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Robert Spencer: Max Blumenthal dhimmis down

Sep 18, 2012 6:14 am By Robert Spencer

Over at Atlas Shrugs I discuss the sad case of the Leftist hate propagandist Max Blumenthal, who wants us all to be good, silent, submissive little dhimmis in the face of jihad terror:

Hard-Left pseudo-journalist and propagandist Max Blumenthal
has weighed in on the Muhammad movie riots, and predictably enough, he has come
down squarely in favor of restrictions on the freedom of speech and adoption of
Islamic blasphemy laws in the West. The way he does so is revealing of the
nature and underlying assumptions of the Leftist/Islamic supremacist alliance.

Blumenthal concedes that “even though the deadly scene in
Benghazi may not have resulted directly from the angry reaction to the
Islamophobic video, the violence has helped realize the apocalyptic visions of
the film’s backers.” After retailing various half-truths, distortions and
outright lies about the connections between the filmmakers and Pamela Geller
and me, Blumenthal returns to this contention: “A group of fringe extremists
had proven that with a little bit of money and an unbelievably cynical scam,
they could shape history to fit their apocalyptic vision.”

Blumenthal is saying that by producing this video, the creators
of “Innocence of Muslims” actually brought into existence the world that they
imagined: once in which violent Muslims victimized non-Muslims in the name of
Islam. The implication is that if people like Pamela Geller and me, and the
Coptic Christian creators of this film, had not dared to insult Muhammad, then
Muslims would not be rioting worldwide, and all would be well.

Max Blumenthal sounds like a battered wife suffering from
Stockholm Syndrome. Does he really believe what he is saying? Does he actually
think that if non-Muslims toe the Sharia line and avoid saying or doing
anything which offends Muslim sensibilities, that a new era of peace will dawn
between the West and the Islamic world?

Is Max Blumenthal really unaware of the Muslim persecution
of non-Muslims all over the world — Christians in Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, and
Indonesia; Hindus in Pakistan, Bahais in Iran? Does he really think that those
tiny and embattled minorities are somehow so offending their benign and tolerant
Muslim neighbors that they drive them to violence that they would avoid if they
just stopped mocking Muhammad and burning the Qur’an? Does Max Blumenthal
really think that that is what non-Muslims in Muslim countries do? And if not,
why does he think they are being persecuted so viciously? It couldn’t possibly
be the fault of the Muslims, could it? To admit such a possibility is not
possible for Max Blumenthal: it would be “Islamophobic.”

Islamic law mandates that dhimmis, the non-Muslim “protected
people” in the Islamic state who are denied basic rights and live in a state of
subjugation to the Muslims, must not say anything that Muslims consider
offensive about Islam, Muhammad or the Qur’an. If they do, their contract of
“protection” is voided, and their lives can lawfully be taken. Living under
this threat for many centuries, non-Muslims in Muslim lands have learned how to
play the game: they not only never criticize Islam or Muslims, but they never
complain about their plight. If asked in public, they praise Islam and Muslims
to the skies and exult about how wonderful it is to live among such a peaceful
and tolerant people. Asked again in private, the same interlocutor is likely to
tell a very different story, but people who know that they can and will be
violently assaulted for telling the truth learn when they can safely tell it
and when they can’t.

There is more.

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