Omri Ceren has a post about the pro-jihad, anti-American rhetoric at the University of California, Irvine: UC Irvine Course Description: American Unilateralism Responsible For Islamist Barbarism.

Earlier this week, Michelle Malkin linked to a story about violent pro-OBL protests in Orange County. The situation in that area is getting pretty dire. Kids are glorifying suicide bombers. There are Al Qaeda cells hiding in plain view. And the crucible of local extremism is the University of California, Irvine, where jihadist and Islamist activism is almost the norm. There is so much anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism on the campus that the Zionist Organization of America has gone so far as to file a Title VI suit alleging systemic discrimination.

A school environment where students wear t-shirts openly calling for jihad doesn’t come from nowhere - it has to be incubated by bias in the classroom. A summer course being offered by the School of Social Sciences provides an example of just how prevalent and open anti-Americanism is on college campuses. A professor is offering a course entitled “the Social Ecology of Peace”, and he emailed the following course description out to students:

The opportunity in the summer is to study the lessons of the war in Vietnam in a small group (about 15) and to apply those lessons to the challenges of the modern era. In a recent speech in Southern California former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that this is the first time since the end of the thirty-years war in 1648 that ethnic and religious violence has so transcended the boundaries of the Nation state. Samuel P. Huntington has written an important book called “The Clash of Civilizations” which provides a framework for understanding some aspects of war and peace in this era. With this kind of framework I can understand anger toward America and Americans. As horrific as is the beheading of an American truck driver in Iraq who was only doing his job and turned the wrong way, this action can be understood in the framework of American unilateralism.

I have no framework for comprehending why a late middle-aged woman who had spent her life in Iraq as the wife of an Iraqi citizen and whose work was assisting needy Iraqi children would be televised begging for her life and then shot in the head and the murder transmitted on the Internet.

It’s rare to find such a stark and useful example of the academic-pretense as political-activism as therapy triangle that passes as political discussion in college classrooms.