{"id":222804,"date":"2016-02-08T20:40:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=222804"},"modified":"2016-02-08T20:40:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T20:40:51","slug":"neoconservatives-take-us-academic-institutions-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/neoconservatives-take-us-academic-institutions-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Neoconservatives take over US academic institutions: Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Neoconservative Zionists have taken over US academic institutions and are promoting Islamophobia while pushing out professors who are sympathetic towards Islam and Muslims, an American scholar says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately today, these neoconservatives whose philosophy is that intellectuals should be in the service of tyrants who rule using big lies and mass murder,\u201d said Kevin Barrett, who has a Ph.D in Arab and Islamic studies and is one of America&#8217;s best-known critics of the so-called war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have taken over the academy and they don\u2019t belong in the academy,\u201d Barrett told Press TV on Monday. \u201cTransparency and freedom are the ideals of the academy; because the neoconservatives reject these ideals, they have no business in the academy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, an American female professor at a Christian university who got in trouble after wearing the hijab and saying Muslims and Christians worship the same God has agreed to leave the school.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/02\/08\/449289\/Kevin-Barrett\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neoconservative Zionists have taken over US academic institutions and are promoting Islamophobia while pushing out professors who are sympathetic towards Islam and Muslims, an American scholar says. \u201cUnfortunately today, these neoconservatives whose philosophy is that intellectuals should be in the service of tyrants who rule using big lies and mass murder,\u201d said Kevin Barrett, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}