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Philly professor makes incendiary remarks about gays, Jews, and women

Philly professor makes incendiary remarks about gays, Jews, and women

Professor Kaukab Siddique also wrote a Facebook post stating
Professor Kaukab Siddique also wrote a Facebook post stating “many women are sluts.” AP Photo/Paul Hurschmann, File
PHILADELPHIA –— A tenured university professor in Pennsylvania who previously questioned the Holocaust and called for Israel’s destruction is under fire again for incendiary remarks about Jews, women and gays.

Kaukab Siddique, an English professor at Lincoln University outside Philadelphia, asked on Facebook this month whether Bill Cosby’s accusers took so long to come forward because “many women are sluts.”

Another recent post on Facebook attributed the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage as “Obama’s homo uprising,” while a third post referred to “dirty Jewish Zionist White Supremacist thugs.”

Lincoln University condemned Siddique’s remarks, but said it does not plan to take action against him.

“His latest activities, like his earlier writings, statements and activities, are an insult to women and other groups singled out,” the university said in a statement. “Like all faculty members, he is entitled to express his personal views in conversation or in public forums, as long as he does not present such opinions as the views of the university.”

In 2010, the 72-year-old publicly questioned the Holocaust and called for Israel’s destruction. That led the chairman of the Pennsylvania Board of Education to raise concern about whether Siddique was fit to teach and whether school resources had been used to spread anti-Semitism on campus.

Siddique did not immediately return an email from The Associated Press on Thursday.

His comments are “deeply offensive and outrageous” and “reflect bigoted stereotypes,” Nancy Baron-Baer, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement Thursday.

Lincoln is a historically black university in Oxford, about 45 miles southwest of Philadelphia. It receives partial funding from the state.

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