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The Islamification of Thomas Jefferson: Fact-Checking an American Academic, | by Edward Cline
The Islamification of Thomas Jefferson: Fact-Checking an American Academic, by Edward Cline
Modern academic “scholarship” is similar to kudzu, that uncontrollable weed or vine that can grow from a single planting and eventually entwine every trunk and branch within its reach, and link from shrub and hedge to form a canopy over even a forest that will deny other plants sunlight and rain. Wild kudzu suffocates and kills. Much like big government. Much like statism.
There has been an ongoing campaign over the decades to find feet of clay in Thomas Jefferson, in order to discredit and obviate his position on freedom (e.g., the whole Sally Hemings and Jefferson “affair,” the subject of books and movies), or, failing that, to appropriate him and his reputation for un-Jeffersonian purposes. The ivy-grown towers of modern academe are really bastions of kudzu. One must ascend the dying trees with a machete and hack down the canopy, and then …
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Source: http://jericho777.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/the-islamification-of-thomas-jefferson-fact-checking-an-american-academic-by-edward-cline/
