Actual anti-Muslim hate crimes are so thin on the ground that the entire narrative that Muslims are more victimized than victimizers in contemporary American society, and that therefore counterterror efforts are a manifestation of “Islamophobia” and should be curtailed, is in constant danger of collapsing altogether. So incidents that are not anti-Muslim hate crimes have […]
UC Berkeley Pits Liberalism Against ‘Islamophobia’
Fast on the heels of the University of California’s anti-free speech “Battle of Berkeley”—in which hundreds of black-clad, left-wing, “anti-fascists” attacked Trump supporters in the streets—around five hundred students and scholars attended the weekend conference “Islamophobia & The End of Liberalism?” The conference poster featured a righteously concerned Statue of Liberty embracing a young Muslim […]
UC-Berkeley: Left-fascists riot, prevent Milo speech, Trump threatens federal funds
What happened in Berkeley last night is the end point of what I have noted many times: that American colleges and universities are no longer centers of free inquiry and intellectual exploration. Instead, they are merely centers of hard-Left propaganda and indoctrination. In this, UC-Berkeley is foremost. President Trump wrote: “If U.C. Berkeley does not […]
University of California-Berkeley student’s article about why she left Islam pulled from school paper over fears for her safety
I saw the piece when it first went up in the Berkeley student newspaper, marveled that it was published at all in such a place, and had planned to post an excerpt at Jihad Watch, but it was gone before I got a chance. Now we know why: there are concerns for the safety of […]
Legitimizing Censorship: ‘Islamophobia Studies’ at Berkeley
Legitimizing Censorship: ‘Islamophobia Studies’ at Berkeley By Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima Greene “Islamophobia studies” is the latest addition to the academic pantheon of politicized, esoteric, and divisive “studies” whose purpose is to censor criticism of differing views by stigmatizing critics as racist or clinically insane. The University of California, Berkeley’s recent Sixth Annual International Islamophobia […]
Middle East Studies Profs Distort, Dissemble about Paris Attacks
Middle East Studies Profs Distort, Dissemble about Paris Attacks by Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima Greene Only in academe can a panel discussion on Islamic terrorism turn into an exercise in obfuscation and denial. Titled “Shooting Rampage in Paris: Free Speech, Anti-Semitism, Freedom of Religion, Islamophobia,” the recent University of California, Berkeley panel—which promised to “start […]