Rutgers Professor Deepa Kumar Says U.S. Is More ‘Brutal’ Than ISIS

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A Rutgers University professor sparked outrage by claiming in a tweet that the United States is more brutal than ISIS.

Deepa Kumar's tweet from March began to make headlines after the website SoCawlege pointed it out last week.

As seen on Fox and Friends


A Rutgers University professor sparked outrage by claiming in a tweet that the United States is more brutal than ISIS.

Deepa Kumar's tweet from March began to make headlines after the website SoCawlege pointed it out last week.

Kumar is a professor of media studies and author of a book called "Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire."

New Jersey's largest university made headlines last year after former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice canceled her commencement speech.

Rice's decision came after Rutgers students held protests due to Rice's role in the Iraq War.

On "Fox and Friends," counter-terrorism expert Dr. Sebastian Gorka lamented the latest example of what has happened to American higher education over the last 30 years.

Gorka said some on the left want to "demolish the history of America and what they've done for other people in the last 100 years."

He said Kumar has also expressed the view that Hamas should not be considered a terrorist group.

Gorka described her as an "ideologically driven individual that is shaping young minds," noting that this type of professor has become "par for the course today in liberal universities across America."

Watch the interview above.

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Nutty professor: Rutgers teacher who said US worse than ISIS has history of bizarre statements

A Rutgers University professor who is under fire for saying that the U.S. is “more brutal” than ISIS has used racial slurs against white men, attacked a leading advocate against female genital mutilation and even led a successful protest last year to stop former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from speaking to students.

Deepa Kumar, associate professor of journalism and media studies at New Jersey's main public university, made news recently by tweeting: “Yes ISIS is brutal, but US is more so, 1.3 million killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.” But that tweet, sent in March but only brought to prominent attention after it was noticed by the site SoCawlege.com, is not Kumar's first brush with digital bigotry.

“Okay, I'm sold on using the term ‘douchebag’ to describe rich, white entitled males and their misogynistic, racist behavior!” Kumar wrote in a Facebook endorsement of an online article last fall.

“Okay, I'm sold on using the term ‘douchebag’ to describe rich, white entitled males and their misogynistic, racist behavior!”


- Deepa Kumar, Rutgers professor

Kumar also attacked Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Muslim and activist against the practice of female genital mutilation,as an “islamophobe and native informant” in a public Facebook post, and wrote glowingly of Marxism.

“Here is a great conference on Marxism and why it makes sense!” she wrote in one recent post.

Kumar did not respond to a request for comment on her posts from FoxNews.com, but within hours of the request had deleted or locked her Facebook account. FoxNews.com took screenshots.

Many take issue with support of Marxism – which refers to the philosophy of Karl Marx, the father of communism.

“It is in fact a deadly ideology that has led to the murder of more than 100 million people across the world,” Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation told FoxNews.com.

Regimes operating under the banner of Marxism killed between 85 million and 100 million of their own citizens in the last century according to the Black Book of Communism published by the Harvard University Press, both through mass starvation caused by government takeovers of farms and also mass murders of citizens thought likely to resist communist policies.

“Professor Kumar and other so-called educators like her are doing a disservice to our young people by teaching them a narrow and wrongheaded version of history,” Smith said.

In addition to her attacks on Hirsi Ali, who grew up under Islam in Somalia and was subjected to female genital mutilation and a forced marriage before fleeing to the west, Kumar also condemned former Muslim Wafa Sultan as a “collaborator of U.S. empire” after Sultan criticized Islam. Sultan grew up in Syria and renounced Islam after she witnessed Muslim Brotherhood radicals assassinate one of her college professors with a machine gun while shouting “Allahu akbar!”

Terrorism experts also criticize Kumar’s tweeted claim that the U.S. is more brutal than ISIS because 1.3 million died in U.S. invasions of the middle east – but that number is ultimately based on a survey of 1,499 Iraqis that an independent study found had data that were “not credible.” Actual counts of dead Iraqis find that around 150,000 civilians were killed, many by insurgents.

“I feel bad for Deepa Kumar's students at Rutgers… Only a complete ideologue could claim the United States is more brutal than Islamic State,” Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University who specializes in studying terrorism, told FoxNews.com. “Our government isn't in the habit of rounding up thousands of young girls to have them raped dozens of times… or throwing homosexuals off rooftops,” he noted.

Rutgers University did not respond to a request for comment on the posts.

Free speech advocates say that Kumar’s speech is protected by the First Amendment but say it’s ironic because, despite Professor Kumar’s penchant for controversial statements, she helped lead protests last year that successfully prevented former Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from speaking at Rutgers University.

“Unfortunately, it's become commonplace on today's campuses for students or professors to call for the politically motivated silencing or disinvitation of their ideological opponents. Censorship is a double-edged sword, and at Rutgers, we are seeing once again that those who pick up that weapon quickly find themselves on the receiving end of it as well,” Robert Shibley of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) told FoxNews.com.

But he noted that Kumar’s speech at a public university is exactly what the First Amendment is designed to protect.

“The First Amendment is needed precisely to protect speech that is unpopular or that leads to political disagreement,” Shibley said.

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[Hyperion]

Poor Prof has tough days ahead in the US of A..... "Either you're with us or with the terrorists!"..........

 

[jaunty]

Is she by any chance related to India's left wing?

 

[Styx]

you can tell an Indian leftist bitch just by their ugly faces

 

[Providence]

This b!tch gets to b!tch on tweeter cause our marines gun them terrorists down before it reaches domestic soil. The name sounds like one of those immigrants. She has the liberty and go teach on ISis land and enjoy their amenability.

 

[anon45]

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she is delusional and an apologist.

She does not measure both sides by the same yardstick.

 

[The Huskar]

Looks like our secular crowd has penetrated America.Would like to see a version of AAP in USA in future elections.

 

[jamahir]

A Rutgers University professor sparked outrage by claiming in a tweet that the United States is more brutal than ISIS.

in "democracies" such as the usa, the brainwashed among the masses do verbal and economic lynching of any nay-sayer... this has been amplified by existence of social media and the modern effusive use of words like "anti-national" and "moron"... as much effective as putting someone in jail.

despite Professor Kumar’s penchant for controversial statements, she helped lead protests last year that successfully prevented former Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from speaking at Rutgers University.

wonderful.

“I feel bad for Deepa Kumar's students at Rutgers… Only a complete ideologue could claim the United States is more brutal than Islamic State,” Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern University who specializes in studying terrorism, told FoxNews.com. “Our government isn't in the habit of rounding up thousands of young girls to have them raped dozens of times… or throwing homosexuals off rooftops,” he noted.

let the communist party of usa ( cpusa ) declare that by 2020, they want usa to become left extreme... let us see how usa establishment's "democratic" credentials hold out.

Poor Prof has tough days ahead in the US of A..... "Either you're with us or with the terrorists!"..........

indeed... there is hillary to take over the "democratic" reins.

Many take issue with support of Marxism – which refers to the philosophy of Karl Marx, the father of communism.

“It is in fact a deadly ideology that has led to the murder of more than 100 million people across the world,” Marion Smith, executive director of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation told FoxNews.com.

i would like to kick this individual in the face.

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she is delusional and an apologist.

She does not measure both sides by the same yardstick.

as against those fine individuals who brought "democracy" to libya and syria in 2011.

This b!tch gets to b!tch on tweeter cause our marines gun them terrorists down before it reaches domestic soil.

and those terrorists were created by your government and establishment.

She has the liberty and go teach on ISis land and enjoy their amenability.

she won't, but did some terrorists in the white house...

 

[Nair saab]

Indian leftist in USA ... RIP USA...

 

[PLANZubr]

Look at the way USA treats their peaceful political dissidents. Shame!

 

[GURU DUTT]

you can tell an Indian leftist bitch just by their ugly faces

bhai ab inki sarkaar to challi gayee to kya inko bhi to apne "kharche " challane hain

Indian leftist in USA ... RIP USA..

in short jo de uska bhalla jo na de uski aisee ki taisee ....

 

[jamahir]

Indian leftist in USA ... RIP USA...

what is so strange about that??

strange will be "pure culture" sanghis in "immoral culture" america.

 

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This b!tch gets to b!tch on tweeter cause our marines gun them terrorists down before it reaches domestic soil. The name sounds like one of those immigrants. She has the liberty and go teach on ISis land and enjoy their amenability.

Though she is of Indian origin, she hates USA because she is Marxist not because she is Indian,exactly the kind of filth western academia loves to cultivate. She would hate India with even more intensely than USA as Indians had balls to elect a right wing government ,which westerners would never dare to do lest they are called Nazis, thus making Indians even bigger fascists and enemy of revolution in the eyes of Comintern.

Is she by any chance related to India's left wing?

Of course she is.

Every Ugly Indian female ,who has a college education, turns to left. This is some sort of psychological compensation mechanism.

 

[jamahir]

Every Ugly Indian female ,who has a college education, turns to left. This is some sort of psychological compensation mechanism.

yes, and the hindu right is treasure chest of beauties...

but i must say, one is really a beauty... the sadhvi sarawati...

only bad thing is she has such bigoted views.

She would hate India with even more intensely as Indians had balls to elect a right wing government ,which westerners would never dare to do lest they are called Nazis, thus making Indians even bigger fascists in eyes of Comintern.

yes, usa government is such a socialist power.