"Their historical analogies are absurd, while their planned week is more than an affront to Muslims. It is an insult to everybody's intelligence."

The insult to people's intelligence is the absurd notion that you continue to propagate that "al Qaeda" was responsible for 9/11.

As more and more people are discovering, there is no way that two planes caused three skyscrapers to disintegrate that day.  Looking at the problems from a perspective blessed with even a minimal knowledge of high school physics is enough to disavow even those whose minds are only 30% open of the absurd faith in the anti-arab and muslim fairy tale that has for too long passed for the truth.

Prof. Leupp, I don't know if you are genuinely confused about these issues or if you are afraid to discuss them.  Either way you are risking your reputation because I can tell you without reservation that the truth is now percolating through undergraduate halls at Harvard, on the streets of America, and beyond.  The official nonsensical account of the crimes of 9/11/01 is currently on life support and will soon expire.

Where will you find yourself then?  How will you explain your error away?  No thinking person has left any plausible excuse for either ignoring or misrepresenting the nature of 9/11 and the alleged "terrorist threat" facing our nation and the world.  Even Howard Zinn and Robert Fisk have voiced support for a fresh look at the many problems with the official account--why hasn't Gary Leupp?  Why is Prof. Leupp still smearing arabs and muslims?

Why?

This email was sent is response to this article quoted at the beginning:

October 10, 2007

Horowitz's Latest Hate Campaign Heads for Campus

Spreading Awareness or Smearing a Religion?

By GARY LEUPP

Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion. He is the author of Servants, Shophands and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan; Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900. He is also a contributor to CounterPunch's merciless chronicle of the wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia, Imperial Crusades.

He can be reached at: gleupp@granite.tufts.edu

(This column originally appeared in the Tufts Daily.)