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

[Commie College]

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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