide their support for these Jihadi terrorists anymore.
Islamophobe much? and isnt your prez a pedo?
I just finished reading Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem. I do not say this lightly, but there are clear analogies between Nazi ideology and that of the Islamic Fascists terrorists. In no way do I attribute this to all Muslims many of whom I now and have no interest in destroying the Jewish people. This is a small minority with a base in Iran and this ideology needs to be eliminated.
(as an aside, Abdou was raised and schooled in Canada.
When I was in school, a car full of us went up into Canada to buy several bottles of Bailey’s Irish Cream for our graduation party (so much cheaper than in the U.S.)
I distinctly remember being surprised by the number of persons walking around in burkas, hijabs, the long thobes or jubbas (full length robe-like ) etc. (Maybe they were hiding some Bailey’s underneath to take home? just KIDDing!)
(as another aside, we were stopped by Customs on the way back, had to exit the vehicle and open the trunk; we were heavily fined; …not my most honorable memory…)
Prof. Turley…does the teaching of hate to young Americans qualify as protected free speech? Your position is that such indoctrination be only challenged through open criticism in the public square, but not legal action civil or criminal.
Of course, it matters WHO is the target of the hate speech, and who is spreading it. When American values of freedom and rule-of-law are being denounced in favor of a Sharia police state, there isn’t going to be a whole lot of “I’ll defend to the death their right….”. President Trump, when he was running in 2016, promised to use Immigration Law to weed out and deport fundamentalist Islamism. That process is finally being implemented.
That leaves the problem of Islamists who are US Citizens. All we have there is investigating if there was fraud in the Naturalization process (e.g., Ilhan Omar), as that can be grounds for revocation. Absent that, the next best is to deny positions of power and influence, starting with schools and universities.
RE: “That leaves the problem of Islamists who are US Citizens.” As I noted earlier in these pages, such is the manifestation of an ideology which forbids allegiance to any other authority than Allah and the teachings of The Prophet. They will seek retribution from any entity whose activities they deem sacrilegious to such.
Get rid of the christian nationalist/white supremacists also
Trapper John, there is no question that some forms of Islamism teach exactly what you describe: a political program where loyalty to a religious project is supposed to override any earthly authority. Those movements are a bad fit with a constitutional republic, and when they cross into threats, violence, or material support for terrorism, they should be met with the full force of criminal law. But it does not follow that every Muslim, or even every serious believer, is living under that rule. I work every day with a practicing Muslim who is a good colleague, a good citizen, and a peaceful neighbor. And there are millions of Muslims in the United States who serve in the military, run businesses, sit on juries, and hold public office. Whatever their internal theology about God’s ultimate authority, they have made a practical peace with the legal and political order here. We should judge them by what they actually do.
Every faith has a version of this tension. Christians say they owe their highest allegiance to God, not Caesar. Yet most Christians in America still pay taxes, obey traffic laws, and accept jury verdicts. The test is not whether someone believes their faith is ultimate. The test is whether they are willing to live under equal laws and accept the same civil peace as everyone else.
So I agree with you that hard‑line Islamism is a serious challenge. I just do not want to treat all Muslims as if they are already in that camp. That way lies permanent suspicion and a kind of soft civil war. Better, in my view, to be very firm about our ground rules and very precise about who is actually violating them.
You are asking the right question, even if you may not like the answer. Under our law, there is no general “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment. Teaching contemptible ideas, including hatred of America or praise of some foreign theocracy, is usually protected. The Supreme Court has protected some truly vile speech on that principle. The line only gets crossed when it turns into things like direct incitement of imminent violence, true threats, or harassment targeted at specific people.
That is not Turley being soft on extremism. It is the country sticking with a very hard rule: we do not trust the government to decide which ideas are too dangerous to say out loud. Every regime that has tried to fix extremism by censorship has a perfect failure rate. They end up driving the movement underground and turning its followers into “martyrs” of free speech.
On immigration, the law gives the political branches more room. The government can screen who comes in, from where, and on what terms, including security‑based limits on known extremist movements. That is very different from saying citizens inside the country can be punished simply for their beliefs. Once someone is a citizen, you cannot strip their rights because they hold odious views. You can only act when they break neutral laws.
That is why I keep coming back to the same basic rule: we confront bad ideas with better ideas, organization, and public pressure, not with a “hate speech” code. If we hand the state the power to decide which doctrines may be taught, we will not like where that power ends up.