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Professor of Humanities at the State University of New York Board Chairman of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy Defended terrorist professor Sami Al-Arian Detests Israel Ali al Mazrui is a professor of humanities and Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He was born February 24, 1933 to a Muslim family in Mombasa, Kenya. He holds a B.A. degree from Manchester University, an M.A. from Columbia University, and a doctorate from Oxford. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID), and he formerly sat on the Board of the American Muslim Council.Dr. Mazrui hosted a 1986 PBS series called The Africans: A Triple Heritage, and he authored a companion book of the same title. One insistent point of The Africans was the horror, and the continuing cost to the continent, of the European slave-trading of centuries past. But Professor Mazrui failed to mention, in this context, that he himself is descended from the leading slave-trading family of Mombasa (their conduct was suppressed by the British). Mazrui’s family sold slaves into the Muslim lands, including Saudi Arabia. In the book version of The Africans, Mazrui also supported the southward expansion of Islam through the Sudan, an expansion generated by the genocidal Sudanese Islamic government, as a natural development not to be resisted by the Christian South. Moreover, Mazrui wrote that after Moses and Jesus, “the last of the Great Jewish prophets” was Karl Marx.Mazrui was a featured speaker at the 2002 Annual Banquet of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, where he said: “There is … suspicion that some members of the Bush administration in collusion with Israel are more than ready to plunge the Middle East into turmoil in the hope that the final outcome would be to the territorial advantage of Israel and the strategic advantage of the United States. All this is part of the emerging external sadism of the United States, a readiness to hurt others abroad.” In April 2002, Mazrui co-authored an article titled “Is Israel a Threat to American Democracy?” wherein he and his co-authors wrote: “Israeli militarism, occupation of Arab lands and repression of Palestinians are the main causes of not only anti-Israeli terrorism but also anti-American terrorism.” “Israeli repression and militarism provokes suicide bombers” and gives “rise to movements like Hamas and al Qaeda.” “The United States is both the main source of military support for the enemy of the Arab World, Israel, and … the main destroyer of Arab capacity to rise militarily.” “Israeli political culture becomes increasingly racist.” “Israeli neo-Nazism reversed the scale of genetic values favored by German Nazis. Both forms of extremism exaggerated the impact of the Jewish factor. The Nazis thought the Jewish impact was negative. The Israeli extremists erred the other way.” “More recently there is increasing support in the state of Israel for … a policy of ethnic cleansing. More and more Israelis are dreaming of a kind [of] ‘final solution to the Palestinian problem’ -- the transfer of all Palestinians of the West Bank [and presumably Gaza] to new refugee camps in the rest of the Arab world.” “As for the trend towards militarization, Israel has indeed become the most efficient war machine since Nazi Germany.” “Perhaps Israel ought never to have been created. Millions of Jews were opposed to its creation in the first place. Those Jews have now been vindicated.” “Israel was created as a refuge from anti-Semitic hate. It has become one of the main causes of anti-Semitic rage against innocent Jews in other parts of the world. In 2003 Mazrui dismissed allegations that University of South Florida Professor Sami Al-Arian, who had been arrested on the basis of voluminous FBI evidence, was an agent of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad.Mazrui characterizes America’s post-9/11 anti-terrorism measures as assaults on civil liberties. “As for the United States itself,” he said at a May 2003 CSID conference, “we cannot afford to promote democracy abroad and let it lapse here at home. We can surely liberate Muslim women in Afghanistan without detaining Muslim men in the United States. We can empty the political prisons of Saddam Hussein without having a Guantanamo Gulag of our own in Cuba under American jurisdiction.” Regarding upscaled airport security in the U.S., Mazrui said, “If you are a Muslim, it is an equal opportunity for harassment.” In 2004 Mazrui delivered a lecture at the International Center for the Propagation of Islam, whose founder and Director, Ahmed Deedat, has received funding directly from Osama bin Laden’s family and has boasted about having personally met the al Qaeda leader on several occasions. Mazrui is a Board member of the Association of Muslim Social Services, whose executive secretary is Kamran Bokhari, the North American spokesman for Al-Muhajiroun and a fellow at the Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy.