When Asna Tabassum, a hijab-wearing Muslim, was announced as the valedictorian for the University of Southern California class of 2024, my initial reaction was the thought of my south Asian mother saying, “What are you doing? Why aren’t you valedictorian?” But what followed was pride.
Then the university announced last week that it would no longer allow Tabassum to speak at commencement. After pro-Israel groups mischaracterized Tabassum’s pro-Palestinian views as “antisemitic”, the USC administration claimed that security concerns made her speech untenable.
Wow, whodathunk it? Call your anti- a pro- and carry on with your anti-. No one will ever spot that one!
The intersectionalist’s dilemma: so many of the members of your coalition are appalling racists! How can we somehow conceal this while keeping them on side?
’As a Muslim, the lack of support scares me.’
As a Muslim, your views and actions have been ignored and excused for years. And now even the wokest of universities has finally run out of tolerance.
Socialism has always had antisemitism as its bedrock, right from the start with Marx’s bullshit. So “racism” doesn’t count for them when it’s against the Jooooz.
That’s exactly why you put them there, you stupid bint, so people could judge you. That some people think it makes you a bad person is part of their judging.
When Asna Tabassum, a hijab-wearing Muslim, was announced as the valedictorian for the University of Southern California class of 2024
This reads like dystopian science fiction from the 1960’s. Which is appropriate, because we live in a technological kakistocracy.
As a Muslim, the lack of support scares me. My hijab-wearing friends have been called terrorists and spat at; my Palestinian peer has had their car broken into and their Qur’an torn and I am judged for wearing a keffiyeh to class or having a sticker on my laptop that reads “Free Palestine”.
A BLOO BLOO BLOO BLOO BLOO *sad Muslim noises*
As a Christian, lions.
To be fair there has, over the past few years, been a campaign to describe anyone who criticises any policy or action of the Israeli government as an anti-semite. This is clearly illogical and is almost certainly consciously dishonest.
It’s as if someone who mocked the follies of the German government over energy were to be classified as a Kraut-basher. It’s a category error.
Of course the girl may well be anti-semitic for all I know. But evidence for that would be desirable. Or, at least, would be desirable for anyone who intends to involve himself in this inter-Canaanite war, or internal US war, or however you like to classify it. It’s not for me: not my wars, thank God.
It is a mistake to let these people into your country. It’s an even bigger mistake to let them breed.
Suppose we assume that this Palestinian/Zionist/Jewish demonstration imbroglio is, as usual, an import from the USA. Then it might be worth reflecting on this account of how the racket is organised.
https://smithilaneous.typepad.com/the_free_coast/2024/04/april-26-the-fish-rots-from-the-head-by-park-macdougald.html
As an agnostic, sharks.
…or perhaps 1950’s Movie piranhas?
JG – always with the fish, but I agree with you as I usually do.
Great White Sharks wearing highly triggering T-shirts saying “It’s Great to be White”.
Keep it simple. As our own dear Met Police would have said, she is “quite openly Muslim”, and therefore banned.
@ Bloke in Pictland
Very true. I can see it’s highly beneficial for Israel to have any negative comments about their actions dismissed as antisemitism. The sad downside is that by linking the two, Jews outside of Israel get blamed for the action of the state of Israel, and that is antisemitic. I do suspect the world would actually be less antisemitic were Isreal not to play the antisemitic card so readily.
Given the statements it seems like they feel the other person was awarded the position on the basis of being a hijab wearing Muslim, isn’t that racist to think they weren’t worthy of the position and only got it out of virtue signalling
“. I do suspect the world would actually be less antisemitic were Isreal not to play the antisemitic card so readily.”
I think you’re suspecting a bit too much.
‘That’s exactly why you put them there, you stupid bint, so people could judge you.’
Thanks BiND.
I do suspect the world would actually be less antisemitic were Isreal not to play the antisemitic card so readily.
I suspect that’s horseshit.
Israel is repeatedly condemned via UN resolution, while atrocities & oppression worldwide are ignored or brushed over. It’s been forced to defend itself against terrorism and invasion since its creation. It has enemies with Jewish genocide as their openly stated core ambition. The Yemeni civil war has racked up 400,000 dead, including 85,000 children who starved to death. Reaction amongst lefties and the Muslim ‘ummah’? Crickets. Much of ‘the world’ either cheered on the Oct 7 atrocities, claimed they were fake/false flag, or were bleating about a ‘proportionate’ response before the dead Jews were cold.
But yeah, Israel is ‘playing the anti-semitism card’.
People were hating on Jews for two millennia before the formation of Israel. A billion plus Muslims would be antisemitic irrespective of the actions of a tiny Middle Eastern country (that they keep attacking – rather like a bunch of keffiyeh clad Wil-E-Coyotes armed with the latest Acme products and an ill-founded conviction that this time will finally be difference) as it’s unequivocally what their religion tells them.
Blaming the actions of the Israelis is a convenient excuse to legitimise, in the poorly developed minds of US students, the multi-cultural London rent-a-mob and their counterparts in most other western countries, something they have always believed in – I suspect.
Murdering jews is an obligation for muslims, it says so in the koran.
Even the rocks say “Hey, there’s a jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.”
There may be a few muslims who wonder from time to time why god chose the angel Gabriel as a spokesman instead of doing it himself. And why Gabriel chose an an illiterate camel wrangler with suspect sexual preferences in an out of the way place to divulge the truth instead of say Constantinople or Peking.
But then UFOs don’t land every day on the White House lawn, do they?
@philip -he wasn’t anything as illustrious as a camel wrangler – he was a goat herder. In fact in my experience if you realise that most arabs are goat herders at heart , it explains why theire countries are usually shitholes.
@moqifen
notsure. His first wife was quite older and richer than him, so probably had some camels. They were domesticated in Arabia around that time.
Whether he went into the desert to escape from her nagging, or whether she kicked him out, or if he was imitating some other religious nutters at the time… I guess we’ll never know.
@BlokeinPictland It is your war, you just haven’t realised it yet.
@phillip – it’s true he married some rich widow – i think up to that time he wasa goat herder. I don’t think that he was particularly religeous – it was a means to gain power (especially over women – the younger the better) wealth and idolatory. Altogether a skidmark on the underpants of humanity.
@moq
So he married a rich widow. Yay! Upward social mobility, innit.
Nothing compared to the space elevator he got to heaven with, though.