Duke's Abdullah Antepli Compares ISIS to Crusaders

Duke’s Abdullah Antepli Compares ISIS to Crusaders

Abdullah Antepli

Obfuscation from Middle East studies academics on the Islamic origins of ISIS continues. Imam and Duke University Islamic studies professor Abdullah Antepli, speaking at the University of Texas, El Paso, departs from the pack by admitting that Islam does indeed have something to do with ISIS, but then engages in the type of ahistorical moral equivalency popular in faculty lounges and corridors of power alike:

I’m not going to say that Islam has nothing to do with it, that they [ISIS] have nothing to do with Islam. As evil as they are, I can’t tell them they are not Muslim; they are, as crusaders were Christian.

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Cinnamon Stillwell

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.