John Esposito: 'Islamophobia' a 'Social Cancer' in America

John Esposito: ‘Islamophobia’ a ‘Social Cancer’ in America

John Esposito

“Islamophobia” is a “social cancer,” said John Esposito, Georgetown prof and Wahhabi apologist in an error-laced lecture covered for CW by Andrew Harrod & published at the Independent Journal Review. What’s more, “most Jews are not Semites,” Esposito claimed--falsely. Here’s a taste:

John Esposito, the Saudi-funded director of Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, is on a mission to convince the world that “Islamophobia has metastasized” as a “social cancer in America” one academic conference at a time. Speaking alongside his protégé, Dalia Mogahed, Bridge Initiative Senior Fellow Engy Abdelkader, and others at the September 22 “Islamophobia in Focus: Muslims and the Media” conference in Washington, DC, the notorious Islamism apologist pitched this message to an audience of about 130.

Much of the discussion revolved around the well-worn canard that media distortion inflates concerns about Islamist terrorism. “While studies show that a greater security risk emanates from white supremacists, rightwing extremists, and ultra-separatist groups, both here in the United States as well as in Europe,” Abdelkader told the attendees, “when we hear about terrorism in the news, it tends to be in the context of Muslims and Islam.”

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Winfield Myers

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.