Hamas-linked CAIR has teamed up with the aptly-named professor Hatem Bazian, who some years ago called for an "intifada" in the U.S., to produce a defamatory report on "Islamophobia" that attempts to ascribe -- much like the Wilders trial -- any criticism of Islamic supremacism and the global jihad to "hate."
Yes, of course. Anyone who is concerned about how Islamic jihadists use Islamic texts and teachings to justify violence against unbelievers must be motivated by "hate." Only "hate" could cause anyone to wonder why so many violent Muslims use the Qur'an to explain their violence and hatred -- people like bin Laden, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Feisal Shahzad, and Abdulhakim Muhammad, Khalid Aldawsari, Baitullah Mehsud, and Roshonara Choudhry, and so many more. But no, if you're concerned about them and others like them, it's only because you're motivated by "hate."
New CAIR, UC Berkeley Report Documents Growing Islamophobia in U.S. By Council on American-Islamic Relations Published: Thursday, Jun. 23, 2011 - 10:34 amWASHINGTON, June 23, 2011 -- Groundbreaking study offers recommendations to help challenge troubling phenomenon
WASHINGTON, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the University of California, Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender today released a report based on available data and interviews with experts that documents growing Islamophobia in the United States and offers recommendations about how to challenge the troubling phenomenon.
"Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender." What race is Islam? What gender is Islam?
You can get a pdf of the report here.
The groundbreaking report –- titled "Same Hate, New Target: Islamophobia and Its Impact in the United States 2009-2010" -- offers a definition of Islamophobia as a "close-minded prejudice against or hatred of Islam and Muslims" and an overview of its growing negative impact in the United States. After defining the term, the report states: "It is not appropriate to label all, or even the majority of those, who question Islam and Muslims as Islamophobes."
Oh, really? The report lists some people who are supposedly fighting against "Islamophobia," and lists plenty of "Islamophobes," but doesn't give us even a single example of this apparently large group of people who question Islam and Muslims and yet aren't "Islamophobes." In reality, Hamas-linked CAIR brands anyone and everyone who dares to speak out against the jihad and Islamic supremacism as an "Islamophobe." There is in reality no one who "questions Islam and Muslims" who is acceptable to Hamas-linked CAIR. They are bent on marginalizing and discrediting every last individual who does not adopt a warmly positive stance toward the spread of Sharia in the West and all other manifestations of the advancing jihad.
Later on in the press release, Hamas-linked CAIR's Corey Saylor lets slip the report's real agenda -- to limit criticism of Islamic supremacism and jihad: "This report shows that Americans who embrace pluralism must act together to prevent Islamophobia from being accepted in mainstream society." They're going to issue another report which "will offer recommendations to the public and private sectors" -- no doubt including restrictions on the freedom of speech.
Suggestions are offered for all those "who wish to help rid our country of Islamophobia and other forms of intolerance," including passing legislation banning racial profiling, speaking out strongly against smearing entire faiths or peoples and refusing to offer a legitimizing platform to those who spout anti-Muslim bigotry or Islamophobia.
The anti-freedom agenda of this Hamas-linked gang of thugs and Professor Intifada must be exposed, such that no freedom-loving group in the public or private sector will allow itself to be intimidated into letting them dictate to whom it can give a platform and to whom it cannot.
The report itself, meanwhile, is full of howlers. Get this:
Some individuals, institutions and groups were at the center of pushing Islamophobia in America during the period covered by this report: Pamela Geller and Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA); Robert Spencer and Jihad Watch; Brigitte Gabriel and Act! for America; Frank Gaffney and the Center for Security Policy (CSP); Steven Emerson and the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT); Newt Gingrich; the four members of Congress who called for an investigation of Muslim Capitol Hill interns; Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda and other violent extremists; and Daniel Pipes.
I can't read this paragraph without laughing. First, let me thank Hamas-linked CAIR for naming my colleague Pamela Geller and me first among their opponents; I assure them they will continue to find ample justification for giving us this place of honor. (Pamela Geller comments here -- don't miss it.) But what makes me laugh is toward the end of the list: among the people "at the center of pushing Islamophobia in America" were "Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaeda and other violent extremists; and Daniel Pipes."
Osama, al-Qaeda, and Pipes! Of course, Hamas-linked CAIR wants us to believe that they reject Osama's version of Islam, and that he was thus purveying Islamophobia no less unmistakably than the mephistophelean Spencer or Pipes. But really this is rather like a Southern publication saying this in 1860: "Some individuals, institutions and groups were at the center of pushing Southernophobia in America during the period covered by this report: William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe; Simon Legree; and Harriet Tubman." (Garrison, Douglass, Stowe and Tubman were abolitionists; Legree a demonically brutal slave-owning character in Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.)
So in Hamas-linked CAIR's world, jihad terrorism causes "Islamophobia," and resistance to jihad terror also causes "Islamophobia." Apparently we are all supposed to sit back and acquiesce to the stealth jihad to advance Sharia being pursued by Hamas-linked CAIR and other Islamic supremacist groups in the U.S.
No, thanks. I will instead be working hard to defend freedom and remain one of the foremost thorns in the side of Honest Ibe Hooper and the other Islamic supremacists at Hamas-linked CAIR.
I'm gonna be real disappointed if I don't make that list.
Islamophobic, and damn proud of it.
Kuffirs rule, and will continue to rule.
Habitual liars always catch themselves out at some point in their narrative.
All I had to see were photos of that crybaby Keith Ellison, Michael Bloomberger, Rachel Madcow, and Keith Ogremond to realize that I needed to read no further into this warped accumulation of rubbish.
Kieth Ellison if full of SH... he is a convert to Islam and I was born and raised one. the problem with these A...HS are that they live in a free country, they should pack up their bags and go and live in Pakistan for a while.
and ten make a f...ing comment.
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Oh the irony for CAIR, just look at how telling it is that the 1st name on the hit list is proof of the Misogynistic Jew-hatred foundation by using a Jewish Female.
This is what happens when a Blue-eyed/White-trash useful-Idiot born in the USA gets recruited in to Islam as the moderate voice of the Peaceful/Tolerant/Pluralism/pro-gay religion handed down to Muhammad by the voices in his head.
Gotta love old Dougie and his new charade to no longer wear his head cap on TV, plus learn a few more big words that adults use instead of his Parrot routine from the CAIR script to yell and spew claims of hate-crimes but not one Stat for CONVICTIONS , or the faith and Nationality of the "Islamophobe" arrested for the Hate-crime.,
I'm also islamophobic and proud of it. A Anyone who isn't is simply a fool.
CAIR (named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding conviction, banned by the FBI, and with many of its leaders in jail or deported on terror-related charges and a proponent for sharia law in the USA) is currently trying to have a book about the facts about CAIR removed from bookstores. If you don't have it already, I suggest you run out & buy it. It's called "The Muslim Mafia". It exposes them for the liars that they are.
I await the day when the powers that be gather the courage & common sense needed to boot these a$$holes out of North America for good.
And don't trust any group that maligns Robert or Pamela, It's a sure sign said group does not support America, it's culture or it's people..
I hate to split hairs, but I doubt many on this board are islamoPHOBEs. A phobia is an irrational fear of something harmless. I'd say there are a lot of islamofearful people here.
I've been here for eight years now, and I remember when "Hate 'em" Bazian first called for the intifada here in America. I was one of those making a big stink, calling his department head (his boss) and the president of the university and various deans at the time, giving them a link to the video. They all seemed to be disturbed but of course, he kept his job.
Just being a little pedantic... BUT...
I must call CAIR out for their poor use of the manner in which they display their statistics of 6.4 out of 10.
The use of the thermometer suggests the questionnaire was an 11-point scale (i.e. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 constitute 11 steps rather than 10).
In practical terms this means their display of data suggest a 64% level of concern. In actual fact it slightly less at only 60%.
explanation...
6.4 is only 5.4 units above 1.
5.4/9 = 60%
whereas 6.4 is 6.4 units above 0.
6.4/10 = 64%
Furthermore, the bulb at the base suggests that there is already residual concern bottling up underneath and that if viewers look at the thermometer as a whole there is a larger distance between the base of the thermometer and the top than just a 9 point scale would suggest.
I feel this is deceptive. But then, perhaps that was the intention.
Peace!
At the very least, we're Islamowary.
By the way, CAIR just had their tax exempt status revoked and are now screaming Allahu Akbar. Details?
GBRS! (G-d bless Robert Spencer)
I am islamophobic in the manner that organizations like CAIR pervert the true meaning of the word. I thought most people would know that.
I despise Islam because it is evil but I am NOT Islamophobic! "Islamophobia" means fear of Islam I do not fear Islam or muslims. Islam is of the devil and Jesus specifically instructed His followers to fear only the one true God (not even Satan/Allah himself) because He (Jesus)has overcome the world and it's rulers (including Allah), and promised that our God of peace will soon crush Satan /Allah under our feet!(Romans 16:20)
EXACTLY.
I've been saying this for years on this site.
A phobia is an irrational fear of something, real or not.
_________________________________________________________
To fear Islam is not irrational.
Why?
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Because of its dictates, doctrine and example, Islam and Mohammedism have proven themselves to be very dangerous. No right-thinking individual could argue the contention.
Since 99% of all terrorism springs from the canon of Islam, we are not wrong, nor irrational to fear it.
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Ergo, there is no such thing as Islamophobia, nor is there any reason NOT to fear a Muslim.
The CAIR-UCB report : "Suggestions are offered for all those 'who wish to help rid our country of Islamophobia and other forms of intolerance,'"
The biggest step we could take to rid our country of intolerance would be to outlaw Islam; it's been the biggest source of intolerance on the planet for the last 1400 years.
My blood boils when hypocritical, lying muslims demand tolerance of muslims and islam when muslims are the most intolerant people on the planet. While their vicious imams and mullahs foment jihad, hate, islamic supremacy, dhimmitude, and INTOLERANCE in American mosques, Hooper and company, in collusion with the seditious Hate'em Bazian, muslim professor at Berkeley, are demanding TOLERANCE from Americans! What is Hatem doing at Berkeley; are they that hard up for decent professors?
The justified abhorrence of islam will continue to spread as more and more people learn what islam teaches and discover what's going on in American mosques and muslim enclaves. And it doesn't help islam's case when almost every week another muslim plot to attack an army base, landmark, or transportation hub is exposed and more MUSLIMS are arrested for plotting to kill Americans. What the hell do they expect from us when it becomes more obvious every day that muslims are THE ENEMY and islam is a predatory, supremacist death cult?! If they think 'islamophobia' is bad now, the next successful muslim terror attack will show Hooper, Hatem, the useful idiots, apologists, and liars just how tolerant America has been since 9/11. How STUPID do they think we are?!!! They can write their reports, skew the statistics, tell their endless lies and distortions and relentlessly try to browbeat and shame Americans into accepting this violent religion and its deadly agenda. It won't work.
This creep Hatem Bazian is just another of the gazillion arabian Paleostinians (why isn't he in Jordan anymore? Can we call them "Islamopithecus arabensis")sponging off the West as they continue to demonize Israel and the US and the still free world and advance Islam.
Wiki (yes, not reliable)in this case gives a pretty good hint: His aim and purpose in life is Islam, Islam and Islam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatem_Bazian
Tell us, O Mephistophelian One, why your associates Adam Gadahn--alias Azzam al-Amriki--and Anwar al-Awlwaki, both denizens like yourself of The Infernal Regions and subjects of The Great Shaitan, just don't make the cut as you do, O Dajjal, my Rabb?
That's Anwar al-Awlaki, rather.
Yes, do say why you so pointedly ignore your fellows Azzam and Anwar, you ignominious Cretins in Allegiance to Islamic Regression ??
Mephistopheles, come hither!
Robert, why use the islamic symbol on Jihad Watch?
A new mosque in the plano tx area!! hearing Elijah Abraham, pastor, former Iraqi under Saddam H, now here, calls mosques "opernational bases". Im not an islamaphope; I call it islama "informed". Thanks for your watchfulness! Nancy
You are a lot easier on them than I would be Robert.
First off, the Middle East Studies Center of UC Berkeley was the recipient of a very suspicious donation according to Lee Kaplan at All About Muhammad.
$5 million was donated to UC Berkeley’s Center for Middle East Studies from two Saudi sheiks linked to funding Al Qaeda;
The article is titled: "THE SAUDI FIFTH COLUMN ON OUR NATION’S CAMPUSES"
and is found at:
http://www.allaboutmuhammad.com/the-saudi-fifth-column-on-our-nationrsquos-campuses.html
This allegation is supported by the following article from Campus Watch:
UC Berkeley benefactors tied to 9-11
Mideast studies program funded by Saudis implicated in attacks
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/677
Regarding Hatem Bazian himself, an article titled: UC Berkeley's Hatem Bazian: Academic or Activist?
found at: http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2007/05/uc-berkeleys-hatem-bazian-academic
has this to say, among other things, about Hatem Bazian:
Bazian's consistent presence at any and all events that are hostile to Israel and sometimes America bespeaks a pattern of behavior UC Berkeley might want to consider in terms of its own reputation. Instead, Bazian is listed at the UC Berkeley news center as one of the "heroes among the UC Berkeley faculty" who received a letter from the Chancellor for going "above and beyond the call of duty.
The article goes on to say (and this may be relevant as to how he does his research for such things as his Islamophobia):
Bazian was in fact recommended for the citation by a Muslim student who felt he was supportive when she complained to him of experiencing "bigotry and hatred" on campus. Be that as it may, it's a little difficult to understand how the university could apply the term "hero" to someone with Bazian's record of questionable extracurricular activities.
Hell, you don't even have to be near the Middle East Studies department to see how Berkeley itself has become a den of wolves. Even Berkeley's law school shows a shift from Western values to Islamic values.
The following Campus Watch article illustrates the 'philosophical' shift.
Radical Islam at UC Berkeley Law
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11269
"Here's to the growing reach and power of the made up term "Islamophobia" for it really means : knowledge of, caution about, mistrust of , speaking the truth about and resisting islam to us kuffar who know the enemy."