Flat Earth Society gets tenure; Wisconsin taxpayers get fleeced
Moonbat Professor Kevin Barrett says, “I know that 9/11 was an inside job” and a “controlled demolition.” Such views have served him well. He has just been given a job to teach an introductory course on Islam at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. We wonder just what he will be teaching the precious dears, given his track record of sanity, judgment and scholarship.
But Barrett’s a sideshow — heck, we would like to have taken his class in college if it had been available. What a hoot! Probably get an A just for wearing a buck fush T-shirt to class.
Our thoughts on the Barrett manner run in a different direction. Just what kind of chumps are the citizens of Wisconsin to support this? And how come the faculty of UW-Madison faculty gets to vote and have driver’s licenses and all that? Have we no standards at all as a people? (HT: MM)
UPDATE
During his time in San Francisco, Barrett was exploring mysticism. He recalled accidentally wandering into a lecture on Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, by Jacob Needleman, a professor of philosophy. That got him thinking more critically about the nature of God.
In 1993, he took a train from San Francisco to New York with a friend. He was reading Gore Vidal’s “Live From Golgotha,” a book portraying biblical events as if they were on television, which inspired him to entertain passengers in the lounge car with a stand-up comedy routine about religion.
The night they arrived, in a cafe in Brooklyn, he met his future wife, a Moroccan-born woman who practiced Islam. The next day, a friend in New York gave him a copy of “TAZ,” by Hakim Bey, which Barrett describes as an “anarchist manifesto” inspired by Islamic ideas. The book “was so poetic, it had this poetry that strips away veils. There was just a whiff of that, it was pointing toward Islamic mysticism.” He had to learn more.
Later that day, he and his future wife met up to chat again, this time at a train station below the World Trade Center. Just a month later, the complex would be bombed for the first time, piquing his attention.
A few months later, Barrett and his beloved were married, first in a formal Islamic wedding, and later at City Hall. Several days before they tied the knot, he said the Shahada, or Muslim declaration of the oneness of God, in front of some Moroccan Muslims there, making his conversion official.
“I was walking on Cloud Nine,” he said in a recent interview. “I’d found something I’d been looking for. It’s indescribable, it’s a step back to God.” What resonated so much, he said, was the Islamic approach to God.
“The Christians seemed to imagine God as an old guy with a beard, a patriarch,” he said, noting that he does not identify with a particular sect of the faith. “In Islam, God is much more transcendental, much less anthropomorphic. The first tangible quality of God is mercy and compassion.”
Too much LSD.