Is Being Evil a Requirement for Employment at Prestigious Colleges?

Is being evil a requirement for employment at our most prestigious universities?

Obviously not, although it certainly helps. But if you are really good at getting grant money, or can claim enough intersectional grievance points, you can squeak in. Either that, or be a foreigner. Over 20% of postsecondary teachers are foreigners, which strikes me as extremely high, given that there is no shortage of qualified Americans who want to teach in colleges and universities. 

Speaking of which, Dr. Mohamed Abdou, who was famously booted from teaching at Columbia University after Representative Elise Stefanik grilled its president about his open support for Hamas, is speaking at New York University today to promote “Death to the Akademy.”

🚨 Radical pro-terror students at @nyuniversity are openly glorifying violent terrorism in a post about an upcoming “Death to the Akademy” event.

The event features Dr. Mohamed Abdou, who was fired from @Columbia in 2024 for his blatant support for terrorists.

The event will… pic.twitter.com/mBgJIvzDQn

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) April 17, 2026

🚨 Radical pro-terror students at @nyuniversity are openly glorifying violent terrorism in a post about an upcoming “Death to the Akademy” event.

The event features Dr. Mohamed Abdou, who was fired from @Columbia in 2024 for his blatant support for terrorists.

The event will “dive into the successes and failures” of the post-“Al Aqsa Flood” (Hamas’s name for the October 7 massacre) student movement and address how “student and community organizers” can work to “topple Euro-Amerikan empire where they are.”

The post features an image of armed terrorists, wearing headbands reminiscent of those worn by Hamas, the PFLP, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, declaring “together we will win.” It also features Hamas’s red triangle symbol.

Are these students associating themselves with US-designated terror groups?

Worth noting: Last month, Abdou was supposed to speak at Union Theological Seminary, but the event was ultimately pushed off campus after UTS became aware of “the unacceptable imagery and rhetoric used to promote the event and its ties to violence.”

Abdou is unapologetically in favor of terrorism and murdering Jews, and he is quite open about welcoming an apocalypse brought upon by a Jihadist war. There is zero ambiguity about his positions. 

Not long ago, this sort of jihadi rhetoric would be heard coming out of prison cells in Egypt or caves in Afghanistan. Now, however, it’s the norm at some of the world’s most prestigious universities. The West is sleepwalking into oblivion. https://t.co/mA49iVYO6p

— Casey Babb (@DrCaseyBabb) April 20, 2026

You can babble all you want about “academic freedom,” but this guy is no researcher; he is an open revolutionary who is calling for the destruction of society, including the very academy that keeps inviting him in to preach hatred and violence. 

Here’s an almost random sample of his thoughts from his blog “End Times.”

In each speech, video, and military operation, our beloved and resilient Palestinian mujahideen (resistance) call upon the Qurān and their religious and spiritual commitments to Allāh for guidance, strength, direction, and steadfastness. Islāmic wisdom permeates through every act and moment of bravery committed by the resistance, from how they engage in strategic and spiritual preparation for the Al-Aqsa Flood to how they treat prisoners of war.

Our valiant mujahideen do not quote Mao, Lenin, Marx, or Fanon like many Euro-American leftists project unto them: They quote the Qurān and center Allāh.

An accurate analysis of the resistance requires that we understand the Islāmic roots that underscore their commitments by speaking dignifiedly, internally, to Muslims in our framework’s language and tradition, without the prying eye of Euro-American secular leftist extrapolations. When we dive into the mujahideen’s commitments and Qurānic interpretations, they offer a vast and vital window into their unshakeable commitment to Islām, and Islām’s prominent role in the struggle. One that has enabled them to build and sustain a robust, spiritually rooted anti-colonial struggle through sumūd (steadfastness) against Crusaders, Zionists, and Muslim normalizers.

Each image and word uttered by our mujahideen and archived by our martyrs (whose wounds on the Day of Resurrection will be the color of saffron with fragrance of musk) are infused with Qurānic significance.

In the backdrop of Abu Obeida’s March 6, 2024 speech, was a Qurānic verse that glistened below images of the Al-Aqsa and Al-Ibrahimi mosques. It is a verse that has appeared countless times before. Enshrouding Abu Obeida’s glow, the verse from Chapter 35 titled “The Originator” reads: “And the (conniving) plotting of such [evil] people is doomed to fail” (10). In this verse’s constellation is an Orion of other threaded verses that smolder: “They planned, but Allāh also planned. And Allāh is the best of planners” (Chapter 8, “The Spoils of War,” Verse: 20), and “They are certainly devising evil plans, but I too am planning” (Chapter 86, “The Night-Star,” Verses: 15-16).

It’s basically al-Qaeda propaganda with a Queer/Marxist/Anarchist twist. And the “Queer” part is all show, for his Western audience. He is almost as critical of “Muslim normalizers” (moderate Muslims) as of Christians and Jews. 

Where has Abdou taught? Columbia, of course. He was driven out by Elise Stefanik. 

On April 21st, NYU will host Mohamed Abdou, who wrote after Oct. 7: “Yes, I’m with Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad,” later said “Let us engage in jihad,” and praised the man charged with murdering Israeli embassy staff.

Don’t wory though, masks will be provided. pic.twitter.com/XMoYoXgzky

— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) April 19, 2026

But also Queens College, the University of Toronto, Cornell, and the American University in Cairo. Why Cairo? He was originally Egyptian, but for some reason, Canada has let him reside there and given him citizenship. 

Diversity is our strength. 

Abdou brings no academic strength to any teaching program. His blog reads like it was written by a third-rate poetry student trying to be profound:

Prophecies are speculative. They denote a tentative inkling of what we call into fruition in the reflective mirror of being, our scattered and divided individual and collective perspectives echoing the broken shards of humanity’s glories and transgressions.

Prophecies can be minute fleeting signposts too hard, too microscopically faint to see. But they can also rain down as a precipitous mysterious roaring, a burning compendious flame. A deafening signature from propitious heavenly revelations of all that is yet to come, all that has not yet proclaimed itself by divine decree and destined to cross the path of our dying stars. A cataclysmic spirit sign that reverberates like an overawe sledgehammered strike upon our heads as opposed to a gentle tap on the shoulder in an epoch of easily swerved and racing attention spans.

I mean, c’mon, man. That really sucks. You could prompt an AI with “write something profound about prophecy” and get something better. 

No, the only reason Abdou is invited to teach or speak at our prestigious universities is that he is… evil. He hates all that is good and holy and is there to spread the gospel of hate to the young. All one needs to do is throw out calumnies about the West, spout some nonsense about Queers, promote Islamism and violence, and you are an academic star. 

When he was fired by Columbia under pressure, a movement was created to get him hired by the Divinity School at Columbia. Students rallied around him. The American Association of University Professors did as well. Many of his colleagues did. 

Because evil sells in academia. 

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