Egyptian Scholar States Islam Has No Ties To Or Claim On Jerusalem

Professor Youssef Ziedan
[From article]
So when Egypt TV runs a series of interviews declaring that Islam has no connection and no claim on Jerusalem, it is news-worthy. Could it be a sign that Egypt understands their state-sponsored anti-semitism, used cynically to direct their people’s anger at Israel as a scapegoat, has backfired, and is fueling the jihadi threat to their own government? If Egypt were to abandon their Nazi heritage it would be of historic importance.
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The Egypt TV interviews are a repudiation of American liberal media, which has taken to shameful support of jihadi claims that the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem never existed and that Jews have no historical connection to the land of Israel.
The Egypt TV interviews were with Prof. Ziedan, the director of the museum in the Library of Alexandria, a well-known lecturer, university professor, columnist, and author of fifty-plus books.
Professor Ziedan told his Egyptian audience: "The religious aspect of the [Israeli-Arab] conflict is nonsense. … The only reason why Muslims insist on the sanctity of Jerusalem is simply politics."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/egyptian_tv_admits_islam_has_no_ties_to_jerusalem.html

December 19, 2015
Egyptian TV admits Islam has no ties to Jerusalem
By Karin McQuillan

Columbia Law School Professor Presents Propaganda As Scholarship

Columbia awarded a JD degree to Eric Holder co-author of the Obama-Holder doctrine, which makes inconvenient laws optional for selected elitists. Relaxed rectitude may be shared by Professor Harcourt. At Columbia Law School is The Sabin Center for Climate Change law. Got no reply when I asked if they thought the sun could be persuaded by law to behave and not to affect the weather on earth. Today's law schools have unusual standards.

[From article]

For the better part of two decades, Columbia University law professor Bernard Harcourt has been on a personal crusade against Broken Windows policing, criticizing both its theoretical underpinnings and its policy applications. A close look at Harcourt’s work, however, reveals not only the weaknesses of his arguments but also his lack of attention to other research findings that conflict with his own. His portrayal of Broken Windows policing, it turns out, is fundamentally inaccurate and incomplete.
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Broken Windows policing (as performed by NYPD during the 1990s) involved a great deal of discretion on the part of officers. When it came to disorder, arrest was actually the exception—police were far more likely to handle minor offenses informally.
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Harcourt must know that these were the results of the report. Even a casual look at the document shows that the NYPD’s Broken Windows policing involved a high amount of officer discretion. To conclude, as Harcourt does, that Kelling encouraged a high-arrest strategy clearly misrepresents Kelling’s arguments.
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In a recent review in the prestigious Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Anthony Braga and colleagues statistically combined the results of the most rigorous academic studies and found that, overall, police efforts designed to manage disorder reduce serious problems in communities. They conclude that “the results of this systematic review and meta-analysis lend some credibility to the NYPD’s claim that disorder policing was influential in reducing crime in New York City over the course of the 1990s.” Harcourt is either unaware of this research or chooses not to acknowledge it.
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Harcourt will likely continue his assault on Broken Windows. But an inspection of much of his writing reveals that his arguments are based heavily on intentional misrepresentation, questionable research, and omission of relevant information. The media outlets that continue to accommodate Harcourt’s promotion of this misleading agenda should take note.

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0825ws.html

WILLIAM H. SOUSA
What Passes for Scholarship These Days
A response to Broken Windows critic Bernard Harcourt
August 25, 2015

Harvard University Treats Illegal Aliens Better Than Citizens

With an endowment at $36 billion Harvard University is like the 800-pound Gorilla.

[From article]
When Dario Guerrero, an illegal immigrant who found out about his status in high school, told Harvard that he was in the country illegally, the school encouraged him to apply--and gave him a full scholarship after he was accepted.
Writing in the Washington Post, Guerrero, who is currently a junior at the university, said after an MIT official recommended that he not apply to the school during a trip to visit college, he "left the office in a daze" because MIT had been his dream school. He started walking down Massachusetts Avenue" and, "without really planning it, I found myself in the middle of Harvard." A Harvard admissions officer told him, "If you are admitted to Harvard College, we will meet your full financial need without regard to your legal status.”
He eventually got in, and "they gave me a full ride. This meant I wouldn’t have to worry about student loans or quarterly tuition payments; that I always had a place to stay away from home; that I could travel every semester, on Harvard’s dime, back to California; that my parents would never have to worry whether I’d finish school. Those are luxuries few people, documented or not, ever have."
"I used to think that being undocumented was a disadvantage to me. I used to mourn the fact that I was different," the current junior wrote. "But ultimately I realize that it was because of, not in spite of, my identity — as an undocumented Chicano — that I was been able to do what I did. Being something different in the socioeconomic fabric of the United States gave me the perspective I have."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/25/Harvard-Gives-Student-Full-Ride-After-He-Tells-Them-He-s-Illegal-Immigrant

HARVARD GIVES STUDENT FULL RIDE AFTER HE TELLS THEM HE'S ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
by TONY LEE 

25 Sep 2014, 6:30 AM PDT

Dumber and dumber

Dumber and dumber

Editors ask, "How and why a program designed to foster international peace through understanding needs to recruit from the ranks of possible terrorists is an interesting question indeed." (Editorial, “Let’s define ‘scholar,’”Boston Herald, August 6, 2008) Answer is easy. Through dumbing down there are fewer scholars and standards are lower. See who runs for office as another example. Then there are the young journalists. The list goes on and on.

Roy Bercaw - Editor ENOUGH ROOM

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/editorials/view.bg?articleid=1111261

Editorial
Boston Herald
August 6, 2008