Will the University of Denver take note of Nader Hashemi’s paranoid antisemitism? Of course not. To do so would be “Islamophobic,” and besides, his anti-Israel paranoia dovetails nicely with fashionable Leftist hatred of Israel. It isn’t as if he enunciated something seriously, such as exploring the motivating ideology behind jihad violence. That would have gotten him pitched out of the university in a hot minute. But this? No problem.
“Mossad ‘likely’ behind Salman Rushdie stabbing, claims Denver professor,” Jerusalem Post, August 23, 2022:
The stabbing of novelist Salman Rushdie last week may have been orchestrated by the Mossad, suggested Nader Hashemi, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver, in a Saturday interview with Negar Mortazavi, host of the Iran Podcast….
“So one possible explanation,” he said, “could be that after the assassination of Iran’s top general in January 2020, Qassem Soleimani, Iran was looking to retaliate. And the Department of Justice, a few days before the attack on Salman Rushdie, announced that the Iranian [Islamic] Revolutionary Guard Corps were seeking to assassinate Mike Pompeo and John Bolton. So this could be one possible explanation. They couldn’t go after Pompeo and Bolton, in other words, the IRGC couldn’t go after those high-value targets so they chose a soft target such as Salman Rushdie. Perhaps, possibly, we don’t know.”…
“The other possibility, which I actually think is much more likely, is that this young kid Hadi Matar was in communication with someone online who claimed to be an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps member or supporter and lured him into attacking Salman Rushdie and that so-called person online claiming to be affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran could’ve been a Mossad operative.”…
Hashemi went on to suggest that Israel’s motive for carrying out a false flag operation would be to galvanize opposition to the ongoing efforts of world powers to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement….
mortimer says
Nader Hashemi (like Sam Harrism the new posterboy for TDS-Trump Derangement Syndrome) is DERANGED by his visceral, pathological hate.
We saw what antisemitism can do in Nazi Germany and we see what has done in tens of thousands of attacks by Muslims against Jews around the world since WWII. These hate-motivated attacks against Jews must number in the thousands world-wide every year.
The University of Denver human resources department did not do DUE DILIGENCE when they hired this bigot. Now they must fire him ASAP to salvage the university’s reputation and hire someone new, an expensive process.
Why do Leftist bodies like University of Denver commonly hire antisemitic Muslim bigots? Don’t they check them out?
mortimer says
To say Mossad wants to kill ex-Muslim writers is proof of derangement.
gravenimage says
+1
Pray Hard says
Check them out? You’re assuming the university is sane. None are and they can probably hire moslems cheap.
gravenimage says
Pray Hard, most universities in the West these days are so “woke” they’d consider this hatred of Jews to be a feature, not a bug…
gravenimage says
Director of Center for Middle East Studies at University of Denver says Mossad likely behind Rushdie stabbing
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Uh…right. After 33 years of a death Fatwa against him, the stabbing of his Italian translator and stabbing murder of his Japanese translator, and howls from Muslims all over the world for his blood, it is the Jooooooos who must have stabbed Salman Rushdie.
Never mind that assailant Hadi Matar is a Muslim who has condemned his mother for not giving him a stricter Islamic upbringing.
Will the University of Denver call out Nader Hashemi on his vicious antisemitic bs? Don’t count on it…
tim gallagher says
Spot on, gravenimage. This guy certainly has a vivid imagination and probably should be writing way out there thriller types of novels. The students at the university would certainly be getting some interesting and idiotic versions of things from this Director. How do characters like this get such jobs? He probably belongs in a lunatic asylum where he could spout his paranoid ideas to the other inmates and the doctors and nurses.
somehistory says
Colorado used to be a Red state. Now, it is blue…with a homosexual as governor. And ‘mary jane”, weed, marijuana….is legal. and the gov is guaranteeing sacrifice of the unborn can keep on going and going…. so, does that help in answering how this creep got the job?
tim gallagher says
Yes, I guess it does explain how he got the job, somehistory.. His explanation of the attack on Rushdie seems to be off the planet in the level of bizarreness. He seems like a crackpot but I suppose these days, universities do seem to be full people with very strange ideas. They are a safe haven for such people. Critical race theory and transgenderism, etc prove that.
somehistory says
Yes, tim, and mozlums are all over the place getting special perks. the entire system is rife with colleges and universities teaching the islamic garbage as if it is useful information for a successful life.
mozlums are hired because organizations and businesses are afraid to say ‘no’ due to lawfare from c.a.i.rats and other mozlums.
And everyone is afraid to criticize them …even just to say what’s true.
tim gallagher says
Yes, that rings true, somehistory. Special perks for Muslims and some kind of protection racket being run for them where people won’t tell the unvarnished truth about Islam’s evil nature. imagine the complete bullshit the guy in this report would teach students. Off the planet level nonsense it would be.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, this blaming of Jews–even for Jihad when it is embarrassing to Muslims–is all too common. Recall how many Muslims have claimed that Mossad did 9/11.
tim gallagher says
Yes, gravenimage, insane levels of hatred for the Jews is rife amongst Muslims. I have worked with a Muslim who certainly used to rave on about the Jews being behind everything. The only other person I came across with such views was guy at university who was a Catholic of Hungarian descent and he also had a weird bee in his bonnet about Jewish people. Also a Polish guy I briefly met had the same obsession. I think it is an attitude that some Central Europeans seem to have as well as Muslims. It is a very dangerous and nonsensical attitude to have.
Pray Hard says
Moslems embarrassed by jihad? Now, that’s funny. They just want to keep their lies intact.
gravenimage says
Pray Hard, I wasn’t saying that Muslims are directly embarrassed by Jihad–they just don’t like situations where they feel they look bad to Infidels. It makes lulling Infidels into a false sense of security much more difficult. In cases where pious Muslims have the upper hand–say, the Taliban in Afghanistan–there is little such attempt at deflection.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that account, Tim. I’ve heard it said by those who have reason to know that their attitude on Jews is often the real litmus test for Muslims who appear moderate. Just ask a moderate Muslim what they think about Jews and they very often reveal themselves as *anything* but moderate.
tim gallagher says
Yes, gravenimage, that probably would be a good test for supposedly “moderate” Muslims. I’m sure that wherever Muslims go there is always an upsurge in anti-Jewish sentiment and threats, including Australia. I know that Jewish schools in the eastern suburbs of Sydney have had to employ security guards outside the schools, whcih was never necessary before, since Muslims settled here in large numbers. Then again, there is so much hatred of Jews by the left wingers these days that maybe the left wingers are also making threats against Jewish schools. But I suspect that it would be threats from Muslims.
gravenimage says
Here’s Nader Hashemi’s whitewash of the death Fatwa from three years ago:
https://lawliberty.org/forum/a-clash-of-the-sacred-and-the-secular/
somehistory says
I saw this last night. It’s the psychopathy at work. Point the finger of blame when an error is made known. Point the finger at someone who cannot defend themselves or at a non-protected group who are easy to blame.
many mozlums….the rabid, raping, killing machine that is the reputation…are psychopaths.
there are also many psychopaths in the public sphere who may not be raping and killing, but approve of those actions. This creep is just one of many. and he can get away with saying it because mozlums are the protected group right now and Jews and Christians and others, are all on the outside.
He probably would have also liked to say rushdie deserves the hit against him, that it should have happened sooner, and too bad it didn’t succeed.
Too many will likely agree with his balderdash, because they know nothing will happen to them…if they just don’t engage in the phobia….at least until mozlums attack even those people.
gravenimage says
+1
Devasur says
In india it is the Hindus in other places it is the Jews. Even to this day muslims shamelessly Mumbai terror attack on Hindus. That’s how they are rotten to the core.
gravenimage says
Yes–I’ve heard the same, Devasur. The exact same kind of blaming the Infidel victims of Jihad for Jihad.
Johnny B says
The Center for Middle East Studies at University of Denver just lost ALL credibility. Well done…
gravenimage says
Johnny, this is all too common at most Middle Eastern Studies’ programs.
The one at the University of Denver is flogging a program called “The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories”. With a title like this, you know that it is anti-Israel.
https://www.facebook.com/DUCenterforMiddleEastStudies/photos/pcb.4297585223668361/4297583273668556/
This also implies that Israel is ‘occupying’ Gaza, despite her having pulled out way back in 2005.
Lots of other ugly antisemitic stuff there.
SJ says
This University Islamist is not alone in teaching lies for Middle East Departments in colleges. I researched this since 1999 and it’s been going on since then and continues until today – with more of this Jew and American hatred. Islam is incompatible with well…basically any nation and any living entity. Something must be done about this.
Andrew Blackadder says
Tell me again why there is a Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Colorado…
Is it perhaps balanced out with a Center for European Studies in the Middle East ?.
Inquiring minds want to know.
gravenimage says
Hah
Pray Hard says
This idiot probably looks under his bed at bed time just to make sure there aren’t any Jews there.
gravenimage says
Remember the ludicrous story about the Muslim who thought Jews were stealing his shoes?
“UK Muslim leader Asghar Bukhari: Zionists stole my shoe”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/06/uk-muslim-leader-asghar-bukhari-zionists-stole-my-shoe
somehistory says
yours had not posted while i was typing, g. great minds.
somehistory says
Yes, esp if that’s where he puts his *shoes.* the words do kind of rhyme.
He’s looking to go out and his wife calls to him, “Honey, do you see any shoes under the bed?”
gravenimage says
Looks as though this thug has been targeting Israel long before this:
“DU disavows sponsorship of anti-Israel conference”
https://www.ijn.com/du-disavows-sponsorship-of-anti-israel-conference/
Here’s the reaction from the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver:
https://www.facebook.com/DUCenterforMiddleEastStudies/photos/a.357232144370375/4021910857902467/
Note that they describe affirming that Israel is not an apartheid state as “bullying”. Ugly stuff.