Global
Jihad? Never Heard of It. Berkeley's Bazian Still Hyping 'Islamophobia'
by Cinnamon Stillwell
• Nov 25, 2015 at 10:38 am
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With global jihad in its ascendancy, UC Berkeley's Hatem Bazian delivered
a
lecture at a private event in Dearborn, Michigan last Friday titled,
"Islamaphobia: Muslim in the Public Square." Given the multiple
ISIS attacks on Paris only a week earlier and the fact that French and
Belgian authorities continue to hunt down the accomplices, the timing was
tone-deaf, to say the least.
As director of
UC Berkeley's Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project, Bazian
displayed the usual fear-mongering, complete with divisive, politicized
rhetoric. He blamed the alleged rise of "Islamophobia" in
America--a claim that FBI hate crime statistics
for 2014 continue to contradict--on "a massive demographic
change . . . that has made individuals still living in the 1950s
uncomfortable" and to "shrinking middle class" induced
"resentment."
Perhaps what's fueling resentment, if indeed it exists, are Middle
East studies academics
like Bazian who insist on assigning victimhood to Muslim-Americans and
villainy to the West, while accusing anyone who encourages introspection
and reform within Islam of being a bigot.
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