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Wow!  What a shocking graphic for a story on Dr. Don Betz,  the new president of Northeastern State University.  Sometimes a graphic helps explains more fully than just words alone.  The Muslim Brotherhood is the largest Islamic movement in the world and has been working since the fall of the Islamic Ottoman Empire to spread Islam and ultimately Islamic rule.  This graphic shows how CAIR is linked  to them and Hamas. 

Why a university president in Oklahoma would be CAIR's keynote speaker is most concerning.

Last week I wrote about the 2nd annual fund-raiser for the Council of American Islamic Relations of Oklahoma and the whitewashed job the Oklahoman (an Oklahoma City newspaper) did in covering this event. 

The keynote speaker was Dr. Don Betz.  And as predicted it was covered by Dubai-based Islamonline (the article has been removed from Islamonline so refer to the saved web page below): 

Download Islamonlinecair.htm (55.3K) (this was my first attempt to create a saved web-page - sorry not all the components work)

Dr. Don Betz, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, addressed the crowd as the keynote speaker. He spoke about the need to work together and become civically engaged because the challenges we face will be far more difficult on our own. 

“The call tonight to civic engagement is intense and important and each one of us can look across the table and say that is a job for someone else to do but I can tell you that there is no better work to be done by education, by organizations like this, or by our families and groups than to raise productive, creative, ethical and engaged citizens and leaders. It is important that if you do not engage civically then the results you speak of do not occur,” said Dr. Betz. ---“We have to have these conversations, I submit to you tonight, because we are entering a period where the demand on us for change are going to be extreme.”

After doing some followup, I discovered he is actually the new president at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma!  From the NSU we learn more about Don Betz:

...In 1982, he began his association with the United Nations as a consultant, and subsequently liaison officer, at the International Conference on the Question of Palestine. Two years later, he served as political affairs and liaison officer, at the UN conference on the Division for Palestinian Rights.

From the University of Wisconsin:

...Dr. Betz also has considerable international experience, having worked at the United Nations on the Question of Palestine, one of his areas of expertise, and having served as an assistant foreign editor for the Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, during the 1970s. He is the author of numerous final declarations, and statements and communiqués adopted at U.N. conferences.

...Betz earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Denver. He has held the position of professor of political science at University of Central Oklahoma and Northeastern State University and has awards for excellence in service and teaching.

The Oklahoman didn't mention Betz was NSU's new president.  They reported he was the cancellor at the University of Wisconsin.  Did they simply not do their homework? Oops, I completely forgot - they did a fluff piece for CAIR.  CAIR didn't mention it either on their website.  Why? 

Betz was named the new president of NSU on April 8, 2008.  Was there an attempt to avoid linking this keynote speaker for CAIR to the new president of a university in laid-back Oklahoma?  CAIR is a highly controversial Islamic organization which tries to portray themselves as mainstream but their history and actions, even today, tell us otherwise. 

In any event, you certainly can't rely on the newspapers, can you?

An interesting bit of information about Betz was a complaint filed against him and others in 2006 for misusing the university list server to solicit for college democrats and alleged criminal use of state resources for a political purpose although he wasn't directly responsible for the alleged offenses.

And in June 2007, Betz attended and served as a keynote speaker (page 11) at the International Conference of Higher Education under the patronage of His Majesty, the King Hamed bin Issa Al Khalifa, the King of Bahrain.

So is the Council of American Islamic Relations and the new president of NSU on the same page regarding Islamic or activism in America?  Are they supporters of Islamism?  Hmmm.  Time will tell.

First message by Dr. Don Betz to NSU students posted 5/9/08.