Reza Aslan Hypes 'Islamophobia'

Reza Aslan Hypes ‘Islamophobia’

Reza Aslan

The subject of “Islamophobia” is all the rage in Middle East studies and throughout academe, which is doing its utmost to distract attention from the backdrop of supremacism, dysfunction, and bellicosity in the region. In the latest Campus Watch research, CW West Coast representative Cinnamon Stillwell reports on recent lecture from UC Riverside professor Reza Aslan titled, “Islamophobia: The Real Enemy.” Her article appears today at Jihad Watch:

At an April 13 lecture at the University of California, Riverside, UCR creative writing professor and self-styled expert on Islam and the Middle East Reza Aslan employed biased sources, isolated statistics, and ad hominem attacks to blame critics of radical Islam for the alleged rise in “Islamophobia” in post-9/11 America.

“Islamophobia: The Real Enemy” was delivered before a student-dominated audience of some three hundred who laughed heartily at Aslan’s fashionably anti-American jokes, clearly responding to his personable, hip demeanor. Dressed casually in jeans, no tie, and an untucked shirt, he was, effectively, one of them.

Aslan explained that, “as a Middle Easterner, as a Muslim” Islamophobia was “a personal issue” that had been “brought home on a personal level.”

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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.