The situation is the same in the U.S. Honest discussion of the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism just does not happen in universities. If anyone tries to initiate such a discussion, he or she will be shouted down as an “Islamophobe.”
“No criticism of Islam at German universities,” translated from “Keine Islamkritik an deutschen Universitäten,” by Michael Stürzenberger, PI News, March 13, 2022 (thanks to Medforth):
On March 1, the groups of professors “Universitas” and “Ratio” active at Goethe University Frankfurt invited to an online event. It was discussed whether some topics are now taboo for research and teaching.
Professor Susanne Schröter, the head of the Frankfurt Research Centre Global Islam and professor at the Institute of Ethnology, reported, according to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that the political stance of a young researcher now plays a major role in his or her career.
She herself is defamed by some leftists at universities as an alleged “racist” because she speaks critically about the Muslim headscarf and examines connections between integration and cultural imprinting. Professor Schröter denounced the excesses of “cancel culture”, which seeks to ban politically or morally unpalatable positions from universities.
She reported on doctoral students whose dissertations were not accepted because they had dealt with the “wrong” topics. For example, “honour killings”. She also knew of students who had not been able to realise the projects they had chosen for their Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis: The supervisors found the projects too “hot”. This is true for her own subject:
“If an anthropologist deals with Islamism, his career is over.”
Professor Schröter sees such tendencies, regardless of which political direction they come from, as a threat to academic freedom.
The political scientist and publicist Hamed Abdel-Samad already reported in 2016 that the universities in Augsburg and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich did not allow him to hold a discussion event on Political Islam and present his research results on the Quran. Hamed Abdel-Samad said:
“The University of Augsburg, which once honoured me with prizes as a role model Muslim, now refuses to allow me to discuss the Koran critically. The University of Munich, which once trusted me to teach German and foreign students about Islamic history, now refuses to let me discuss the results of my research on the Quran in an open dialogue with students and citizens of the city.”
Since these research results are critical of Islam, and that is quite obviously undesirable at German universities. Hamed Abdel-Samad also sees a worrying development in freedom of expression in Germany:
“Universities, intellectuals, Islam functionaries and politicians of the centre parties refuse to face an honest and open debate about Islam. And then they all whine that this debate is being conducted on the right-wing fringe!”
Criticism of Islam is not only fought at universities. Mainstream media are self-censoring, it is taboo for the traditional political parties to criticize Islam, in society one is ostracized and excluded if one expresses one’s opinion openly, and the judiciary threatens to throw one into prison even if one limits public criticism to political Islam.
Roland says
The Red-Green alliance is inexplicable considering that Islam is antithetical to most Leftist beliefs. It is a shame that in Germany and other countries, free inquiry into Islam is becoming taboo. Lefties have this unshakeable belief that Muslims are brown people oppressed by the West and cannot be questioned.
Wellington says
Seconded, per what you wrote, Roland, and indicative of just how foolish the Western Left is capable of being (and aided by gutless “moderates,” wimps as they are, and faux conservatives).
There is no idiocy too idiotic for the Western Left not to accept (e.g., there are 37 genders or is it 67?—and terms like “non-binary” and “micro-aggression” are indicative, yet again, of just how silly the Western Left truly is and how it manipulates language to advance its destructive and stupid agenda, including the moronic exculpation of Islam, all the while hating a far more enlightened religion than Islam, i.e., Christianity).
If it harms Western Civilization, the very civilization that the Western Left, clueless as always, benefits from since no civilization has explored liberty as much as the West has—and the Left in the West has taken advantage of this in sundry parasitic ways—then the Left is all for it.
Useful idiots at best. Active participants in the destruction of the greatest civilization of all time at worst. AOC and her ilk come to mind.
Just as there is no defending Islam, if one really knows Islam, so is there no defending the modern Western Left should one really know the historical (and laudable) history of the West. But then, for the Western Left facts are optional (e.g., the world, a la AOC, is going to end in 12 years) and “facts,” like math, are dispositive of just more example of white supremacy.
Yes, the Left actually buys into and spouts this nonsense (N.B., Biden’s handlers do and Obama could only wish he would have come a decade later to support this rubbish). And this is a major reason why freedom and other good things like equality under the law are in deep jeopardy as of present.
What a weird and stupid time we live in. No doubt.
gravenimage says
Good analysis, Roland and Wellingtion.
mortimer says
Roland and Wellington expose the irrationality of neo-Marxists adopting arch-conservative, fascistic, Salafist Islam as an ally.
There is no compatibility between Marxism and Salafism, except for the common enemy of rationalistic, Christian European culture which both of them wish to destroy.
Marxism claims to be rationalistic, but in fact is not rationalistic, because Marxism sets itslef ABOVE the arena of debate in a place where Marxism is not subjected to reasoned analysis.
This shows that Marxism itself is an irrational and OBSCURANTIST cult.
mortimer says
Roland writes: “Lefties have this unshakeable belief that Muslims are brown people oppressed by the West and cannot be questioned.”
I disagree. I think the Leftists don’t care about racism at all … it is specious argument that they frequently ignore themselves. The Leftists have no consistency. They are opportunists. They will be racists when it is to their advantage.
Rather, what the neo-Marxists are doing here is nothing more than implementing ALINSKY’s RULES FOR RADICALS …
In particular, they are implementing the following rules:
3. “Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
6. “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
8. “Keep the pressure on.”
11. “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.”
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
James Lincoln says
mortimer says,
“The Leftists have no consistency. They are opportunists. They will be racists when it is to their advantage.”
Good point and I agree.
Surprisingly, I have never seen this pointed out before.
MohMad says
And in India the Left-Islamist alliance are now trying to Ban or malign a superb new movie, the Kashmir Files, which documents the horrendous ethnic cleaning of Hindus, Sikhs and others carried out by Islamists. While everyone knew the rough outlines of what was happening, the mainstream media in India only reported tidbits. In America, the NYT and other newspapers virtually ignored it. Thank G-d India now has a Government that actually works for the ordinary folk.
gravenimage says
This sounds like a good movie–I hope it becomes available with English subtitles.
MohMad says
Hi Graven et al,
Kashmir Flies is playing now at Regal theaters across the US and has ENGLISH SUBTITLES. I had the same feeling watching this as Schindler’s List : moving, Gut wrenching, but an essential education.
My Appeal to Robert Spencer and all of you, please review this movie so that more Americans become aware.
Michael Copeland says
“Islam offers no answers to the questions of modern life” — Hamed Abdel-Samad.
Abdel-Samad, the son of an Egyptian imam, is now an ex-Muslim, active in exposing Islam.
Wellington says
A la Ataturk, Islam represents the immoral ravings of a 7th-century Bedouin; it is a rotting corpse that poisons our lives.
gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
Hamed Abdel-Samad is a political scientist who uses his analytical skill to expose the inconsistencies in the Standard Islamic Narrative (SIN).
The Standard Islamic Narrative, in fact, DOES NOT stand up to such scholarly scrutiny and the MULLAHS ALL KNOW IT.
The mullahs are demanding a COMPLETE LOCK-DOWN of scholarly analysis of the SIN (standard Islamic narrative), a lock-down of analysis of the multiple Koranic texts and any reporting about JIHADISM (the normative political action of Islam).
Mullahs are demanding a MONOPOLY for the mullahs to speak about Islam and say whatever they wish whether true or false without being challenged to defend their statements.
That’s how it is in any Muslim country. The mullahs are permitted to lie about Islam in order to defend Islam’s ‘IMAGE’, ‘REPUTATION’ and ‘HONOR’.
Islam is an HONOR/SHAME cult and without understanding that basic fact, you cannot understand what Islam is.
Walter Sieruk says
This politically correct Muslim influenced situation with those universities of Germany that allows no criticism of Islam at all and names calls with words a “bigot” and “Islamophobic” those who question are just don’t believe , after studying all the facts about this religion , the claim that Islam is “a non-violent religion.”
This closed minded PC state of affairs where no real free discussion of ideas when it comes to Islam in infected not just the universities of Germany but most other such “Institutes of higher education” an many if not all Western countries.
This shows strong influence of the infiltration by the stealth jihadists in the field if education in the nations of the West.
This further reveals there actually must be a terrible number of thing that are wrong with Islam because Islamic lobby pressure organizations make such strong efforts to silence all critical discussion and question about Islam.
This likewise indicates and even exposes that Islam is also a rather weak and fragile religion because such action to keep silent the critics of Islam , in the Islam must not be able to stand up to criticism of any kind , no matter how mild the criticism might be because that religion most collapse like a :house of cards” because Islam is build on and stands on what is may be ,rightly , called “a foundation of sand.”
gravenimage says
Germany: Critical research results on Islam banned and criminalized at universities
Professor Susanne Schröter, the head of the Frankfurt Research Centre Global Islam and professor at the Institute of Ethnology, reported, according to the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that the political stance of a young researcher now plays a major role in his or her career.
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A university is supposed to *encourage* intellectual exploration–not any longer at so many of them, not if the subject is polically incorrect.
More:
On March 1, the groups of professors “Universitas” and “Ratio” active at Goethe University Frankfurt invited to an online event. It was discussed whether some topics are now taboo for research and teaching.
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Good that these professors are at least discussing this. So often it cannot even be acknowledged.
More:
She reported on doctoral students whose dissertations were not accepted because they had dealt with the “wrong” topics. For example, “honour killings”.
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How insane *is this*? Now not only is saying anything critical of Islam disallowed, but even speaking critically of horrors like “Honor Killings” and Jihad terror. Suicidal insanity.
Eleanor says
Germany is digging it’s own grave! And other western European countries, including the UK, won’t be far behind.
Andrew Blackadder says
I asked an old friend in Munich if she was okay walking the streets at night as I read about so many rapes happening with young muslim guys and though she is over 65, her daughter is classic German with long blonde hair, blue eyes,long legs and a body to die for, she called me a racist and wants nothing more to do with me.We have been friends since the 1970s, I lived with her Sister and her boyfriend was a close buddy,
She is German, lives in Germany, surrounded by Germans, most, if not all, of her friends are German, I visited some years ago and at her Birthday Party everybody was German, except me.
I am British, live in South East Asia for decades, surrounded by South East Asians, Im a minority, many of my friends are of various Nationalities and Races… But Im the racist…
THIS is the mindset of so many Western Morons today
Viktor smith says
This reckless attitutde will have consequences.. it appears to me that germany wont survive as a nation beyond this century
wpm says
I do not think most of western Europe will not survive as a civilization beyond this century .The seeds of destruction have been planted high Moslem immigration high Moslem birth rate , Islam sacrament of Jihad used against all non-Moslems that they must be killed or converted or made into slaves I think Germany ,England and France are well beyond the tipping point now. Suicide by political correctness ,accommodating a Nazi like master religion
MohMad says
Indeed. In India which I travel to frequently the (Hindu) elites call me the “American Hindutva” – pejorative term, since I bring up Islamic atrocities and the elites absolutely want to virtue signal and close their eyes. Luckily among the middle classes and the working classes, especially among Christians, Sikhs, Jains and other minorities there is much greater awareness of Islam. I am hoping that the movie Kashmir Files will cause a breakthrough to this denial.
wpm says
It is the middle class and lower classes in every society that suffer when the number of Moslems entering their countries go up .Be it North America, Europe ,Africa, Asia ,Eastern Europe It is look at by the upper class ruling class as a “Race Thing” Islam is not a race the Moslems in India and the Hindus in India are of the same race .The Moslems killing Africans Christians are of the same race as the Christians In the Baltic states their is no genetic difference between Christians and Moslems The ruling classes live under armed guards (many provided and pay for by taxes on the middle classes) their children go to private schools they live in gated communities .They are shielded from the realities of what it is like living with Moslems in their public space.
Michael Copeland says
Is it Your Girl, Mr. BoJo?
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/09/is-it-your-girl-mr-bojo/
James Lincoln says
Excellent essay, Michael.
Alfredo says
Hamed Abdel-Samad is a clear example of the relentless Islamization taking place at Western universities that is sipping out of academia into the mainstream.
An honest debate on Islam is now for all intents and purposes verboten. The Red-Green Alliance operates under the principle of “the enemy of my enemy is therefore my friend.”
Antonio Gramci’ seminal work on the long march through the institutions is now bearing abundant fruit. You shall know the trea by its fruits… and those fruits are toxic and destructive.
The ultimate aim of this alliance made in hell, is the total destruction of Christendom, the last bastion of Freedom in the way of the total imposition of a global tyranny.
Those who want to institute that Brave New World, they all talk about how good it would be if humanity would all join together in a new world of Égalité, Fraternité et Liberté. They want God’s kingdom, but they don’t want God in it. Man is the new god.
That central thrust is made clear when globalists like Klaus Schwab pontificate on the virtues of Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity, but that thesis does not include diversity of thought.
Those who dare to deviate from the orthodoxy imposed from above by the self-appointed high priests, will soon find out to their dismay that they have been cancelled…
OLD GUY says
Why no open discussion of Islam and it’s current teachings of hate, violence, and sex crimes. I’ll guarantee they will teach about Christian studies that include the past crusades and priests crimes involving children.
You either have the freedom of speech or you don’t. Who gets to decide what you say or teach makes a huge difference in society.
Let’s call things as they are the GOOD the BAD and the UGLY.
Walter Sieruk says
On the very important subject of person having a higher education it might possibly a few people to know that in classical work of ancient Greek literature, by Plato, entitled THE APOLOGY OF SOCRATES it in written that Socrates had said that “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Likewise, in may also be said that “An unexamined religion is not worth believing in.” This is said about all religions. Yet to be specific, in this case, the topic is about the religion of Islam.
Furthermore, one man who was as a former a Muslim and had lived in one of the Islamic nations of the Middle East but now he is Christian, and an American citizen had explained in a book he wrote that “Driving into depths of the word of reasoned thinking and research in Islamic societies has always been costly. Some Muslim who have done this have even been excluded from their social rights and even sentenced to death.” [1]
[1] ISLAM AND THE SON OF GOD by Daniel Shayesteh page 70.
tgusa says
“If an anthropologist deals with Islamism, his career is over.”
The good lady should continue speaking out. First, there really is no other alternative such as it is and second, think of it as the 21st century version of the 20th century women’s rights movement
In the West, can you smell the scent of fear in the air regarding any thing islamic being exposed from both islamists and dhimmis? T