In FrontPage today, I swat a persistent fly:
In recent weeks, the terror group calling itself the Islamic State (aka ISIS and ISIL) has beheaded journalists and social workers, burned a pilot alive, and forced hundreds of captive women into sex slavery – all while citing Islamic texts to justify their actions and appeal for new recruits. A Muslim in the latest Islamic State beheading video cited two Qur’an verses (8:12 and 47:4) to refute “those who say [beheading] is cruel.” In New York Wednesday, a Muslim was found guilty of plotting to bomb the New York subway system. The previous day in London, a woman from Nigeria pleaded for asylum, as she faces certain death if she returns to her homeland: an Islamic court has sentenced her to die for being a lesbian.
All this and a great deal more like it – a daily horror show of jihad attacks and plots, boasts of coming catastrophic attacks in the West, declarations of imminent conquest, and more, all carried out by people claiming to represent the truest and purest form of Islam – is why, according to a poll released last summer, only twenty-seven percent of Americans have a favorable view of Muslims. Yet as far as the hard-Left Center for American Progress (CAP) is concerned, people aren’t suspicious of Muslims and Islam because of jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, but because of “the efforts of a small cadre of funders and misinformation experts” which were “amplified by an echo chamber of the religious right, conservative media, grassroots organizations, and politicians who sought to introduce a fringe perspective on American Muslims into the public discourse.”
But CAP flatters me, as it flatters all of us named in “Fear, Inc. 2.0,” simply by suggesting that we have such persuasive power that we can create a nationwide climate of hate and fear against Muslims. I cannot accept their proffered honor of being the “primary driver in promoting the myth that peaceful Islam is nonexistent.” Innumerable others have noted the same reality, including Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Assistant Professor on the Faculty of Shari’ah and Law of the International Islamic University in Islamabad. In his 1994 book The Methodology of Ijtihad, he quotes the twelfth century Maliki jurist Ibn Rushd: “Muslim jurists agreed that the purpose of fighting with the People of the Book…is one of two things: it is either their conversion to Islam or the payment of jizyah.” Nyazee concludes: “This leaves no doubt that the primary goal of the Muslim community, in the eyes of its jurists, is to spread the word of Allah through jihad, and the option of poll-tax [jizya] is to be exercised only after subjugation” of non-Muslims.
But neither Nyazee nor Ibn Rushd are prominent enough to claim the role of “primary driver in promoting the myth that peaceful Islam is nonexistent.” How about the Ayatollah Khomeini, who said: “There are hundreds of other [Qur’anic] psalms and Hadiths [sayings of the Prophet] urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” Better yet, how about Muhammad himself, who is depicted in a hadith saying: “I have been commanded to fight against people, till they testify to the fact that there is no god but Allah, and believe in me (that) I am the messenger (from the Lord) and in all that I have brought.” (Bukhari 1.31).
Another “don’t believe your lying eyes” moment in “Fear, Inc. 2.0” occurs when the report charges the David Horowitz Freedom Center with promoting “the myth that Muslim extremists infiltrated an array of political organizations on both the left and the right.” How about the White House? In December 2012, while the Muslim Brotherhood was still in power in Egypt, the Egyptian magazine Rose El-Youssef boasted that Brotherhood infiltrators in the Obama Administration had changed American policy “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
It may have been an empty boast, but that would be hard to prove in light of Barack Obama’s foreign policy. Similarly, the CAP report claims (quoting Nathan Brown, a George Washington University professor) that the notorious captured internal Muslim Brotherhood document detailing U.S. Muslim groups’ strategy to work toward “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house” was “the daydream of one enthusiast.” Brown doesn’t explain why a copy of this “daydream” turned up in the offices of the Holy Land Foundation (once the largest Islamic charity in the United States, shut down for funding Hamas) years after it was first written, but an even more telling indication that Brown and CAP are the enthusiasts doing the daydreaming when they dismiss this report is the fact that the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other Muslim groups work indefatigably to oppose virtually every counter-terror measure that has ever been proposed or implemented. Stigmatizing defense against the jihad threat as “bigotry” isn’t trying to “sabotage its miserable house”? Pull my other leg.
I hope the next CAP report will focus on how the “Islamophobes” are so devastatingly effective that they have even been able to infiltrate mosques and Islamic schools, so as to convince young Muslims that the Islamic State is authentically Islamic and has a claim on their loyalties: over 20,000 foreign Muslims have now traveled from all over the world to join the Islamic State, indicating either that imams and other Muslim authorities are singularly failing to communicate to all too many young Muslims the true, peaceful Islam that CAP will charge you with “hatred” and “bigotry” for not believing exists, or that the “Islamophobes” have a reach far greater than Matthew Duss, Yasmine Taeb, Ken Gude, and Ken Sofer ever imagined even in their worst fever dreams.
The perfect world for the likes of Matthew Duss, Yasmine Taeb, Ken Gude, Ken Sofer and other Islamophobia-mongers would be one in which no one speaks up against jihad violence and Islamic supremacism: they have never, ever seen a counter-jihadist for whom they had any positive words. This would render the U.S. and the West in general mute and hence defenseless before the advancing jihad. As the blood and chaos spreads, will Duss and his cohorts stand up and take a bow?
Jake Holan says
We need only list all terrorists arrested in the past two years their religious self identification and let the facts speak them self
Jovial Joe says
Here’s the URL for the CAP report: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/religion/report/2015/02/11/106394/fear-inc-2-0/. And here’s a quotation from it:
‘More recently, American Muslims in the United States have been targeted, profiled, or seen as suspect because of their faith.’ Not just because of their ‘faith’ but because of what that faith consists in – the anti-Constitutional commands to assume hegemony over all other faiths and over democracy itself and the complete subjugation of non-believers. Tell us that isn’t so CAP!
jihad3tracker says
Thank you JJ for that URL path to the report . . . BTW, at the end of its homepage, we are invited to contact the authors — with links to do so.
SO, PERHAPS JIHADATCH COMMENTERS HERE WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO THESE “EDUCATED FOOLS” — AS SOME TRUTHTELLER ACCURATELY WROTE LONG AGO.
BTW, let me bring our attention once again to the latest of Robert Spencer’s many comprehensive long rebuttals to what are basically rants by privilege-guilt adolescents.
jihad3tracker says
OOOPS ! ! !
Read the paragraph right before 5 bullet points — almost at the end of the CAP report :
WITH THE WORDS “UNRELATED GEOPOLITICAL EVENTS” — about ISIS slaughter of children, women, men.
Apparently the Center For American Progress contains pathological humans who will do anything to distance themselves from a direct connection to reality.
jihad3tracker says
Here is another link about the Center for American Progress idiots :
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/bryan-ballas/2015/02/23/newsweek-reprints-american-progress-report-islamophobia-network. .
LOOK AT THE COMMENTS. AVERAGE AMIERICAN WORKIN’ FOLKS JUST ARE NOT SWALLOWING ISLAMOPHOBIA.
Jovial Joe says
Some great comments there in response to the report
don vito says
The continuing battle for air supremacy in this war!
ECAW says
If Robert Spencer is that powerful just imagine the effect he would have if he wasn’t denied access to the mainstream media, studiously ignored by academia and not even allowed to set foot in a well known freedom loving country on the other side of the Atlantic.
Champ says
“Fear, Inc. 2.0: The Islamophobia Network’s Efforts to Manufacture Hate in America,”
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Making America, and the world, a more *dangerous* place to live–thanks to their egregious disinformation about islam and company.
Jovial Joe says
From the Conclusion of CAP’s report:
‘Thomas Jefferson specifically had the protection of Muslims in mind when drafting the First Amendment’.
Upon looking up the reference cited in support of this claim we find this:
‘Jefferson followed Locke, his idol, in demanding recognition of the religious rights of the “Mahamdan,” the Jew and the “pagan.”‘
So, it wasn’t only Muslims that Jefferson considers, as CAP are mendaciously implying, but those of all faiths (Hindus, or ‘polytheists’ as the Quran refers to them, were also mentioned at the founding of the constitution). Not only does this misleading claim indicate the well-worn supremacist tendencies of the writers of this report, it also speaks to Robert’s insistence on motive – Why isn’t there such a thing as Hinduphobia in America if the criticism of Islam is based solely on bigotry?
Angemon says
Jovial Joe posted:
“From the Conclusion of CAP’s report:
‘Thomas Jefferson specifically had the protection of Muslims in mind when drafting the First Amendment’.
Upon looking up the reference cited in support of this claim we find this:
‘Jefferson followed Locke, his idol, in demanding recognition of the religious rights of the “Mahamdan,” the Jew and the “pagan.”‘
So, it wasn’t only Muslims that Jefferson considers, as CAP are mendaciously implying, but those of all faiths (Hindus, or ‘polytheists’ as the Quran refers to them, were also mentioned at the founding of the constitution). ”
That was before the first Barbary War – I submit you that Jefferson wouldn’t have cared much about muslims after learning that US ships were captured and their crews enslaved because:
jay says
People are waking up and they’re scared. They should be, and the more they panic and fight back the worse they make it. The far right reactionary movement they’re igniting in Europe will rear its ugly head one day and then god help them all.
Gas lighting an entire society will only work for so long.
DrJohn says
Robert, another wonderful peace. As CAP are inviting contact, I hope that you will send this article to them, indeed, I hope that they will be flooded with this article from all of us. Well done again. We will never run up the “white flag”.
ECAW says
It was that phrase “unrelated geopolitical events” that annoyed me so I sent them all this poem by one of Mohammed’s soldiers which I think shows the link between IS and Mohammed’s Islam better than anything else I’ve seen:
Our leader (Muhammad) the prophet, firm,
Pure of heart, steadfast, continent,
Straightforward, full of wisdom, knowledge, and clemency;
Not frivolous nor light minded.
We obey our prophet and we obey a Lord
Who is the Compassionate, most kind to us.
If you offer peace we will accept it
And make you partners in peace and war.
If you refuse we will fight you doggedly,
‘Twill be no weak faltering affair.
We shall fight as long as we live
Till you turn to Islam, humbly seeking refuge.
We will fight not caring whom we meet
Whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains.
How many tribes assembled against us
Their finest stock and allies!
They came at us thinking they had no equal
And we cut off their noses and ears
With our fine polished Indian swords,
Driving them violently before us
To the command of God and Islam,
Until religion is established, just and straight, and
Al-Lat and al-‘Uzza and Wudd are forgotten
And we plunder them of their necklaces and earrings.
For they had become established and confident,
And he who cannot protect himself must suffer disgrace.
duh_swami says
Spencer has the power to cloud the minds of men, and make them believe the unbelievable.. He does that with his black arts and a Darth Vader suit…Both CAIR. PAC and others like them agree that Spencerman and his cohort in mischief Gellerwoman, must be stopped…As long as ‘The Force’ is with them,
they can’t be stopped…So all CAIR can do is whine, and the useless kuffar write long screwball articles they pass of as truth and fact…which most of us know it’s a joke anyway…
Joseph says
Spencer has the power to cloud the minds of men, and make them believe the unbelievable.. He does that with his black arts and a Darth Vader suit
NOW I get it, Mr. Spencer is really Luke’s father. Well go figure
Jack says
All that needs to be done is to show the self identity of religion of all terrorists arrested in the USA over the past 2years
torino390 says
Do you not think that, albeit slowly, the general public are finally waking up and realising this is a very real threat? The reason I ask is, as I said only the other day, when someone as uninterested as my wife can comment on the news, saying ‘Is it me or is there a pattern emerging here?’, this is surely a sign of growing awareness. Obviously the mainstream media retain a lot of information, but some has to be reported as it is becoming more and more commonplace. You can talk to random people, some of my customers at work for example, and you don’t have to try too hard to get a reaction, which always seems to be the same reaction too. This gives me hope. I can see some very real confrontation happening before too long. I honestly believe that people are quietly getting more and more annoyed by what they read and hear. That point where something gives can’t be far away. I may, if I can get out of work, go and support the EDL in Manchester tomorrow. I feel like getting more involved. Take care people.
torino390 says
http://www.englishdefenceleague.org/
Elaine Stokes says
Yep, I reckon take a day off and go, I think we are all starting to wake up. Our Australia wide rallies are looking pretty strong so far, so hopefully yours is a good one.
Good luck to you British people! We need to get every western country really thinking about the state of our countries. Get online, start posting everything you can about islam and people will eventually read something that will fire them up!
pdxnag says
I thought that you were being credited with causing Muslims to hate non-Muslims by parroting Muslim authorities on Islam.
mortimer says
Leftarded cultural Marxists (some even ‘gay’) are able to ignore the daily videos of ISIS atrocities because they are committed to a grand scheme of population replacement which will magically created a new, non-European world where European civilization has ceased to exist and where Europeans are extinct.
Nothing can come in the way of the GRAND REMPLACEMENT (the grand replacement of white populations). This is Marxist genocide. When the genocide is complete, the cultural Marxists will take their masks off and rule their brave new world as the heroic, new vanguard of the brown proletariat.
The problem with this scenario is that it is impossibly RACIST, since it considers ‘brown people’ to be morally disinterested, as well as incapable of understanding the issues of freedom of expression, assembly, to change one’s religion, gender equality, etc.
The cultural Marxists patronizing attitude to ‘brown people’ as easily manipulated cattle (while white people are supposedly not) is horribly RACIST.
D. Bradley says
Now, now….what are you supposed to believe? The ‘truthful’ stories by CAIR or what you see every nite on TV thru your lyin’ eyes?
Bradamante says
These fools at CAP ignore the fact that a person is most likely to start reading Robert Spencer *after* Muslims commit one atrocity too many and he or she starts to wake up. As this article says, it’s the Muslims who are spreading the fear; Robert Spencer and the others are spreading information. I do think more people are waking up. I used to be one of those people who voted for Obama and thought opposition to the Ground Zero Mosque was just racism. A few months back, a friend of mine who originally thought *I* had become a racist Islamophobe told me that after seeing all the news from the Islamic State, now she understood what I was talking about. As someone wrote up above, gas lighting an entire society works only for a while. The more these people work to make it impossible to have honest dialogue about what we want as a society — do we want to be ruled by sharia, do we want to give up our freedoms, do we want to have jihadists living in our cities, etc. — the harder they make it to resolve these problems peacefully.
ECAW says
Dead right Bradamante. I realised a little while ago that it’s fairly pointless trying to persuade people of our point of view. It’s the jihadis who persuade them one by one. Only then do they turn to the internet and find what their lying media have been keeping from them all the time.
Demsci says
//”The more these people work to make it impossible to have honest dialogue about what we want as a society — do we want to be ruled by sharia, do we want to give up our freedoms, do we want to have jihadists living in our cities, etc.”//
Quite right, Bradamante. But you pointed out only those things you wanted to be free FROM, or those things you did NOT WANT. And so many others do not want.
Perhaps it is also important to contemplate on what we, as Western society, have to lose, that which we built, that Muslims did not build, and that which we are proud of.
I mean, the Muslims, they know what they are FOR, they have these MIG-texts (Most Important Guiding) texts. It’s a pity that we Western, Democratic People, do not have our own MIG-texts, our own ideals that we want to defend, but also want to, well, let Muslims prophit from.
jayell says
Who invented that stupid term ‘islamophobia’? Enough people now have pointed out that it actually means an ‘irrational fear’ of Islam, and this is just about as inaccurate as you can get. Can’t the people who still continue to spout this ridiculous term get it into their heads that we in the West have now had a good enough chance to learn about the ‘Religion of Peace’ (sic) and observe the behaviour of those unfortunate enough to be under its influence, and have come to the conclusion that it is a load of incoherent, antediluvian drivel suitable only for the severely intellectually challenged, closet psychopaths and congenital criminals, and quite out of place in polite, intelligent, civilised society.
Joseph says
Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck……..Dang nabbit, It blew itself up, I can’t say for sure it was a duck.
WAIT, WAIT< here come another one. Walks like a……Oh shoot blew himself up again. We will never know if it is a duck.
Maybe it is a bunny rabbit in disguise.
David says
The crux of the matter is this.
Either Muhammad and the Quran were from God or they weren’t.
If the Quran IS from God and Muhammad WAS a true sincere Prophet then all the calls He made to fight or not were right and just and not evil or violence. All the decisions He made were divinely guided and were thus correct, right, true and just.
We Baha’is accept that that time was very different to now. For instance people were not like our blue collar workers but backward and barbaric. The term ‘unbelievers’ was not the definition it is today. That time it could have included, child slave traders and child rapists, killers, thieves and oppressors. Muhammad made His calls according to divine guidance not of His own personal feeling.
We believe Muhammad was a Prophet of God prophesied by Christ Himself and the Bible and to deny Muhammad is to also deny Christ.
Jovial Joe says
‘The term ‘unbelievers’ was not the definition it is today. That time it could have included, child slave traders and child rapists, killers, thieves and oppressors’. – David. I agree this definition isn’t suited to today’s ‘unbelievers’ but it is perfectly apt for today’s Muslim believers; see ISIS.
j says
We believe Muhammad was a Prophet of God prophesied by Christ Himself and the Bible and to deny Muhammad is to also deny Christ.
BULLSHIT.
Jay Boo says
@David,
If Muhammad was a prophet, then what exactly was his prophesy?
A prophet without any prophesy is surely a contradiction.
Muhammad claimed that he did not even know if he would enter into Paradise.
Some prophet.
Also:
See Muhammad’s false claim of prophet hood explained for you.
David Wood
Abu Obeida says
I can’t see how Muhammed was right or just, one only needs to look at the hadith to know what kind of a butcher Muhammed is, since Muslims believe in the hadith and sira I don’t think anyone on Jihadwatch really cares if you believe he was a different man based on a different later scripture .
Demsci says
Well, atheists don’t care about “not following Christ”, but they might well care about democracy, tolerance and freedom, David.
Look, You and Muslims have those “MIG-texts” (Most Important Guiding) texts. But we, democratic, tolerant people, have or should have them too; our constitution, some laws, some human rights, the golden rule.
While your MIG-texts are considered divine, they also are immutable. A profound disadvantage. We have mutable MIG-texts. Ours are much more Clear, Complete, Consistent, Contemporary than yours. But our citizens do not know them very well, while Muslims often follower their MIG-texts better.
But there is interpretation of Quran-Hadiths-Sira, made possible by the very vagueness, ambiguity, incompleteness, contradictions, obsoleteness (1400 years?!) of the MIG-texts of Muslims.
So a new interpretation of Muslim’s MIG-texts, compatible with ours, should be possible. And you are one to exhibit that, David. You are prepared to interpret Mohammed’s message as “time-bound”, not valid for all time. A good start. Produce more of that kind of interpretation, I say.
Joseph says
We believe Muhammad was a Prophet of God prophesied by Christ Himself and the Bible and to deny Muhammad is to also deny Christ.
BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!
I bet your eyes are brown, you are so full of shit
Joseph says
That one is directed at you David. Jesus Christ has nothing in common with your Mohammed. They are diametrically opposed.
#1 You don’t believe in the trinity
#2 You deny Jesus died on the cross for your sins.
#3 You deny Jesus is the “SON OF GOD”
#4 Your salvation rests on committing murder not loving your neighbor
#5 Your god is evil and vile
#6 your god resides in hell
Joseph says
WELL DAVID I AM WAITING FOR A REPLY TO THE TRUTHS I HAVE POSTED.
What’s the matter David? Dhimmi got you tongue?
Moshe Akiva says
May I laugh my butt off?
As we know Comrade Erdogan wanted to make islamophobia a crime against humanity. Logically follows that all other phobias should be persecuted. So, here is the list of all phobias:
http://phobialist.com/
For example, just a few:
Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish.
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
Iophobia- Fear of poison.
Insectophobia – Fear of insects.
Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone.
Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects that eat wood.
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
(Stone them all!!!)
Please notice here that each phobia is just a simple fear of something.
Now, for some odd reason this site does not list islamophobia at all, but when you run a search on their website it redirects you to Google search and to many articles, among them Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia
From here we get know: “Anti-Islamic sentiment or Islamophobia is a term for prejudice against, hatred towards, or fear of the religion of Islam, Muslims, or of ethnic groups perceived to be Muslim.”
And it further explains that even in its “benign” form islamophobia equals to fear and hatred of Muslims. So, if you are scared, you are also hating, prejudiced and anti-islamic,
Odd, that didn’t happen in the case of any other phobias. Like in the case of “Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.” does not include prejudice and/or the hatred of doctors, or being “anti-doctoric”.
I wonder what the fuck happened in the case of islamophobia? :
ECAW says
Let’s encourage the use of the word “postjudice”. It’s so much more appropriate when talking about Islam.
“Prejudice is making a judgment before you have looked at the facts. Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards. Prejudice is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious mistakes. Postjudice is not terrible. You can’t be perfect of course; you may make mistakes also. But it is permissible to make a judgment after you have examined the evidence. In some circles it is even encouraged.”
Carl Sagan
Heather says
I just realised I’ve NEVER seen a muslim SMILE. LOL