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Georgetown Features Academic Who Likens Austrian Counter-Terror Measures to Kristallnacht

Nov 24, 2020 6:00 pm By Robert Spencer 7 Comments

My latest in PJ Media:

In the wake of the recent jihad attack in Vienna, Austrian authorities are cracking down on Muslim organizations that have been discovered to be exhorting or approving of jihad terror activity – and Georgetown University’s Hamas-linked Bridge Initiative is not happy. On Thursday, it published a weepy self-pitying piece entitled “Xinjiang and Kristallnacht in Austria: Freedom of Religion Under Threat” by Farid Hafez, a political scientist in Austria who sees in Austria’s counterterror measures nothing less than a new Holocaust on the horizon. Of course! Why else would anyone oppose jihad violence, other than out of a desire to perpetrate genocide? This is what passes for academic discourse at Georgetown these days.

“On November 9 of this year,” Hafez intones solemnly, “the Austrian government commemorated Kristallnacht of 1938—known as the ‘Night of the Broken Glass’—a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria that took place on the ninth and tenth of November. Jewish homes, educational institutions, hospitals, and businesses were destroyed and over one thousand synagogues were burned.”

Despite this commemoration, however, Hafez claims that “historians and political analysts argue Austria has never fully reckoned with its Nazi past.” One principal sign of this persistent dalliance with Nazism, as far as this intrepid political analyst is concerned, is that Austria is actually fighting back against jihad violence: “On November 9,” Hafez writes, “the anniversary of Kristallnacht, Austrian security forces and the secret service raided the homes of thirty Muslims and even more Muslim institutions, allegedly” – allegedly! – “to combat political Islam. The organization Palestine Solidarity Austria was first to reveal their ordeal on November 9, 2020, along with a list of those whose homes were raided and the questions posed in interrogation. The questions reveal the direction of the government’s future policies on Muslims and Islam. These policies are not about helping Muslims—quite the opposite.”

Well, that all depends on what your definition of “helping Muslims” is. If it’s turning a blind eye to jihad rhetoric and activity, then these raids were definitely not helping Muslims. But if they were in service of protecting a peaceful and free society, then they help Muslims as they do everyone else.

But for the Bridge Initiative, and for highly politicized “academics” such as Farid Hafez, no resistance to the global jihad whatsoever is allowed, no matter how tepid, half-hearted, or fantasy-based. It’s all “Islamophobia.”

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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  1. Dude says

    Nov 24, 2020 at 6:15 pm

    Comparing muslimes to Jews, hah. They really are dumber than I thought.

    The only similarity is that the Jews had murdered, raped, robbed and enslaved the poor German folks for centuries upon centuries.

    Or maybe that could be wrong. They do the “Thou shalt not kill – steal – covet, etc.” as carved on stone tablets by God Himself.

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  2. gravenimage says

    Nov 24, 2020 at 8:22 pm

    Georgetown Features Academic Who Likens Austrian Counter-Terror Measures to Kristallnacht
    …………………….

    Yes–just grotesque calumny from Farid Hafez. Also particularly sick, given Muslim hatred of Jews. Bu tthe purpose of this is to stop Wedstern nations from any defense against Jihad terror.

    His whole career has been flogging “Islamophobia” and slamming the West–especially Austria, which he is using as a base.

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  3. Fred van de Bunt says

    Nov 25, 2020 at 3:40 am

    In the meantime a woman, that “had “appeared recently in police investigations with regard to terrorism” – specifically jihadism” attacked and hurt civilians in a shop with a big knife in Lugano:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-8983495/Swiss-probe-knife-attack-injuring-2-possible-terrorism.html

    So this freedom jihadi chopped up innocent civilians in Lugano because of the Nazi Kristallnacht in Xinjiang?
    Hope those Antifa or BLM guys do not hear this, because they destroy everything for this type of nonsense any “Napoleon”, that escaped from an asylum, blabbers.

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  4. Plattberger says

    Nov 25, 2020 at 5:04 am

    I am Austrian and I know this guy Farid Hafez from our public law TV broadcasting company ORF, where he sometimes appears in talk shows. He writes an “Islamophobia report” every year, acusing the Austrian people. However, there is good evidence that he belongs to the muslim brotherhood and is sponsored by Erdogan.

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    • Plattberger says

      Nov 25, 2020 at 5:22 am

      Furthermore, claiming that Austria has not refurbished its past in the 3rd Reich from 1938-45 is ridiculous, especially when hearing that from a muslim apologist and supposed muslim-brother like Hafez. Since the so called “Waldheim affair” in 1986, Austria has done a lot of workup on its past, a lot of self-accusation and compensation to its (former) jewish citizens.

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  5. Giacomo Latta says

    Nov 25, 2020 at 10:33 am

    We must all wake up to the fact that the world is not full of people who love us Westerners. The only thing they admire is the wealth we have created for ourselves and their local tyrants.
    What opinion would the Georgetown academic have if all foreign funds sent to GU were highly scrutinized and rejected if these ”philanthropic” benefactors could not prove themselves to be friends of the US? A bit of a rhetorical question as said academic would be working at Starbucks. Alternatively, he could get a job teaching at the University of Karachi.

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  6. E T says

    Nov 25, 2020 at 9:45 pm

    American Universities are influenced by foreign nations that do not disclose as required by Federal law.

    Qatar 3 billion dollars

    Saudi Arabia 1.1 billion dollars

    China 1.5 billion dollars

    That is a lot of influence.

    Reply

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