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Indoctrinating the youth at Georgetown University

Feb 12, 2014 5:20 pm By Robert Spencer

danhudHere is yet more evidence of the fact that our nation’s universities are no longer interested in free inquiry and training students to be independent thinkers, but are instead pestholes of Leftist indoctrination and propaganda. That a university professor would be trafficking in the trumped-up neologism “Islamophobia,” a term contrived in order to intimidate people into conflating resistance to jihad terror with “hatred” and “bigotry,” is bad enough. But note also the total one-sidedness of the event: neither the Saudi-funded Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding nor Daniel Varisco would ever dream of actually engaging me in discussion or debate (although I would be happy to do so) or give their hapless students any genuine understanding of what Jihad Watch and my books are all about. The students get no opportunity to evaluate my work for themselves and come to their own conclusions about whether I am defending human rights or spreading “hate” — the deck is stacked in advance.

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“Daniel Varisco will offer his suggestions on ways to counteract the cyber ‘khutzpa’ of Islamophobia.” If the illustrious professor really wants to end “Islamophobia,” here is an easy way he can accomplish it. He can call upon Muslim individuals and groups to:

1. Focus their indignation on Muslims committing violent acts in the name of Islam, not on non-Muslims reporting on those acts.
2. Renounce definitively, sincerely, honestly, and in deeds, not just in comforting words, not just “terrorism,” but any intention to replace Western constitutions (or the constitutions of any non-Muslim state) with Sharia even by peaceful means. In line with this, clarify what is meant by their condemnations of the killing of innocent people by stating unequivocally that non-Muslim civilians, including Israelis, are innocent people, teaching accordingly in mosques and Islamic schools, and behaving in accord with these new teachings.
3. Teach, again sincerely and honestly, in transparent and verifiable ways in mosques and Islamic schools, the imperative of Muslims coexisting peacefully as equals with non-Muslims on an indefinite basis, and act accordingly.
4. Begin comprehensive international programs in mosques all over the world to teach sincerely against the understandings of Islam that give rise to violent jihad and Islamic supremacism, offering honest reinterpretations of the texts from the Qur’an and Hadith that jihadists use to justify that violence and supremacism, rejecting firmly, clearly, definitively and absolutely the literal meaning of those texts. This must also be accompanied by a rejection of all the teachings of Islamic jurisprudence calling for warfare against unbelievers for the purpose of subjugating them under Sharia rule. Readily share this course material with law enforcement officials and other interested parties.
5. Actively and honestly work with Western law enforcement officials to identify and apprehend jihadists within Western Muslim communities.
6. Reject, and teach and work against, the aspects of Sharia that are at variance with accepted principles of human rights: the death penalty for apostasy, the death penalty for blasphemy and heresy, the stoning of adulterers, the amputation of thieves’ hands, the denial of women’s right to testify and their equal inheritance rights, the divine sanction of the beating of women, the denial of basic rights to women and non-Muslims, etc.

If Muslims did these six things, voila! “Islamophobia” would vanish, and no events like this one would be necessary. But if you’re going to be in the Georgetown area on February 26, do drop by and ask them when their seminar on countering Islamic jihad terrorism is going to be. I’d be glad to come myself, but am not going to drop in unannounced; however, if Daniel Varisco would like to have a genuine discussion or debate, rather than simply demonize me and spread Islamic supremacist propaganda, I am available.

“‘Khutba vs. Khutzpa: Islamophobia on the Internet’ with Daniel Varisco,” from EventBrite, n.d. (thanks to Steve):

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invites you to a briefing:
“Khutba vs. Khutzpa:
Islamophobia on the Internet”
featuring

Daniel Varisco

Professor of Anthropology

Hofstra University


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Wednesday, February 26, 201412:30 pm – ICC 270


Cyberspace is a potent breeding ground for Islamophobia, giving voice to extremists and a range of negative representation of Islam and Muslims.  The Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik posted his anti-Islamic manifesto on the Internet, including a Youtube video.  Numerous websites are devoted to attacking Islam, at times claiming only to be against “extremist” Islam, such as “Jihad Watch” by Robert Spencer.  As an anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research among Muslims in Yemen, Egypt and Qatar and as a historian of Islamic history, Daniel Varisco will offer his suggestions on ways to counteract the cyber “khutzpa” of Islamophobia. He will discuss the online journal CyberOrient, which he founded in 2006, as an academic forum to assess the role of the Internet and social media in the contemporary world.


Daniel Martin Varisco is Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University and President of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies.  He serves as editor of Contemporary Islam and editor-in-chief of CyberOrient and maintains the academic blog Tabsir (www.tabsir.net).  His latest book was Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid (2007).


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  1. Mo-Blows says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 5:22 pm

    Islamophobia can NEVER disappear as long as Islam exists.

    peace and tolerance and Islam are oxymorons.

    • Connie Smith says

      Feb 18, 2014 at 6:25 am

      Islam without political domination cannot survive!

  2. WVinMN says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 5:37 pm

    “The Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik posted his anti-Islamic manifesto on the Internet, including a Youtube video.”

    WTF? The guy turned out to be nothing more than a neo-nazi nutbag. But in no way, shape or form was his manifesto anti-islamic! For F__K’s sake, Breivik admitted he purposely “set up” people like Robert in order to destroy the “anti-islamic” types reputation! These people lie like a rug!

    • truevoice says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 5:20 am

      Indeed!You are right about that. Islam’s founder was a Liar and have you heard about the “Taqiyya Doctrine” of Islam’s quran? Taqiyya means twisting the truth to make it a lie and lie to make it their truth. Taqiyya means calling non muslims good deeds evil while calling their murderous, evil deeds good.

  3. sheik yer mami says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 6:01 pm

    “Anthropology” seems to be a preferred refuge for da’awah apologists.

    Its quite likely that Varisco is a Muslim convert.

    The venue, the Saudi-funded Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, was bought and paid for to provide access, so we should expect more creatures like Varisco spread their poison because they can….

  4. Wellington says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    Just another over-educated useful idiot. They come in bunches nowadays.

    So sad the libs of the Sixties and Seventies have almost completely taken over liberal arts education. The result has been disastrous. I know. I saw it first hand as a college instructor for some three decades. I fought a rear-guard action during those years and, well, basically I lost. As an example, the small college I taught at eliminated any history requirement for students.

    What’s going on in higher education today in America is tragic. This article about this doofus anthropology professor is a case in point. Here’s another: Northwestern University has also eliminated any history requirement but all students, regardless of major, must take a course in diversity. Nonsense like this has been repeated over and over again at almost all institutions of higher learning in the United States. Even the military academies have not been immune to rubbish being passed off as education. So sad.

    • JessieJames says

      Feb 13, 2014 at 1:01 am

      It’s just as well, the history they teach now has become so distorted it would be almost impossible to isolate truth from fiction from almost any narrative now. What with the injecture of islam beliefs and customs as early as the 2nd grade, it’s a constant battle to weed out the rot they are trying to force upon society. It is sad…….very sad.

  5. Salah says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    “Cyberspace is a potent breeding ground for Islamophobia, giving voice to extremists and a range of negative representation of Islam and Muslims.”

    A true representation of Muhammad, the founder of Islam, according to the most authentic Islamic texts:

    The Perfect Man of Islam
    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

  6. PJG says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 6:12 pm

    I just read over his CV on Wikipedia. What a busy man! I’ve wasted my life!! I could have been ferretting around Yemen, writing up bigtime on Yemeni Mohammedans and dashing around the world telling everyone the important stuff, like him!
    No wonder he has such a smug look on his silly face! He has smelled success and he likes it!
    Islamophobes, watch out…you’re about to be identified, deconstructed, and subjected to your well-deserved and harsh undoing by a man well-versed in the biting style of the great Edward Said, no less!

  7. JamesonRocks says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 6:14 pm

    They will never adopt the six points proposed, particularly the fifth…

  8. mortimer says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 6:58 pm

    ‘Islamophobia’ is a bogus pseudoscientific concept to terminate non-Islamic thought. We have a right to criticize everything we want: pedophilia, honor-killing, FGM, theocracy, 7th century lunatics. Merely calling a 7th century pedophile and pirate a ‘prophet’ does not make him one.

  9. mortimer says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 7:06 pm

    Robert Spencer’s rational talking points will be avoided by Islamic apologists, because Islam cannot DECEIVE the West with reason…they need lots of emotion and ad hominem attacks…which prove nothing, but distract people from the fact that Islam preaches violence against disbelievers.

    • sidney penny says

      Feb 13, 2014 at 7:13 am

      “which prove nothing, but distract people from the fact that Islam preaches violence against disbelievers.”

      How wrong can you be?

      what does the book say?

      things like inciting violence, insulting other religions, promoting religious enmity, disturbing public tranquility, promoting on ground of religion feelings of enmity and hate? – ( see below)

      The real issue raised by the Petition was not what Muslims believe about the Quran but what behaviour patterns the Quran inculcates in its votaries vis-à-vis the unbelievers.

      http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tcqp/pref1.htm

      Let it be realized by everybody concerned that India has always been and remains, the citadel of the most bigoted and bloodthirsty zealotry of Islam. The historical reasons for why it is so, are many. I do not have the time to detail them here. The main reason may be told. Islam in India has been what it has been because India has continued to stare at Islam as its greatest failure. Islam in India has never been able to relax, as it could do in countries which it converted completely. And it will not relax till Hindus learn to knock out its ideological fangs which are rooted in the Quran.

      http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tcqp/chi1.htm

      Muslims in India have often sought shelter under Sections 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code (I.P.C.) for preventing every public discussion of their creed in general and of their prophet in particular.
      Quite a few publications which examine critically the sayings and doings of the Prophet or other idolized personalities of Islam, have been proscribed under Section 95 of the Criminal Procedure Code , as a result of pressure exerted by vociferous, very often violent Muslim protests.
      Little did they suspect that the same provisions of the law could be invoked for seeking a ban on their holy book, the Quran.

      http://voiceofdharma.org/books/tcqp/chii4.htm

      Now the summary of the petition-but read the whole thing:

      2. The respondent (Government) is a public authority having in terms of Section 95 Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, read with Sections 153A and 295A Indian Penal Code, a public duty to forfeit to the Government every copy of a book,
      which incites violence, disturbs public tranquility, promotes, on ground of religion, feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities and insults other religions or religious beliefs of other communities in India.

      3. The Koran, also spelt as Quran, the so-called religious book of the Muslims the world over, written originally in the Arabic and available throughout India in the original Arabic or in its translation in Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, English, etc., is ex facie guilty of each one of the above offences.

      4 For example, (see the many examples given in chapter 4)(one quoted by the London beheader of Lee Rigby)

      5 The book promotes religious enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities in India.
      (see the many examples given in chapter 5)
      6 The book insults other religions or religious beliefs of other communities in India.
      (see the many examples given in chapter 6)

      7 While the Koran abounds with saying which incite violence, insult the religious beliefs of other communities and even exhort the Muslims to kill and murder non-Muslims, the problem is aggravated by yet another fact which has been true in the past and is universally true in our own times that unlike other communities Muslims are, and even fresh converts tend to become, highly orthodox people and follow the sayings of the book with a fanatical zeal with the result that whichever country has their sizable number amongst its population can never have peace on its soil.

      (This was said in 1985 and it is still true today 2014!)

      8. The offending expressions contained in the Koran and quoted in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 above are not so offensive in their translation in which they are so quoted as they are in the original verses in Arabic or in Urdu, the very sound of whose inimitable symphony not only sends the Muslims to tears and ecstasy but arouses in them the worst communal passions and religious fanaticism which have manifested themselves in murder, slaughter, loot, arson, rape and destruction or desecration of holy places in historical times as also in contemporary period not only in India but almost all over the world.

      So the holy book of Islam definitely does not preaches violence against disbelievers.

  10. badmally says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 7:30 pm

    Hey Robert! You’re gonna show up at that lecture just for fun right?

  11. RCCA says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 7:31 pm

    When it comes down to it, if someone is standing on my foot I don’t care what color they are, what religion they profess, where their ancestors lived or any other anthropological issue or historical event.
    Human rights are meant to be universal, not based on cultural or ethnological factors. If Islam is responsible for inequality or abuse I’m going to have a problem with it until people change it. If Islam can not be changed then that seals the deal, regardless of how many nice Muslims there are.

  12. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 7:39 pm

    Dear American jihadwatchers, both posters and lurkers:

    surely, surely, surely there is at least one among you – and preferably more – who might like to trot along to this Event and conduct recon…and, perhaps, have a go at upsetting assorted applecarts, not necessarily by questioning the Professor, but in conversation with other attendees?

    Even if he lurks here – which I bet he does – he has *no* way of knowing that this or that nice middle aged lady or gentleman, or this or that student, is *also* a lurker here, and thoroughly well informed.

    You have just under two weeks. Book, then prepare yourself (preferably, a team of three or four people).

    You might like to tuck into your back pocket, if you have them, copies of Rev Dr Mark Durie’s “The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom”. Copies of the well-produced, scholarly – but dirt cheap to buy – Barnabas Fund booklets “What is Islam”, “What is Sharia”, “Islam and Truth” and “Islam and Slavery” might also be useful. I particularly recommend “What is Sharia?”, because it handily summarises a whole bunch of aspects of classical sharia that violate human rights; any one of the brief paragraphs could be read aloud by way of preamble to a very, very pointed question.

    And multiple copies of Fern Saltzman’s satirical pop quiz, “Are You an Islamophobe”, to share with the other folks attending; here it is, all ready to print out (just add the little boxes to be ticked ‘yes’ or ‘no’ after each question, and then a box at the bottom for totting up the score:

    http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/08/26/are-you-an-islamophobe/

    PHYLLIS CHESLER: CHESLER CHRONICLES
    August 26th, 2009 10:17 am
    “Are You An Islamophobe? Take This Test to be Sure.

    “Are you an Islamophobe? Here is a simple test. 

Lorna Saltzman’s Test

    “Do you favor equal rights and treatment of women and men?

    “Do you oppose stoning of women accused of adultery?

    “Do you favor mandatory education of girls everywhere?

    “Do you oppose slavery and child prostitution?

    “Do you support complete freedom of expression and the press?

    “Do you support the right of an individual to worship in her chosen religion?

    “Do you oppose government- and mosque-supported anti-Semitic publications, radio, TV and textbooks?

    “Do you oppose the wearing of burqas in public places, schools and courts?

    “Do you oppose segregation of the sexes in public places and houses of worship?

    “Do you oppose the death penalty for non-Muslims and Muslims who convert to another religion?

    “Do you oppose “honor” killings?

    “Do you oppose female genital mutilation?

    “Do you oppose forced sexual relations?

    “Do you oppose discrimination against homosexuals?

    “Do you support the right to criticize religion?

    “Do you oppose polygamy?

    “Do you oppose child marriage, forced or otherwise?

    “Do you oppose the quranic mandate to kill non-Muslims and apostates?

    “Do you oppose the addition of sharia courts to your country’s legal system?

    “Do you disagree with the quran which asserts the superiority of Islam to all other religions?

    “If you answered most or all of these affirmatively, you are a vile Islamophobe and deserve to be beheaded as the quran instructs.

    “If you answered one third or more of them affirmatively, you are a borderline Islamophobe and need to receive brainwashing to become a full-fledged dhimmi.

    “If you answered a quarter or fewer affirmatively, you need a few private lessons in dhimmitude to scrub yourself clean of those remnants of Islamophobia.
    If you answered affirmatively to NONE of these, Congratulations! You are a worthy observant (radical–PC addition) Muslim and have a bright future vilifying Jews, torturing women or, inshallah, becoming a suicide bomber.”

    If you want to be really cheeky, just go to the “briefing”, lie low, smile nicely, say nuthin’ (take lots of notes)…but at the end, give Dr Varisco a copy of this quiz and politely invite him, then and there, to fill it out.

  13. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    Pursuant to my posting above.

    If Dr Varisco is peering over my shoulder and read what I just wrote, I have a question for him. Or, rather, I just asked a whole bunch of questions, Fern Saltzman’s questions: and I would very, very much like to get him in a corner and refuse to allow him to escape until he had given a straight answer to each and every one of them.

    Incidentally, his main area of “anthropological research” has been…Yemen.

    He should be asked, flat out, about the origin and meaning of the Yemeni term “brides of death”. Yemen is one of *the* parts of the Dar al Islam that most zealously follows the example of Mohammed and Aisha; with appalling fallout in terms of female, maternal and infant mortality. And all attempts to raise the legal age of marriage, for girls, and to enforce such an age, slam up against a wall of resistance led by pious Mohammedan gang bosses aka ‘clerics’.

    He should also be asked why there are so few Jews in Yemen today, and when it was that the vast majority of them left, and why (ask him about operation “Magic Carpet”). He should be asked what the dhimma is, and how it was applied to the Jews of Yemen. He should be asked whether he is familiar with Moses ben Maimon’s famous Letter to the Jews of Yemen, and what occasioned its writing.

    And here is still more ammunition (and again, dear Dr Variscos, if you are reading this over my shoulder, I would very much like to know your response to this information…which is real, which is factual; information on how the Muslims of Yemen routinely treated the *ancient* – long, long pre-dating the imposition of Islam – Jewish minority in their country).

    From a jihadwatch thread some years ago, in a discussion of a ‘blasphemy’ trial in Pakistan, a Jewish commenter replied to another who had remarked that it seemed to be extraordinarily difficult for a non-Muslim to obtain justice in a court in a Muslim-dominated land. I will reproduce the three postings which are relevant. None can be lightly dismissed. This is real people sharing real – historical, and capable of being corroborated – information, via the internet.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/10/pakistani-christian-woman-accused-of-blasphemy-amid-land-dispute.html

    “[aynrandgirl: Now that I think about it, except in the unlikely case that a Muslim chooses to defend a non-Muslim in court, isn’t any criminal charge against a non-Muslim an automatic conviction?’
    “Exactly so.

    “Which is why, in traditional sharia societies, in order to survive, each dhimmi head-of-household must form a client/patron relationship with a Muslim ‘protector’, who will protect his dhimmi client from abuse by other Muslims, will bear arms in his defense (dhimmi are forbidden to arm themselves, and can expect to be lynched if they so much as lift a hand to a Muslim), and will testify on his clients’ behalf in sharia court.

    “If the protector wishes to.

    “And always for a price.

    “I have never lived under sharia, **but I have known former dhimmi who did, in Yemen back in the bad old days. They tell me it was hell on earth to live that way, and that they would die before they would go back. More to the point, they would kill before they would go back.** {my emphasis – dda}.
    Posted by: ElderlyZionist at October 18, 2006 3:14 PM

    And the same poster then added:

    “I was once told a story about Yemen in the bad old days, before the Jews had left, about how Muslims ‘protected’ their dhimmi.

    “I don’t know whether it’s true, but I believe it.

    “An Arab sheikh went to visit his neighbor, who welcomed him warmly. “Oh Abu Mustafa, my old friend. I’m glad you came to visit, it’s been far too long. Please come sit, drink some coffee, and tell me what has brought you to my home today.”

    “Oh Abu Usama, my dear friend, it is black trouble that has brought me here. I am sorry to say that your sons have done something very wrong; they have damaged my honor, and if this thing is not made right, then there must be war between your clan and mine.”

    “Oh Abu Mustafa, this must not be! Now tell me how my sons have offended you, and for the sake of our old friendship, and of the peace between our families, surely I will make it right.”

    “Oh Abu Usama, your sons have shot one of my Jews, and raped his wife and daughter. This Jew was under my protection! By harming him, your sons have damaged my honor, and that of my whole clan. Now for the sake of my honor, and for the respect that is due my family, I must demand justice of you, and satisfaction for the harm done to my Jew.”

    “Oh Abu Mustafa, my old friend, I am so glad you came today to talk this matter over with me. You are completely right, and what my sons have done was very wrong. Surely, for the sake of our friendship and to keep the peace between us, I will give you justice.

    “Now here is what I propose. **Oh Abu Mustafa, let your sons come, and shoot one of my Jews, and rape his wife and daughter. So the balance between us will be restored, and your honor will be made whole.”
    And so it was done.** {my emphasis – dda}.
    Posted by: ElderlyZionist at October 18, 2006 3:45 PM”.

    To which a very well-read and scholarly contributor then added the following observation:

    “The story about the two Arabs in the Yemen is not apocryphal.

    “That precise example — that of a Jew “belonging” as chattel to Arab Tribe A being killed by a member of Arab Tribe B, and by way of obtaining appropriate justice, the members of Arab Tribe A are permitted to kill a Jew “belonging” to Arab Tribe B, is mentioned by R. S. Serjeant, the English scholar, in one of his article on life in Yemen in the early 1950s.
    ”
    “Posted by: Hugh at October 18, 2006 11:13 PM”.

    Question for Dr Variscos: is he familiar with the work of Mr R S Sergeant, and is he familiar with this particular custom, and with the lot of the Jews in Yemen, before 99 percent of them, when opportunity arose, and assistance could be given, **fled without looking once behind them**?

    And would he, personally, Dr Variscos, like to live under such a system, under “protection” such as that, bought by the paying of a very large – indeed crippling – sum of money, paid to his Muslim overlords every year, in a designed-to-be-terrifying-and-humiliating ritual of abasement?

    Let us hear Dr Variscos’ response to these words, concerning the escaped ex-dhimmis, Jews of Yemeni background:

    “I have known former dhimmi who did, in Yemen back in the bad old days.
    “They tell me it was hell on earth to live that way, and that they would die before they would go back. More to the point, they would kill before they would go back.”

    Does Dr Variscos propose to airbrush away a statement like that “it was hell on earth to live that way, and that they would die before they would go back…they would *kill* before they would go back”?

    And here is another posting about the Jews of Yemen, or, rather, Jews who had escaped Yemen, and what sort of state they were in, after having lived as dhimmis for over a millennium.

    here is another witness to the condition of those Jews who escaped from Yemen.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/12/muslim-extremist-kills-yemeni-jew.html

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/12/muslim-extremist-kills-yemeni-jew.html#comment-489953

    “When I was in college, one of my editors told me she had spent time in Israel in the late ’70s. She had volunteered to help Jewish refugees navigate the social services system.
    ‘She had the idea that she would be dealing mostly with “refuseniks” from the Soviet Union.

    ‘Instead, she found herself dealing almost entirely with large numbers of Yemeni refugees. Hotel rooms set up originally for couples held entire families.

    ‘**She heard terrible stories of violence and oppression, which at first she had assumed were exaggerations, because they were so extreme.

    ‘Finally, the stories were so similar, and the refugees so traumatized, that she started to credit the accounts.** [my emphasis – dda}.

    ‘This community had been very isolated, and knew very little about life outside their villages. Suddenly they wound up in modern highrises in Tel Aviv. They felt completely overwhelmed.

    ‘Nonetheless, most were extremely grateful, and knew they were lucky to have been rescued.”
    – From Wikipedia:
    ‘If one includes Aden, there were about 63,000 Jews in Yemen in 1948. Today, there are about 200 left…
    ‘The Israeli government’s Operation Magic Carpet evacuated around 44,000 Jews from Yemen to Israel in 1949 and 1950. Emigration continued until 1962, when the civil war in Yemen broke out.

    ‘A small community remained unknown until 1976, but it appears that all infrastructure is lost now’.

    ‘I think it was members of this last cited group who my friend worked with in the 1970s.
    ‘The few Jews now left in Yemen are just a tiny remnant, but even they are not safe.
    ‘Muslims will not be satisfied until Yemen is “Judenrein”.”

    ‘This has happened throughout the “Muslim world”. Jewish and other minorities are being systematically driven out or murdered.”
    Posted by: gravenimage at December 13, 2008 12:35 AM”.

    Do you deny, Dr Variscos, that this is the case? And why should not people fortunate enough *not* to live, or have endured existence, under Muslim rule, fear the possibility of their societies being Islamised?

    Why should any free human being welcome the prospect of ever being made to live as the Jews of Yemen lived, under the Muslim boot? Or as the Copts of Egypt live and lived – spare us any nonsense about the dhimma, the Copts of Egypt have lived, or rather survived, somehow, in an abyss of grinding oppression punctuated by ghastly episodes of mass murder, for over a thousand years? Or as the Hindus in vast swathes of India lived, for centuries, after the Muslim invasion and occupation and plundering of their land? And shall we ask Dr Variscos about the Armenians and the Bulgarians and the Greeks? And about the East Timorese, and the South Sudanese?

    • sheik yermami says

      Feb 13, 2014 at 6:13 pm

      Don’t bring logical reasoning into it, dumbles, it doesn’t apply when it comes to Mohammedanism. I suspect, very much suspect, that Dr Variscos is a convert. Liberal airheads think nothing of saying the shahada when they are hosted by Arabs who treat them nice. As a result, they take their mental baggage on board and flaunt it as if it was some kind of exotic gift; some kind of revelation. You find this symptomatic among people who ‘have gone native’, but especially among those who have no firm convictions, for whom everything is relative, who pretend to be “open minded” and critical of our society (because they know next to nothing of the other) and soon the exotic of the Orient becomes desirable, they believe it gives them some mystique, and so on, and so on…..

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 14, 2014 at 3:38 am

      The narrative about the Jews of Yemen was eye-opening. I would swear I remember reading in Patton’s autobiography that he mentioned the persecution of Jews by muslimes somewhere in N. Africa.

  14. Gary Fouse says

    Feb 12, 2014 at 8:11 pm

    You can send comments to the organizer’s website. Here is mine:

    I wonder if Mr Varisco will be discussing the plight of Coptic Christians in Egypt, or Christians in Syria, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Nigeria or virtually every other Muslim-majority country. Will he be discussing the plight of Baha’i in Iran? How about gays in Iran? Will he be discussing the plight of European Jews who are leaving the continent in droves as a result of being harassed and assaulted on European streets by young male Muslim immigrants?

    If he is not prepared to discuss the persecution of religious minorities in Muslim lands, then his presentation is worthless. Is that not pertinent to any discussion of “Islamophobia”?

  15. Defcon 4 says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 1:03 am

    I had a friend who went to Georgetown. We had a falling out when his defense of islam0fascist atrocities and persecution revolved exclusively around the “Christianity is just as bad” tu quoque fallacy of argumentation.

  16. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 1:21 am

    He sounds like he’s a fully paid up member of what Hugh Fitzgerald, an incredibly-erudite former frequent contributor here, used to call ‘MESA Nostra’.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/01/fitzgerald-mesa-nostra.html

    Fitzgerald: MESA Nostra

  17. dumbledoresarmy says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 1:48 am

    And note well, Georgetown University is better known for being the stamping ground of one John Esposito, Islamophile extraordinaire. It’s a moot question whether he’s merely a very, very well trained dhimmi, or a closet convert to Islam, a Nu’aym bin Mas’ud. He knows which side his bread is buttered, and his bread is buttered by Saudi petrodollars.

    http://www.crisismagazine.com/2011/georgetowns-catholic-apologist-for-islam

    POLITICS
    11/01/2011

    Georgetown’s Catholic Apologist for Islam

    More

    http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/40667

    John Esposito: Some Might Call Him Both A Hireling And A Traitor

    And Hugh again, in a real scorcher –
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/03/fitzgerald-a-tribute-to-john-esposito

    From that article:

    “But what may be most interesting is the reply Esposito gave at a Muslim website some months ago, in which he noted that after 9/11 he — John Esposito — was “pleasantly surprised” to see that there had been no diminution in the number of “reverts”(or converts) to Islam.

    “Now we all know how keenly interested Muslims are in the rate of conversion, how important Da’wa is, how much an instrument of conquest it is believed to be — for one is swelling the ranks of the recruits into the umma al-islamiyya, the Community of Believers, who owe their loyalty to that Community alone, never to the Infidel nation-state. We recall, do we not, that the very first thing Osama bin Laden inquired about on that first tape filmed after 9/11, and which pleased him mightily to discover, was the rate of conversion of Infidels. He was told, and gave a smile when he heard the news, that “people in Holland were converting at an even faster pace” than before.

    “Now here is John Esposito, now of Georgetown, formerly of Holy Cross.

    “One might expect that he would be a student of Islam, but not an enthusiast, not someone delighted to receive news of the swelling of Muslim ranks. But this is what he said at this website:
“I was pleasantly surprised” to discover that the numbers of conversions [to Islam] have not gone down, but increased.”
    “Surprised” — sure.

    “But “pleasantly” surprised? Why? Why would a certain John Esposito of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (or whatever it is called) be “pleasantly surprised” that there had been no diminishment, because of 9/11, in the number of converts to Islam?

    “In other words, why did John Esposito express precisely the same reaction as — Osama bin Laden?

    “Were I the president of Georgetown, or an alumnus, or a parent, or a Congressman, or a journalist who had been told to “interview John Esposito,” that is the question that I would first wish to have answered.

    “He’s got a good thing going. $20 million for his “Georgetown” Center, which means a lot more for lean, mean, jogging John Esposito, and John Voll, and Yvonne Haddad..

    “And of course John Esposito is hardly alone in having earned, on some future gravestone, that epitaph which so many in the Western world over the past thirty years have earned, in Washington and London and Paris, in their own ways, as they did nothing to prevent Muslim immigration, nothing serious to limit OPEC revenues, and thought only of how to obtain some of those revenues for themselves, their friends, their relatives, their companies:
    Shilling for Islam, undoing the West,
 Radix malorum cupiditas est.”

    I wonder whether John Esposito will be there, to offer support and encouragement, when Daniel Varisco, who has devoted his life to studying …Yemen…gives his spiel?

    PS For Yemen, and the rest of the Arabian gulf, the person to read is not Daniel Varisco. It is a New Zealander, one J B Kelly. In 1979 (note well the date !) he wrote an essay called “Of Valuable Oil and Worthless Policies”.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/07/jb-kelly-of-valuable-oil-worthless-policies

    His first book was called “Eastern Arabian Frontiers”.
    His second was a monumental scholarly tome entitled “Britain and the Persian Gulf 1795-1880” (1968) which probably contains all the really *relevant* information that an intelligent non-Muslim person needs to know about the countries of the Arabian peninsula.

    From an obituary:
    “His prescient warnings that Saudi money was being used to establish an international network of Muslim fundamentalists were thus largely ignored.”

    Saudi money was also, of course, used to corrupt institutions like Georgetown University – all over the Infidel world – and use them to whitewash Islam and dupe generations of students, grooming them for dhimmitude.

  18. joeb says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 4:41 am

    I like the way they added in “khutzpah” to tie it in with The Evil Jooz. Very clever.

    In other words,”Islamophobia is an Evil Joo plot”.

  19. Stephen David says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 1:23 pm

    ” vs Khutzpa”

    Is this a subtle hint that all those “Islamophobes” are Jewish, or at least influenced by Jews?

    I never heard of this guy, so looked him up on the web. He is associated with the following website:

    http://www.tabsir.net/

    This has a very interesting article entitled “Reflections on the State of Islamic Studies” by one ” Omid Safi”. Here’s a good quote:

    “I became a graduate student in the field of Islamic studies in the early 1990s. In those days, almost all of us were “converts”: no one went to undergraduate studies planning to become a professor of Islamic studies….

    Imagine my shock towards the end of finishing my PhD to find out that in 1999, there were four jobs in Islamic studies in all of North America….

    The game changer, of course, was 9/11. In the aftermath of those events, the overwhelming majority of American universities and colleges suddenly found themselves without the necessary faculty to “explain” the event to their students, to serve as a spokesperson in engagement with local communities, and to interact with the media. ”

    Unfortunately, what happened with 9/11 was that instead of waking up to realize we needed to better understand our enemies as enemies, or academia and media decided we needed to be indoctrinated by our enemies’ ideology. So now our universities are filled with these Islamophiles and our media filters out, ignores or attacks anything and anyone that isn’t positive towards Islam.

  20. gravenimage says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    “‘Khutba vs. Khutzpa: Islamophobia on the Internet’ with Daniel Varisco”
    ……………………………………..

    A “Khutba” is an Islamic “sermon”. Professor Varisco will not tell you that pious Muslims often riot and attack and even murder Infidels and the “”insufficiently Islamic” after fiery Khutbas meant to whip up fanaticism.

    Cyberspace is a potent breeding ground for Islamophobia, giving voice to extremists and a range of negative representation of Islam and Muslims. The Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik posted his anti-Islamic manifesto on the Internet, including a Youtube video. Numerous websites are devoted to attacking Islam, at times claiming only to be against “extremist” Islam, such as “Jihad Watch” by Robert Spencer.
    ……………………………………..

    Notice how he puts sneer quotes around “extremist”—does this mean he considers violent Jihad normative Islam? Isn’t that itself an issue?

    More:

    As an anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research among Muslims in Yemen, Egypt and Qatar and as a historian of Islamic history, Daniel Varisco will offer his suggestions on ways to counteract the cyber “khutzpa” of Islamophobi
    ……………………………………..

    Chutzpa—never mind the chhesiness of his cutesy spelling—means “nerve” or “gall”. In other words, he considers it an affront that Infidels such as ?Robert Spencer are allowed to criticize Islam in the West.

    More:

    a. He will discuss the online journal CyberOrient, which he founded in 2006, as an academic forum to assess the role of the Internet and social media in the contemporary world.
    ……………………………………..

    The most recent issue is mostly about Hip Hop music. Does he tell you that while Islam is sometimes OK with violent Rap, that most music is banned under Islam, and that in many parts of the Muslim world musicians are regularly murdered? I wouldn’t count on it…

    In previous issues we find articles like “The Earth is your Mosque” (of course, anyplace designated a Mosque can never again be used by the “filthy Kuffar”), and this gem, “Telling the Truth about Islam? Apostasy Narratives and Representations of Islam on WikiIslam.net”.

    The article includes this passage, “Apostasy narratives play an important function in contemporary polemical attacks on Islam and Muslims”—it never addresses whether the content of these narratives are true. And why would it? All they care about is shutting down criticism of Islam.

    http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8459

    The death penalty for apostasy in Islam is mentioned briefly, but then is drowned in so much verbiage that the author and editors clearly hope that the reader will either forget about it or miss it entirely.

    Here’s more Taqiyya from Varisco:

    “Yemen is not a terrorist factory”

    http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/11/08/varisco.yemen.terrorism/

    CNN was foolish enough to publish that piece. He has also published articles criticizing the use of drones and the entire “war on terror”. Like many Mohammedans, he characterizes 9/11 not as though were what is was—a horrific Jihad attack against Infidels—but as though it were an “Islamophobic” attack on Muslims.

    And this is the kind of crap our young people are being indoctrinated with at university. Suicidal madness.

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