Freedom of Speech in India and UK: Openly support terrorist anti-India organizations - such as ULFA etc in Assam --no govt action (For instance: Mr Mukul Mahanta's exhortation for youth to join ULFA)
Freedom of Speech in US: Anything students say against foreign enemy is OK but anyone favoring Anti-West - Al Qaeeda is put behind bars: Richard Foltz - PhD Harvard and prominent writer on Middle East "As challenging as the current climate is in Canada, scholars here say their U.S. counterparts face many more hardships. At a conference of U.S. and Canadian Middle East studies professors held at U of T last year, several prominent American academics described how they and their colleagues feel increasingly harassed and vilified post-9/11. http://www.universityaffairs.ca/issues/2006/october/middle_east_04.html Its why Richard Foltz left the University of Florida last year for a post in Concordia Universitys religion department. I found it increasingly difficult to do my job, he says. Students were openly hostile to what he was teaching. Some of them said outright that Islam was a horrible religion. I had one student say in front of a class of 50 people that as a member of the military he expected to be sent to Iraq soon and he was probably going to be killing a lot of Muslims so he thought he might learn a bit about them first, he recalls. The professor was accused of being anti-American and was visited by FBI officials, who asked him to spy on Muslim students. Im sure part of it was they wanted me know that they were aware of me and had their eye on me, he adds. Since moving to Canada his professional life has improved by leaps and bounds, he says. While Concordia has seen its share of racial strife in the past, he has encountered very little student hostility here. He likes teaching to Concordias diverse student body and eventually hopes to make Canada his permanent home." Umesh Sharma 5121 Lackawanna ST College Park, MD 20740 USA Current temp. address: 5649 Yalta Place , Vancouver, Canada 1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone] Canada # (607) 221-9433 Ed.M. - International Education Policy Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Class of 2005 weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/ ___________________________________________________________ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. "The New Version is radically easier to use" The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
