Muslim DC Comics superhero suffers terribly from "Islamophobia"

DC Comics relentlessly trying to buttress the faltering narrative of "Islamophobia" by portraying its new Muslim superhero as a victim of relentless anti-Muslim hate: "DC Comics introduces new Muslim superhero," by Omar Sacirbey for Religion News Service, September 7:

Green was the favorite color of Islam’s founder Prophet Muhammad, so it seems fitting that the world’s latest Muslim superhero has joined the small but diverse circle of superheroes who’ve worn the Green Lantern ring.

American comics giant DC Comics introduced Simon Baz to readers Wednesday (Sep. 5) in a special issue explaining the character’s origins. Baz is a Lebanese American from Dearborn, Mich., like his maker, DC creative director Geoff Johns, who weaves stories that Muslims, Arabs, and other Americans can relate to into the heroic plot.

For example, a young Baz and his family, the mother in an Islamic headscarf, watch in horror as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 unfold on their television. The next panels show men wiping “Go home” and other graffiti from the wall of an “Islamic Center of America,” bullies ripping a headscarf off Baz’s sister Sira, and Baz going through a security check.

Baz is a laid-off auto engineer who turns to auto theft but gets caught after stealing a van that, unbeknownst to him, is packed with explosives. The husky, olive-skinned Baz soon finds himself being interrogated by two dark-suited agents in a sequence of panels that hits on Islamophobia, illegal detentions, torture, and the war on terror.

“I’m a car thief, not a terrorist,” Baz, wearing an orange jumpsuit that evokes those worn by inmates at Guantanamo Bay, tells his interrogators in one scene. In another, a policeman tells Baz, “Relax Muhammad,” as he tries to strap him onto a torture table....

Like other Muslim superheroes, Baz has been criticized by anti-Muslim websites. Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch accused DC Comics of abetting jihad by promoting a false notion of Muslim victimhood, writing that “the goal of the victimhood game is to deflect attention away from jihad and Islamic supremacism.”

Johns was unavailable for comment.

Sacirbey didn't even bother to try to contact me. He is, of course, free to take any quote he wants from this site, but by putting several paragraphs in between the material about Baz being a victim of "Islamophobia" and my quote about Muslim victimhood, he obscures the connection between the two, which I'm sure was part of his purpose.

And Sacirbey also includes the ever-present smear of "anti-Muslim" -- as if fighting for freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and equality of rights for all people were against a group of people as such. Those who defame us as "anti-Muslim," of course, want to portray us as the equivalent of race bigots like neo-Nazis and the KKK. A common charge, but no less libelous and defamatory for being often repeated.

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If you click on the article, and read the comments, it's clear people are not impressed, or fooled.

Is this Johns a muslim ?

"A common charge, but no less libelous and defamatory for being often repeated."

And a charge that seems impervious to Spencer's repeated insistence that it does not apply to him. Which raises the question, why bother insisting it doesn't apply, when the mainstream seems to persist in insisting it does apply? The repeated denials don't seem to be working. Neither with Spencer, nor with Geert Wilders, nor with countless others who dare to criticize Islam. And when even someone as fuzzy and soft on Islam as Daniel Pipes gets routinely smeared with the implied charge that he hates "all Muslims", it seems increasingly chimerical to continue to insist. And this isn't even considering the argument that such a distinction (between objectionable Muslims and unobjectionable Muslims) is untenable to begin with.

DC -- remember in future folks -- it stands for "Dhimmi Comics".

Just a quick reminder that a parasitism, a sort of cultural cannibalism seems to be a trait held in common by both Islamic supremacists and leftists.

One notes that this Simon Baz super-hero is not an import from some orthodox Mohammedan culture -- in fact it couldn't be, given the orthodox Mohammedan prohibitions against representative art and portraiture.

It is a diversion of the concept of the comic book and the reputation and style of DC comics -- the company that first published superman with the slogan "truth, justice and the American way."

Both groups operate largely by hijacking, or subverting the prestige and vocabulary of the culture they wish to dominate or destroy.

There is considerable ancient precedent for this sort of thing, going back to eating a fallen foe, or wearing his gear to absorb his power. There is much scholarly writing on the subject. Well worth looking into is: The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion -- a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer

The point is that there is no creative potency at work here. Only the will to destroy and/or steal.

It's not for nothing that today's anarchist movement calls itself "occupy". Their logo should be the disgusting mockingbird. The mockingbird never builds a nest of it's own. It knocks other birds' eggs out of their nest an leaves its own in their place.

Just a reminder

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this another Obama engineered 'outreach' effort to his muslim brothers?

Whatever happened to those 70 million dollars he gave to his Kuwaiti buddy to produce some Islamic action heroes?

Showing a muslim using violence to solve problems contributes to stereotyping.

This hero bursts out of the front cover pointing a gun directly into the face of the reader.

Don't think I'm violent or I'll shoot you in the face? How the hell is that supposed to combat stereotypes?

It's as bad as depicting jews as rats.

Oh wait a minute, DC did that.

Yup. In 1994 DC created a jewish superheo, Boogieman, who was PART RAT. He tries to join a multiethnic group of heros by, ahem, LYING ABOUT BEING AN ETHNIC MINORITY. They let him join if he PROMISES NOT TO LIE TO THEM ANYMORE.

Joseph Goebbels would have been impressed.

DC comics. Not in 1934 but in 1994.

Let's see--I read _Watchmen_, and that was about the most recent and last graphic novel I've looked at.

Something tells me that this attempt by our Leftist-dominated pop culture to "reach out" will probably be another case of stepping on a rake and having the handle fly up and bop the stepper in the face.

Superhero readers have a keen nose for bullshit. I predict either cancellation or a swift makeover for the Green Lantern title.

Muslim DC Comics superhero suffers terribly from "Islamophobia"

DC Comics relentlessly trying to buttress the faltering narrative of "Islamophobia" by portraying its new Muslim superhero as a victim of relentless anti-Muslim hate...
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Ludicrous.

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For example, a young Baz and his family, the mother in an Islamic headscarf, watch in horror as the terrorist attacks of 9/11 unfold on their television. The next panels show men wiping “Go home” and other graffiti from the wall of an “Islamic Center of America,” bullies ripping a headscarf off Baz’s sister Sira, and Baz going through a security check.
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As is become increasingly common, the horror of 9/11 is seen as nothing more than an occasion for the spread of "Islamophobia"—the atrocity is meaningless in and of itself.

And that the supposed swell of anti-Muslim attacks is all bullsh*t makes this all the worse.

More:

Baz is a laid-off auto engineer who turns to auto theft but gets caught after stealing a van that, unbeknownst to him, is packed with explosives. The husky, olive-skinned Baz soon finds himself being interrogated by two dark-suited agents in a sequence of panels that hits on Islamophobia, illegal detentions, torture, and the war on terror.
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*Laughable*. So—the only way a Muslim winds up linked to a van full of explosives is because he innocently boosted the vehicle? Oh, the "Islamophobia"!

More:

“I’m a car thief, not a terrorist,” Baz, wearing an orange jumpsuit that evokes those worn by inmates at Guantanamo Bay, tells his interrogators in one scene. In another, a policeman tells Baz, “Relax Muhammad,” as he tries to strap him onto a torture table....
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So—Detroit police are represented as *torturing* arrestees? My God—this is base calumny.

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