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		<title>Britain: Muslim Rape Gangs Run Wild</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities cower in fear of being called "racist," while key files go missing. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/UKMuslimrapegang.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243077" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/UKMuslimrapegang-450x281.png" alt="UKMuslimrapegang" width="344" height="215" /></a><a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/uk-1400-non-muslim-children-exploited-by-muslim-rape-gangs-authorities-did-nothing-for-fear-of-being-thought-as-racist">1,400 British non-Muslim children were gang-raped</a></span> and brutalized by Muslims in the British city of Rotherham, in accord with the Qur’anic allowance for the sexual enslavement of infidel women that <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/islamic-state-says-sex-slavery-is-justified-under-islamic-law"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Islamic State has pointed to</span></a> in order to justify its exploitation of captive Yazidi and Christian women. But no airstrikes were called in Rotherham; rather, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/uk-1400-non-muslim-children-exploited-by-muslim-rape-gangs-authorities-did-nothing-for-fear-of-being-thought-as-racist"><span style="color: #0433ff;">British officials there</span></a> “described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so.” And now four years of key and highly incriminating files have gone missing.</p>
<p>According to the <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rotherham-child-sex-abuse-files-4432671"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Mirror</span></a>, “Professor Alexandra Jay, who wrote the bombshell report revealing <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/child-abuse"><span style="color: #0433ff;">1,400 young girls were abused</span></a> in the town over 15 years, said minutes from key meetings have disappeared. Rotherham Council was slammed in her report for ignoring the scandal and its leader and chief executive have both since resigned.”</p>
<p>These files almost certainly contain damning material about how British officials wouldn’t move against the rape gangs for fear of being stigmatized as “racists” and “Islamophobes.” But those officials are still in positions of power and influence in Britain, and so these missing files are unlikely ever to be recovered.</p>
<p>If anyone in Britain has the courage actually to search for them, has he or she checked <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/08/who-is-response-for-muslim-rape-gang-scandal-nick-lowles-fiyaz-mughal-co"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Nick Lowles</span></a>’s office? The people who have the most to lose here are people like Lowles, the leader of the far-Left group with the Orwellian name “Hope Not Hate,” who for years smeared anyone and everyone who spoke out against these Muslim rape gangs as “racist,” “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.” The Muslim rape gangs went unreported, unprosecuted, and in general unstopped because of organizations like Hope Not Hate, and others such as Faith Matters and Tell Mama, that waged relentless war against anyone and everyone who spoke out about these issue.</p>
<p>(Incidentally, when these groups led the campaign to ban Pamela Geller and me from entering Britain, one of the events we had discussed going to was a rally against the rape gangs. And despite smearing us as hatemongering equivalents of British jihadist Anjem Choudary, Lowles, when <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/06/audio-robert-spencer-on-the-bbc-takes-on-left-fascist-nick-lowles-and-discusses-the-quran-with-an-im"><span style="color: #0433ff;">challenged on the BBC</span></a>, could not come up with a single “hateful” statement I have ever made in 13 books, hundreds of articles, and over 40,000 blog posts.)</p>
<p>Meanwhile, search for “<a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/blog/?page=search&amp;q=grooming"><span style="color: #0433ff;">grooming</span></a>” (these gangs are usually called “grooming gangs” in the British media) at Hope Not Hate’s site, and you will see that a significant percentage of the articles mentioning this practice are attacking those who are calling attention to it and protesting against it.</p>
<p>Who, then, is responsible for the religion-based mass gang-rape of British girls? The British Left — in particular the “anti-hate” crusaders Lowles and Matthew Collins of Hope Not Hate, Fiyaz Mughal of Faith Matters and Tell Mama, and their friends, supporters, and allies.</p>
<p>The lives of 1,400 girls are ruined today because of these men. If Britain were even close to being a sane society today, these people would be being subjected to scorching criticism, and there would be a thorough public reevaluation of how much the Left’s alliance with Islamic supremacism and smear campaign against foes of jihad terror has harmed the nation and its people.</p>
<p>But Britain is not a sane society today, and these sinister individuals — Lowles, Mughal, and the rest of them — will continue to wield their considerable power and influence there. Or at least they will until they have outlived their usefulness to those whom they have aided, like the Communists in Iran who helped the Ayatollah Khomeini come to power, only to discover that what the “Islamophobes” had been saying about the pious cleric was all true.</p>
<p>And so when British society dissolves into daily bloodshed and civil war, as it almost certainly will when British officials finally say no to any further appeasement and accommodation of Islamic supremacists, and those supremacists take umbrage, the thieves of these Rotherham files (as well as Lowles, Collins, Mughal and all their accomplices) can congratulate themselves that they were never, not even for a second, “racist.”</p>
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<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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		<title>What Does an Islamophobe Look like?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Islamophobes look like everyone else. They can be your friend or next door neighbor.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/islamophobe1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-239856" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/islamophobe1-450x289.jpg" alt="islamophobe1" width="450" height="289" /></a></p>
<p>They can be family members or just the crying frightened people you see on the evening news.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/islamophobe2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-239857" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/islamophobe2-450x289.jpg" alt="islamophobe2" width="450" height="289" /></a></p>
<p>There are more Islamophobes than ever before. No one knows why.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/islamophobe3.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-239858" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/islamophobe3-450x289.jpg" alt="islamophobe3" width="450" height="289" /></a></p>
<p>Some people experience Islamophobia on planes. Others come down with it in shopping malls and schools.</p>
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<p>The most common symptoms of Islamophobia are loud explosions, bullets and shouts of Allahu Akbar.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/islamophobe6.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-239861" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/islamophobe6-450x289.jpg" alt="islamophobe6" width="450" height="289" /></a></p>
<p>If you fear being killed by a Muslim terrorism, you may have come down with Islamophobia.</p>
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<p>There are only two cures for Islamophobia; denial or fighting back.</p>
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		<title>NYPD Investigating Criticism of Islamists as Hate Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2014 13:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom of speech? I'm sorry, we don't have that anymore.]]></description>
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<p>Freedom of speech? I&#8217;m sorry, <a href="http://vladtepesblog.com/2014/07/31/the-geopolitics-of-islam-moving-faster-than-expected-links-post-1-for-july-31-2014/">we don&#8217;t have that anymore</a>. It&#8217;s Bill de Blasio time. It&#8217;s Obama time.<a href="http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/07/hate-crime-cops-investigating-anti-muslim-fliers-distributed-bath-beach-apartment-building/"> It&#8217;s Jihad time</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The NYPD’s Hate Crimes unit is looking to identify the person who distributed anti-Muslim fliers in at least one of the Shore Haven apartment buildings near Cropsey Avenue and 21st Avenue in Bath Beach, according to Councilman Mark Treyger’s office.</p>
<p>The fliers were found throughout the building this week, showing a hateful message calling Muslims “the second holocaust” and claims “USA hates you”. There is what appears to be a woman in a burka inside a “No” symbol, and there is also an abundance of exclamation points.</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually the flyer mentions Islamists. Have we outlawed that too? Apparently we have. Just like ISIS did.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I am disgusted and saddened to hear of this hateful act in our community. There is absolutely no place for this type of hatred, especially in a city and borough as diverse and tolerant as ours. My thanks to the 62nd Precinct for their quick response and thorough investigation of this heinous act,” said Treyger in a statement. “I will continue to work closely with the NYPD and entire community so those responsible for spreading hate will held accountable and I urge anyone with information to come forward. It is my belief that an act of hate against one group is an act of hate against our entire community. The bottom line is there is no room in this day and age for these attacks against any member of our community.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Is a flyer an act of hate now? I guess it is.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s a little thought experiment. Imagine that the flyer read &#8220;Zionists Go To Your Country!!! USA Hates You!!! You are Terrorists and Bastards!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>Would there be a hate crimes investigation?</p>
<p>In the unlikely event that there was, how many seconds would it take before the ACLU&#8217;s lawyers showed up in a fire truck to defend whoever did it while the New York Times wrote an angry editorial warning that we were silencing dissent.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s different about this except Muslim Privilege?</p>
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		<title>The NY Times’ Nicholas Kristof Becomes an Islamophobe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s okay to speak out against Islam if you’re progressive.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/opinion/nicholas-kristof-religious-freedom-in-peril.html"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236548" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kristof-450x253.jpg" alt="kristof" width="308" height="173" />In the <em>New York Times</em></a> last week, columnist Nicholas Kristof officially became an Islamophobe. More precisely, he finally adopted somewhat the same stance toward Islam as the Cassandras whom Kristof and his ilk relentlessly demonize as Islamophobes – all the while trying to distance himself from them.</p>
<p>“In country after country,” a concerned Kristof begins, “Islamic fundamentalists are measuring their own religious devotion by the degree to which they suppress or assault those they see as heretics, creating a human rights catastrophe as people are punished or murdered for their religious beliefs.” No, really? Surely it is no surprise to him that writers such as those of us at FrontPage have been expressing our concern about Islamic fundamentalists for many years. We’ve noted repeatedly that the most numerous victims of Muslims are other Muslims, many of whom are ostracized (at best) or killed (at worst) precisely because they aren’t sufficiently hardcore believers.</p>
<p>But Kristof dismisses such writers as “Islam-haters in America and the West,” who “denounce Islam as a malignant religion of violence, while politically correct liberals are reluctant to say anything for fear of feeding bigotry.” It’s not bigotry or hate to point out that orthodox Muslims themselves demonstrate its malignance and violence every day around the world. Moreover, “politically correct liberals” aren’t silent only because they don’t want to feed bigotry; the most radical are silent because they see Islam as an ally in their multiculturalist siege of the West.</p>
<p>“Yet there is a real issue here of religious tolerance,” Kristof continues, “affecting millions of people, and we should be able to discuss it.” No kidding. As I mentioned above, the freedom fighters that the left dismisses as Islam-haters have been <em>trying</em> to discuss the Islam problem for decades, but have been relentlessly attacked and delegitimized for it. Now however, Kristof decides we need to have an open discussion, as if it’s his idea.</p>
<p>He was apparently prompted to address this topic by the murder of a Muslim friend at the hands of his friend’s co-religionists. “Such extremists,” he posits, “do far more damage to the global reputation of Islam than all the world’s Islamophobes put together.” This is his grudging way of admitting that orthodox Muslims themselves are the ones responsible for Islam’s dismal reputation. Now if only he would connect the dots and acknowledge that perhaps the world’s “Islamophobes” have legitimate concerns.</p>
<p>But Kristof hedges his newfound realistic perspective on Islam with an historical aside: “The paradox is that Islam historically was relatively tolerant… Anti-Semitism runs deep in some Muslim countries today, but, for most of history, Muslims were more tolerant of Jews than Christians were.” He cites the Holocaust and “the killing of Muslims by Christians at Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina” as evidence for this. First, anti-Semitism has always run deep in Muslim lands, not just today, because Jew-hatred is endemic to Islam itself. Secondly, Islam has not been “tolerant” for most of its history, and whatever its historical sins, Christianity has evolved and Islam has not; the pressing issue is that Islam remains violently intolerant <em>today</em>.</p>
<p>Kristof asserts that “some of the bravest champions of religious freedom today are Muslim” – for example, Iranian lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who successfully defended a Christian pastor from charges of apostasy, but suffered for it by being jailed himself. This is genuinely commendable. Unfortunately, this example does not demonstrate that Islam itself champions religious freedom.</p>
<p>He goes on to note that Saudi Arabia and Iran “are twins in religious repression. Saudis ban churches; it insults Islam to suggest it is so frail it cannot withstand an occasional church.” Actually, the fundamentalists know full well that Islam cannot withstand an occasional church, which is why apostasy is punished by death and Christians are brutally persecuted. They are keenly aware that the freedom of conscience to choose one’s religion would mean a vast exodus from, and possibly the end of, Islam.</p>
<p>“I hesitated to write this column,” Kristof concedes, “because religious repression is an awkward topic when it thrives in Muslim countries. Muslims from Gaza to Syria, Western Sahara to Myanmar, are already enduring plenty without also being scolded for intolerance.” The only reason it’s “awkward” for Kristof and other leftists is their defensive sympathy for Islam; if Christians around the world were massacring Muslims, putting mosques to the torch, and executing apostates, you can bet Kristof and his fellows would have no trouble “scolding” them.</p>
<p>Kristof is also uncomfortable addressing worldwide Muslim atrocities because he believes that “we in the West live in glass houses, and I don’t want to empower our own chauvinists or fuel Islamophobia.” Excuse me? The West has no moral high ground on the issue of religious intolerance? That is frankly a crock. A January 2014 Pew Research <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/2014/01/14/religious-hostilities-reach-six-year-high/">study</a> which Kristof himself describes as “a sad index of rising intolerance” notes that the world’s only region essentially untouched by religious repression is the Americas, and that the worst regions for it, as in previous years, are the Middle East and North Africa. Kristof himself concedes that “some of the worst abuse actually takes place in Muslim-dominated countries.” Indeed, and things are getting worse there <em>and</em> in Western countries with burgeoning Muslim minority populations.</p>
<p>“Some heroic Muslims,” Kristof closes, “like my [murdered] friend Rashid in Pakistan, have sacrificed their lives to protect religious freedom. Let’s follow their lead and speak up as well, for silence would be a perversion of politeness.” What gall. Again, those he derides as “Islam-haters” are the ones who have been and still are leading the way in speaking up against the rising tide of Islamic supremacism, only to be met with vicious smears from progressives such as Kristof. Apparently it’s not bigotry if the left does it.</p>
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		<title>Islamic Apologist: Stop Saying ‘Moderate Muslims’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Nat.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235244" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Nat-350x350.png" alt="Nat" width="255" height="255" /></a>Since at least the 9/11 attacks, we have been reassured constantly that Islam means peace, that violent jihad is being waged by a tiny minority of extremists, and that most Muslims are moderate. But on a Heritage Foundation panel recently, terrorism expert Brigitte Gabriel correctly dismissed that “peaceful majority” of Muslims as “irrelevant” to the equation. And now at least one prominent <em>apologist</em> for Islamic terrorism wants to do away with the term “moderate” altogether.</p>
<p>On a special <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/jamie-glazov-vs-michael-ghouse-on-the-roots-of-jihad-on-hannity/">episode</a> of <em>Hannity</em> a week ago called “Radical Muslims on the March,” host Sean Hannity skeptically asked self-described moderate Muslim Michael Ghouse of the America Together Foundation if the voices of the Islamic community are loud enough to counter “the radicals hijacking your religion.”</p>
<p>“They’re not loud enough,” conceded Ghouse. “We need to gather momentum.” Nearly thirteen years after the 9/11 attacks on our own soil, the moderates who are supposedly the vast majority of the Islamic community are still struggling to gather momentum and make their voices heard? Later in the show Ghouse, whose <a href="http://americatogetherfoundation.com/about-us/">organization</a> seems more focused on combating the stereotyping of Muslims as radicals than combating the radicals themselves, proved why moderate Muslims like him are ineffectual allies against jihad. In a heated confrontation with FrontPage’s own editor-in-chief Jamie Glazov, Ghouse tried to deflect responsibility for Islamic terrorism away from the religion itself when he shouted that “Islam is not dangerous, it is the bad people that are dangerous.” Bad people – as if the ideology driving jihad is simply “badness.”</p>
<p>Last week Nathan Lean posted an <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118391/troubling-phrase-moderate-muslims-only-empowers-islamophobes">article</a> at <em>The New Republic</em> online entitled “Stop Saying ‘Moderate Muslims.’ You&#8217;re Only Empowering Islamophobes,” in which he questions the very legitimacy of that phrase. “This moderate Muslim nonsense,” as he puts it, is “intellectually lazy because it carves the world up into two camps: the ‘good’ Muslims and the ‘bad’ Muslims,” and gives credence to the “unfounded notion” that the more pious the Muslim, the more dangerous.</p>
<p>Who is Nathan Lean? He is the author of <em>The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims</em> (with a foreword by Saudi-funded Islam apologist <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2197">John Esposito</a>), a title that ridiculously suggests that we have nothing to fear from Islam except fear-mongering itself. Did the right manufacture 9/11? The Ft. Hood massacre? The Boston Marathon bombing? What an insulting, patently false notion – that there is less to fear from the savagery of jihad than from the patriots warning us about it. As for the mythical phenomenon of “Islamophobia,” FrontPage readers are well aware that it is a Muslim Brotherhood neologism designed to demonize and marginalize critics of Islam like Brigitte Gabriel, whom Lean smears as “wackos.”</p>
<p>In his <em>TNR</em> piece, Lean complains that “until proven good, or in this case ‘moderate,’ all Muslims are perceived as ‘bad,’ or potentially extreme.” The obvious response here, which Lean doesn’t admit, is that if Muslims <em>are</em> perceived that way, perhaps it might be the result not of anti-Muslim paranoia but of the rabidly violent resurgence of Islamic supremacism throughout the world today.</p>
<p>After all, he argues, “We certainly don’t spend our time searching out ‘moderate’ Christians or Jews.” That’s quite simply because we don’t have to. “Sure, Muslims give us plenty of bad examples,” he concedes in the understatement of the year, but we shouldn’t let those examples “constipate our ability to perform basic logic.”</p>
<p>Actually, it is Lean’s logic function that is constipated. For example, regarding Gabriel’s comment that the moderate Muslim majority is irrelevant, Lean sniffs that “I shouldn’t have to explain that it’s usually the <em>majority</em> of a given group that makes the minority irrelevant, not vice versa.” Do I really have to explain to him that a majority can be irrelevant if they remain passive and silent, or possibly even complicit, in the face of a more intensely committed minority? He refers to the “supposed silence” of moderate Muslims in “this supposed age of Islamist extremism” (supposed?) and goes on to wonder where “the examples of such supposedly widespread extremism are.” Seriously? If he wants examples, he can start paying attention to world events or perhaps read FrontPage Mag and Jihadwatch. There are plenty of examples to be found for those with eyes to see.</p>
<p>Lean resents that “moderate Muslims” are expected either to “condemn violence or other loathsome acts” or be considered “a terrorist lying in wait.” This raises an obvious question: why <em>wouldn’t</em> any moderate Muslims condemn the violence and loathsome acts committed by those whom they insist have hijacked their religion? Isn’t it reasonable to be suspicious of Muslims who won’t?</p>
<p>He also sneers at the non-Muslim “credential police” who deem themselves the “arbiters of what Islam really is and isn’t.” Actually, it is Muslim fundamentalists who have rather forcefully asserted themselves as the arbiters of what Islam really is, which is why the most numerous victims of those Muslims today are other Muslims (although Christians are catching up fast).</p>
<p>Lean believes we should stop “carving up our Muslim compatriots into categories that fit our idea of what they should be.” Please. This is all very disingenuous on his part. Non-Muslims absolutely are entitled to demand that Muslims, or people of <em>any</em> faith, “coexist” peacefully with us, to quote a popular progressive bumper sticker. If Muslims want to be considered our “compatriots,” if they truly believe extremists have hijacked their religion, if they are weary of being associated with terrorism, then they can stop pretending that Islam has nothing to do with the “bad people” waging jihad; they can stop pretending that Islamophobia is a more serious threat than sharia and terrorism; and instead they can begin taking advantage of their supposedly far superior numbers and go after the real enemy in their midst.</p>
<p>As the Research Director at Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Nathan Lean either doesn’t understand much about the Muslim part or doesn’t want <em>you</em> to understand the truth. It’s very simple: the world has an Islam problem. Not a Buddhism problem, Christianity problem, Judaism problem, or even a Wiccan problem, but an Islam problem. That’s not fear-mongering; it is the demonstrable reality borne out every single day around the world. Anyone who won’t acknowledge this is either in denial or in agreement with the jihadists’ aims.</p>
<p>If Nathan Lean wants to eradicate a truly bigoted, intellectually lazy term, perhaps he should reconsider one which he has devoted much of his career to hyping: “Islamophobia.”</p>
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		<title>‘Islamophobia’ Thought Crimes at Berkeley, Part II</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/islamophobe.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233289" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/islamophobe-450x253.jpg" alt="islamophobe" width="298" height="168" /></a><strong>[To order David Horowitz and Robert Spencer&#8217;s pamphlet <em>Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future</em>, <a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/pamplets/products/islamophobia-thought-crime-of-the-totalitarian-future">click here</a>.]</strong></p>
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<p>The <a href="http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobiaconf2014">second day</a> of the University of California, Berkeley’s Fifth Annual International Islamophobia Conference—organized by the Center for Race &amp; Gender’s Islamophobia Research &amp; Documentation Project (IRDP)—featured as much hysteria, victimhood, and anti-Western rhetoric as the first (which we reported on yesterday).</p>
<p>Viewing the second day’s antics via live stream, two commercials ran repeatedly: one featuring sexy Latina actress Sofia Vergara selling shampoo for her long, flowing, decidedly unveiled locks, and the other seeking recruits for the U.S. Marines. This led one disgruntled online viewer, expecting an anti-American atmosphere to prevail in the virtual world as well as at the conference, to ask in the comments section, “What’s up with these super wack commercials killing Arab, African brown people?,” which elicited an apology from the organizers, who assured him they had no hand in picking the commercials.</p>
<p>During the afternoon, Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, an assistant professor of religion at the University of Vermont, spoke on, “Muslim Subjects and Citizens: Discursive Ties, Lingering Orientalism, and Islamophobias.” She attempted to draw parallels between the era of British colonialism and modern-day America, claiming that Muslims were seen, then and now, as “traitors,” “fanatics,” and as having “suspect, dual allegiances.” She described this phenomenon as the “insidiousness of Orientalism,” before reaching the ahistorical conclusion, “We find the same thing over 200 years later in America.”</p>
<p>She next asserted that the “rhetoric after 9/11 was similar to the British Raj,” including seeing “Muslims as agents of sinister forces.” In a thinly veiled allusion to Sharia (Islamic) law, Fuerst condemned what she called “anti-foreign law legislation” and chalked it and other efforts to combat Islamism up to being part of an “extended, insidious Orientalist discourse” rather than to the obvious desire of Americans to retain their constitutional liberties.</p>
<p>Deepa Kumar, an associate professor of media studies and Middle Eastern studies at Rutgers University, presented, “Islamophobia in the Obama Era: Liberalism and the National Security State.” Kumar proved to be one of the funnier, more engaging speakers of the day; in lieu of dry academic subject matter, she focused on popular culture, interspersing her talk with clips from movies and television shows such as “Homeland.” Yet her lively humor couldn’t hide her stale political correctness.</p>
<p>Referencing the films <em>Black Sunday</em> (1977) and <em>True Lies</em> (1994), she noted that even before the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, “Americans were convinced that terrorism comes with brown, male, Arab bodies.” She continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>9/11 cements the imagination. It was no longer necessary to keep demonizing brown people, but to justify a massive national security state.</p></blockquote>
<p>Shifting to the “post-racial era” of the presidency of Barack Obama, Kumar noted that:</p>
<blockquote><p>The language of liberalism and multiculturalism comes to be used to strengthen the national security state. Obama has done this quite effectively, picking up where [President George W.] Bush left off.</p></blockquote>
<p>To illustrate her point, she played clips from a Department of Homeland Security <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/if-you-see-something-say-something%E2%84%A2-campaign">video</a> DHS intended to “raise public awareness about terrorism” called, “If You See Something, Say Something,” the purpose of which she summed up as follows: “We are being recruited to become agents of a surveillance state.” Kumar argued that the filmmakers went out of their way to cast white actors as the suspected terrorists and a multi-ethnic group of actors as the good citizens who report them to the authorities. Despite its basis in reality, she mocked the film’s portrayal of “unattended luggage and backpacks” as threats, claiming that they, too, were merely stand-ins for “the brown terrorist.”</p>
<p>Instead of chalking up these decisions to liberal political correctness, she called them another form of “Islamophobia,” adding “This is how latent racism works: unconsciously.” By this logic, both portraying Muslims as terrorists in the pre-9/11 era and avoiding doing so in the Obama era are examples of “Islamophobia.” The question for Kumar is: what isn’t?</p>
<p>Arun Kundnani, who holds adjunct appointments at New York University, Queens College, and John Jay College (where he teaches terrorism studies), rounded out the panel with the presentation, “Racialization and Radicalization: Islamophobia and the Surveillance of Muslims in the U.S.”</p>
<p>Kundnani lamented the “legalistic, technical” tone of the debate on mass surveillance by the National Security Administration in the wake of Edward Snowden’s <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/edward-snowden">revelations</a>, which he claimed leaves out “the interlinking of race and surveillance” so that, “the last thing anyone wants to talk about is the experience of the targeted population.” He dismissed Snowden’s references to George Orwell’s <em>1984</em> and the idea that “digital surveillance is a new form of Big Brother” and claimed that “no one minds” that “surveillance works by targeting specific groups.” This surely dismisses valid concerns among Americans of all backgrounds over the potential loss of privacy to everyone, not just Muslims. Instead, Kundnani claimed we live in a “panoptical racist society,” in which “different races are policed differently.” Addressing the fact that Islam is a religion, not a race, he insisted that there are “racial signifiers in the discussions about Muslims,” which he compared to anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Kundnani then likened U.S. authorities to the Stasi, the secret police in communist East Germany, but maintained that “using current data, we’re worse.” He associated Muslim-Americans with the “East German population,” alleging, absurdly, that the “everyday life of Muslims comports with classic accounts of totalitarianism.” Repeating his previous mischaracterizations, he concluded that “the minority is subjected to secret police because the majority doesn’t experience that.” Either Kundnani hasn’t properly understood the ongoing discussion about the scope of counterterrorism surveillance in the U.S., or he misrepresented it to suit his purposes, as the issue goes far beyond allegations of “Islamophobia.”</p>
<p>Ahmet Temel, a graduate student in religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, opened the next panel by speaking on, “Shariaphobia, A Recurring Obsession: Sharia as a Means to Justify Islamophobia.” Adding to the long list of supposed hatreds indicating a clinical diagnosis of “phobia,” “Shariaphobia” is used to smear opponents of the implementation of draconian Sharia (Islamic) law in the West.</p>
<p>Temel alleged that the “misrepresentation” of Sharia as “inherently brutal” and consists of only “three rubrics: punishment, the treatment of women, and fatwas,” which leads to “racism towards Muslims.” The “media creates an image of Sharia” that is “meant to make Muslims look archaic” and makes them “targets of Islamophobic attacks.” Moreover, “media reporting on Sharia shows images of stonings, veiled women, and bearded men,” which eventually leads to “physical attacks.” Yet Temel didn’t deny that stonings occur (he couldn’t given the numerous honor killings of veiled women by bearded men) and simply asserted that criticism of Sharia is nothing more than “a sophisticated way of attacking Islam as irrational, backwards, [and] violent.” He even bemoaned the “anti-Sharia, anti-Islamic agenda in the history” of his native Turkey.</p>
<p>The dissembling continued with Nancy A. Khalil, a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Harvard University, who spoke on, “Jihad: American Media and Muslim Theology.” Disassociating jihad from its historic meaning, holy war, Khalil claimed that of the “different meanings of jihad . . . jihad against yourself is the most important one.” Similarly, she alleged that the word “Islam means both submit and peace.” She praised the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) “My Jihad” campaign, launched in response to activist Pamela Geller’s counter-jihad advertising series, as “reclaiming this appropriation of jihad from the association with violence” and “taking back jihad one hashtag at a time.”</p>
<p>IRDP’s is succeeding in its goal to instill the specter of “Islamophobia” into the West. In addition to the aforementioned December, 2014 conference in <a href="http://islamophobiaconparis.weebly.com/">Paris</a>, its expanded agenda includes upcoming conferences in both <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/csp/muslimstrustdialogue/07jun2014-beyond-islamophobia.html">London</a> and <a href="http://www.irdproject.com/salzburg-conference.html">Salzburg</a>. Last year, Bazian and other North American Middle East studies specialists participated in an international Islamophobia <a href="http://www.meforum.org/3621/islamophobia-conference">conference</a> in Turkey, while the Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies Chair at Indiana University-Bloomington organized its <a href="http://islamophobiaconference.blogspot.com/">own conference</a>. Bazian is fulfilling his pledge to create the new field of “Islamophobia studies” As there is no shortage of academics invested in pushing this agenda, look for its widespread use by those seeking to censor critics of Islam.</p>
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<p>What’s an “Islamophobia”-promoting academic to do when there simply <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2012/topic-pages/victims/victims_final">aren’t</a> enough <a href="http://www.islamist-watch.org/12057/hate-crime-stats-deflate-islamophobia-myth">hate crimes</a> to sustain the mythical narrative that Muslim-Americans are persecuted for their religion? The Islamophobia Research &amp; Documentation Project (IRDP) at the University of California, Berkeley’s Center for Race &amp; Gender came up with a brilliant idea for <a href="http://www.islamophobiacon.com/">this spring’s</a> Fifth Annual International Islamophobia Conference: they invented a thought crime called “latent Islamophobia.”</p>
<p>According to the conference <a href="http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobiaconf2014">description</a> and “inspired by [the late Columbia professor] Edward Said’s work on <em>Orientalism</em>,” “Islamophobia” can be broken into two categories: latent and manifest:</p>
<blockquote><p>Latent Islamophobia is founded upon an unquestionable certitude that Muslims trend “towards despotism and away from progress.” They are constructed and “judged in terms of, and in comparison to, the West, so it is always the Other, the conquerable, and the inferior.” Manifest Islamophobia “is what is spoken and acted upon.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Near Eastern studies lecturer, IRDP director, and conference convener <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=hatem+bazian&amp;sa=Search">Hatem Bazian</a> supported this <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/04/latent-manifest-islamophobia-a-2014414124948207223.html">blatant effort</a> to condemn thought, as he promised in his opening remarks that this effort would eventually be a “field [and] a distinct area of study” called “Islamophobia studies.”</p>
<p>This is no idle threat. In addition to <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12786">producing</a> annual UC Berkeley conferences and the <em>Islamophobia Journal</em>, Bazian said IRDP’s plans include:</p>
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<li>Publishing papers for the Second International Islamophobia Conference to be held in <a href="http://islamophobiaconparis.weebly.com/">Paris</a> this December.</li>
<li>“Down the line, [to] provide funding for graduate students and fellowships” at IRDP.</li>
<li>Establish “partnerships with other research institutes, in the U.S. and globally,” to build “a global faculty network.”</li>
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<p>The audience—much of which consisted of women wearing hijabs (headscarves)—of sixty to eighty people on the first day, was swallowed by the spacious Booth Auditorium housed in the Berkeley School of Law. In between panels, a bevy of academics and graduate students, many of them speakers, greeted each other and gabbed, while the few attendees outside the fold looked on. Bazian <a href="http://www.dailycal.org/2014/04/17/conference-illuminates-problem-islamophobia-todays-society/">boasted</a> that 6,000 people watched the conference online last year via the live stream and that this year, Duke University would be “carrying our live feed.”</p>
<p>Saeed Khan, a lecturer in history and Near East and Asian studies at Wayne State University, spoke on the second panel about “Islamophobia, the Conservative Movement, and the Creation of the Muslim Menace.” Khan is also a fellow at the Detroit-based Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, which co-commissioned a flawed May, 2013 <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/13364">study</a> alleging “Islamophobia” in the San Francisco Bay Area, of all places, that was co-authored by Bazian. He critiqued what he called “the conventional wisdom among Tea Party conservatives and other Islamophobes” that “Muslims are infiltrating every aspect of American society, particularly education” by quoting a <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5229">2008 article</a> on the unconstitutional insertion of Islamic curriculum into American public education written by this author. He then made a nonsensical comparison:</p>
<blockquote><p>Cinnamon Stillwell, from here in the Bay Area. . . . She definitely takes the line that in spite of the “soft jihad” that is taking place, a soft crusade about the Christianity of the Founding Fathers is perfectly acceptable in public schools in a construct that is supposed to have separation of church and state.</p></blockquote>
<p>Khan’s alleged concern for separation of church and state would be more convincing were he to apply it to the very real threat outlined in the article in question, not to a nonexistent Christian “soft crusade” that its author did not reference.</p>
<p>He later complained about efforts in “Texas and Florida” to combat the use of biased textbooks in K-12 education, mischaracterizing valid concerns over the whitewashing and falsifying of Islamic history as opposition to inclusion and objectivity:</p>
<blockquote><p>A world history text is being reviewed to extricate Islam from the curriculum, or at the very least, to try and remove any reference to Islam that would be seen as objective or—in their estimation, the same thing—biased toward Islam.</p></blockquote>
<p>During the question and answer period, Khan actually complained that the “backlash” against Muslims after the 2013 Boston bombing that was predicted by speakers at last year’s Islamophobia <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/13168">conference</a> never happened. Referencing a <em>Boston Globe</em> <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/16/muslim-america-shadow-marathon-bombings/JaSN4qicDX21KbGpQrviLJ/story.html">article</a> titled, “Inclusive Spirit Reassures Muslims After Bombings,” he concluded:</p>
<blockquote><p>This portrays Muslims being unnecessarily and unreasonably paranoid. It showcases the magnanimity and largesse of an American society that didn’t cause a backlash.</p></blockquote>
<p>We couldn’t have put it better ourselves.</p>
<p>The next panel, which boasted the Orwellian title, “Gender, Sexuality, Class and Colonialism in Transnational Latent and Manifest Islamophobia,” dished out a great heaping of academic jargon from the realms of queer, gender, and women’s studies.</p>
<p>Paola Bacchetta, an associate professor of gender and women’s studies at UC Berkeley, introduced her incomprehensible presentation with the even more perplexing sentence, “Muslims as enemy Others as queerphilia xenophobia.” She was just warming up:</p>
<blockquote><p>By that, I mean in which their queerphobia is displaced onto the enemy Others, who they now claim are the queerphobic ones. . . . Queers are now shifted to this position which under colonialism belonged to women: that is, queers are constructed as either silent self-hating collaborators with the presumed straight and queerphobic collective enemy Other camp, or imagined as enemy Other’s victims requiring dominant saviors.</p></blockquote>
<p>Bacchetta included “the Israeli state” in her “neo-colonial” enemies list for its supposed “pink-washing,” claiming that:</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]he idea that Palestinian queers are being saved by Israel . . . ignores the occupation and the many years of solid work done by Palestinian queers such as Palestinian Queers for BDS [boycott, divestment, sanctions].</p></blockquote>
<p>It’s hard to imagine that groups like Palestinian Queers for BDS are succeeding in helping their gay compatriots so much as engaging in self-preservation by attacking the preferred enemy, Israel.</p>
<p>Huma Dar, a Ph.D. candidate in South East Asian studies at UC Berkeley, compared “Israeli occupation” to “Indian Occupation” in her jargon-ridden presentation, “Latent and Manifest Islamophobia in Indian Occupied Kashmir: Queerphilic Imperialism and Hindu-homonationalism.” Echoing anti-Israel rhetoric, she denied that Islamism has any relevance to either conflict:</p>
<blockquote><p>Akin to the Palestinian situation, the struggle for Kashmiri independence is not a religious or theological matter, but a political one of indigenous people’s rights to territory and sovereignty. India, like Israel, has attempted to frame it as a fight against Kashmiri Muslims . . . riding on the coattails of a wave of global Islamophobia.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dar accused India of engaging in “queerphilic imperialism” by “projecting queerphobia onto the Kashmiri Muslims” and of “pinkwashing the Indian occupation akin to the Israeli occupation.” With all these “occupations” allegedly engaging in “pink-washing,” one would think that gays in the Muslim world were safe, when in fact persecution and capital punishment are common.</p>
<p>The day’s final panel included Zahra Billoo, executive director for the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (<a href="http://www.meforum.org/916/cair-islamists-fooling-the-establishment">CAIR</a>), which has been <a href="http://www.nysun.com/national/islamic-groups-named-in-hamas-funding-case/55778/">linked by the United States government to Hamas</a> and the <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/423.pdf#page=5">Muslim Brotherhood</a>. Her presentation, “California Muslim Youth Experiences with Bullying, Harassment and Religious Accommodation in Schools,” was based on CAIR’s own “statewide survey,” yet she was unable to report on any widespread persecution. Despite citing isolated instances of “bullying” in schools, her own data forced her to acknowledge that the “complaints are <em>not </em>coming,” leading her to lament that:</p>
<blockquote><p>It troubled some of our partners and allies, who said, “well, these bully figures are not as high as we think they should be.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Instead, they found that “the figures in the LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] community are far higher.” “At the federal level these complaints are handled by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights,” Billoo added, before launching into a gratuitous tirade against pro-Israel activists concerned for the safety of Jewish students on campus:</p>
<blockquote><p>And as a side note, this office is used by pro-apartheid Israel activists attempting to silence human rights activists on campus calling attention to that nation state’s racism and violent policies—but that’s a separate conversation.</p></blockquote>
<p>Apparently, bullying is only a concern when Muslim students are on the receiving end.</p>
<p>It turns out pushing “Islamophobia” trumps addressing myriad human rights challenges afflicting the Muslim world. More on this tomorrow.</p>
<p><strong><em>Part Two of this article will appear in our next issue.<br />
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		<title>Another Day, Another Fake Islamophobic Hate Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Navjoat Aulakh said three white men assaulted him and called him an “Islamic terrorist”]]></description>
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<p>Kassim Alhimidi <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2014/04/faked-hate-crime-kassim-alhimidi-found-guilty-honor-killing-wife-shaima-alawadi-daughter-yet-charged.html/">was just found guilty of murdering his wife </a>and trying to pass it off as an anti-Muslim hate crime. But it didn&#8217;t take long for <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/montclair-state-university-muslim-charged-over-false-claim-that-he-was-assaulted-and-called-an-islamic-terrorist">another fake anti-Muslim hate crime</a> to make the news.</p>
<blockquote><p>Police at Montclair State University have charged a student with filing a false report after an investigation determined that his claim that he was assaulted outside a residence hall was untrue, the school said Monday.</p>
<p>Navjoat Aulakh, 18, of Carteret allegedly said three white men assaulted him and called him an “Islamic terrorist” outside Whitman Hall Thursday night. An alert was issued to students and staff.</p>
<p>But in an email on Friday, Police Chief Paul Cell said an investigation determined Aulakh’s story was “fabricated.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s possible that Navjoat Aulakh may not be Muslim, but he certainly exploited the myth of Islamophobia perpetrated by groups such as CAIR to disrupt the lives of other students.</p>
<p>Had anyone been arrested, he might have even ruined their lives.</p>
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		<title>Somali Hussein Sisters Arrested for Battering American Student Blame Islamophobia</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Islamophobia. Is there anything it can&#8217;t do?</p>
<p>MassLive has been frenziedly spinning the story of bullying by three Somali Muslim sisters into a story about them being bullied. There&#8217;s an editorial denouncing bigotry in schools and repeated stories giving their point of view, rather than that of their victims.</p>
<p>Yes, victims. <a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/massachusetts-muslim-sisters-assault-high-school-classmates/">Because this isn&#8217;t their first time around</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The victim “stated that she felt Najma punch her in the face and scratch her around her left eye,” school resource officer Mark P. Hammond wrote, adding the sisters “have been involved in similar incidents in the cafeteria on multiple occasions.”</p>
<p>A police report on the fight stated that Najma, Bibo and Filsan Hussein attacked another female student who was laughing at them during lunch period on March 7.</p>
<p>Najma Hussein, now 19, was charged in Springfield District Court with assault and battery and disturbing a school assembly while Hibo Hussein, now 20, was charged with disturbing the school assembly; charges against Filsan Hussein, 18, were dropped because she was a minor at the time.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now backed by an Islamist group, the Sisters Hussein are claiming that they&#8217;ve always been victimized and called terrorists. And they&#8217;re the victims here.</p>
<blockquote><p>The sisters spoke during a classroom discussion hosted by Westfield State University associate professor Kamal Ali, who is also vice president of the of Islamic Society Western Massachusetts.</p>
<p>Following the session, more than 30 students signed up to stage a protest at the high school in the next few weeks, Ali said. “It’s a question of the day and time; we know the place,” the professor said.</p></blockquote>
<p>And so the Muslim bullying scales up even further, doubling down on aggression.</p>
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		<title>Leftist Dons Hijab, Disproves Existence of Islamophobia</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['There was this excess (of niceness) that I would experience."]]></description>
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<p>The indoctrination has worked quite well. Many Westerners now work hard to prove that they aren&#8217;t Islamophobic. And this once again demonstrates <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603480/Canadian-college-student-experiments-wearing-hijab-finds-people-NICER-her.html">that the Muslim hysteria over Islamophobia is a myth</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Canadian college student recently conducted a social experiment to see if people treated her differently if she wore a hijab &#8211; a traditional Muslim veil that covers a woman&#8217;s head and chest &#8211; and what she discovered was a bit unexpected.</p>
<p>Anisa Rawhani, a third-year student at Queens University in Ontario, wore the traditional Muslim garb for 18 days in January as she worked at the university&#8217;s library, visited stores and restaurants near the campus and as she did volunteer work with local children. </p>
<p>According to Rawhani &#8211; who conducted the experiment to see if people in her community were racist towards minority groups &#8211; she noticed that people actually treated her more kindly and with more respect than when she didn&#8217;t wear the hijab.</p>
<p>&#8216;I went with my hijab and people were very nice, people were polite, parents would shake my hand, so the experience was all across the board in Kingston.&#8217;</p>
<p>In some cases, she says, she would go out with friends who weren&#8217;t wearing any identifying religious symbols and she was treated much nicer than they were. </p>
<p>&#8216;There was this excess (of niceness) that I would experience that I couldn&#8217;t account for,&#8217; she said. &#8216;Like really going the extra mile like smiling broadly and being so so polite, which I&#8217;ve never experienced before. It was a stark contrast that was going on that threw me for a loop.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>Overall Americans and Canadians are fairly nice people and they&#8217;ve heard enough lectures about how excluded Muslims feel that they go the extra mile for them.</p>
<p>Also many people treat someone wearing a hijab as a foreigner and act more welcoming to them.</p>
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		<title>Brandeis Caves to Islamic Supremacist Thuggery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hamas-linked CAIR's hate campaign against a courageous champion of women's rights. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223098" alt="Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Ayaan-Hirsi-Ali.jpg" width="344" height="212" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Brandeis University had planned to award an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali at its commencement ceremony this year, but after a smear campaign led by the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Islamic supremacist groups, on Tuesday the university issued </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2014/april/commencementupdate.html">a statement</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> announcing the predictable result: the honorary degree would not be given.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Brandeis assured the world, “is a compelling public figure and advocate for women’s rights, and we respect and appreciate her work to protect and defend the rights of women and girls throughout the world.” However, as compelling as Brandeis may have considered that work, ultimately it didn’t matter: “That said, we cannot overlook certain of her past statements that are inconsistent with Brandeis University’s core values.  For all concerned, we regret that we were not aware of these statements earlier.”</span></p>
<p>The Brandeis statement did not mention CAIR, and probably university administrators are unaware of its Hamas ties or its record of opposing any and all counter-terror efforts. Nor did the statement specify exactly what in Hirsi Ali’s past statements was “inconsistent with Brandeis University’s core values.” CAIR, however, did so in its <a title="" href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=38145946-fd98-40b5-8e6f-fedef8a27949&amp;c=e8768710-b6b3-11e3-af02-d4ae5284205e&amp;ch=e97113b0-b6b3-11e3-afb7-d4ae5284205e" target="_blank">press release</a> (also issued Tuesday; Brandeis snapped into line quickly) which quoted Hirsi Ali from <a title="" href="http://reason.com/archives/2007/10/10/the-trouble-is-the-west/print" target="_blank">a 2007 interview</a> saying: “I think that we are at war with Islam.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ironically, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/632/cair-portrays-war-on-terrorism-as-malicious-war-on-islam">CAIR spokesmen have said the same thing</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: “The new perception is that the United States has entered a war with Islam itself,&#8221; said then-CAIR Board Chairman Parvez Ahmed in July 2007. The only difference is that Hirsi Ali and CAIR are on opposite sides of this war. Is it unacceptable at Brandeis, a contradiction of its core values, to oppose the global jihad? Apparently so.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the same interview, Hirsi Ali also called for the closing of Islamic schools in the United States. While that is indeed a severe and questionable recommendation, it should be remembered that Ayaan Hirsi Ali attended Islamic schools in her native Somalia. She no doubt also has seen the reports from all over the world showing hatred and violence being taught in all too many Islamic schools. In that same interview she said: “Asking whether radical preachers ought to be allowed to operate is not hostile to the idea of civil liberties; it’s an attempt to save civil liberties. A nation like this one is based on civil liberties, and we shouldn’t allow any serious threat to them. So Muslim schools in the West, some of which are institutions of fascism that teach innocent kids that Jews are pigs and monkeys—I would say in order to </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">preserve</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> civil liberties, don’t allow such schools.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Is calling for the schools that teach hatred and contempt of an entire group of people against the core values of Brandeis University? Apparently it is.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">CAIR’s press release also smeared Hirsi Ali with the Norwegian neo-Nazi mass murderer whose </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/robert-spencer-in-frontpage-mag-english-language-media-ignores-breiviks-coming-out-as-a-nazi">false-flag operation of associating himself with counter-jihadists</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> has proved so useful for Islamic supremacists: “In her acceptance speech for the Axel Springer Award, Ali seemed to express sympathy for mass murderer Anders Breivik, who included her writings in his manifesto.” In reality, in </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.citizentimes.eu/2012/05/11/the-advocates-of-silence/">that speech</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Hirsi Ali referred to “the neo-fascism of a Breivik” as “abhorrent” and noted that Breivik “may have cited the work of those who speak and write against political Islam in Europe and America – myself among them – but he does not say in his 1500 page manifesto that it was these people who inspired him to kill.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">CAIR, however, has never cared to report the facts accurately and fairly. All it wants is to shut down any and every individual who opposes jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, in any venue. Generously funded and well-staffed, it pounces on anyone and everyone who dares raise a critical word against jihad terror, and mounts a smear campaign intending to get the Islamocritical speaker canceled and discredited.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In acceding to these smear campaigns, event organizers and – in this case, Brandeis University administrators – apparently make no attempt, even a simple Google search, to discover the intentions of the people behind the campaign. They appear indifferent to CAIR’s unsavory connections or its advice to Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. The organization’s own claims that it is merely a civil rights organization are accepted uncritically and without examination. As I show in my new book </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621572048"><i>Arab Winter Comes to America</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, CAIR routinely blindsides officials and places on the defensive by its attacks, and so simply to avoid controversy they usually gave the “civil rights group” what it wants: the cancellation, demonization and marginalization of every speaker who is remotely critical of Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The cancellation of Hirsi Ali at Brandeis demonstrates yet again that there is </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">no one</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> who opposes jihad terror who is acceptable to CAIR and its allies. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://crg.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/islamophobiareport2009-2010.pdf">A report on Islamophobia in the U.S.</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that CAIR produced in conjunction with the Center for Race &amp; Gender at the University of California, Berkeley in 2011 stated: </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“It is not appropriate to label all, or even the majority of those, who question Islam and Muslims as Islamophobes. Equally, it is not Islamophobic to denounce crimes committed by individual Muslims or those claiming Islam as a motivation for their actions. ‘A critical study of Islam or Muslims is not Islamophobic,’ former CAIR Research Director Mohamed Nimer wrote in 2007. ‘Likewise, a disapproving analysis of American history and government is not anti-American&#8230; One can disagree with Islam or with what some Muslims do without having to be hateful.’”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These were empty words. The report offered no examples of what it would consider to be acceptable and legitimate criticism of Islam and jihad, and neither CAIR nor the University of California Center for Race &amp; Gender have ever done so anywhere else. Nor has any other Leftist or Muslim group. In reality, anyone and everyone who dares to oppose jihad and Islamic supremacism will become a target for a CAIR smear campaign. The real agenda of Islamic supremacist groups in the United States is clearly not to distinguish legitimate resistance to jihad from bigotry and hatred, but to stigmatize all resistance to jihad as bigotry and hatred, and clear away all obstacles to the advance of that jihad.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And they have made great headway, stigmatizing resistance to jihad in the eyes of large segments of the general public, and even of government and law enforcement officials, as “bigotry.” Yet while it has become generally accepted that standing up to jihad terror is “bigotry,” no one has ever clearly explained why. A highly tendentious and politically manipulative perspective has been foisted upon the American people as accepted wisdom, in which opponents of jihad terror are cast as bigots and efforts increased to rule their perspective altogether out of the realm of acceptable public discourse.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The one certain result of this will be more jihad terror in the U.S. – some of it emanating from hate-preaching Islamic schools that Ayaan Hirsi Ali so heinously suggested should be closed.</span></p>
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		<title>Fox Haters Carrying Water for CAIR</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/National-Executive-Director-of-Council-on-American_Islamic-RelationsCAIR-Nihad-Awad-holds-a-translated-copy-of-the-Quran-as-he-speaks-news-conference-at-the-headquarters-of-CAIR.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220893" alt="The Council on American-Islamic Relations Announces Educational Initiative" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/National-Executive-Director-of-Council-on-American_Islamic-RelationsCAIR-Nihad-Awad-holds-a-translated-copy-of-the-Quran-as-he-speaks-news-conference-at-the-headquarters-of-CAIR-439x350.jpg" width="307" height="245" /></a>For some progressive writers, it’s more important to bash Fox News than to expose American Islamist groups&#8217; rejection of liberal values. In recent weeks, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has aggressively promoted articles by Fox haters who are more concerned with smearing CAIR opponents as anti-Muslim bigots than addressing facts and evidence.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The U.S. Justice Department </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/List+of+Unindicted+HLF+Co-conspirators.pdf">says</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> CAIR is a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and labeled it an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-financing trial. Federal prosecutors </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/542.pdf">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in a 2007 court filing that CAIR uses deception to “conceal from the American public their connections to terrorists.” CAIR’s </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/council-islamic-relations-cair">documented record</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> should alienate every progressive.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Part of those efforts is taking advantage of writers with influence in the media. Don’t take my word for it. Look at what CAIR Vice Chair Sarwat Husain </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://youtu.be/HHPWyMTGcN4">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> at another terror-tied conference:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Media in the United States is very gullible, ok? And they will see that if you have something, especially as a Muslim, if you have something to say, they will come running to you—and take advantage of that.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In a presentation by CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, he told supporters how to manipulate reporters. One of the slides was titled “Characteristics of a Journalist” and said, “They will expect you to do their work. Let them.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">CAIR also said to exploit the fact that journalists do “little primary research,” are “under extreme deadline pressure” and “fea[r] charges of inaccuracy.” This is especially true of CAIR’s media allies that choose political ideology over all else.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On February 20, CAIR distributed a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/20/meet-foxs-new-anti-muslim-national-security-ana/198148"><i>Media Matters</i> hit piece</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by Michelle Leung describing me as “Fox’s Newest Anti-Muslim ‘National Security Analyst,’” even though I am neither anti-Muslim nor “new” on Fox. If she had checked her own website’s archives, she would have seen a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/02/26/for-criticism-of-obamas-libya-policy-fox-turns/176950">hit piece from 2011</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about an appearance. The premise of that article is that I am not a credible speaker on Libya because I opposed the Ground Zero Mosque.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">My </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/3230301823001/jihadist-enclave-in-heart-of-texas/">appearance</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> was about the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Clarion Project’s</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> disclosure of a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/exclusive-clarion-project-discovers-texas-terror-enclave">jihadist enclave in Texas</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> run by Jamaat ul-Fuqra/Muslims of the Americas. Her article didn’t even mention the topic I was discussing because that might wake readers up as to why this was a story worth covering.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Vice Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/texas-congressman-terror-enclave-discovery-appalling">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the discovery is “appalling.” Despite Leung’s description of </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Clarion</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and me as “anti-Muslim,” around a dozen Muslim organizations in the U.S. and Canada </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/news/muslims-join-clarion-call-ul-fuqra-be-foreign-terrorist-org">endorsed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a statement calling on the U.S. government to label Jamaat ul-Fuqra as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.</span></p>
<p>As evidence of my “Islamophobic” agenda, Leung cites my <a href="http://youtu.be/zvYRw8KWKPI">segment</a> about ul-Fuqra and Islamist patrols in London, a <a href="http://youtu.be/1ibaQZnIK04">segment</a> about Al-Qaeda recruiting among Somali refugees in the U.S. and one where I <a href="http://youtu.be/bl2_w-EucHo">mentioned</a> that Syrian jihadists belong to an anti-American alliance in the region. Every single one was about events that indisputably happened. If that’s anti-Muslim, then reporters and analysts who cover shootings must hate gun owners.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Then on March 6, CAIR promoted another </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.newshounds.us/20140305_fox_friends_foments_more_fear_of_islam_with_security_expert_from_anti_islamic_group">ridiculous article</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">NewsHounds</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, where the author seemed determined to prove her wit by including as many fact-free insults as possible. This time, CAIR and its ally said I was “fomenting fear of Islam” by talking about the U.S. military’s </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/us-military-hires-chaplains-endorsed-brotherhood-entity">decision</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to again hire chaplains endorsed by the Islamic Society of North America. You can watch the segment </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/3295829202001/us-military-chaplains-linked-to-terror-group/">here.</a></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We emphasized that I was not criticizing the use of Muslim chaplains, but rather the use of ISNA as the endorser. Like CAIR, the Justice Department labeled ISNA as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial and a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity. ISNA’s Fiqh Council is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/largest-us-muslim-org-courted-govt-dominated-isalmists">dominated by Islamists</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> with radical histories. The charitable status of ISNA’s Canadian affiliate was </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/isna-canada-loses-charity-status-over-terror-funding">revoked</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> because of its links to Pakistani terrorists and accounting discrepancies.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Clarion Project</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> also discovered that the U.S. Air Force paid ISNA almost $5,000 of taxpayer money for two advertisements in its magazine with the purpose of recruiting chaplains. </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">NewsHounds</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> described that as “whining.”</span></p>
<p><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">NewsHounds </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">also criticized my previous segment about ul-Fuqra and its communes in America, which was largely based on a declassified FBI document from 2007 that we obtained. The author disingenuously selected a single quote from the file stating that ul-Fuqra’s Texas site “may” be involved in terrorism and criticized my “unfounded fear.” She made a conscious decision to mislead her readers by leaving out the other incriminating quotes.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The FBI document reports that ul-Fuqra members in the U.S. have taken part in at least 10 murders, one disappearance and seven bomb plots. It states:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“The documented propensity for violence by this organization supports the belief the leadership of the MOA extols membership to pursue a policy of jihad or holy war against individuals or groups it considers enemies of Islam, which includes the U.S. Government. Members of the MOA are encouraged to travel to Pakistan to receive religious and military/terrorist training from Sheikh Gilani.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The criterion for being an “Islamophobe” is not to actually be an anti-Muslim bigot. It’s to be a critic of CAIR and Islamism. It wasn’t being used years before 9/11. They even claim that practicing Muslims like Zuhdi Jasser and the American Islamic Congress are part of the “Islamophobia” conspiracy. Despite that logical fallacy, Michelle Leung’s article at </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Media Matters</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> even called Jasser “anti-Muslim.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Former U.S. Muslim Brotherhood member Abdur-Rahman Muhammad </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/2217/moderate-muslim-speak-out-on-capitol-hill">says</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> he was at an Islamist meeting in the 1990s where they conceived of a strategy of using the term “Islamophobia” to neutralize opponents. In September, multiple Muslim activists </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/moderate-muslims-oppose-islamophobia-tactic">decried</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the “Islamophobia” strategy.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Any time you condemn them, any time you point out their machinations or their deceit, they are going to label you an Islamophobe and who wants to be that? It is just a technique to stigmatize their critics,” Muhammad says.</span></p>
<p><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Media Matters</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">NewsHounds</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> parrot the “Islamophobia” line because their primary goal is to attack FOX News Channel, even if it means declining to defend their own liberal-progressive values from Islamists.</span></p>
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		<title>Preaching &#8216;Islamophobia&#8217; to the Choir at Saudi-Funded Georgetown</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/varisco_daniel.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220259" alt="varisco_daniel" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/varisco_daniel.jpg" width="280" height="240" /></a>“I don’t have any desire to debate </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/about-robert">Robert Spencer</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">….I would never give someone like that a forum,” Hofstra University Professor </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://people.hofstra.edu/daniel_m_varisco/hofdan.html">Daniel Martin Varisco</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> declared at Georgetown University on February 26, 2014.  Addressing the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://acmcu.georgetown.edu/">Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (ACMCU), Varisco’s equally flawed outlooks on Islam and intellectual inquiry had disturbing implications for modern academia.</span></p>
<p>Prior perusal of the opening pages of Varisco’s 2007 <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Y9TrODwrIi0C&amp;pg=PA73&amp;lpg=PA73&amp;dq=very+sore+plague+and+Venerable+bede&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=0dLFwgzQRw&amp;sig=6gsZ5oIfWaRn5anCgCeyyXT3Xw4&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=jpkOU8G7FdLcoAT8n4Fg&amp;ved=0CDQQ6AEwAw"><i>Reading Orientalism:  Said and Unsaid</i></a> did not raise hopes for his briefing “<a href="http://georgetown.localist.com/event/briefing_khutba_vs_khutzpa_islamophobia_on_the_internet_with_daniel_varisco?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_source=Georgetown">Khutba vs. Khutzpa:  Islamophobia on the Internet</a>.”  In this book, Varisco analyzes leftwing intellectual <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/palestine/resources/edwardsaid.html">Edward Said</a>’s <i>Orientalism</i> and its legacy, expressing agreement “with most of Said’s political positions on the real Orient.”  Varisco reveals his discipleship of Said with condemnations of post-World War II United States having “become by stealth and wealth the neo-colonial superpower” in which a “neocon clique…engineered the wars” not just “against” Iraq but also Afghanistan. Varisco’s one-sided estimate of historical harms includes a “PhD cataloguing of what the West did to the East and self-unfillfulling political punditry about what real individuals in the East say they want to do to the West.”</p>
<p>Yet, Varisco writes, “Said hardly scratched the surface of the vast sewerage of racist and ethnocentrist writing, art, and cinema that for so long has severed an imaginary East from the dominating West.”  “In particular,” Varisco emphasizes,</p>
<blockquote><p>almost anything that Muslims would consider holy has at one time or another been profaned by Western writers.  Perhaps the frustrated worldwide Muslim anger at <a href="http://www.salman-rushdie.com/">Salman Rushdie’s <i>The Satanic Verses</i></a> was emetic justice for centuries of vicious and malicious verbal abuse from the West, where this controversial best seller incubated.</p></blockquote>
<p>Both matters of principle and practicality deter further reading of Varisco.  “Truth with a capital T does not exist for anyone,” Varisco nonsensically proclaims as one of his “own operational truths,” thereby placing in doubt Varisco’s views. Varisco’s attempts at humor also do not amuse, such as when he describes the book’s “anal citational flow of endnotes” designed to allow a person to “read for entertainment” Varisco’s turgid tome.</p>
<p>Nothing improved during Varisco’s presentation on “Islamophobia,” described in a Powerpoint image referencing a 1991 <a href="http://www.runnymedetrust.org/">Runnymede Trust</a> report as an “<a href="http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/islamophobia/defining-islamophobia">unfounded hostility</a>” towards all things and persons Muslim.  One Powerpoint on “Combatting Islamophobia on the Internet” set a leveling tone with a recommendation of a “[f]ocus on interfaith efforts, noting that all religions have positive and negative aspects.”  This accorded with <a href="http://people.hofstra.edu/daniel_m_varisco/islamism.pdf">Varisco’s prior call for scholars</a> to “be doing all we can to refute the notion that Islam is intrinsically more violent than other religions.”  “I am not saying that these things don’t happen,” Varisco conceded when showing a <a href="http://truthfrequencyradio.com/police-rescue-afghan-woman-from-stoning/">picture of a woman undergoing a sharia stoning to death</a>.  Another Powerpoint, meanwhile, simply dismissed as “fallacy” controversies that “<a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/lawfare-strikes-again-in-germany">Muhammad was a pedophile</a> and Islam is cruel to women.”</p>
<p>Varisco gave a historical overview of longstanding negative Western views of Islam.  He noted, for example, <a href="http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/papers/dai/">Dante’s depiction of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in the <i>Inferno</i></a> and <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36486/36486.txt">unfavorable 19<sup>th</sup> century American comparisons</a> of an <a href="http://www.inplainsite.org/html/smith_and_muhammed.html">emerging Mormon faith with Islam</a>.  Varisco’s bias was evident when observing that <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/john-smith-9486928">John Smith</a> fought Ottoman Turks before coming to America without ever analyzing whether Smith might have been justified to oppose Muslim aggression.  Varisco also reiterated his previously written scorn for an “allegedly <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/bede_st.shtml">Venerable Bede</a>, who condemned invading Muslims of his time as ‘a very sore plague.’”  Why this single condemnation of marauding Muslims in France stopped at the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/today-in-history-the-battle-of-tours/">732 Battle of Tours</a> discredited this pioneering English historian in Varisco’s estimation remained unexplained.</p>
<p>In discussing the <a href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796t.asp">1797 American treaty with Tripoli</a>, meanwhile, Varisco bizarrely claimed that “we were doing a lot of trade” with the Barbary States.  As any schoolboy should know, though, this treaty, including a tribute payment, was part of <a href="http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/first-barbary-war">American trade protection efforts</a> against Barbary pirate depredations scourging the Mediterranean for centuries.  Varisco then noted with a Powerpoint image America’s subsequent Barbary Wars resulting from the failure of diplomacy to dissuade the Barbary pirates from their attacks.  “Economics is always in there somewhere,” Varisco stated in a similarly bizarre fashion when discussing the <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=4574">United States’ first encounter with jihadists</a>.</p>
<p>Turning to the present, Varisco condemned as “Islamophobic” the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/">Clarion Project</a> along with its film <a href="http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/"><i>Obsession</i></a>, the website <a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/"><i>Answering Islam</i></a>, and <a href="http://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/franklin-graham-biography/">Franklin Graham</a> for <a href="http://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/688-frank-graham-claims-islam-is-a-very-evil-and-wicked-religion.html">having called Islam “evil.”</a>  One particular focus of Varisco was the anti-Catholic writer <a href="http://www.catholic.com/documents/the-nightmare-world-of-jack-t-chick">Jack Chick</a> who in his cartoon publications had wildly slandered the <a href="http://www.chick.com/reading/comics/0117/0117_allinone.asp">Catholic Church as Islam’s inventor</a>.  Another emphasis for Varisco was evangelical <a href="http://www.joelstrumpet.com/?page_id=2916">Joel Richardson</a>’s website <a href="http://www.joels-trumpet.com/"><i>Joel’s Trumpet</i></a> with its apocalyptic predictions of an “<a href="http://www.joelstrumpet.com/?p=3455">Islamic Antichrist</a>.”</p>
<p>The little discussed elephant in the room for perceptive “Islamophobia” observers during Varisco’s presentation, though, was “Islamophobe” Number One, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/"><i>Jihad Watch</i></a> website founder Spencer.  Varisco cited a <a href="https://cair.com/press-center/cair-in-the-news/8961-robert-spencer-islam-is-a-false-religion.html">Spencer quotation</a> from his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Islam-Catholics-Questions-Answers/dp/0965922855"><i>Inside Islam:  A Guide for Catholics</i></a> listed at the website <a href="http://spencerwatch.com/spenceritis/"><i>Spencer Watch</i></a>.  Varisco once again failed to explain why Spencer’s condemnations of Islam as an “often downright false revelation” and “threat to the world at large” were unacceptable.  Varisco also noted a <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/02/indoctrinating-the-youth-at-georgetown-university">recent <i>Jihad Watch</i> entry</a> criticizing his very Georgetown briefing.</p>
<p>Audience questions, however, focused on Spencer.  Varisco discussed his refusal to debate Spencer as “someone who just hates Islam,” yet claimed that in any hypothetical encounter he “would beat the whatever out of him.”  ACMCU head <a href="http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/jle2/">John Esposito</a> concurred with the “Combatting Islamophobia in the Internet” assessment of “little value in debating Islamophobic speakers in academic settings since it gives them a forum.”  Such encounters with Spencer “would be enhancing his credibility.”  Yet in discussing partisan websites, Esposito complained that “nobody accepts the other side as objective.” “Cranks” like Spencer, an audience member meanwhile argued, belonged at Hyde Park Corner.</p>
<p>Although Esposito dismissed Spencer as a scholar, he nonetheless sneered that he wrote “best-selling books” while discussing worries about Spencer’s popularity.  Noting the influence of popular culture, Esposito complained that “Islamophobic websites score very, very high.”  Varisco bemoaned that such websites outperformed his own <a href="http://tabsir.net/"><i>Tabsir</i></a> website and without irony cited a need for people like him to create “more books…that people can read.”</p>
<p>The “Vast Rightwing Conspiracy is better at” advocacy “than our lefty friends,” the audience member who had called Spencer a “crank” agreed.  “Lots of money” also appeared as an advantage for “Islamophobic” groups to Esposito. Esposito did not say whether this money outweighed the <a href="http://acmcu.georgetown.edu/about">$20 million Saudi namesake grant to ACMCU</a> or <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6709">George Soros funding</a> and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/robert-spencer/the-splcs-ridiculous-hate-group-list/">six-figure salaries</a> at the likeminded <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/">Center for American Progress</a> and <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/">Southern Poverty Law Center</a>, respectively.</p>
<p>Amidst this uniform opposition to Spencer et al. from fewer than 20 people in the briefing room, one audience member sounded an independent note.  Observing that he was the only black person in the room, the young man discussed how he did not see Spencer’s work as a “race issue” but rather as opposition to Islamic extremism.  Because of this “my country is in ruins now” he said with respect to the Somali homeland of his Muslim father.</p>
<p>Varisco answered by attributing violence in Somalia and other majority-Muslim societies not to Islamic ideology but rather to Somalia’s “colonial experience,” pre-Arab Spring dictators, or Western countries “pumping weapons” into these countries.  Another audience member spoke of Somalia’s “tribal roots.”  “I don’t think you put blame on one individual,” Varisco meanwhile responded to the black man’s query about responsibility for Afghan violence following <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/terry_jones_pastor/">Terry Jones</a> Koran burning.  Absolving Muslim murderers and other criminals at least partly from their individual responsibility, Varisco analogized to an arsonist setting alight a carelessly tended house.</p>
<p>In all, Varisco’s briefing exposed much of modern academia’s shallowness.  True to multicultural shibboleth, Varisco refused to identify any uniquely disturbing aspects of Islam and dismissed all past aversion towards this faith as prejudice.  Varisco’s minimalist treatment of Spencer, meanwhile, accorded with an unwillingness to respect this <a href="http://juicyecumenism.com/2013/07/27/cutting-through-theological-confusion-robert-spencers-not-peace-but-a-sword-distinctly-divides-christianity-from-islam/">lucidly insightful scholar</a>.  Rather, Varisco grouped Spencer with far more lightweight individuals like Chick and Richardson with whom Catholics like Spencer or his colleague <a href="http://www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org/about/leaders/robert-j-muise-esq/">Robert Muise</a> of the <a href="http://www.americanfreedomlawcenter.org/">American Freedom Law Center</a> have little commonality.  The expressed worries of Varisco, Esposito, and others, however, give hope that their efforts to silence their opposition will fail.</p>
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		<title>CAIR Still Trying to Blame Muslim Honor Killing on &#8220;American Racism&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2014 15:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>There was a time when the<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/worst-anti-muslim-hate-crime-in-america-was-committed-by-muslim/"> left was quite interested in Shaima Alawadi</a>, back when they fell for her husband&#8217;s lie that she had been killed by some anti-Muslim bigot&#8230; instead of by him.</p>
<blockquote><p>When Shaima Alawadi was found beaten to death in her own dining room with a tire iron, CAIR and countless Muslim organizations rejoiced, and not just for the usual reason that Muslims rejoice when a woman is murdered.</p>
<p>A note lying on the floor read, “Go back to your country, you terrorist;” which clearly meant that Shaima Alawadi’s murder was a hate crime.</p>
<p>The truth about the murder of Shaima Alawadi was that she wasn’t murdered by someone who hated Islam, but by a Muslim, in keeping with the teachings of Islam which permit husbands to beat their wives.  Shaima Alawadi was indeed murdered because of her Hijab, not because of prejudice against her Hijab, but because of the misogynistic culture that the Hijab represents.</p>
<p>Like so many Muslim women, Shaima Alawadi was murdered in an honor killing by her husband. Like so many Muslim women, she was forced into an arranged marriage at a young age, 15, and lived an unhappy life. Like so many Muslim women, she perpetuated the generational oppression of women, passing on the same misery to her unhappy daughters. And like so many Muslim women, when her desire for freedom conflicted with the Islamic patriarchy, she was murdered for it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Then the truth came out and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/why-the-left-abadoned-shaima-alawadi-on-the-glazov-gang/">the left lost interest in</a> Shaima once they learned that her killer was a Muslim. But CAIR is still trying to keep the lie alive.</p>
<p>The Chicago Monitor, which is a front site for<a href="http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/217654.php"> CAIR in Chicago, featured an article claiming</a> that &#8220;Shaima Alawadi was beat to death inside her home and left next to a note that read, &#8216;This is my country. Go back to yours, terrorist.&#8217; She was a 32-year-old mother of five who had left her country, Iraq, with her family following the Shiite uprisings, in hopes of finding peace in El Cajon, CA. These two now-lifeless Americans represent the true victims of America’s inherent racism and prejudice.&#8221;</p>
<p>Right. <a href="http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/10/shaima-alawadis-murder-a-hate-crime-against-women/">America&#8217;s inherent racism and prejudice</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>New information in the Shaima Alawadi murder case in El Cajon, Calif., suggests that the family was cracking over a forced marriage for daughter Fatima, 17, and that Alawadi herself was preparing to divorce her husband. If female freedom turns out to be at the heart of the murder, it will highlight not so much the intolerance of Muslim immigrants by Americans, but the cultural restrictions on women in those communities and what happens when those restrictions clash with the relatively permissive rules of Western society.</p>
<p>Alawadi, 32, belonged to a culture in which families choose husbands for their daughters at a young age, and the daughters have no say in it. She was married by the age of 15. She had produced five children with her husband Kassim Alhimidi, who moved his family to the U.S. 17 years ago. Police executing search warrants on the family’s house, cars and phones found documents in Alawadi’s car indicating she was planning to get divorced.</p>
<p>What’s more, Alawadi’s 17-year-old daughter seems to have been rebelling against her own forced marriage. According to court documents revealed in the New York Times, Alawadi’s eldest daughter, Fatima, was found in a car with a 21-year-old man. After her mother picked her up, Fatima said “I love you, Mom” and jumped out of the car going 35 m.p.h., sustaining injuries. While recovering in the hospital, Fatima told authorities that she was being forced to marry a cousin in Iraq — not the man with whom she’d been in the car.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Man-Accused-of-Wifes-Murder-Breaks-Down-in-Court-217017301.html">And&#8230;</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Kassim Al-Himidi, 49, faces charges of first degree murder in the beating of his wife, Shaima Alawadi, 32. On Thursday, he broke down in court as his daughter described finding her mother lying in a pool of blood.</p>
<p>Fatima testified that her parents&#8217; marriage started experiencing trouble in August 2011. Things really got bad in January, she said.</p>
<p>Her mother had planned to get a divorce and move to Texas, Fatima said. She testified that her father saw the divorce papers and laughed at her mother. She said her mother was furious that he wasn&#8217;t taking her seriously.</p>
<p>Then after her mother&#8217;s death, Fatima testified she heard Al-Himidi say he had thrown objects out of his van &#8220;shoes and a metal thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He said yes, that he did throw it away because he was afraid that the cops will suspect it was him,&#8221; she testified</p>
<p>On Thursday, the victim&#8217;s brother, Hasseneen Alawadi, told NBC 7 he knows Al-Himidi is guilty.</p>
<p>&#8220;We know the truth, but it has to be proven here in court today. The truth is, Kassim Al-Himihi killed my sister,&#8221; said Hasseneen.</p>
<p>&#8220;When [Shaima] left home for two days [before her murder], she was coming to my house, to me and my other brother&#8217;s house, to run away from him [Al-Himidi],&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>On Friday, a judge ordered Al-Himidi to stand trial for the murder of his wife. The trial is set to begin next month. If convicted, Al-Himidi faces 26 years to life in prison.</p></blockquote>
<p>But don&#8217;t expect CAIR to stop telling the same lies.</p>
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		<title>Anti-Semitic Muslim Professor Forces Students to Tweet on Islamophobia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 00:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2173">Hatem Bazian</a> is one of the leading figures in promoting Islamization and hate on American campuses. Old Hate&#8217;em pioneered open support for terrorism and anti-semitism on campus.</p>
<blockquote><p>Steven Emerson, in his book American Jihad, quotes Bazian sermonizing at an American Muslim Alliance conference in May 1999, promoting the Islamic State of Palestine. Excerpts from the quote read, “In the Hadith, the Day of Judgment will never happen until you fight the Jews . . . and the stones will say, ‘Oh Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him!’”</p>
<p>After a 2002 Students for Justice in Palestine rally at UC Berkeley resulted in the arrest of 79 protesters, Bazian spoke at a follow-up rally protesting the arrests. &#8220;If you want to know where the pressure on the university [i.e., to prosecute the demonstrators] is coming from, look at the Jewish names on the school buildings,&#8221; he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>And <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6368">Bazian also helped raise money for Hamas</a>. So <a href="http://halalporkshop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/uc-berkeley-professor-forces-students.html">naturally Hatem Bazian</a> is <a href="http://www.torontosun.com/2014/02/05/berkeley-students-must-tweet-on-islamophobia">worried about Islamophobia</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Two weeks ago, I received a panicked message from a student enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley.</p>
<p>He wrote: “I’ve been told by one of my professors I will be required, as part of my grade, to start a Twitter account and tweet weekly on Islamophobia. I can’t help but feel this is unethical. This is his agenda not mine.”</p>
<p>The professor conducting this exercise was Hatem Bazian as part of a course titled, “Asian American Studies 132AC: Islamophobia”.</p>
<p>When I asked him to elaborate on his concerns the student wrote: “There are 100 students in the class, all of us forced to create individual Twitter accounts. I’m not wholly clear on what our final project is yet (I find it very interesting that he excludes both the Twitter account requirement AND the final project from his official syllabus), but we have to meet with a group in San Francisco, and our class will be surveying people of color on the impact of some ads put out by (anti-Sharia blogger) Pamela Gellar. Now I’m no Pamela Gellar fan, I think she’s nuts, but I feel &#8230; between the Twitter stuff and the final project he’s basically using us as unpaid labor to work on his agenda.”</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>The fact remains Prof. Bazian appears to be using his position of authority to make 100 students — mostly non-Muslims — tweet about Muslim victimhood in America, irrespective of how it’s defined or whether it exists.</p>
<p>No student I have seen on Twitter has yet posted a tweet saying Islamophobia is a myth, nor has any student challenged the validity of the term.</p>
<p>Here is a sampling of tweets by Prof. Bazian’s students:</p>
<p>One tweeted: “How difficult it is to be a Muslim woman in America”; Another wrote about “Islamophobia in Canada”; while a third tweeted, “One perspective of Islam is to view it as inferior to the West. Where does this notion of cultural superiority come from?”</p></blockquote>
<p>This abusive behavior isn&#8217;t a unique invention by Bazian. Academics use their students to push agendas on social media and increasingly tie classwork to online activities blurring the line between required classwork and personal advocacy.</p>
<p>Even aside from Hatem Bazian&#8217;s hateful views, that&#8217;s a troubling boundary issue with students being forced to put forward a single opinion as their own in a public forum that goes outside the school. It&#8217;s the equivalent of ordering students to write letters to the editor promoting a particular point of view and only that point of view. It&#8217;s an inversion of academic freedom.</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Me vs. Obama for &#8220;Islamophobe of the Year&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to vote for me in an election against Obama, here&#8217;s your chance. After being featured as an official one-man hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (the richest poverty group ever), this latest honor was inevitable.</p>
<p>Still t<a href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-murray/2014/02/islamophobe-of-the-year/">he competition here is pretty stiff</a>. There&#8217;s Obama, but he&#8217;s a pushover. But there&#8217;s also Dick Cheney, Stephen Harper, Daniel Pipes and Bare Naked Islam. And that&#8217;s just in the US category.</p>
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<p>Globally, I&#8217;m up against General Sisi, Francois Hollande (for pushing Al Qaeda out of Mali), Aung San Suu Kyi, Geert Wilders and the Bahrain monarchy.</p>
<p>Sure, some of them are Muslims, but the Islamophobe of the Year Awards is dedicated to making the term Islamophobe even more meaningless by using it to refer to Muslims that Islamists dislike, including, &#8220;Raheem Kasaam (Student Rights), for demonising Muslims on issue of gender segregation.&#8221;</p>
<p>Douglas Murray, a nominee from the UK, <a href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-murray/2014/02/islamophobe-of-the-year/">has more to say about this wackiness</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Secondly, I have always desired the award because the term ‘Islamophobia’ itself is so fantastical and ridiculous. Winning an award with it in the title would be like waking up to discover I had been given a prize by the Queen of Wonderland.</p>
<p>And thirdly – perhaps indeed the main impetus – is that this award is given by the ‘Islamic Human Rights Commission’ (IHRC). This hilariously misnamed body has been a force behind many key human rights advances of recent years, such as the annual ‘Al-Quds day march’ where Hezbollah supporters and others march through the centre of London calling for the destruction of the Jewish state.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Anyhow – I hope I do win. As a Khomeinist organisation the IHRC may wish to celebrate by hanging me from a crane, as is customary in Iran. As it is, I am content with my nomination and can only keep my fingers crossed that I make their cut.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>If I lose, all I can do is promise the IHRC that I will do everything in my power to do better next year.</p></blockquote>
<p>If I don&#8217;t beat Obama this year, there&#8217;s always next year.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/30172155ff9272ceae50b49222b1eebf.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210394" alt="30172155ff9272ceae50b49222b1eebf" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/30172155ff9272ceae50b49222b1eebf.jpg" width="286" height="229" /></a>“Islamophobia” has broken out at Washington University of St. Louis, sparking outrage, grief, an “open solidarity forum,” and an avalanche of groveling apologies from university administrators.</p>
<p>It all started, according to the university’s independent student paper <a href="http://www.studlife.com/news/2013/11/07/controversial-halloween-photo-spurs-online-dialogue-on-cultural-sensitivity/">Student Life</a>, with a “controversial Halloween photograph” that went “viral” and became an “emotional trigger” for Muslim students, “bringing back memories of personal experiences with racism.”</p>
<p>The offending photo featured a group of students apparently dressed as soldiers pointing waterguns at a student dressed as Osama bin Laden, or perhaps as a generic Islamic terrorist.</p>
<p>Oh, the hatred! The racism! The “Islamophobia”! A Muslim student, Mahroh Jahangiri, posted a screenshot of the horrific photo on her Facebook page, with its original caption, which showed that the students in the photo themselves approached the idea of fighting against jihad terror with a certain irony: “Halloween ‘13. Amurrica!!” But the irony was lost on Jahangiri, who added a seven-paragraph caption of her own, fulminating that the photo represented “a broader, more aggressive (and apparently violent) Islamophobia rampant here at WashU and in the United States.”</p>
<p>Jahangiri, who has served as an <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mahroh-jahangiri/43/911/109">intern with the Department of Homeland Security</a>, claimed that as a Muslim she had been discriminated against at the university, called om students to “RAISE HELL ABOUT THIS,” and complained: “I find it hard to believe that if this was a black man or a gay man or a Latino man with guns aimed at his face, that black students or queer students or Latino students would not have been up in arms. But because this costume did not represent my friends’ communities, it did not warrant a response.”</p>
<p>Of course, a black man or a gay man or a Latino man didn’t murder 3,000 people on September 11, 2001 in the name of being black or gay or Latino. Black men and gay men and Latino men have not declared their determination of “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions,” <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/document/id/20">as has the Muslim Brotherhood</a>, of which the Muslim Students Association is an affiliate.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, Washington University Vice Chancellor Sharon Stahl, her eyes no doubt still stinging from being subjected to the visual assault of having to view this photo, appeared at the Muslim Students Association’s “open solidarity forum,” at which she issued an abject apology to Muslim students and took the fall for other administrators: “I am the person, the only person, to whom this posting was sent on Halloween,” she said, “I made a grave mistake in not responding sooner than I did. I deeply regret that. If I could go back and undo this, I would, but I can’t, so I have to accept the responsibility of my mistake. I apologize, and I hope that moving forward you will be able to find it in your hearts to give me that grace.”</p>
<p>Despite Stahl’s willingness to fall on her sword alone, however, she was joined by Chancellor Mark Wrighton and Provost Holden Thorp in a joint statement on what is clearly the worst thing ever to have happened at Washington University of St. Louis: “As a community,” the bemused triumvirate wrote, “one of our highest priorities is to maintain an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome. Images like the one that was posted on a social media site by students on Halloween and the impact it has had reminds us that we all must be united in this effort and it must be on-going. Whatever the intention, the image has offended and hurt members of our community. The image also is entirely inconsistent with who we are as an institution, our values and the way in which we engage in the world around us. “We are deeply disappointed and saddened that this has occurred. We must expect better of ourselves and of each other.”</p>
<p>MSA president Ishaq Winters was scarcely mollified, huffing that “the gravity of this matter extends much beyond the photo itself. The ensuing, oftentimes hateful comments of fellow students expose wider concerns…the silence on the part of the administration and majority of our student body speaks to the systemic nature of the challenges to our university’s principles of inclusion and equality, challenges that we must address moving forward.”</p>
<p>Another Muslim student, Imran Mumtaz, was more magnanimous: “I strongly believe that the people involved in the image are college students just like us, and we’ll consider that they made a mistake. At the end of all of this, we need to accept that we need to forgive them.” However, he added that “what we need to take away from this is that we need to not just have one event and say, ‘I recognize these issues exist. I tried to commit to change by going to a solidarity forum.’ Yeah, great. But we need to realize that we need to have these discussions every day.”</p>
<p>Indeed we do. And at them, we need to be allowed to ask the real questions, such as: Are there Islamic jihadis waging war against the United States? Yes, there are. Isn’t the claim of Muslim organizations in the U.S. that they condemn and abhor terrorism? Yes, it is. So if that is the case, then why would the MSA object to a Halloween photograph of “soldiers” pointing guns at a “terrorist”? Shouldn’t they be applauding the capture of a “terrorist” who is “hijacking” their religion, even in a Halloween spoof? Instead, the Muslim students made the same false claim that Islamic supremacists always make regarding counter-jihadists and counter-terror efforts in general: that the fight against jihad terror somehow targets all Muslims and falsely holds them responsible for the crimes of the jihadis. Yet the only ones saying that “all Muslims” are somehow defamed by this Halloween photo, or by counter-terror efforts, are those Islamic supremacists, not foes of jihad.</p>
<p>Apparently absent, conspicuously so, from the MSA’s Muslim victimhood orgy was any discussion of whether Islamic jihad against non-Muslims is a reality, and of whether or not it is permissible under any circumstances to resist it. The MSA and other groups like it have been working for years to stigmatize any and all resistance to jihad terror as “racism,” and this ridiculous episode is just the latest example of how successful they have been.</p>
<p>In a sane world, the MSA would never have made a big deal about the photo, and if asked for comment about it, would have said that there were Islamic jihadists waging war against the U.S., and that it was perfectly reasonable and acceptable for these boys to stage a Halloween photo based on that fact.</p>
<p>But at Washington University of St. Louis, it is not a sane world. Noting that Islamic jihadis are at war with the U.S., and determining to defend the U.S., is “racism” and “hatred.” But the only real hatred here is the self-hatred of university administrators, who hate their country and its principles so deeply that they have allowed the defense of that nation and principles to be thoroughly demonized.</p>
<p>The way things are going, they will probably get the world they want. Then and only then, it will probably dawn on some of them that there was a time when they could have helped stop all this in its tracks and turned it back, and that instead, they invited it and enabled it. The world of horrors that engulfs them will be the world they so yearned for, wished for, and worked for.</p>
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		<title>Ten Years of Jihad Watch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2013 04:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ever-expanding chronicle of jihad savagery and Islamic supremacism.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jw.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-208942" alt="jw" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jw.jpg" width="320" height="320" /></a>Ten years ago, on October 28, 2003, I started Jihad Watch. Since then I’ve been at it every day (except for two or three days out of 3,650, missed due to travel), putting up 34,056 posts (out of a total of 44,415) containing news and commentary about jihad activity, domestic and international, violent and stealthy.</p>
<p>I have done what I set out to do: document and chronicle a certain level of violence and thuggery, as well as supremacist calls for and predictions of conquest and domination, and show how they derive their inspiration and impetus from Islamic texts and teachings. The point of doing this was not (as the relentless cliché has it) to “demonize” Islam or Muslims, but to prove that there is a problem within Islam that needs to be addressed by people of good will, Muslim and non-Muslim &#8212; a problem that would not be solved by concession, accommodation, or appeasement. By refusing to address this problem, and instead defaming those who have dared to raise it, Muslim and Leftist organizations in the U.S. and Europe have demonized themselves.</p>
<p>While I was impatient with George W. Bush’s “Islam is a religion of peace” posturing, it seemed so self-evidently absurd to me and so many others at the time that it never occurred to me when I started this site that the broad mainstream of the public discourse would ever consider the Jihad Watch effort, or the three books I had published about Islam before starting the site, to be remotely controversial. The point was blazingly obvious; it just had to be reinforced since it was being so brazenly denied, in the face of so much evidence.</p>
<p>Now, 44,415 Jihad Watch posts later, the evidence has been marshaled with numbing repetition, and yet the point is more elusive than ever &#8212; smothered in an avalanche of propaganda from well-heeled Leftist and Islamic supremacist propaganda mills loudly claiming that to discuss this issue, to amass this evidence, to make this blazingly obvious point, is “hatred” and “bigotry.” The timid cower and scuttle away, afraid of being connected with something so “controversial.” The opportunistic mouth the currently acceptable pieties, and climb the ladder of success to the extent that they’re willing to sell their souls.</p>
<p>Much of the last ten years has revolved around controversies regarding “Islamophobia.” Critics of Jihad Watch tar the site with this term and leave it at that. For that reason among others, I’ve devoted considerable attention over the years to exposing the concept of “Islamophobia” for what it really is: a term used by Muslim Brotherhood organizations to intimidate non-Muslims away from criticizing or resisting the jihad and Islamic supremacism. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has billions and uses them to bury us in hot steaming piles of nonsense about how Islam teaches peace and tolerance and “believe us, not your lying eyes.” They use them also to continue to demonize and marginalize everyone who dares speak out in defense of human rights against Sharia.</p>
<p>Their Big Lie is designed to obscure the Islamic motivations behind jihad terror, and to disarm resistance to jihad and Islamic supremacism, by blaring the Big Lie everywhere.  But there is one thing they will not do and could not do even if they wanted to: they will not stop jihad terror attacks committed in the name of Islam. They will not stop people from waving Qur’ans and shouting “Allahu akbar” before cold-bloodedly murdering innocent people, including children.</p>
<p>That is why their campaign, for all the money behind it, is doomed to fail: they will never be able to stop people from seeing that there is something violent, something supremacist, something that needs to be reformed and rejected from within Islam, but that Muslim organizations are dissembling about instead of confronting. Every day the truth comes out, somewhere, in the form of mangled bodies, terrified children, and horrified bystanders suddenly awakening to reality as they make their way on a ground slippery with blood. Every day people die not because of “Islamophobia,” but because of Islamic jihad. And every day, media and government elites cover for that jihad and do everything they can to shift the focus away from the real cause of the violence.</p>
<p>That’s why Jihad Watch remains necessary.</p>
<p>In the face of the moneyed propaganda barrage demonizing truth tellers and pushing the “Islamophobia” myth, the task is sisyphean, and perhaps pointless. At the same time, because of the ubiquity of this propaganda barrage, the task has to be done more than ever. The truth remains as obvious as it always was; it is the minds of human beings that can be so clouded that they cannot see it. And so here’s to another ten years &#8212; or as much time as we have &#8212; of truth and clarity.</p>
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		<title>Geneva Conference Moves Toward Criminalizing &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 04:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Weiss]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/oic_summit_cairo_02_06_2013.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-208148" alt="oic_summit_cairo_02_06_2013" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/oic_summit_cairo_02_06_2013-450x346.jpg" width="270" height="208" /></a>In its quest to criminalize speech that’s critical of all Islam-related topics, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)* endorsed the formation of a new Advisory Media Committee to address “Islamophobia.”</span></b></p>
<p>This past September, the OIC held “<a href="http://www.oic-oci.org/oicv2/topic/?t_id=8420&amp;t_ref=3391&amp;lan=en">The First International Conference on Islamophobia: Law &amp; Media</a>.”  The conference endorsed numerous recommendations which arose from prior workshops on Islamophobia from media, legal and political perspectives.  A main conclusion was the consensus to institutionalize the conference and create an Advisory Media Committee to meet under the newly established OIC Media Forum based in Istanbul Turkey.</p>
<p>Supposedly, the purpose of the conference was to support an OIC campaign to <a href="http://www.oic-oci.org/oicv2/topic/?t_id=8420&amp;t_ref=3391&amp;lan=en">“correct the image of Islam and Muslims in Europe and North America.”</a>  By this, it means to whitewash the intolerant, violent and discriminatory aspects of Islam and Islamists.  The OIC has launched a campaign to provide disinformation to the public, delinking all Islam from these undesirable traits and attacks all who insist on these truths, as bigots, racists and Islamophobes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.comcec.org/TR_YE/Yeni_Site_Dokumanlar/Basic_Documents/OIC_Charter.pdf">The OIC is a 57 member organization consisting of Muslim countries</a> whose long term goal is the worldwide implementation of Sharia law and <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/oic_and_the_modern_caliphate.html">seemingly the ultimate establishment of a Caliphate</a>.  Its members tend to vote together as a block in the UN, so it is extremely powerful, despite the fact that few people have heard of it.</p>
<p>Its present goal is the international <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/islamic_world_tells_clinton_defamation_of_islam_must_be_prevented_in_america.html">criminalization of all speech that “defames” Islam</a>, which the OIC defines as anything that sheds a negative light on Islam or Muslims, even when it’s true.</p>
<p>Its target is the West and one of its tactics is to accuse those who criticize Islam or its various interpretations as <a href="http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/122029/norway-attacks-reinforce-need-for-united-stand-against-intolerance.html">“Islamophobic.”</a>  It is attempting to pass the equivalent of Islamic blasphemy codes in the West, using accusations of bigotry to silence anyone who speaks the truth about Islamic terrorism or Islamic persecution of religious minorities.</p>
<p>The OIC uses international bodies such as the UN and international “<a href="http://www.ihsanoglu.com/en/topic_details.asp?tID=346">consensus building</a>” as a platform to achieve its goals.  Certainly, if the OIC straightforwardly informed America and Europe of its aspirations to silence speech, it would gain no strides.  Therefore, it uses bureaucratic, unaccountable entities such as the UN as a means to make inroads, using watered down language and words that sound palatable to the West in order to deceive the public about its underlying goals.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the OIC has been fairly successful in passing <a href="http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/E/HRC/resolutions/A_HRC_RES_7_19.pdf">UN resolutions that if implemented, would have the effect of stifling speech that “defames religions</a>.”  Of course, the OIC is only concerned with the defamation of Islam.  Indeed, OIC countries all have some sort of Islamic blasphemy laws which prohibit such defamation.  To be certain, these laws are regularly used to criminally punish those who speak critically of Islam.  These laws are also used to justify persecution of religious minorities.  For example, in many OIC countries, openly practicing a version of Islam not sanctioned by the government can land one in jail for blasphemy.  The OIC has no reciprocity in refraining from “defamation” of Judaism, Christianity, or other religions.</p>
<p>After the US realized that the UN resolution to Combat Defamation of Religions had a potentially disastrous impact on free expression, the US State Department asked the OIC to draft an alternative resolution that would address “Islamophobia” concerns and still retain free speech.  <a href="http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/4db960f92.pdf">The OIC produced Resolution 16/18 to Combat Intolerance Based on Religion or Belief. </a>Initially, the State Department interpreted this resolution to protect religious minorities of all stripes from discrimination and violence, while still retaining freedom of speech.</p>
<p>The OIC, however, has made it clear that it clings to its goal to protect Islam from so-called defamation.  Indeed, it has manipulated the language in resolution to do just that.</p>
<p>Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, spokesman for the OIC Secretary General has explained that <a href="http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentid=20130218153611">the OIC’s goal is to make “denigration of religions” a crime. </a>Somehow, over time, the State Department appears to have adopted the OIC’s view that the West is Islamophobic and that Islam is a religion of peace which should never be associated with terrorism.  Toward this end, the Obama Administration has completely <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/robert-spencer/obama-adminstration-bans-the-truth-about-islam-and-jihad/">purged all its counterterrorism training programs</a> from any mention of Islamic terrorism.  Only “right-wing extremists” persist in using the term, and of course are “Islamophobes” for doing so.</p>
<p>The OIC’s claims that it seeks to protect all religions and religious symbols from defamation are patently false and are contrary to the actions of the OIC countries which discriminate against infidels.  In Saudi Arabia, Jews are denied citizenship; in Iran, Baha’is are denied equal employment opportunities; in Pakistan, Ahmadiyya Muslims are jailed for openly practicing their faith, and there’s a genocide against Coptic Christians in Egypt.  Many OIC countries also prohibit the building or repair of churches and synagogues as well as public worship by minority religions.</p>
<p>The September meeting constituted <a href="http://www.thewashingtonreview.org/articles/will-istanbul-process-relieve-the-tension-between-the-muslim-world-and-the-west.html">the third Istanbul Conference</a>:  international meetings designed to implement Resolution 16/18 in support of the OIC’s agenda to combat “Islamophobia” in the West.</p>
<p>If the OIC really wanted to combat Islamophobia, it would persuade terrorists to refrain from violence; it would condemn the genocide of Coptic Christians in Egypt and it would spare little girls from forced marriages in OIC countries. The OIC has the power to stop the denigration of Jewish, Christian, Zorastrian and Baha’i religious symbols in the OIC countries.  It can pressure OIC member states to implement domestic policies that will honor and respect minority religions in the Middle East and elsewhere.  Do this, and “Islamophobia” in the West will dissipate.</p>
<p>Instead, the OIC requests that the media censor their reports about Islamic terrorism, Islamic persecution of religious minorities and human rights violations committed in the name of Islam, as an interim step toward the criminalization of such speech.  All of this will only serve to increase, not decrease “Islamophobia.”</p>
<p>The clash of civilizations widens.</p>
<p><i>*The Organization of Islamic Cooperation was originally called The Organization of Islamic Conference, but changed its name in 2011.</i></p>
<p><i>This article was commissioned by </i><a href="http://www.legal-project.org/"><i>The Legal Project</i></a><i>, an activity of the Middle East Forum.</i></p>
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