On Monday the hard-Left Talking Points Memo ran an article entitled : “Poll: Majority Of Republicans Now Say Colleges Are Bad For America.” The Leftist media is chattering this week about this, claiming that it is evidence that Republicans and conservatives are ignorant yahoos who oppose higher education. In reality, of course, Republicans and conservatives […]
UC Berkeley “Islamophobia” prof identifies the “individuals behind Islamophobia”
Hatem (“Hate ’em”) Bazian is a key propagandist of the “Islamophobia” myth: he is the founder of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the University of California at Berkeley. Can you imagine the University of California at Berkeley opening up a Germanophobia Research and Documentation Project during World War II, and ascribing all criticism […]
‘Islamophobia Studies’ Are Coming To A College Near You, And There Won’t Be Any Debate About It
“Before I get started, I just wanted to say that we are meeting on stolen indigenous people’s land. That’s really important to acknowledge.” So declared San Francisco State University race and resistance studies professor Rabab Abdulhadi, at the University of California, Berkeley’s Seventh Annual International Islamophobia Conference in April. Abdulhadi’s seemingly disjointed declaration was typical […]
Global Jihad? Never Heard of It: Berkeley’s Bazian Still Hyping ‘Islamophobia’
With global jihad in its ascendancy, UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian delivered a lecture at a private event in Dearborn, Michigan last Friday titled, “Islamaphobia: Muslim in the Public Square.” Given the multiple ISIS attacks on Paris only a week earlier and the fact that French and Belgian authorities continue to hunt down the accomplices, the […]
The mullahs’ academic cheerleaders: Meet the profs who love Obama’s Iran deal
It isn’t surprising that Aslan and Cole would be cheerleading for this disastrous deal, since they are both Board members of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). NIAC has been established in court as a lobbying group for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Said Michael Rubin: “Jamal Abdi, NIAC’s policy director, now appears to push […]
Legitimizing Censorship: ‘Islamophobia Studies’ at Berkeley
Legitimizing Censorship: ‘Islamophobia Studies’ at Berkeley By Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima Greene “Islamophobia studies” is the latest addition to the academic pantheon of politicized, esoteric, and divisive “studies” whose purpose is to censor criticism of differing views by stigmatizing critics as racist or clinically insane. The University of California, Berkeley’s recent Sixth Annual International Islamophobia […]
Middle East Studies Profs Distort, Dissemble about Paris Attacks
Middle East Studies Profs Distort, Dissemble about Paris Attacks by Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima Greene Only in academe can a panel discussion on Islamic terrorism turn into an exercise in obfuscation and denial. Titled “Shooting Rampage in Paris: Free Speech, Anti-Semitism, Freedom of Religion, Islamophobia,” the recent University of California, Berkeley panel—which promised to “start […]