MIT Lecture: Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming?

It’s not like this is some type of fringe thinking on the left. Bernie Sanders claims that climate change helped create the Islamic State and he doesn’t get any pushback on that nutty premise either. This attempted fusion of racism and climate change is just the latest example of delusional thinking cooked up by luminaries of the left who have turned serious institutions of higher education into fashion houses of intellectual dishonesty and waste.

There’s something wrong with fearing people who have declared their desire to kill you?

I think there may be a shift in this direction happening among climate activists. Here is what Naomi Klein (board of directors 350 dot org) has to say about it:

“In a context where we are facing multiple and overlapping crises, from gender and racial inequalities and injustice to the corporate takeover of politics… it’s not about saying that climate change is so big, and so urgent and time is so short that it should trump everything else,” she said. “All of these issues are equally urgent.”
By uniting the climate change causes with other issues of justice, all movements will be strengthened, she said, adding that finding the commonality in our goals is not just the right strategy but “the winning strategy.”
While climate change presents significant challenges, Klein said, it is also a “moment of possibility.” She noted that Pope Francis, in his recent visit to the United States, made some strong statements about global climate change, showing that the world must act quickly. This summer, Klein was invited by the Pope to speak at “People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change Course,” a gathering to create an action plan around the Pope’s recent climate-change encyclical, Laudato Si’.
“It is an incredible opportunity to build a much better world than we have now,” she said.

This is climate change as a vehicle for social change in many areas. I don’t know if Naomi is dog or tail in this phenomenon, but it looks like what she’s talking about to me.
In a way this is refreshing. This means that the Lewandowsky’s of the world may have a more difficult time in the future suggesting that it is counterfactual ideation and conspiracy theory to tie climate change activism to movements with other objectives. It may be that we will no longer be branded tin foil hat wearing nut cases for pointing out that socialism is part of the agenda.
For what it’s worth. ~shrug~

So I’m wondering how this will play out once these global-warming smarty pants find out that European scientists are now predicting an ice age by 2030?

So in effect, Professor Ghassan Hage is saying if we exterminate the Muslims we can slow Global Warming. Bit severe.

The kinds of asinine, twisting, conclusion-based pseudo-rationalized circular logic that allows people to actually get on stage and spew this sort of drivel is worthy of a Woodstock-overdose’s bad acid trip.
To actually get stage time at MIT is a disgrace.
‘Professor’. Dear God. It almost discredits the word.

All that education and the guy can’t write a simple, clear statement? The description of his talk reads as if it had been written by a freshman student in a remedial English class. It just screams B.S. You know he has nothing intelligent to say when he uses words and phrases like – “an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related” and “originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation” and “are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as ‘generalised domestication.”
It’s laughable