Sherifa D. Zuhur, Scholar, Suspended By U.S. Army War College After Complaining Of Anti-Muslim Discrimination

Chronicle Of Higher Education:

The U.S. Army War College has suspended a widely known expert on Islamic studies partly because she had turned to the Middle East Studies Association, and threatened to contact a newspaper, with allegations that administrators there were violating her academic freedom and discriminating against her as a Muslim.

Sherifa D. Zuhur, a research professor of Islamic and regional studies in the college's Strategic Studies Institute, was suspended without pay for 10 days, effective Monday, from the Army college, in Pennsylvania, which trains both military leaders and civilians. The institute's director, Douglas C. Lovelace Jr., had notified her of her suspension in a letter last week affirming the recommendation of the institute's deputy director, Col. Louis H. Jordan Jr., that the college take disciplinary action against her.

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[jeffreyindc]

-- January 16, 2009: U.S. Army War College defends Hamas?
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024415.php
-- A faculty member publicly defends Hamas while students are not allowed to read texts on militant Islam - by Patrick Poole
--- "Army War College research professor Sherifa Zuhur on Hamas and Israel that informs readers that Hamas has been misunderstood due to the misreporting by 'Israeli and Western sources that villainize the group.'"
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/strategic-collapse-at-the-army-war-college/
--- See also July 2, 2008 "Seeking to Change What America's Military Views as the War" - by Jeffrey Imm
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/090.html#H.4.3
---- Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College published study by Islamic scholar Sherifa Zuhur
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB843.pdf
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/people.cfm?q=555
----- "Professor Zuhur is not ambiguous about her message to the American military in stating that 'the effort to pursue 'militant Islam' instead of simply opposing 'terrorism,' is too grand a project" (page 9), and that "it is time to abandon the assumptions of a clash of civilizations between Islam and the West' (page 115)"
----- "Professor Zuhur tells America's military that the 'United States (even along with Europe) cannot undo the Islamic awakening, the growth of Islamist movements and principles, and popular support for them. Work with Islamists instead of engaging them in what surely will be a very long war' (page 118)"

[GalenL]

'Students are not allowed to read texts on militant Islam' !?

Even if nothing else you reference was remotely a good idea (and I tend to think all of it is to one degree or another), that is flat out insanity. If you would make someone an enemy then only a fool would not seek to understand them.