Max Blumenthal Dhimmis Down

Max
Blumenthal Dhimmis Down
By Robert Spencer

Hard-Left pseudo-journalist and propagandist Max Blumenthal
has weighed in on the Muhammad movie riots, and predictably enough, he has come
down squarely in favor of restrictions on the freedom of speech and adoption of
Islamic blasphemy laws in the West. The way he does so is revealing of the
nature and underlying assumptions of the Leftist/Islamic supremacist alliance.

Blumenthal concedes that “even though the deadly scene in
Benghazi may not have resulted directly from the angry reaction to the
Islamophobic video, the violence has helped realize the apocalyptic visions of
the film's backers.” After retailing various half-truths, distortions and
outright lies about the connections between the filmmakers and Pamela Geller
and me, Blumenthal returns to this contention: “A group of fringe extremists
had proven that with a little bit of money and an unbelievably cynical scam,
they could shape history to fit their apocalyptic vision.”

Blumenthal is saying that by producing this video, the creators
of “Innocence of Muslims” actually brought into existence the world that they
imagined: once in which violent Muslims victimized non-Muslims in the name of
Islam. The implication is that if people like Pamela Geller and me, and the
Coptic Christian creators of this film, had not dared to insult Muhammad, then
Muslims would not be rioting worldwide, and all would be well.

Max Blumenthal sounds like a battered wife suffering from
Stockholm Syndrome. Does he really believe what he is saying? Does he actually
think that if non-Muslims toe the Sharia line and avoid saying or doing
anything which offends Muslim sensibilities, that a new era of peace will dawn
between the West and the Islamic world?

Is Max Blumenthal really unaware of the Muslim persecution
of non-Muslims all over the world – Christians in Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, and
Indonesia; Hindus in Pakistan, Bahais in Iran? Does he really think that those
tiny and embattled minorities are somehow so offending their benign and tolerant
Muslim neighbors that they drive them to violence that they would avoid if they
just stopped mocking Muhammad and burning the Qur’an? Does Max Blumenthal
really think that that is what non-Muslims in Muslim countries do? And if not,
why does he think they are being persecuted so viciously? It couldn’t possibly
be the fault of the Muslims, could it? To admit such a possibility is not
possible for Max Blumenthal: it would be “Islamophobic.”

Islamic law mandates that dhimmis, the non-Muslim “protected
people” in the Islamic state who are denied basic rights and live in a state of
subjugation to the Muslims, must not say anything that Muslims consider
offensive about Islam, Muhammad or the Qur’an. If they do, their contract of
“protection” is voided, and their lives can lawfully be taken. Living under
this threat for many centuries, non-Muslims in Muslim lands have learned how to
play the game: they not only never criticize Islam or Muslims, but they never
complain about their plight. If asked in public, they praise Islam and Muslims
to the skies and exult about how wonderful it is to live among such a peaceful
and tolerant people. Asked again in private, the same interlocutor is likely to
tell a very different story, but people who know that they can and will be
violently assaulted for telling the truth learn when they can safely tell it
and when they can’t.

And so it is the Max Blumenthal, at the end of his piece, reports
happily that the Copts who made the Muhammad video “were not immune to the
violence they incited.” Blumenthal explains:

According to Copts Today, an Arabic
news outlet focusing on Coptic affairs, [Coptic activist Morris] Sadek was seen
taking a leisurely stroll down Washington's M Street on September 11, soaking
in the sun on a perfect autumn day. All of a sudden, he found himself surrounded
by four angry Coptic women. Berating Sadek for fueling the flames of sectarian
violence, the women took off their heels and began beating him over the head.

"If anything happens to a
Christian in Egypt," one of them shouted at him, "you'll be the
reason!"

Clearly Blumenthal agrees with this: he thinks that Sadek is
responsible for the Muslim persecution of Christians in Egypt, because Sadek
stirred the Muslims to violence by suggesting that Muhammad was violent.
Whether or not Muhammad was violent is irrelevant to Blumenthal, as is the
question of whether the victim of violence can really be held responsible for
that violence. The Coptic women are blaming Sadek because they have thoroughly
internalized the cardinal rule of living as a dhimmi, the same one that
Muhammad Atta articulated when he spoke to the passengers on the airplane that
he and his fellow jihadists had hijacked: “Stay quiet and you’ll be OK.”
Blumenthal wants Sadek, and all counter-jihadists, to follow that rule: stay
quiet and you’ll be OK.

Except you won’t, not any more than were the passengers on
American Airlines Flight 11. If you stay quiet in the face of Islamic violence
and terror, you will not  be OK,
and your silence will not end that violence and terror. The Coptic women’s fear
and anger is understandable, but so is Sadek’s desire to combat the root cause
for that fear, which is not criticism of Islam, but the Islamic imperative to
wage war against and subjugate unbelievers.

Max Blumenthal is nothing more than the latest exponent of
the capitulation of the free West. He would prefer to live as a slave,
submitting voluntarily to the silence mandated for dhimmis under Sharia, than
stand as a free man who tells the truth. His cowardice and surrender to
authoritarian restrictions on free speech will stand through the ages as his
sorry legacy, and free men, if any survive, will spit at his memory.

Robert Spencer is the
director of Jihad Watch and author of
the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam
(and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Did Muhammad Exist?.

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Beagle

11 years ago

If you’ve lost Max Blumenthal, al Qaeda, Karen Armstrong, Reza Aslan, Dougie Hooper, Ikhwan, and Salafis worldwide then you’ve probably also lost the New York Times.

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Infidel Task Force

11 years ago

I find it quite disheartening to read something such as this. One would think the journalists would be in the forefront to preserve our Free Speech. To actually read about journalists and media calling for restrictions, is very disturbing.
Makes you wonder about our future.
The Infidel Task Force has dedicated an entire page on this particular subject:
Silencing Americans Through Fear

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KrazyKafir

11 years ago

LOL that was beautiful. Too bad Max is almost certainly not smart enough to understand it.

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Cpanon

11 years ago

Robert,
Clear, cogent and irrefutable.
But, can keep the top level narrative but use the medium to hyperlink to the exact stanzas in the koran that prove in their own words the hypocrisy of “protected people” “offensive to Islam” “lives lawfully taken”(the ultimate oxymoron if ever there was one to the Western paradigm). Maybe even a very simple highly protected site with these extracts available for all to link to.
Again excellent work.

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ApolloSpeaks

11 years ago

OBAMA’S GAY AMBASSADOR TO BENGHAZI
Obama vilifies a video which mockingly tells the truth about the Prophet Mohammed because it’s deeply offensive to Moslem believers; but he sends a gay ambassador to a city of Moslem homophobes which is offensive to practically everyone living there. By doing this how did Obama show respect for Islam?

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Beagle

11 years ago

So, on cue, the Afghanis are throwing stones at Americans in Afghanistan. Anyone think the average Afghani has access to You Tube and just checked out the video?
Who told him to go out and riot?

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Beagle

11 years ago

Max quotes Robert Spencer disapprovingly:
“a developed doctrine and tradition of warfare against unbelievers”
http://www.ahadith.net/bukhari/book/56
Clearly Robert is way out on a limb there.

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Tom

11 years ago

So now I fully expect the same regard toward other groups here in America.
NO more crucifxes in jars of urine and calling it art, and what about the play out now mocking the Book of Mormon?

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fern

11 years ago

o/t
Mr Mohammed Ansar on Twitter
quote:
Peaceful co-existence cannot take place whilst we allow the barbarity of insults to flow freely.
Huh? So insults in this persons eyes, is equivalent to barbarism! Yet we never hear any condemnation from this person on the countless barbaric acts committed in the name of islam on a daily basis.
Spreading hate, misinformation and intolerance is not a critical debate; it is Islamophobia. In the 30s, it was anti-Semitism.
Yet, spreading hate, misinformation, intolerance and rabid anti-semitism, which raging today, is exactly what Islam has helped to manufacture, not a lot has changed since the 1930’s, just many more neo-nazis and anti-semitics, are openly supporting them.
How do people write this stuff and get away with it? Same taqqiya template, same old same old. People who utter such nonsense must be under the impression people are as thick as four planks of wood to swallow all that rubbish. Unbelievable.
I find it of great concern that person often reminds his followers, that he speaks in UK schools. If you read his many tweets, like me, you would be wondering how on earth is such a person being allowed to enter UK schools, via channels using his ‘interfaithing’ affiliates, to most probably repeat such equally biased nonsense (under the guise of ‘cohesion’, ‘bridge building’ etc), to innocent young minds.
People in the UK need to take stock, keep track of, and investigate as to what this man is being allowed to say to their children. He’s not a qualified teacher, so why is he being permitted to enter UK schools, under the guise of being a moderate, when, if people took the time, and bothered to read his many twitterings, his views are far from moderate.

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armaros

11 years ago

max is a maggot

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Columnist

11 years ago

This man has a spastic fear that if Muslims are attacked today, Jews would be next. Let’s reverse this reflex. If Muslims attack Copts today, they will attack Jews next.

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fern

11 years ago

Mo, again….
There is a common Hollywood inspired misconception: that Freedom of Speech exists. It does not.
Freedom of Speech exists? Oh, but in your eyes it does, but only when you wish to use it.

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Morty62

11 years ago

Max Blumenthal’s perspective is forged in the furnace of Western guilt, which insists that violence against the West is always the fault of the West. It really doesn’t matter who is committing the violence. It is always our fault due to, take your pick, cultural insensitivity, discrimination, imperialism, colonialism, slavery, the Indians, the Inquisition, or the Crusades. Leftists like Blumenthal, and, sadly, like Bob Dylan, believe that Western, U.S. guilt burns eternally and for all time and that no amount of good acts can offer redemption. The West is the Puritan Preterite, beyond grace, and eminently worthy of whatever punishment befalls it.

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susan

11 years ago

some new-agers think that just by Thinking something, you can make it happen! i was accused (along with others) of starting (creating) the antifada simply by stating that the arabs would reject the peace talks & walk out of the talks. our “negative vibes” Caused the failure of the talks. they certainly wished i would disappear from this world along with other “negative thinkers”,

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