Author: Isle_of_Arran

Anti-BDS Legislation in the U.S. and Free Speech, with Imad-ad-Dean-Ahmad, 3/12/2019

Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad is president of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, a Muslim libertarian think tank, based in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also president of the Islamic-American Zakat Foundation, a charitable organization serving needy Muslims in the United States.

For my first interview with the Red Pill Religion project we discussed free market principles as they relate to the movement known as BDS, which calls for a boycott, divestment and sanction of Israeli companies which are alleged to contribute to the genocide of Palestinian Arabs living in Gaza, and what many perceive as Israeli apartheid of Arab Muslims.

We also discussed anti-BDS bills that have been introduced across the United States, and how and why they conflict with the First Amendment right to free speech.

While I don’t personally support BDS, I do support the First Amendment right to speak about in the United States. Having also questioned whether or not free market principles aligned with boycotting, I also wanted to listen to Dr. Ahmad’s views on the topic.

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The Cailin Jeffers case and the APA’s guidelines for men and boys

During early April, 2017 a student at the University of Arizona, Cailin Jeffers, was the subject of a number of news stories (including the one here) about her experience with Northern Arizona University English professor, Dr. Anne Scott, who subtracted points from her college paper due to her use of the word “mankind” in reference to human beings.

Jeffers was kind enough to conduct a short text interview with me about her experience, which I hadn’t gotten around to publishing until now.

I also thought it was very relevant in the wake of the recent news about the American Psychological Association’s new guidelines on masculinity, since their guidelines (along with those of the Modern Language Association’s) are also used in writing academic papers.

In Jeffer’s case, her college professor subtracted points from her paper based of the MLA guidelines, which requires students to use gender-neutral language.

As Jeffers pointed out to me in our interview, “If I am required to use MLA format, and the MLA says we have to use gender-neutral language with their format, then that’s what we have to do.”

When she inquired with her English professor as to why she was marked down, her professor told her, “…it was something that both the MLA and the English department enforced.”

Jeffers also added, “the conversation was mainly focused on how ‘mankind’ does not mean ‘all people’ to all people, that words matter, and that this is something that all the other professors enforce.”

Jeffers also expressed that she felt the guidelines needed to be changed and added, “I understand using ‘he/she’ or ‘their’ in certain contexts (for example, ‘A good student should remember to bring his/her book.’). However, ‘mankind’ is gender-neutral. There is no reason to censor it because a FEW people find it offensive.”

Her college professor also received a number of death threats in response to her decision of following MLA guidelines, and Jeffers expressed she never wanted that to happen, and had nothing personal against her professor. Jeffers also emphasized, “she really is a great teacher.”

I was not able to reach Dr. Scott for comments, but Jeffers also let me know, “I don’t think she actually has a problem with the guidelines, based off of what she told me.”

And, speaking of the APA’s new guidelines on men and boys, an essay I found posted on the EU website, Euro-Healthy, describes how it is that postmodernism relates to psychology.

The essay concludes that psychology is inherently postmodern in its rejection of grand-narratives, prioritization of utility, its search for a new legitimizing  principle, its ironic view of truth and its acknowledgment of language games.

In the context of grand narratives, the essay’s author (whose name is not revealed) also mentions Wilhelm Wunt, who is regarded as the father of experimental psychology, as well as the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud.

According to the author Wunt’s laboratory, “…was set up to find the objective truth behind human behaviour,” while the truth-seeking theories of Freud “…were thought to free people from their troubles and improve their standards of living.“

Postmodernism also largely helped to shape Fabian Socialism, which in turn was hugely influential in the formation of both the League of Nations and the United Nations.

So, it may come as no surprise the Modern Language Association is also affiliated with UNESCO, through its connection with the Oslo-based International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures.

It could thus be argued that, in addition to pushing anti-Christian, postmodernist and Marxist narratives, the MLA and ALA are both helping to push the agenda of the United Nations through the public academic system in the United States.

It also my come as no surprise as to who some of the members of both organizations are.

Included on the member list of MLA Officers and the Executive Council are:


Members of the American Psychological Association’s Board of Directors include:

There are other members listed of both the MLA and the APA, but I thought these individuals were particularly noteworthy, due to their obvious biases towards both Marxism and feminism. And I also found Diana Prescott’s affiliation with the Society of Psychological Hypnosis to be interesting.

I won’t dive off the deep end and imply that the writing guidelines are being used in part for the purposes of mass hypnosis, but…

And, pro-Israel Zionists who I communicated with online understood the implications of third-wave feminist and Boycott and Divestment Sanctions  supporter, Judith Butler being on the MLA’s membership list.

One may be of the opinion that Jeffers’ only had a small number of points subtracted for her use of the word “mankind” in her paper. So, why does it matter? It matters for the same reasons any issue matters relating to the control and manipulation of language and words in society.

Furthermore, I have little doubt the control over usage of language and words is part of a larger plan that involves the weaponization of sex and gender roles to meet the ends of a deeper racist, elitist, and eugenics-based agenda.

In fact, the American Psychological Association is an accredited NGO (Nongovernmental organization) within the United Nations. And the United Nations has a long history of advancing eugenics through its specialized agency, UNESCO, which Julian Huxley was the first director of.  Julian Huxley was also a prominent member and president of the British Eugenics Society.

Rockford University professor Stephen Hicks published an article on the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal’s website expressing his views on postmodernist indoctrination in the modern education system, and describes how indoctrinators think:

“There is the One Truth. I am in possession of it. So important is it that students must believe it. Alternative ideas are a waste of time—and a temptation to unformed minds—and should be shunned. So as a teacher I will use my authority and my power to instill only the correct ideas.”

And the implications surrounding Cailin Jeffers losing points on her English paper very much relate to this kind of indoctrination. It has also been taking many other shapes and forms around the country, in other public universities and keeping students under a kind of a postmodernist spell.

Modern academia in the United States has abandoned the classical education model. The difference between classical education and postmodernism is the difference between learning how to learn and being told what to think.

It would be an understatement in saying it is a massive disservice to both society and humanity when the schooling system is being used for postmodernist indoctrination and as a form of weaponization against natural law, traditional masculine roles, and effectively itself.

With that, here is a quote from the 1972 book, Deschooling Society, by Sephardic Jew and Roman Catholic convert, Ivan Illich:

“The school system today performs the threefold function common to powerful churches throughout history. It is simultaneously the repository of society’s myth, the institutionalization of that myth’s contradictions, and the locus of the ritual which reproduces and veils the disparities between myth and reality. Today the school system, and especially the university, provides ample opportunity for criticism of the myth and for rebellion against its institutional perversions. But the ritual which demands tolerance of the fundamental contradictions between myth and institution still goes largely unchallenged, for neither ideological criticism nor social action can bring about a new society. Only disenchantment with and detachment from the central social ritual and reform of that ritual can bring about radical change.

The American university has become the final stage of the most all encompassing initiation rite the world has ever known. No society in history has been able to survive without ritual or myth, but ours is the first which has needed such a dull, protracted, destructive, and expensive initiation into its myth. The contemporary world civilization is also the first one which has found it necessary to rationalize its fundamental initiation ritual in the name of education. We cannot begin a reform of education unless we first understand that neither individual learning nor social equality can be enhanced by the ritual of schooling. We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.”

* This article was originally posted here on the Red Pill Religion blog.

Welcome to my blog

Thanks for visiting my blog!

You can look forward to posts about various topics, including politics, culture, religion, science & technology, and nature.

I began creating films in the midst of events associated with the Occupy Wall Street that were taking place across the globe, and wanted to understand what motivated peoples’ political views.

I also had past experiences working with the non-profit sector and was involved in various elements of the counterculture for a number of years.

And there was a significant degree of crossover between counterculture elements and political movements.

I also was aware to some extent of the role the intelligence community played in all of this, thanks in part to the work of Jan Irvin, author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, which I read while attending university courses at Portland State University.

The book details various forms of evidence indicating the use of psychedelic mushrooms in the Christian religion.

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The Sermon on the Mushroom Mountain, Psalter of Saint Louis

Through his research and combined efforts with others, including myself (see: MKULTRA and Intel community database), he also discovered connections with people, such as R. Gordon Wasson, who promoted their use and the use of other “suggestogens”  during the 20th and 21st centuries with the intelligence community, the CIA’s project MKUltra and the weaponization of anthropology.

This general process has, in turn, also used to help carry out what amounts to be an actualization of the scenario written about in Aldous Huxley’s book, Brave New World.

The word “suggestogens” was also coined by Irvin, to indicate the role they have played as a tool to create hyper-suggestibility in those who consume them. Compare this with the more common term used to describe psychedelics, “entheogens,” which also translates into “the God within.”

The use of suggestogens would also, then make their users far more susceptible to various narratives and messages being communicated through different forms of media, such as music, television, film, and literature.

This is also one of the themes I tend to explore here.

And I also currently contribute content to the Red Pill Religion blog and YouTube channel, which I also recommend checking out.

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