With such "friends", ;Americans are at great peril
Reader comment on item: The FBI Fumbles [on Gamal Abdel-Hafiz]

Submitted by Lazare Berman (Japan), Mar 14, 2003 at 23:28

Dear Mr. Pipes,

Why didnt the F.B.I. take any measures -effective ones- I mean, to get rid of the elements within, who betray the trust of the people?

You are to be congratulated for your insight, research and action , -publicly- concerning those so- called academics/scholars, of Islam, Religion, and Democracy of Shari'ah /Jihad in the American universities, who defend the Islamism, and the anti-Americanism, the likes of Edward Said of Columbia University. He's more of an "Expert in throwing stones from Lebanon 's side,in the direction of the Galilee,and denying it" He calls himself Palestinian-Arab. He is nonetheless an American citizen, full of hate of the country and people who support him with a professorship in an ivy league university, a home and food,etc.etc.

Never did I read something positive about the U.S.A. by his pen, in either English,French,Italian,Arabic,or Hebrew.

There are lots of his kind in the U.S.Academia. Why is this permitted? Freedom of speech doesn't have to mean support of Islamism/destruction of the "Free,Good,Open," society.

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