My latest in the Geller Report:
Good news! If you’re thinking about taking a summer course at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, now you can dive into one about how, despite over 34,000 jihad attacks worldwide since 9/11 committed in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings, Muslims are actually victims of “Islamophobia” manufactured by a sinister “Islamophobia industry,” which prevents people nationwide from thinking that Islam is just great.
Here’s the course description:
Islam, Muslims & Islamophobia: A Catholic Response
Scott AlexanderThis course will cover the epidemic of Islamophobia in contemporary U.S. American society. Its aim is: to assess the extent of the problem, including statistics regarding anti-Muslim hate crimes and an analysis of the so-called “Islamophobia industry”; to explore and deconstruct negative and harmful anti-Muslim stereotypes, particularly as key elements of dominant mainstream media, “alt-right” media, and social media narratives; and to articulate a ‘Catholic response’ based on Catholic social teaching, theology of interreligious dialogue, and the longstanding praxis of Catholic-Muslim dialogue in the U.S. in which Catholic Theological Union has played a significant role.
Scott Alexander is certainly qualified to teach a course of this kind. According to the CTU website, “Scott has been studying, teaching, and writing about Islam and Muslim-Christian relations for over 35 years. The focus of his life’s ministry is building bridges of reconciliation, mutual understanding, and solidarity for justice between Muslims and Christians in the U.S. and abroad. As a self-described ‘scholar-activist,’ Scott devotes considerable energy to challenging structures of Islamophobia and other forms of systemic bigotry and marginalization. His most recent scholarly research focuses on the role of triumphalism in Christian-Muslim relations and deals with the inherent contradiction between religious claims to universal truth and the religiously motivated desire to impose this truth on others as a means of political and cultural domination.”
It is no surprise that with all his talk about triumphalism, systematic bigotry, marginalization, and political and cultural domination, Professor Alexander demonstrates no awareness of the fact that devout Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” have committed numerous acts of violence against non-Muslims in Europe and North America over the last few years. Nor does he seem to be aware that the Islamic State, an international jihad terror group, has called for such attacks in Europe and North America as part of a large attempt to weaken existing governmental systems and hasten their collapse, so that Sharia entities can be established in their place. That’s a kind of systematic bigotry and marginalization, in service of political and cultural domination, that doesn’t seem to register on his radar screen.
Will this course discuss how the term “Islamophobia” was chosen by Muslim Brotherhood organizations as a weapon to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others? Will it explore the 1,400-year history of jihad warfare against Christians, and investigate the role of Islamic texts and teachings in inciting that warfare? Will it discuss the status of the subjugated dhimmis under Islamic law? Will it explore the industry of faked anti-Muslim hate crimes? Will it show how those who are accused of being part of the fictional “Islamophobia industry” are vilified with ad hominem attacks, but never actually shown to be making false statements?
The answer is obvious, of course. No to all questions.
Will there be a course at any Islamic theological school, teaching about Muslim hatred of Christians, “the most vile of created beings” according to Qur’an 98:6?
No again.
Scott Alexander will likely never tell you this, but I will: the real originators of “Islamophobia” in the U.S. are not the supposed exponents of the “Islamophobia industry,” but Nidal Malik Hasan, Mohamed Atta, Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Mohammed Abdulazeez, Syed Rizwan Farook, Tashfeen Malik, Omar Mateen, and all the other Muslims who have plotted and/or carried out jihad massacres on American soil. In fact, the whole “Islamophobia” hysteria is a cynical and disingenuous attempt to divert attention away from the reality of jihad terror.
“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14)
Wellington says
Guess he’s going to skip the part about the Muslim prophet Jesus coming back at the end of the world and throwing all Christians into Hell for deifying Him.
Jan says
I only realize now after reading this article that truly, Robert Spencer is a captain of industry, albeit of the fictional islamophobia industry! Lol
Mac-101 says
You’re a highly intelligent educated individual. Have you ever seen a comprehensive public source list of “Donations/Grants” given to American/Western Universities and other Institutions which influence political/social thought from the Oil Ticks? I was shocked about 10 to 15 years ago that I saw that Georgetown and Brandeis University each accepted something like 10 million. Another list of fees from Lobbyists would be interesting from oversea entities would be interesting. Our National and Western Civilization on sale to the highest bidder!.
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Since then it seems that weekly a major organization is ‘Given” funds from these dubious people to pervert reality. A simple comprehensive list perhaps listed by the largest total donations on down of the top hundred would shocked people today. I doubt it though.
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PS; The History of Brandies was very interesting, talk about drama and in fighting. Did Einstein dislike ALL Catholic Clergy hierarchy or just this one Bishop? Also, it was refreshing to see a link to James Arness, a TRUE American hero!
gravenimage says
Even worse than that, Wellington, the Muslim “Jesus”–“prophet Isa”–main role is to murder Christians.
bob kelly says
the catholic church is capable of any thing , remember they were the ones that issued fake passports to nazi war criminals and arranged transport to the Americas the church never told anyone right up to today even at the Nuremberg trials they keep their mouth shut — pedophiles –they don t have a holly bone in their bodies why do you think they like to cozy up to the muslims
Wellington says
The Catholic priests issuing fake passports, et al, i.e., the “ratlines,” were a very small minority of the clergy (and shame on them forever) Meanwhile, Pope Pius XII and others (e.g., Cardinal Angelo Roncalli) did such things as hide Jews in untold numbers of churches, issue fake baptismal certificates to Jewish children to pass them off as Catholic (and thus saved them), exhort Admiral Horthy, dictator of Hungary to save Hungarian Jews (which he did), et al. Pius all saved a hell of lot of non-Jews too whom the Nazis sought to kill.
So nice to see you provide such a balanced approach, bob kelly, in assessing the Catholic Church’s many “activities” during WWII. For the record, I know of no one in all of history who saved more Jewish lives than Pius XII, working so effectively behind the scenes as he did. It amounts to some 800,000 Jews. No one else comes close. The fact that a man like Pius is excoriated and a destructive fool like Mahatma Gandhi is still adulated only tends to confirm (unfortunately) Napoleon’s cynical take on the past, to wit, that history is a pack of lies agreed upon.
You have aided to this cynical take in your own little way. Congratulations. BTW, for the record and all that, I am not religious in the least.
gravenimage says
Good post, Wellington.
Keys says
bob kelly, what percentage of Catholics would you say fit your post ?
100 … 50 … 25 … 10 … 1 ? Would you spare unfair criticism of all Catholics if you could find just five good ones; would you for two good ones; would you spare unfair criticism for just one good catholic ?
I second Wellington’s comment here. Israel Zolli, the Chief Rabbi of Rome during the Nazi occupation, became a Catholic after the war and then changed his name to Eugenio Zolli in honor of Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli. His book, “Before the Dawn”, gives the details.
And did you not know that Dachau had a “Priest Barracks” with a total of 2,720 clerics recorded there with 2,579 (94.88%) Roman Catholic; did you not know what Catholic priest, Maximilian Kolbe, did at Auschwitz; and about Edith Stein after the Dutch Bishops’ Conference had a public statement read in all the Dutch Catholic churches of the nation on 7-20-1942 condemning Nazi racism, and on and on …..
mortimer says
SCOTT ALEXANDER and those oil sheikhs who pay his wages want to GASLIGHT us in the West.
“ISLAMOPHOBIA” is GASLIGHTING.
Gaslighting = The practice of brainwashing or convincing mentally healthy people that they are going insane or that their understanding of reality is mistaken or false.
DBM echo says
This is the guy who has on his linkedin page,
“I am [a] Roman Catholic Christian whose life has been immeasurably blessed and enriched by Islam and Muslims.”
Immeasurably blessed and enriched by Islam? This is the muddle-heading thinking that goes on with the bien pensant. Bless beyond measure not by Jesus and His sacrifice, but by Islam! Yikes!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-c-alexander-395346136/
Jan says
Like the jew whose life had been immensely blessed by neonazi movements!
Mac-101 says
U mean like the American Nazi Party, or something like that, which I read just elected a Black LAUYER named Stern from Detriot to destroy it? It was on the MSN front news page a coupe days ago. U cant even make this stuff up.
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Most of ALL the Leaders of the Neo NAZIs are financed by Soros and the Gubermint to create a boogey man. Read the leaked portions of the Senate Church Commission back the 1970s. A large chunk of the KKK, SDS Weathermen and Black Panthers were Gubermint Agents or informants. Most likely just as today.
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There is even a good chance the John Birch Society was established by back door Rockefeller money to keep tabs on the Conservative Right. Once their boy died, and Democrat US Representative Larry McDonald was elected President. McDonald committed the organization to fight not only Communism but Globalism. See what happened to him on KAL 007! The JBS went right back to talkin their crazy talk with the following Presidents.
Rarely says
Do you write for SNL???
gravenimage says
Mac, it looks as though Stern outsmarted these Nazis:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-black-man-neo-nazi-leader-20190301-story.html
Mac-101 says
Graven, Ya, I laughed my rear end off over this. Seriously, I’m 66 years old lived in Fly Over country ALL my life when I wasn’t overseas. I can truly say I never met a self proclaimed Neo-NAZI. This on top of bein a Conservative/Libertarian/Realist all my life.
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We supposedly have a 100 acre NAZI compound about 70 miles from me and no one I know has ever seen any. They just stay to themselves. I think the Top Leadership just prance around and git on the news and collect their checks from their Puppet Masters. The ELITES must have extremes on both sides to spread da hate and they usually finance both!
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Rarely, If you want to spend an hour look into KAL 007 and US Represenative Larry McDonald. It will take about 4 hours to do it really thoroughly. Or you can just make smart aleck responses. If you really care about History that shaped our modern world you can look into how the JBS sabotaged Senator Goldwater’s 1964 Presidential run and we ended up with LBJ and the Viet Nam war. Lady Bird and the MIC got rich!
gravenimage says
Mac, you are right that there are actually *very* few Neo-Nazis.
Brenda Marty says
Will you offer a course to Islamos that want to kill Westerners who don’t believe in the perv Mohammad. And yes he was a perv. In Western societies, you don’t do children. You are supposed to have a broader mindset than a child.
CRUSADER says
Same problem with the Catholic situation. Keeps cropping up.
Perhaps it’s good to watch this film:
“American Gospel — Christ Alone”
as many spiritually challenged people in America seem to be leaving out Christ
in favor of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism …..
‘American Gospel’ Blows a Hole in the Prosperity Gospel
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/…/american-gospel-blows-hole-prosperity-gospel/
A docu-movie, that is challenging, but worth viewing because it opposes the current
spirituality scourge run in America, regarding the American fetish of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
…which is far from what the Gospel preaches.
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Brenda Marty says
“I am [a] Roman Catholic Christian whose life has been immeasurably blessed and enriched by Islam and Muslims.”
Tell that to all the family and friend members who have lost loved ones to indiscriminate Muslims,who kill man, woman, and child, whom they don’t even know.
CogitoErgoSum says
Why should the Catholic response to Islam be any different from the Catholic response to any other religion or ideology? Do you have to be more careful with Muslims because they are more likely to resort to violence if you say something that offends them? (I think the answer is yes.) Is this frightening to most people? (Again, I’m thinking yes.) Is this what Muslims want? (Oh, I believe very much yes.) My conclusion: Muslims actually want non-Muslims to be afraid, to be very afraid and to know their place and to humbly accept their place as dirt beneath the feet of Muslims …. or else convert or die. The course should be on Islam and its history and then Islamophobia would become understandable.
elee says
Perceptive posting CES. See Koran 3:150; 8:12; 5:33. “Phobia” is nothing but a simple everyday word for fear, in someone else’s language. Yes, they want us to be Islamophobes.
elee says
Will they actually read the damned Koran? Hadith?
Well if that’s too challenging or too “Islamophobic” they can get some nice dumbed-down hatred from any one of the “Palestinian” “governments.”
Paul Yancey says
I doubt that it will help, but I called them up and lambasted them for offering this class. Ever since the Land O Lakes document in 1967, Catholic universities have declared their independence from Church teaching in the name of “Academic freedom”. Apparently, academia can’t live in the light unless it fully explores the darkness.
elee says
Not a bad idea, that business of exposing the darkness. There’s a lot to explore, especially if they actually read the scriptures.
elee says
The same “governments” would I’m sure also be glad to send them copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf. Maybe a Turkish mosque can find them copies in German, otherwise they’ll have to settle for Arabic translations. For some reason there are a lot less German-speaking Arabs than there were a few decades ago.
FYI says
“Catholic theological union offers courses on …the appaling state of Catholicism today,the bogus liturgy of the Novus Ordo{!!} mass,the heresies of the islam-pandering,globalist “pope” francis and the current promotion of apostasy by the Vatican,is FATIMA 1917 taking place in Rome:discuss?,Has the smoke of satan reached the top as Paul VI warned about?..Is Opus Dei;a luciferian joke or what?……..”
Now THAT would be something from a Catholic college.
Notes for Catholics:
1)Did you miss the warnings about FATIMA 1917/Paul VI/John Paul II/St Francis Prophecy about a false papacy?francis wants to equate allah ” The best of deceivers” k3:54 with the Christian God.No TRUE pope would do what he does.
The koran CURSES Christians for believing in Jesus k9;30 and FALSELY claims the koran confirms the Gospel k3:3:it does no such thing! It DENIES and CONTRADICTS everything in the Gospel.And allah’s GREATEST ENEMY {sahih muslim vol 5 hadith #5611} is Malik Al-Amlak{“the King of Kings” Revs 19:16}.That’s Jesus Christ.
So why do you pander to islam then?
2)islam has a Doctrine of Hate{al walaa wal baraa} which is totally at odds with the Gospel’s teachings of Love:The 2nd chief commandment is contradicted by the koran k 5V 51.There is no Golden Rule of course,in islam.
3}in islam Jesus is a muslim{..definitely NOT Jewish…} who had the Gospel…whilst in the crib.k19:30
A normal newborn baby in a crib:-
“googly-googly wah wah waal hrfn…wah”
A newborn baby Jesus in a crib{according to allah..}
“Lo! I am the slave of allah .he hath given me the scripture and appointed me a prophet”
A TALKING INFANT WHO SPEAKS LIKE AN ADULT.
And when did Jesus ever have the Gospel?{allah says he gave the Gospel to Jesus k5 46-47 but the Gospel came AFTER the time of Jesus and was written down by humans,not by God Himself}
4}allah’s hilarious misunderstanding of the theology of the Trinity leads him to think Christians are polytheists,Mary is somehow part of the trinity and he has no idea what God’s “Holy Spirit” is{and thus does not know where Biblical Prophecy comes from 2Peter 1 v 20-21}
5}The Coming of Jesus “To break the cross and kill all the pigs”
Sahih Bukhari vol 4 bk60 no 3448
In islam,Jesus is an antichristian muslim………..
Whoever wrote that islamic “prophecy” does not understand the Parousia :I mean he can’t even get Jesus’s religion* right and there are those pigs again that allah{muhammed’s sock puppet} is always terrified about
John 4 v 22*
“We JEWS know whom we worship because it is from the Jews that salvation comes”
elee says
Hey Catholics will your course mention that there have been Popes who knew how to address Islam? It was close to a millennium ago, check it out. You might even read some contemporary outsdie-the-cult writings about it……..say starting with St Thomas Aquinas.
Max says
Those that will attend the course will of course be the Muslim apologists pretending to be those that are not blind to the extreme threat that Muslim pose to non-Muslims.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer: Catholic Theological Union Offers Course on “Islamophobia”
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Glad to see that Robert Spencer is continuing to expose this cringing dhimmitude.
Keys says
Troubling liaisons and remarks are part of Scott Alexander’s record.
from militantislammonitor.org:
“Unbelievably, Dr. Alexander submitted in writing, the following exculpatory “expert” testimony on behalf of Damra’s motives with the court. [Note from Keys: Fawaz Damra, Imam of the largest Mosque in Ohio, located in Cleveland was convicted on June 16, 2004 in Federal Court on charges of unlawfully gaining U.S. citizenship in 1994 by lying about past associations with terrorist organizations. His United States citizenship was revoked and he was deported to the Palestinian West Bank in January 2007.]
“The rhetoric is principally used by political and religious leaders to galvanize resistance to what Palestinian Arabs consider to be the patent persecution of their people by Jewish immigrants to the Middle East…As unquestionably hate-filled and thus morally reprehensible as such language is, when Palestinians refer to Jews as ‘descended from apes and swine’ or encourage support for those who ‘kill Jews,’ they do so with the reasonably justifiable self-image of victim and persecuted, not of victimizer and persecutor.”
More here, if interested:
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/256
End PC says
We need scholars to convince Muslims to dump absurd Islam, not to try to fool non-Muslims into nonsense.
sheliak says
Fools like Alexander are complicit in ushering in the new age of Christian martyrdom.
JeffP says
Meanwhile, they still punish their rape victims by killing them for getting raped. https://tribune.com.pk/story/1919904/1-police-arrest-man-murdering-wife-daughter/?fbclid=IwAR3SM3ByYMEcdJ4X0g1x13hvFxwn5kpLMoviuQRzs4-2XrLaXQKqgv7KRZo