The Jewish professor said that CCNY is not responsible for what transpired, as school officials selected Mady as a panelist based on their belief that he was an average student and New Yorker.
A New York City college has been walloped by what witnesses described as a portentous verbal fatwa which disrupted an interfaith event school officials hoped would unite students around traditional American values of pluralism, tolerance, and equality.
What most surprised the audience and the panelists who were headlining the event was that the heckler at the City College of New York (CCNY) in Manhattan last Thursday was himself a panelist, a local imam and graduate student, Abdullah Mady, who is enrolled in the Master’s in Translational Medicine (MTM) program.
When called on to speak, Mady became irate and opened up a prolonged rant in which he called for imposing sharia law on Americans, defended amputating the limbs of misdemeanor-level criminals and the wealthy, and denigrated a Jewish co-panelist, Baruch College professor Ilya Bratman.