I just got a call from a friend, telling me he was listening to CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper on an Atlanta radio station, and that Hooper named Jihad Watch in complaining about “Islamophobia.”
Of course, he has done this in print as well.
As I have said before, the idea that we are provoking “Islamophobia” by reporting on jihad violence, but Muslims are not provoking it by committing those violent acts, is laughable. I again invite Hooper to consider matters for a moment from the infidel point of view. Here he is defaming Jihad Watch freely on America’s airwaves, wringing his hands about “Islamophobia” and posing as a victim, when in fact several members of his organization have been arrested and convicted of various terrorism-related activities, and his organization no longer contests Anti-CAIR’s characterization of CAIR as a “terrorist supporting front organization” that “wishes nothing more than the implementation of Sharia law in America” and is a group that was “founded by Hamas supporters which seeks to overthrow Constitutional government in the United States and replace it with an Islamist theocracy using our own Constitution as protection.”
Don’t think infidels haven’t noticed the dichotomy there, Ibrahim. For I believe that you, Mr. Hooper, are one of those who are responsible for the anger some non-Muslims feel toward Muslims today: these non-Muslims are not fools. They can see through posturing and disingenuousness. They see all the things that don’t tally with your professed anti-terrorism, and see that you have never answered lingering questions about where your organization really stands. They can see how you trump up anti-Muslim hate crimes. But of course, I doubt any of this will cause you concern: after all, you are entirely willing to use that anger for your own purposes, with radio talk show hosts as your willing dupes.
I think it may be useful at this point to repeat a few suggestions I have made for how Muslims can improve non-Muslim perceptions of Islam and wipe out “Islamophobia” once and for all:
1. Focus your indignation on Muslims committing violent acts in the name of Islam, not on non-Muslims reporting on those acts.
2. Renounce definitively not just “terrorism,” but any intention to replace the U.S. Constitution (or the constitutions of any non-Muslim state) with Sharia even by peaceful means.
3. Teach Muslims the imperative of coexisting peacefully as equals with non-Muslims on an indefinite basis.
4. Begin comprehensive international programs in mosques all over the world to teach against the ideas of violent jihad and Islamic supremacism.
5. Actively work with Western law enforcement officials to identify and apprehend jihadists within Western Muslim communities.
Do those five things, Ibrahim, and voila! “Islamophobia” will vanish.