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INSTITUTIONAL INTEGRITY STRUCK

Monash University communications lecturer Dr Nina Philadelphoff-Puren toasts her hero:

Against enormous odds, Mamdouh Habib continues to speak out about his ordeal. His testimony is troubling, disruptive and no doubt inconvenient. His claims strike at the heart of the integrity of our institutions, our relationship with the US and our conduct in the “war on terror”.

Habib’s testimony sure is inconvenient, especially for the cops whose time he wastes. What is it with Monash academics?

(Via cuckoo and MM)

UPDATE. Against enormous odds, Mamdouh Habib continues to speak out.

Posted by Tim B. on 06/16/2007 at 03:09 AM
  1. Mmmm. Who cares what she’s saying… she has that hot librarian look happening. Yummy.

    Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 06 16 at 03:46 AM • permalink

  2. Dr Philadelphia Freedom also writes tantalisingly on ‘exhibiting the hymen: filling the blank page between law and literature’.

    Hold me back.

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 06 16 at 03:52 AM • permalink

  3. Oh mah gawd! The more I hear, the more excited I get…

    Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2007 06 16 at 03:59 AM • permalink

  4. "AHH!”

    Priceless.

    Posted by Copious Maximus on 2007 06 16 at 04:12 AM • permalink

  5. I wonder if she teaches hyperbole as part “Writing as Social Action”; equating Gitmo with Auschwitz is a shameless indulgence.  I’ve had it with such as Mz. PP.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 06 16 at 04:24 AM • permalink

  6. Monash has been infested with these dingbats since the 1960s- I wouldn’t allow a child of mine near that rabble.

    I reckon the place is due for a name change, so it reflects the level of academic quality present- how about Moronash?

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 16 at 04:32 AM • permalink

  7. Oh, the humanities!

    Posted by Craig Mc on 2007 06 16 at 04:51 AM • permalink

  8. And despite his air of innocence, Habib just can’t seem to stay out of trouble.

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 16 at 05:00 AM • permalink

  9. Ooh baby, beam me up Dr Nina Philadelphoff-Puren.

    Beauty beats commonsense, everytime.

    Libraries are HOT!

    Posted by Mike_W on 2007 06 16 at 05:05 AM • permalink

  10. Imagine the current crop of dingbats meeting their uni’s namesake, General Monash. The likelihood of them continuing in employment in any form of academic work would be about zilch.  Here was a man who was educated to an incredibly high standard, was a leader, theorist, strategist and commander of men. Monash’s halls are disgraced to have these likes walk their lengths. For our foreign friend, click and read.

    Posted by CB on 2007 06 16 at 06:06 AM • permalink

  11. #10 I’m sure he’d be revolted to see what has become of the university named after him.

    How long before Flannery University is opened?

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 16 at 06:12 AM • permalink

  12. seemed to have slipped an ess from it’s bondage....ah, there it iS

    Posted by CB on 2007 06 16 at 06:18 AM • permalink

  13. Ash, I also hear that Bob Brown’s going to get something opened in his honour as well. Probably a public toilet.

    Posted by CB on 2007 06 16 at 06:20 AM • permalink

  14. Or perhaps a certain type of nightclub CB.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 16 at 06:23 AM • permalink

  15. Now, here’s something. I suspect that this person is actually Nina. Contributes at Wally’s World of Wank, and writes in a similar style to this blog. The location’s the same. Avatar is almost identical. Same social and feminist issues drivel.

    Anyone else think so?

    Posted by CB on 2007 06 16 at 06:29 AM • permalink

  16. #6 Monash has been infested with these dingbats since the 1960s- I wouldn’t allow a child of mine near that rabble.

    Ironically, Sir John Monash (originally Monasch), a true war hero, was a Jew. I wonder how the intelligensia there today feel about that.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2007 06 16 at 07:22 AM • permalink

  17. Badly, if they knew history. Still not enough to give up tenure though.

    Posted by CB on 2007 06 16 at 07:28 AM • permalink

  18. She’s really Anne Elk, right?

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 06 16 at 07:41 AM • permalink

  19. Her name alone is parody itself.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 06 16 at 07:50 AM • permalink

  20. Is it against the odds to say I hate the slimy turd?

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 16 at 08:39 AM • permalink

  21. No Kae, it’s right in line with most normal people.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 16 at 08:50 AM • permalink

  22. There’s not many people I don’t know that I say I hate. (There’s noone I DO know that I say I hate!)

    Habib (not our one)
    Warwick Capper (he’s a prize fuckwit)
    hmm
    Steve Vizard
    Dave Hughes

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 16 at 08:55 AM • permalink

  23. If/when folks cop on to the tremendous waste of money that institutions like Monash represent, said institutions will go the way of Antioch College in Ohio.

    I can’t imagine a bigger waste of a bright young person’s time or energy.

    Posted by JDB on 2007 06 16 at 09:38 AM • permalink

  24. My shitlist is very exclusive Kae, but I won’t post it here.

    You already know the main one though.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 16 at 09:47 AM • permalink

  25. #24
    You know, mine don’t even make my shit list, they are so disliked!

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 16 at 10:03 AM • permalink

  26. His claims strike at the heart of the integrity of our institutions, our relationship with the US and our conduct in the “war on terror"

    Particularly when one is gullible enough to believe them.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 16 at 10:20 AM • permalink

  27. #25 If I ever make it on to your shitlist Kae, please, allow me a chance to apologise!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 16 at 10:21 AM • permalink

  28. Ash, I think it’s worse to NOT be on the shit list.
    Means I don’t think about you that much, or think much of you.

    Habib, well, when I see the spiv I get angry. Perfectly understandable I hear. Especially the you tube of his son being run over by police. If the police wanted to run him over I reckon the’d have done a much better job! (He’d STAY run over!)

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 16 at 10:25 AM • permalink

  29. You would think that for someone who has has published articles about feminism and the law the next step would be protecting muslim women from sharia law.  Instead Dr. Nina Philadelphoff-Puren takes up Mamdouh Habib’s cause.  She is one of the reasons why I am no longer a “feminist”.

    Posted by Crossie on 2007 06 16 at 11:25 AM • permalink

  30. #28 LOL. Ok Kae, If I ever make it onto your death list, please give me a chance to apologise!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 16 at 11:35 AM • permalink

  31. RE: “Dr Nina Philadelphoff-Puren”

    The words filth and gobble were the first two things to immediately pop into my head.  What was she saying BTW?

    Posted by Rob Read on 2007 06 16 at 01:56 PM • permalink

  32. Dear Dr Philadelphia Freedom

    you and the rest of your fellow white middle-class toytown radicals are a disgrace to the ideals you purport to represent. You flounce around in the sheltered workshop of your universities, writing indescribably indulgent garbage about exhibiting your hymen, pouring scorn and derision on your own culture, fixated with marginalised victimhood salesmen like Mamdouh Habib. Why are you so fixated with these shysters? Because you need so desperately to manufacture victims to swallow up into your nurturing matriarchal maw. Look at what you and your kind have done to the aborigines. Shutting them up in reservations, denying them property rights, forcing them to live on sit-down money and insisting they refuse to join the modern world and live with real individual pride. And what happens now that they are eating their women and children alive? Are you going to change your tune? Not bloody likely. Read Nicholas Rothwell you silly twat. Read Noel Pearson. And hang your pretty little head in shame. 

    Further, why are you so fixated with Howard’s ‘white picket fence’ family policies (that help my highly-qualified wife CHOOSE to stay home with our three kids), when millions of women suffer agonies of pain and hopelessness under islam, and in violently patriarchal subsistence societies? Why can you not acknowledge, as Camille Paglia did a decade ago, that it is white man’s technology, white man’s prosperity, and white man’s free common law institutions that have given you the freedom to be such a well-paid, indulgent little leftie douchebag? Will you ever give Caesar his due? Will you ever honour those like General Monash, who built this society and kept it strong in times of great darkness? Will you ever see the real enemies of women, and the real enemies of ‘difference?’ Get your head out of the post-modernist relativist quicksand and have a good look at Gaza you stupid preening fluff-head. Then fucking grow up.

    Posted by JonathanH on 2007 06 16 at 08:00 PM • permalink

  33. If the police wanted to run him over I reckon the’d have done a much better job! (He’d STAY run over!)

    He is lucky it wasnt the Victorian Cops, they wouldnt have used a car, they would have used something more like this.

    Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 16 at 08:06 PM • permalink

  34. #32 JonathanH
    Aw, c’mon Jon, don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel!

    (Well said, by the way.)

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 16 at 08:07 PM • permalink

  35. #33
    Actually, Surfie, I reckon the consumption on that thing is pretty good.

    Did I ever tell you the one about the PRS running over a drunk in inner Sydney on their way to a job? I’m sure it must be a part of PRS mythology now.

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 16 at 08:10 PM • permalink

  36. #32 - none of us could have done it better JH; Thanks!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 06 16 at 11:16 PM • permalink

  37. Mamd’oh has, it is safe to say, been quoted out of context. It must have been a running together of references to his religion (of peace) and to the standard of food at the fast food joint (shit). Just re-arrange to order and you have peace of shit. Such misunderstandings are a result of Islamophobia.
    Loved the comment elsewhere that Dr. Filobakeoff-Purina would believe him if he said he’d been abducted by aliens. Damn! There I go again, putting my hoofnagle in it. Must stem this name-ridicule thing.
    He hasn’t mentioned time-travelling in a Tardis-like phonebooth has he?
    (glances anxiously in Wronwright’s direction)

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 06 16 at 11:40 PM • permalink

  38. Is this person a lecturer in the English faculty at Monash University or a feminist politician feeding on the public purse disguised as an English lecturer.

    Posted by LaVallette on 2007 06 17 at 04:05 AM • permalink

  39. #8
    Oh..That Habib

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 18 at 01:46 AM • permalink

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