CURRICULAR ACTIVISM AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM: REPRESENTATIONS OF ARABS AND MUSLIMS IN PRINT AND INTERNET MEDIA

Salaita, Steven George.

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Robert Post, "The Structure of Academic Freedom," in Academic Freedom after September 11, ed. Beshara Doumani (Brooklyn: Zone Books, 2006), 62.
Judith Butler, "Academic Norms, Contemporary Challenges: A Reply to Robert Post on Academic Freedom," in Academic Freedom after September 11, 108.
Beshara Doumani, "Between Coercion and Privatization: Academic Freedom in the Twenty-First Century," in Academic Freedom after September 77,39.
"The New McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East," in Academic Freedom after September 77, ed. Beshara Doumani (Brooklyn: Zone Books, 2006), 237-66.
David Horowitz, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2004).
David Horowitz, "Joel Beinin: Apologist for Terrorism," FrontPageMagazine, 19 May 2006, http://www.Frontpagemag.com/Articles/ Read. aspx?GUID=681F93A4-4EFA-4327-8153-A9961EAB2ACE(10 August 2007).
www.jihadwatch.org.
David Horowitz and Ben Johnson, eds., Campus Support for Terrorism (Los Angeles: Center for the Study of Popular Culture, 2004).
http://www.disco verthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catld=50&type=ind.
Joel Beinin, "The New McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East," in Academic Freedom after September 11, 252-53.
Ibid., 237.
December, 2004, Cornell University survey in which 44 percent of American respondents polled nationally said they believed the US government should curtail civil liberties for Muslim Americans. Findings available at: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec04/ Muslim.Poll.bpf.html. A March 2006, ABC News-Washington Post poll found that 46% of Americans harbor a negative view of Islam. Findings available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dvn/content/article/2006/03/08/ AR2006030802221.html.
Stephen H. Balch, "On Missing a Teachable Moment," NAS Update 16, no. 1 (2007): 3.
Ibid., 3.
Ibid., 3.
David Horowitz, "Liberals Hand Terrorists a Victory," Front Page Magazine, 17 May 2004, <http://www.frontpagernag.com/ Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={1408BBB2-A30D-4A6B-84EA- AB1D1A85E7BA}> (14 August 2007).
Pipes's speech can be found at: <http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/34876.html>.
Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim , Bad Muslim (New York: Pantheon, 2004), 17.
Ibid., 32-33.
Ibid., 27.
Sara Hebel, "Patrolling Professors' Politics," Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 February 2004, sec. A.
Robert L. Ivie, "Academic Freedom and Antiwar Dissent in a Democratic Idiom," College Literature 33, no. 4 (2006): 76-92. Robert L. Williams, "Academic Freedom in Higher Education within a Conservative Sociopolitical Culture," Innovative Higher Education 31, no. 1 (2006): 5-25.
'Focusing on Osama bin Laden,' wrote Esposito in 1998, Kramer's book Ivory Towers on Sand, available on his website at: http://www.geocities.com/martinkramerorg/IslamObscured.htm. House Resolution 3077 in 2003,
FrontPageMagazine.org , for instance, Michelle Malkin writes, "In August 2003, loony professor Ward Churchill spoke in Seattle before a crowd of moonbats and advised them on how to conduct acts of terrorism." See further: <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={47A98D85-8507- 471A-8848-249916878454>. <www.frontpagemag.com/ Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16972>.
<http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/files/pdf/SAF%20handbook%20FI NAL%202.pdf>.
Steven Salaita, Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes from and What It Means for Politics Today (London and Ann Arbor: Pluto, 2006).

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[1] Robert Post, "The Structure of Academic Freedom," in Academic Freedom after September 11, ed. Beshara Doumani (Brooklyn: Zone Books, 2006), 62.

[2] Judith Butler, "Academic Norms, Contemporary Challenges: A Reply to Robert Post on Academic Freedom," in Academic Freedom after September 11, 108.

[3] Beshara Doumani, "Between Coercion and Privatization: Academic Freedom in the Twenty-First Century," in Academic Freedom after September 77,39.

[4] "The New McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East," in Academic Freedom after September 77, ed. Beshara Doumani (Brooklyn: Zone Books, 2006), 237-66.

[5] David Horowitz, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2004).

[6] David Horowitz, "Joel Beinin: Apologist for Terrorism," FrontPageMagazine, 19 May 2006, http://www.Frontpagemag.com/Articles/ Read. aspx?GUID=681F93A4-4EFA-4327-8153-A9961EAB2ACE(10 August 2007).

[7] www.jihadwatch.org.

[8] David Horowitz and Ben Johnson, eds., Campus Support for Terrorism (Los Angeles: Center for the Study of Popular Culture, 2004).

[9] http://www.disco verthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catld=50&type=ind.

[10] Joel Beinin, "The New McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East," in Academic Freedom after September 11, 252-53.

[11] Ibid., 237.

[12] December, 2004, Cornell University survey in which 44 percent of American respondents polled nationally said they believed the US government should curtail civil liberties for Muslim Americans. Findings available at: http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec04/ Muslim.Poll.bpf.html. A March 2006, ABC News-Washington Post poll found that 46% of Americans harbor a negative view of Islam. Findings available at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dvn/content/article/2006/03/08/ AR2006030802221.html.

[13] Stephen H. Balch, "On Missing a Teachable Moment," NAS Update 16, no. 1 (2007): 3.

[14] Ibid., 3.

[15] Ibid., 3.

[16] David Horowitz, "Liberals Hand Terrorists a Victory," Front Page Magazine, 17 May 2004, <http://www.frontpagernag.com/ Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={1408BBB2-A30D-4A6B-84EA- AB1D1A85E7BA}> (14 August 2007).

[17] Pipes's speech can be found at: <http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/34876.html>.

[18] Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim , Bad Muslim (New York: Pantheon, 2004), 17.

[19] Ibid., 32-33.

[20] Ibid., 27.

[21] Sara Hebel, "Patrolling Professors' Politics," Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 February 2004, sec. A.

[22] Robert L. Ivie, "Academic Freedom and Antiwar Dissent in a Democratic Idiom," College Literature 33, no. 4 (2006): 76-92. Robert L. Williams, "Academic Freedom in Higher Education within a Conservative Sociopolitical Culture," Innovative Higher Education 31, no. 1 (2006): 5-25.

[23] 'Focusing on Osama bin Laden,' wrote Esposito in 1998, Kramer's book Ivory Towers on Sand, available on his website at: http://www.geocities.com/martinkramerorg/IslamObscured.htm. House Resolution 3077 in 2003,

[24] FrontPageMagazine.org , for instance, Michelle Malkin writes, "In August 2003, loony professor Ward Churchill spoke in Seattle before a crowd of moonbats and advised them on how to conduct acts of terrorism." See further: <http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID={47A98D85-8507- 471A-8848-249916878454>. <www.frontpagemag.com/ Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16972>.

[25] <http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/files/pdf/SAF%20handbook%20FI NAL%202.pdf>.

[26] Steven Salaita, Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes from and What It Means for Politics Today (London and Ann Arbor: Pluto, 2006).

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