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Lecturer says taxes go to kill U.S. troops
UW-Madison student response mixed to 9-11 conspiracy view
By MEGAN TWOHEY
mtwohey@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Nov. 10, 2006
"Your tax dollars are paying for the killing of American soldiers in Iraq.
The CIA is paying for resistance in Iraq."

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UW Instructor Kevin Barrett  


Photo/Rick Wood

I try to lean over backwards to be fair, to give students the benefit of
the doubt. Students would probably do better trying to argue against
me.  

- Kevin Barrett,
University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor

Quotable
It's become much more opinionated now that we're doing 9-11.  

- Andrea Bromley, a sophomore, on Barretts class

It seems like a more logical explanation that it was the U.S.
government.  

- Jesse Moya, a freshman

Kevin Barrett Background
10/13/06: UW Extension cut protested
9/6/06: Controversial lecturer opens class at UW
8/4/06: UW lecturer's 9-11 media blitz panned
8/3/06: UW Extension cut directed at lecturer
7/16/06: Kane: Sorry, no double standard here
7/14/06: Editorial: Fiction and fact at UW
7/11/06: 9-11 flap won't stop UW lecturer
7/11/06: Kane: The truth is out there; let students find it
7/9/06: UW lecturer defends right to teach
7/8/06: Doyle favors review of UW instructor
7/1/06: Sept. 11 claim stirs UW probe

So closed Kevin Barrett's fourth and final lecture on the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks on the United States, delivered as part of his course
on Islam at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Anticipation of this part of the course, and Thursday's class in
particular, had been building for months.

Barrett has been at the center of a national controversy that also
focused on tax dollars - specifically, whether they should be used to
teach material considered outrageous, manipulative and inaccurate.

Gov. Jim Doyle and state legislators called for Barrett to be fired last
summer for arguing that the Sept. 11 attacks were orchestrated by the
U.S. government. University administrators defended Barrett's right to
the classroom in the name of academic freedom. But they threatened
him with dismissal if he did not keep his enthusiasm for his views in
check in the classroom and did not stop seeking publicity outside the
classroom.

The part-time teacher vowed to teach the official version of the
attacks alongside the Sept. 11 theory to which he subscribes. He said
he would neither tell his students what his view was nor penalize them
for not buying the theory. And he emphasized that 9-11 was just a small
part of the course that he didn't get to until a period late in the
semester.

That period was last week and this week.

Andrea Bromley, a sophomore, came away saying Barrett had failed to
be impartial.

"It's become much more opinionated now that we're doing 9-11,"
Bromley said, referring to the tone and progress of the course. "He's
trying to explain both views, but he's biased. I don't feel like he's
presented enough info on the other side."

Freshman Jesse Moya disagreed, saying Barrett had been "very
objective."

Moya, who said his uncle died in the World Trade Center attacks, said
he had entered the course believing the attacks were the work of
Islamic terrorists. He now believes otherwise.

"It seems like a more logical explanation that it was the U.S.
government," he said.

Interjecting his views
Barrett began Thursday's lecture by reviewing the work of several
Muslim writers who believe the Sept. 11 attacks were the work of
terrorists. One argues that the attacks reveal broader clashes within
Islam; another believes they indicate a blossoming clash between the
Muslim world and the West. The writings were among works that had
been assigned to Barrett's students to read.

Barrett then moved on to an essay by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, who
argues that the Sept. 11 attackers were part of a broad network of
terrorism sponsored by the United States and other Western
intelligence agencies. Ahmed argues that the U.S. has used terrorism
to destabilize other countries and gain control over their resources.

In his lecture, Barrett sprinkled in the phrase according to this
analysis periodically at the end of his sentences. But he stated much
of Ahmed's argument as fact and offered up his own views or
observations to bolster the claims.

On the conventional idea that terrorists were motivated by their belief
in Islam, Barrett said: "That's simply not true. That story gets blown out
of the water."

On Ahmed's writings, he said at one point: "This is all standard
narrative. What he's said so far, no one disputes."

Ahmed ends his essay by arguing that the U.S. is attempting "to
exacerbate the deterioration of security by penetrating, manipulating,
and arming the terrorist insurgency, thus legitimizing permanent
Anglo-American military involvement in Iraq purportedly to promote
security."

It was while discussing this argument that Barrett made his comment
about American tax dollars being used to fund the killing of American
soldiers.

Ahmed's essay is to be published in a book that was co-edited by
Barrett. Barrett himself has an essay in it. He writes that the official
version of 9-11 was a myth created by the U.S. government to help
perpetuate war that would further its quest for world domination. The
truth, he writes, was that "on 9/11, the World Trade Center collapsed,
blown up by the globalists themselves." He likens President Bush to
Adolf Hitler, arguing that both sold hatred to further their agendas.

Barrett is requiring his students to take two exams and review one of
the assigned or recommended texts. He said exam questions about
the other 9-11 essays were likely.

His faith in his ability to grade fairly is unwavering.

"I try to lean over backwards to be fair, to give students the benefit of
the doubt," he said. "Students would probably do better trying to
argue against me."

From the Nov. 11, 2006 editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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