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Noam Chomsky: Idea of “Islamic terror as seeking to destroy us” is “scapegoating”

Dec 17, 2016 10:58 am By Robert Spencer

Nearly 30,000 jihad terror attacks worldwide since 9/11, and for Chomsky, one of the leading intellectuals of the Left, calls it “scapegoating.”

And as for the idea that Muslims are being scapegoated as Jews were in Nazi Germany, it’s an insult to the memory of the Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. It’s also a common Leftist talking point. Many, many others have made this claim before Chomsky, including Bernie Sanders; the notorious non-Muslim Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong; Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist at The Atlantic who some time ago interviewed Barack Obama about why he won’t call Islamic terrorism Islamic; liberal media pundit Reza Aslan; Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison; Nicholas Kristof, one of the New York Times’ Mideast pontificators; Canadian Muslim leader Syed Sohawardy; and Philadelphia chapter leader of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Jacob Bender. Many others have repeated it.

The blazingly brilliant Daniel Greenfield takes it apart in this video.

The idea that Muslims are the new Jews is put forward by the Left, but it also has opponents on the Left. In 2014, as part of his ongoing awakening to the nature and reality of the jihad threat, Bill Maher noted:

Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000 militant Jewish groups. They didn’t do a study of treatment of women around the world and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There weren’t 10 Jewish countries in the world that were putting gay people to death just for being gay.

Indeed. Further, no one is calling for or justifying genocide of Muslims. No individual or group opposed to Islam is remotely comparable to the National Socialists. Not that facts have ever gotten in the way of a good meme.

Maher isn’t alone on the Left in having pointed out the absurdity of likening opposition to jihad to the lead-up to the Holocaust. The late Christopher Hitchens also refuted this idea when writing a few years ago about the notorious Ground Zero Mosque proposal:

“Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,” Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like.

“US academic Chomsky: ‘isolationist’ Trump unlikely,” by Ilker Girit, AA.com, December 15, 2016:

Prominent American scholar Noam Chomsky claimed the U.S. will become more interventionist under president-elect Donald Trump, despite his promises to be “an isolationist”….

Chomsky said fears about Muslims and others have played on exaggerations about the community in the same way the Nazis in Germany used stereotypes against Jewish people.

“The typical history of scapegoating is to pick vulnerable people and find something that is not totally false about them – because you have to have some element of truth – and then build it up into a colossus which is about to overcome you,” he said, giving the example of the passing of laws in Oklahoma to ban Islamic law, which would have very little chance of ever being imposed.

“I mean you know it is not zero. You can find a woman somewhere who is wearing a veil, so there is something. But that’s the way it works,” he said.

US’ supportive policies on radicalism

Chomsky also argued the US policy towards Islam “has been highly supportive of the most radical elements of Islam.”

He claimed Saudi Arabia, “perhaps the most extreme, radical, fundamentalist State in the world,” is the leading U.S. ally in the Islamic world and “uses its huge resources to sponsor its Wahabist extremism through Madrasas and so on.”

However, “at the same time we might be fighting radical Islam somewhere else. The propaganda system would create images of Islamic terror seeking to destroy us when that turns out to be the plausible kind of scapegoating,” he said….

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  1. cs says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 11:08 am

    In the past I must say I admired Chomsky, now he I think he is OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY. Sorry but true.

    • Westman says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 11:55 am

      Agreed. He seems to be projecting his humanist/pacifist values onto Islam without recognizing Islam’s objective to rule the earth by any necessary means or it’s view of him, a Jew, as inferior.

      • cs says

        Dec 17, 2016 at 1:19 pm

        @Westman, he fails to understands Islam for what it is. So he suffers from cognitive dissonance. And btw Dershowtiz did beat him on an open debate, for Chomsky everything is the West’s fault… nough said…

        • Moa says

          Dec 17, 2016 at 3:08 pm

          Chomsky suffers badly from the Dunning-Kruger Effect where his undoubted expertise in linguistics means he feels he has competence in areas he is not an expert in. He knows nothing about actual Islamic doctrine yet he feels he can speak authoritatively on the subject.

          Because Chomsky is good with language he can often use sophistry to win debates, but as David Horowitz’s books on Chomsky show, Chomsky often lies to promote his ‘Cultural Marxist Critical Theory’-aligned positions.

          In short, Chomsky is a chump that knows far less about Islam than most regular readers of jihadwatch do, yet Chomsky sanctimoniously bloviates as if the situation were the opposite.

        • mortimer says

          Dec 17, 2016 at 4:49 pm

          Dunning-Kruger Effect ? Indeed, it seems so. I personally call it the ‘Chomsky Syndrome’, since he exemplifies this overgeneralized idea that he has of his own competence outside his area of expertise.

        • cs says

          Dec 17, 2016 at 6:53 pm

          His book with Ilan Pappe was one of the most disgusting things I ever read in my life…

      • Larry says

        Dec 17, 2016 at 9:13 pm

        Which humanist/pacifist values of Chomsky’s would those be?

        He hasn’t met a mass murdering totalitarian regime he didn’t like in his entire life. He’s been a supporter of Stalin, the Castros, Mao, the Khmer Rouge, the ayatollahs, etc, etc right the way through.

        He’s never had any moral or ethical credibility.

        • maghan says

          Dec 18, 2016 at 5:25 am

          His so-called skill in linguistics is highly overrated. He write simple-minded stuff about “deep structure” and for that he was hailed as some kind of genius.

          The he veered off into writing repetitive stuff about U.S. imperialism–all soft journalistic stuff and he was touted as a “major left intellectual”. Now his stuff on Islam is just so naive and simple-minded. Noam, you sound some kind of faux-intellectual gnome.

        • Jack Holan says

          Dec 21, 2016 at 9:30 am

          All of these so called caring, concerned People (since in their own minds they all come from and share the same World) are always, regardless of circumstances the First to blame Israel or the USA and then Europe. If they had been living as an Adult on Dec 7 1941, They’d be the small band of goofs protesting againast the US engaging Japan in a War. They would have fought for the Rosenberg Couple being not guilty passing nuclear secrets to the USSR. Forensic evaluation concluded the government was correct about their guilty. Noam Chomsky and his ilk by the passage of time have always shown themselves to be the geniuses they are not. Just like the Richardson,Carter,Clinton North Korea Nuke Deal showed trust should not part of an agreement with Dictatorships when they can control them just like the Obama, Kerry,Sherman Deal will be a joke when someone starts reporting the truth, the result of production won’t be a joke unless we require the Presidents daughters attend 4 years of college.there

    • john spielman says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 12:29 pm

      not just OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY but serious case of leftist liberal degenerative brain disorder

      • mortimer says

        Dec 17, 2016 at 3:40 pm

        Chomsky ‘out of touch’ ??

        Oh, yes, because Islam’s ‘MAIN BUSINESS’ is to ‘HUMILIATE’ the KUFAAR (non-Muslims).

        Basically, Chomsky is UNACQUAINTED WITH ISLAM’S SOURCE TEXTS and UNINFORMED about their CORRECT INTERPRETATIONS from Islam’s CONSENSUS. AND HE DOESN’T CARE TO LEARN ANYTHING ABOUT ISLAM. This is a very UNSCIENTIFIC STANCE.

        His UNSUBSTANTIATED OPINIONS about Islam are SOUNDLY CONTRADICTED BY A TOP ISLAMIC SCHOLAR:

        Dr Abdul Rahman bin Abdul Khaliq sums up the Islamic position : “the ONLY BUSINESS of a Muslim is to HUMILIATE the kuffar (non-believer) and make him surrender or to Islamize him thus preventing a greater corruption by undertaking a lesser one. For the reality and the root of the relationship between a Muslim and a non-Muslim is enmity and war, suras 8:39 & 9:29.” Every fatwa issued regarding relationships between Muslims and non-Muslims is based on and emanates from the doctrine of Al Wala Wa al Baraa’ and includes answers to questions such as: • Explain ‘taking kuffar as close friends and protectors is
        haraam (sinful).’

    • no_one says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 1:15 pm

      He is an old commie. That should be enough.

      • Veka Fitzfrancis says

        Dec 17, 2016 at 8:26 pm

        What do communists and Islamists have in common? They both want to control you.

        Chomsky is a hack. Having had to study him to the point of ad nausium in my anthropology classes I do not take anything he says serious, particularly since he bashes Western civilization but refuses to move to a communist paradise. As far as I’m concerned he is no different than a deep seated sleeper cell.

    • Kepha says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 5:03 pm

      As a linguist, Chomsky is eminently admirable. His observation that language is a “hard-wired” human faculty is probably correct.

      But when it comes to political ideas, Chomsky has always been a far-Left loon and America hater, for whom anyone fighting the US gets the benefit of the doubt.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 17, 2016 at 6:12 pm

        Spot on, Kepha.

      • maghan says

        Dec 18, 2016 at 5:30 am

        Chomsky and language. True about language being hard-wired in the brain–but a very trite observation. Chomsky, for whatever reason, is a very overrated scholar. His stuff on world politics is just overly simplistic and repetitive.

    • STJOHNOFGRAFTON says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 10:51 pm

      Yep! A has-been. A know nothing chumpsky.

      • maghan says

        Dec 18, 2016 at 5:32 am

        Has been what?

    • old white guy says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 7:46 am

      he is one stupid old man.

    • A Harris USA says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 1:24 pm

      This guy has always been a left wing wacko!!! Now it only shows he has out lived any useful purpose to humanity. Time for this old Bolshevick to die off!!

    • Peggy says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 5:47 pm

      Me too. He used to make sense. Maybe his age has caught up with him.

  2. Mac-101 says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 11:10 am

    Without a doubt the Jews are the smartest people on the planet. Why do such a large % of the smartest work at destroying Israel and fellow Jews? Satan working through G-ds chosen people to bring on the End Times?

    • Benedict says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 12:16 pm

      Two Jews, three opinions.

    • cs says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 1:22 pm

      Now the dissent was not among movements, orthodox vs reform etc… Now the divide is even in each synagogue, with people now completely divided, other day on Yom Kippur Ezra Levant from Rebel Media was called a racist in a Synagogue in Canada, as he was called to give a speech, and things are just escalating.

      • Mac-101 says

        Dec 17, 2016 at 2:22 pm

        So you think G-d is using the Tower of Babel example to fragment not only humanity, but his chosen people? Unfortunately I’ve seen Christian churches break apart over trivial things.

    • Stan Lee says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 1:23 pm

      Why do they? Because they may have been born to Jewish mothers/family, or any other faith, but they left such religions for Communism long ago.
      You must recall that as recent as the election campaigns, Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator from Vermont, was publicized as Jewish by the media (which is hardly ever truthful, but just makes up its stories) yet Sanders identified as a Communist and nothing but a Communist. (Oh. PC may have allowed him as a Socialist) Remember, the Communist nation of the Soviet Union was called USSR, United Soviet Socialist Republics.
      I wonder what is so difficult for the U.S. electorate to understand that Sanders identified as a Communist? Communism is a “religion,” to those who live it and practice its doctrine.
      Chomsky is a Communist, a very rigid one.

      • Mac-101 says

        Dec 17, 2016 at 2:27 pm

        Reminds me of a Quote from Trotsky. When asked by a soldier,” Why, Comrade General , you take special delight in torturing and burning alive entire congregations of Orthodox Jews in their synagogues when you, yourself is a Jew”, He replied, “I am a NOT a Jew, I am a Communist!”
        .
        Communist are definitely the children of Satan and take special delight in killing G-d’s children!

        • Darryl Kerney says

          Dec 17, 2016 at 5:46 pm

          And at the meeting in Tehran with Churchill and FDR, FDR said “with god on our side we cannot lose”, to which Stalin relied, “The Devil is on my side, he’s a good Communist.”

    • mortimer says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 4:51 pm

      Jews? Is Chomsky Jewish enough to realize that Islam hates him for merely walking while Jewish?

    • Kepha says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 5:04 pm

      Mac. Noam Chomsky’s political ideas show that Jews aren’t necessarily smart. No offense to the large numbers of thoroughly admirable smart Jews I’ve known intended.

      • Mac-101 says

        Dec 17, 2016 at 8:00 pm

        As much as I loath Chomsky, he has done supposedly some outstanding scholarly work. Kinda like listening to NPR or the BBC. The stories are great, it’s just that in the end their analysis is so twisted it’s hard to understand how they come up with it.

    • maghan says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 5:41 am

      Facts are facts. Maybe you mean Ashkenazi Jews as being intellectually prominent on a per capita basis. But the IQ of Israeli Jews is 90-95. And by the way Greece–the progenitor of Western intellectual ideas–scores 91 on IQ tests–pace Plato and Aristotle.

      • Mac-101 says

        Dec 18, 2016 at 4:24 pm

        I read an article about 10 years ago and it compared the DNA of European Jews named Cohen, which supposedly was of the line of Levi with Sephardic Jews claiming to be of that lineage and they had the same marker like 95% of the time. Don’t know if it was true, just an article.
        .
        Aren’t the vast majority of Israeli Jews from Europe? Would they be the Israeli Jews you speak of? Is Americans average IQ still supposed to be 100?

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 18, 2016 at 4:49 pm

        The average IQ in Israel is 95. Given that about 20% of the population is Muslim, this may well account for bringing down the over all figure.

  3. NabiRasch says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 11:29 am

    America’s stupidest intellectual. My favorite Chomsky moment was when, during a speech, the 911 conspiracy theories were raised by the audience and he suddenly realised all of his followers were idiots.

  4. PRCS says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 11:43 am

    Yes, Noam Chomsky–like so many others–is an academic.

    The specifics light article makes clear that Islam is either not his strong suite, or he’s a crafty propagandist.

    Push come to shove, could Uncle Noam explain how “radical” Islam differs from the Islam of Qur’an and Sunn’ah?

    Or is he referring to “radical” as Islam’s core, its radix? To those written texts? An informed academic would not leave that to conjecture.

    Could he explain at what point a Muslim’s compliance with those documents becomes “extremism”?

    Would he be able to provide passages from them which explain the circumstances under which an able-bodied Muslim should not, need not comply with “Allah’s immutable word” (asking him to cite hadith or sir’ah would be asking a bit much, I imagine).

  5. Crusades Were Right! says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 12:17 pm

    (You don’t) know ’em, Chumpsky!

  6. Rob says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 12:23 pm

    How did a prominent linguistics academic suddenly become an expert on foreign affairs – particularly in the ME?
    Have luvvie G Clooney pronounce on linguistics and watch Chomsky bristle.
    Chomsky is what’s called ‘famous for being wellknown’.
    He’s student enrolment bait for his school.

  7. Charles says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 12:25 pm

    Chompsky sounds NUTZ!
    But that’s the usual Leftist rhetoric!
    They are all bozos!
    The deranged muslims ARE TRYING TO KILL US!
    I know! I live in the USA and I’ve been attacked myself.

    • PRCS says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 12:40 pm

      Just the deranged ones?

  8. jewdog says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 12:44 pm

    It’s the Jewish Mirror Image Fallacy. No, they are not like us. Do you f***king homework.
    I blame the media and the ignorant public for giving this uber-wacko geezer air time and credibility. At least the Christians don’t feature quotations from David Duke every time you turn around.

    • Kepha says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 5:10 pm

      As a Christian, I guess that David Duke, a klansman, at least claims to be a Christian of the Protestant variety.

      However, a lot of us who read Paul’s admonition that there is neither Jew nor Greek in Jesus Christ apply it to our own time and place by recognizing that the heritage of racism is both something to lament and repent of. We believe we have a case to accuse Mr. Duke of either hypocrisy, harboring a sin, or both. In any case, Duke is not someone from whom we would take our ethical or theological cues.

  9. somehistory says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 12:54 pm

    In the *moslim/non-moslim* issues, the *vulnerable people* are the non-moslims.

    How many places on earth now protect moslims from any critique of what they think, do, say?

    How many places on earth put moslims on a pedestal for being of the *peaceful* religion? Even many places where they have been murdering and raping and stealing to show their appreciation for being praised for being *peaceful.*

    Hoe many places on earth are inviting, paying the charges for bringing, paying them for staying…moslims by the plane and boatload and allowing them to assault and rape young boys, girls, young women and the elderly and then blaming the victims?

    The wild beast from satan has been very successful at getting many of the world population to bow down. The so-called smart people are bowing, many of the political leaders are bowing and that is forcing the populace in those places to bow.

    • GEORGE McADOO says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 12:27 pm

      The only time I would bend my head to a Muslim would be the time I spit on its’ dead or dying body. When so called smart people or political leaders insist a people tolerate or submit to enslavement or murder, it is time for those people to strip themselves of such lunatics and destroy those who would enslave them,

      It may be enjoyable to criticize the idiot Chomsky here, but the time for talk has ended. The time to act is now, if we are to maintain any semblance of freedom anywhere in the world.

      I expect Donald Trump to abide by his promise to close our borders to unwelcome and venomous intruders and to vet not only those who we would allow entry but, all those who are here now under false or hegemonous pretense.

      To continue to allow residence or entrance of those who are bound by a book and leaders who command them to convert or destroy all that is not of them is suicidal and insanity.

  10. Jack Holan says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 1:08 pm

    Robert Spencer this is the first time that I disagree with you about anything. Noam Chomsky is not an ‘Intellectual’. An intellectual explores all possibilities and lets the information or evidence determine the evolution =f the conclusion. Noam Chomsky starts with a conclusio and looks for only evidence that will =validate his predetermined assumption. The opinion of Chomsky isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. It’s a travesty today that psuedo-intellectuals try to juxtapose the imagery of Jews vis a’ vis Muslims vis a’ vis NAZIs or the Rise during the 20s&30s. The tactic is to make Jews the worst People on Earth and Hypocrites since now they are using the very crimes used against them. The Left couldn’t possible hold conventional jobs and have time to =think of this crap. When a Jew makes these accusations and employees these tactics the very last essence of Judaism that resided within him =or her has disappeared No Jew except Kapos of yesteryear can =calim they were Jews. Noam wears the Jewish bannner only to promote the idea that his credentials are =authentic ic as a Jew he has arrived at his infantile conclusions. Noam Chomsky other genetic material you aren’t a Jew nor have you been for years.

    • Mac-101 says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 2:20 pm

      Well the left has the Head Kapo, George Soros as it’s main financer and organizer through his Satanic NGOs!
      .
      Sometimes it is the Smartest People who are the stupidest!

      • Jack Holan says

        Dec 17, 2016 at 2:30 pm

        Sadly &Ironically Soros posted signs in his neighborhood, Budapest for us (Jews) to meet at the train station by streets and names. According to his biography he feels no remorse about it. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself. Instead he turned out to be an Anti-American, Anti-Israel and Ant-Semite of Jewish Heritage with a Multi-Billion Dollar Foundation set up to promote his ideology after his death with his son as Trustee.

        • Mac-101 says

          Dec 17, 2016 at 2:57 pm

          Sorry. Let me change it to: “Some of the Smartest people are the MOST Evil!”
          .
          Soros truly is a Disciple of Satan!

  11. davej says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 2:28 pm

    “Scapegoating”: to unfairly place the blame on a particular person or group.

    Allah Akbar ! 30,000 Islamic terror attacks. How is that “unfair”?

  12. Denise Smith says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 2:52 pm

    American Schiff’s grandson, John, was quoted by columnist Cholly Knickerbocker as saying that his grandfather had given about $20 million for the triumph of Communism in Russia. Trotsky himself, on many occasion,s used a chauffeured limousine defender of the working class, enemy of capitalism, enjoying the pleasures of tea rooms and chauffeurs, the very symbols of capitalist luxury.

    • Mac-101 says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 3:01 pm

      Don’t forget he also chartered a ship for 200 Bolsheviks and they departed New York City to overthrow the Kerensky government who were our Allies against the Kaiser in WWI! I believe it is in the LA Times around 1946.
      .
      Meanwhile Lenin was put up in style in a Swiss Chateau with ALL the luxuries of the Bourgeoisie!

      • Kepha says

        Dec 17, 2016 at 5:13 pm

        1946? That’s long after WWI ended.

        • gravenimage says

          Dec 17, 2016 at 6:25 pm

          I think that’s when the story was reported in the West, Kepha.

  13. mortimer says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    Facts for Noam Chomsky to consider: 164 Jihad Verses in Koran … K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008.

    Islamic Jew Hatred Verses: Koran 48.29 “Muhammad is the messenger of Allah; Those with him are VIOLENT (ashiddaa’) against the unbelievers (kufaar), Compassionate amongst themselves.”

    Koran 8.60 “Turhibunna” (i.e. terrorize the kafirs)

    Koran 33:26 “Allah made the Jews leave their homes by terrorizing them so that you killed some and made many captive. And He made you inherit their lands, their homes, and their wealth. He gave you a country you had not traversed before.”

    Tabari VII:97; Ishaq:368″Our attack upon Allah’s enemy cast terror among the Jews, and there was no Jew in Medina who did not fear for his life.'”

    Tabari VII:97″The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, ‘Kill any Jew who falls under your power.’

  14. bobm says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    Noam baby … you need to stay away from the goats old fella….

  15. Guy Macher says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 4:39 pm

    Islam–yet another subject about which Chomsky knows nothing.

  16. Voytek Gagalka says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 5:02 pm

    Some people, perhaps most, with age become wiser and smarter. That dictum apparently does not apply to Chomsky. He desperately desires to be exceptional, even in suicidal stupidity.

    • Kepha says

      Dec 17, 2016 at 5:14 pm

      I think his dementia set in around age 16.

  17. Angemon says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 5:40 pm

    I loathe Chomsky. Both as the disgusting human being he is and for what he stands for.

  18. koosemo says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 5:47 pm

    Chomsky, stick to your core knoledge of sylables, vowels and consonants. Just don’t chain them together to form an opinion on a topic you know nothing about….and refuse to learn.

  19. koosemo says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 5:50 pm

    “knowledge”

  20. gravenimage says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 6:03 pm

    Noam Chomsky: Idea of “Islamic terror as seeking to destroy us” is “scapegoating”
    …………………………

    How is this “scapegoating”? It really is Muslims who are waging Islamic terror.

    And it is bs that Nazis were frightened of violence from Jews.

  21. vlparker says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 8:50 pm

    If Chomsky’s an intellectual I’m Albert Einstein.

  22. Joe says

    Dec 17, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    What an idiot. The Jews are the total opposite of what the Muslims are! Socialists hate Jews and love Muslims. They love Muslims so much that they let them cut their heads off, lol.

  23. al norm says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 12:18 am

    Boston and the surrounds are full of Chomskies. Massachusetts abounds with self hating modern Jews. Many retired from law, psychiatry, psychology, after their second or third divorce. Moving to the organics from NY. They hate Israel but go to the Mount Sinai Hospital when sick. They have zero experience of Islam, are highly opinionated and the Israelis hate them back.

  24. isabella says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 1:27 am

    Chomsky also argued the US policy towards Islam “has been highly supportive of the most radical elements of Islam.”

    He claimed Saudi Arabia, “perhaps the most extreme, radical, fundamentalist State in the world,” is the leading U.S. ally in the Islamic world and “uses its huge resources to sponsor its Wahabist extremism through Madrasas and so on.”

    This is true unfortunately

    • maghan says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 6:01 am

      But Wahabist extremism is EXACTLY what’s found in the Qur’an—mainstream Islam. Is Chomsky that demented?

  25. Noel Hershfield says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 3:10 am

    Not much more to say. Unfortunately Chomsky and many other Jewish so called academics teach our children their misbegotten drivel. Some will be of influence in the future.

  26. Marty says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 5:30 am

    Chomsky’s one claim to fame is his linguistic theory.
    It is now totally disproved, as can any piece of genuine science.
    So why are his opinions of any interest to anyone ?
    His views on islam seem rather too similar to those of Jew haters
    to be of value.

    • maghan says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 6:09 am

      “…totally disproved as any piece of genuine science”? How so? Newton’s laws of mechanics? Disproved? The gas laws? Laws of Thermodynamics? DNA theory?

      • Marty says

        Dec 18, 2016 at 9:47 am

        In theory, any scientific law can be disproved if a superior theory
        emerges.
        The longer a law is seen to work, the less likely is it to be disproved,
        and so becomes, apparently, indisputable fact.
        The cases you mention have been around long enough to become facts,
        not theories.
        However, I believe that at around the speed of light, Newtonian physics
        are alleged to break down.
        To your list of iron clad facts, as opposed to scientific theory, I would
        add evolution by natural selection.
        I phrased my original comment poorly, but the fact remains that genuine science
        is happy to disprove the theories of previous generations.
        Bogus science, like the theory of AGW, avoids such creative destruction.

        • GEORGE McADOO says

          Dec 18, 2016 at 12:53 pm

          Well said! And, undeniabl,y, indisputable.

  27. Lawrence says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 6:14 am

    Nobody in this thread appears to have pointed out that Chomsky discredited himself decades ago, as an out-and-out Jew-hater. He had close ties to Holocaust Deniers in France, such as Robert Faurisson, and ended up justifying this by saying he didn’t see anything anti-Semitic about Holocaust Denial and denial of the existence of gas chambers. He gave his unambiguous support to the arming of Hezbollah in 2006. He denied the Khmer Rouge holocaust back in ’77, dismissing all the horror stories as American propaganda. He equated 9-11 with Bill Clinton’s missile strike in the Sudan. Way more in this vein.

    Give me a break, why even pay attention to Chomsky? And if you do, all this above should be pointed out.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 5:17 pm

      All true.

      The problem is not that anyone at Jihad Watch takes this idiot seriously, but that others do.

      • Marty says

        Dec 19, 2016 at 5:57 am

        Exactly.
        Following his infamous behaviour re Jews & his scientific
        pointlessness, the average garbage collector has opinions as valid
        as Chomsky’s
        In many cases, more valid.

  28. Louise M. says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 6:41 am

    ”Noam Chomsky: Idea of “Islamic terror as seeking to destroy us” is “scapegoating”

    Dear Mr Chomsky, did Islam’s thing about goats escape your attention ? Among so many other things ?

    There are good exercices for the mind; they can help your brain become more alert of your surroundings, and more. They are strongly recommended for you.

  29. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 7:24 am

    Chomsky never let factual reality bother him. He spent decades denying reality around socialism, so it’s good to see the old coot has found a new beat for his police work. I always thought MIT was overrated, keeping a charlatan like this around is one reason why.

    • Lawrence Philip Johnson says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 9:21 am

      I occasionally follow Chomsky’s outrageous comments as a refresher in the pathways of delusional left-wing academic idiocy.
      His statements are best defined by the word: ‘prevarication”.Noam Chomsky’s legacy is that of being an ultimate international prevaricator, par excellence. His linguistic theory disproven, (although it’s doubtful that he understands that),he spouts words that are simply hollow ,empty sounds which delight giddy self -deprecating “internationalists”.

  30. ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 7:50 am

    noam chomsky as a jew have seen reason, which most jews and their filthy christian slaves refuse to see.he is similar to abdullahi bin salam, a jewish scholar who led other learned jews to ascertain the veracity of prophethood of prophet muhammad.they asked prophet muhammad 1114 questions relying on what was then contained in the torah revealed to prophet musa(moses) about signs of prophethood.the holy prophet muhammad with guidance from allah ,despite being unlettered, was able to answer all the questions accurately.ibn salam then embraced islam being satisfied that prophet muhammad fulfilled all the requirements contained in the then authentic torah and became one of the closest companions of holy prophet muhammad.the other scholars were misled by devil who deceived them that how can they be the followers of a man from lower line of abraham’s family being descendant of ismael the son of slave wife.then these jewish scholars began to alter the provisions of the torah on the direction of the devil; and most of the jews who followed these evil scholars and those who followed their teachings became bitter enemies of prophet muhammad and muslims upto this time.allah blocked their hearts ,they will never accept the truth and lead in all evils and corruption in the world, except very few of them like noam chomsky now under attack.see taha mahmood’s book:islamic history;a book containing answers given by prophet muhammad simply title”ibn abdussalam”(but i cannot lay my hand on english translation)and many standard works so, the jews rejected prophet muhammad right from the begining due to arrogance before they were expelled from madina for treachery in breach of peace treaty for togetherness.the subsequent revealed quranic verses debunked their claim of superiority over other races and being associated with evils inspired by the devil.

    • Jeffie says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 11:40 am

      Hey, ieatham shitface muhammed, so you agree that your ‘prophet’ was an idiot? He was ‘unlettered’, as you put it. You claim that you can’t put your hand on the English translation of this book or many others. Why? Do they exist? Or are you just pulling the hijab over our eyes?

    • Angemon says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 12:00 pm

      Hi there, Ebionite. You wrote:

      “he is similar to abdullahi bin salam, a jewish scholar who led other learned jews to ascertain the veracity of prophethood of prophet muhammad.they asked prophet muhammad 1114 questions relying on what was then contained in the torah revealed to prophet musa(moses) about signs of prophethood.the holy prophet muhammad with guidance from allah ,despite being unlettered, was able to answer all the questions accurately”

      Nonsense. Abdullah ibn Salam asked three questions, and muhammad’s answers were found lacking. Here’s a re-enactment of what happened:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3iD1IoPbnQ

      Answer me this, Ebionite: if the answers to the questions asked muhammad were things only a prophet would know, how did Abdullah ibn Salam knew the answers were right?

      • Jeffie says

        Dec 18, 2016 at 12:44 pm

        Angemon:

        Are you trying to use logic with muhammy? C’mon man.

    • GEORGE McADOO says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 1:06 pm

      You are really stuck on the taqiyya crap, aren’t you, Ibithim in themuhamshithead. Yours is a soon to be dead “religion”.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 6:12 pm

      Apologist for Muslim savagery ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

      noam (sic) chomsky (sic) as a jew (sic) have seen reason, which most jews (sic) and their filthy christian (sic) slaves refuse to see.he (sic) is similar to abdullahi (sic) bin salam (sic), a jewish (sic) scholar who led other learned jews (sic) to ascertain the veracity of prophethood (sic) of prophet muhammad.they (sic) asked prophet muhammad (sic) 1114 questions relying on what was then contained in the torah (sic) revealed to prophet musa(moses) (sic) about signs of prophethood.the (sic) holy prophet muhammad (sic) with guidance from allah (sic) ,despite(sic) being unlettered, was able to answer all the questions accurately.
      ……………………………………

      Actually, most accounts have Abdullah bin Salam just spontaneously screaming the Shehadah when he hears of the approach of the “Prophet” Muhammed to Quba on the way to Medina, not after he has exhaustively questioned him.

      I can find no mention of “1114 questions” at all–perhaps this is something Taha invented. Here are the three questions Abdullah bin Salam supposedly asked Muhammed, from the Hadith:

      Narrated Anas:

      When ‘Abdullah bin Salam heard the arrival of the Prophet at Medina, he came to him and said, “I am going to ask you about three things which nobody knows except a prophet: What is the first portent of the Hour? What will be the first meal taken by the people of Paradise? Why does a child resemble its father, and why does it resemble its maternal uncle” Allah’s Apostle said, “Gabriel has just now told me of their answers.” ‘Abdullah said, “He (i.e. Gabriel), from amongst all the angels, is the enemy of the Jews.” Allah’s Apostle said, “The first portent of the Hour will be a fire that will bring together the people from the east to the west; the first meal of the people of Paradise will be Extra-lobe (caudate lobe) of fish-liver. As for the resemblance of the child to its parents: If a man has sexual intercourse with his wife and gets discharge first, the child will resemble the father, and if the woman gets discharge first, the child will resemble her.” On that ‘Abdullah bin Salam said, “I testify that you are the Apostle of Allah.” ‘Abdullah bin Salam further said, “O Allah’s Apostle! The Jews are liars, and if they should come to know about my conversion to Islam before you ask them (about me), they would tell a lie about me.” The Jews came to Allah’s Apostle and ‘Abdullah went inside the house. Allah’s Apostle asked (the Jews), “What kind of man is ‘Abdullah bin Salam amongst you?” They replied, “He is the most learned person amongst us, and the best amongst us, and the son of the best amongst us.” Allah’s Apostle said, “What do you think if he embraces Islam (will you do as he does)?” The Jews said, “May Allah save him from it.” Then ‘Abdullah bin Salam came out in front of them saying, “I testify that None has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah.” Thereupon they said, “He is the evilest among us, and the son of the evilest amongst us,” and continued talking badly of him.

      –Sahih Bukhari, 4:546

      Notice the obvious rational fallacy here–if these were answers that only a prophet could know, then how would Abdullah bin Salam–who was not a prophet–know if he was correct? (Never mind the unscientific answer regarding genetics.)

      But then, you cannot expect reason from Islam.

      And as idiotic as Noam Chomsky is, he is merely saying that Islamic terrorism is not a real threat and should not be blamed on Muslims–not that he is about to convert to Islam.

      More:

      ibn salam (sic) then embraced islam(sic) being satisfied that prophet muhammad (sic) fulfilled all the requirements contained in the then authentic torah (sic) and became one of the closest companions of holy prophet muhammad (sic).
      ……………………………………

      Two points here–as I have noted many times before, the only Jews Muslims don’t want to murder are actually Muslims.

      And then, there is nothing in the Torah about chowing down on fish liver in paradise with those 72 virgins–this is where the “then authentic Torah” reference comes in. Muslims claim that the Torah and Gospel were once just as savage as the Qur’an, until Jews and Christians “corrupted” them. That’s right–Muslims consider the “Golden Rule” to be a “corruption”. *Ugh*.

      More:

      the (sic) other scholars were misled by devil who deceived them that how can they be the followers of a man from lower line of abraham’s (sic) family being descendant of ismael (sic) the son of slave wife.then (sic) these jewish (sic) scholars began to alter the provisions of the torah (sic) on the direction of the devil; and most of the jews (sic) who followed these evil scholars and those who followed their teachings became bitter enemies of prophet muhammad (sic) and muslims (sic) upto (sic) this time.allah (sic) blocked their hearts ,they (sic) will never accept the truth and lead in all evils and corruption in the world,except (sic) very few of them like noam (sic) chomsky (sic) now under attack.
      ……………………………………

      Yes, this Mohammedan considers Jews responsible for all the evils of the world–the “Prophet”, in the Hadith following the one above, blames the existence of Jews for meat spoiling.

      Of course, muhammed here–the troll, not the “Prophet”–does not consider Muslims raping children and mass-murdering unbelievers and looking forward to the genocide of the Jews to be evils at all. Actually, this is true of both Muhammeds.

      Yet more:

      see (sic) taha (sic) mahmood’s (sic) book:islamic (sic) history;a (sic) book containing answers given by prophet muhammad (sic) simply title”ibn abdussalam”(but (sic) i (sic) cannot lay my hand on english (sic) translation)and (sic) many standard works so,
      ……………………………………

      Of course, Taha Mahmood was declared an apostate and executed under Shari’ah law in Sudan in 1985 by his more orthodox coreligonists. More proof that Muslims can be vicious antisemtic savages and yet still be deemed “insufficiently Islamic”. In Taha’s case, it was likely because he was Sufi.

      More:

      the jews (sic) rejected prophet muhammad (sic) right from the begining (sic) due to arrogance before they were expelled from madina (sic) for treachery in breach of peace treaty for togetherness.the (sic) subsequent revealed quranic (sic) verses debunked their claim of superiority over other races and being associated with evils inspired by the devil.
      ……………………………………

      Of course, Muhammed expelled the Jews from Medina because the warlord took over there. Later, he would enslave the women and children of these tribes and mass murder the men. He is supposed to have personally beheaded up to 900 unarmed men of the Banu Quyraza tribe.

      This is what Muslims have in store for Jews who do not convert to Islam–including the deluded Mr. Chomsky, of course.

    • Marty says

      Dec 19, 2016 at 6:01 am

      Congratulations to the hoaxer behind “your” post.
      All decent people hate islam, & the garbage you post
      from a bogus mohammedan is helping our campaign to
      cleanse the West of islam is helpful.
      We don’t want to kill mohammedans, just send them back to
      the hellholes that spawned them

  31. Midway says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 10:09 am

    All we have to do is look @ Europe. These old Socialist academics refuse to acknowledge the truth. Arab gypsies with their primitive 6th century ideology that hasn’t changed & has remained as radical as ever. They refuse to assimilate, won’t compromise & are always demanding. They manipulate the laws of their PC, SJW, tolerant countries to get what they want. More & more they demand Sharia Law as countries make concessions for these people. The problem is that it never ends there.

  32. Carmel says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 10:27 am

    Why the name of Keith Ellison isn’t in red in the article ?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 6:14 pm

      Carmel, the words in red in the above article are links which you can click on.

  33. NELSON says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    THIS MAN IS OBVIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL. MY ADVICE TO HIM IS TO SEEK HELP IN AN ISLAMIC NATION. THEN, RETURN TO REALITY, IF STILL ALIVE.

  34. Geppetto says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    “…….one of the leading intellectuals of the Left………” That says it all. This guy and his ilk have had their best shot at relevance over the last 8 years. The result? President elect Donald Trump, the pseudo intellectual antidote and his cabinet choices who reflect the national desire for intelligence and wisdom developed by both education and experience. At least that’s the hope. America dodged a potentially fatal bullet in Hilary Clinton and four more years of Noam Chomsky’s, faculty lounge mindset, high on intellectual nuance and good intentions but short of real world experience, common sense, diversity of opinion and historical perspective. Hope that this apolitical, off the beaten track attempt at governance meets or exceeds the expectations of those who, for whatever reason, gave Donald Trump this once in a lifetime opportunity.

    • GEORGE McADOO says

      Dec 18, 2016 at 1:12 pm

      I wouldn’t be too quick to assign Chomsky the possession of good intentions. He is a Communist and intends naught but to lead the unwary to enslavement or suicide.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 18, 2016 at 6:20 pm

        He’s always been a nasty piece of work, George–much uglier than your average well-meaning “Coexist” Liberal.

        • Custos Custodum says

          Dec 19, 2016 at 12:13 pm

          Look at the COEXIST sticker (approximately: ☪☮e✡-ı☯s✝ ) again. Note that it is a version of PACMAN. At the end of the game, only a sated crescent remains.

  35. solange silverman says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    For such a supposedly smart man, he is an idiot. It is unbelievable that he is so ill informed and biased, not to mention programmed.

  36. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Dec 18, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    Small-minded of Gnome Chimpsky, as usual.

  37. Boris99 says

    Dec 19, 2016 at 3:53 am

    He’s just annoyed his life’s work is being consigned to the garbage can of history.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-chomsky-s-theory-of-language-learning/

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