My latest in PJ Media:
Hatem Bazian, director of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender, offered a startling revelation recently to Religion News Service (RNS): Muslims at American colleges and universities are suffering through a horror show of hatred, bigotry, and discrimination. “The Muslim is presumed guilty” on American campuses, Bazian declared, “and as such, (they) experience verbal harassment, bullying, even physical attacks. But the assumption is that the Muslim is the instigator.” Considering the large number of fake “Islamophobic” hate crimes, this claim is dubious at best, but RNS runs with it at face value. There are powerful people in the United States today who very much want you believe this sort of thing.
Bazian is not alone. The California chapter of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) claims that “nearly 40% of the Muslim students experience harassment or discrimination, based on their religious identity, from peers, campus administrators and other personnel.” As evidence, RNS offers a recent graduate of San Diego State University, Amna Omar, who claims she was told that she was “oppressed” during a classroom discussion about her jilbab, a full-body covering. The student who told her she was “oppressed” also told her to “go back home,” and neither the professor nor any other students rushed to defend her.
This is a far cry from Bazian’s nightmare scenario of verbal harassment and physical attacks. In fact, it hardly amounts to anything at all. There are rude classroom exchanges every day, and for the most part, they aren’t trumpeted as evidence of a deep and systemic racism or hatred. But there is clearly an agenda at play here, as there is virtually everywhere these days. “Experiences like Omar’s,” RNS reports solemnly, “are compounded by constant slights such as the lack of spaces to pray, a deficit of chaplains as well as meal and exam schedules that don’t accommodate Muslims’ religious needs.”
Those things may be true, but they are less evidence of a deep bias against Muslims than they are an indication of the fact that the Muslim presence in the United States is relatively recent, such that colleges and universities are relatively new targets of Islamic advocacy groups’ demands for accommodation. However, “some students and their advocates are now pushing for recognition that anti-Muslim bias is as much a problem as discrimination against other ethnic or racial groups and needs to be addressed in similar ways.”
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Jim says
Muslims and their supporters typically say that. They forget all the evil that Islam has done. I would guess it is the opposite. Jews and Christians are bashed on US campuses, while Muslims are treated like they were sacred, the true chosen people of God or Allah.
mortimer says
Hatem Bazian, on the other hand, claims that anyone who sees factual problems or valid, reasonable criticisms concerning Islam is PRESUMED GUILTY OF BEING A BIGOT.
Hatem Bazian knows full well that KAFIRS are all PRESUMED GUILTY under Sharia law.
Melc says
This problem which has now drawn in the question of free speech and self censorship in discussion and debate. Being an atheist is a target attacked by followers not only of Islam but Christianity also.
As the number of Christians falls, Islam is filling the religious void and sees the opportunity to plant its Sharia wherever this happens
bill says
Seriously a Chair in Islamophobia? US universities must be even more far gone than I supposed,
of course it is in Califonria which is a loonatic asylum to start with
mortimer says
It would be more honest to call it the CHAIR OF ANTI-KAFIR CENSORSHIP.
Kenneth J Johnson says
Constant slights such as the lack of spaces to pray, a deficit of chaplainsk as well as meal and exam schedules that don’t accomodate Muslims religious needs. One or two percent of the student population necessitates all this.When I went to college we ate when we could, and missed many meals becuse we needed more time in study halll or the library, We were in college to learn and adapt, not to make special rules for each subgroup of students- -Expecting students to adapt their schedules to the needs of
the univerfsity – slights, prejudice . Many yong people don’t have the opportunity to even get a higher education. Slights indeed¡¡ KEN
gravenimage says
Berkeley Professor of ‘Islamophobia’ Claims ‘the Muslim Is Presumed Guilty’ on U.S. Campuses
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Absolute crap from Hatem Bazian–the fact is that this is the exact *opposite* of reality on university campuses today.
Wellington says
Seconded.
mortimer says
Yes, GI, exactly the OPPOSITE of what Hatem claims. In fact, SHARIA LAW declares that ALL KAFIRS are PRESUMED dirty and GUILTY.
Moral goodness is irrelevant as far as Sharia law. If you reject Mohammed, you are PRESUMED GUILTY and NOT DESERVING TO LIVE under DISCRIMINATORY Sharia law.
Wellington says
I have no problem presuming a Muslim is guilty just because they are a Muslim. Ditto for a KKK member, an anarchist, a Neo-Nazi, a BLM member, an Antifa member (Note to all Democrats and the FBI: Antifa is not just an idea, it’s an organization), a Satanist, a Marxist, et al.
Common sense and self-preservation requires that those who adhere to a heinous ideology or organization be suspect from the get-go. Live with it Muslims. And my advice to any Muslim is cease being a Muslim (unless of course doing so would jeopardize your life because apostates are to be killed per Islamthink {e.g., Sura 4:89} but you can still leave Islam deep within the recesses of your mind and spirit and thus be rid of the shackles of Mo’s creed).
I would add that no Muslim should be harmed just because they are a Muslim but ditto for a KKK member, an anarchist, a Neo-Nazi, a BLM member—well, you get the idea.
mortimer says
Good reasoning from Wellington. It is not bigoted nor prejudiced to presume that a Muslim agrees with and endorses the Constitution of Islam as expressed in discriminatory Sharia law.
It is reasonable to presume that Muslims endorse forced child marriages, FGM, slavery, Sharia supremacism, hand-chopping, head-chopping, jihad against kafirs, polygamy, temporary muta marriage, taqiyya, cruelty to animals and many other things for which Islam is justly criticized by modern-thinking people … including Leftists.
If a seemingly modern Muslims doesn’t denounce such things firmly and decisively, I PRESUME that Muslim is living with SEVERE COGNITIVE DISSONANCE and that he is secretly thinking of leaving Islam.
mortimer says
Wellington wrote: “Common sense and self-preservation requires that those who adhere to a heinous ideology or organization be suspect from the get-go.”
1) since Sharia law commands Muslims to conduct aggressive jihad no less than two times a year, we must presume that Muslims are secretly planning jihads against us.
2) since taqiyya (sacred prevarication) is a canonized teaching of Islam, it is common sense to PRESUME that Muslims will lie to us in order to gain advantage over us.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Bottom line:
It is not only incredibly foolhardy – but also very dangerous – to assume that any given muslim does NOT follow the letter and spirit of the koran. Or that “mo” is the “perfect man”.
At least in the United States, muslims are generally free to leave islam. Ergo, the ones that stay with it have to be, at least, somewhat “devout” muslims in their support of islam.
Dano S. says
How often have muslims reported hate crimes being committed against themselves and immediately have 100% support from students and staff. Investigations are immediately launched to find the perpetrator/s of the alleged hate, and invariably, the incident is found to be totally fabricated. No charges are ever brought against the fabricator. So no, muslims aren,t automatically thought to be guilty. In fact, quite the opposite. When they are found guilty, it’s because there is video evidence and a multitude of witnesses because the guilty party drew attention to himself while screaming “allahu akbar”.
OLD GUY says
Well let’s see, muslims and their islamic religion are the major terrorist in the world. I don’t see another group but muslims who support child marriage, rape gangs, abuse of females and the LGBTQ community and the general KILL AMERICANS, CHRISTIANS and JEWS. I have not heard any of the Muslim CAMPUS groups or spokesmen condeming these atrocities. The American public has every right to not trust a group who openly hates us and our country.
PRCS says
The primary purpose of hijab, chador, niqab, etc., is to distinguish free, chaste Muslim women from unbelieving/slave women (Qur’an 33:59).
It was intentionally discriminatory 1400 years ago, and as it remains so to this day, it has no legitimate place in nations governed in accordance with secular, man-made law–like the U.S.; especially the U.S
The Islamic veil does NOT protect Muslim women from “abuse” anywhere on the planet; certainly not in nations like Afghanistan–where sharia compliance is compulsory–nor anywhere else.
Every “veiled” Muslim woman–not just on Cal Berkely’s campus–IS guilty of flaunting Islam’s hateful superiority.
Mark February 1 on your calendars, a day when women around the world will have an opportunity–during another World Hijab Day–to describe how that abhorrent garb “empowers” them.
Mike says
yep!
Chrissie01 says
A real scandal indeed, considering the fact, that students of other faiths are treated with utmost tolerance and lovingly taken care of to practice their religions in whatever way they need…
Chrissie01 says
in Islamic countries
Bikinis not Burkas says
They are all guilty of supporting the MURDEROUS IDEOLOGY of ISLAM and being TERRORIST SYMPATHIZERS!
Quran 8:12 confirms what I say!