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Reggie Moody: Barrett crosses line separating teaching from proselytizing

….Kevin Barrett, who will be teaching a course on Islam in the fall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, claims that “overwhelming evidence proves that 9/11 was an inside job.” He will be trying to convince, as he’s done before, his students that Bush was responsible for 9/11. He will be preaching to a captive audience of somewhat naive and usually poorly informed young people, proselytizing and trying to convert them to his position.

This has nothing to do with academic freedom. This is an instructor taking advantage of his students, attempting to teach them what to think rather than how to think….