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October 09, 2006
Juan Cole surfaces again
Devotees of this blog know that one of our special projects is tracking the academic and bloggish career of Juan Cole. Well, the irrepressible Professor Cole is in the news again.
[He] sent a letter to Condoleezza Rice protesting the State Department’s denial of a visa to Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss Islamist whom the State Department said had provided material support to terrorists. Wrote Cole: “MESA is committed to ensuring academic freedom and freedom of expression, both within the region and in connection with the study of the region in North America and elsewhere.” Cole’s commitment to free speech would perhaps be noble, had he not, in a February interview, lamented that government had not shut down Fox News, and earlier, in an apparent fit of jealousy, called on the FBI to investigate why MSNBC hired a rival academic as “terrorism analyst” at MSNBC."
Judith | 10/09/06 at 01:12 AM | Categories: - Wackademia
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