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Robert Spencer in PJ Lifestyle: The Hypocrisy of Ibrahim Hooper and CAIR’s “Islamophobic List”

Jan 20, 2014 10:37 pm By Robert Spencer

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In PJ Lifestyle today I discuss how Hamas-linked CAIR’s “Islamophobia”-mongering is designed — with surpassing cynicism — to make Americans think that any criticism of Islamic texts that jihadis use to incite violence worldwide threatens and endangers Muslims at home who don’t approve of that violence in the first place.

Ibrahim “Honest Ibe” Hooper of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) last week sent out a crafty and deceptive op-ed as a “service,” and of course our lazy, clueless and compromised mainstream media was happy to oblige him by publishing it. The op-ed, “Islamophobic ‘List’ Used to Justify Suspicion of Muslims,” seems to have been a response to Pamela Geller’s recent exhaustive summary at Breitbart of Islamic jihad and supremacist activity in America in 2013. In response, Hooper offered not honesty and reform, but disingenuousness and deception.

Hooper claimed that,

“one of the bigoted themes often promoted by the growing cottage industry of Muslim-bashers is that the increasing level of Islamophobia online and in the public arena is merely a legitimate response to the violent actions of Muslims worldwide.”

He thus reveals the dishonesty at the heart of the entire “Islamophobia” initiative: Islamic supremacists and leftists use the term to refer both to analyses of how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism (e.g., what my colleagues and I do) and also to attacks on innocent Muslims (which neither I nor my colleague nor any decent person favors).

The objective is to make Americans think that any criticism of Islamic texts that jihadis use to incite violence worldwide threatens and endangers Muslims at home who don’t approve of that violence in the first place. Then by saying that “Muslim-bashers” claim that “Islamophobia” is a “legitimate response to the violent actions of Muslims worldwide,” Hooper is implying that those who decry violence and terror committed by Muslims in the name of Islam approve of violence against innocent, peaceful Muslims, as if to say, they had it coming.

Hooper cannily designs all this to obscure the real point: that people are suspicious of Islam because of jihad terror attacks — but not just because of them, but also because of the endless mau-mauing, intimidating, opposition to counter-terror efforts, claiming of victim status, faked hate crimes, smear campaigns against foes of jihad terror, and all the other things that make people suspicious of Hamas-linked CAIR and other Muslim organizations in the U.S.

No genuine attack on any innocent person, Muslim or otherwise, is ever justified. If Hamas-linked CAIR really wants to stop such attacks, it could do so by working sincerely to end the suspicions people have of Islam and Muslims — not with disingenuous “outreach” sessions designed to dispel “misconceptions” about Islam (i.e., spread more misconceptions about Islam, fool people into thinking it is a “Religion of Peace,” etc.), but by honestly working within Muslim communities and with law enforcement to root out jihadis and teach against the understanding of Islam that creates jihadis. Instead, Hamas-linked CAIR has opposed virtually every counter-terror measure that has ever been proposed, and one of its California chapters distributed a poster reading “Don’t talk to the FBI.”

You might wonder why Hamas-linked CAIR would do this if it wants to end “Islamophobia” (in the sense of suspicion of Islam) — surely Hooper, Awad and co. must know that those things increase such suspicion? Yes, I am sure they do — but in fact they want “Islamophobia” (both suspicion of Islam and attacks on peaceful Muslims) because they can use such attacks to claim victim status and the privileges that come with it, intimidate officials into thinking that surveillance of Islamic organizations is unjustified and endangers innocent people.

“These Islamophobes,” Hooper also asserted, “scour the Internet to highlight every act of violence or political instability that can be tied to Islam and Muslims.” At my website Jihad Watch, I chronicle Islamic jihad activity in the U.S. and around the worldwide, and I never in ten years have had to “scour the Internet” to do so. On the contrary, there is so much jihad violence that rarely am I able to post all the news items I’d like to post; time and resources limit the ones I can get to. Whatever I have on Jihad Watch, there is always more jihad. But Hooper, of course, would prefer you didn’t know that.

“If a Muslim in a remote village in Pakistan,” he continues, “violates Islamic beliefs by abusing his wife, we will hear about it and about why Islam should be blamed for his actions. Reports on every crime committed by a Muslim are assigned to the faith, whether or not there is even a remote religious connection.”

Here again Hooper characterizes his opponents’ arguments in a reductionist way that unfairly trivializes them. The point is not that “Islam should be blamed” for someone abusing his wife, but that if the abuser used Islam to justify that abuse, then Muslim leaders who oppose such abuse should work honestly to make sure it doesn’t happen again by removing or reforming the things that are used to provide such justification. Are there any? Yes. The Qur’an says it:

“Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.” (Qur’an 4:34)

Hooper would still say that the abuser “violates Islamic beliefs,” because Islamic apologists routinely claim that the Qur’an’s command to beat disobedient women must be applied only with the most harmless of implements — i.e., a toothstick, as per a weak hadith. However, Muhammad’s example is normative for Muslims, since he is an “excellent example of conduct” (Qur’an 33:21) – and according to a canonical hadith, Muhammad’s favorite wife, his child bride Aisha, reports that Muhammad struck her. Once he went out at night after he thought she was asleep, and she followed him surreptitiously. Muhammad saw her, and, as Aisha recounts: “He struck me on the chest which caused me pain, and then said: Did you think that Allah and His Apostle would deal unjustly with you?” (Sahih Muslim 2127) Aisha herself said it: “I have not seen any woman suffering as much as the believing women.” (Sahih Bukhari 7.72.715)

So is this blaming Islam for spousal abuse? A more constructive way to put it would be: this is pointing out how spousal abusers justify their actions by pointing to Islamic texts, and these texts need reforming and reinterpretation on a large scale.

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 12:38 am

    The point ‘Dougie’ Hooper obfuscates is that there are several thousand ‘misunderstanders of Islam’ every year and several thousand mullahs who teach them these ‘misunderstandings’ from canonical Islamic writings. He can only tell his lies for a short time, because the American public is becoming better and better informed about Islam and simply won’t buy his bunkum. The offending texts are eternally inspired by Allah and cannot be removed from Islam’s canonical texts.

  2. mortimer says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 12:43 am

    Even though Islam commands lies to defend the ‘honor’ of Islam, surely Hooper must have a conscience about lying to defend horrible crimes against humanity and the abuse of women taking place daily in the name of Islam. Why is he so eager to stifle criticism of crimes if he truly condemns them?

    In point of fact, he does not condemn those crimes, wishes to defend Islam’s violence and misogyny and is a supremacist.

    Dougie, silence means approval. When you have a fatwa on your head for criticizing the ‘misunderstanders’, you will have credibility. Now, you are an enabler of atrocities.

  3. jihad3tracker says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 4:24 am

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  4. gravenimage says

    Jan 21, 2014 at 10:00 pm

    In PJ Lifestyle today I discuss how Hamas-linked CAIR’s “Islamophobia”-mongering is designed — with surpassing cynicism — to make Americans think that any criticism of Islamic texts that jihadis use to incite violence worldwide threatens and endangers Muslims at home who don’t approve of that violence in the first place.
    …………………………………….

    It *is* cynical—and I don’t know how many times I have run into this—decent Infidels who blanch at the mention of even the most horrific atrocities done in the name of Islam, lest some Muslins might encounter “Islamophobia” as a result.

    This would be like saying seventy years ago that no one should be allowed to say anything critical about Nazi Germany, lest anyone ask that nice couple down the block about their membership in the German-American Bund…

    More:

    “These Islamophobes,” Hooper also asserted, “scour the Internet to highlight every act of violence or political instability that can be tied to Islam and Muslims.” At my website Jihad Watch, I chronicle Islamic jihad activity in the U.S. and around the worldwide, and I never in ten years have had to “scour the Internet” to do so. On the contrary, there is so much jihad violence that rarely am I able to post all the news items I’d like to post; time and resources limit the ones I can get to. Whatever I have on Jihad Watch, there is always more jihad.
    …………………………………….

    Yes. I sometimes have trouble getting to all the stories posted at JIhad Watch—and this doesn’t count all the stories that turn up at other Counter Jihad sites, or even the ones in English-language mainstream media that I have easy access to. Sure—some of the stories are covered in several venues, but far more common are stories that are mutually exclusive.

    And we know that there are many, many other stories, that never make it into English, or are never covered by the media at all.

    Especially now, there is a tidal wave of Jihad violence, from all over the world.

    More:

    “If a Muslim in a remote village in Pakistan,” he continues, “violates Islamic beliefs by abusing his wife, we will hear about it and about why Islam should be blamed for his actions. Reports on every crime committed by a Muslim are assigned to the faith, whether or not there is even a remote religious connection.”
    …………………………………….

    Look what Hooper is doing here—he is implying that a Muslim man who abuses his wife does so *in direct violation of Islamic beliefs*—without acknowledging that Islam condones not just wife beating but also *Honor Killing*.

    Moreover, many wife abusers directly point to the texts of Islam to justify their actions. Well-respected Imams regularly *urge* the faithful to beat their wives. Hopper is a meretricious creep

    But then, his whole purpose is to shut down any criticism of Islam.

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