The sheer craziness of Muslim conspiracy theories involving Jews and Israelis is in evidence yet again. This time, our clinical case is one Nader Hashemi, a professor at the University of Denver, and the head of that university’s Center for Middle East Studies. He has a theory about the attempt to murder Salman Rushdie in […]
Director of Center for Middle East Studies at University of Denver says Mossad likely behind Rushdie stabbing
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 […]
Apologists on Parade: Profs Whitewash Political Islam
Board chairs and staff of host organizations didn’t always begin conferences by hurling insults at audience members. But it’s an annual ritual for Nader Hashemi, chair of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) and professor of Middle East studies at the University of Denver. For the second straight year, Hashemi used […]
Intolerant Profs Decry “Islamophobia” While Whitewashing Jihad Terrorism
Nader Hashemi’s opening remark of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy’s (CSID) annual conference, held last month at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC, dripped with the sophistry and hostility that saturated the event. “There is a good presence here today, including members of the Islamophobic industry. Andrew Harrod, I see, is […]