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Jews and Betty Castor By Joe Kaufman FrontPageMagazine.com | November 1, 2004 Betty Castor came to be President of the University of South Florida (USF) in January of 1994. It was November of this same year that a PBS televised documentary came out, entitled 'Jihad in America.' The program, produced and hosted by investigative journalist Steven Emerson, was a scathing report about a large terrorist conspiracy that was growing and thriving within the borders of the United States. One of the villains profiled in the piece was an individual named Sami Al-Arian, then a professor at USF. The program alleged that Al-Arian was the North American leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organization. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad or PIJ, like HAMAS and Al Qaeda after it, was one of many groups to have sprouted out of the Muslim Brotherhood, a violent Middle Eastern movement that looks to overthrow what its members call "infidel governments" and replace them with Islamic fundamentalist regimes. The group's methods tend to include such things as suicide bombings against innocent civilians. In Emerson's own words, the PBS documentary revealed: "statements by Al-Arian championing terrorism, the existence of Islamic Jihad publications distributed from his office, the use of his academic institute as a cover for Islamic Jihad, and actual videos of Islamic Jihad terrorist conferences he organized in the United States." It wasn't very long after 'Jihad in America' was aired that a Federal investigation ensued. This included an FBI raid on Al-Arian's home and offices. It also wasn't long after this - October of 1995 - that PIJ Secretary General Fathi Shikaki was assassinated and another USF professor, Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, skipped town to Syria to become his successor. Because of incidents, such as this, USF became widely recognized as "Jihad University." Question: What did Betty Castor, the President of the University of South Florida, do to rectify this situation? Answer: Essentially nothing. Castor claims that she conducted an "internal investigation" into the matter, but as former federal prosecutor John Loftus has stated, "Betty Castor chose to hide her head in the sand. Her so-called investigation was a farce." Instead of a real investigation, Castor, in August of 1996, decided to place Al-Arian on paid leave. Instead of firing Al-Arian, Castor reinstated him fully, in August of 1998. This, after Castor was provided definitive information from the FBI proving that Al-Arian was using his organizations - one of which was aligned with the university itself (WISE) - as fronts to funnel money to PIJ. Instead of speaking out against Al-Arian's insidious calls of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" or his references to Jews as "monkeys and pigs," Castor stated, in May of 1996, "I think the university should remain an open place where we welcome discourse, in spite of the fact that the discourse may be controversial." Betty Castor had a chance to do something about Sami Al-Arian and the terrorist cell that was emanating from her school. Betty Castor chose to do nothing. During Betty Castor's tenor as President of the University of South Florida (1994-1999), over 50 persons, including American Alisa Flatow, were murdered in Israel by members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad via suicide bombings. While this is not to suggest that Ms. Castor could have prevented any or all of these tragedies, it does allude to the severity of Castor's actions. or inactions, as they were. Betty Castor has held government positions in the past. She was formerly a Florida State Senator and Florida Education Commissioner. Does it make sense for Betty Castor to again gain entrance into our country's government, let alone the United States Senate? In the war on terrorism, Betty Castor has failed, and this is not a war that we can afford to lose. American Jews might want to think twice before voting for Betty Castor. Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of Americans Against Hate and an investigative researcher at The Klayman Law Firm. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. 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