“Before I get started, I just wanted to say that we are meeting on stolen indigenous people’s land. That’s really important to acknowledge.” So declared San Francisco State University race and resistance studies professor Rabab Abdulhadi, at the University of California, Berkeley’s Seventh Annual International Islamophobia Conference in April.
Abdulhadi’s seemingly disjointed declaration was typical of the post-colonial, “intersectionality”-driven jargon of the entire conference, which sought to link the mythical plight of America’s prosperous, content Muslim population, with the struggles of every oppressed minority known to man. It was also an opportunity for two academic centers at opposite ends of the country to join forces and promote what was euphemistically referred to at the 2015 UC Berkeley conference as “Islamophobia studies.”
While UC Berkeley Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project (IRDP) director and conference convener Hatem Bazian gave the opening remarks, John Esposito, founding director of Georgetown University’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) and project director of ACMCU’s Bridge Initiative, “a multi-year research project that connects the academic study of Islamophobia with the public square,” was the undisputed star.
Esposito was introduced by Munir Jiwa, director of the Center for Islamic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, who, after noting that one of the scheduled speakers on the same panel was unable to attend, added with a smile, “I’m sure Dr. Esposito will be happy to take up the time.” Esposito did not disappoint, delivering a long, rambling talk filled with humorous asides and one-liners to which the audience responded with hearty laughter. He clearly reveled in being the center of attention and joked at the outset about his family, “They think I’m a humble person; my wife will tell you that I’m faking it.”
Musing on his experiences in academe regarding Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Esposito claimed that prior to that, “there was no Islam unit in the American academy” and thus, “no jobs when I finished my degree.” He later returned to the subject: “The first half of my career, people treated me like an academic, which means they ignore you. You’re in the Ivory Tower, who cares? The Iranian revolution changed that.”
Esposito lamented that the “lens through which Islam and Muslims came to be seen was people chanting, ‘Death to America,'” and, blaming the U.S. instead of Iran’s bellicose theocracy, concluded, “The danger was that we’re looking for a new global threat” and “Islam was the only global ideology.”
Presenting “Islamophobia” as an empirical fact, Esposito wondered aloud that there are “still those who want to say it does not exist.” He criticized “the mainstream media” for promulgating this alleged bigotry beginning with the Ground Zero Mosque controversy and, after announcing that “media coverage of Islam hit an all-time high” in 2015, conceded that “the causes are fairly obvious and some of them are good reasons to be concerned: international terrorist attacks.” Yet, he accused the media of “hyping the threat in America and Europe” and insisted, referencing the April 19 anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, that the “main terrorist threat is from white, anti-government, also often Christian-identity type movements. That has to come out.”
Turning to the “anti-Islamophobia” movement, Esposito praised reports from biased, complicit sources such as the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR)—a conference cosponsor—and the Center for American Progress for exposing a “cottage industry” and funding “for these kinds of things,” before directing the audience to the Bridge Initiative website. He said nothing about the conflict of interest in Bridge’s substantial Saudi funding, instead focusing on the initiative’s efforts to “set up alternative narratives,” “penetrate social media,” and achieve “search engine optimization,” before deducing, “It’s the storytelling.”
Clearly, that “storytelling” has had its intended effect in Western academe, for, in a revealing statement, Esposito pointed out that, “As someone who speaks at a lot of conference and universities, the last few years, ninety percent of my invitations [in the U.S. and UK] have to do with Islamophobia.”
It’s little wonder that “Islamophobia studies” appears to be proliferating. IRDP is certainly doing its part with its politicized bi-annual publication, the Islamophobia Studies Journal, and by linking this year’s conference with the Bridge Initiative and by extension, the East Coast with the West.
“Islamophobia studies” may be in its infancy, but the growing number of national and international conferences devoted to the subject indicate a disturbingly bright future for this anti-intellectual endeavor. And why not? Given the politicized, pro-Islamist nature of Middle East studies and victimology’s pride of place in contemporary academe, it’s a Faustian bargain for our time.
Cinnamon Stillwell is the West Coast representative for Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum. She can be reached at stillwell@meforum.org.
Cross-posted from the Independent Journal Review

ECAW says
Ranks alongside Snark Studies, Bigfoot Studies, Unicorn Studies and Nessie Studies.
Any others?
Peter Charles says
It makes less sense that this…….
http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html
linnte says
This poem by Carroll is Scots and entirely translatable! ?
Peter Charles says
After reading Carol’s fiction, the Queen asked to be sent his next book. Dutifully, he sent her his next book, on advanced mathematics.
Hindu American says
Let me guess. Everyone mentioned in the article is either a muslim or his/her department has been funded by an islamic dictatorship. Why don’t we start with “Islamophobia studies” in the Seven Sisters, the bastions of liberaldom? Maybe start with a “wear a hijab day” and “did you hug your muslim neighbor today? day”. Shall we also create a chair for studies, suitably funded by CAIR?
Ironic, isn’t it?
Angemon says
Are you in “Palestine”? 😉
Intersectionality is a concept in critical theory to describe how (alleged) “institutionalized systems of oppression” can’t be separated from one another. Women have it bad because of the patriarchy? Blacks have it bad because of institutionalized racism? Well, black women have it worse because patriarchy and racism stemming from the majority of the society and therefore black rights “activists” and “feminists” need to band together to fight a common foe – see, intersectionality!
See? More intersectionality!
Except for all the other global ideologies.
maghan says
There were only some 10-15 million–if that many– people on the vast whole territory called North America who had originally migrated from Siberia some 10,000 years ago. So given the tiny population and the vastness of North America, there is no evidence that nomadic people lived permanently where Berkleley is today. There were no visas, passports, titles of ownership, etc. at that time.
But even if the claim about “stolen indigenous land” were true why is that patently illogical person, Abdulladi drawing a salary from the occupiers of said “stolen land”? And not so curiously enough Abdulladi would never admit that the genuinely stolen lands of West Asia are now in the clutches of invader Muslim Arabs from Arabia–in the 7th century. Not only land was stolen but whole identities, religions, and languages were also stolen/usurped and replaced with those of the thieves.
Robbins Mitchell says
Well,that’s about what I would expect from a 3rd world rock worshiper….calling it “Islamophobia” when what is really is is Islamodisgustia
jihad3tracker says
THANK YOU TO CINNAMON STILLWELL FOR ANOTHER SUPERB POST.
Dear Jihad Watchers — This is one effect of the House of Saud’s Prince Alwaleed’s 25 BILLION Dolllar generosity to sow the seeds of Wahabbist Islam all over our planet, and especially in the United States.
24/7 networking by jihadists here and money secretly slushed to all sorts of citizens, including, of course, academics who were already hard-Left haters of our nation.
I was a supporter of Ted Cruz until he withdrew and NOW I AM ALL IN — 100 PERCENT FOR TRUMP. HE IS OUR HOPE FOR SURVIVAL.
jihad3tracker says
TO THE CATHOLICS READING THIS WHO STILL HOLD OUT SOME HOPE THAT YOUR FAITH IS NOT COMPLETELY DOOMED — Please take some time this weekend to actually look at John Esposito’s “Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding” — ACMCU — blatant LIES about having “Muslim-Christian understanding” as its mission.
THE REALITY IS ENDLESS “CONFERENCES” OF LIKE MINDED LEFTISTS, TO STALL FOREVER A DIALOGUE WITH CHRISTIAN ORDINARY HUMAN BEINGS.
A part of the ACMCU is a “multi year” project — the Berkley Center Bridge Initiative (notice that such things are always indefinite and squishy) so results can never reasonably be expected in any timely way. Visit the website of this Bridge Initiative and you will find MORE diffuse bloviation, intended to seem to say something concrete, but again letting unspecified results drift away in taqiyyist fog.
LASTLY, I URGE YOU TO CONTACT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY’S PRESIDENT. Here is a path: https://president.georgetown.edu/
Notice that a phone number is given, but not his own email address — however his chief of staff is sourced for contact. When time permits, choose your way of asking president Degioia if he ever takes moments to reflect on Islam’s real intent toward non-Muslims, and whether bloody money from the House of Saud will carry any weight when his own soul is judged by God.
Whatever you say in a phone call or written way should be as intense as possible — while still being civil, of course. Yet make him aware that many years remain in the life of our nation, yet submission to the pathology of Muhammad’s “revelations” — violent and supremacist — will only strengthen Islam’s chance of winning eventually.
Mach1Duck says
The chasm between Islam an Jahiliyyah (people of the book) is great, and a bridge is not to be built across it so that people on the two sides may mix with each other, but only so the people of Jahiliyyah may come over to Islam.
Qutb, Sayyid, Milestones, Salimiah, Kuwait; International Islamic Federation of Student Organizationds: 1978.
pdxnag says
Islamophobia: Blasphemy by another name that in a Sharia-compliant land would lead directly to the Islamophobe’s death at the hands of the pious.
Custos Custodum says
Note the crucial role played in fostering this type of propaganda “studies” subject by teacher colleges (such as SF State) as opposed to actual universities.
Also, what happened to the idea of keeping a professional distance from the subject the alleged “scholars” are “studying”? Clearly, individuals like Abdulhadi are simply publicly-paid salespeople for an ideology who fight tooth and nail to suppress any critical discussion of their “subject.”
Rob says
‘Stolen land’.
When people mention that in regard to Israel I point out that St Paul the main proselytizer of Christianity was ‘Saul of Tarsus’. Tarsus being a long established Jewish centre from way BC.
I then ask them to find Tarsus on a map and aren’t they surprised to find it well within the borders of modern Turkey.
somehistory says
It isn’t a phobia…as has been pointed out so very many times. It’s islamowise. To know islam…and to still have a loving, caring, kind, brain and heart and a clear rejection of it…is to realize just how evil, how wicked, how psychopathic, and how dangerous to life and health, it truly is.
This kind of posturing by these liars makes my stomach turn.
And saying the *land was taken* gives the moslim clearance for *taking it* too. Their flawed *reasoning says…they really don’t use reason…if it is not now owned by the people who *owned* it first, then it’s up for grabs by islam and its adherents.
Peter Charles says
Problem is, i you go back before Mohammad, the majority of the supposed stolen land was the and of the Tribes of Israel , for a few thousand years. Not the Bedouin nomads who pretend to be Palestinians today.
vlparker says
Stolen ‘indigenous’ people’s land….who stole it from the ‘indigenous’ people who were there before them, who stole it from the ‘indigenous’ people who were there before them….etc., etc., etc. That is the story of humanity and all races did it. Funny the US is the only one who gets blamed.
Nancy Assaf says
The United States seems to be the only Country where the people fight back (or tried to before Obama became President). Europe just capitulates and takes more “refugees” and becomes more Islam-ized (for lack of a better word). Other countries think they need the extra people to work (since their birth rates are zero to below zero). What do they expect will happen when they become the minorities? It should take about 10 years. Think Muslims will adopt their system of govt? I think not.
Will Doohan says
It’s always the U.S.A. and white people who are considered evil by the leftists, while all other countries, races, and religions, and what ever evils they perpetrated, are given a pass.
The word disgust is to mild to describe my feelings towards these phony academics and their perpetual b*llshit.
My Shari'a Moor says
As others here have noted since 2011: it’s ‘Islamo-mises’ (G. – “hatred for”) or ‘Islamo-nausea’!
Both are good.
linnte says
FINALLY! An article Randy can relate to! Hahahahahahaha! I suggest we start calling ourselves anti-Islam crusaders! Just to get their goat. (Pun intended)
Mockingjay says
Maybe the person in the picture IS “Randy”.
Who knows.
Mach1Duck says
ISLAMOPHOPIA:
1993 World Trade Center
Kobal Towers
9/11
Madrid
London
Mumbai
Ft. Hood
Paris
Brussels
San Bernardino
Any questions?
Wellington says
That initial statement about “stolen peoples land” (never mind that American Indians regularly invaded and stole lands from other American Indians) is, in microcosm, a rebuke of Western Civilization in general.
Yes, the very civilization that pioneered more freedoms than any other civilization in history, which was the first to separate reason from religion and thus developed philosophy, that also developed the scientific method, the most amazing technological achievements of any civilization in history, the civilization which pioneered women’s rights as no other civilization in history even remotely did, and which developed, easily so, the greatest capacity to apologize for its wrongdoings contra all others, none more so than the Islamic world which has committed great wrongs and has apologized for NONE of them. Yes, that civilization which this silly bitch mentioned while stupidly denigrating it.
jihad3tracker says
Thank you, Wellington, for this context about Leftist personality disorder. Perhaps you already know of this resource for identifying such never-grow-up “academics” and “scholars” :
THE DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL: DSM-IV — although Beta version V might have been released by now. For an amusing journey of discovery describing perfectly the pathological infantile character traits of John Esposito, Nathan Lean, Reza Aslan, take some time to check it out.
And icing on the cake ??? Esposito, Lean, Aslan obsessively read EVERY POST AND COMMENT HERE ON JIHAD WATCH ! ! ! Because in essence down to the very core of their existence, an overwhelming sense of inadequacy dominates.
Pathetic — but, hey, they are digging their own graves . . . I see no reason to offer pity.
jihad3tracker says
Cut to the chase — This is from Wikipedia’s item on contents of the DSM-IV Addendum, in the Cause section:
“Child abuse and neglect consistently evidence themselves as antecedent risks to the development of personality disorders in adulthood.”
WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED BY THAT ??? Because Islam’s exemplar of the perfect man was Muhammad — pedophile, liar, mass murderer, thief, torturer, betrayer.
Paul says
According to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas
best estimates of the population of N. America in 1492 are 10 million people–about the population of the NYC area today. No room for others? Sure, just like no room in the middle east for the returning, indigenous Jews. Enough of this leftist claptrap!
George Poll says
The course: Islamophobia and why it is a legitimate response to the beastly Muslims. Also, How to arm yourself against the violent Muslims who attack you as a followup course.
Western Canadian says
Phobia is irrational. Disgust, loathing and fear of islam, is rational.
rabrooks says
And that’s not all. Any resistance to “pislamic jihad” is now considered bigotry! So, if I take the time to mention that “since 9/11 there have been 28,406 deadly jihad attacks”, I am a bigot. So defending my life, the lives of my family /friends/neighbors is also an act of “radical racism?
Psychological jihad complete! How could anyone even consider this as valid?
RM says
Trump 2016. Maybe its time to interject a little Christianophobia… Turn the tables. Current leadership have lost the plot. Its now an eye for an eye. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.
More Ham Ed says
Islamorealism studies here at JW watch and at the following youtube channels:
JihadWatchVideo
https://www.youtube.com/user/JihadWatchVideo/videos
The Glazov Gang
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFMPMG/videos
Pamela Geller
https://www.youtube.com/user/atlasshrugs2000/videos
Acts17Apologetics
https://www.youtube.com/user/Acts17Apologetics/videos
Brigitte Gabriel [sometimes bad audio]
https://www.youtube.com/user/act4america/videos
Pat Condell
https://www.youtube.com/user/patcondell/videos
Westman says
They need another course for Islamorejection which describes the citizen who knows Islamic Ideology, is not afraid of it, and simply considers it inferior to Western Democracy. We hardly call rejection of Jehovah Witness visits at our door, “Witnessophobia”, or that other group, “Momonophobia”. Maybe that has something to do with their peaceful behavior and they don’t forcibly prohibit others from that which “Allah prohibits”.
I see a serious problem with the term “Islamophobia” which implies a fear or phobia of Islam. That is a complete misnomer since it is particular groups and Muslims who are causing mahem and sticking their noses in infidel business in the name of Allah and Islam. It is some Muslim-majority countries which seed disrespect of Islam with abysmal behavior. These very folks created and named “Islamophobia” to give a false color to a simple matter of having their unwanted ideology rejected by the West. We are not afraid, we are annoyed.
citycat says
This Islamophobia that doesn’t exist, and whose true nature is shrouded in fear,
and also is shrouded in fuzzy logic,
is an Islamic weapon of war, pushing further into infidel intellectual territory,
and with the awareness of the fact
that Islamophobia is a decoy to divert the infidel’s focus
from the truth that Islam is consciously, incessantly, invading infidel existances until all infidel existances are conquered.
You don’t need a weatherman to suss that Islam is pushing
24/7/52/1400
and according to the apostate Imam this advance is terribly evil and conscious in the minds of all Muslims, 24/7
not like an hour on Sunday.
It’s non-stop invasion on every possible level.
Michael Warden says
The bit about stolen land was interesting. An American female geologist excavating in Mexico before WWII found stone tools in a stratum at least 400,000 years old. The generally accepted story about “Native Americans” is that their ancestors crossed over the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska about 10,000 years ago before the ice melted and sea levels rose. Explain that. Also, of course, muslims know all about “stolen land”. They have stolen enough over the centuries.
Gungadin says
Muslims are like cockroaches -if you’ve seen one in your new residence, you can be assured that there are more lurking and hiding somewhere nearby.
Richard says
‘stolen indigenous land’ … tell that to the Yazidis and ask them what they’ve experienced …
duh swami says
Allah owns the planet…If you are not one of his pious, you are trespassing…and will soon be evicted…
Bongobitarito Islamorefugee. says
The present day muslims should stop talking by now, particularly those Islamist types found in the USA andUK, who have left their wretched homelands for the comfort and securities of the advanced countries for them and their children . They are now shamelessly demanding their cursed way of life in the host countries . No normal groups of people can do it ,if they have a minimum sense of gratefulness. If they knew it with so much of their isamic righteousness that they are going to a land stolen from others from their own land gifted by their god himself,why did they came at all ???
ALLmuslims who talk big and nonsense about their own religion and find such faults with other socio-political systems ,should shut themselves up,if they claim to have human blood in them. The blood smeared history of the islamic politics & ‘religion’ ( at least what they prefer to call as one ,in their infinite stupidity) has only showed it all how it helped the islamic people to plunder and steal other’s land and properties with mindless violence. Now their posterity are deceiving others, and lecturing about the faults of the hosts who have fed those and allowed them to stay in their land with all sorts of facilities and benefits that those muslims could ever have dreamt of back in their own deserts.
All muslims who think themselves to be righteous should beg pardon from the Egyptians, Persians, Indians and 270 millions their forefathers killed as they are the bearers of the legacy of that infinite cruelty over more than 1400 years.
It is a great shame that a muslim finds fault and guilt in others being the posterity of blood hound thieves and plundered.
The world has seen enough of these muslim crooks.
And enough is enough !!!
Dean says
By blaming all of the cross-cultural mistakes like slavery along with several millennia of shared history of it and other “transgressions” exclusively on white culture, the multiculturalist intend on attacking and marginalizing primarily traditional American culture because or our cultural demand for property rights, freedom of speech and religious freedom. The Islamic studies are not a serous consideration of Islam but part of this process to demand that a religion incorporating a primitive tribal culture be given equal respect, tolerance and acceptance by those defending the cultural values of traditional America. It is just part of the war being waged against us by two natural allies that feel a shared antithesis to our values.
Delphi says
I’m a pretty intelligent/intellectual transsexual woman, who is rationalist and atheist /humanist in her views (in short, I’m with Richard Dawkins). I’m a fairly regular reader of Jihadwatch and Pamela Geller’s website. Being transsexual I have a background in social justice, and opposing patriarchial oppression. I’m not particularly fond of radical Christian fundamentalists, distortions of who transsexual people really are, or bathroom laws, for example. However, I am convinced that the battle for ts liberty is a battle in the process of being won. The western tradition of liberty and freedom valued by both conservatives and liberals is playing itself out to grant us the reasonable rights that should have been ours in the first place. I could debate specifics with conservatives but the separation of church and state is at the core of every western democracy, and only western society produced the great rationalist thinkers and scientists who were free to explore the universe as it truly is free of superstition.
While (living in Canada, a country with a fairly low muslim population that is scattered) I do not object to people’s right to practice their faith if they can live in peace with their neighbour, I honestly believe that Islam as it is practiced today in Islamic majority-countries is the most offensive and barbaric patriarchy on the planet. Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are reporting real news from Europe, and it doesn’t look good. Crimes, rapes, riots, no -go areas, sharia idealogues, and open calls for treason, sedition and separation. The problem is fundamentalist religion untempered by the Christian desire for mercy, or the western rationalist tradition. Toss in a good round of cultural imperialism and a desire to conquor europe in the name of Islam. I’ve analyzed intensively, and reached a conclusion that’s compatible with my liberal beliefs. Robert Spencer’s right , and Islam , especially fundamentalist Islam , is a threat, and a serious one.
I thought I would reach out and ask : Is there anyone someone on the left can do ? The core values of the left – freedom, liberty, rationalism/humanism, equity for all peoples – are solid, but it seems like recently we’ve got lost in not analyzing what is true, vs what is propaganda/ and or what is being spread by someone with an agenda that may not be what it seems to be. Now essentially fundamentalist Islamists, the very definition of “patriarchy” can cry victim and have the violent theocratic state they want to have introduced overlooked.
I’ve tried to convince my fellow leftists – it seems to work better in Europe generally where there is a more present threat of real bodily harm/and or eventual cultural extinction.
Delphi says
Honestly, I’d like to give some advice.
When discussing the offenses of patriarchial Islam with leftists, don’t use a list of military-sounding locations/and or conflicts.
The left focusses on personal human rights. In it’s finest form this is a rationalist balancing act that recognizes the contradictions of history and the fact that everyone isn’t perfect. However, you really need to communicate with the average peta loving tree hugging slogan believing leftist.
A good viewing of ACID THROWING VICTIMS / and or violent rape victims. is usually enough to sober a feminist up. Please focus on being culturally sensitive, and show many faces of people in the affected areas. Also don’t forget to include at least one european face, as sadly enough, you too could be next. It’s happened in England. It could happen anywhere.
Schrödinger says
It’s high time this world held an inaugural Kuffarphobia Studies Conference.
Only the first of many.
Tater Salad says
Maybe Abduhadi should acknowledge all the indigenous people’s lands that muslims have stolen, before she brings up anything in the USA, because muslims have stolen a whole helffuva lot more land than just about any other group in history. And done it in a far more brutal and sadistic fashion than any of us from the civilized world would ever dream possible.
Tater Salad says
*helluva (typo)
Demsci says
Well, I know David Icke harps on the theme that “Mysterious beings/ humans/ groups” indeed see the use of scapegoating a believable but not real threat, in order to get their policies adopted. Which would not be the case without the population being scared.
And Michael Crichton wrote a book “State of Fear”, about the idea that some “powers” desired the public to have a big fear, a big enemy, without which governing would be a lot more difficult.
But in the case of fearmongering by “unknown powers”, even if Islam-apologists and political corrects are right about this, I think it is their own reaction that boosts this fear-effect for Islam by far the most.
I sense among them this constant denial, this constant opting out of constructive nuanced debate, their arrogance or maybe reluctance to really take Muslims to task, for which all these excellent, accurate arguments done by”islamophobes” are such a perfect opportunity to learn, evolve.
Or perhaps to openly admit the love of hundreds of millions of Muslims for a totalitarian political system or at least clearly anti-democratic tenets, like deathpenalty for apostasy.
Honesty and self-criticism and criticism of fellow-Muslims could severely Islamophobia but the Islam-apologists/ Political Correct who could do it cannot even bring themselves to demand from Muslims to openly choose sides between Democratic Nations and laws on the one hand, and the clearly totalitarian ideologies or tenets of Islamic countries or large Islamic Organisations.
Their condemnation of “radical Muslims” is a joke, because it clearly ranks second after their condemnation of “Western powers”.
Their chief criticism is against the critics, ignoring the legitimate arguments the critics pose, coming from being in favor of the full democratic system. And showing exactly the totalitarian attitudes of Muslims that critics abhor, primarily the censorship on criticizing ONE particular spiritual-political leader; Muhammad.
They, the Islam-apologists behave very suspiciously exactly like the “Islamophobes” describe them and are much more the accomplices of the “unknown powers” than the for 99 % only responding “Islamophobes” are.
خَليفة says
If you really believed the land around SF was stolen from the indigenous people, you would think that it is rightfully theirs and should be given back to them, the Ohlone. You would not be suggesting that the now stolen land should be shared, or given to anyone else, like Muslims. ( who are working to steal some kuffar lands for themselves. )
If you knew your history, you would know that the land she speaks of was conquered by the Spanish, and the Spanish, not Western Europeans, were the cause of the decline of the Ohlone culture. The Western Europeans took the land from the Spanish. There are still Ohlone people living today.
This shows, again, how there are forces misrepresenting history with a bias against the founders of the greatest country on earth, the United States of America. I wonder if she realizes that if it were Muslims that stole the land that she would not be a professor.
خَليفة says
…. And ALL the Ohlone that didn’t convert to islam would be dead.
John Marst says
This is such a disgrace. Imagine a degree in “race and resistance studies.” Guaranteed to yield nothing but useless whiners crying through life from one petty grievance to the next.
Dean says
wait a minute, race and grievance studies, an MS, sounds like a future American progressive president. Banana Republic III.
خَليفة says
Whine and cry is all some people can do, so they just as well should study it and get a degree in it so they will be the best whiners and criers out there.
mortimer says
Islamic Melodrama 101 and Muslim Victimology 101 are prerequisite courses for ISLAMOPHOBIA Studies. Students must bring their own boxes of tissues or crying towels to both courses.
خَليفة says
Hahaha, you said it.
mortimer says
I wonder how much bribe money was sent from Gulf states to create this BS program?
David says
I don’t think it is “Religion” per say that is the great evil to be avoided OR suppressed.
BUT! That said, the religion of SATAN WORSHIP that islam is, must be held in check least we be made subservient to it’s horrific EVILS.
When the Founding Fathers framed our Constitution, I’m certain that none of them could have envisioned hundreds of millions of people bowing down to worship at the throne of SATAN HIMSELF!!!