Islamophobia

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) – a public broadcaster funded by a “TV licence” fee forced on UK television owners – has declared that resistance to Shariah law is “Islamophobic”.  According to a news clip, BBC online coverage, and the comments of its reporter Catrin Nye, a man called “Paul” approached a BBC film crew while recording an interview with Islam ...

Is Islamophobia accelerating global warming? That was the actual title of a lecture given earlier this week at Massachusetts Institute of Technology by a professor Ghassan Hage.  I can’t decide who should be more upset: the Australian taxpayers who are funding this loon’s position as a “future generation professor” at Melbourne University.  Or the alumni (including the Koch brothers, Michael Bloomberg, “Buzz” ...

This weekend, as the US primary continues apace, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump clinched his spot at the top of another ballot — this one on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.   Trump was voted “Islamaphobe of the Year” in a poll held by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), a Muslim advocacy group in the UK.  According to the IHRC’s website, the Islamophobia Awards is a ...

George Takei is the latest star to react to Donald Trump’s highly controversial plan to ban all Muslims from the United States.  Trump has compared his proposal to the internment of Japanese-Americans throughout the Second World War.   During that time, Japanese-Americans were forced to live in camps, something Trump has claimed was a “necessary national security measure.”  Many other Americans, ...