"Phares' point is crystal clear. Academia is a vital battlefield in the struggle for hearts and minds now taking place in the larger War on Terror, and he attacks the academic enemies of democracy accordingly. For example, he hammers University of Michigan professor Juan Cole and University of California-Berkeley's As'ad AbuKhalil for spouting propaganda from the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim lobby group that defends Islamist figures and ideas." (When you are on that fanatic Zionist side, you can say anything, and invent multitudes of lies as you wish. As my readers know, I have never mentioned CAIR on this site except to criticize them and mock them. But who cares about facts anymore. This is the thing with those kind of things, if you respond to such lies and attacks, they succeed in putting yon on the defensive.)