What type of scholarship does the University of Wisconsin-Madison consider worthy of receiving a Ph.D. in African Languages and Literature (Arabic)? I have not read Kevin Barrett's dissertation or listened to his oral defense of this work, but by awarding the doctorate, I assume the UW-Madison views his reasoned learning as equal to the rest of the faculty of the department. His peers may not be surprised that he now devotes his efforts in behalf of the organization he founded, The Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth. Madison's very own Ward Churchill style academic devoted to proving The Myth of 9/11. It was all a Republican plot!
"The mainstream 9-11 thesis blames the success of the attacks on the combination of two factors: "angry Muslim fanatics" and an "overwhelmed or incompetent domestic security apparatus." The 9-11 Truth movement categorically rejects this thesis based on overwhelming evidence that 9-11 was "an inside job" as much as it was a foreign attack. The Kean-Zelikow Commission,s official U.S. government account of what occurred within our National Security Apparatus that led to the tragedy is egregiously untrue."
"In this Nazi-like climate, with thousands of our Muslim brothers and sisters being tortured, martyred and disapeared to secret concentration camps simply because they are Muslims, a discrete silence strikes many as the best policy. (Personally, I disagree. Silence and denial did not work for the Jews in 1930s Germany, and it won't work for American Muslims now)."
