Rashida Tlaib’s friend and associate is a quintessential example of how the Left has corrupted academia. My latest in FrontPage:
Fox News reported Thursday that “an ally to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., runs an organization that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says has ‘provided a platform for anti-Semitism.’ University of California at Berkeley instructor Hatem Bazian is a Tlaib ally and donor who is also a co-founder and professor at Muslim liberal arts school Zaytuna College. In 2006, Bazian founded a controversial, advocacy organization named American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), which has featured Tlaib at events.”
Hatem “Hate ‘em” Bazian is, essentially, a Professor of Jihad, not in the sense that he teaches about the concept, but that his entire academic career is a jihad, a jihad of the pen, designed to accomplish essentially the same goals that other jihadis are trying to attain by different means: the advancement of Islam and Sharia. Bazian is a Professor of Jihad in other ways as well: he is head of a group with multiple ties to the jihad terror group Hamas,
IPT News reported in May 2017 that AMP was set up as a “ruse” by former officials of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and the American Muslim Society (AMS) after those two organizations were “found liable for an American teen’s death in a 1996 terrorist attack” and ceased operations, claiming to be unable to pay. IPT adds: “A subsequent criminal prosecution found that other defendants in the original lawsuit, like the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and the United Association for Studies and Research, were part of a Muslim Brotherhood-created Hamas-support network in the United States called the Palestine Committee.”
Even the ADL, which has largely morphed into a smear group targeting conservatives (including those who are pro-Israel), noted that the AMP “promotes extreme anti-Israel views and has at times provided a platform for anti-Semitism under the guise of educating Americans about ‘the just cause of Palestine and the rights of self-determination.’”
Despite all this, Fox notes that Tlaib was “the ‘guest of honor’ at AMP’s annual convention in December 2019 and months earlier in July delivered a briefing organized by AMP to over 70 people. The Michigan Democrat also addressed AMP’s Palestine Advocacy Day delegates in April of 2019.” Also, “in March of 2013, AMP put up a billboard accusing Israel of engaging in ‘apartheid’ against Palestinians.” Tlaib and her far-Left Muslim colleague in Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) “were featured as speakers for a virtual AMP event in November 2020, and both congresswomen attended the same pro-Palestine conference as Bazian.”
If Rashida Tlaib were a conservative and had an associate so multiply linked to hatred and violence as Hatem Bazian, she would have been hounded out of Congress long ago. But these kinds of associations are just fine with the political and media establishment. And in these days of a thoroughly corrupted and politicized academic environment, Bazian has all the respectable bona fides: he is “a co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College, the 1st Accredited Muslim Liberal Arts College in the United States. In addition, Prof. Bazian is a lecturer in the Departments of Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.”
Researching and documenting “Islamophobia” doesn’t mean that Bazian keeps track of louts harassing innocent Muslims. No, Bazian is essentially a professor of Sharia Enforcement: he uses the smear propaganda term “Islamophobia” to stigmatize those who dare to note how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims. Anyone who notices that the jihadis’ motivating ideology is Islamic to the core has already been or soon will be added to Bazian’s list of “Islamophobes”; the objective is to make everyone too frightened of this stigmatization to speak out, so that no will will dare utter a word and the jihad can advance unopposed and unimpeded.
Bazian has engaged in other kinds of thuggery as well. He has openly called for an intifada, a violent uprising, not in Israel only, but in the United States as well. And regarding supporters of Israel, he has declared: “We need to harass them.”
In a sane society, Hatem Bazian would at very least be under investigation for ties to jihad terror activity, and would be a prime candidate for deportation. Instead, he is a respected professor at a prestigious university, and a close associate of an influential member of the House of Representatives. He is thus a prime example of how our academic institutions have lost their way, deserve no public funding, and are in radical need of reform. But as the presence of his friend Tlaib in Congress shows, those who would take needed action against our corrupted universities and colleges are themselves just as compromised.
gravenimage says
Hatem Bazian: Professor of Hate
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Yes, this is Jihad–an academic variant of the “Jihad of the tongue” and “Jihad of the pen”.
He is using my alma mater as a base for his Jihad, too.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
About what timeframe did the University of California at Berkeley start losing its sanity?
gravenimage says
James, different departments started losing it at different times. Ethnic and women’s studies departments were pretty bad from the beginning, unsurprisingly–the former is where Hatem Bazian has based himself. Sociology was also pretty bad from what I heard.
But departments like History were still overall very rigorous as well as apolitical when I was there in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Most of the students in the Humanities tended to be pretty lefitst, but the departments themselves were not particularly political. And Art History was actually fairly conservative.
From everything I have heard, things there are *much* worse now, with pretty much just the hard sciences remaining free from Leftist indoctrination. Very disturbing.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
Much thanks for your detailed reply, pretty much what I had expected.
Hopefully, at least the hard sciences will remain standing for a while. The trouble is, even students in the hard sciences are usually required to take a series of core “sociology type” courses, etc.
And then there are the off-campus interactions that take place with all students.
It’s hard to totally escape the Leftist indoctrination…
gravenimage says
All grimly true, James.
Walter Sieruk says
Many scholars on Islam ,such as Brigitte Gabriel and Robert Spencer, had explain that the terms “Radical Islam” and “Moderate Islam” Western terms and are unknown to the Islamic world. As one of their leader said “Islam is Islam”
Furthermore, a Muslim in an Islamic country would view that a Westerner would call a “Radical Muslim” in a Muslim nation he would be seen as a “devote Muslim” who is totally committed to the cause of Islam by the way of the violent jihad,
By contrast what a Westerner would call a “moderate Muslim’ many Muslims in Asia as well as the Middle East call a Muslim who is not really living up to his faith in Islam by not taking up arms in the violence and killing of the jihad for Islam.
Therefore many of Muslim, overseas , would call him a “hypocrite” This is way many devote Muslim who are violent jihadists gather together in a group and chant “Death to infidels and hypocrites ” Meaning “Death to non-Muslims and non-violent, jihadist Muslims.
Stephen Grant says
Is it any wonder there is so much hatred from Muslim children growing up when they are being influenced by such evil people? Free speech for evil yet none for anyone who opposes it. Governments need to wake up or the people will stop this madness.
Alfredo says
This Bazian character is the kind of hardcore hater typical of those active in academia busily spreading hatred. When he says “We need to harass them” he really means it. To Western minds, it is difficult to fathom the depth of the animosity many Muslims harbour against “Infidels”
When you have been indoctrinated since you were a kid to “Smile at the infidels with hatred in your hearts”
It is only a small step to take action.
The grave and tragic errors that many Westerners are guilty of are first, that many don’t even bother to actually read the Muslims sources. Second, they believe when they’re told that “Islam is the religion of peace.”
The list can get very long indeed…
Michael Copeland says
“between us and you enmity and hatred forever….”
Koran 60:4
Basic Islamic training.
vcragain says
I’m a Centrist/Leftie & I hear you – we are not all biased towards Islam & blind to its’ ambitions, but I admit there are very few like me ! I get into trouble all the time trying to alert people to watch out for the increase in Muslim ambition, as we will all get squashed if they become dominant ! It IS a problem to keep free speech & the rights of all to believe what they prefer, but we cannot allow Islam to connive to take over & destroy the civilized West while we still have a chance to prevent that. Remember the strongest capability that cult has is it’s writings urging treachery in order to confuse the situation – there is no other belief system in this world with such writings, except perhaps those of Ron Hubbard ! We need to make sure that all those sweet little innocent Muslims having no concept of what their fearless ‘leader’ actually wrote, are taught that we -the rest of the world- cannot just accept what they say, because they are pledged to follow that book – and it is full of hatred & MURDER !!!
gravenimage says
+1