Some 500 academics, reports the New York Daily News, have signed a letter to protest the 23-hour-a-day lockdown of accused terror suspect and Brooklyn College grad Syed Hashmi, who allegedly provided al-Qaeda terrorists with cash and military supplies to wage jihad against U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (Here is a press release on the case from the Department of Justice.) Among those signing the letter are several Brooklyn College professors, as well as Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.

Have the good professors forgotten 9/11?