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The Cleveland chapter of the Council on America-Islamic Relations is asking Oberlin College to investigate a lecturer in the Arabic Language Department whom they say openly promotes "anti-Muslim bigotry and crude stereotypes of Muslims in his writings on campus."
CAIR-Cleveland said lecturer Samir Amin Abdellatif is the publisher of a 290-page tract that "vilifies" Islam and Muslims. The organization said Abdellatif's publication, entitled "The Unknown History of Islam," promotes xenophobic views about Muslim immigration to the West, as well as supports "outlandish conspiracy theories."
CAIR-Cleveland has requested that the college investigate Abdellatif's teachings through a letter sent to Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov on March 11. In the letter, Shearson wrote, "We believe the reputation of Oberlin College is tarnished and students are done a disservice by having an Arabic language instructor who openly promotes anti-Muslim bigotry and who condones crude and ugly caricatures of Muslims."