MIT Symposium Asks if Islamophobia is Accelerating Global Warming
People assume everyone at MIT id wicked smart. That’s obviously not true.
This was the subject of a real symposium. From MIT’s website.
Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming?
This talk examines the relation between Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today and the ecological crisis. It looks at the three common ways in which the two phenomena are seen to be linked: as an entanglement of two crises, metaphorically related with one being a source of imagery for the other and both originating in colonial forms of capitalist accumulation. The talk proposes a fourth way of linking the two: an argument that they are both emanating from a similar mode of being, or enmeshment, in the world, what is referred to as ‘generalised domestication.’
Ghassan Hage has held many visting positions across the world including in Harvard, University of Copenhagen, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and American University of Beirut. He works in the comparative anthropology of nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora and racism and on the relation between anthropology, philosophy and social and political theory. His most well-known work is White Nation: Fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society (Routledge 2000). His is also the author of Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imaginary (Melbourne University Press 2015). He is currently working on a book titled Is Islamophobia Accelerating Global Warming? and has most recently published a piece in American Ethnologist, titled: “Etat de Siege. A Dying Domesticating Colonialism?” (2016) that engages with the contemporary “refugee crisis” in Europe and beyond.
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Oh, so the non-science supported global warming could be caused by the non-existent islamophobia? What is being smoked on the MIT campus?
To be clear, while it is a bit odd for MIT to have this seminar, this guy is not MIT faculty…he’s a visiting symposium speaker from U Melbourne.
I’ve asked a geneticist what “race” Muslims are, and haven’t gotten an answer. Obama’s father, a Muslim, is African. Most Muslims of the Middle East are of Semitic ethnicity, as are the Jews of the same area. Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall, one of the greatest Islamic scholars of the modern era, was a British Caucasian. As best I can determine, when the Left uses the term “racist” it means “disagrees with me.”
How the antiSemitism practiced by jihadi Muslims are causing global warming you ask? They create environmental havoc each time they launch bombs into Israel. Instead of pursuing activities that further the protection of the planet they spew extra carbon exhaust from their trucks constantly moving bombs and munitions around in order to hide them from the Israelites who want to stop them before they’re used in an attack! Does that count?