Jessica McBride has lots of coverage and commentary on the case of UW-Madison wacademic Kevin Barrett, a Muslim convert and raving 9/11 conspiracy freakazoid, teaching a course called “Introduction to Islam” at UW-Madison this fall.

Barrett, who started a national group on 9/11 conspiracy theories, doesn’t believe the terrorists caused the World Trade Center attacks. He thinks the government used a controlled demolition to do it (with Dick Cheney the likely mastermind) and he thinks that Mohammad Atta was probably a government pawn and patsy. He thinks that al-Qaida as we know it is a myth fabricated by the government (or at the very least a US government front group and he calls it al-CIA-duh to underscore his point). He also believes that many of the 9/11 hijackers are alive and that the 9/11 terrorist attacks have nothing to do with Islam. He compares those who believe the terrorists caused 9/11 to the “good Germans” who bought into Nazi ideology and says we’re a bunch of stupid racists for believing the “Big Lie” that the terrorists, not the government, caused 9/11. He thinks the war on Terror and 9/11 are both “Orwellian hoaxes.” He refuses to say that bin Laden is evil.

In a presumably tongue in cheek letter to the Secret Service after he says a fellow 9/11 conspiracy theorist had weapons confiscated by them after predicting Bush would be shot for treason, Barrett predicts that a majority of Americans will soon eagerly anticipate Bush’s execution for the mass murder of Americans on 9/11 (read the whole letter at the end of this posting). It also discusses Bush being gassed, hung, and electrocuted.

I repeat. This guy is teaching Introduction to Islam at UW-Madison this fall.

We’ve been at war for several decades with Islamo fascist terrorists who want to destroy our way of life. And a prestigious, publicly funded university is giving our tax dollars to a guy who thinks that our government did it and that it’s OK to write sarcastic letters about a Bush execution. And is making a cottage industry of it.

The Madison Capital Times published an op-ed by Barrett a few weeks ago, covered here: lgf: Mainstreaming 9/11 Conspiracy.