In a NP story examining some of the content at Mohamed Elmasry’s website The Canadian Charger, Joseph Brean describes how one particular article, which described Christopher Hitchens’ cancer as “something to be celebrated”, “raises questions about whether such alternative online media, with their famously low costs and wide reach, are capable of holding itself to common standards of decency.” The more important question, though, might be about what sort of people are teaching in our universities, inasmuch as Joshua Blakeney, the author of the article, holds the title of Media Coordinator of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge.
Here’s what Blakeney had to say about 9/11:
Without the implausible and wholly debunked official explanation of 9/11—in particular the notion that the highly sophisticated implosions of the WTC towers were planned, funded, and executed by autonomous Islamic fundamentalists—Hitchens’ already tenuous defenses of the 9/11 wars would be bereft of any legitimacy.
He goes on to describe the notion that Islamic fundamentalists hijacked passenger jets and flew them into buildings as “the implausible and wholly debunked official explanation,” and teaches “It is…a sad and irrefutable fact that a number of Mossad agents…were arrested in the New Jersey area after they were seen celebrating the 9/11 attacks.”
He’s not the only moonbat at the University of Lethbridge, as it turns out: Anthony J. Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies, also fully qualifies. Hall, who can be seen and heard here on CBC radio campaigning in defense of Mohawk activist Splitting The Sky, after Mr. Sky was arrested for disturbing the peace for shouting agitatedly in a sidewalk lineup that Canadian police officers must arrest George W. Bush, is inspired by Che Guevara, whose “stylish, avant-garde appeal continues to defy the grey stereotypes of stiff conformity and austerity colouring popular perceptions of Soviet-style communism” and Hugo Chavez.
Here’s the learned professor’s take on the events of 9/11:
Given what Griffin and others have already publish (sic) there is no remaining shred of credibility left to the notion that the hit on the Pentagon together with the pulverization of three steel-frame World Trade Center towers was caused simply by a handful of Saudis armed only with box cutters, a smattering of flight training and intense jihadist zeal.
Anyone who has kids thinking of attending the University of Lethbridge should take great pains to steer them in some other direction. Read Joshua Blakeney’s article, carefully peruse the U of L’s Globalization Studies prospectus – seriously, do – and watch Professor Hall’s damnably dense, zealous, obnoxious, almost juvenile performance on CBC, and try to reconcile all that with the University of Lethbridge’s motto: Fiat Luxor – “Let there be light.”
What a joke. What’s the Latin phrase for “Let there be defunding“?
