Professor Ghassan Hage, of the University of Melbourne, apparently presented a lecture today at MIT, which explored the links between Islamophobia and Global Warming.
According to the description of the event;
Is ISLAMOPHOBIA accelerating global warming?
This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as ‘generalised domestication.’
Ghassan Hage has held many visting positions across the world including in Harvard, University of Copenhagen, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and American University of Beirut. He works in the comparative anthropology of nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora and racism and on the relation between anthropology, philosophy and social and political theory. His most well-known work is White Nation: Fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society (Routledge 2000). His is also the author of Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imaginary (Melbourne University Press 2015). He is currently working on a book titled Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming? and has most recently published a piece in American Ethnologist, titled: “Etat de Siege. A Dying Domesticating Colonialism?” (2016) that engages with the contemporary “refugee crisis” in Europe and beyond.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Sponsored by Global Studies and Laguages, Global Borders Research Collaboration, MIT Anthropology
Read more: https://mitgsl.mit.edu/news-events/islamophobia-accelerating-global-warming
I’m sure we’re all looking forward to the video of the presentation.
The University of Melbourne is making quite a name for itself, exploring unusual climate related themes, such as a 2014 attack on democracy, which discussed why Democratic freedom paralyses efforts to combat climate change, and how to restructure government, to maintain the flow of green subsidies when climate skeptics win elections.
There are plenty of other lectures by Professor Hage available online, such as the following.
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I weep for my country , sigh.
I weep for the place where I got my PhD too.
I weep for the entire Western world.
AGW “science”, green “economics”, and “progressive” (i.e. feel-good, entitlement) leftist politics are ubiquitous.
Canada’s Foreign Minister Stephane Dion recently tweeted that “We must support research into the links between #climatechange and conflict”.
Lies are clearly more politically powerful and sexy than truth; whether it’s AGW or the myth of the gender pay gap. By proliferating and pontificating on these “social justice” lies, leftists will continue to dominate Western politics, and will continue to drift further left for the foreseeable future, because the “educated” yet arithmetically ignorant electorate is already comfortably asleep in bed with them.
I’m wondering if my Ford Ranger emits more Carbon the Canadian fires do? Will Canada be TAXED for all that also?
I don’t see what possible connection there could be between a religion and racism.
There are 57 countries with predominantly Islamic religion; and they encompass, just about every possible ethnic or racial group on the planet.
Far as I can tell, the same goes for almost any other major religious belief system.
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And the peoples on earth who display animosity to persons of some particular ethnic groups, or some particular religious factions, also encompass every ethnic group on the planet, and likely every religion on the planet too.
“And the peoples on earth who display animosity to persons of some particular ethnic groups, or some particular religious factions, also encompass every ethnic group on the planet, and likely every religion on the planet too”
The Muslim vitriol directed against Israel pretty well outweighs all the other ethnic animosity on earth combined by what, a hundred to one? And Professor Ghassan Hage is just providing agiprop on their behalf by attacking anyone would dare to defend Israel.
“This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis.”
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Note to Professor Hage – islam isn’t a race.
Yes, Islam is not a race. Islam includes many races. Which race is being discriminated against? None of them.
The problem is a murderous “religious” philosophy that some Muslims practice. We discriminate against *that* practice, not against some particular race or against peaceful Muslims.
Yes, said so time and again myself; a religion isn’t a race. The English language is being twisted by people who lack intelligence. The same for ‘ocean acidification’. The dictionary definition of ‘acidification’ is online for everyone to see, but still it gets misused. A ‘race’ is people who share similar and distinct physical characteristics evolved over time through close breeding. Religion has nothing to do with it. Being of a particular faith doesn’t alter your genes, your skin colour, your facial features!
Sometimes, I despair for the future. The one good thing is that I won’t be here.
To say there is no issue as racism dressed up as fear of Islamists is laughable.
You only need to go into the sections of any British news paper to see the mass labeling of 1.5 billion muslims with one label.
You had fox news telling its viewers in the US Europe is “finished” and “Birmingham in the UK is 100% Muslim and police cant even go in” “Muslims are taking over entire areas and ruling by sharia law” and a litany of other bollocks.
While the article topic here about Islamophobia and climate change is complete nonsense, to also claim there is no pretty common profiling of people because they “look like certain ethnic groups” you are sadly mistaken.
You’ve already forgotten the Italian that looked ever so remotely like someone from the middle east, being called a terrorist by a product of the media (because of maths).
You have 2 year old Muslim girls on no fly lists and the FBI threatening Muslims to spy on their community or else.
Lets not forget years of the FBI finding isolated angry mentally ill or slow witted Muslims and setting them up bomb plots and fake bombs, as in the whole plan, suggested it to them and provoked them and egged them on and game them everything. Most FBI foiled plots are exactly that.
Trump only said he’s stop all Muslims coming to the US
And lastly, after flattening several islamic countries on false claims, when there is a reaction to this destruction you call the “islamists” the war bent murderers. How tragic is your logic
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Mark, the fear of Islamism is completely justified – as it goes against everything that is ‘Western’. Islamism is homophobic, sexist, (to the point of misogynistic), undemocratic, bigotted, and doesn’t even allow belief in other faiths or atheism. Its ‘values’ are abhorrent. I have no problem whatsoever with Muslims keeping their faith and their beliefs within the confines of their geographical locations. But I don’t want them exporting their particular loathsome beliefs to my country (England), where we have tried very hard to be tolerant. But tolerance is a two-way street. We should not tolerate Islamism because it doesn’t reciprocate. It cannot, because of its very tenets. I’m an atheist, but can tolerate Christianity, Judaism, and all the others…because they tolerate my atheism. Islamism does not. Islamism is a political system dressed up as a religion. It hates.
I’ll support both sides on this. No it’s not “racism” per se. Religious discrimination would be properly titled “creedism”, but that word hasn’t really caught on. However, that being said, It is a serious problem. While most people are reasonable in understanding the issues, many are not. A mild glance would see that it is a problem in the west. Also, straight racism against arabs (or anyone that looks mildly Arabic) is a similar problem.
Mark May 11, 2016 at 1:35 am
I think that you failed to make your point. It can be religious intolerance – although that is far more widespread against Christians than against other religions – but religious intolerance is not racial intolerance. You are using the wrong epithet.
bazzer1959 May 11, 2016 at 1:21 am
Yes, said so time and again myself; a religion isn’t a race. The English language is being twisted
byfor people who lack intelligence.Those changing the language are doing it for control…they are not stupid.
Their goals require the rest of us to lose our freedoms.
Islam is a totalitarian political ideology/religion that mandates its followers to instill islam throughout the world. In islamic theology there are 2 parts to the world, the Dar-al-islam (house of islam) and the dar-al-Harb (house of war). In other words, you either live in an islamic country or you live in a war zone, and it will continue to be a war zone until it comes into the house of islam.
According to Islam’s own ‘holy books’, Mohammad, the founder of islam, was a mass murderer, a child rapist, a sex slave trader, a torturer and a beheader. Islam is pure evil and every effort should be made to eliminate it from the western world.
I keep reading all of this defense of peaceful muslims, but the violent aspect of islam could not advance without the aid and consent of those who do not actually engage in violence themselves.
ISIS is so in your face evil that all sane people condemn it. The Muslim Brotherhood, on the other hand, is not overtly violent. They take over by infiltrating school boards, county boards, police departments, the military, etc., etc. The goals of the Muslim Brotherhood, however, are exactly the same as the goals of ISIS-to establish a worldwide caliphate and make islam the dominant force in the world. An internal document taken in a raid from a Muslim Brotherhood office in Virginia state their goals.
Here is a brief excerpt:
“The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization-Jihadist Process’ with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers…”
“[W]e must possess a mastery of the art of ‘coalitions’, the art of ‘absorption’ and the principles of ‘cooperation.’”
In other words, the Muslim Brotherhood, by its own admission, is a subversive organization whose goal is to overthrow the US.
It is not up to non-muslims to tiptoe around the delicate sensibilities of hurt muslim feelings. It is up to muslims to honestly examine the life of their ‘prophet’ and decide if this evil man is the one they truly want to follow. If the answer to that question is yes, then they are part of the problem.
Islamophobia is not racism, it is survival.
Mark, I’m trying to figure out what your post is all about.
Near as I can tell you are trying to claim that Muslims aren’t a problem, it’s just a big conspiracy on the part of Fox News and the FBI.
PS: Nobody ever claimed that Birmingham was 100% Muslim, however the existence of “no go” zones is well documented, despite your desire to ignore the obvious.
PPS: There are a number of instances of small children being put on the no fly list, not just 2 year old Muslim girls. That’s a problem with the brain dead way the list is being managed, it’s not evidence of Islamaphobia.
Islam, although it has elements of religion, is more of an ideology since it’s doctrine is more political than religious.
I thought the idea, by the mentally disturbed, of race had been thrown on the scrap heap of dumb ideas by science long ago. Humans are all so closely genetically related that there is no place for race categories, unless each human is a considered a separate race.
“Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism”
No, but anti-semantisism seems to be.
I think the dominant form of “racism” (although racism is not the correct word for it) involves decapitating infidels, taking women and girls as sex slaves, deliberately blowing up or shooting innocent civilians etc. etc.
To be fair, Christians and Sikhs are targeted by Islam just as much as Jews are. On another note, semite is a misnomer since it’s a linguistic term referring to a family of languages within the Middle East. Anti-semite originates from the 1800s when Zionists first attempted to revive Hebrew (a semitic language) which had been dead for a thousand years. But there were many that opposed its revival (including some Jews since they didn’t believe we could ever learn to speak it correctly) and thus were called anti-semites aka anti-hebrew.
I suppose a better word describe those against Judaism would be Judeophobia or anti-Judaism….Semantics, I know!
I thought John was trying to make a pun on semantics. (anti-semantisism)
+1
Why do these the “intellectual ” types people always talk so slowly? 12 minutes in and absolutely nothing was said, so I gave up.
They also are unfamiliar with history in any useful capacity.
Not all of them do. Ben Goldacre talks pretty fast.
Now there is a new one – I thought I had seen everything.
@ur momisugly AndyE, 7:38 pm, I thought the same thing after reading this , (I didn’t even attempt to watch the video),
“Ghassan Hage has held many visting positions across the world including in Harvard, University of Copenhagen, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and American University of Beirut. He works in the comparative anthropology of nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora and racism and on the relation between anthropology, philosophy and social and political theory.”
I just wondered how long the “visting” lasted.
I have a relative who had some lectures from this person. He and everyone else in the course thought him to be an idiot and, as they found out later so did many of his professorial colleagues… I expect climate politics is the place where most no-hopers in the social ‘sciences’ wash up (and no-hopers in social sciences are the real thing!)…
“I have a relative who had some lectures from this person. He and everyone else in the course thought him to be an idiot and, as they found out later so did many of his professorial colleagues…”
Good! There’s hope then. I am always encouraged when I hear how students – of all ages – realize the foolishness going on around them. Thank you, Exisle, for posting this comment.
No – it’s where the money is and the post-modernists have finally figured out how to get their share. Expect a lot more of this nonsense as more and more PM wackos board the cash wagon.
The problem is that these types are invariably employed by government in some form or another. And governments don’t go broke or out of business due to stupidity or mismanagement because they have unlimited money – yours!
Sadly, it is a gullible and ignorant population that is allowing gov’t induced “climaphobia” to survive. The facts just don’t back up their theories! Just another piece of the globalist agenda 21 fiasco!
“Sadly, it is a gullible and ignorant population that is allowing gov’t induced “climaphobia” to survive.”
Brilliant blame the victims strategy, Einstein . . Divide and conquer is pretty easy when “smart” folks are so much better than the ignorant masses, it seems to me . . ; )
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The article post-colonial feminist glaciology is par for the course. It’s just beyond belief how deeply insane the academic left in the humanities really is.
A bit of insanity influenced by a life rewarded for proclaimed status (queer, minority, a stutter etc.), a bit of average or less than average intellect (hence the courses that grade on political consensus rather than achievement) and a need to pretend a liberal belief system implies actual intelligence rather than mere simple-minded conformity.
Thus hastening western societies’ decline into simplistic, group-think, mob-rule Moronocracies ripe for even more manipulation and vigorous enforcement of WrongThought laws.
Wait — I thought that was a joke feed, like the @DPRK_News. That’s REAL?!?
Moron tries to merge a couple hot grant items. Makes ridiculous hypothesis. Liberals buy in. Proto-terrorists and CAGW hand wringers flock to lectures, paying their parents and sponsors money to watch the moron prance.
At about 7:14 “Because I don’t think, one can think democracy anyway, without thinking..” This came After saying “I think, I think… ” Wow a what a genius this guy is.
My head hurts…..
A lecture to whom; to how many, and did anyone have the balls to walk out midstream.
As a rule, anyone connected to the EHESS in any way isn’t worth listening to.
I should burn my degrees to disassociate myself from that institution. But then all universities in Australia have turned into non-scientific, leftist think tanks.
Many of the major universities in Australia have in my opinion lost the plot w/r to academic standards, though Melbourne University seems to be making a real effort to do their bit, to help the race to the bottom.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/18/a-queenslanders-guide-to-australian-universities/
They certainly are making a strong effort, a particularly with the addition of Tim Flannery to the faculty but I think the University of NSW still hold the lead in this race.
– Mark Diesendorf
– Sven Teske
– Chris Turney
Correction, Sven Teske is on the faculity of the University of Technology Sydney
Apologies to all those tarred with his association
The relationship between Islamophobia and Global Warming is this: one is the belief that a few politicized extremists are representative of the overwhelmingly peaceful religion of Islam; the other is the belief that a small increase of a trace gas is driving the world’s climate. The only thing they have in common is faulty logic.
Ronald P Ginzler,
The central tenet of Islam is that its adherents will go straight to Paradise if they are engaged in killing unbelievers (that’s us). They get a ticket to Paradise even if they’re blown up while constructing a bomb intended for infidels (that’s us).
Without that central belief, Islam would fade away as a barbaric 7th Century throwback religion.
Therefore, Islam is not “overwhelmingly peaceful”. Quite the opposite. It is overwhelmingly bloodthirsty. The evidence is everywhere.
In any sane world Islam would be declared an Outlaw Religion. In a sane world, anyone professing to be an Islamist would be barred from all but foot travel, and be denied banking of any kind, and be denied ownership of real property, and be restricted to their native countries. Those countries would be refused any and all foreign aid. And so on.
But that’s in a sane world…
Many of the central tenants of Islam are completely illegal (in theory) in any democratic republic.
In Islam there is…
Complete rejection of separation of church and state; the religion rules.
Legally enforced class distinctions.
No such thing as women’s liberations or equal rights.
Legal rape of non Islamic during war. (Which is all the time until Islam is submitted to, either stealth or overt Jihad.)
Sharia law is brutal and totalitarian to the extreme.
The major religious authorities of all Muslim nations support Sharia law.
The majority of Muslims polled in the US say they should be allowed to establish Sharia law.
Every year in this nation there are many more hate crimes against Jews then Muslims.
On average Islamists commit the equivalent of three Parris mass murders every single month of the year.
Numerous individual Muslims have tried to preach a symbolic interpretation of Islam and Jihad where the jihad is an internal battle for spiritual victory. Every single one of them has received death fatwas issued against them by officials of the Islamic states.
The central tenets of Islam are seditious against the constitution of the US. It is not discrimination against “religion” but rational discrimination (common sense) against slavery, rape, legal enforcement of lower class status to non Muslims, legal subjugation of women and female genital mutilation, legal murder, and legalized religious dictatorship.
DB
I was looking forward to your hateful comment re Islam. You didn’t let me down.
Well said, db.
DB, have you read the Hebrew or Christian Bible? The mandatory isolation required by Moses is not exactly pretty, and the declaration that all unfaithful shall be punished eternally is not a metaphor.
The only real difference between Islam and Christianity is that Christianity’s tenets developed from a place of weakness under a large empire while Islam developed in a place of strength handed down by the ruler of a large empire.
db, you are dead on. Too bad so many people have dedicated their lives to ignoring the obvious.
Ben, it is quite obvious that you haven’t read the Christian or Jewish holy texts, but are relying on what others have told you about it.
The isolation that you reference was only for that time and place. It was not a universal requirement.
Look also at that same section for the laws regarding the treatment of foreigners. Quite enlightened, especially for that time.
Well said, db, spot on. If only people could see this ‘religion’ for what it truly is. Alas, as some of the comments on your post show, people lack even the most base intelligence.
I see you are quick to chastize dbstealey, yet you provide no real information to refute.
My information comes directly from the mouths of muslims. I am told to be concerned, and the people who tell me this are very afraid to be found out for having revealed this info ( the difference between Sunni and Shia ).
The Sunni ( ~80% ) are peaceful and tolerant, but are also required to not reveal the conquering intent of the Shia ( ~20% ).
That, coupled with the knowledge of history regarding muslims ( I suggest you do your homework ), you will find your defense of that particular religion is misguided.
benofhouston,
There’s a big difference: Western civilization has moderated out the bible’s uncivilized parts, while keeping the good, moral parts. For example, we don’t stone people any more, but our jurisprudence is based on the Ten Commandments.
But Islam has never moved on from the 7th Century. That’s the problem. What do you think would have happened if an Islamic state in the 600’s – 700’s had possessed nuclear weapons? Would they have used them? Of course.
That’s the problem. Very soon Iran will have nukes. And it is ruled by 7th Century mullahs.
Next, Simon sez:
I was looking forward to your hateful comment re Islam. You didn’t let me down.
Simon, if I ever needed proof that you’re a fool, I have it now. Maybe you don’t have relatives who were murdered on 9/11. Or maybe you’re one to turn the other cheek when a bully on the playground b!tch-slaps you. But only a fool would ignore history, which shows that tolerance of Islam always gets the other cheek slapped, too.
Islam has literally declared war on the West. Repeatedly, without any doubt or misunderstanding. And their invasion of Western countries is a deliberate tactic to weaken and undermine “infidels”. It is working, with the connivance of leaders in the EU and the US — and with the support of fools in both places.
benofhouston:
“The only real difference between Islam and Christianity”
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nonsense – Where is the blood on Christs hands? Did he ever ask anyone to kill anyone else? Who was it that said:
38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
dbstealy: And Christ said, let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
The bloodier parts were being discarded long before modern times.
To me it was a great surprise to discover that there are two versions of the human rights:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Proclaimed by the United Nations as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. (Largely not signed by islamic nations)
And then there is the islamic version of the human rights:
The Cairo declaration of human rights in islam
The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam is a declaration of the member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (57 countries) which provides an overview on the Islamic perspective on human rights, and affirms Islamic sharia as its sole source.
Example:
General human rights Article 1:
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
Islamic human rights Article 1:
“… All human beings are God’s subjects, and the most loved by him are those who are most useful to the rest of His subjects, and no one has superiority over another except on the basis of piety and good deeds.”
More here Islamic Human Rights?
David A “The Sunni ( ~80% ) are peaceful and tolerant, but are also required to not reveal the conquering intent of the Shia ( ~20% ).
That, coupled with the knowledge of history regarding muslims ( I suggest you do your homework )…”
You do know that Al Qaeda and IS are Sunni? There seems t be an irony here about homework.
Nobody was “afraid” of Islam until they started blowing up planes and buildings, killing innocent (and peaceful) people. In the face of an actual threat, fear is an appropriate response. The other logical response is to fight.
William R
Since 2001, Islamic worshipers (radical Muslims actively practicing Islam) have committed over 24,500 separate acts of violence harming or killing more than 110,000 other people (often deliberating terrorizing or intimidating other Muslims not as radical)….. Yet this “paid government propagandist” (er, international professor) claims there is rampant Islamiphobia when their CAGW efforts are delayed or contradicted.
So, when the government is paying travel, salaries, tenure, and scholastic support funds to a deliberate liar in the name of protecting their CAGW message by wrapping it around their pro-Muslim propaganda and policies, what does that indicate about the rationality of either?
Check out Samarkand. This is from the BBC.
“Tamerlane was once one of the world’s most feared conquerors and kings. In the course of amassing his Eurasian empire in the late 14th Century, experts say he killed some 5% of the Earth’s population.”
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160104-the-stunning-home-of-a-ruthless-king
Islam has been killing infidels for 1400 years. The level waxes and wanes, but it has never gone to zero.
…and never will unless and until it is eradicated.
Even if we to somehow completely isolate them, they would continue to kill each other for not being pure enough.
I’m afraid your logic is failing you: it doesn’t always apply in complex systems
http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf
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Peter Sable,
Thanks for posting that interesting analysis.
Per Steyn Europe will be essentially Sharia within a few decades. Now for some prime Conspiratorial Ideation, that should also vastly increase the risk of an actual European Islamic attack on Israel, especially with what would be their control of nukes. Could be the end according to Revelation and all those religious predictions. Sad that the likes of Russia/US/China would then have no choice about having it out with an Islamic Europe & allies in a grand WWIII.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/05/10/40000-christians-harassed-muslims/
http://www.amazon.com/America-Alone-End-World-Know/dp/1596985275
Many of the central tenets of Islam are completely illegal (in theory) in any democratic republic.
In Islam there is…
Complete rejection of separation of church and state; the religion rules.
Legally enforced class distinctions.
No such thing as women’s liberations or equal rights.
Legal rape of non Islamic during war. (Which is all the time until Islam is submitted to, either stealth or overt Jihad.)
Sharia law is brutal and totalitarian to the extreme.
The major religious authorities of all Muslim nations support Sharia law.
The majority of Muslims polled in the US say they should be allowed to establish Sharia law.
Every year in this nation there are many more hate crimes against Jews then Muslims.
On average Islamists commit the equivalent of three Parris mass murders every single month of the year.
Numerous individual Muslims have tried to preach a symbolic interpretation of Islam and Jihad where the jihad is an internal battle for spiritual victory. Every single one of them has received death fatwas issued against them by officials of the Islamic states.
The central tenets of Islam are seditious against the constitution of the US. It is not discrimination against “religion” but rational discrimination (common sense) against slavery, rape, legal enforcement of lower class status to non Muslims, legal subjugation of women and female genital mutilation, legal murder, and legalized religious dictatorship.
Excellent summary. Too bad the PC/SJW types are too stupid to realize what they are really supporting.
Do you have any evidence that only a small group of extremists are giving Islam a bad name by actually following the tenets of that religion?
People interpret their religion in many ways. The vast majority of Muslims are non-violent. Why don’t you ask one how he or she follows the tenets of their religion? Anyone here think the Klu Klux Klan are representative of Christianity?
And dbstealey: “And their [Muslim] invasion of western countries is a deliberate tactic to weaken and undermine infidels.”
Uh, who invaded Iraq? Afghanistan? Not with immigrants, but armies and bombing? With massive civilian casualties that far outweigh any Muslim terrorist acts against the West.
And if you think 9/11 was a purely Muslim act of terror, you need to do a lot of research.
By the way, Genghis Khan, not a Muslim, killed more than twice as many people as Tamerlane.
I find it odd that people who haven’t fallen for the Climate Change con, have fallen for the Islam is Evil con.
R, Ginzler says:
The vast majority of Muslims are non-violent.
That excuse was rejected at Nuremburg. The ‘good Germans’ were also culpable. When a large fraction of Muslims begin to vocally reject violence, I’ll change my mind. But since that would require them to reject a central tenet of their religion, I won’t hold my breath. Following 9/11/2001, the most popular name for male babies among Molems suddenly became “Osama” (or “Usama”, depending on the country). They were silently cheering on the terrorism.
You also say:
And if you think 9/11 was a purely Muslim act of terror…
What else would you call it? They were all Muslims.
Ronald Ginzler says:
…if you think 9/11 was a purely Muslim act of terror, you need to do a lot of research.
Since you seem to be saying that you’ve done that research, please provide the identities of the non-Muslims who took part in the 9/11/2001 attacks.
THere’s an old saying.
A radical muslim wants to kill you.
A moderate muslim wants the radical muslim to kill you.
Are the vast majority non-violent, or do they just like the motivation and opportunity to do what their religion demands?
I love the people like to pretend that history started with George Bush, there are reason’s why we invaded Iraq. Of course idiots like to pretend that such actions came completely out of the blue.
Those of us who haven’t fallen for the climate change con have done so because we can do research, including reading history.
Apparently that’s something you can’t be bothered with.
Lecture title should be: Are the idiots who believe in AGW the same idiots who believe Islam is a religion of peace.
Ronald P Ginzler, you paying attention?
South, thank you.
It’s drivel but it has great potential as a template for a “Madlibs” multiple choice climate fraud party activity!
E. G. “This talk examines the relation between X as the dominant form of Y today and the ecological Z.”
X:
a) Women Rights
b) Islamophobia
c) Hamburgers
d) add your own
Y: … etc.
It is one thing to be thought a fool, and yet another to speak so profusely and remove any semblance of doubt. My God, how did university devolve to this?!
The obvious next question …
Does Islamapobia cause feminist glaciers to melt faster ?
I smell a grant.
Only if a burka is put over…
The University of Melbourne and Ghassan Hage has set a new benchmark for stupidity. Apart from the fact that Islam is not a race, the mind boggles at how what one thinks could possibly control the climate. We have all thought of nice weather tomorrow only to be disappointed. I went to the University of Melbourne and despair at the juvenile standard to which the place has sunk now.
I went to the royal Melbourne Institute of Technology to become an engineer fifty odd years ago, it was brilliant with real teachers of the committed kind. About 30 years ago it was morphed into Melbourne University and it is now almost a waste of space.
Another /sarc tag free story
goony greeny
This made more sense to me:
I listened/watched the video. Talking about democracy in the middle east – i think only Israel comes anything close to it. and the USA isn’t a democracy – it’s a republic -if we can keep it. there is a difference – check it out…
Sorry cannot bring myself to watch the whole thing.
But is fear of what amounts to a death cult, an irrational unfounded fear?
When bright young men make videos of themselves butchering other people and say the killed them because they were not of the correct faith, it is a phobia if you believe them when they promise to kill your own kind?
The Progressive,modern Liberals interpretation of “Islamophobia” is more proof liberalism is a progressive disease.
It is not an unfounded fear,when they really are willing and wanting to kill you.
Except in the multicultural morass.
Such a shame the word ‘liberalism’ has got mixed in with American ‘progressives’. It needs rehabilitation.
The phonies hijacked both words, along with democrat too, while we’re at it.
I observe the appropriation and down-twisting of words in the present, clearly not “spontaneously” occurring, it seems to me. I suspect the term ‘liberal’ was an early target in a long campaign.
Words evolve over time.
The “Gay 90’s” did not mean that everyone was homosexual.
What say you, Mark; Ban bossy? ; )
More likely caused by the hot air coming from pretend academics.
Is anything accelerating global warming ?
Yes. Al Gore’s private jet and Obama’s AF One heading to fundraiser/golf outings to see his Cali girlfriend.
“Is anything accelerating global warming ?”
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All the hot air coming from Profs like Hage?
Ghassan appears to be emitting a whole lot of greenhouse Ghas.