What a coincidence! My latest in PJ Media:
“I know that Flying While Brown has always been a concern. But now Landing While Brown is also frightening.” So says Khaled Beydoun, a Muslim who claims he was victimized on and after a Delta flight last week. An interesting detail of the story is that Beydoun is a key “Islamophobia” propagandist: he is “Associate Professor of Law at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and Senior Affiliated Faculty at the University of California-Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project,” according to his bio. He is the author of a book entitled American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear.
What a coincidence that he would become a victim of “Islamophobia”!
Beydoun claims that he was assaulted by a Delta pilot after being asked to move from a good seat to a bad one, all apparently because of “racism” and “Islamophobia”:
Before the assault of the captain: I was asked to move seats before boarding the flight. They said the move was because of an “emergency matter.” I agreed, then was moved to a horrible seat where I had to lean into the aisle the whole time.
After the flight, Beydoun wrote on Twitter, he waited to complain to the captain about being bumped from the good seat and “while waiting on the jetway to issue a complaint to the captain, he grabbed me by my neck and told me to ‘come here,’ shouts at me in front of passengers, **THEN** Calls the POLICE. This is how @Delta treats their Platinum members.”
Beydoun saw “Islamophobia” at work in the whole incident. He tweeted:
Although they said it was emergency, it’s possible that i was asked to move – from the first seat in at the front of the cabin – because of my name, ethnicity, and/or religion But the captain’s hostility turned this from a simple customer complaint into a potential legal matter.
However, the police report gives an entirely different picture:
Timothy [the Delta pilot, Timothy Hovelsrud] stated Khaled pulled the “race card.”…I asked Timothy if he touched Khaled which he stated no he is lying.
Also
Khaled said he was waiting to speak to the pilot in the isle [sic] and the pilot pulled him by his jacket and told him to come here. Khaled stated first it was battery, second it was an assault, and third it was condescending because he was 40 years old…..Khaled refused any type of prosecution for assault.
If the pilot really grabbed Beydoun by his neck, as Beydoun claimed on Twitter, that’s assault. Why not press charges?
Anyway, here we have a professor of “Islamophobia” accused of playing the “race card” when he was bumped from first class. I’ve been bumped from first class for exactly the same reason that he was bumped: the flight attendant’s jump seat was malfunctioning and so she needed to take a passenger seat. Was that a noble flight attendant’s strike against “Islamophobia”?
One would have to be peculiarly self-obsessed and self-important to think that these kinds of incidents are directed at oneself personally.
Anyway, whose version is more plausible? On the one hand, we have an “Islamophobia” propagandist claiming he was bumped from first class because of “Islamophobia,” and then assaulted by an “Islamophobic” Delta captain, to whom the police spoke first when they arrived, because of, you guessed it, “Islamophobia.” Despite being assaulted, the “Islamophobia” victim refuses to press charges.
Then, on the other hand, we have a Delta captain saying that the “Islamophobia” propagandist played the “race card” in complaining about being bumped from first class, and further stating that the propagandist lied in saying that the captain had assaulted him.
Which version is more plausible, indeed.
People will see what they want to see here, but there are so many fake “Islamophobic” hate crimes that it isn’t hard to believe Khaled Beydoun is a fantasist as well as a crusader (ha) against a fictional evil.
This kind of “coincidence” has happened before. In 2016, Rashid Dar of the Qatar-funded Brookings Institution claimed that he was punched in the throat by a random man on a Washington, D.C., street because he was wearing Muslim garb. What a coincidence that of all the many, many people wearing Muslim garb on the streets of Washington the one that this lout decided to punch was an “Islamophobia” propagandist. And what a coincidence that of all the multitudes of Muslims who fly on airplanes every day, many while wearing Muslim garb, the one that this Delta captain decided to manhandle was a professor of “Islamophobia.”
Read the rest here.
Spiro says
Moslems are under no moral obligation to tell the truth to non Moslems according to Koran
Especially if it advances Islam
mortimer says
Islamic Victimology 101 … microagressions real or imagined are molehills asking to be turned into mountains by proficient victimology practitioners.
mortimer says
Btw … the captain on an airplane can do anything he needs to do to ensure the passengers and crew arrive safely.
THERE’S ONLY ONE CAPTAIN.
Westman says
One of the basic drives of humans is competition. Most stick to fairness after arriving at the point where obligations and intelligence slow down or stop progress. Some, however, use opportunities at other expense to break out of obscurity or stasis. We just had a celebrity arrested for trying to promote himself with a hoax that is now more damaging to the believability of real victims. It left Maxine Waters is so confused that she was unable to call, “peace forty-five”.
This professor, in his attempt to gain notoriety in his field through false claims, simply further tarnished the image of Islam; an image already considered negative by the majority of Americans.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Austria: Feminist Politician Says Muslim Migrants’ Lack of Respect For Women’s Rights a Price Worth Paying For Diversity”
https://www.newswars.com/austria-feminist-politician-says-muslim-migrants-lack-of-respect-for-womens-rights-a-price-worth-paying-for-diversity/
DHazard says
Did a non-Muslim feminist really admit that Muslim migrants have a lack of respect for women’s rights? That’s just one step away from admitting that Muhammad and Allah also had no respect for women’s rights.
gravenimage says
Disgusting, Flavius. Who wants this kind of “diversity”?
Funny how anyone even slightly right of center is not considered to provide diversity…
DHazard says
“See, this is how Islam makes the World a better place.”
This quote is attributed to No One who said it at Nowhere on the Never of Ever.
Sun says
No other passengers?? No witnesses??
Dayna says
Planet earth has this ame diagnosis of islamaphobia. Unfortunately, nobody can find a doctor that has heard of this before it was made up LOL #sonotoallmuslims
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: ‘Islamophobia’ Professor Claims to Be Victim of ‘Islamophobic’ Attack
……………….
The pilot has already given the lie to this bs.
thehighsider says
DARVO much, Beydoun?
dan christensen says
The Delta pilot, Timothy Hovelsrud, has a Norwegian surname, Hovelsrud. The muslim fessor’s microagression against the pilot may be construed as Scandiphobia – a baseless irrational fear of Scandinavians.
The poor pilot is clearly a victim of the grudge muslims hold against jews, hindus, Christians, Western people, kufars, white people, black people, gays, apostates, Tibetans, Scandinavians, Aussies and a host of others. The remainder of mankind muslims don’t love, but some of them are tolerated (like the pope); remember islam is a religion of peace and love.
Peter A says
‘Islamophobia’
A control word used by Muslims and the Left to try and silence and shout down any criticism of Islam by inferring that there is something wrong with you.
A phobia is an irrational hatred or fear. There is nothing irrational about fearing or hating or rejecting Islam which is a violent, divisive, backward, supremacist and intolerant ideology.
It wants complete control over your life, including punishment for challenging or rejecting its authority.
Women, Jews, gays and non-believers have good reason to fear islam, it has a track record of actual violence, and threats of violence to anyone who dares to challenge or criticise it.
CRUSADER says
AMEN
+++++
truthzzzz says
Islamoreality.
Sharia. Sharia means that anything goes to establish Sharia everywhere. They mean everything is allowed to advance Islam. Islam and Muslims have no rules except that all actions are allowed to advance Islam.
Dano says
Another fake hate crime. When muslims aren’t perpetrating real hate crimes, they are perpetrating fake hate crimes. Time for some real punishment for committing a fake hate crime.
CRUSADER says
The Left uses the word “Islamophobia” as they do “racism” with all their accusational proclivity.
“Islamophobia” is a term bandied about with much matter-of-fact conduct. But what is the definition of this much ballyhooed word? And is it over-used and thereby does an injustice to critical thought?
Phobia is a fear, but an irrational fear. Take arachno-phobia for instance. There is this definition: an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
So who is it that makes the determination that this fear is “extreme”? And isn’t alright to have an aversion toward something which one deems potentially dangerous?
UNCLE VLADDI says
Jussie Beydoun?
Khaled Smollett?
😉
CRUSADER says
Let’s view more about this arachnophobia.
Signs and symptoms
People with arachnophobia tend to feel uneasy in any area they believe could harbor spiders or that has visible signs of their presence, such as webs.
Reasons
Arachnophobia may be an exaggerated form of an instinctive response that helped early humans to survive,[4] or a cultural phenomenon that is most common in predominantly European societies.[5]
Evolutionary
An evolutionary reason for the phobia remains unresolved. One view, especially held in evolutionary psychology, is that the presence of venomous spiders led to the evolution of a fear of spiders, or made acquisition of a fear of spiders especially easy. Like all traits, there is variability in the intensity of fear of spiders, and those with more intense fears are classified as phobic. Being relatively small, spiders do not fit the usual criterion for a threat in the animal kingdom where size is a factor, but they can have medically significant venom.[citation needed] However, a phobia is an irrational fear as opposed to a rational fear.[6]
By ensuring that their surroundings were free from spiders, arachnophobes would have had a reduced risk of being bitten in ancestral environments, giving them a slight advantage over non-arachnophobes in terms of survival. However, having a disproportionate fear of spiders in comparison to other, potentially dangerous creatures[7] present during Homo sapiens’ environment of evolutionary adaptiveness may have had drawbacks.[citation needed]
A 2001 study found that people could detect images of spiders among images of flowers and mushrooms more quickly than they could detect images of flowers or mushrooms among images of spiders. The researchers suggested that this was because fast response to spiders was more relevant to human evolution.[8]
Cultural
The alternative view is that the dangers, such as from spiders, are overrated and not sufficient to influence evolution.[attribution needed] Instead, inheriting phobias would have restrictive and debilitating effects upon survival, rather than being an aid. For some communities such as in Papua New Guinea and Cambodia spiders are included in traditional foods. This suggests arachnophobia may be a cultural, rather than genetic trait.[9][10]
CRUSADER says
Let’s step away from this brief analysis of arachnophobia; let’s turn to the notion of Islamo-phobia. This would mean more of an ideological concern rather than something biological. Thus we can think and determine for ourselves when it comes to this issue.
But fear can become a similar thing, regardless of the topic of concern: Fear is an aid for survival; at the least, an aid to becoming more highly alert to warnings. Being cautious is a very good thing to undertake.
So, when does an “Islamophobe” become just someone who is cautious about Islam?
When does someone who is cautious about Islam become an “Islamophobe”?
Can someone who cites the perceived trouble with Islam be deemed “phobic”?
If there is clear and consistent doctrine within Islam which is incompatible with certain societies and which poses potential dangers due to doctrinal ideology, then how is it not relevant to be cautious about Islam? Is it not more irrational to be sliming people who are cautious about Islam with a smear about being “phobic”, when this very caution might aid society in widening contemplation and thereby providing more chance to defend against ills that are promoted within Islam itself?