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UC Berkeley “Islamophobia” prof identifies the “individuals behind Islamophobia”

May 24, 2017 7:59 am By Robert Spencer

Hatem (“Hate ’em”) Bazian is a key propagandist of the “Islamophobia” myth: he is the founder of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at the University of California at Berkeley. Can you imagine the University of California at Berkeley opening up a Germanophobia Research and Documentation Project during World War II, and ascribing all criticism of Nazism to some irrational hatred of Germans?

Anyway, I have news for “Hate ’em,” although there is no doubt that this cynical hate propagandist already knows it full well: if anyone has any dislike for or suspicion of Islam or Muslims, it isn’t because of me, David Horowitz, Steven Emerson, Pamela Geller, Ann Coulter, David Yerushalmi, “Frank Gavnney,” and the rest. It’s because of Salman Abedi, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and innumerable other jihad mass murderers and jihad terror masterminds. The entire “Islamophobia” enterprise is a massive bait-and-switch, designed to shift attention away from actual jihad killers, and shift blame for their deeds onto the small group of counterterror analysts and human rights activists who are actually trying to call attention to what they are doing.

(Thanks to A. for the photo.)

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  1. Dov Berrol says

    May 24, 2017 at 8:06 am

    Pretty expected from an Arab colonizer of the Land of the Israel from Nablus. He has experience in creating the fiction called Palestine, now he can use that experience creating the fiction that Muslims are innocent victims of “racist hatred”.

    Will someone tell these hypocrits that Berkeley sits on occupied colonized Native American land?

    • Dov Berrol says

      May 24, 2017 at 8:11 am

      Here’s more about this Jew Hating Arab hypocrit:

      http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11850

      • Dov Berrol says

        May 24, 2017 at 8:14 am

        Sorry…should be spelled “hypocrite”…

    • Max1270 says

      May 24, 2017 at 8:40 am

      To fight islamophobia let m suggest that all those who claim islamophobia as the problem,offer to carry napsacks of Muslims wherever and whenever, in order to show solidarity with these real victims.

    • Jack Holan says

      May 25, 2017 at 8:15 pm

      The fool or more accurately ignoramus doesn’t realize Arab, Muslim, Bedouin whatever is not a Race by any stretch of the imagination. If he can find an Anthropologist politically, and stupid enough to agree they are a Race take away that Mann or Woman’s Academic Credentials. Who is funding him and this Project at UC Berkeley?

    • Jack Holan says

      May 25, 2017 at 9:43 pm

      Excellent

  2. JerryJ26 says

    May 24, 2017 at 8:10 am

    oh, i was expecting a list of all of the muslims alive in the world today. Such a disappointment.

  3. RichardL says

    May 24, 2017 at 8:11 am

    I am scandalised by the fact that I have not heard of some of those heroes.

    As an academic, I have encountered some seriously dumb people giving presentations about all sorts of stuff at some conferences, but the UofCal system has some very unfunny stand-up comedians…

  4. John F says

    May 24, 2017 at 8:13 am

    How could anyone sit there quietly and not counter his bullshit?

  5. johan elzinga says

    May 24, 2017 at 8:27 am

    I’m very disappointed. My name was not on that list. I’m not important enough, obviously, to be a well known Islamophobe.

  6. Jerry says

    May 24, 2017 at 8:33 am

    It amazes me that anyone can still use the term “islamophobia” and really mean it. In light of all the tangible evidence for islamic jihad–their doctrines, the unceasing violence–they’re still trying to sell that bucket of sh*t as truth. At what point in “hate em’s” thinking does he suggest we become irrationally fearful? before or after they kill us? From our non-muslim POV we have good reason for being fearful and skeptical of muslims’ intentions. Islam is rife with hatred and murderous intent for non-muslims, that’s irrefutable. While ISIS rampages muslim terrorists are mass murdering practically every day and week of the year. They are contemptuous of our freedoms, our dress, our religion, our sports and entertainment, our law and government (except our welfare and healthcare), all of it deemed by them as an offense to muhammad and allah and worthy of death or punishment. They hold signs reading “Islam will rule,” or “Behead those that slander the prophet,” and of course by “slander” they mean tell the truth. And then when we dare to speak up about this violent assault on our communities and freedoms we are subjected to all manner of threats and insults by our own leftist politicians and media.

    So I’m wondering who on this islam-stained planet is ignorant enough, or bigoted enough, to still believe that “islamophobia” is more than a 12 letter lie.

    • mccode says

      May 24, 2017 at 12:33 pm

      Well said.

    • hendrikush says

      May 25, 2017 at 2:08 am

      Islamophobia is a sign of a good working mind and a good functioning morality.

      Anyone, including muslims, who is not an islamophobe is not wise.

  7. David says

    May 24, 2017 at 8:34 am

    UC Berkeley “Islamophobia” prof identifies the “individuals behind Islamophobia”

    Muslims

    • Jack Holan says

      May 24, 2017 at 9:12 pm

      Perfect!

  8. Monty says

    May 24, 2017 at 8:36 am

    Easy, John F. People have just refused to grow up. At school everyone had to follow the fashion, the same TV show, the same radio station, agree with the same things as everyone else. Of course now the illiterati from the illiberal left set the agenda. Over the years society has been brainwashed and conditioned into uncritical acceptance of the grossest lies. We had a beauty in Australia, on a notoriously left wing TV Show. “More people have been killed by refrigerators than by foreign terrorists in the US”. Of course no one asked for any proof of that statement. When I went to the US last year, I kept a close eye on all the refrigerators in case I got jumped and murdered by one. I also visited the North Pole to ask Santa what he thought about global warming. What? You don’t believe me? obviously I am not from Berkeley.

  9. Lookmann says

    May 24, 2017 at 8:46 am

    WHY is Spencer’s name way below several others ?

    Is he not ‘islamophobic’ enough to top the chart ?

    • Westman says

      May 24, 2017 at 10:22 am

      And where is Christopher Hitchins? Do they really think that, in this day of eternal video, his influence has stopped?

      More makework courses to create unemployed, debt-laden, Berkeley graduates. I have a professional friend, a 70s graduate of Berkeley, who is dismayed at what he sees at Berleley and how it degrades his educational background.

  10. Santa Voorhees says

    May 24, 2017 at 8:58 am

    Muslims are the individuals behind islamophobia. Period.

    • Jerry says

      May 24, 2017 at 10:13 am

      Muslims are the individuals behind islamophobia.

      So true, they’re behind it, in front of it, and to the left and right of it. The only way you can see islamophobia is if you can see past the murder and terror they’re causing at any given moment. But ya gotta act fast because there’s never much time between when they’re preaching murder and when they’re actually doing it. Those peaceful moments are fleeting and rare, just like patriotism and moral courage is rare among our leftist apologists that help them.

      • Santa Voorhees says

        May 25, 2017 at 9:35 pm

        The only thing that is plentiful among leftists is stupid people.

  11. birchstick says

    May 24, 2017 at 9:40 am

    The lefty clown missed Brigette

    • birchstick says

      May 24, 2017 at 9:40 am

      and David Wood

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        May 24, 2017 at 11:19 am

        Don’t forget that hatemonger Mark Steyn.

    • TNinfidel says

      May 24, 2017 at 12:03 pm

      Missed Dr. Bill Warner as well. What a slacker.

  12. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    May 24, 2017 at 11:09 am

    The entire “Islamophobia” enterprise is a massive bait-and-switch, designed to shift attention away from actual jihad killers…

    Well put. But above all the Islamophobia industry seeks to divert attention away from the contents of Islam. Is it that hard to read the Holy Ko-Ran and Hadiths and look it up. Hate ‘Em is a professor, he can manage to do that… er, check that, one moment please, correction: he’s a professor so he *can’t* look it up. He’s a self-deluded sophist, an idiot, although in fairness it could be argued that Prof Hate ‘Em is an externally deluded sophist…

  13. Frederick Middleton says

    May 24, 2017 at 11:42 am

    He’s preparing a hit-list for Muso assassins. Time to defund these treacherous outfits.

  14. Tom S. says

    May 24, 2017 at 12:53 pm

    There will be a monument on the Mall to the heroes of Western Civilization in this picture. Agree about those who were missed mentioned above and would add Geert Wilders. I, and my children, thank you Robert!

  15. jewdog says

    May 24, 2017 at 1:17 pm

    Got to give it to them: They know how to play us for suckers. It’s like when they put rockets in suburban yards and the entire Hamas command hides in a hospital. They know how to manipulate our sense of guilt and respect for universal human rights.

  16. mortimer says

    May 24, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    Hatem (“Hate ’em”) Bazian is giving jihadists a list of people to kill, but he will deny that.

    According to him, there is no fair or reasonable criticism of Islam, since it is theoretically perfect.

  17. mortimer says

    May 24, 2017 at 2:00 pm

    Islam’s canonical, ESSENTIAL DOCTRINE of Al Walaa wal Baraa makes ‘Islamophobia’ look tame by comparison.

    ISLAM HAS A DOCTRINE OF HATE: ‘AL BARAA’ = Apartheid … but more severe.

    Al Bughoud = Hatred of Kafirs for the sake of Allah, or Al Mu’adaat, this is the opposite of Al Muwalaat (love of Muslims), it is:
    – To Hate
    – To keep distance from
    – To be enemy to
    – To desert
    – To decline to help
    – To disrespect
    – To put down
    – Not to ally with
    – Not to support

    Allah ordered us to have Baraa, from the kuffar and from kufr and shirk.

    “Battle, animosity, and hatred…directed from the Muslim to the infidel…is the foundation of our religion. And we consider this a justice and kindness to them.” -Osama bin Laden

    • mortimer says

      May 24, 2017 at 2:00 pm

      KAFIROPHOBIA is …

      Al Walaa wal Baraa is the best supported doctrine in Islam. Al Walaa wal Baraa is the doctrine of Islamic apartheid.

      Koran 28:86 “Do not support the kafireen in any way.”
      Koran 5.51 “He amongst you who turns to them (for friendship) is of them.”
      Koran 40:35 “They who dispute the signs (verses) of Allah without authority having reached them are greatly hated by Allah and the believers.” (Note: not just “hated”, but “greatly hated”.)
      Koran 48:29: “Muhammad is God’s apostle. Those who follow him are violent to the unbelievers, but compassionate to one another.”
      Koran 4: 101 “The kuffar are for you a clear enemy.”
      Koran 8:60 “Terrorize the enemy of Allah and your enemy”
      Koran 60:4 “We have rejected you, and there has arisen between us and you enmity and hatred, until you believe and worship Allaah alone.”
      Koran 3: 118 “O you who believe! Do not take into your intimacy those outside your ranks. They will not fail to corrupt you.”

      Examples of al-Baraa from historic figures:

      -from Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in insulting kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to humiliate them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain terrified and trembling. It is intended to hold them under contempt and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”

      -from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show animosity and hatred towards disbelievers and never support them.”

      -from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”: “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as enemies and hate them because of their kufr, just as he hates their kufr (disbelief) itself.”

      -from [Chap.iv] “The Islaamic Concept of al-Walaa’ wal-Baraa’” by Khalid El-Gharib: “… to show enmity to those who show enmity to Allaah and His Messenger”.

  18. Peter says

    May 24, 2017 at 7:31 pm

    Who is responsible for “Islamophobia?”

    The first name at the top of the list should be: Muhammad.

  19. fakeallah says

    May 24, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    I’m idiotphobic!!! Where do they find these fools??? Oh, I forgot that we are talking about Berkley…

  20. Bhartiya says

    May 25, 2017 at 1:38 am

    Would you not be able to do a talk at the same venue soon after ,countering this and drawing youths to bring awareness and expose these guys?

  21. Adam Mary says

    May 25, 2017 at 2:27 pm

    Ignorance and want is what they are Ebeneezer Scrooge; beware of ignorance.
    Peace be with; Happy Easter & Pentecost, good Omer count journey, Happy Shavuot, God bless you…in name of Jesus Christ, Hallelujah, amen.

  22. Dymphna Gates says

    May 25, 2017 at 3:01 pm

    Hmmm…Steve Coughlin never made the list. Heh. It was his side event at one of the most recent OSCE meetings that prevented OSCE from being able to give the UN the go-ahead on making “Islamophobia” a thing.

    The full irony is that Iran created the word back in the 80s.

  23. UNCLE VLADDI says

    May 25, 2017 at 6:14 pm

    Interesting, since I’ve identified the individuals behind leftopathic “sanity-phobia:”

    The enemedia are lying criminal frauds and should be jailed for public deception.

    From: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/justice-is-blind-police-are-deaf-and-dumb

    Re: “Why won’t the MSM report that moslems are bad?”

    Well let’s see now – oil is free in the ground, and, under pressure, it even extracts itself.

    And nearly everything is made from it, so it’s almost a “need.”

    So everyone is willing to pay a lot for something that’s incredibly cheap to get ahold of. (It’s ALL free profits, baby!)

    Now, in order to conserve our own massive supplies of this (overal) ‘limited’ resource, we have had to trick all the others who have some but don’t know the real value of theirs, into selling their supplies of it to us for cheap (that way, their supply will run out before ours does, so, in the end, we’ll still have them literally over a barrel).

    But ‘they’ are savage barbarians who have always hated everyone who isn’t them.

    A while back, they figured this all out, and briefly held us all hostage in the 1970s during the “OPEC Energy Crisis.”

    This ‘crisis’ was then quickly and mysteriously ended, no doubt in exchange for unlimited enemy immigration to our lands, in exchange for keeping the price down.

    Those who own the oil, hold hostage (by keeping the prices low) ALL the businesses who depend on it, and THEIR owners (the banks) as well, and THEY ALL own the media.

    Capisce?

    😉

    Also, The media knows the truth but if they announce the truth the story ends (but if they lie they can incite people giving themselves another month or two of new, related stories). Whee!

    So the media are criminally-negligent delinquents who pretend they can have the subjective right to make stuff up (“because all facts are really only opinions anyway!”) without the responsibility to report the objectively factual truth.

    Are they correct in assuming this?! What is their legal mandate (if there is one)? Because fraud (lying) is the most basic form of theft (it’s the theft of the Truth) and theft IS crime!

    As someone else recently noted:
    “The Fourth Estate have now become our Fifth Columnists!”

    ;-(

    The media exists to ask wrong questions so our owners won’t fret about the answers!

    SO: Just exactly WHO are their (and, by extension our) “OWNERS!”?

    http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/4fd9ee1e6bb3f7af5700000a/media-infographic.jpg

    The same SIX corporations own ALL THE MEDIA IN THE WORLD.

    Which means the same six CEOs (who are no doubt on each others’ boards of directors, too) are the ones to watch.

    I seriously doubt there’s anyone higher up watching and pulling their strings, because they’d want the propaganda wing to be a hands-on affair.

    PS: Most banksters aren’t Jewish, and most Jews aren’t banksters.

    The six corporations which own (and whose CEOs control) ALL the media in the world, are:

    1.) General Electric … which owns:
    Comcast
    NBC
    Universal Pictures
    Focus Features

    2.) News Corp … which owns:
    FOX
    Wall Street Journal
    New York Post

    3.) Disney … which owns:
    ABC
    ESPN
    PIXAR
    MIRAMAX
    MARVEL Studios

    4.) Viacom … which owns:
    MTV
    Paramount Pictures
    BET
    CMT
    Nick Jr

    5.) Time Warner … which owns:
    CNN
    HBO
    Time
    Warner Bros

    6.) CBS … which owns:
    Showtime
    60 Minutes
    NFL.com
    Smithsonian Channel
    Jeopardy

    So: Just find out who the CEOs for these six are, and you’ve got your perps!

    😉

    • Santa Voorhees says

      May 25, 2017 at 7:15 pm

      Are you italian? From that “Capisce?” word it seems so ?.

      By the way yeah, the media is a bunch of liars. If Isis attacked them it would actually doing a favour to all western nations. I heard Laura Boldrini on TV like an hour ago saying that Isis is not inspired by the Koran. Obviously she is lying, and her lies can be utterly discredited by simply reading Koran verses such as 3:28, 3:56, 3:151, 5:51, 8:65, 9:5, 9:29, 9:73, 9:123, 47:4, 48:29, 66:9 etc.. and also the hadiths such as Sahih Al Bukhari 52:177, 52:220 and I could go on and on.

      Funny how they pretend to know about Islam when it is clear they do not know anything. If they actually read the Koran they’d know that there are violent verses that are 100% backing up what Isis, Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Al Shabaab and whatever else are doing.

  24. Lydia says

    May 25, 2017 at 7:10 pm

    This is exactly the direction the nazi’s went in, and it’s the same direction that these fools are going in again here.

  25. Ilan says

    May 27, 2017 at 2:45 am

    Phobia= irrational fear
    Fear of Islam and sharia law= 100% rational

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