Cambridge hires professor urging Muslims to study engineering for jihadist weapons

The commentary contends that the Jason Arday scandal merely exposed a deeper rot at Cambridge University, where the education faculty recently appointed an assistant research professor who urges Muslims to study engineering and computing to produce advanced jihadist weaponry. This individual authored a chapter in a 2002 Hizb pamphlet that attacks western education, democracy, and evolution, and proposes an Islamic-only curriculum aligned with a future khilafah.

The piece links this hiring to a longstanding pattern of extremist or radical sympathies within prestigious academic circles, referencing past communist traitors and recent controversial hires at institutions like the University of Chicago. It argues that defenses of academic freedom are being employed to legitimize the placement of people who could train future terrorists. The author calls for a cultural "reconquista" to counter what is portrayed as the West's declining intellectual immunity.