[ April 25, 2024 ]
34,697 deadly Islamic attacks since 9/11. And attacks against Jews by Muslim Jew-haters continue to soar forcing the Jewish people to flee the continent. “One of the worst tropes of our time has been stalking unhindered across the land. That is, of course, the latest push to make an equivalence between anti-Semitism and the crock term ‘Islamophobia.’” It’s bloody ironic that the root of the spike in Jew-hatred across the world is Islamic texts and teachings. To point that out is …….. “islamophobic.”
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The very word “Islamophobia” is a fictional construct, as journalist Claire Berlinski explains: “The neologism ‘Islamophobia’ did not simply emerge ex nihilo. It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia….Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, a former member of the IIIT who has renounced the group in disgust, was an eyewitness to the creation of the word. ‘This loathsome term,’ he writes, ‘is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliche conceived in the bowels of Muslim think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics.’
The term “Islamophobia” was designed specifically for the Western mindset of liberal white guilt, stealing the “civil rights” narrative from black Americans and mining the “oppression” Native Americans – even throwing in the specter of the Japanese internment camps during World War II. These are the clubs Islamic supremacists in the West use to beat down their opponents. Islamophobia is the knee-jerk smear thrown at anyone who dares to speak out or push back against the encroaching Sharia, the appeasement of Islamic supremacists demands on the secular marketplace, and the restriction of free speech.
In reality, “Islamophobia” is nothing more than a term that Islamic supremacists use to enforce what they can of Islamic blasphemy laws in the West: in Islamic law, to defame or insult Muhammad or Islam is blasphemy, and in many Muslim countries it’s punishable by death. There are daily reports of death sentences handed down in Muslim countries for perceived insults to Muhammad or Islam.
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“If I am not for myself who will be for me? If I am for myself only what am I? And if not now when?”—Hillel
The false equivalence between ‘Islamophobia’ and anti-Semitism
By Douglas Murray, The Spectator, 8 March 2019 (thanks to Inexion):
I have been travelling in the Middle East for the last few weeks and slightly regret returning to the maelstrom of ancient animosities and unbridgeable sectarianism that is modern Britain. But in my absence I see that one of the worst tropes of our time has been stalking unhindered across the land. That is, of course, the latest push to make an equivalence between anti-Semitism and the crock term ‘Islamophobia’.
It is not just in the UK that this play has been made. In America over recent days people have been able to follow the progress of the new Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar, with her supporters deciding to deflect attention from her expressions of anti-Semitism by claiming ‘Islamophobia’. Where this would once have been a fringe play, this time it has been adopted by the Democratic Party itself. So we are no longer talking about a harmless misunderstanding here. This is an equivalence that has developed legs.
In the UK it appears to have been embedded not only by anti-Semites in the Labour party who want to cover their tracks, but by the Conservative party and a range of others who ought to know better. It has been reported that the Conservative party has recently suspended a number of people who have said ugly and unpleasant things about Muslims on social media. Clearly where people have called for violence against any group of people then such people have no place in a political party. But this shaving of a dozen or so people from the Conservative ranks has been described as a cleansing of ‘Islamophobia’ from the party. Even Jacob Rees-Mogg has beenhappy to embed the idea that this is what has happened. And so the false equivalence gets embedded. The idea that just as there should be no place in the Labour party for anti-Semitism so there should be no place in the Conservative party for ‘Islamophobia’. One can only speculate over who might benefit from the falsehood that these are equal and equivalent problems.
If I had a pound for every time I have had to make the point I am about to make I could well become as rich as Jeremy Corbyn. But here we go again: anti-Semitism is hatred or suspicion of Jews because they are Jews. It is an irrational prejudice built on centuries of stereotypes and hatreds which culminated in the worst crime in human history, on our continent, in the last century. ‘Islamophobia’, by contrast, is a term which can claim almost anything that the wielder claims it to mean. So in many peoples’ eyes, it is ‘Islamophobic’ to ever say anything negative about any aspect of Islam or any action carried out by any Muslim in the name of their faith. Among much else, those who wield the term seem to hope that they can present the situation of Muslims in modern Europe as so dire that they have pretty much already suffered an equal amount to the Jews of Europe in the twentieth century. Islamists, their sympathisers and useful idiots appear to be hoping that if they can point to some mean things said on social media then in time they can present this as indistinguishable from the organised murder, in living memory, of six million Jews.<
There are people who complain that I am splitting hairs or being needlessly pedantic when I make this point. But the trouble is that if you build an idea based on a falsehood then you merely delay a problem you will have to deal with at some point. Let me give one very current example. In recent days footage has emerged of a protest by parents at a predominantly Muslim school in Birmingham who have organised protests against any teaching of matters to do with gays to their children. A video of the protest can be seen here. Since this came out social media has been filled with people from across the political spectrum making sure that they register their necessary – and comfortable – condemnation of this. And they have some help in this play of theirs. Because of course it is not as though Islam is the only faith which has problems with homosexuality. So one of the safe ways to object to the Birmingham schools protest is to stress that we must all oppose homophobia wherever it comes from, be it from Christians, Muslims or anybody else. Phew, obstacle in the road successfully dodged, eh?
Except that I would say not. For all things are not always and for all time the same. Nor do they always fall out in exactly the same way. The Christian churches managed to alter their teachings about homosexuality by a very long and slow adoption of aspects of the rights culture that had been adopted in wider society. It is not the case with the church everywhere, by any means. But in the West in general, in order to fit in to the prevailing culture the protestant churches have broadly altered their views, and even the Church of Rome has made noises under the present pontiff which suggest a softening of attitudes. There are all sorts of ways in which this can be achieved. But Christianity has a number of advantages here. Most noticeable is the fact that the Jesus of the Bible had nothing whatsoever to say about homosexuality, and since his general message would appear to have been one of love, kindness and forgiveness, modern Christians have found it fairly easy to present the Jesus of the Bible – rightly or wrongly – as a rather ‘live and let live’ figure when it comes to homosexuality as with almost everything else. A sort of Liberal Democrat in sandals. Or a Liberal Democrat.Sad to say, it is simply harder to make this case when it comes to the central figure in Islam. This is not to say that individual Muslims may not be able to reconcile themselves to homosexuality or indeed to be gay and Muslim themselves. But it’s definitely all a much harder proposition. If Jesus had been quoted – as Muhammad is in the hadith (sayings) – as saying that two men found in the act of bum fun should be killed then Christians everywhere would have a much harder time with the pro-gay argument. Every time some nice vicar said ‘But shouldn’t we love our fellow man’ someone else would say, ‘But did our Lord not command that the person doing the act and the person it is being done to should both be killed?’ Might there then not be a lot of beard-stroking, and an awkward concern that the scriptures weren’t wholly on the side of the gays? Again, this isn’t to say that Islam has to be at all times immutable and unchangeable in the way in which it is understood and enacted. But it is to point out that it might not be enough just to talk about ‘condemning homophobia wherever it comes from’. Or to put it another way, such a response is not just callow, but really shamefully shallow.And this is where we return to the problem which I started with. Which is how you could have anything more than a shallow and cowardly debate about this without finding yourself condemned for ‘Islamophobia’? It is difficult, isn’t it? Because the modern multi-cultural get-out is that everything – including every religion – basically comes out the same in the wash, and that if we just unite against ‘all forms of bigotry’ that wash will bring us to some equitable nirvana.As has often been said, ‘Islamophobia’ is a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. As it happens, we have plenty of religiously inclined fascists in Britain (as in America), including a number now in positions of legislative power from across the parties. We also have a whole plethora of cowards, from left and right, willing to dodge any problem and audibly sigh with relief as they imagine that having dodged the problem they will no longer have to encounter it again. But the one positive thing is that there are fewer morons than the fascists and cowards would wish. The general public are not morons. And we can find things out for ourselves. We have access to information. And so it would seem that in the matter of ‘Islamophobia’, as with a range of other matters, it is the people who are expected to be morons who will have to continue to correct the people who aspire to lead us.
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23 Comments
5 years ago
Gotta love Murray!
5 years ago
Thoughtful and illuminating little essay.
5 years ago
The irony is that to be Islamophobic is not irrational. It is based on the conduct of those among that group of believers who are actually spewing their hate and causing violent conduct. To conclude that you have a legitimate fear of these people is not only rational, but it has become unavoidable to protect yourself from these very dangerous believers. Therefore, I will tell all that I am an Islamophobic, as I have every right to be. Islam promotes and preaches total domination and forced subjugation as its fundamental expectation. Judaism does NOT! How can one legitimately equate the fundamental beliefs espoused by Islam with the religion that is Jewish. There is no rational basis to ever compare the two. One is political, totalitarian and violent, while the other is a “passive” system of faith that espouses throughout its history the one God philosophy, a protector God, who gave its people the Ten Commandments that represent goodness and good neighborliness, with Sharia law being a repressive gender biased Islamic commandment. As a final comment, nowhere can you find that the Jews are forcing their belief system on others. That speaks volumes, and is the final nail in the coffin that places Islamophobia as rational fear for all of us non-Muslims.
5 years ago
Reply to
Dnnis
The left loves to speak in opposites and redefine words as well as add now words and definitions.
5 years ago
I’ve never cottoned to the term, “anti-Semitism”, as it almost sounds tolerable. Rather, call it what it is, outright hatred of Jews. Call it “Jew Hatred”. As far as izslumophobia …. You can call me a moslem hater and I shall readily admit that I am. Moreover, I am proud of being a moslem hater.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
I discriminate. Call me a Muslim hater too. I could are less.
ISLAM = EVIL!
Islam is easy to resist.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Muslims like Christians come in all shapes and varieties. Muslims however are completely unlike Christians who can join or leave the ‘faith’ as they wish; Muslims are branded like calves at birth and must remain so all their lives on pain of death. If they have low interest they need to keep quiet about it. Islam is like totalitarian states which had ‘block’ supervisors to keep people in line and report deviance to the ‘authorities’
Muslims are not allowed even to question their religion whereas Christians have been able to do so for centuries and yes I admit many died for doing so.
Nothing is more clear than the fundamental words of Mohammad condemning apostasy and as Mohammad can do no wrong his words must be obeyed for all eternity, even family members cannot stray (become Westernised or integrate) without dire consequences. The ‘umma’ is like a vast concentration camp where the guards are the inmates themselves.
So the thing that is hateful is Islam itself and those who hold it and its laws to be superior to all other laws and practices.
Individual Muslims only invite hatred when they follow that ethos and try to impose their religion on all non Muslims. Which unfortunately many of them do!
5 years ago
Reply to
leonore35
If you want to be an islamophiliac, that is your right. I, on the other hand, exercise my right to be a moslem hater.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Muslims like Christians come in all shapes and varieties. Muslims however are completely unlike Christians who can join or leave the ‘faith’ as they wish; Muslims are branded like calves at birth and must remain so all their lives on pain of death. If they have low interest they need to keep quiet about it. Islam is like totalitarian states which had ‘block’ supervisors to keep people in line and report deviance to the ‘authorities’
Muslims are not allowed even to question their religion whereas Christians have been able to do so for centuries and yes I admit many died for doing so.
Nothing is more clear than the fundamental words of Mohammad condemning apostasy and as Mohammad can do no wrong his words must be obeyed for all eternity, even family members cannot stray (become Westernised or integrate) without dire consequences. The ‘umma’ is like a vast concentration camp where the guards are the inmates themselves.
So the thing that is hateful is Islam itself and those who hold it and its laws to be superior to all other laws and practices.
Individual Muslims only invite hatred when they follow that ethos and try to impose their religion on all non Muslims. Which unfortunately many of them do!
5 years ago
Ahem… I am certainly not better than anyone else but I don’t want to be lumped in with being okay with LBGT.
“Most noticeable is the fact that the Jesus of the Bible had nothing whatsoever to say about homosexuality, and since his general message would appear to have been one of love, kindness and forgiveness, modern Christians have found it fairly easy to present the Jesus of the Bible – rightly or wrongly – as a rather ‘live and let live’ figure when it comes to homosexuality as with almost everything else. ”
WRONG!
Homosexuality is condemned in the Old and New Testament. Christians believe Jesus is God in the flesh and also believe the apostles conveyed God’s message. Jesus didn’t directly condemn abortions either but we know from the Old Testament it is wrong and Jesus certainly showed a love for children and never endorsed baby killing in any form and neither did the apostles. Without getting into verses, harming children showed God viewed that as qualifying for capital punishment (Matt. 18:6, Mark 9:42, Luke 17:2) God allows choice. You can accept of reject His teachings. No where is LBGT endorsed in either the Old or the New Testament. It doesn’t have to be explicitly rejected to quality. It is considered “unnatural”. The nature of God is clear. “Thou shalt not murder” is still in force for Christians in the New Testament too. So Christians aren’t throwing LGBT or abortionists off roof tops etc..
Yes God does discriminate between right and wrong and wants followers of Him to do the same thing. I believe all will be judged on this. Since perfection is impossible, I ask, is it wise to advocate for what is wrong and defend it for political points or to be politically correct? I guess it depends on priorities? Temporal or eternal? Which is it? Why not advocate and defend therapy for LBGT? It has had success stories. Instead we now teach little kids that LBGT is normal and you can give birth and confer with a doctor or a non medical person and still murder a baby. That is what defending LBGT has gotten you. Is is worth political points or a few votes? The majority of LBGT still votes DEM anyway.
5 years ago
How are you supposed to view the moslums since 9/11. Now add all the rapes and stabbings and bombings. Now listen to all the hatred against Israel, Jews and
Christians. Now read the hate in the koran.
5 years ago
The engine that runs History is the hatred for the People of God and is taking a full unstoppable moment on this century.
This how bad it is.
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5 years ago
The censorship hiding Hitler’s Muhammadist conviction made the false equation between the really Muhammadist anti-Judaism & the condemnation of the unjust Muhammadism possible &
the censorship of enslavement of Africans today unfortunately makes the Muhammadist propaganda cloaking itself in the American 60’s anti-racism movement possible.
Facts:
– Unjust mass-murderer Hitler who viewed the unjust Muhammadism as ultimate Nazi religion demanded the unjust Muhammadism for Germany by telling his architect & minister of war Albert Speer that the unjust Muhammadism would match the German temperament better.
Ahmed Huber who claimed to have been a friend of Hitler wrote that Hitler had said “The only religion I respect is Islam. The only prophet I admire is Muhammad.”
Many Nazi criminals openly converted to the unjust Muhammadism after the war & worked in the Egyptian Muhammadist tyranny under Nasser & in Syria.
Unjust Muhammad said his Messiah would return when trees & stones would lure Muhammadists to unjustly murder Jews.
– Today Africans are enslaved, castrated, divorced, beaten & killed in Saudi Arabia & enslaved in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks (see Wikiislam).
5 years ago
5 years ago
The graphic-announcement on attacks by Muhammadists in February 2019 in the article shows a death-toll of 883,
150 attacks,
547 injuries,
10 suicide blasts
& 22 countries.
Does anyone know more background on this?
There was an attack with I think 30 people killed in Nigeria lately. & the other instances?
I think it has been a mistake of Trump to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia & the now Muhammadist Boko Haram-affiliated government in Nigeria.
People need protection.
5 years ago
While I am not a believer in the “Divine Jew Theory” I can find nothing where Jews have attacked innocent people and have & will lend
my rifle to support them.
All the races of the Middle East would be better off if Israel was their ruler.
As a rule I have found Jews to be very good people.
All races have their idiots.
5 years ago
Islamophobia is a new Leftist/Commiecrat term of derision much like being called a racist or a homophobic, yet fear of Muslims, even an inordinate fear of Muslims, is not unreasonable, no more unreasonable than fear of rabid dogs or bats. They exist in plentiful numbers and a bite can be fatal. Whenever I see here in Houston a purported woman walking in a full burka I can’t stop thinking she may have a bomb strapped to her ample belly. Is that thought reasonable or phobic? I think not. Let us turn this term around on the Left and urge everyone to be “Islamophobic.” It is not unreasonable to fear Muslims,it is only exercising good judgment and security for oneself,ones family and community. We need to teach our children to be wary of all things Islamic as well.
5 years ago
I DISAGREE WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT HERE: Clearly where people have called for violence against any group of people then such people have no place in a political party. WHAT IF THE PEOPLE ARE DEFENDING THEMSELVES FROM NAZIS, COMMUNISTS OR MUSLIMS WHO BELIEVE IT IS OK TO KILL THEM? I CONSIDER THAT SELF-DEFENSE!
FACT IS MOST ISLAMICS SUPPORTED NAZISM & HITLER IN WWII! Read the book, “Icon of Evil” and learn! The Holocaust was promoted by Palestinian Mufti, Haj Amin Husseini, founder of the Arab League THAT THE PLO ORIGINATED FROM WHO SPENT WWII IN MODERN BOSNIA MURDERING SERBS AND JEWS LEADING AN ISLAMIC ARMY IN ALLIANCE WITH NAZI GERMANY WHO WAS CLOSE TO HITLER PERSONALLY!
THIS AUTHOR IS A NICE CHAP! However nice becomes rice when U are dealing with sociopathic freaks AND IT ISN’T A PHOBIA TO FEAR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IT IS THEIR DUTY TO KILL YOU! THE PROBLEM WITH MAINSTREAM, FUNDAMENTALIST ISLAM IS ITS SHARIA WHICH IS FOR REAL! THE UK IS GOING UNDER IN ITS SHARIA COMPLIANCE! IS WHAT IT IS!
5 years ago
Keep telling the truth, Ms. Geller!
And I mean that both as an encouragement of when you do it right (as in this example),
and as a caution against adopting the same truth-twisting, lying, propagandistic identity-politics tactics that have long characterized the jihadi apologists you staunchly oppose.
It just makes us as bad as them, if we do that.
I understand “fake news” gets results. And why one might be tempted. But it’s a slippery slope into a rat hole. Don’t go there. You all know what I’m talking about.
