Hatem “Hate ‘em” Bazian is the head of a group with multiple ties to the jihad terror group Hamas. He is also “director of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender,” which means that he is a professional whiner in the business of Muslim victimhood, dedicated to bringing as much attention as possible to incidents, real or imagined, in which Muslims are victimized. He claims risibly that “the Muslim is presumed guilty” on American college and university campuses. and that “as such, (they) experience verbal harassment, bullying, even physical attacks. But the assumption is that the Muslim is the instigator.”
This is pure, unadulterated hogwash. On American campuses today, Muslims are a protected victim class, given special accommodation and recognition in view of the alleged “Islamophobia” of the larger society. I’ve had personal experience with this when speaking at numerous colleges and universities. At virtually every campus where I’ve ever spoken, I’ve been received as if I were Jack the Ripper, smeared in the campus media before the appearance and then shouted down during it. These things happened because I am widely defamed as an “Islamophobe,” and these students had been programmed to think that “Islamophobia” is a massive problem. Meanwhile, if a freed Gitmo terrorist appeared at any of those campuses and started screaming, “Allahu akbar! Death to America!,” he would be hailed as a hero.
That is the effort of the work of Bazian and his colleagues. But Bazian has to keep the victimhood narrative going, no matter how preposterous it is, or his gravy train runs out.
“How anti-Muslim bias on campus harms students’ education,” by Tasmiha Khan, Religion News Service, December 28, 2021:
(RNS) — For Amna Omar, who recently graduated from San Diego State University, the worst moment came in her freshman year, when a classroom discussion about religion turned to Islam. One student singled out Omar, telling her she was “oppressed” because of her jilbab, or full-body covering. Far from being concerned about her oppression, the student told Omar, she said, to “go back home” because her attire was not mainstream.
No one else objected to her treatment, she recalled. “The professor did not say anything. Nor did any students get involved. It was as if nothing happened,” Omar said. Omar chose not to tell administrators, saying the incident, which was hardly the only one she’d experienced or heard about, made her feel “defeated.”
Despite American academia’s reputation as strongholds of social justice consciousness, Muslim students on campus are frustrated by the acceptance of Islamophobia from school administrations and fellow students. Experiences like Omar’s are compounded by constant slights such as the lack of spaces to pray, a deficit of chaplains as well as meal and exam schedules that don’t accommodate Muslims’ religious needs.
Some students and their advocates are now pushing for recognition that anti-Muslim bias is as much a problem as discrimination against other ethnic or racial groups and needs to be addressed in similar ways.
The Council of American Islamic Relations’ California chapter conducted a study in the 2019-20 school year aimed at understanding the prevalence of Islamophobia on the state’s campuses. After surveying approximately 570 Muslim students at more than 60 institutions of higher learning, public and private universities, CAIR found that nearly 40% of the Muslim students experience harassment or discrimination, based on their religious identity, from peers, campus administrators and other personnel….
Hatem Bazian, director of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender, told Religion News Service that “the Muslim is presumed guilty” on the campus. “And as such, (they) experience verbal harassment, bullying, even physical attacks. But the assumption is that the Muslim is the instigator.”
These attitudes have shown that such alienation can go beyond personal insults and can affect minority students’ educations. A 2016 Department of Education report that documented the effect of discrimination on students of color found that efforts to welcome and support students of color increased their graduation rates.
While Muslims were not a focus of that study, educators say that similar programs are needed for Muslim students.
“Islamophobia and anti-Muslim bias on campus has had a negative effect on Muslim students’ quality of engagement with faculty and their peers inside and outside of the classroom,” explained Shafiqa Ahmadi, co-director of the Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education.
“Additionally, they face anti-Muslim sentiments and Islamophobic acts,” Ahmadi added, “which impact their sense of belonging in their academic programs as well as their overall campus experience, especially when Islamophobic incidents are not taken seriously and addressed by faculty and administrators.”…
“The latest I’ve heard (was) from a graduate student who was asked at an interview for medical school what he thought about terrorists and the usage of ‘Allahu Akbar,’” said Omar Tawil, a chaplain for Muslim life at Arizona State University. “Before the student could offer a reply, the interviewer continued to say that he was only asking out of a concern or hope that a potential medical student would be able to be loyal to scientific truth over religious beliefs.”…
But Bazian thinks that support for Muslim students and education of non-Muslims isn’t enough. He wants to see universities increase hiring of Muslim faculty and put resources behind sound research on Islamophobia and implicit bias. “There has to be a change of discourse,” he said.
gravenimage says
‘Islamophobia’ prof Hatem Bazian claims ‘the Muslim is presumed guilty’ on American campuses
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What claptrap–especially on a campus like UC Berkeley, where Hatem Bazian is based. University campuses could not be more “woke”.
And note that this supposed case in San Diego doesn’t name the class, professor, or student. Sounds like bs to me. Also note that concern over Muslim women being oppressed is also catagorized as ‘Islamophobia’.
mortimer says
‘Presumed’ ??? Well, what do the opinion polls say? Worldwide, over 60% of Muslims say they want discriminatory Sharia law and a universal caliphate to rule over all humanity. A large 35% of Muslims are secular, ‘cultural’ Muslims who don’t want Islam politicized.
Hatem is playing with words, because ‘Muslim’ has dozens of meanings from secular to apostate to jihadist.
Americans are fairly direct and usually want to know exactly what foreigners think of their country and they do stop prodding until they find out. If you hate the egalitarian US constitution and want to exchange it for discriminatory Sharia law .. then, ‘THERE’S THE DOOR’ … at least that’s the attitude of many Americans.
If Hatem doesn’t like Americans’ protectiveness about their own constitution, then ‘THERE’S THE DOOR!’
Islam is finished as a political philosophy. Muslims tried to re-boot the caliphate and the world jumped on it. Political Islam is now dead and religious Islam is quickly dying.
Hatem should realize he’s fighting a lost cause. He’s laughable.
mortimer says
addendum: and they do NOT stop prodding until they find out.
rp says
I am not sure Muslim / Islam is dead, Looking at one of the US town ,which selected all Muslim council (They called them self American Muslim? not American Arab etc) ?? Why would they say all American Muslim. Is it really dead? Now Islamophobic is defined as criminal by democrats in one of states ??
gravenimage says
Mortimer, I wish I could agree that political Islam is dead and that Islam is on its way out–but there seems to be all too much evidence to the contrary. There is in fact a steady stream of Jihad terror attacks and horrifying examples of Shari’ah here each and every day–I wish this were not so, but it is.
angelo barbato says
Diverting the truth and substituting lies has been a favourite weapon of leftists for decade’s!
Chessss says
TAQIYYA schmoozes the infidel.
somehistory says
They don’t want to be “welcomed”….they want a measure of worship, adulation, and for other people to be subservient to them.
If they don’t like the way life on campus is, they are free to leave. If they don’t appreciate being where they are allowed to go to school, as opposed to places like afghanistan, they can go someplace else.
Whine, whine whine. Lie, lie lie. And, I recall the shooter in Boulder, CO, claimed that he had been bullied in school. And he was violent before and after.
Now, these mozlums are claiming to have been bullied and that there is “phobia”….they cause it and then they whine about people not liking them.
It’s all just to manipulate until they gain complete control of speech, actions, politics, …and force everyone to bow to their fake ‘god,’ and gross, disgusting, filthy evil, false “prophet.”
mortimer says
Muslims are taught by the Koran, hadiths and their mullahs that they are on earth to rule over the kafirs, and they instinctively assume the ‘Dhimmi Contract’ (aka ‘The Pact of Omar’) to be the default model for society.
Hatem is trying to use backdoors to impose discriminatory Sharia law on Western campuses. This is a stealth jihad and no doubt some very wealthy Arabs are financing him.
Meanwhile, in Muslim countries they are trying to lessen the role of Sharia on campuses.
Muslim students already have equality on Western campuses and at a university it SHOULD BE NORMATIVE TO CHALLENGE IDEAS … WITHOUT ANY DEFERENCE TO HURT FEELINGS.
Hatem wants more than equality. He wants CONTROLLED SPEECH and RESTRICTIONS on what students may question. Nuts.
somehistory says
mortimer, stop shouting at me. I already know what I wrote is correct and I don’t need your ALL CAPS shouting.
Janetmarie says
Kill the infidel.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says
“…these mozlums are claiming…that there is “phobia”….they cause it and then they whine about people not liking them.”
100% correct.
This will go on and on ad nauseam unless there is effective pushback against this nonsense.
somehistory says
Thank you, James Lincoln.
Chessss says
Gates of Vienna
Jim says
Muslims never see the evil they do to others. An acquaintance was telling me what a Palestinian woman who told him the Israelis did so much harm by bombing in Gaza. But, she never expressed sympathy for the Israelis who are subjected to rockets fired from Gaza every day. They are the only victims who count. Everything Muslims do to hurt other people is just retribution for their evil.
mike says
when you beat a leashed dog over and over and over again. then comes the day when that dog is not leashed and that very same dog now attracts to aggressor but Islam blames the dog for being bitten. This is how Islam operates every story I’ve read the aggressor claims victimhood every story. Let’s look at Israel and Hamas and Iran Iran the aggressor using the people of Palestine and the human shields only the world only hears the loudest voices and points of the crimes Islam does. Islamophobia is nothing more then Islam cover for the crimes against the world prove me wrong I’ll wait
all the explanations I read and hear it all boils down the the same thing Islam want told power over the entire world with Sharia Law and all in the name of the words in the Koran
rubiconcrest says
Amna Omar, I don’t believe you.
Hatem Bazian, what you would like is for good citizens not to speak up when they see evil. Islam is an evil force in the world. You sir, by asking us to hold it unaccountable are complicit in the evil it produces.
mortimer says
Amna Omar doesn’t think that a university is the right place to discuss ideas, but it is in fact the PERFECT PLACE to discuss ideas.
If Amna Omar doesn’t want her ideas challenged, then DON’T GO TO A UNIVERSITY … go to a madrassah.
mortimer says
If Hatem wants more Muslims to be hired, then Muslim countries should create more universities and NO ONE WILL ATTEND THEM.
There is no reason to hire MORE MUSLIMS per se, at Western universities. Western universities hire the MOST QUALIFIED and MOST OUTSTANDING profs they can attract and they INDUCE THEM WITH HEFTY RECRUITMENT INCENTIVES.
Hatem doesn’t understand how a university hires people. They don’t hire on the basis of religion … more likely they hire more on the basis of having no religion … there seem to be more atheists than religious believers at universities. So why would they hire Muslims who will discriminate against atheist profs? They wouldn’t.
gary fouse says
I have seen this man, Bazian, speak three times, twice at UC Irvine, where I was teaching at the time. He is an anti-Semitic bully who turns truth on its head. On college campuses, it is the Muslims who bully and intimidate Jewish students over the Israel issue. University administrators hide under their desks because they are afraid to confront Muslim anti-Semitism on campuses.
When Bazian was a student at SFSU, he earned a reputation for harassing Jewish students. It was then that he should have been deported back to Nablus, where he came from.
Of all the disreputable professors we have on our university campuses, Bazian is arguably the worst and the most dangerous.
somehistory says
Psychopathic liars always point the finger of guilt…their own guilt…at others they hate.
GreekEmpress says
Yep. Projection for sure.
Big time.
Doomer says
The only way to counter guys like him is with the truth. Leftists use the Race Card all the time. He is “director of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender.”
One technique is DEMONIZATION of Western culture, they equate Muslim with “race”,and even more, Western culture= whites.
Truth is,you can be 100% of Western culture and Not be White.
He works in Berkeley,which is in CALIFORNIA.
1. From 1821-1848 California was part of MEXICO.
2. SLAVERY of blacks was declared illegal in 1829, by Vicente Guerrero ( 100% of Western culture ), who was a mixture of African, white and Indian, and 2nd President of Mexico.
3. Then,there were 100,000 INDIANS in California, great majority Christian, and Westernized ( not hostile tribes like the Apaches and Sioux ). A Peaceful Group.
According to the Mexican constitution they were CITIZENS. Under Spanish and Mexican rule Enslavement of Indians was ILLEGAL.
4. Then California became part of the US: in 1850 California entered the union as a FREE state ( slavery “illegal”).
Yet in 1850 they also passed the INDIAN INDENTURE ACT ( by another country, the US, of Western culture ), which de facto, in reality, Legalized Indian Slavery:
a) There were massacres, driving the Indians out of their lands ( lost it all ).
b) Thousands were massacred, 25,000 forced into slavery ( many Worked to Death).
c) The 100,000 were DEPRIVED of CITIZENSHIP, and were Not Allowed to Testify in Court.
d) The result was that of 100,000 in 1850, due to mistreatment,abuse, by 1870 ( 30,000 Indians ( 70% decrease) ),
and by 1910 ( 16,000 Indians in California). I have often wondered WHY, why that Difference? I think the reason is RELIGION: the US then was overwhelmingly PROTESTANT and Spain,Mexico CATHOLIC. There is something about Protestantism ( apart from, not in any way the fault of the NT),
I don’t know exactly what, that made it possible, made possible a horrible racism.
gravenimage says
The majority of those who fought with the Union to end slavery were Protestant–so if you are claiming that Protestantism is intrinsically pro-slavery, this is mistaken.
Hoi Polloi says
Yes. And there were many in the south who were pro-union, as well as Native Americans who owned slaves. It’s not a Catholic vs. Protestant issue and in fact not one with easy lines drawn, as we know due to the continuing enslavement of human beings to this day.
somehistory says
Has anyone here seen this before?
“A Common Word Between Us and You | An Interfaith …'”
https://www.acommonword.com
It is re; a letter from mozlums to Christians and based on something from the evil book of filth. It was written in 2007/
gravenimage says
Yes, Somehistory. I can’t find it now, but Robert Spencer parced that load of Taqiyya here when it first came out.
somehistory says
I surmised that he might have done so. That was just before I began reading his pages.
Thanks. Perhaps he’ll do a recap sometime.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Somehistory. It can sometimes be difficult to find old Jihad Watch stories–but they are often worth rereading.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
I believe that this is the Jihad Watch article:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/11/christian-leaders-ask-for-muslim-forgiveness
somehistory says
thank you, James.
boy, what a load of garbage. I would like to say here, in a public place, that I totally reject the “letter” and the equally evil “reply” from those pretending to be Christian.
To compare the mass-murdering, raper of children evil son of satan to Jesus Christ, as these “leaders” did, is the height of blasphemy and is a gross sinning against the Holy Spirit.
Dano S. says
How often are they “presumed guilty” and then found guilty? 100% of the time that I know of. And how often are the alleged hate crimes or discrimination that muslims report they have been the victims of, found to be nothing but lies made up by the muslim targets of the alleged hate? Again, close to 100% of the time.
Hoi Polloi says
So Ilhan Omar, still in Congress (and she and Pelosi make a mockery of it all by keeping her there) with her lengthy record, is presumed guilty? No, they’re given privileges that the rest of us aren’t allowed.
somehistory says
Yes, we know for a certainty, that i elmi has committed actual crimes…lying to Congress, buying votes, immigration fraud, etc….and has yet to even be charged, much less presumed guilty by those who wish to see mozlums take over or just keep their nose inside the tent.
Hoi Polloi says
She is a fraud from start to finish and so are those who cover for her. Thank God for RS and the rest who wouldn’t stop speaking truth, otherwise there’d be none.
Alfredo says
The Muslims are always the victims, even if it is them who in the name of their Allah and his “apostol” are the perpetrators of atrocities in places like Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, England, France, Germany and many more countries where the always innocent, never guilty “soldiers of Allah” are found…
OLD GUY says
Funny how Bazian is only concerned about Islamophobia from non-muslims. As always is the case these muslim professors never talk about the evil rape and murder being done by islamic followers against the rest of us. Islamophobia is a result of those intentional violent actions and teachings coming from Islam.
American college campuses have been infiltrated by islam through their contributions to the schools endowment fund. Muslim countries and China have all bought their way into our higher education system with millions of dollars. They now pressure these institutions to teach islamic propaganda on campus to our children.
Peace says
“a professional whiner in the business of Muslim victimhood
He wouldn’t be guilty of anything would he ????