Thomas Klocek will be LIVE! on Constitutional Public Radio this afternoon at 4:00PM Eastern Time, 3:00PM Central. Yes, you can listen in on the internet!
UPDATE! The chatroom is open!
Noted author Daniel Pipes blows the whistle--again--on CAIR, this time revealing (surpise!) hypocrisy by CAIR.
From Front Page Magazine:
But in Chicago’s other high-profile academic-freedom case concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict, and there, CAIR is exactly on the other side, seeking to have the instructor fired.
That would be the case of Thomas Klocek, a part-time adjunct professor since 1991 at DePaul University, the largest Catholic school in the United States. At a campus fair, Klocek expressed pro-Israel views, got into an altercation with two anti-Israel groups (Students for Justice in Palestine and United Muslims Moving Ahead), and, after they registered complaints against him, was suspended by the university. CAIR not only endorsed his suspension but, as articulated by Christina Abraham, CAIR-Chicago's civil rights coordinator (and a DePaul University law student), wanted him more severely punished.
Abraham gave a video interview in June 2006 concerning Klocek’s suspension, as revealed by John Ruberry, in the course of which she, speaking on behalf of CAIR explained the organization’s position on Klocek. About 1/8th of the way into the video, she says: “We were very concerned with the situation and we did request that he [Klocek] be terminated.” She confirmed this, later saying (about 1/6th of the way in) that CAIR-Chicago suggested to DePaul that “if the investigation were to have shown that he did make these statements that and he did act this way towards the students, yes, we did suggest that they should terminate him.”
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As Ruberry points out, CAIR fancies itself a civil rights organization, but is it the normal work of a civil rights organization to recommend that a private institution fire an employee, thereby depriving him of his livelihood (not to speak of the health insurance required for his serious kidney condition)? Some might conclude that CAIR is no civil rights organization; that would certainly fit with my own perception since 1999.
CAIR Chicago is pretty cozy with DePaul. Their office is at 28 E. Jackson in Chicago's south Loop, where DePaul has office space, and that building is right across the street from DePaul's downtown campus.
Two DePaul professors, M. Cherif Bassiouni and Aminiah McCloud have ties to CAIR. Bassiouni a regular on the CAIR speaking circuit. McCloud's most recent claim to fame is being named in David Horowitz' 2006 book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.
DePaul is currently touting on its website the honor bestowed on it by the Princeton Review, which said DePaul had the "Most Diverse Student Body."
Overall however, DePaul, the nation's largest Catholic university, is not diverse enough to keep Professor Thomas Klocek on its payroll.
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