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After Islamic jihadi attacks Ohio State students, campus hosts talk on “Islamophobia”

Feb 19, 2017 7:23 pm By Robert Spencer

Georgetown’s Nathan Lean is a supreme example of how academia has become a radioactive desert of hard-Left indoctrination and opposition to the freedom of speech. If Ohio State is really worried about “Islamophobia,” they should be focusing on those who really “manufacture” it: not “the Right,” but the likes of Ohio State jihadi Abdul Artan; and Nidal Malik Hasan, and Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and Omar Mateen, and Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, and all the other Muslims who have committed jihad massacres in the United States.

But instead, Ohio State is bringing in Lean, who styles himself an expert on “Islamophobia.” Did an “Islamophobe” go on a killing spree at Ohio State, or was it an Islamic jihadist? A longtime foe of the freedom of speech, Lean has dedicated his life to defaming and lying about anyone and everyone who dares to utter a critical word about the religious ideology that guides Islamic jihadists and incites them to commit mass murder. His targets have included Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz and me, and in every case, Lean plays fast and loose with the facts, cheerfully purveying falsehoods even when he has been shown that they are false (the images are gone from that old post, but it still conveys the substance), so desperate is he to clear away all obstacles to the advance of jihad terror. Not content to defame his targets over their opposition to jihad terror, he stalks them elsewhere: I was scheduled to speak several years ago at an education conference that had nothing to do with Islam, but Lean mounted a defamation campaign that intimidated a cowardly Catholic bishop, Jaime Soto, to cancel the event (it was held at another location) because of my work on Islam.

Lean is not content to spread lies about those whom he hates; he is also the lowest kind of thug, and has repeatedly tweeted out links to what he thinks is my home address and places that I frequent (he was wrong in both cases, but that’s beside the point), in an obvious attempt either to frighten me into silence or to signal to his jihadi friends and allies where I can be found and killed. He is an expert, practiced hater — a look at his Twitter feed shows that he regularly revels in crude and vicious abuse of those who dare to say the slightest negative word about the Religion of Peace. As he claims to be opposing “haters,” he is easily one of the most hateful individuals I have ever encountered in my entire life. Oh, and this creepy little thug recently called for a “public uprising” to overthrow President Trump.

“After Ohio State students attacked by radical Muslim, campus hosts ‘Islamophobia’ talk,” by Amanda Tidwell, The College Fix, February 18, 2017:

The Ohio State University’s Middle East Studies Center in partnership with the Multicultural Center is set to host author Nathan Lean to discuss the “pernicious phenomenon” of Islamophobia.

The event, slated for Monday, comes roughly three months after a Somali refugee student plowed a car into a crowd of Ohio State students before stabbing several of them with a butcher knife. In the past, that student had praised an al-Qaeda leader as a “hero” and criticized America for interfering in the Middle East.

Lean, author of “The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims,” is a researcher focused on Islam, Islamophobia, the Middle East, Muslim-Christian relations, and other issues, his website states.

“The fear that the Islamophobia Industry has manufactured is so fierce in its grip on some populations that it drives them to do the unthinkable,” states Lean’s book summary on Amazon.

During his discussion at Ohio State he seeks to evaluate Islamophobia’s “causes, consequences, and highlight some of the underlying dynamics that have animated it in recent history,” OSU’s website states.

He will also offer “key insights on how students, scholars, and members of community at large can counter instances of prejudice and help realize a world that values pluralism and diversity,” it adds.

The webpage for the event also notes that “prejudice towards and discrimination of Muslims has reached a fevered pitch. Beyond blatant physical attacks or acts of vandalism, polls show that negative sentiment towards the followers of Islam runs deep, and has manifested itself in a range of ways.”

His talk will delve into this “pernicious phenomenon,” the site states….

When a third year finance major at Ohio State was asked if he has witnessed any prejudice or discrimination against Muslims on campus, he told The College Fix “no, none at all.”

He asked to not be identified as he feared potential retaliation from the OSU administration.

“I will spout off about any other topic, but OSU has made it clear that this topic is untouchable,” he told The Fix. “I feel as a student at a public institution that I am being silenced. If I am a free thinker I should be allowed to question Islam, its writings, its prophet, and teachings just like fundamentalist Christian values are questioned everyday here at OSU. This does not promote dialogue but rather writes everyone right of the aisle off as the potential perpetrators of hate crimes.”

Alam Payind and Melinda McClimans, director and assistant director of the Middle East Studies Center at Ohio State, did not comment when asked by The College Fix if Ohio State was aware of or had any reported acts of prejudice or discrimination against Muslims at OSU….

“In the past 36 years, we have strictly followed the principles of academic freedom, based on the guidelines of both the Ohio State University and the U.S. Department of Education,” they said.

Sure they have. How many counter-jihad speakers have they featured?

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  1. Robeaver says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 7:27 pm

    We have that in Canada. The poor muslum victims of blowing themselves up………Something like that anyway. We will ban it and go to jail.

    • Joe McDonald says

      Feb 19, 2017 at 10:41 pm

      feces is islam. trudolt will choke on the feces

    • Joe McDonald says

      Feb 19, 2017 at 10:50 pm

      the pervert “prophet” death cult leader who abducted & raped an innocent, defensless little 6yr old girl, somehow managed to instigate a 1400yr debauchery.
      Sentient upright hominids swallowed his heresy & blasphemy, as they still do.
      Clean up the gene pool – sterilize anyone who is stupid enough to follow this nonsense (I’d say kill them but that’s against my faith).

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 20, 2017 at 9:33 am

      HERE IS A PATH TO THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY NEWSPAPER: http://thelantern.com/submit-a-letter/

      Please find a few spare minutes in your busy assortment of obligations to send THE TRUTH ABOUT NATHAN LEAN AND HIS SICK BEHAVIOR to that campus news resource.

      For a reasonable chance of publication, keep it short and ultra-polite. You can simply give a brief bio of how you went from clueless to knowledgeable, and provide a link to Robert’s post above.

      Also, if you are especially pissed off about OSU’s outrageous welcome to a chronic liar, find email addresses for the top administrators — president, chancellor, directors board, students dean — and GIVE THEM INFO ABOUT THUG NATHAN in Robert’s post.

      And consider contacting whatever main website for news there is in the CITY WHERE OSU IS LOCATED. Just copy and paste your remarks in emails to the campus paper and university administrators.

  2. JIMJFOX says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 7:42 pm

    Come on Donald. Proscribe CAIR et al supporters of terrorism; cut all funding to Ohio State and other Islamic centers, including foreign funds. Ban all Saudi/ Iranian/ Qatari students.

  3. Robeaver says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 7:44 pm

    The next serial killer must get a support group going, and anti fear mongering of killers. Killer phobia? Killobia? Phobiller?

  4. Wellington says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    Again I would assert that anyone treating the great fakery which is Islamophobia as though it is a serious issue is a person who should never be taken seriously on anything, so morally inverted are they.

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 19, 2017 at 10:48 pm

      Islamophobes

      Have you been branded an Islamophobe – a slur word invented by Muslims against non-Muslims?

      Then join the ranks of the world’s greatest political leaders, military leaders, writers, philosophers, historians, researchers and intellectuals; the movers and shakers of history.

      Here are just a few of them and of their opinions:

      An extremely large percentage of Muslims in South Asia today are the progeny of forcible conversions and systematic rape campaigns by marauding Muslim invaders.

      – Dr. Younis Shaikh
      Pakistani medical doctor, human rights activist and freethinker.

      Some, indeed, dream of an Islam in the future, rationalised and regenerate. All this has been tried already, and has miserably failed. The Koran has so encrusted the religion in a hard unyielding casement of ordinances and social laws, that if the shell be broken the life is gone. A rationalistic Islam would be Islam no longer.

      – Sir William Muir
      Scottish Orientalist, scholar of Islam, and colonial administrator (27 April 1819 – 11 July 1905).

      The brotherhood of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man. It is brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only. There is a fraternity but its benefit is confined to those within that corporation. For those who are outside the corporation, there is nothing but contempt, slavery and enmity.

      – Dr.B.R. Ambedkar
      Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956).

      Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

      – Sir Winston Churchill
      British Conservative politician and statesman of the United Kingdom (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965).

      Religious harmony is a desirable thing. But it takes two to play the game. Unfortunately such a sentiment holds no position in Islamic theology.

      – Ram Swarup
      Independent Hindu thinker and prolific author (1920 – 26 December 1998).

      Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them. And the minority that do understand continue to be Moslems because they have redefined their morality and ethics to fit within the teachings of Islam, which are floridly lacking in morality. They therefore redefine what is good and evil in order to fit their lives into what is preached by Islam, instead of examining Islam to see if it fits within the good life. Backwards thinking, imposed by a backward religion.

      – Professor Bertrand Russell
      British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970).

      The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

      – Will Durant
      American writer, historian, and philosopher (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981

      There are such “social values” today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do – that is, to beat back the Moslem invader.

      – Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
      26th President of the United States

      Taken from WordPress.com

  5. Oliver says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 8:44 pm

    I have known a few (in my view- fortunately, only a few) Ohio State grads.

    All far left wingers. Pro- all sorts of privileges for everyone- convicts, etc–but they live in gated, guarded mansions.

    Their view-although not articulated — screw the people. The convicts (or ex cons) who could live where they live-are people like the Enron people, and other white collar crooks.

    BY THE WAY–ENRON WAS A LARGE SUPPORTER AND PAID FOR A GOOD CHUNK OF INAUGURATION PARTIES FOR: DRUM ROLL

    WILLIAM JEFFERSON (AKA BILL) CLINTON.

    Ken lay was a good friend of his. Media played up the ties to the Bush family and Dick Chaney

    • A Harris USA says

      Feb 20, 2017 at 3:12 pm

      Oliver, the left wing college kids are not exclusive to Ohio State.. They are everywhere.. in every state, and in every college, large and small.. To many left wing radical professors are running the show, and fill the empty heads that attend the schools. The left believes that by using the Islamic teachings they can somehow advance their globalist agenda.. This shows how stupid the idiot left really is.. Fact, the Muslim hordes are using the left wing fools to push their agenda, and they are winning that contest..

  6. mortimer says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    Nathan Lean has no argument with which to defend Islam.

    The only defense the Islam-apologists have is the fallacy of distraction called ‘AD HOMINEM’.

    Armed to the teeth with ‘AD HOMINEMS’, the Islam-apologists are successfully getting away with it because Western media are dealing with people like Nathan Lean leniently by FAILING TO CHALLENGE his fallacies of illogic and FAILING TO POINT OUT that Lean actually HAS NO ARGUMENT for the MORAL SUPERIORITY of Islam or for the VICTIMHOOD of Islam or for the UNJUSTICE of any criticism of Islam.

    Western media are not even examining whether a criticism of Islam is VALID OR NOT. Western media has NO UNDERSTANDING of Islam and therefore are NOT EQUIPPED to judge whether a criticism of Islam is TRUE and VALID or not!

    Western media are letting us down.

  7. davej says

    Feb 19, 2017 at 11:14 pm

    Prejudice? That would be the extreme prejudice of Islam against unbelievers, Jews, women and dogs. Nathan is a liar and seeks to deceive.

    “No stronger retrograde force exists in this world than Islam.” That’s for damn sure.

  8. n tesdorf says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 3:53 am

    When Muslims try and shoot you or blow you up, you tend to develop Islamophobia.

  9. Shan Lim says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 4:24 am

    Yes, do help realize a world that values “pluralism and diversity”, Talk is dirt cheap. Now, go to saudi arabia and other islamic hell holes to preach the leftist gem. After all, they are the very ones in need of those values of “pluralism and diversity”.

    Just make sure to carry a life insurance policy for your heads.

  10. Pal says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 5:07 am

    In Malaysia, a country of “moderate islam”, thousands rally to back islamic penal code bill!:
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-malaysia-politics-hudud-idUSKBN15X0DN
    OmG, one more victory for islam in the world?
    Madness only expands – it never shrinks.

  11. Laura says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 5:25 am

    It’s a pity that treacherous lying bastards like Lean are not laughed out of the university lecture halls.

  12. abad says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 7:19 am

    Proof positive that Islam is a mental illness.

  13. patriotliz says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 8:40 am

    Shame on my Alma mater. They don’t get a penny from me.
    https://youtu.be/G1RieIRFqN0

  14. Jack Holan says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 8:59 am

    Mr. Spencer offer this pop culture Prof acting on behalf of terrorists to counter-point on Monday so you can shred all of his clothes.

  15. Richie says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 9:21 am

    with the left Muslims can do no wrong

  16. Franklin P. Uroda says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 11:37 am

    Has that “cowardly” Catholic bishop done a “turn around” since you were refused access?

  17. Angemon says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 1:33 pm

    I feel as a student at a public institution that I am being silenced. If I am a free thinker I should be allowed to question Islam, its writings, its prophet, and teachings just like fundamentalist Christian values are questioned everyday here at OSU. This does not promote dialogue but rather writes everyone right of the aisle off as the potential perpetrators of hate crimes.

    Red. F***ing. Pilled.

  18. Jack says

    Feb 20, 2017 at 10:29 pm

    “Lean plays fast and loose with the facts’ Of course he does, otherwise the Vermin couldn’t exist without lies and innuendos.

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