Academia on San Bernardino Attack: No Jihad Here

Tashfeen Malik (l) & Syed Farooq

Middle East studies academics responded to the December 2 Islamic terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California with characteristic obfuscation, assigning the Islamist perpetrators’ motivation to workplace bullying or mere gun violence, and the global jihad to “Islamophobia” and other alleged Western ills. In the latest Campus Watch research, appearing today at American Thinker, CW West Coast representative Cinnamon Stillwell exposes their willful blindness and equivocation:

Omid Safi, director of Duke University’s Islamic Studies Center, immediately jumped on the gun control bandwagon and – echoing President Obama’s recent gaffe following the latest Paris attacks – claimed that mass shootings occur only in the U.S.: “This is everyday [sic], everywhere in America – and no where [sic] else in the world.” He decried America’s “deadly fetish” and “gun obsession,” urging readers to “Stand up to #NRA,” as if the National Rifle Association’s adherence to 2nd Amendment rights were the cause of Islamic terrorism.

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Cinnamon Stillwell

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.