V24Investigates investigation into radical Islamism and antisemitism present on America’s university campuses exposes a highly concerning conversation between our undercover journalist and Dr. Isam Vaid, the Muslim Religious Life Scholar in the Emory University Office of Spiritual and Religious Life since 2008.
He provides “regular religious practices on campus” and “contribute(s) to tradition-specific and interfaith presentations for the campus community” and “develop(s) multifaith scholarship for the future.” (This from his bio on Emory University’s website.)
When he is unaware that is he is being filmed he certainly does not come across as a proponent of bona fide “interfaith dialogue” and he makes statements such as:
- There is no such thing as Israeli civilians “and the reason they are not civilians is every single Israeli is obligated to serve in the IDF therefore you (Israelis) are a military target”
- ”Hamas is a humanitarian organization that gives money to widows, sends children to school, and builds hospital(s).”
- The IDF created and funded Hamas and since Israel “created the monster, the monster will destroy you.”
- Coverage of Hamas atrocities is “misinformation” similar to what was spun “during the Iraq war” and suggestions of rape and beheadings of babies have been “debunked” and even the “Wall Street Journal said this was not coming from credible sources”
- ”Hamas follows Islamic principles” and such acts as “raping, killing, and even cutting down trees are forbidden”
- ”Wealthy Jewish donors made a lot of noise about antisemitism” and “Jewish students make up 20% of the student population” and “they threatened to pull out students” which would have been “a catastrophic financial loss” and “a real credible threat to the university”
- CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) and student groups pressured the school to focus on Islamophobia and by the third statement of the school, “Islamophobia came first and antisemitism second”
- Dr. Vaid works directly with CAIR and was given “a heads up” on their lawsuit against the school alleging the fostering of “an Islamophobic environment” (recall CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation prosecution in 2007 whereby it was demonstrated they funneled money to U.S. designated terrorist groups
- Weighs in on the historical tribes of Israel and says specifically “the one tribe of Israel, the Yehuda, is the one causing all the trouble on Earth,…chaos on Earth”
This Muslim academic and cleric on Emory’s campus speaks more like an Islamist radical hatemonger than a professor in this historically great Atlanta university that has been referred to as the “Harvard of the South.”
Perhaps Emory is taking too many cues from Harvard these days. Either way, there needs to be deeper investigation by statutory bodies as to what kind of Islamic radicalism is being inculcated in Muslim students by staff such as Dr. Vaid who is hiding behind a misdirecting public veil of “interfaith dialogue” as he preaches this sort of radicalism one on one to Muslims in his university sanctioned purview.
In short, this is unacceptable on American university campuses and deeper investigations need to be undertaken post haste.