My latest in PJ Media:
Juan Cole, a professor at the University of Michigan, proved once again Thursday something that everyone who has been paying attention knows by now: you don’t go to an American university to get an education but to be indoctrinated into Leftist dogma and recruited for Antifa. Cole, who has written a hagiographical and whitewashed biography of Muhammad and is a Leftist go-to authority on Islamic issues, published an article in Foreign Policy In Focus entitled “Islam Wasn’t the Threat — Islamophobia Was.” If this sounds like nonsense, that’s only because it is, but that’s what sells on the Left these days.
Concern for Islamic terrorism, in Cole’s view, has been greatly exaggerated, in part for “racist” reasons (of course), while the rampant terror threat of “white supremacy” has been downplayed or ignored outright. Those who have suffered the most from this lack of focus, he insists, have been Muslims in America, who have borne the brunt of “Islamophobia” in America’s misguided quest to protect itself from a largely nonexistent threat of jihad terrorism.
All this is designed to inculcate the hatred and contempt for the United States that the Left is working to instill everywhere these days, and of course, Cole’s chief targets are conservatives. He begins his ridiculous piece by whining that “Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson excused one of the leaders of the extremist Oath Keepers organization implicated in the January 6th insurrection by describing him as ‘a devout Christian.’ It’s safe to surmise that he wouldn’t have offered a similar defense for a Muslim American.” Aside from denigrating Tucker Carlson, Cole’s point here is that the Jan. 6 “insurrection” was a manifestation of “Christian terrorism,” equivalent to the Islamic terrorism we saw on 9/11.
To drive this point home, Cole has to ignore numerous inconvenient facts, including these: that no one has been charged with insurrection in connection with Jan. 6, the protestors were unarmed, the police opened the doors of the Capitol and invited them in, and no one was killed except one of the protestors, by a rogue cop who has faced no punishment, since he is safely anti-Trump.
Cole also has to ignore the fact that nearly 3,000 people were murdered by Islamic jihad terrorists on 9/11 and that those attacks were just one day’s worth, with 40,000 more jihad attacks coming worldwide since then. He sees 9/11 solely as the impetus for the victimization of Muslims in the United States: “Since September 11th, and even before that ominous date, Muslim Americans have suffered bitterly from discrimination and hate crimes in this country, while their religion has been demonized. During the first year of the Trump administration, about half of Muslim Americans polled said that they had personally experienced some type of discrimination.”
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tim gallagher says
This sort of nonsense is insane. Over 40,000 Muslim terrorist attacks since the 9/11 attacks in which thousands of people have been murdered and this disgusting creature thinks Islamophobia, which seems to be pretty much what any criticism of Islam is called, is worse. Some people have no moral compass. I don’t get how anyone can think that Muslims, with all their terrorist attacks, all the rape gangs as in the UK, etc, are supposed to be given a free pass and nobody is supposed to fight back and dare to criticise islam or Muslims. It is a very strange protection racket that is being run by some people for Islam. Non-Muslims, who have been the victims of so many Muslim terrorist attacks, should be angry and should be fed up with Islam and should be criticising Islam with great vigour. It would be very weird to cop all these terrorist attacks and yet just think that islam is fine and dandy and there should be no criticism of it.
Pam says
A phobia is a rational fear. Fear of fire is rational. Fear of a cult full of murderous, hate-filled pedos is rational. What’s irrational is the believe that these animals should be accepted into our society.
tim gallagher says
I agree, Pam. My own policy, since I want to live a peaceful life, is to keep Muslims out. This Islamophobia seems to mean criticising barbaric Islam in any way whatsoever. As you say, it is perfectly logical to fear, and hate, a murderous ideology such as islam. Islam should be constantly criticised. That is what it deserves for all the evil that it contains.
Bikinis not Burkas says
He had to say it Michigan is Muslim central in America if he didn’t say it maybe there would have been a Fatwa on him!
Islam gotta love it until it kills you!
gravenimage says
University of Michigan Professor Claims ‘Islamophobia’ Bigger Threat Than Islamic Terrorism
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Just grotesque–and ignoring the fact that there have been over 40,000 Jihad terror attacks just since 9/11, many with multiple victims. And this doesn’t count all of the foiled Jihad terror plots.
mortimer says
Critical thought is a big threat to Juan Cole.
In a multicultural world, NO RELIGION is above criticism especially not a religion that kills 50 persons a day because of its JIHAD TEACHING.
Jihad is the ‘highest’ action in Islam and all Muslims are canonically required to engage in jihad. Juan Cole knows that, and he is participating in VERBAL JIHAD through TAQIYYA.
The purpose of VERBAL JIHAD Is to keep the DIRTY KUFAAR in the dark about the purpose and tactics of jihad, so that the KAFIRS will be unable to resist JIHADIC ADVANCES that gradually establish Islamic hegemony.
Juan Cole is trying to capture the discourse. Unfortunately, his colleagues are not peer-reviewing Cole’s nonsense and flummery, because they do not want to be called names by Cole himself and others.
The fact that Cole uses the term ‘Islamophobia’ so often proves he knows his nonsense is indefensible, so he shields it with slander, calumny and innuendo.
PRCS says
Happy to see so many Bosch Fawstin cartoons at JW.
gravenimage says
Agreed, PRCS.
Eleanor says
Thank you PRCS. I had never heard of this man, so it is very interesting (and refreshing) to read about his life so far, and his works.
Devasur says
Don’t join such universities nor fund it. All universities require a complete washout to clean such filths.
Infidel says
Easy to do, given how expensive universities are these days
roberta says
What planet do these types live on? I guess this is just another ”follow the money” comment made by and educated beggar, hoping for Arabian gifts.
James Lincoln says
Isn’t what Juan Cole is putting out considered to be “misinformation”?
Where are all the big tech “fact checkers”?
Will he be “de-platformed”?
David Longfellow says
Juan Cole seems to be on a quest to prove that illiterate morons can be college professors.
Mission accomplished!
mortimer says
Clarification Robert Spencer’s quote above. “40,000 more jihad attacks”.
This should read “40,000 more *DEADLY* jihad attacks.
There have been more than 40,000 jihadi attack since 9/11, but not all were LETHAL attacks in which people were killed.
In MANY of these attacks of the last decades, people were INJURED, MAIMED, hit with PTSD and DISFIGURED, and some of the casualties later died as a result of their wounds. Children lost their parents and families their loved ones.
All told, there have been well over 200,000 deaths due to jihad in the last 20 years and Juan Cole knows it … all due to ISLAM.
Juan Cole cannot find statistics on deaths due to “white supremacy”, because they do not exist. His claim is balderdash fabricated out of his taqiyya-filled imagination. He is a fraud.
– “Taqiyya permeates almost all the activities and dealings of Muslims with non-Muslim societies…” – former sheikh Sam Solomon
Juan Cole is a perfect example of sophisticated TAQIYYA.
JCA Reid says
Some figures to contemplate for the hard of Learning. Bill Maher the american Stand Up comic was right when he said the US Education system was useless.
From JAN. 29th to FEB 4th. 2022: 23 Attacks; 51Killed; 66 Injured; 1 Suicide blast; in 12 Countries.
For the month of JANUARY 2022: 140 Attacks; 723 Killed; 389 Injured; 4 Suicide Blasts in 25 Countries.
Islam Terrorist Attacks since 9/11 > 40,886.
Whom is doing the attackin? Enough said.
Michael says
The majority of the millions of Muslim deaths in the past 40 years, result from intra Umma conflicts, Sunni-,Shia-, Sharia-, Arab-, Berber- phobias.
They dwarf the deaths caused by Islamophobia in the USA (and within Europe apart from Bosnia).
Muslims choose to live in the West, to improve their lives / to avoid poverty or persecution. Some have thrived, notably the Lebanese and Iranians.
OTOH, (since 1945), millions of Jews and Christians have been denied the opportunity to build a future in Muslim lands: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, India / Pakistan….
Mr Cole protests too much.
John says
Lying for the benefit of Islam is an old tradition. The Arabic term, TAQIYYA describes this process that has been used to expand Islamic JIHAD by word. If you do not understand, see the work of Dr Bill Warner at: http://www.politicalislam.com