Over at PJ Media I discuss some hate-mongers Linda Sarsour should focus her organization’s time on confronting.
The Arab American Association of New York’s website describes its executive director, Linda Sarsour, as,
a working woman, community activist, and mother of three. Ambitious, outspoken and independent, Linda shatters stereotypes of Muslim women while also treasuring her religious and ethnic heritage. She is a Palestinian Muslim American and a self-proclaimed “pure New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn!”
She is also quite influential: she is a frequent visitor to the Obama White House and has the ear of far-Left New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. And now she has set her sights on “Islamophobia,” claiming that there is a wealthy group of “Islamophobes,” including Steve Emerson and me, whose full-time job is to “vilify Islam and Muslims.”
In an interview published last Tuesday in Middle East Monitor, Sarsour claimed that,
it’s a very dangerous industry in this country. This is not just Steven Emerson doing this as a side job, or something he just writes about when he has free time. This is what people like Steve Emerson do every morning from when they wake up to when they go to bed. Their job is to vilify Islam and Muslims.
This is a sterling example of how leftists and Islamic supremacists advance the “Islamophobia” myth: as far as they are concerned, Islam and Muslims are entirely guiltless in all respects, and the only reason why anyone is suspicious of them is because of a well-heeled “Islamophobia industry” that works full-time, for unaccountable reasons, “to vilify Islam and Muslims.”
But back in the real world, people are suspicious of Islam and Muslims because of “Islamophobes” like these, who seem very much indeed to have made it their full-time job to “vilify Islam and Muslims”:
1. Abubakar Shekau.
Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian jihad terror group Boko Haram (whose official name is the Congregation of the People of the Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad), recently claimed responsibility for the mass murder of hundreds of people in the Nigerian town of Baga. “We killed the people of Baga,” Shekau announced. “We indeed killed them, as our Lord instructed us in His Book.”
The book to which Abubakar Shekau is referring is, of course, the Qur’an. Somehow he got the crazy, Islamophobic idea that it calls for the murder of unbelievers. No doubt Barack Obama is on his way to Nigeria right now, to warn Shekau that he has to stop perpetuating “offensive stereotypes of Muslims.”
2. Zak Ali.
Last week, a young man named Zack Davies ran amok in a Tesco supermarket in the north Wales town of Mold. He attacked a Sikh, Sarandev Brahambra, with a hammer and a machete, leaving him with serious injuries. This story from The Mirror identifies the victim by name but describes him only as “Asian,” without ever saying he was Sikh, and also says: “The attacker was shouting ‘White power’, witnesses said, and detectives have confirmed the assault appeared to be racially-motivated.”
So this was presented to the British public as a an attack by one of those right-wing racists that British authorities are much more concerned about than they are about Islamic jihadists, and this attack appeared to substantiate their concern.
There’s just one catch: Zack Davies is a Muslim who calls himself Zak Ali, and who warned on his Facebook page on the morning of his attack in Tesco: “The wrath of Allah is about to come down upon the kaffir, I will have my revenge.” He also posted four Qur’an verses (identifying the suras as “books”) that call for violence against unbelievers:
Book of Al-Anfal, verse 12 ( 8:12) – “I (Allah) will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off.”
5- Book of Al-Baqara, verse 191 (2:191) – “Kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from wherever they drove you out.”
6- Book of Al-Baqara, verse 193 (2:193) – “Fight them on until there is no more tumult and religion becomes that of Allah”
7- Book of Al-Tawba verse 29 (9:29) – “Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the last day… and fight People of the Book, (Christian and Jews) who do not accept the religion of truth (Islam) until they pay tribute (Jizyah tax) by hand, being inferior.”
The fact that Zak Ali is a Muslim who clearly believes in jihad against unbelievers doesn’t mean that this wasn’t a “white power” attack. Neo-Nazis have an affinity for Islam, based on their shared Jew-hatred. The British media, however, has not reported on the jihad aspect of this attack at all. Yet two reports strongly suggested that at least some British journalists know that the perpetrator was a Muslim, and are covering up that fact. The Mirror ran a photo of Zack Davies that appears on Zak Ali’s Facebook page — but it is remotely possible that they got it from somewhere else, and didn’t see Zak Ali’s page.
Also, the Daily Post ran a story Monday with the headline, “Mold Tesco attack sparks fear in Sikhs across Wales.” Only Sikhs? But wasn’t this a “white power” attack against an “Asian,” which would mean that Muslims should be just as fearful as Sikhs? But neither this story nor any other says anything about Muslims being afraid after this “white power” assault on an “Asian” — a strong indication that the British media knows that the attacker was a Muslim, and are concealing this from the British public. “Community cohesion” must be preserved at all costs!
3. Omar S.
A Muslim identified only as Omar S. was arrested on January 9 in the Catalonian city of Manresa. He was screaming “Allahu Akbar!” and “You will all die!,” as well as “I am a Muslim and Allah is great!,” and tried to grab a policeman’s gun. After his arrest, he screamed, “You killed my brothers in Paris. I’m going to kill everyone. Christians, you will die!”
4. The five statue-destroying Muslims in Italy.
On the same day in Perugia, five Muslims entered the chapel of St. Barnabas, where they smashed a statue of the Virgin Mary to pieces and then urinated on it.
Monsignor Paolo Giulietti, auxiliary bishop of Città della Pieve, imitated Western leaders such as Barack Obama and David Cameron by immediately moving to absolve Islam of all responsibility for this act, saying:
For Islam, the figure of Mary is very important: she is the mother of the Prophet Jesus conceived in virginity, and the Blessed Virgin is the most holy woman. Muslims pray at the Marian shrines in the Middle East. We cannot see in this act of vandalism—which as I said is wrong in every way—an episode of religious hatred. It is important not to feed mutual suspicion, especially at this time….
Read the rest here.
Jay Boo says
This is ripe:
Over at MSN Muslims are already trying to steal the moral high ground on the Paris massacres.
http://news.yahoo.com/french-arrests-beg-free-speech-114420014.html
Don McKellar says
A superb idea for an article! Well done. This does indeed turn the tables on the dishonest Linda Sarsour, mistress of the Islamic arts of lying to advance Islam: taqiyya and kitman. It’s like shoving a mirror in front of the face of the monster and forcing it to face itself. Things like this must really drive Islamic supremacist snake oil salespeople like Sarsour right up the wall!
Angemon says
Don McKellar posted:
“This does indeed turn the tables on the dishonest Linda Sarsour, mistress of the Islamic arts of lying to advance Islam: taqiyya and kitman.”
Not that she’ll ever acknowledge it.
john spielman says
if the definition of ‘islamphobe” is some one who instills fear of both islam and muslims in others, then THE ALL TIME AND STILL REIGNING CHAMPION IS; (what for it…..) -muhammed pbuh*!!!!! muhammed pbuh* was the originator of this vile fascist excuse for a “religion” and was a narcissitic self confessed mass murderer thief liar misogynist and demon possessed pedophile pervert ,
pbuh* perpetual banishment unto hell!
mortimer says
We are not ‘Islamo-phobic’…neither are we ‘Islamo-GULLIBLE’ as Linda Sarsour wants us to be!
We are ‘Islamo-VIGILANT’.
Spot On says
The soft headed approach to crime and criminals has led us to a place where murderers are not really murderers and vandals are not really vandals anymore. An army of murderers is no longer the enemy. Somehow, with the left, it all depends on who is the murderer or vandal.
It is not possible to defend a country or oneself when a mortal enemy is also friends with one political party. Anymore with libs we have become their mortal enemy and not the people who would murder, rape, or enslave them.
Dave J says
“Islamophobia” is a made-up word and a deliberate red herring.
Factual reporting of the thousands of attacks and deaths committed by devout Muslims is legitimate and important journalism. Islamic proponents take exception because in their world anything you don’t want to hear is called slander – whether it’s true or not. This lack of respect for the truth is mirrored in their responses.
Would British papers reporting on Hitler’s rise be accused of Naziphobia?
Linda Sarsour is just another dishonest and deceitful Muslima who hope their wailing will obscure the reality of Islamofascism.
mortimer says
LINDA SARSOUR is a fulltime paid defender of JIHAD. She is paid by Gulf oil money. She is a professional disinformationist and she understands her job perfectly well. She use her mind daily as a professional deceiver. It must be very depressing and demoralizing to be paid to hide the truth about the jihadic terrorism that hurts people around the world and defend those who hurt them.
LINDA SARSOUR is at war with our freedom of expression. She is a great traitor.
R Cole says
With this lot – crying wolf – the logical response is unacceptable.
One look back at the history of the Left – and you’ll see the west will get blamed anyway!
The New York Times blamed the US gov. for the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge.
Belief that poor people of color lack same level of mental acuity – therefore responsibility for their own actions – justifies the reasoning that – it must be someone else’s fault! Muslims are riding crest of this wave of Leftist thought – it is not their Islam that is at fault – but the Islamophobes.
This is where living in a democracy becomes handy. Not the theocratic rule as many Muslims envision. Because their blasphemy laws would already be upon us. People would be jailed for saying what the Islamic preacher said – jailed not for speaking the truth – but for damaging the ‘image’ of Islam. What a dark road!!
But where the Left meets Islam – is in criticism of western policy – where they differ is in the extent to which Muslims wish to see Islamic shari’a laws accommodated – in the free world. And this is where you get many on the Left in Europe distancing itself from Islam ~ siding with Islam blindly doesn’t win elections. And an increasing understanding that there needs to be a line or barrier establish.
While the headlines scream Islamophobia / rise of ‘racism’ the reality is far more complex. Far more difficult to talk of political Islam in the same light. Why – the real story – might be construed as ‘racist’.
ebonystone says
BBC: “Paris attacks prompt fresh concerns about online Islamophobia”
In a sane world, that would read “Paris attacks prompt fresh concerns about online Islam.”
littlenan says
I am really sickened by the constant response to MUSLIM terrorism being to demonise those who are against this violence. What is this Islamophobia anyway? Any bitterness and anger has been stoked up by the Muslims carrying out acts of violence or desecration. Stop the Muslim violence etc. and there would be far fewer anti-Muslims. Anyway, Islamophobia means a FEAR of Muslims NOT a hatred and their radicals are trying to instil fear in the West.
We have had a lot of problems with groups of men abusing young, vulnerable girls in England. The papers either just say groups of men or unusually as groups of Asian men. This is actually besmirching the Hindus, Sikhs etc. These groups of paedophile abusers were ALL Muslim. They had even attacked and abused some Sikh girls.
almeira says
Muslimsssssssssssssssssssss,as much as they are,they are all callous,dangerous,diabolical,fatal,deadly,foolish,brutish and are all always ever ready to murder people when the fictional devilish allah and fake paedophiliac murderer mohammad they serve are exposed to the world.
The foolish barbarians,soon a new surah of cannibalism will descend to them and there would be a hadith that will back it up and another lie of Mohammad and angels eating human flesh will be added to their lies,just very soon,now that they are multilating their kuffar victims.
Islam must be wiped out of human race.