U.S. Prof Attacks Arab Muslim Student’s Pro-Americanism
U.S. Prof Attacks Arab Muslim Student’s Pro-Americanism
Calif. College Teacher Equates Kuwaiti Youth’s Love for U.S. with Mental Illness
By Jim Brown
January 14, 2005
AgapePress
A Kuwaiti Arab Muslim student at a California community college says his political science professor pronounced him deranged after he wrote a paper expressing his love for the United States. According to the student, his instructor told him he needed psychiatric treatment — all because he turned in a pro-American essay as his take-home final exam.
Ahmad Al Qloushi, a 17-year-old Foothill College freshman, says his essay defending America’s founding fathers and the United States Constitution so offended Professor Joseph Woolcock that the teacher would not grade it. He says Woolcock went on to critique his ideology, telling the Kuwaiti-born youth that his native country is the 19th province of Iraq and calling his pro-American views ‘irrational.’