"The fury of the new enemies of Islam is similar to the older rage of anti-Semites against the Jews"

Is "professor" Wolfgang Benz Europe's John Esposito?

Is "professor" Wolfgang Benz Europe's John Esposito?

Is "professor" Wolfgang Benz Europe's John Esposito?

Sorry about the three similar statements. It's the Type-Pad problem everyone's been complaining about.

Relativism run amok.

I will not be reading it, nor will ever be reading the WSJ again. Supporting Islam is de facto supporting anti-Semitism, and often not de facto, but rather an unholy alliance. Disgusting.

What race is Islam, again?

And saying "Muslim fundamentalism is dangerous" is Islamaphobic? What planet are you living on, Abduljalil Sajid? Sounds like taqiyya to me. Or just plain laughable.

The way that appeasers and dhimmis distort the facts in order to say that legitimate concerns about the threat to Western Civilization that islam is are "racism" (and let's ask the question Vee asked again) and "islamophobia" is simply disgusting and beyond the pale. But it obviously and sinisterly shifts the debate away from where it should be, which is how islamic tenets are the fuel for those threats, and takes it instead into the realm of xenophobia, racial prejudice and a supposed failure of European countries to "integrate minorities and immigrants" (as though it were possible for muslims to be truly integrated without completely rejecting islam.)

Saying "Long love Israel" is Islamaphobic??

If I say "Long live America/Britain/Denmark et al, is that also Islamaphobic?
Heaven help us!

Don't expect much moral fortitude and integrity to come out of Germany. It does more trade with Iran than any other Western nation. And considering this important information about Iran highlighted by Küntzel: "Never before has the elimination of the Jewish state been so loudly propagated. Never before has an influential power made Holocaust denial the center of its foreign policy, as Iran has today. Never before has a U.N. forum been misused for an anti-Semitic speech, as it was on Sept. 23 by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad"....one can only be appalled by Germany's present relationship with Iran when one contemplates its brutal past.Shameful,unforgiveable and inexcusable. And the same goes for Switzerland,also collaborating and trading with evil. But what's new?

Johndoe, once non-muslim Germans become persecuted in their own country by muslims when the latter are no longer a minority, and the same fate that has befallen Copts in Egypt and Buddhists in Southern Thailand befalls them, I suppose they'll finally ask themselves the question "How could this possibly have happened?"

The warning signs are all over the place, be it the sharia courts in the UK, the no-go zones for infidels in Brussels, Paris's Banlieues, homosexual-beatings in Amsterdam, anti-Semitic violence in most European capitals, just to mention a few. And yet not only do they choose to ignore it, but they twist them in order to make it sound like the real enemy should actually be considered a victim. The article from the WSJ only shows another piece of evidence of this slow suicide that most Europeans seem pretty OK to be victims of.

Can these idiots not get it into their thick skulls that unlike muslims, Jews were and are committed to their country!

One British Rabbi told of a memorial in a ruined Berlin Synagogue to a young Jewess killed bravely serving her Kaiser in WW1. Seeing it he wondered if his father, bravely serving his King in the same war had shot her. I cannot see an Imam going to a mosque in Pakistan and asking himself the same question.

It gets better than that. Ready?

King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia has been awarded the Lech Walesa Prize for the promotion of TOLERANCE.

(read it on bivouac-ID a French site quoting Courrier International).

I loathe and despise fascism. Must I be labeled a 'fascismophobe'? Which makes me say that 'islamophobia' is a very badly coined word.

"islamophobia" is BS. It is a term made up by Koranists and their apologists to gain victim status. Every day we see how Koranists continue to make great strides in the West, proving that this "phobia" is indeed a figment of their fevered imaginations. Infidelophobia on the other hand has killed and enslaved millions over the centuries, yet NOBODY ever uses this term to describe a real phenomenon despite what we see on the news every single day.

"One British Rabbi told of a memorial in a ruined Berlin Synagogue to a young Jewess killed bravely serving her Kaiser in WW1. Seeing it he wondered if his father, bravely serving his King in the same war had shot her. I cannot see an Imam going to a mosque in Pakistan and asking himself the same question."

During WW1, Germany was on the side of muslim Turkey against Christian Russia. During the Crimea War, England was on the side of muslim Turkey against Christian Russia.

It's funny how the muslims try to use the holocaust as an example while they are at the same time denying it even happend

So call me an islamophobe, who cares?
It means I have the sense to know when I am being threatened by a totalitarian cult.

By the way I would also avoid using the word 'infidel' that the mohammedans use to designate all that is not mohammedan. It is not only derogatory, but also and above all absurd.
I think using the correct words has its importance.

Some thoughts on the coinage 'Islamophobia'.

This article says that the word 'Islamophobia' was first used by the Council of Europe in 2005.

I think it would be very interesting to find out, if one could, its very first appearance in print or other media, in English.

I understand that although first used by the Council of Europe in 2005, it had in fact appeared at least 8 years earlier, in 1997, in England, in a publication put out by an organisation sneakily entitled 'The Runnymede Trust'', in an article called "Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All".

There used to be an online version of the article but it seems to have disappeared; however the entry for 'Runnymede Trust' at wikipedia is...interesting. Perhaps UK readers and posters might know more about this organisation.

An Australian sociologist called Rachel A D Bloul, in an article from 2003,

http://www.anu.edu.au/NEC/Archive/bloul_paper.pdf

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:WgQ6hBOtD7cJ:www.anu.edu.au/NEC/Archive/bloul_paper.pdf+Islamophobia+first+recorded+use+of+word&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=10&gl=au

quotes two paragraphs from the Runnymede Trust article, that make the hair stand up on the back of your neck as you watch the newspeak artists at work (she, of course, thinks the whole idea is fine...):

"Anti-Muslim prejudice {remember, we're talking pre-1997, so people are going by hijackings, etc - dda}

'has grown so considerably and so rapidly in recent years

'that a *new item in the vocabulary is needed so that it can be identified and acted against* {my emphasis added - dda}.

"In a similar way, there was a time in European history when a new word, anti-Semitism, was needed and coined to highlight the growing dangers of anti-Jewish hostility"...{note the totally false equivalence, Muslim = Jew; JEWS had not been running around killing people, blowing things up, hijacking planes, etc etc - dda}.

So perhaps this is where the word 'Islamophobia' was coined, in 1997 in the UK.

There's a jihadwatch article from March 2007 that includes some discussion of the Runnymede Trust propaganda piece:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015850.php

I'm not quite sure about how to check whether the word occurs in English (or in another European language) in black and white before 1997, or whether the 'Runnymede Trust' must be considered its inventor and publiciser.

It would be worth finding out when exactly the 'Runnymede Trust' was founded, by whom, and with whose money, and the names of its 'researchers', etc.

Related:

From IsraelMatzav:

What 'Islamophobia'?

A report issued on Thursday by none other than the Arab American Committee Against Discrimination surprisingly showed that there are fewer anti-Muslim incidents in the United States today than there were at any time 9/11.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said it received an average of 120 to 130 reports of ethnically motivated attacks or threats each year between 2003 and 2007, a sharp decrease from the 700 violent incidents it documented in the weeks following the 2001 attacks.
But that figure is still higher than the 80 to 90 reports it received in the late 1990s, the civil rights group said.

That may sound like a lot to some of you. But it's really not. Let's look at anti-Semitic incidents in 2007:

The League's annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, issued today, counted a total of1,554 anti-Semitic incidents across the United States in 2006, representing a 12 percent decline from 1,757 reported in 2005.

While there are more than 3.5 million Jews in the US, there are less than 7 million. And the gap between 1,554 and 1,757 on the one hand and 120 to 130 on the other cannot be explained by population size.

Maybe more people hate Jews? Maybe the Jews need protection, not the Muslims?

I'm a proud islamaphobe and whenever the opportunity arises, I encourage islamaphobia in the people that I meet. Reclaim the enLIGHTenment.

It's not Islam that scares me. I'm a shariaphobe and a terrorphobe, as well as a rapeophobe and an abductophobe.

dda

The Runnymede Trust
Founded in 1968, the Runnymede Trust is an independent think-tank on issues of ethnicity and cultural diversity. Its core mandate is to challenge racial discrimination, to influence anti-racist legislation and to promote a successful multi-ethnic Britain.
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Brushfield Street
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Their web site is very professional and they run courses on diversity, multi-ethnic culture and anti-racism all over the country. This sort of thing is not financed by shaking collecting boxes at weekend shoppers. I would guess they are funded by the EU, Unions and government grants either directly or through "independent" charities.

They are trotted out in the MSM and on the BBC occasionally as the authentic voice of reason and authority on multicultural matters. They tend to keep fairly quiet as their main job seems to be PC education. One of their recent papers informed us that we have had an Asian presence in Britain for 400 years so you get the picture.

You will of course understand the implication of the name, Runnymede Trust after Runnymede where Magna Carta was signed. The implication being the are today's guardians of the freedoms first set down there.

2nd posting

Everybody should be an enemy of Islam, including Muslims.

"islamophobia" is the only invention Muhammedans ever made. Or was it a Jew who invented it for them...

"islamophobia" is the only invention Muhammedans ever made.

Or could it be that it was a Jew who invented it for them?

Muslims didn't invent narcissism, but they certainly invented victimzing people and then claiming to be victims whenever they are caught or accused of that which they actually did. They invented lying-as-normalcy. They invented the sicko-pervert universe in which they live wherein mass murder, rape, plunder, torture, slavery, incest, pedophilia, lying, and extortion are 'moral.' They invented 'religion' without theology or morality but with politics and war.

Is it the muslims, or is it islam?

I say it is islam, and thats it.

They say it depends on what the meaning of "is", is.

Pretty slick.

Perhaps the good professor Benz can explain what term to apply when Islamists and/or other Muslims vilify Jews. They do this often in their press/media, schools, mosques, universities, press cartoons, so on and so on. It is official dogma in many Muslim states, in Iran, in Malaysia [where there were never many Jews], in Israel's peace partner Egypt, in Israel's other peace partner Jordan, in Our Good Friend the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, etc. Please tell us Good Professor what to call Judeophobia when Arabs and other Muslims do it.

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"In a similar way, there was a time in European history when a new word, anti-Semitism, was needed and coined to highlight the growing dangers of anti-Jewish hostility"

Our learned Professor Bloul down under represents that energetic new breed of scholars who are either woefully ignorant of history, even recent history, or deliberately make up "history" for politically correct purposes. In fact, the term "antisemitismus" was invented by a Judeophobic journalist named Wilhelm Marr in late 19th century Germany, NOT to "highlight the growing dangers of anti-Jewish hostility" but to encourage and promote it. What kind of mind-numbing, dumbing-down soil do these academic ignoramuses grow up from?