These people are nuts. I can't believe these are the people teaching young adults.


Barrett has drawn fire for his plans to teach an Islamic studies course next fall that questions whether the U.S. government was involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Some state lawmakers, conservative commentators and Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Mark Green have called for Barrett's firing.

Doyle, a UW-Madison graduate, said the issue of Barrett's employment is not "a matter so much on what his political views are" as his fitness to teach students.

Doyle described the letter, dated July 5, as "sort of a diatribe about a lot of different issues."

"One of the things you want at the university is someone who bases their teaching on facts. If there's any institution that should be devoted to a factual analysis of what's going on, it should be the university," he said.

Doyle added, "This is for the university to look at, but I think they really have to take a hard look at that."

In the letter to Doyle, Barrett acknowledged the governor's previous criticism: "You apparently believe that I am incapable of performing well as an instructor of Islam 370 because I am convinced that the 9/11 Commission Report is a farcical coverup and that overwhelming evidence suggests top U.S. officials were complicit in the attacks of September 11th, 2001.


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on Jul 10, 2006
"You apparently believe that I am incapable of performing well as an instructor of Islam 370 because I am convinced that the 9/11 Commission Report is a farcical coverup and that overwhelming evidence suggests top U.S. officials were complicit in the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

I doubt your ability to teach because you have a tenuous grip of reality in general. And you may tend to spout this dogma in class rather than teaching facts to students. Don't care if this letter was supposed to be parody or farce, best case scenario is that you send kooky inflammatory letters to government officials. You are right nutter, mate.

See: Ward Churchill
on Jul 10, 2006
Yet another loon. Sad that a university would allow such a person to teach conspiracy theories instead of actual facts.
on Jul 10, 2006
Well, I guess we are going to breed a bunch of sniveling cowards considering all the Heros we can look up to in the Military. It is a shame that any of their blood is spilled for brain dead morons like this cretin.
on Jul 10, 2006
Sad that a university would allow such a person to teach conspiracy theories instead of actual facts.

Exactly... it's amazing what an agenda gets disseminated in the name of diversity.

I guess we are going to breed a bunch of sniveling cowards considering all the Heros we can look up to in the Military.

Too bad they're all too busy saving the world to be in the classroom. But then schools who employed military "heroes" (your word, I agree with it) would be accused of hiring right-wing ideologues.
on Jul 10, 2006
More stupidity from this group.

Fetzer, a burly man with a booming voice, co-chairs a group called 9/11 Scholars for Truth. He outlined the theories at Sunday's gathering, saying:

• Explosives must have been detonated inside the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, because the impact of the airplanes was not enough to bring down the twin towers.

• That the damage to the Pentagon was such that a smaller military plane, as opposed to a large commercial aircraft, must have flown into the Pentagon, shooting a missile as it went.

• That the debris of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was scattered so widely that it must have been shot down.

• That half a dozen of the men who are said to have hijacked the planes are still living in the Middle East.

"It's a myth," Fetzer said of the generally accepted view that Islamic terrorists were behind the attacks. "The American government has been practicing terrorism on its own people."
on Jul 10, 2006
"It's a myth," Fetzer said of the generally accepted view that Islamic terrorists were behind the attacks. "The American government has been practicing terrorism on its own people."

And this guy knows more? Was he a witness? Because there's lots of photographic and eyewitness evidence that call him full of crap. Tool.