Here is a new piece by DC Watson, on "Islamophobia":
Merriam-Webster: “pho-bia”: an exaggerated, usually inexplicable and illogical fear.In January 2005, Muslim groups reportedly met with U.S. State Department officials to discuss issues related to American foreign policy.
They presented State Department officials with a proposal for cooperative efforts to challenge both “Islamophobia” and anti-Americanism.
The proposal stated that "by challenging anti-Muslim bigotry, we can help reduce anti-American attitudes in the Islamic world."
Certainly the Muslim world takes issue with the United States over many aspects of our foreign policy, particularly the Israeli-Palestinian situation. But what will changing our policies on these issues accomplish, either internationally or domestically? Have we somehow missed another low budget bin Laden video, telling Americans to be kind to Muslims, and in return, he’ll command the Islamic world to love the United States? No. For the record, Muslim Americans' median household income of about $70,000 is comfortably above the national average. If "anti-Muslim bigotry" were as rampant as is claimed by these groups, how did American Muslims attain to this comfortable standard of living? Several Muslim physicians I work with will attest that "anti-Muslim bigotry" is actually at quite a low level in the United States.
Could the true reason for this State Department meeting be stemming from the recent Cornell University survey, which reported that 44% of Americans would curtail Muslim civil liberties?
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec04/Muslim.Poll.bpf.html
The following statements have been extracted from published columns. They were made by prominent so-called moderate Muslims living in the United States of America. Some of these same prominent so-called moderate Muslims attended this meeting with the U.S. State Department, or are involved with groups that were represented there.
Some of these same prominent so-called moderate Muslims are on record labeling millions of Americans as ignorant, biased, bigoted, hateful “Islamophobes,” incapable of understanding Islam.
This is an open invitation for the peaceful and decent people among the Muslims in America to consider this question: do you realize who is speaking on your behalf?
We’ve all heard a radical statement here, or a threatening statement there. But the comments below are tied together by an obvious common agenda -- an agenda that calls for the destruction of this nation as a philosophical, economic, and legal entity.
1992. Siraj Wahaj, New Jersey: “If only Muslims were more clever politically, they would take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a Caliphate” [Islamic leadership body]. “If we were united and strong, we would elect our own leader and give allegiance to him. Take my word, if the 6 to 8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us.”
http://www.blessedcause.org/Antichrist%20ID/ACLU%20attacks%20Constitution.htm
1994. Nihad Awad, at a Barry University forum: “I am in support of the Hamas movement.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6473
1998. Omar Ahmad, at a Flamingo Palace Banquet Hall event in California: “Muslim institutions, schools and economic power should be strengthened in America.” “Those who stay in America should be “open to society without melting (into it)”
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran . . . should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/888598/posts
Look for the reference to a newspaper article entitled “American Muslim Leader Urges Faithful to Spread Word,” by Lisa Gardiner, San Ramon Valley Herald, July 4, 1998. Five years after this story appeared, Ahmad denied saying this, but Gardiner sticks by the accuracy of her reporting.
November 2000. Abdurrahman Alamoudi, at a rally against Israel, Lafayette Park, across from the White House: “Hear that, Bill Clinton! We are all supporters of Hamas. I wish they added that I am also a supporter of Hezbollah. Anybody support Hezbollah here?”http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/commentprint110500e.html
1993. Ibrahim Hooper, Minneapolis Star Tribune: “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future....But I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”Omar M. Ahmad: Suicide bombers “kill themselves for Islam” and so are not terrorists”.
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/c172.html
Nihad Awad also wrote in the Muslim World Monitor that the World Trade Center trial, which resulted in the 1994 conviction of four Islamic terrorists, was "a travesty of justice." That's despite the fact that some of the perpetrators confessed to involvement in the 1993 attack.http://www.apologeticsindex.org/news1/an010929-14.html
Anis Shorrosh, author of Islam Revealed, has published an "analysis of the Islamic invasion of America, the agenda of Islamists and visible methods to take over America by the year 2020." He asks: "Will Americans continue to sleep through this invasion as they did when we were attacked on 9/11?"Method number 1: Terminate America's freedom of speech by replacing it with statewide and nationwide hate-crime bills.
Method number 4: Nominate Muslim sympathizers to political office to bring about favorable legislation toward Islam and support potential sympathizers by block voting.
Method number 5: Take control of as much of Hollywood, the press, TV, radio and the Internet as possible by buying the related corporations or a controlling stock.
Method number 7: Yell "Foul, out-of-context, personal interpretation, hate crime, Zionist, un-American, inaccurate interpretation of the Qur’an" anytime Islam is criticized or the Qur’an is analyzed in the public arena.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33898
Imam Siraj Wahaj calls for the replacing the American government with a caliphate, warning that America will crumble unless it “accepts the Islamic agenda.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6473
August 2003: Ibrahim Hooper on President Bush’s appointment of Dr. Daniel Pipes to the United States Institute of Peace: “This back-door move by the president is a defeat for democracy and an affront to all those who seek peace. Pipe’s appointment calls into question all of President Bush’s previous statements claiming that the war on terrorism is not an attack on Islam and shows disdain for the democratic process.”
http://www.anti-cair-net.org/press_021_03
Other Muslims, however, expressed an opposite point of view regarding Pipes’ appointment:Ms. Fatima Sayyed: “Many moderate American Muslims, frustrated by and angry at the extremist policies of militant Islamist organizations in the US and their efforts to portray themselves as the sole voice of Islam, have welcomed the nomination of Daniel Pipes.”
Tashbih Sayyed, President of Council for Democracy and Tolerance: “The United States of America has welcomed Muslims with open arms, irrespective of their sect and ethnicity, and it is the duty of all American Muslims to condemn these representatives of Islamist extremism.”
Dr. Younus Mansour, an Egyptian scholar and author: “Daniel Pipes is doing a service for the Muslims by warning America against the designs of CAIR, MPAC, and their ilk. These organizations want to divide American society. Any country that supports freedoms and democratic values is our friend and all those who work against the American interests are the enemies of American Muslims.”
April 2004: UC Berkeley Lecturer Hatem Bazian calls for an Intifada in the United States during a San Francisco Peace Rally: “We’re sitting here and watching the world pass by, people are being bombed, and it’s about time that we have an Intifada (uprising) in this country that change fundamentally the political dynamics in here”. “They’re gonna say some Palestinian being too radical, well, you haven’t seen radicalism yet!”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2004_05.php
And yet after all this, American Muslim advocacy group leaders still have the audacity to talk about "Islamophobia." In December 2004, Nihad Awad said: "Elected representatives, government officials and other opinion leaders must finally recognize that Islamophobia is a growing phenomenon in American society that must be urgently addressed"
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/12-17-2004/0002639656&EDATE=
It's true: there are issues that must be urgently addressed. The statements I have quoted above confirm that. Those statements should be addressed by our elected officials, and by anyone who shares a deep respect for this nation, its culture, and all it offers.
If the individuals who made the statements above while on American soil are wondering why so many Americans have negative views of Islam, all they have to do is look at their own words.
These statements must be addressed so that these groups will not succeed in their aim (which they hope to attain by waving a phony race card) of placing limitations on Americans' right to free speech. Americans are free thinkers. The Muslims who made the statements above should have the spine to stop running to the government crying "Islamophobia" when Americans react negatively to such words, and explain their remarks publicly. But of course, crying "Islamophobia" seems to be all part of their plan.
Hello Doc!
Beautiful work. Our law-inforcement officials should really be looking hard at bringing sedition charges against these guys.
Thanks for providing this. It's helpful.
All my best,
Rebecca
Those who cry foul in the American Islamic community by labeling us American infidels as "Islamophobics",` suffer from a disorder called "factualphobia". The best cure for all phobias is to confront it head on and accept it for what it really is---Just the fact mam,just the facts!
Just think about what these people want to do to the Earth, they want to eliminate two thirds of the world's population. What is wrong with our media that they will not expose this and fight for our right to live. This is truly like every old sci-fi movie you ever watched... the threat from planet X is revealed to some but the media and authorities either don't believe the threat or are infiltrated by the aliens. It just boggles my mind that this blindness is so widespread.
Unfortunately, getting the Left to react prior to being on the edge of extinction is what you might call a miracle. For now, their "real" enemy is George W. Bush. Even more unfortunate is that our children have this drilled into them at school. When they get home, they can watch the nightly news and hear the same song being sung. After all, the political agenda is far more important than survival.
Media results from Drudge this morning regarding nielson ratings of 3 cable news stations during the presidents inauguration ceremonies.
Please draw your own conclusions.
FNC -- 2,439,000 (up 57% OVER '01)
CNN -- 1,353,000 (down 14% over '01)
MSNBC -- 385,000 (down 47% over '01)
An article from the UK Guardian (of all places) laos pointing out that "Islamophobia" has been greatly exaggerated: http://www.kenanmalik.com/essays/islamophobia_guardian.html
I think CAIR doesn't really understand what they're saying,a Phobia is a unfounded fear based
on a false perception of a threat to the person.
Islam has created a well-founded fear based on the reality of past actions,any American having a fear of Muslims is a very wise person and not a fool consumed with unrealistic visions of tragedies.
The new word Homophobe is another example
of misuse,homo refers to like persons and phobia is the unfounded fear.
Thus a homophobe is someone that fears people like themselves,so go figure that one out.
COngratulationds on a well written article.
Much in tune with Steven Emerson's American Jihad i am reading at the moment.
There is of course another war the Islamists are waging, a war that is less often mentioned on this site than the war on the infidel.
A war of indoctrination on western muslims to bring them in line with the supremacist and genocidal doctrines.
When we hear the vitriol, i am often told that Islam has been highjacked and unlike the Catholic Church that issues edicts from the Vatican, no such procass applies to Islam and this makes the stealing of the "microphone"much easier.
Islamists cannot "take over" any western nation unless it first convinces the majority of muslims to back such action. So what can we do about that ?
Smoke and mirrors aptly describe this ridiculous word and phenomenon. Although relatively new to our lexicon, it is already hackneyed to the point of evoking nausea.
Another excellent essay, which I hope you sent to somebody in Washington, not that it will do any good. At least when the s*^t hits the fan, our brilliant lawmakers won't be able to say they weren't warned.
Every word that Ibrahaim Hooper utters or writes for the consumption of the general population makes Islam and muslims a little more despised and resented. The best thing the jihadists who claim to represent American muslims could do is keep running their stupid mouths.
Attention: Islamic World.
So we Americans are incapable of understanding Islam?
We clearly understand that Islam legalizes murder. We clearly uunderstand that Islam's Qur'an (or counterfeit Bible) states "slay the infidels, capture them, besiege them, set every strategem of war upon, tax them if they convert." That passage is an attempt at legalization of murder. That's all we need to know about your so-called 'religion,' that's all we need to understand about it, and that's what we are going to base our future dealings with it on.
The assertion that "millions of Americans are ignorant, biased, bigoted, hateful 'Islamophobes' incapable of understanding Islam", is, IMO, actually true in large measure.
There are hundreds of millions of Americans out there--with a virtually unlimited and varied range of interests, concerns, and points of view. While most are probably capable of understanding Islam, if they wanted to, many of them are just struggling to raise a family and make it from payday to payday, while others are more concerned with the next weekend's activities or some event in their personal lives than with current events. Most have neither read a single passage from the Qur'an or its related texts, or conducted any Islamic research on their own. Some may just be bigoted by upbringing, and simply don't like anyone who doesn't look, act or think like they do.
Those folks probably are 'Islamophobic', in that their bias, bigotry and hate result from irrational fears based on the faulty understanding of Islamic teachings foisted upon them by activists, politicians, and journalists. If only they knew how ugly the truth really is.
While hoping to be proved wrong, I believe that it will take another major Jihadist attack in America to expose such deceitful activists, politicians, and journalists as politically correct apologists for a religion that really hasn't been hijacked at all.
The results of such an event will certainly expose the false and misleading claims of those activists, politicians, and journalists, and those millions of Americans will no longer be either ignorant or Islamophobic, for their hatred and bias will then be based upon the reality of Islam's worldwide expansionist goals.
I noticed that D.C. Watson's orginal open letter of a month or so ago was published in at least on newspaper. Did it generate much commentary from that newspaper's readers?
Instead of just keying in our frustrations here, how about creating a printable list of simple steps and procedures that each of us can take to ensure that activists, politicians and journalists can no longer keep those millions of Americans Islamophobic.
D.C. Watson....excellent article.
Bob C.....excellent idea.
BOBC
there are millions of Muslims that DO NOT WANT TO CUT OUR THROATS , AND ARE HAPPY TO LIVE IN A FREE SOCIETY.
And yes to them ISLAM HAS BEEN HIGHJACKED, and they know that the price of living in the west is to persecuted my the Mullahs back home, who the US government in their STUPIDITY allow to come over here and chase the expats.
Most "Islamic" mosques, community centers and organizations in North America and Europe are in fact Saudi and Gulf State funded Wahhabi mosques, community centers and organizations. These have been well prepared for decades to serve as the launching pads for coming mass murder attacks in North America and Europe.
THIS IS WHAT NON WAHHABIST MUSLIMS have to face.
We must not tar all muslims with the same brush, many in the west are terrorised by the SAUDI planned indoctrination and persecutions of Muslims abroad.
BECAUSE we see Saudi money flowing into our Universities to spread wahhanism to our American youth, we forget that ordinary muslims are also getting the treatment and here i can also say the for the US state department and presididencies to maintain the corrupt relationns with Saidis is the worst shameful scandal in US History
Wahhabi money flows through most Middle East studies departments at academic institutions in North America and Europe. Wahhabi money flows through a good deal of the Western press, such as Cable Network News, which would be better renamed Saudi Network News.
Look at the History of modern violent jihad, and you will see that is started with the downfall of the Ottaman Empire.
Yes the British in their hatred of the Turks and longing for control of Arab Oil , unleashed the opening of the pandora's box of horroros we now see all over the world.
Englishmen like Lawrence Of Arabia and St John Philby, were arabists to the extreme who took dubious sexual pleasures in dressing in arab tribesmen gear. They had strong NAZI leanings and were instrumental in the ascendace of the House of Saud to power at the cost of the Hashemites.
From 1924-1926 the Wahhabi Saud Tribe conquered the western Arabian province of Hejaz with its Holy Cities of Islam -- Mecca and Medina -- from Sherif Hussein, the Bani HaShem (Hashemite) dynasty. The Bani HaShem (Hashemites) were direct descendents of Muhammad, Prophet of Islam, and the traditional guardians of Mecca and Medina.
[Hussein, the Sherif of Mecca and Medina, signed an agreement with Chaim Weizmann that the Jewish people could have Palestine for a Jewish State. The Wahhabi Saud Tribe was bitterly opposed to a Jewish State.]
THE HASHEMITES DESCENDANT OF THE PROPHET WAS IN AGREEMENT WITH A JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL
It is the unchecquered rise of the wahhabists, for so long controlled by the Ottamans and the Hashemites that is ultimately behind the "New" extremism of today.