Fitzgerald: A tribute to Fawaz Gerges
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"Moments ago CNN interviewed Fawaz Gerges of Sarah Lawrence College.
He promotes Hamas."-- from a recent comment at Jihad Watch
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The oily Fawaz Gerges managed to pull the wool over a number of faculty eyes when he slithered up the tenure pole at Sarah Lawrence, a school where Adda Bozeman once taught, and where her papers (the curator being Prof. Adams) can now be found. A Russian émigré, Bozeman was among the very first to describe the immutable problem of Islam, the violence and aggression of Islam, and the fact that Islam is not like any other belief-system that we call a "religion." Indeed, Samuel Huntington borrowed, it is clear, much from her.
Yet here is the oily Gerges, teaching young girls (and now boys) at Sarah Lawrence. This is a school that during the war, and for at least a decade after, profited from the refugees from the Nazis, and then the Communists, on its staff. It was also a place where some of the ills of the modern American university first could were detected -- the smiling vacuous university president, the general atmosphere of wallowing in "tolerance" (to be replaced later on by "diversity"), all acidulously etched by Randall Jarrell in "Pictures From An Institution." Were Jarrell alive today, he would have fun taking apart the likes of Fawaz Gerges.
The oily Fawaz Gerges managed to pull the wool over a number of faculty eyes when he slithered up the tenure pole at Sarah Lawrence, a school where Adda Bozeman once taught, and where her papers (the curator being Prof. Adams) can now be found. A Russian émigré, Bozeman was among the very first to describe the immutable problem of Islam, the violence and aggression of Islam, and the fact that Islam is not like any other belief-system that we call a "religion." Indeed, Samuel Huntington borrowed, it is clear, much from her.
Yet here is the oily Gerges, teaching young girls (and now boys) at Sarah Lawrence. This is a school that during the war, and for at least a decade after, profited from the refugees from the Nazis, and then the Communists, on its staff. It was also a place where some of the ills of the modern American university first could were detected -- the smiling vacuous university president, the general atmosphere of wallowing in "tolerance" (to be replaced later on by "diversity"), all acidulously etched by Randall Jarrell in "Pictures From An Institution." Were Jarrell alive today, he would have fun taking apart the likes of Fawaz Gerges.
posted by jillosophy at 7/07/2007 07:31:00 PM
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