Too bad it thinks it fine to slap around a young teenage female!!


From his page..




https://www.linkedin.com/in/youssif-omar-aa334442

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Education

University of Missouri, Columbia
PhD in English Education; PhD in Linguistics; PhD in Translation Studies, English Education; Linguistics; Translation, 4:00
2008 – 2013
Benghazi Libya
B. A. in Translation; M.Sc. in Business Adminstration, M. A. in Applied Linguistics; M. A. in Translation; M. Sc. in Business Adminstration
1994 – 2007

Volunteer Experience & Causes
Causes Youssif cares about:

Education

when it comes down to it, it is more likely to speak adversely about a person's character.

Of course, while the Beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount, have long been held by many people to be the most sublime teaching in the history of literature and religion, among the worst and most seminal failings of Christendom, worldly ambition and covetousness have actually ended up being cast as virtually the sovereign virtues.

But God knows what a bunch of inveterate rat-bags we are, so he still manages to bring some good out of it all, the private schools in the UK and, I suspect, the US, having been one of the last bastions of Christianity in a world increasingly plunging into darkness.

The list is a bit much. And you'd be shocked how many college and university employers don't do due diligence in vetting applicants.

to do with academia.

This man is entrusted with the welfare of young people and it appears he may not deserve that trust.

obviously this was not a campus incident. there are probably rules about how off-campus conduct affects on-campus status, in particular when criminal charges are involved, more so when conviction is obtained.

Mizzou does not show him as a professor of any rank; at best he is an "adjunct", but he appears to be an instructor/teaching assistant.

That does not change much other than the curiosity that both his Facebook and LinkedIn pages as show him as Asst Prof.

You can be whatever you want on the internet...

Omar, Youssif Zaghwani (MU-Student)
Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx you can look it up
Title: Adjunct Instructor of Arabic
Department: German & Russian Studies

Unless this is a different person he lied on his online resume. Good luck getting any sort of faculty position in the future.

This man is entrusted with the education of young people and should be setting a good example in both his private and public life.
He should, at the very least, be placed on suspension pending a full investigation and the outcome of criminal charges.

of course, you are correct that his employer should treat this incident like any employer whose staff work with young people.

but his being an educator has every thing to do with this in an abstract way.

seems to have delusions of importance across the board.

He was her uncle but not her legal guardian. He had no authority to remove her from school property.

Clearly that isn't the case, either in Britain or the US.

I agree with France drawing the line with the burqa, because it turns women who were it into shadows.

(I realize that this article discusses a headscarf only, but it demonstrates the lack of consent that is often involved.)

Have you ever asked women directly? I have, and one woman told me that it helped her feel connected to her family who still lived in Syria. Others have told me it is a religious observance and as they described it, it sounded more like my grandma's crucifix than a forced burqa. Especially coming from the woman who is married to a Christian man.

free from public abuse for choosing not to want to wear it

I would have to be forced to wear a crucifix and it would not be of free will although another person may declare it keeps them close to Christ

And they should be as free to do so as my grandma is to wear her crucifix.

under their clothing that they can't be identified on the street?

Girls like Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped and held in plain sight for a year because of the burqa-like outfit her kidnapper made her wear.

And it's worse with the burqas because they inhibit movement and prevent a girl's identification while out in public. A girl wouldn't even know her own relative if they were both out in public wearing burqas.

Burqas keep women isolated and helpless. That's the point.

I do know it isn't my place to tell a woman what she can or cannot wear.

This seems simple to me, it's child abuse and should be treated as such. Granted this was a public display that in New York would have resulted in an immediate mandated child abuse hotline report, which doesn't do much for the girls who suffer behind the scenes, but it is child abuse and there are mechanisms in place to handle it when it comes to light.

I'm so sick of this patriarchal crap.

I have see a redneck southern Baptist dad grab his daughter and drag her because her shorts were too short for him. But then again what would have been said of the same dad for letting his daughter go out dressed "like that" if she had been assaulted or raped.


We are in a strange world.

exist mostly to legitimize the beliefs of those suffering from personality disorders.

Thanks!

....in different flavors.

But -- and this is key -- we have laws here that are supposed to guarantee the rights of women and girls. "Once and for all: women's rights are human rights."

In that Islam institutionalizes male control over females, with the result being an atmosphere of systemic misogyny that enables people like Prof. Omar.

In any case, this is assault and battery and possibly kidnapping. This guy needs to be indicted.

Definitely assault and battery with the slap.

Assuming that this is his child or he has a guardian relationship with the child, what level of force is allowed to compel her to come with him?

A battery charge is appropriate for anyone who slaps someone irrespective of the relationship.

As a hypothetical, what about a swat of the backside to a preteen child?

Interesting parallel with a conservative darling. Swats ok.

http://www.etonline.com/news/175462_duck_dynasty_stars_willie_korie_robertson_get_candid_on_disciplining_kids/


Here it is ok to slap your child at least according to some. Close to same age as above

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/28/us/baltimore-riot-mom-smacks-son/

regardless of relationship I would think.

that he is her legal guardian. He's just a male relative who thinks he should be able to control a female.

then it is not kidnapping (at least I think). I did not know it was an uncle. The story said a relative.

The news reports wouldn't be describing a father as a "family member."

And it wouldn't matter whether he was an uncle, a brother, or cousin. He didn't have the right to grab her and put her in the car unless he did it with a parent's permission, which is unlikely. (Though I won't be surprised if they try to mitigate the penalty by saying it was okay with them. But then they're also excusing the assault.)

That is a very hard concept for fundamentalists to grasp, and I mean Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Fundamentalists have a hole in their thinking where this is concerned, but the US Constitution is clear.

We just had another Planned Parenthood murder(s). It's been going on for decades now, perpetrated by our own home-grown terrorists, and every single one of them has claimed to be Christian.

The way to deal with them is to come down hard with secular law enforcement and stop pussy-footing around about their tender feelings about Jesus, G-d, and Allah. And I say this as a religious person.

Reminds me of the people trying to defend female circumcision several years back saying "religious freedom"

She always had to wear a dress that was below the knee.

We're talking about women who are not left with a choice.

Her father freaked out when she behaved like a teenager and moved her out of state where he had gotten involved with a hardcore fundamentalist church.

Women students had to wear dresses or skirts that were modest. They may still do it for all I know. But those were Mormon women who chose to go there and knew the rules.

That's a lot different than slapping someone and dragging them out by their hair.

and jail him.

that saying - something like "all absolutes are dangerous or invalid."

I deserved it. I never did it again and suffered no lasting effects.

ALRIGHTY THEN

specifics of this incident. If eShirl's real intent was to advocate jail only in cases where cases where an adult violently grabbed and abducted a minor relative by the hair for a bullshit hijab violation, than I'd agree without reservation.

But if eShirl's intent was to advocate jailing for all cases of an adult grabbing, hitting, etc a minor, then my position changes to "it depends" rather than automatic jail.

And my view also is that that jail comes only after conviction by a court. Even the worst of the worst are entitled to due process where the state is required to prove the case.

Dude sounds like an abusive prick.

Women get stoned to death for showing an ankle.

Women are just treated so badly in some places in the middle east. I wish there was someway to help them .

Look at all the women who are burned to death in India because their husbands don't want them anymore. Or they have acid thrown in their face. Or their noses are cut off.

It's awful.

let him take his fucked up views back to his home country....after he spends time in jail here.

but you're in the USA and we don't do that stuff here. In this country even if you see a female relative wearing a bikini you keep your fucking hands off her if you want to stay out of prison.

What happens in public and in private in blindingly white homes would make many people's hair stand on end, and very often no one ever knows outside the family, and any passing strangers.

Children often live in hell, with absolutely no where to turn, and can only look ahead to leaving home, and never look back once they're gone, for every reason in the world, and they don't make the news. No one knows who feels like reporting it to the local news station.

This story makes good propaganda for those who feed on stuff like this, because of the culture of the family, while the same kind of behavior is going on right next door to them and they don't have the vaguest idea.

Religion enforces backward thinking. Just because child abuse happens somewhere in the U.S. doesn't mean that this story should be ignored.

Religion doesn't need propaganda against its self. It's already established itself to be evil.

White people get arrested all the time for stupid crap like this. When its known outside the home.
THIS wouldnt have made the news either if it hadnt been in public. No one would have known. "Behind closed doors" doesnt care what color you are.

And that all these "white as snow" male relatives who assault them for not covering their slutty hair are running around loose?

What ARE you saying?

Your comment seems like false equivalence to me.

and was treated to physical, mental, emotional violence far beyond my ability to endure.

Thanks for your thoughtful observations.