One of the scholars most thoroughly duped by Sami Al-Arian and his gang (see Friday's posting) is Charles Butterworth, a specialist in medieval Islamic political philosophy at the University of Maryland. In the early 1990s, the Florida Islamic Jihad cell drew him into the activities of the World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE), the front …
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Profs Duped by Sami Al-Arian
In recent years, Sami Al-Arian has been a celebrity among Arab-Americans and American apologists for Islamism. Yes, Al-Arian, a Palestinian professor of computer engineering at the University of South Florida (USF), was suspected of close ties to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group specializing in suicide attacks against civilians in Israel. But the smooth-talking, …
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