I am so sorry I am only finding out about this now, a day late. I would have flown across the country to attend. Imagine the acrobatics Ghassan Hage had to perform in order to make this even remotely plausible, even with the audience so eager to be fooled that he undoubtedly had. On the other hand, if the dim-bulb “Islamophobia”-fearmonger Haroon Moghul (that’s right, “Dwayne”) could sell Time Magazine on the idea that “Islamophobia” is responsible for America’s crumbling infrastructure, academic audiences these days may be even stupider than I thought.
“Is ISLAMOPHOBIA accelerating global warming?,” MIT Global Studies and Languages, May 9, 2016 (thanks to Faisal Saeed AlMutar):
The Ecology and Justice Forum In Global Studies And Languages Presents:
Ghassan HageGhassan Hage is Future Generation Professor in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, University of Melbourne
Introduced By Bettina Stoetzer, Global Studies And Languages
Mon. May 9
5:00 pm
2-105This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as ‘generalised domestication.’
Ghassan Hage has held many visting positions across the world including in Harvard, University of Copenhagen, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and American University of Beirut. He works in the comparative anthropology of nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora and racism and on the relation between anthropology, philosophy and social and political theory. His most well-known work is White Nation: Fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society (Routledge 2000). His is also the author of Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imaginary (Melbourne University Press 2015). He is currently working on a book titled Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming? and has most recently published a piece in American Ethnologist, titled: “Etat de Siege. A Dying Domesticating Colonialism?” (2016) that engages with the contemporary “refugee crisis” in Europe and beyond.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by Global Studies and Laguages, Global Borders Research Collaboration, MIT Anthropology

Monstrosity says
This is a joke right?
Bamaguje says
I wish it were… but it isn’t.
MIT is supposed to be a center of academic excellence, but even they have sunk into the politically correct abyss of grovelling before Islamists.
jihad3tracker says
HA HA HA HA HA —- Repeat 100 times.
jihad3tracker says
If a video of the event is put up at an MIT web venue, I hope one of our JW readers sends it for some comic relief in these grim days of Muslim pathology.
Jay Boo says
Filthy Ideology
Shameless elites
Kathy Brown, Esq. says
Jay, you read my mind.
I am SO glad you posted this. This young officer had JUST begun his career! He’s in his grave-God rest his brave soul-and the killer, Tsarnaev, is getting 3 hots and a cot at taxpayer expense. This, tho’ he is under a death sentence.
Look for Obama to pardon him, and plenty of other cop killers, as he leaves office.
Ralph Statum says
Here’s A Fact That Liberals And Certain Factions Just Don’t Get…
Remember this term when you hear the term ISLAMOPHOBIA
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tJnW8HRHLLw?feature=player_embedded
gravenimage says
Just horrible–but there is so much more of the same/
Tuvia Fogel says
This is JW satire, right?
DFD says
It has to be….
JMB says
No, it is not satire, it is the strange logic of Islam and it’s loopy left apologists in the West.
Don’t ever try and reason with Islamists, they don’t and can’t see logic. Their arguments are based on low IQ reasoning, blind faith in a violent evil medieval religion, feigned innocence, the need to convert the rest of the world to their faith and many other flawed arguments.
Darryl Kerney says
you cannot reason with those who have willingingly renounced all all use of reason.
gravenimage says
I wish is *were* satire. Here’s MIT coverage of the event:
“IS ISLAMOPHOBIA ACCELERATING GLOBAL WARMING?”
https://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/islamophobia-accelerating-global-warming
It’s being presented by the “The Ecology and Justice Forum In Global Studies And Languages”, which sounds like “Newspeak”, all right:
“This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation…”
Did you know that objecting to being enslaved or murdered by Muslims ‘originates in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation’? Well, now you know…sarc/off
Dan says
If you want to go this route, it’s far easier to reason Islam causes global warming.
First, every Muslim country, no matter its wealth and resources, is pretty much a third world dictatorship, with most of its people poor.
Now like it or not, the poor do create slums because they can’t afford better, like reliable trash services.
And since many aren’t taught to actually read, so they can actually read the Koran to decide for themselves, they can’t even read the educational material figure out how to come up with better systems for handling “Global Warming” pollutions.
Also, those in power haven’t provided reliable power and heating to all it’s citizens, and the poor certainly can’t afford solar and wind, so most still cook and heat with fire, which most often means chopping down more trees. (And if you want to really go out on a limb cause somebody somewhere is going to swallow it, then, “Why do you think the Middle East is all desert? For the past 1400 years they’ve been cutting down all the trees. Du-uh!”)
So obviously one of the best ways to handle global warming, since over a billion people are Muslim, is to make Islam illegal.
I could probably come up with a better line of reasoning, but this is just off the top of my head.
Westman says
As long as all crazy theories are allowed on the table, let me add another.
The Muslim migration to Europe will increase global warming and “Islamophobia” will help prevent it.
The migrants will be demanding conveniences and automobiles that they did not have in their native countries and will use energy at a rate several times greater than previously. All energy consuming devices waste a portion of that energy in the form of heat, and if using combustion will produce carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping gas.
Therefore stopping the migration from muslim countries to the Europe, referred to by CAIR as a form of “Islamophobia”, will prevent this heat increase and help preserve the environment. Islamophobia is good for the planet.
So, Ghassan Hage, prove my conjecture is wrong.
Jenny H says
North Africa used to be the bread-basket of the Roman Empire. The goats must have eaten all the vegetation. (Maybe ringbarked the olive trees?) Maybe the muslim invaders took the land away from the indigenous locals and prevented them from maintaining their farms.
Gene says
Wait a minute, this guy isn’t following the facts all the way to the end. Global warming is actually caused by children’s cartoon shows. This is because Tom and Jerry shows cause Jihad. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/05/08/top-egyptian-official-blames-the-rise-of-radical-islam-on-tom-and-jerry/ Jihad in turn results in murder and mayhem, which causes Islamophobia, which causes global warming. The connection is even clearer when someone draws a stick figure and says it’s a picture of Muhammad, which results in law suits, riots, murder and mayhem, which causes Islamophobia, which causes global warming. So, the main cause of global warming is cartoons.
Oh, by the way, there is a consensus now that cartoons cause global warming (I said it first, so it must be true). If you disagree, then you are a racist islamophobe, which also causes global warming. So, you are destroying the planet. Don’t bother arguing because that will prove that you are a global warming denier and an islamophobe, which causes more global warming. The issue is now settled.
NDDoB says
I couldn’t help it but to read it in Pat Condell voice 😉
Ciudadano says
Sure. Actually, as anyone acquainted with the Quran knows, Islamophobia is the main cause of most modern problems: global warming, income inequality, poverty, malnutrition, obesity, LGTBI discrimination, racism, etc. Hence Mohamed should be regarded as perfect model for liberals.
Vlad says
How about Prince Charles: http://news.sky.com/story/1592373/charles-syrias-war-linked-to-climate-change
Surely, someone of his “stature” could not be wrong
Angemon says
I can see why “islamophobia” is the result of colonial capitalist accumulation, with the imperialistic muslim kingdoms constantly attacking non-muslim nations, but global warming? Well, I guess the jihad ongoing for 1400 or so years has reduced areas to barren wastelands devoid of human, animal and vegetable life.
DFD says
Angemon says: “……… devoid of human, animal and vegetable life.”
So, it’s not a green house then? 🙂
Angemon says
Considering what “palestinians” did to greenhouses they were given, definitely not 🙂
Dane says
Somebody alert Hugh Fitzgerald.
Don McKellar says
Hey, if opposing Islam is racism, then “islamophobia” could be causing global warming. Why not?
Frankly, this Hage person is pretty brilliant in that he fully gets the backwards anti-logic of the left-fascists and political correctness, and marries it to the moslem victimhood false narrative. He realizes that no matter how over-the-top bonkers and void of plausibility such a talk is, as long as he hits the right buttons and emphasizes things that his delusional left-fascist audience members desperately want to believe, he can thrown in as much taqiya and kitman moslem lying to advance Islam as he pretty much wants to. They’ll buy it all — or at least not question it — and he’ll be celebrated. Where’s Reza Asslan? Shouldn’t he be in on this one? There’s a whole lot of snake oil to sell here!
Georg says
Here’s an idea for his next book: “Islam Makes Society Crappier And No Data Suggest Otherwise”
None are so blind as those who will not see. What a jerk. If Muslims held themselves to have 1:1-billionth the agency they ascribe “us” the problem’d be half over by now.
Other books he might consider: “I’m a Deluded Crybaby” or “I’m A Typical Racist Who Has A Sickening Infatuation With Race As Evidenced By My Seeing Race In Everything I Observe While Other People Are Getting On With Their Lives”
Georg says
One more: “5.5 Billion Islamophobes”
Georg says
One more: “5.5 Billion: Mein Kampf With Islamophobia”
ok, back to work
Islam_Macht_Frei says
Imagine the howls if someone offered the exact same propaganda under the heading of:
“Is anti-Zionism accelerating Global Warming?”
Jaladhi says
All these people at MIT have gone stark raving mad to put it mildly to dream up this nonsense. Or there is a method to their madness connecting Islamophobia to everything in this world. Muslims think that the whole world revolves around them.
Dean_from_Ohio says
“And since many aren’t taught to actually read, so they can actually read the Koran to decide for themselves, they can’t even read the educational material figure out how to come up with better systems for handling ‘Global Warming’ pollutions.”
It’s worse than that. The Arabic language is itself a barrier to literacy. Since it has no vowels, a collection of any three consonants may be any number of words. S y hv t knw wht t sys bfr y rd t. It is highly specialized at getting people to read only what they already know, such as phrases and sections of the Koran, thus simplifying the task keeping the populace under the rule of those who write and prescribe the limited reading material. Helpful at getting people to explore new concepts and material? Not so much. The number of books translated into Arabic in any given year is in the low-to-medium hundreds. That’s about one new book from outside the Arab world for each MILLION of its 422 million, in any given year.
Here’s one link, “Why Arabs hate reading”: http://www.newenglishreview.org/Colin_Wells/Why_Arabs_Hate_Reading/.
There is hope, but it comes from the sky. Literally: http://www.sat7usa.org/
gravenimage says
What you have to say about Arabic is true, Dean–but I think Muslim illiteracy has more to do with the Islamic despising of reason and knowledge than it does the difficulty and shortcomings of Arabic itself.
Note that Muslims are also apt to be illiterate in Urdu, Turkish, and many other languages.
Chinese is also a difficult language in many ways, but China has much improved its literacy rate in the past few decades; it is now at about 95%; it is even higher in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Most Muslim countries lack proper education systems; things are even worse for oppressed girls. Nearly one in three Muslims is illiterate in the Arab world; the rate is nearly half for women.
There are fewer than 600 universities in the Muslim world for 1.4 billion people; the US alone, with a population just over 320 million, has 5,758 universities.
And this does not even address the marked superiority of Western colleges.
More damning statistics about Islam.
RonaldB says
“‘And only one for birthday presents, you know. There’s glory for you!’
‘I don’t know what you mean by “glory”,’ Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. ‘Of course you don’t — till I tell you. I meant “there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!”‘
‘But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument”,’ Alice objected.
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.'”
The OIC in 2005 decreed that Islamophobia, whatever that is, is racism. It’s not a description: it’s a definition.
Henceforth, all universities playing whores and strumpets to Saudi endowments make a special dispensation for not-so-bright Muslim professors using post-modern terminology to paper over their vacuous so-called ideas.
CeltictotheBone says
Indeed, Ronald.
mortimer says
No a fake, invented so-called phobia is not causing global warming, but MUSLIMS are definitely causing global warming. How? Simple. They eat tons of meat. Three times more meat than anyone else. The use of so much meat (unethical meat, mind you…animal cruelty is a separate issue) results in the depletion of grazing land that could be used for crops and the production of methane from the animals, most of which are in the southern hemisphere…South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Mirren10 says
” … the production of methane from the animals … ”
**Yes** !! It’s all those cows farting. Now we know. 🙂
Champ says
And praying face down with their rear ends facing upwards …ok, you get the idea 😉
Angemon says
Joke’s on them – in the West, kuffar walk on those streets, some with their dogs 🙂
Wellington says
Orwell couldn’t top this.
Georg says
Yea, he would feel his imagination limited.
Vlad says
Earth temperature is soley dependant on the Sun, ie. sunspot activity high, more temp. Sunspot activity low, low temp. In addition Moon orbit influences Ocean movements. When the moon has a “higher wobble” more “ocean movement” (conveyor belt, that warms mostly Europe). We are now entering a phase with LESS moon wobble. Means Less conveyor belt movement, lower temp. in Europe.
In short, a colder phase world wide.
Now, all “Northerners” MUST move south and swamp the ME to escape the coming ICE age.
Christenophobia is NOT real, Muslims. You must accept mullabulla wills it so.
Keys says
Vlad, you are onto something.
My antithesis hypothesis: Might “Christenophobia” cause another Ice Age, most likely in Saudi Arabia?
Hope to see these exhibited at High School science fairs next fall.
Darryl Kerney says
the very first sentence contains a falsehood, many studies and polls have shown that anti-semitism is, unfortunately, the # 1 form of “racism”.
“This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis.”
oh how i loathe “intellectuals” who spew such nonsense attempting to sound intelligent and “profound” by stating their “ideas” using ridiculously complex sounding “concepts” that in reality are nothing more than unintelligent bullshit that they hope will make them sound smart to idiots who won’t bother trying to decipher, but will repeat in hopes of sounding intelligent and informed.
the old saying, “dazzle” them with bullshit, comes to mind.
Keys says
Just a minute, DK !
You don’t mean to suggest that “an argument that they [Islamophobia & Global Warming] are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, – what is referred to as ‘generalized domestication’ ” is intellectual bullshit, do you ?
Cause if that is what you are saying, I’m going to have to put on my white MIT lab coat and walk around looking puzzled, scratching my head.
Darryl Kerney says
ha ha ! good one Keys !
i will more than “suggest” the quotation is bullshit ! i will use Robert’s style of counterpoint,
let’s analyze the rest of the paragraph, (the first sentence being in clear contradiction to established facts)
“It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises….”
so “islamophobia” is a CRISIS now ?
how is that when the islamic jihadists are doing pretty much ALL the KILLING in the name of THEIR BELIEFS ?
pointing out the obvious must be stopped !
oh i see now, it’s a CRISIS for them when their intended VICTIMS decide to FIGHT BACK and try to warn others about their TRUE INTENTIONS to take over and DOMINATE BY FORCE ANY WHO OPPOSE THEM. we are not supposed to “paint them all with the same brush”, even though they all follow the same belief system, which is akin to saying we shouldn’t be “prejudiced” against all neo-nazis, after all, not all of them have killed Jews right ? so by lefty logic the lefties shouldn’t have any problem with importing hundreds of thousands or even millions of neo nazis into their countries, right ? the poor dears are being persecuted all over the world for their beliefs !
“…metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation.”
oh fuck it gives me a headache unravelling that horrendous knot ! which is why none of the idiots who swallow it will bother, but here goes,
what the fuck does “metaphorically related” mean ?
i’ve been a voracious reader of many subjects for well over 40 years now, and that has to be one of the vaguest and undefinable word combinations ever, spoken or written by an idiot trying to sound smart by invoking his audience’s imagination to fill in the void of his reasoning, and well, it sounds good, catchy buzz phrase, nothing more.
and he doesn’t say which one is the source of the “imagery” for the other, or what imagery,
at this point the lefty is imagining the climate change mythology, and the plight of the poor muslims who aren’t actively following the demands of allah right now, while those of us paying attention see their fellow Believers following out allah’s commands to kill the kafirs, and to blame it on “climate change” is to ignore and deny 1400 years of history and the obvious fact that the followers of allah are the only ones waging jihad supposedly because of it.
aahhh, deep breath, count to 10…..
ok, which came first ?
colonialism or capitalism ?
the former.
which one actually IMPROVED the overall general standard of living for the most people ever ?
BOTH.
which belief systems are aimed at “fixing” that ?
islam and collectivism.
what is the UN, with the the OIC as largest voting block, endorsing ?
islam and collectivism.
what will they “accomplish” ?
the destruction of all the freedoms and rights for mankind that have been so hard to come by for those who sacrificed to achieve what we enjoy, all to have it taken away by those who insist that the people who were supposed to benefit from it must be the ones to sacrifice, for each other, so that all become sacrificial animals to the greater good, or the society, or their fellow serfs against the evil “masters” who “oppress” them in the FREEST NATIONS ON EARTH, as they opine for the poor and at the same time refuse to condemn the belief systems that cause and can only keep them in poverty, in every sense.
phew !
how many more ridiculous sentences to go ?
“they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as ‘generalised domestication.’
There’s a fantastic example of, hmm, what to call that ?
i can’t quite find a quick insult that is poignant enough to express how fucked up that is,
ah these idiots just make us think harder don’t they !
“emanating from a similar mode of being”
please define that asshole !
oops sorry, mustn’t offend,
but i suspect he means the shit that emanates from islam, which is very well documented,
and he is right about the similar mode, islam and the climate change fanatics share much in methodology,
claim victimhood and try to silence all who aren’t so stupid as to believe that you must MUST believe as they do.
and finally,
‘generalised domestication.’
hmm, like goats ?
ok i’m kidding bahahah,
what is islam, if not a system, to make everybody follow Mohammed’s way ?
without any choice ?
Lucretius says
Marxism never dies. It just gets stupider over time.
shoehorn of africa says
I’m calling Bair’s Law on this; “the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force.”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Blair's%20Law
My Shari'a Moor says
Blair’s Law (of OZ)
DaveFiguringOdds says
This is beyond Orwellian. Monty Python maybe with a bit of Ray Bradberry thrown in with French Sparrows, Flying Cows, Illustrated Men and Maybe there is some sort of new quantum relativistic philosophy .. ahead a sort of Hysenburgs Uncertainty of facts and where critical thinking increases global entropy? So there is a topic (new article title) next all we need is eyes of newt, and a witches brew of new facts.
Welcome to the Twighlight Zone.
TruthTeller says
The two things are linked. They share common roots in Joseph Goebbels. Manipulation of the media. Conscription of film (entertainment) and sports figures into the propaganda effort. A doctrine that cannot be questioned. Ruthless censorship and suppression of dissenting views.
It’s formulaic. Make it desirable to be aligned with them, and costly to oppose them. Then it doesn’t matter how illogical the message might be. Anyone who criticizes radical Islam is vilified, and anyone who questions AGW is ostracized.
mortimer says
joe blow wrote: “it could all be a not-so-transparent ploy, to pair the damned Mohammedists with the global warming crowd, to advance each of their agendas”
Bingo, dear friend. You have founded the logical conclusion: they are paying for the cultural Marxists. No mention, of course, on the role of Gulf countries in promoting global warming through the petroleum industry, and no mention of 2 billion animal sacrifices per year causing global warming and depletion of food stocks.
Islam’s animal sacrifices are causing global warming and petroleum industry.
Laura says
The idiot needs an audience that will laugh him off the podium.
Keith Jordan says
The title of this talk should be the title of a stand-up comedy routine.
hiramo says
“Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual can believe them.”
Orwell
whoisjohnalt says
“Ghassan Hage has held many visting positions across the world including in Harvard, University of Copenhagen, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and American University of Beirut.”……..
Reminds me of a quote by the astute Thomas Sowell:
There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs,”
Keys says
Thanks for the quote, whoisjohnalt.
Maybe Hage is a high IQ guy masquerading as a fool, rather than a fool masquerading as a high IQ guy. In either case it is a type of Islamic deceit with a malignant purpose.
Ninsuna says
The dangers of Islamophobia and climate change pale in comparison to Ghassan Hage and The Ecology and Justice Forum in Global Studies and Languages. I was laughing so hard, I couldn’t breathe.
Stephen says
Who is more dangerous climate change mongers or jihadists? But man when you combine the two the results are chilling!
Mary Anne says
This is bullshit. It’s not Islamophobia is they really are stabbing, shooting and blowing you up.
Angemon says
Sounds about right.
gravenimage says
MIT talk: “Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming?”
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You can’t make this sh*t up…