Juan Cole is a history professor at the University of Michigan.
He is also a far-leftist and Israel hater.
But you don\’t need me to tell you this – not if you read his June 21st blog entry…the one in which he blames pro-Israel Jews for dylann roof\’s shooting spree at a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Here is how it begins:
The Muslim-hatred of the Geert Wilders and Marine LePens in Europe, for which Daniel Pipes, and Pamela Geller, and the whole Islamophobic network are cheerleaders and enablers, was a key influence on Dylann Roof, according to his manifesto. These same hatemongers helped whip Norwegian white supremacist and terrorist Anders Brevik into a homocidal fever pitch in July of 2011, when he killed 77 Norwegians for allegedly being soft on Muslims.
Back in South Carolina, Roof wrote that he first became politically aware with the Trayvon Martin case, in which he strongly took the side of George Zimmerman. He continued:
From this point I researched deeper and found out what was happening in Europe. I saw that the same things were happening in England and France, and in all the other Western European countries. Again I found myself in disbelief. As an American we are taught to accept living in the melting pot, and black and other minorities have just as much right to be here as we do, since we are all immigrants. But Europe is the homeland of White people, and in many ways the situation is even worse there. From here I found out about the Jewish problem and other issues facing our race, and I can say today that I am completely racially aware.
Where would he have found allegations that white Europeans are being victimized by immigrants? Here is what I wrote about Anders Breivik:
“Breivik\’s passions were whipped up, according to his diary, by reading anti-Muslim hatemongers such as Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller and Daniel Pipes (whose “Campus Watch” is an Israeli settler-oriented attempt to deny tenure to American academics critical of Israel\’s oppression of the stateless Palestinians, and to harass more senior professors with character assassination).”
It was apparently similar writings and web sites that made Roof “completely racially aware.”
Help me out here. I read the above, and conclude that dylann roof, whatever he started out as, devolved into an anti-Black and anti-Semitic fanatic.
Allow me to make a few points:
-Geert Wilders has explained his feelings about Muslims many times. They have nothing to do with Daniel Pipes or Pamela Geller, neither of whose writings were necessary for him to feel as he does;
-anders breivik was a severely disturbed man who claimed that his murder spree was to get back at Norway\’s Labour Party for supporting Muslim immigration, thus “letting down Norway and the Norwegian people”. What did Daniel Pipes or Pamela Geller have to do with that? Tell you what: send me their voluminous writings on Norway and I\’ll get back to you.
-Neither Trayvon Martin nor George Zimmerman were Jewish, and neither of them had a thing to do with Israel.
Other than that, Cole has a point………
Let me end with a reminder that people send their children to schools like the University of Michigan in the hope that they will get an intelligent, useful education. This is one of the people who is supposed to provide those things.
Based on the above, you can write your own last sentence to this blog. I\’ll bet it won\’t be very much different than the one I\’m thinking of.
