Daniel Greenfield is such a towering genius, I just don’t have words. If we had five of him, there would be a total revolution in the public debate, and a thoroughgoing victory for sanity. “The Islamophobia Revolution Will Be Brought to You by Diet Coke,” by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage, June 2, 2015:
While Americans yawned through another weekend, watching television or playing catch with their kids, the greatest human rights violation in our nation’s troubled history took place in the sky above Chicago.
Tahera Ahmad, a Muslim chaplain at Northwestern University who has participated in MSA and ISNA events, and gotten her photo taken with Obama, was denied an unopened Diet Coke.
“Muslim Chaplain Tahera Ahmad Denied Diet Coke,” NBC News blared. “I Can’t Help But Cry,” the CNN headline declaims. “’No Diet Coke for you’: Islamophobia at 30000 feet,” bleated The Guardian.
“Outrage after United Airlines refuses Muslim woman Diet Coke,” the Mirror chimed in.
The Diet Coke crisis was upon us. Islamists called for a boycott of United Airlines and #unitedfortahera became a trending hashtag as random idiots denounced racism and commiserated with the horror of being denied a Diet Coke and pledged not to fly United until they actually need to use their airline miles.
Most of the rest of us would have to lose our legs in an airplane engine to get this much publicity and even if that happened, we would still be stuck crawling across the tarmac while the media eagerly converged on a Muslim passenger who had gotten an Islamophobic eyelash caught in her eye.
But that’s Muslim Privilege. It means that your whiny complaints about airline service suddenly become an international incident. A million people complain about airline service, but tag your complaint with #IslamophobiaISREAL, as Tahera Ahmad did, and suddenly your Diet Coke denial is a hate crime.
According to Tahera Ahmad, the flight attendant wanted to open her Diet Coke for her instead of giving her an unopened can. On a scale of hate crimes this is somewhere between 0 and -0.02. About the only person who could possibly complain about it is a celebrity whose color allotment of M&Ms is specified in a rider to their contract or a professional Islamic grievance-monger looking for any excuse to play victim.
And yet Ahmad’s Diet Coke tribulation was covered by more media outlets than the Muslim rape of thousands of girls in the UK or the suffering of Yazidi girls in Iraq. Her demand for a Diet Coke was compared to Rosa Parks and her tweet about it was launched with the hashtag #IslamophobiaISREAL.
The Islamophobia revolution will be brought to you by Diet Coke.
The TSA isn’t too fond of passengers having closed cans of soda on them. It may have something to do with when a Muslim woman attempted to bring down a China Southern Airlines flight to Beijing using soda cans that she had injected with flammable liquid and dropped in the bathroom trash can.
It’s unknown whether they were Diet Coke cans. But what was in them probably tasted like Diet Coke.
Tahera Ahmad’s Diet Coke crisis is a study in Muslim entitlement. Not just in the scope of it, but in the pettiness of it.
Of all the petty complaints about airline service, hers may be the single pettiest complaint in history. Tahera Ahmad isn’t even complaining that she didn’t get a soda. She’s complaining that she had to endure the filthy impure infidel fingers of the flight attendant groping her Diet Coke can.
And it’s equally a study in the media’s rush to take her ridiculous soda martyrdom and turn into it yet another piece of evidence that Muslims in America are oppressed by the Christian Diet Coke patriarchy.
Tahera Ahmad had appeared at an ISNA convention. She had been to the White House and had her photo taken with Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry. Not to mention Tariq Ramadan; an open supporter of terrorism against Americans and other non-Muslims around the world.
Despite being a product of traditionalist Islamic institutions like Al-Azhar, the media was eager to buy into the idea that Tahera Ahmad was a reformist.
Her recital of the Koran at an ISNA convention was hailed as a breakthrough without anyone asking how that can be said of reciting a creed that deems women and Muslims to be inferior at a convention for a Muslim Brotherhood front group, one of whose officials has stated, “Islam will prevail over other religions”.
On her Twitter account, Tahera Ahmad had retweeted a call to deny an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a human rights activist who was raised a Muslim, but left Islam after recognizing the violent text of the Koran. Ayaan Hirsi Ali suffered through many challenges. None of them involved a Diet Coke.
Instead Ayaan Hirsi Ali had FGM inflicted on her. As an adult, she had to deal with death threats. Her response to them was to continue speaking out. And yet the media prefers the entitled bleating of Tahera Ahmad’s Diet Coke crisis to a serious ex-Muslim intellectual who risks her life every day.
Tahera Ahmad’s sense of entitlement echoes that of her progressive allies. As feminism has taken a dumpster dive into pettiness and entitlement, it has little room for a woman like Ayaan Hirsi Ali who speaks to them about a world in which women are raped and murdered by Islamic Jihadists. They prefer to instead turn minor inconveniences into micro-aggressions to their swollen egos.
In Ahmad’s world, not getting exactly what she wants is a hate crime. And Tahera Ahmad’s whining embodies the torrent of petty Muslim complaints about America in microcosm.
Muslims claim that they’re most oppressed group in the country, but so far that oppression isn’t reflected in such objective metrics as hate crime statistics or actual incidents of oppression.
The banner Islamophobic hate crimes never seem to pan out either.
Shaima Alawadi was supposedly murdered by a racist American because she wore a hijab. The perpetrator left behind a note on the floor reading, “Go back to your country, you terrorist.”
A social media campaign complete with hijabis making duckfaces at the camera while holding up signs reading, “I am Shaima” was launched. The campaign had to be scrapped when it turned out that she had been murdered by her Muslim husband. But it did give “I am Shaima” a new authentic meaning.
The Chapel Hill shootings turned out to be just a parking dispute no matter how desperately Islamist groups and their lefty accomplices tried to turn the perpetrator’s atheism into evidence of a hate crime.
There isn’t a single fatal anti-Muslim hate crime on record. Islamophobia has never killed anyone. The average anti-Muslim hate crime is committed by other Muslims.
What’s a good Islamist to do? Try to spin complaints about airline service into oppression. No one likes air travel, especially since Muslim terrorism inflicted the humiliating regimen of the TSA on the entire country. But Muslim complaints about it get a unique hearing because of their Muslim privilege.
Islamophobia is a self-reinforcing myth. The Americans groped at TSA checkpoints aren’t victims, but when a Muslim who has had a photo taken with Obama can’t get her Diet Coke the way she wants it, then it’s the worst soft-drink related human rights incident since Gitmo stopped serving Crystal Pepsi.
Muslim oppression of non-Muslims requires a narrative of victimhood to grease the wheels. So does leftist subversion of America under the guise of aiding the oppressed. And if that victimhood sometimes has to be found at the bottom of an unopened can of Diet Coke, that’s the fizz of the Jihad.
SickofObama says
Time for another American Revolution. These ‘leaders’ are far worse than George III by a long shot.
Champ says
I wholly agree, SickofObama!! …great moniker, btw 🙂
abad says
This is why Obama needs to be impeached for his war crimes against the United States of America.
He has completely failed to put America, the Constitution first and ahead of this alien known as Islam, he cares more about giving the criminal Rohingya refuge, he hasn’t done a thing to obliterate ISL – he has got to go.
Don says
If she is “an open supporter of terrorism against Americans,” then why is she not imprisoned? Is that knowledge, openly professed, not tantamount to a threat against the people of the United States wherever they are?
Susan says
Dam moslems are desperate to prove Islamophobia so they try these phony pranks to prove it. I am more upset about the rape victims and sex slave girls in the ME which is condoned by the quran and the hadiths and the actions of mohammad. I am developing a serious case of islam hatred. Symptoms; blood pressure goes up steam starts coming out of ears and followed by a loud scream of F**K islam.
Shmooviyet says
Unfortunately the ones who care more about this poor woman’s horrific, imagined experience have the loudest voices and the ears of the scaredy-cat media and politicians. It’s pure LAZINESS among other things; it’s so much easier to point fingers at phony islamophobia than to explain why they ignore world-wide savagery caused by permanently p….d off Mohammed followers.
Her whole stupid story reads like a Poverty Row CAIR script.
Brian Hoff says
The Koran doesnot support rape and either does any treaching of Islam support rape. It is ancient custom.
Jack Diamond says
It’s too boring to give you the suras and commentaries, but having sex with a captive woman (right hand possession) is rape. Her unwillingness doesn’t matter (and that she is unwilling is taken for granted). Rape, in marriage, simply is not recognized in Islam because the wife has no right to say no. You are right “it is ancient custom” but a custom Allah and Muhammad customized for the mujahideen as part of their reward or war booty, their inducement to fight jihad (Spoils of War an entire sura). In short, your statement is false.
Angemon says
Brian Hoff posted:
“The Koran doesnot support rape ”
quran 4:24:
And [also prohibited to you are all] married women except those your right hands possess.
“Those your right hand possess” are slave girls, even of they’re already married. Is a slave girl allowed not to have sex with her owner? Of course not. She’s a slave – she has no saying on the matter.
“and either does any treaching of Islam support rape.”
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 59, Number 459:
“Narrated Ibn Muhairiz:
I entered the Mosque and saw Abu Said Al-Khudri and sat beside him and asked him about Al-Azl (i.e. coitus interruptus). Abu Said said, “We went out with Allah’s Apostle for the Ghazwa of Banu Al-Mustaliq and we received captives from among the Arab captives and we desired women and celibacy became hard on us and we loved to do coitus interruptus. So when we intended to do coitus interrupt us, we said, ‘How can we do coitus interruptus before asking Allah’s Apostle who is present among us?” We asked (him) about it and he said, ‘It is better for you not to do so, for if any soul (till the Day of Resurrection) is predestined to exist, it will exist.””
Notice that that the question was whether muslims should practice coitus interruptus or not, since they wanted to demand ransom for the girls they took captive and they might not be able to do so if they were pregnant. That muslims could rape them was a given, as far as they were concerned.
“It is ancient custom.”
Prevalent along islamic countries all over the world…
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5195/sweden-rape
Jack Diamond says
Tafsir Ibn Kathir on 4:24:
“except those whom your right hands possess) except those whom you acquire through war, for you are allowed such women after making sure they are not pregnant. Imam Ahmad recorded that Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri said, “We captured some women from the area of Awtas who were already married, and we disliked having sexual relations with them because they already had husbands. So, we asked the Prophet about this matter, and this Ayah was revealed… (Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess). Consequently, we had sexual relations with these women.” This is the wording collected by At-Tirmidhi An-Nasa’i, Ibn Jarir and Muslim in his Sahih. ”
Even worse, Brian Hoff:
“Abu Said al-Khudri said: The apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of the Companions of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Quranic verse, ‘And all married women (are forbidden) unto you save those (captives) whom your right hands possess’. That is to say, they are lawful for them when they complete their waiting period.
(Sunan Abu Dawud, Volume 2, Number 21)
You see? Some of Muhammad’s men were reluctant to have intercourse with their female captives in the presence of their husbands… so Allah makes it okay (he abrogates their marriages and approves making the ex-husbands be humbled and feel themselves subdued– by having their wives raped in front of them).
Let’s not forget a Muslim’s slave girl during peace time. He can rape her too:
The Quran in Sura 23:5-6 says:
5 [Most certainly true believers] . . . guard their private parts scrupulously, 6 except with regard to their wives and those who are legally in their possession (right hand possessions), for in that case they shall not be blameworthy. (Sayyid Abul A’La Maududi, The Meaning of the Quran, vol. 3, p. 237)
>>>guard their private parts, except with their slave girl.
As for kaffir girls being raped otherwise, since it requires four male Muslim witnesses to convict for rape in any Muslim Paradise, and since that is very unlikely, it is true that rape hardly exists, officially.
yuval Brandstetter MD says
No. Your President was elected twice on a platform of supporting Islam which openly hates the USA. So why arrest a poor girl who did not want her halal coke sullied by impure hands?
underbed cat says
You know you are right…why is it the some groups can call for the death of America, talk about killing infidels, kill infidels….march with signs openly calling for sharia and with all this evidence of “hate”, I mean tons of it, no one gets in trouble…but the Airlines who opened a can of diet coke…? Someone gets vilified, loses her job? She can cause a problem for the Airlines…walk away serenely insulted and the press swoons..
jihad3tracker says
Yes, agreed — Mr. Greenfield looms head and shoulders above most analysts.
Due to the almost certain likelihood that every pompous newspaper columnist (and other media blowhards) contributing to our national conversation about Islam will celebrate the Abercrombie hijab decision as a victory for tolerance, diversity and employee “rights” here is a suggestion :
SENT THE POST ABOVE TO EVERY ONE OF THOSE CLUELESS MEDIA FOOLS —- IF YOU CAN GET A RELIABLE EMAIL PATH TO THEM . . .
Angemon says
True that.
miriamrove says
I was at the dentist this morning and hate going to it. I read this article while I was waiting and made my day!!! Robert is right! We need a few more like him. m
Loves God says
A small side note about the M&Ms clause. It is actually a safety trip measure. It is buried in a whole long contract but if the venue doesn’t catch that, the band knows that they will need to check other things which might put them at risk because they may not have been done safely.
RonaldB says
That’s very interesting. Thanks for the information. Stars are not necessarily the spoiled brats portrayed in the media.
Ah Clem says
Hilarious spoof of Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”.
Touchdown for Mr. Greenfield! (You had to have seen the movie to get that one).
Agent of Liberty says
It’s time for the non muslim world to become islamaphobic. Ban all muslims from Western Country Airlines. Ban islam period! We’ll just all be safer.
Don McKellar says
“Ban islam period!”
That nobody can do.
“Ban all muslims from Western Country Airlines.”
They would all go bankrupt from the lawsuits.
“It’s time for the non muslim world to become islamaphobic.”
Now that’s almost there. In truth it is is time for the non moslem world to become educated about Islam and why all those mad dog jihadi murderers do what they do and why this Diet Coke bitch is doing what she’s doing. Once the majority of people are actually educated on the topic, the great majority of our problems and safety concerns with moslems would go away pretty quickly — and if they don’t, then the politicians who aren’t doing the will of the people will go away pretty quickly. It’s all about education. Up until this point in history, we in the modern advanced world, have had very, very little when it comes to Islam. And we’ve got a whole bunch of left-fascists who are stubbornly, arrogantly wilfully ignorant who are slowing down the educational process.
Don McKellar says
Good piece!
Well, the next time yet another moslem plots to murder innocents or carries out their plans of jihad, we now know that it could very well have been because they were denied an unopened can of Diet Coke on their last flight! It’s a strong possibility that they were driven to murder not by the very clear commands in the Koran and the examples in the hadiths — but by that evil islamophobic stewardess insisting on opening the can, or no can at all!
jamshid says
ahmad you sucked all kind of dicks how a opend can, can be unhygienic
RonaldB says
I think she had 3 objectives:
1) Make it more difficult to detect Muslim hijackers;
2) Further dissolve the pre-Islamic cultural identity of Americans;
3) Find out just how far a Muslim has to go before encountering some push back from Americans.
Daniel’s piece is very funny, but I don’t think anyone is actually fooled into thinking the actual circumstances of the incident made any difference to anyone involved: except maybe the stewardess, who was trying to do a good job and didn’t realize she was being set up as a patsy. It remains to be seen if the United management tries to salvage another 5 weeks of government approval and throws the stewardess to the wolves.
The goal of Muslims is to achieve a Muslim, sharia society. That’s their identity as Muslims. Expecting a moderate, but self-identified Muslim to renounce the goal of sharia government is equivalent to a Christian who renounces the idea of the divinity of Jesus. The two are contradictory. The non-Christian “Christian” might be a perfectly good guy, but he’s not a Christian.
Charli Main says
Why did this piece of Muslim shit ask for a diet coke ????
As a good Muslim, she should of asked for a can of camel piss.
marty says
I’ll be flying United Airlines exclusively from this point on.
RonaldB says
Haha.
Good response.
I used to fly United, but the problem I have with them is that to get the cheapest fares, I have to reserve a flight two weeks or more in advance. My plans don’t crystallize that neatly. So, I fly Spirit Airlines, where I can get an inexpensive flight the day before.
But, I will join you and always check United first. If they have a competitive deal, I will definitely give them first priority.
RonaldB says
Well, scratch that United fired the stewardess. So, the management has no more backbone than our security establishment
Wellington says
Islam may be doomed above all other reasons because it will be laughed out of existence. I’m not kidding.
Caroline says
This Muslim bit@h needs to be banned from all airlines. She is a liar and an apologist for terrorists. They only do this stuff because we let them get away with it. Good to see some light being shone on the Islamists and their tactics.
Tim says
“Islamists called for a boycott of United Airlines” …. Lol. So that means UA can slack a bit on the security then without further concerns?
Laura says
I think that I would have given the can a damned good shake, and then handed it to the precious luvvie!
underbed cat says
Laura…..(funny)…but naughty…..if the offended asked for a plastic cup with her diet coke then usually the attendant would open the can….to be helpful..this nonsense came from a “peaceful person”, with an agenda…Shake shake shake…
Denis MacEoin says
This was, indeed, petty. But does anyone know whether Tahera Ahmad was singled out or, as may be the case, the refusal to hand over unopened drink cans is airline policy for everyone? That is important as context, and,if true, it makes the dismissal of the stewardess totally unpalatable.
Ronald Dumont says
If she is so Islamic how could she travel unescorted without her husband or close Male Family Member under Islamic Sharia law??
This nothing but a overtly vain attempt to bring Islamophobia to new realms of idiocy with the obscene use of ideological false racism to claim special attention and bias to receive compensation for a non-compositional event and/or issue.
What’s unhygienic about getting a can of soda that has just been opened? Could it be that Ahmad found it objectionable to receive a can of soda opened by najis (unclean, cf. Qur’an 9:28) infidel hands?
Victimization and Racism just like Islamophobia is just another prevocational ruse to convince those who do not bother to understand or comprehend that this is nothing but pure unadulterated masking of their true ideological intentions of complete anti-feminist Male domination of all inhabitants of this planet.
John W. Callahn says
They used one of United Airlines Airplanes on the twin towers didn’t they? Coincidence? I think not