UC Irvine: Another Failure of Multi-culturalism
Posted by: Scott W. Graves | 11/16/2007 6:15 PM
By Jonathan Movroydis
What is hard to cure is easy to diagnose. What is easy to diagnose is often hard to cure. These famous words by Florentine statesman and philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli illustrate the constant impurities that often plague political life. Failure to solve uncomplicated problems often unfolds to become more complicated obstacles.
The conduit of these flaws is an inherent desire to be loved by all, rather than achieving the respect through mutual adherence of rules and boundary.
Such was the case of former New York City Mayor David Dinkins who masked a divisive social policy of pandering, entitlement, and selective justice as enabling race, culture, and class to thrive in what he called the metro's "beautiful mosaic". Consequently, Dinkins' refusal to take a unitary stance in a clear direction of municipal policy characterized what became a revolving door of group identity politicking.
Bloating government with an alphabet soup of ethnic service bureaus, Dinkins even let some of the city's most notorious shakedown artists dictate the action and deployment of law enforcement. In one such case a young Jewish scholar was murdered, and 80 other Jewish people were injured by a mob in reaction to the death of a black child who was accidentally killed by a Hasidic motorist. Appallingly, Dinkins' solution was to leave the mob to "vent" their frustration.
UC Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake displayed similar inaction last spring in a colossal failure of administrative governance. When confronted by the Orange County Jewish community about anti-Semitic activities from the school's Muslim Student Union, he made an ambiguous denunciation of all hate speech and refused to take a stance against Islamic radicalism. He praised the campus as a bastion of free speech. This statement is an overarching symbol of what has become life for Jews and conservative students at UC Irvine. Praising multi-culturalism and the inclusion of inferior, radical, and often violent ideas, Drake's indifference has fostered an environment of intimidation that has allowed more superior and rational ideas to be leveled as moral equivalents, or brushed aside by other campus groups with louder voices.
Drake's lethargy has allowed noted Jewish scholars including, Yossi Olmert and Daniel Pipes, to be shouted down by Muslim students for arguing Israel's legitimacy. It also resulted in the harassment of students when they filmed anti-Semitic events, and led to the relocation of the College Republican booth to accommodate the Muslim Student Union during their week of anti-Israel programs.
During one such week, notorious holocaust denier and Muslim supremacist Amir Abdel Malik-Ali praised terror attacks against Jews as an unfolding design for Allah's divine plan and the institution of Sharia law. When asked by a Jewish student about the possibility of peaceful coexistence between Muslim and Jew, he replied, "If history is any indication, there will be peace when you are gone."
Unsurprisingly, Malik-Ali is also a subscriber to Qutbism, a doctrine founded by Egyptian radical Sayiid Qutb, a man who would serve as the teacher and mentor to Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and whose ideas would later shape Al Qaeda's worldview of jihad and social justice. As the Imam and lead educator of an Islamic center and Masjid Al-Islam elementary school in Oakland, Malik-Ali makes it no secret his desire to cultivate a grassroots bulwark of radically indoctrinated youth in speeches to students at UC Irvine.
Undeterred radicals like Malik-Ali find allies in campus educators who are equal opportunity defenders of any kind of subversion to classical republicanism and the Judeo-Christian tradition; both of which obstruct their idealistic vision to direct the course of social destiny.
Lina Kreidie, the director of The Middle East Studies Student Initiative Program (MESSI), is a serial defender of the actions of Israel's enemies, Hamas and Hezbollah, as forbearers of an exploited and downtrodden Arab underclass. Another academic, Sociology Professor Chuck O'Connell, shows videos depicting Israeli soldiers demolishing Palestinian buildings without putting the footage in the context that the structures were used to house terrorists. Perhaps the most notorious anti-Zionist professor, Mark LeVine, who also tries to serve as a mediator between campus Muslim and Jewish groups, blames American and Israeli imperialism for Middle Eastern terrorism, masking Islamic Fascism and their hatred of the greatest ideal of Jewish political exercise as a proletarian campaign against classist social injustices.
Despite efforts to ameliorate their criticism of incompetence through additional campaigns of progressiveness and understanding of the campus diversity, the rhetoric of UCI's Muslims remains intense. On the heels of an administration event to form a human circle of tolerance, a representative from the Muslim Student Union unabashedly mocked the event and continued to malign the Jewish state.
What is hard to cure is easy to diagnose. What is easy to diagnose is often hard to cure. These famous words by Florentine statesman and philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli illustrate the constant impurities that often plague political life. Failure to solve uncomplicated problems often unfolds to become more complicated obstacles. The conduit of these flaws is an inherent desire to be loved by all, rather than achieving the respect through mutual adherence of rules and boundary.
Such was the case of former New York City Mayor David Dinkins who masked a divisive social policy of pandering, entitlement, and selective justice as enabling race, culture, and class to thrive in what he called the metro's "beautiful mosaic". Consequently, Dinkins' refusal to take a unitary stance in a clear direction of municipal policy characterized what became a revolving door of group identity politicking.
Bloating government with an alphabet soup of ethnic service bureaus, Dinkins even let some of the city's most notorious shakedown artists dictate the action and deployment of law enforcement. In one such case a young Jewish scholar was murdered, and 80 other Jewish people were injured by a mob in reaction to the death of a black child who was accidentally killed by a Hasidic motorist. Appallingly, Dinkins' solution was to leave the mob to "vent" their frustration.
UC Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake displayed similar inaction last spring in a colossal failure of administrative governance. When confronted by the Orange County Jewish community about anti-Semitic activities from the school's Muslim Student Union, he made an ambiguous denunciation of all hate speech and refused to take a stance against Islamic radicalism. He praised the campus as a bastion of free speech. This statement is an overarching symbol of what has become life for Jews and conservative students at UC Irvine. Praising multi-culturalism and the inclusion of inferior, radical, and often violent ideas, Drake's indifference has fostered an environment of intimidation that has allowed more superior and rational ideas to be leveled as moral equivalents, or brushed aside by other campus groups with louder voices.
Drake's lethargy has allowed noted Jewish scholars including, Yossi Olmert and Daniel Pipes, to be shouted down by Muslim students for arguing Israel's legitimacy. It also resulted in the harassment of students when they filmed anti-Semitic events, and led to the relocation of the College Republican booth to accommodate the Muslim Student Union during their week of anti-Israel programs.
During one such week, notorious holocaust denier and Muslim supremacist Amir Abdel Malik-Ali praised terror attacks against Jews as an unfolding design for Allah's divine plan and the institution of Sharia law. When asked by a Jewish student about the possibility of peaceful coexistence between Muslim and Jew, he replied, "If history is any indication, there will be peace when you are gone."
Unsurprisingly, Malik-Ali is also a subscriber to Qutbism, a doctrine founded by Egyptian radical Sayiid Qutb, a man who would serve as the teacher and mentor to Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and whose ideas would later shape Al Qaeda's worldview of jihad and social justice. As the Imam and lead educator of an Islamic center and Masjid Al-Islam elementary school in Oakland, Malik-Ali makes it no secret his desire to cultivate a grassroots bulwark of radically indoctrinated youth in speeches to students at UC Irvine.Undeterred radicals like Malik-Ali find allies in campus educators who are equal opportunity defenders of any kind of subversion to classical republicanism and the Judeo-Christian tradition; both of which obstruct their idealistic vision to direct the course of social destiny.
Lina Kreidie, the director of The Middle East Studies Student Initiative Program (MESSI), is a serial defender of the actions of Israel's enemies, Hamas and Hezbollah, as forbearers of an exploited and downtrodden Arab underclass. Another academic, Sociology Professor Chuck O'Connell, shows videos depicting Israeli soldiers demolishing Palestinian buildings without putting the footage in the context that the structures were used to house terrorists. Perhaps the most notorious anti-Zionist professor, Mark LeVine, who also tries to serve as a mediator between campus Muslim and Jewish groups, blames American and Israeli imperialism for Middle Eastern terrorism, masking Islamic Fascism and their hatred of the greatest ideal of Jewish political exercise as a proletarian campaign against classist social injustices.
Despite efforts to ameliorate their criticism of incompetence through additional campaigns of progressiveness and understanding of the campus diversity, the rhetoric of UCI's Muslims remains intense. On the heels of an administration event to form a human circle of tolerance, a representative from the Muslim Student Union unabashedly mocked the event and continued to malign the Jewish state.
