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BBC: “Paris attacks prompt fresh concerns about online Islamophobia”

Jan 26, 2015 3:34 pm By Robert Spencer

Akeela Ahmed

You might have expected “Paris attacks prompt fresh concerns about jihad terror,” but that just shows you’re a racist, bigoted Islamophobe.

The #killallMuslims hashtag is reprehensible and heinous, and has no justification whatsoever. The BBC doesn’t bother to point out, however, that it was non-Muslims who were killed by Muslims in Paris, not the other way around. How many Muslims have been killed in “Islamophobic” hate attacks? None — and that is as it should be. How many non-Muslims have been killed in jihad attacks? Tens of thousands. But the BBC isn’t concerned about them, and doesn’t want you to be, either.

This BBC farrago quotes the discredited group TellMama. Andrew Gilligan reported in the Telegraph last June 9 that Tell Mama was not going to “have its government grant renewed after police and civil servants raised concerns about its methods.” What was wrong with its methods? It had “claimed that there had been a ‘sustained wave of attacks and intimidation’ against British Muslims after the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby.” But Tell Mama and Fiyaz Mughal “did not mention, however, that 57 per cent of the 212 reports referred to activity that took place only online, mainly offensive postings on Twitter and Facebook, or that a further 16 per cent of the 212 reports had not been verified. Not all the online abuse even originated in Britain. Contrary to the group’s claim of a ‘cycle of violence’ and a ‘sustained wave of attacks’, only 17 of the 212 incidents, 8 per cent, involved the physical targeting of people and there were no attacks on anyone serious enough to require medical treatment.”

But as far as the BBC is concerned, no group that exaggerates Muslim victimhood and deflects attention away from the reality of jihad terror can ever be discredited.

“Paris attacks prompt fresh concerns about online Islamophobia,” by Anisa Kadri, BBC, January 26, 2015:

Amid concerns over an increase in Islamophobic content on social media following the recent Paris attacks, BBC Asian Network has been hearing from Muslims about their experience of being the target of anti-Islamic sentiment online.

Activist Akeela Ahmed says she uses Twitter to campaign on equality issues. Her profile picture shows her in her hijab.

“If I tweet something to do with women’s rights, I’ll get tweets usually from men saying, ‘How can you tweet that when you’ve got that thing on your head?’ They’re talking about my hijab.

“Post-Paris, the abuse increased and it was a lot worse,” she says, referring to negative comments posted online following the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in which gunmen said they were killing in the name of Islam.

“One particular person was quite specific in their threats and wanting to kill Muslims. Normally, I’m not threatened by it, but on this occasion I was.”

That Twitter account has been taken down. But there are concerns that some Islamophobic content remains online.

Campaigners from the organisation Tell Mama, which monitors hate against Muslims online, sent Asian Network some examples.

“When events like Paris happen, what seems to happen is that people on social media sites have bigger discussions,”says Bharath Ganesh.

“The language we’ve seen is extremely derogatory towards Muslims.

“Hashtags like #killallmuslims appear. Some Muslims used that hashtag to highlight anti-Islamic sentiments online.”
‘Anger’

Akeela says she understands where the anger stems from.

“As we see more terrorist incidents globally, many people feel anger about terror attacks and they go online and use their medium to vent their anger. But, as a result, there is an increase in anti-Muslim sentiment generally.

“On Facebook, it’s a problem too. There are some groups who promote anti-Muslim sentiments. It’s about dealing responsibly with these issues.”…

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  1. Jeff says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 3:37 pm

    They have only Mohammad and his alter ego Allah to blame.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jan 27, 2015 at 1:46 am

      Not alter ego, sock-puppet.

  2. mortimer says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 3:41 pm

    What is most ‘HEINOUS’ is the deathly silence of Muslims concerning the slaughter of cartoonists and Jewish shoppers.

    What is ‘HEINOUS’ is the fact that tens of thousands of Muslims called for the execution and murders of anyone who criticizes Mohammed or depicts him in a drawing.

    What is ‘HEINOUS’ is the fact that Muslims have not denounced the provisions in Sharia that allow anyone to be a VIGILANTE KILLER of an apostate from Islam or someone who merely ‘MENTIONS SOMETHING IMPERMISSIBLE’ about Islam or its false prophet!

    SILENCE MEANS APPROVAL OF ISLAMIC VIGILANTISM.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 5:24 pm

      Thank you Mortimer. My sentiments exactly.

      • noellsq says

        Jan 26, 2015 at 5:52 pm

        All the media should be arrested for their lack of honesty. The proof that Muslims should be killed whether they are radical or not is the fact that they support terror. They leave their respective countries where they are unhappy and go to another country and are unhappy and want to change their new home. Hey I like my country and I like pork,i obey the rules of my country and do not get offended and riot if a cartoon offends me. I respect my wife and would never think of abusing her or rape a non muslim which is all right to rape per the Quran.

      • JOSEPH says

        Jan 27, 2015 at 3:20 am

        Wow Mortimer, I was quite angry before I read your post. You said it perfect. Calmed me down and made me smile. We are not alone in this. Thanks again.

  3. mortimer says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 3:45 pm

    No doubt…the following is correct, but not in the way intended:

    …”a ‘sustained wave of attacks and intimidation’ against British Muslims after the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby.”

    Yes, the jihadists told any Muslim who denounce it to shut up or get beaten or burned out!

    Any mullah who criticized jihadism has usually got murdered.

    • Isabellathecrusader says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 3:49 pm

      Oh, if only there were “sustained waves of attacks and intimidation”, but we don’t do that because we are civilized. Me thinks they dost protest too much.

      I’d love to give them something to bitch about.

  4. Isabellathecrusader says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    As Bonnie over at Bare Naked Islam says, it’s not Islamaphobia when they are really trying to kill you.

    Time for us to take the narrative back. They are the perpe-traitors, they don’t get to be the victims at the same time. Our problem is that we are too easy going and don’t argue or stand up against things as much as we should. What these guys are doing is wring an they need to be called on it, LOUDLY. I’m not going to wring my hands anymore or get frustrated. I’m going on the offensive and calling a spade a spade, or a trash bag a trash bag.

    i am highly offended when I see women walking around Washington, D.C.in the middle of the summer in 90 degree weather in a long coat with her head and/or face covered while her kids and husband run around in shorts. As a woman who values my rights that are given to me by God and protected under the U.S. Constitution I resent watching other so called “Americans” walking around in the emblems of their enslavement. It’s not a free speech thing. It is a symptom of their inherent problem, the one they want they want me to take on and be burdened with. Thanks but no thanks. I’m not having it and from now on I’m letting them know of my displeasure.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 3:58 pm

      Yes…Islamic slave-girl Stockholm syndrome.

      ‘I enjoy being a slave…’

    • katnis says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 5:25 pm

      Ooh Isabella. I second you on this comment. I see muslim families at my gym. The men and children splash around in the pool while the women sit on the side, covered from head to toe in the sweltering heat. I feel sorry for them and at the same time I want to scream at them! “Come on ladies! Celebrate your freedom! Your life doesn’t have to be like that!”

      • Bill says

        Jan 27, 2015 at 1:19 am

        If they say anything they will get beaten by their husbands.

        http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Wife_Beating_in_Islam

  5. Angemon says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 3:49 pm

    Time to BBBC – Boycott BBC.

  6. Lu says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:28 pm

    “The language we’ve seen is extremely derogatory towards Muslims.”

    Boo hoo …

    THE LANGUAGE I HEAR FROM PAKISTAN, UK, NIGERIA, PALESTINE, SAUDI ARABIA, YEMEN, CHECHNYA ETC. IS EXTREMELY DEROGATORY TOWARDS ME, NATIVE EUROPEAN AND INFIDEL…

    Where can I complain about it dear Muslims?

    • katnis says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 5:14 pm

      Right. We don’t engage in a march of tens of thousands carrying signs that say “Death To All Muslims,” yet it is OK if they do that to us. We see and hear it every day now. They want us to convert, submit, or die.

      It’s a dangerous world we live in when we aren’t even allowed to talk about things.

  7. Richie says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 4:31 pm

    why are Muslims being treated like a protected class?

  8. Georg says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 5:03 pm

    When will they comprehend that the animus shown in their religious texts, protests, popular discourse, and general affect toward us is insulting and arguably genocidal? They simply don’t realize that many of us have read enough of their texts and become privy to the conversations and sentiments which they’d wish/assume stay behind closed doors to regard them as we would a person who doesn’t subscribe to their worldview. The apprehension felt in the West is too widespread to be without a sound foundation.

  9. katnis says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 5:11 pm

    Citizens of the western world make nasty comments on Twitter and Facebook, while muslims around the world call for the death of all infidels while actively killing and displacing the infidels AND at the same time, lament over islamophobia.

    I did some research and haven’t found stories of Western non-muslims randomly killing, raping, bombing, and displacing muslims. How does this make sense? We are protecting people who are disproportionately causing harm and destruction? And we’re not supposed to talk about it? To share? We’re not allowed to feel concern?

  10. Canadian Patriot says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 5:20 pm

    Islam and women’s rights? LMAO

    I don’t remember the last time I laughed so hard.

    • Georg says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 7:30 pm

      Tell me about it. So cringeworthy when see a woman dressed like Darth Vader going on and on about how empowered she feels. It’s almost as bad as the nominally Muslim women who have obviously embraced secularism and benefitted from its tenets refuse to give up Allah out of ethnic zeal. Looney Tunes, dude.

  11. Robert says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    You have got to be kidding me, one woman writes…. ““If I tweet something to do with women’s rights, I’ll get tweets usually from men saying, ‘How can you tweet that when you’ve got that thing on your head?’ They’re talking about my hijab.”

    The oppression that this poor Muslima is feeling, how threatening this is definitely far worse then Muslims butchering french citizens. Wait isn’t that what the Quran says “Oppression is worse then slaughter”.

    They even quoted “Tell Mamma” really Tell Mamma, the organization that was busted for making up the majority of its so called “Anti Islamic attacks.” Have these people no shame.

    BTW who wants to wager that the hashtag Killamuslim was started by a Muslim.

    • Robert says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 5:28 pm

      I just checked the hashtag #killallMuslims and not a single threat against Muslims, its all people condemning the #killallMuslims to funny

  12. KenD says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 5:41 pm

    If I tweeted a picture of myself wearing a crucifix, with the caption “God is Dead”, I would not consider it “abuse” if someone asked me “how I could say such a thing with that thing around my neck”.

  13. Jason says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    Claiming people are Islamophobic for reacting to actual and ongoing terror attacks is like accusing someone of being aracnaphobic for fumigating their property after their kids have been repeatedly bitten by spiders, in order to rid it of an actual infestation.
    I fail to see the irrational fear in either case.

    • Huck Folder says

      Jan 27, 2015 at 1:51 am

      Two FULL pages in the Canadian newspaper “The Province” on PHOBIAS, and not one mention of the stupid, made up conversation stopper islamophobia aka islamofauxbia.

  14. Myxlplik says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    Meanwhile there was another beheading in the UK by a machete wielding “youth” https://dailyeuropa.wordpress.com/2015/01/24/machete-jihad-19-year-old-hacked-to-death-outside-pub-in-gloucester/

    And earlier in the week 2 were hatcheted to death outside a pub in Finland, by another practitioner of the religion of peace.

    https://dailyeuropa.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/finland-2-hacked-to-death-by-immigrant-in-finland-pub/

    Shhh, gosh hope posting that doesn’t lead to youthophobia.

    • somehistory says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 6:38 pm

      If I see a “youth” with a machete, I just might have a fear, but not an irrational one. And I will definitely squeal if the “youth” tries to do more than just hold or carry it…if he goes for the jugular…

      The woman who is so upset that she was asked a question about that *thing on her head*….at least she still has a head, unlike the people you referenced as victims of the “youth.”

    • Paul G says

      Jan 26, 2015 at 6:39 pm

      The website “dailyeuropa,” while correctly criticising those who facilitate the Islamization of Europe, is simnultaenously propagating Holocaust denial. The site appears to be of the far-right, neo-fascist variety;hence, it’s credibility is highly suspect.

      • Paul G says

        Jan 26, 2015 at 6:40 pm

        correction: simultaneously

        • Myxlplik says

          Jan 26, 2015 at 10:48 pm

          Yeah… Took a deeper look at other stuff there, can’t say I disagree with all of it all, but it’s a bit shocking. I just don’t disregard what they posted about those particular attacks though.

        • Myxlplik says

          Jan 26, 2015 at 11:33 pm

          Well, looks like some Jihadwatchers have gone over there to educate people on the chat board haha!! Viva free speech, may it live or die by educated debate, ahhh all is well that ends well *smiles*

  15. gerard says

    Jan 26, 2015 at 7:33 pm

    re: photo. Typical smug Muslimah expression. Not a hint of concern for the innocent victims of Jihad worldwide.
    Makes me sick.

  16. Crixus says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 4:35 am

    The BBC is increasingly responsible for piss poor journalism and in particular lazy journalism. This is especially the case with the main news and online news functions. On the other hand specific programmes like Panorama have started to ask uncomfortable questions of Muslims and went as far as broadcasting the Hebdo cartoons.

    It doesn’t surprise me that they have wheeled out Tell MAMA for quotes despite this organisation being discredited as grievance mongers by the UK govt last year.

    In December, the light entertainment programme that goes out on Saturday mornings had Muslim fantasist and exposed liar Mo Ansar as a spokesperson for Muslims. This man was exposed by the excellent Nick Cohen in The Spectator, one of the few British publications that meets apologists head on in the summer, yet he continues to get invitations to speak on the publicly owned broadcaster.

    The BBC would be advised to look carefully at its mandate and to rebuild it’s once superb reputation for fairness and impartial accurate reporting. If it doesn’t then it will simply lose its privileged position.

  17. Rhazes says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 6:11 am

    Muslims stabbing, shooting, raping and beheading people isn’t the problem. No the problem is those of us who refuse to get on our knees and wait for our turn to have our head removed by “Activists”.

    We are being set up to be ethnically cleansed.

  18. Edward Cline says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 8:30 am

    It isn’t only the BBC that has submitted to Allah. Sky News also has crept into the corner of submission.
    See:

  19. andrew sapia says

    Jan 27, 2015 at 8:35 am

    I want to see actual acts of vandalism or physical assaults or serious threats. What they do is count how many pissed off people wrote nasty things about Islam on message boards and call that a serious rise in attacks on Muslims. Yet the actual number of real attacks can be counted on one hand. It is just nonsense. Since 9/11 and 7/7 there have been but a handful of attacks against Muslims. 99 % of it is online comments. Meanwhile tens of thousands of non-Muslims are slaughtered all over the Muslim world and these same people ignore or minimize it. Or claim it has nothing to do with Islam.

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