Soft Bigotry

This is not an article about racism.  That is another matter.  This is an article about soft bigotry and how it impacts the judgement and perspective of some of the people responsible for educating or children.

Scott Johnson at Power Line posted an article yesterday about an experiment conducted by by University of Illinois Professor Fred Gottheil.  The source of Mr. Johnson's story was Front Page Magazine.  According to Power Line:

"Prof. Fred Gottheil told Frontpagemag.com that he compiled a list of 675 email addresses from 900 signatures on a 2009 petition authored by Dr. David Lloyd, professor of English at the University of Southern California, urging the U.S. to abandon its ally, Israel. Prof. Gottheil discovered that six of the signers, who hailed from more than 150 college campuses, were members of his own faculty.

""Would these same 900 sign onto a statement expressing concern about human rights violations in the Muslim Middle East, such as honor killing, wife beating, female genital mutilation, and violence against gays and lesbians?" he wondered. "I felt it was worth a try."

"The results? "Almost non existent," he told Frontpage editor Jamie Glazov. Only 27 of the 675 "self-described social-justice seeking academics" agreed to sign Gottheil's Statement of Concern - less than 5 percent of the total who had publicly called for the censure of Israel for human rights violations."

The blindness of the liberal professors in America that is caused by a solid dislike of Israel is amazing.  In their anti-Israel stand, the professors have chosen to overlook the human rights violations contained in Sharia Law, a basic part of the Islamic faith.  I wonder how many of the signers of the original petition were woman who would not be allowed to hold university positions in a Muslim society.  I wonder how many signers of the original petition would willingly murder a rebellious daughter.  Sometimes a negative opinion of one thing causes our perspective to shift to the point where we totally ignore the serious misdeads of something else.  The professors who signed the first petition and not the second need to find a new perspective.