How did this woman, how do all the inhorns of this world, get hired, and then promoted, and then are made heads of Middle Eastern studies at Yale? How did Carl Ernst manage to hire Omid Safi, when the faculty members at Harvard Divinity School, despite the cabal of Eck-Graham-Ahmad, manage to have the intelligence, and self-assurance (none of that "we don't know a thing about Islam" and "Diana and Bill and Leila say he's great")? 

Who vetted her? Who pushed her?

And since - let's face it -- these MESA Nostrans can no longer be stopped, when will some professors in other fields openly discuss the scandal of the slow, steady, inexorable takeover of Middle Eastern departments, by out-and-out apologists for Middle Eastern regimes and politics, and above all, for Islam? 

Don't be shy. Don't be afraid. You are right. And the students, the endlessly naive students, are and will suffer. And so will the formulation of policies that, as in Iraq, and now in Afghanistan and Pakistan, squander trillions of dollars, thousands of American lives, and war materiel, and morale, and everything, while the heart of our own civilisation -- Western Europe -- becomes ever more unpleasant, dangerous, and expensive for its indigenes (and for American scholars, students, visitors), because islamization continues, unopposed, through the Money Weapon, campaigns of Da'wa, and demographic conquest. Imagine, given all the trouble, all the anxiety, all the disturbance,all the unease, caused by a Muslim population that now sounds small and manageabgle (but isn't) what will happen when the Muslim numbers double or triple? Europe, for its own citizens and for non-Muslim immigrants and visitors, will become --everywhere but in  some islands of Infidels -- unendurable. 

If Americans are to be informed adequately -- about, in the present case, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the role of Islam -- then the inhorns of this world have to lose their posts. Her own reports on her non-existent contretemps at the airport (and why, all over the world, what is the reason, that air travel is so difficult and unpleasant, and there is a need to arrive so early, and a need to undrego all kinds of inspections going, and then coming? The reason is Islam, and Muslims, and thousands of acts of terror, on land and sea and air, by Muslims -- there is no other reason, though apologists for Islam, and others who don't wish ever to take true note of Islam,  can pretend otherwise, and point airily to the IRA, and ETA, and so on).

Let's start with members of the Yale faculty and students who care about free speech. Here's a free speech question. It has to do with your very own university and a professor -- head of a department no less - named Inhorn. What are the chances, by the way, that in this department an apostate from Islam might be hired? Or a truthful scholar of Islam, one whose scholarly memory goes back more than a few decades,  and who is familiar with the work of so many who need to be constantly read and re-read, including Joseph Schacht, and Snouck Hurgronje, and Arthur Jeffrey and Henri Lammens and Georges Vajda and K. S. Lal and --- well, look around.

A scandal has arisen. Will it be allowed to be insabbiato, covered up, allowed to die? It's a scandal involving the most obvious things: a book on cartoons and other representations, through history, about Muhammad has been censored, and the author required to publish the book only without a single cartoon, and without a single historical representation of Muhammad. A "scholar" who played a leading role, it appears, in this pusillanimous and dangerous decision (its effects are most dangerous, far more dangerous than anything that might happen because of the publication of the book as the author wished, and needed it, to be published), someone who has revealed herself to be a most untrustworthy guide -- to Iran, to Islam, to scholarship, to thought -- has somehow been given tenure at Yale and, what's more, given that appetizing post, head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies.

Her behavior, in a well-ordered universe, would so arouse the faculty and students that they would demand her removal, and they would boycott her classes, and those of her now-absurd department, and she would feel compelled to leave. But that's not likely to happen, is it?

So then use the only weapon that will mean something to  the beating heart of the university, the Development Office. Stop contributions. Explain why you are ending all contributions to Yale, until such time as these kinds of practices end, and this kind of usurper of a post, goes elsewhere -- she'll always be welcome at John Esposito's Saudi-funded operation in Washington. Let her go there. She'll fit right in. 

And those two beautiful Persian carpets that she so tellingly mentions, that clearly meant so very much more to her than the misery, the hell, of the Islamic Republic of iran where nothing appeared to her out of place --- those rugs that meant so much to her -- well, what did that make you imagine? I could only think of tthe wunderbar gifts such a person might have received from a grateful German government had she gone on a fact-finding visit, and found only the right facts, to Germany in 1938, or who absolutely splendid -- velikolepno -- would have been her tour of Soviet Russia in, say, 1956, if she said and did the right things while visiting). She should not be spreading her nonsense at Yale, nor should she be allowed to help suppress those who, like Jytte Klausen, refuse to engage in such nonsense themselves.

Ka-ching! Another cheap "intellectual" bought.