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At UN, Pakistan calls on world to combat not jihad terrorism, but “Islamophobia”

Feb 6, 2016 9:21 am By Robert Spencer

This is how the charge of “Islamophobia” works. When a Muslim cleric such as Abu Hamza Ashur says “Kill them! Poison your daggers, and then stab or slaughter them. Blow them up, shed their blood, pounce on them, dismember them, paralyze them, make the earth quake under their feet, trample on their heads….By Allah, we will use it to turn you into body parts, and we will send you messages written in blood. By Allah, we will annihilate you with it. We will turn you into lifeless corpses, and into scattered body parts, Allah willing,” Pakistan and the OIC say nothing. But if I quote Abu Hamza Ashur, that’s “Islamophobia.”

More below.

Maleeha Lodhi

“Pakistan calls on world to combat Islamophobia,” by Masood Haider, Dawn, February 5, 2016 (thanks to Lookmann):

UNITED NATIONS: Decrying the rise of Islamophobia worldwide, Pakistan called on Thursday for action to combat the forces of xenophobia and warned that if timely steps were not taken to check this disturbing trend, it could threaten regional and global peace and security.

Speaking at an event organised at the UN by Pakistan Mission and the OIC on “Countering Xenophobia through Interfaith Cooperation”, Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi said that Islamophobic acts were unfortunately taking place in countries known as traditional champions of human rights and humanitarianism.

Note the conflation of “Islamophobia,” an invented term designed to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad terror, with xenophobia. Yet there is no problem in Europe or North America with Hindu immigrants or any immigrant group other than Muslims. Those who are concerned about jihad terror and Sharia oppression aren’t motivated by xenophobia, but by a desire to protect their countries and communities.

She regretted that some unprincipled politicians in the West had sought to build their political fortunes by spreading fear and xenophobia – promising to build walls against migrants; barring refugees, even widows and orphans; threatening to ban the adherents of a specific religion from entry to their countries’ shores.

Unfortunately, she said, this campaign of hate and prejudice had received a fillip from ignorant Western media portrayals of Muslims.

See above. If a Muslim cleric spews hatred and incitement to violence, Maleeha Lodhi says nothing. But if a non-Muslim in the West quotes that cleric, it’s another ignorant Western media portrayal of Muslims.

Initiating the discussion Ambassador Lodhi said the purpose of the event– during a week at the UN, devoted to interfaith harmony – was to highlight the concern of Pakistan and OIC countries over certain recent developments which were posing a danger to such harmony, to social cohesion and to the observance of human rights and humanitarian norms.

The instances of insults against Islam and Muslims were now legion, she said. Islam has been called unspeakable names; minarets have been portrayed as missiles.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once quoted a poem: “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.” That wasn’t “Islamophobia.” But a non-Muslim quoting Erdogan quoting the poem? That’s “Islamophobia.”

These have not been empty insults. “Expressions of such hate and prejudice have provoked physical and psychological violence against Muslims and their businesses, mosques and community centres in some countries.

No actual vigilante violence against Muslims and their businesses, mosques and community centres is ever justified. The scope of this violence is far smaller than the scope of jihad terror attacks by Muslims in the West: 130 killed in Paris, 14 in San Bernardino — and that’s just the last few months. But that doesn’t get UN or Pakistani government attention.

“Almost all Muslim communities have been subjected to such intolerance. Many live in fear. Their alienation expands the divide between faiths and cultures within and among nations.”

Ms Lodhi quoted President Obama who acknowledged during his visit to a mosque earlier this week that “an attack on one faith is an attack on all our faiths. And when any religious group is targeted, we all have a responsibility to speak up.”

She also highlighted the plight of refugees and migrants pouring into Europe. While initially this evoked many heart-warming acts of generosity, humanity and solidarity, the purveyors of hate have sought to turn the tide against the advocates of openness and humanitarianism, especially after the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris.

She added: “They have equated helpless refugees and migrants with violent extremists in order to generate political support for the forces of hate, prejudice, intolerance and xenophobia.”

How does Maleeha Lodhi propose to distinguish helpless refugees and migrants from violent extremists? Neither she nor anyone else has explained how this can possibly be done.

Terming such xenophobia and discrimination a ‘dangerous trend’, she warned that such profiling of entire peoples and communities by religion or ethnicity, has grave antecedents. Seventy-five years ago, this led to the Holocaust.

Ambassador Lodhi said those who had declared the denial of the Holocaust a crime should hardly argue that the freedom of expression allowed insults against Islam and hate speech and incitement to violence against Muslims.

As hate inevitably breeds hate, Islamophobia will breed its antithesis. “It is a recipe for a clash of cultures – a clash we must avoid if the world is to have any hope of collective action to end the chaos in the Middle East and eliminate all forms of terrorism”, she added….

She makes it clear that freedom of expression does not allow insults against Islam and what she considers to be hate speech. This makes clear yet again what the entire “Islamophobia” initiative is all about: compelling Western nations to adopt free speech restrictions in line with Sharia blasphemy laws.

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Comments

  1. Linde Barrera says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 9:26 am

    I am Islamophobic and proud. I hate the evil ideology of Islam and I don’t apologize. Come get me baby. I am a volunteer in NH for Ted Cruz for President.

    • billybob says

      Feb 6, 2016 at 10:14 am

      I suggest we stop reinforcing that word “islamophobic”. I suggest we promote the term “Islamocritic” as an accurate description of those who articulate the evils of Islamic ideology. Let’s post this word with every comment until it becomes an internet meme, stronger and more powerful that other word associating criticism of Islam with an irrational, baseless fear.

      • mortimer says

        Feb 6, 2016 at 11:04 am

        ‘Islamocritic’ or ‘Islamocritical’ are EXCELLENT!

        I also suggest the following ‘Islamo’ Combos:
        Gullible Person: Islamo-phobia Islamo-gullible Islamo-credulous Islamo-unsophisticated Islamo-novice Islamo-greenhorn Islamo-simpleminded Islamo-brainless Islamo-nitwit Islamo-surrenderist Islamo-laughable Islamo-ludicrous Islamo-preposterous Islamo-misleading Islamo-implausible Islamo-somnolent Islamo-baffled Islamo-befuddled Islamo-mystified
        Lying Muslims: Islamo-obscurantist Islamo-zombie Islamo-morbidity Islamo-toxicity Islamo-pathic Islamo-absurdity Islamo-deceptiveness Islamo-conspiratorial Islamo-delusional Islamo-conspiracism
        Dhimmis: Islamo-Leftard Axis Islamo-fascist Islamo-supremacism Islamo-rant Islamo-mania Islamo-propaganda Islamo-misinformation Islamo-trickster Islamo-conman Islamo-charlatan Islamo-fraudster Islamo-deceptive Islamo-shamming Islamo-sycophants Islamo-grovellers Islamo-fawners Islamo-flatterer Islamo-panderers Islamo-crawler Islamo-enabler
        Analysis: Islamo-analysis Islamo-realism Islamo-common-sense Islamo-level-headedness Islamo-rationality Islamo-sensible Islamo-reasonableness Islamo-threat-awareness

        • Shmooviyet says

          Feb 6, 2016 at 5:41 pm

          Islamo-sanity?
          Apologies if I missed it among your collection!

        • Oppressaphobe says

          Feb 7, 2016 at 11:44 am

          Islamically-challenged??

          Kudos to you who understand that you have to reject the enemies phrasoligies and replace it with your own.

      • Maryam says

        Feb 6, 2016 at 3:40 pm

        Love it! I agree! Unfortunately, the UN lives in a parallel universe where the perps are the victims. They’re disgusting, as is our lawless president.

      • Infidela says

        Feb 7, 2016 at 6:18 am

        Islamocritic is good, and how about Islamic fellow travller to describe those non-muslims who fawn over Islam and muslims.

        • Infidela says

          Feb 7, 2016 at 6:22 am

          traveller

  2. Kate says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 9:33 am

    It is about controlling speech.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 6, 2016 at 11:12 am

      Agree with Kate. ‘It is about controlling free speech.’

      The Islamophobia slander is a denial of critical thought so Islam may be defended from scrutiny

      The ‘Islamophobia’ slander is merely the fear that Muslims have of critical thought. They are terrified that critical thought may destroy the foundations of Islamic faith, because Islam is based on hearsay and repetition, rather than on verifiable facts.

      Islam cannot survive detailed inquiry, critical analysis or close scrutiny. Islamic faith depends on unquestioning, blind acquiescence to the basic documents of Islam. Islam cannot be rigorously tested, so it must be protected by a wall of silence and death threats against the critics. Muslims know this and are touchy about admitting that Islam is a flimsy house of cards.

      Faith in Islam’s teachings falls apart and collapses as soon as the historicity and amoral character of Mohammed are examined. Mohammed’s character is the greatest liability in Islam. The legendary and unhistorical nature of Islam’s early biographies of Mohammed are not supported by outside sources, making the biography of Mohammed a matter of pure speculation, if not total subjectivity.

      The ‘Islamophobia’ slur is an ad hominem condemnation demeaning all critics of Islam as being mentally ill, but this is obviously not true, since rational inquiry about Islam is highly intellectual. Thus criticism of Islam is proof of one’s sanity.

      Muslims want to live in liberal, Western societies, while having Islam exempted from the scrutiny of critical inquiry…which is the sort of mental process that makes those societies vibrant and desirable to live in. By removing critical thought, Muslims will make those societies as stagnant and backward as all Muslim countries, thereby defeating their reason for moving to the West.

      Obama refuses to say ‘Islamic terrorism’ when referring to Islamic terrorism in case it might legitimize Islamic terrorism. Absurd. The legitimacy of Islamic terrorism comes from the foundational texts of Islam, rather than from the US president, the US congress or the US constitution.

      Criticism of Islam is basically a call for Muslims to leave their barbaric Death Cult and join the civilized modern world.

      • Brian Huggett says

        Feb 6, 2016 at 7:44 pm

        “The ‘Islamophobia’ slander is merely the fear that Muslims have of critical thought. They are terrified that critical thought may destroy the foundations of Islamic faith, because Islam is based on hearsay and repetition, rather than on verifiable facts.”

        The Islamic faith is based on the lusts of a single man…Mohammed

  3. Charlie in NY says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 9:38 am

    Sure, we need to fight the unfair targeting of an entire community for the sins of a few of their members (which is what we’re really talking about, “Islamophobia” being a wrongheaded and somewhat Stalinist sounding concoction) but we can’t do it alone. We need the help of the Muslim world to change perceptions. I wonder what we should ask them to contribute to the fight of putting their own house in order. Wouldn’t Allah help those who help themselves?

    • mortimer says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 7:12 am

      Charlie, You are assuming that a ‘good’ Islam exists. I believe you need to read the Sira, hadiths and Sharia law to realize the house of Islam is already ‘in order’. It follows Sharia law…Allah’s eternal law.

      Islam is highly codified and vigilante murder is an authorized part of Islam. That may sound harsh to your ears, unless you know Sharia law. When the state fails to execute the blasphemer or the apostate, the jurists of Al Azhar University said that ‘someone has to do it’. This so-called ‘legislation’ in favor of vigilantism comes from the top authority in Islam, rather from an out-of-control street ruffian. Do you get the drift of that? Vigilantism in Islam is NOT an aberration.

  4. Jaladhi says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 9:45 am

    What else one would expect from these liars and hypocrites!! True to their colors they never miss an opportunity to white wash Muslim terrorism! And the West falls for it!

  5. David Munson says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 9:57 am

    Muslims telling non-muslims to behave. As in special Ed? Lol. No.

    • E Ward says

      Feb 6, 2016 at 9:45 pm

      I tend to ignore what Pakistani’s say. Their token woman ambassador should be worrying about Pakistan’ s epic abysmal treatment of women, and not telling westerners what they should think or say about an ideology, Islam, that supports it.

  6. Stephen says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 10:02 am

    Most muslims n Islamic militants n terrorists know many things which are Not mentioned in the Coran before or spoken by Allah or Mohammed in their books, …. are Out Of Context.

    They are Not reading n are Not following their books closely. They use Fears to threaten many innocents.

    They are hearing the commands of their imams but not the books. Imams n leaders are preaching out of context to their followers.

    They are taught hatreds, kills, rapes, …. which Mohammed was Not taught correctly n properly at all.

    Mohammed was killed by Allah with poison which he spoke badly abt it that mentioned in the Coran.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 6, 2016 at 11:47 am

      The mullahs don’t understand Islam? That’s just twaddle, Mr. ‘Stephen’. It is foolish to claim that the mullahs don’t understand Islam and only you do! You are assuming there is a ‘good’ Islam that only you know of.

      The mullahs have BAs, MAs and PhDs in Islamic studies and know Islam PERFECTLY well, and they also know the intellectual and moral problems in Islam, but keep silent about the problems because they need a job and know they may be killed for speaking out.

      Who are you? You are guessing, are you not?

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 9:37 am

      Stephen–That’s misinformed n silly n why do you think that’s cute? The leader of ISIS. El Baghadi, has a PhD in Islamic studies n how would you think he is not knowledgeable about Sharia n Islam?

  7. Angemon says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 10:44 am

    UNITED NATIONS: Decrying the rise of Islamophobia worldwide, Pakistan called on Thursday for action to combat the forces of xenophobia and warned that if timely steps were not taken to check this disturbing trend, it could threaten regional and global peace and security.

    No one likes xenophobia. Everyone should do their best to combat it. That’s why I suggest that countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc., should take in millions of European and American “refugees”. Of course, those “refugees” would have their host nation backing them in detriment of the native population, and their European and American culture and values would be upheld even if they were polar opposites of the host nation’s. Their presence would also be entirely supported by the Pakistani, Afghani, etc. tax-payers, and any Afghani, Pakistani, etc., objecting to any of that would be labeled a xenophobic racist and severely punished. In the end, the local religion and culture will have to change and abide by European and American values while disregarding their own, and a state of perfect harmony and multiculturalism will be achieved.

    I’m certain that Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi would support that suggestion – after all, she wouldn’t want to pass the idea that combating xenophobia is something only applicable to European and American nations. If for nothing else, to reciprocate what’s going on in Europe and America.

  8. pdxnag says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 10:44 am

    I can’t help but think of this as part of as some sort of fevered piety where Muslims are deathly afraid of being labeled less pious than their neighbors, by their dangerously pious neighbors. Complaining of their piety might itself be the reason they would cut your head off. So you must point vigorously at non-Muslims.

  9. Ginger says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 10:52 am

    Naturally, in a Muslim-dominated society like Pakistan the murder, rape, false imprisonment and execution of Christians on trumped-up blasphemy charges is not only perfectly acceptable, but a duty.

  10. Don McKellar says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 11:02 am

    Good cop, bad cop.

    The arguments presented by the whole Islamophobia con job are always the same nonsense and a variation of good cop, bad cop. “See the moslem beside me? You keep insulting Islam and he’ll attack you. I’m here to be your friend and protect you from him, but I can’t do that if you keep insulting Islam. So shut up and stop insulting Islam. That’s a good dhimmi.”

    • mortimer says

      Feb 6, 2016 at 12:21 pm

      If we stop saying ‘Islamic terrorism’, will Muslims stop conducting terrorism? Even one day?

  11. mortimer says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 11:14 am

    Jihad terrorism is the elephant in the room. Muslims are demanding we not discuss the elephant in the room when they use the world Islamophobia.

    Criticism of Islam is Islamo-threat-awareness.

    • Westman says

      Feb 6, 2016 at 4:19 pm

      Very true, Mortimer,

      And if they ever got muzzle-laws passed, their “brothers”, Jihad terrorists, would go right on killing Muslims.

  12. Lucretius says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 11:18 am

    Let she who is without sin cast the first stone.

    She scolds Europe for growing “xenophobia.” Just imagine if the shoe were on the other foot, and hundreds of thousands of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, or foreign Muslims, even from the same sect, were streaming into Pakistan. It’s disgusting that we have to hear this scolding from a mouthpiece for this cesspool of human rights.

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 6, 2016 at 1:16 pm

      I agree

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 9:53 am

      Actually, Islamophobia means “Fear of Islam.” I think I hate Islam more than I fear it. It any case, the UN nor any other power can effectively tell me whom to fear and whom to hate. Nor can they keep me from saying so. The left-wing, Islamic – run, US financed, United Nations cannot ever abrogate the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.

      If, however, the word “Islamophobia” is incorrectly taken to mean hatred of Islam, I wear the badge proudly. I hate Islam and will never feel any other way nor will I stop expressing my hatred of Islam at every opportunity.

  13. BlueRaven says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 11:22 am

    I agree with her if she thinks human rights are abused in countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan; Saudi Arabia; Iran; Brunai; Quwait; Bangladesh; Indonesia so on and so forth. By the way while she is thinking about it, she can shove ‘Islamophobia’ term up her place where the sun doesn’t shine. What a frigging Islamofascist Beach.

  14. billybob says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 11:24 am

    “She warned that such profiling of entire peoples and communities by religion or ethnicity, has grave antecedents. Seventy-five years ago, this led to the Holocaust.”

    She is falsely conflating criticism of Islam with ethnicism and anti-Semitism. Furthermore, she invokes the spectre of the holocaust to gain sympathy for her viewpoint. How she twists things around. How bizaar to use this device when the Quran is so full of Jew hatred!

    The holocaust stemmed from anti-Semitism, which in turn is based on negative stereotyping of Jews based mainly on their cultural and ethnic attributes. Though Judaism itself is a strong component of Jewish identity, is not specifically the target of anti-Semitism. Instead, we see caricatures of Jewish facial features and cultural imperatives such as the accumulation of wealth. While anti-Semitism also attacks Zionism (where Jews may argue that they have more right to the “Promised Land” than other peoples), this is probably the only attack that is actually based on their religious beliefs and may be supported by their holy books.

    In the end, Jews are a monolith ethnic and religious entity of a single people, whereas Islam encompasses an endless number of races, nationalities and ethnic divisions. It is the ideology of Islam itself we attack, not the national, ethnic, or cultural identity of Muslims except where their culture has been influenced by Islam, nor even the colour of their skin which comes in every hue and shade.

    Criticising Islam is impersonal. It doesn’t speak to individual practitioners who may be Muslims by accident of birth, or uninformed of or indifferent to their religion. Yes we may see caricatures of turbaned jihadi warriors, but this is a caricaturization of Muhammad himself. It only reflects the appearance of Muslims who identify with Muhammad and seek to emulate him – very different than portraying the classic hook nose of the Jew. Islam transcends ethnicity. We also see caricaturization of pious Muslims with long beards, women in burkas or veiled with the niqab, but again this is fundamentally religious garb and doesn’t reflect the original ethnic or cultural dress of most Muslims around the world.

    A Jew is a Jew by virtue of his ethnic origin, something he has no more choice over then one has a choice over the colour of their skin. A Jew may be an atheist but continue to be a target of anti-Semitism. On the other hand, religion is a choice. One who choses to follow Islam has every reason to be criticised, as much as anybody else who adopts any number of anti-social ideologies.

    In the end, there is no comparison between criticism of Islam with ethnicism and anti-Semitism.

    As an aside, I propose the term “Islamocritic” replace the word “Islamophobe”. I suggest you make that a fast spreading internet meme. Let’s take back our dignity from those who would dismiss us with that silly, worn out “Islamophobes”. We are not Islamophobic. We are rationally afraid of Islam and any sane person should feel the same. Islam is the only religion that advocates a vile, oppressive, supremacist ideology promoted and defended by violence. It needs to be exposed for what it is.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 6, 2016 at 12:23 pm

      There is more anti-Semitism in the Koran that there is in Mein Kampf.

      • Blurb1000 says

        Feb 6, 2016 at 1:47 pm

        You mean The Holy Mein Kampf?
        The Holy Quran and Allahs mesenger (PBUH) and the holy Mein Kampfs author, the great Adolf Hitler, Allah bless him in his afterlife, do good work together.

        Mein Kampf, the best selling book in Turkey. They can’t all be wrong?

  15. mortimer says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 11:34 am

    Islam, as an intellectual system, is unable to compete in the marketplace of ideas, since it cannot be examined rigorously without exposing it as a house of cards. Islam is anti-intellectual and obscurantist and Muslims know this to be true, but sadly, they are too afraid to object to this aggressive, brutal irrationalism.

    In Western societies, religions are routinely put under the microscope. Muslims living in the West should get used to it, accept it or move back to their backward, corrupt dictatorships…such as Pakistan… where censorship of everything, bribery and constant lies make them so backward, stagnant and impoverished and dangerous and lacking in opportunity due to the retrograde, criminal force of Islam.

  16. Michael Copeland says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 1:36 pm

    “Expressions of such hate and prejudice”, Ambassador?
    That would not happen in Islam, now, would it?
    “You should hate them, disown them and their religion and be proud of your religion.”
    From Alminbar.com
    “Allah (SWT) tells you to … hate those whom He tells you to hate … Therefore you must love the Muslims … and hate the kuffaar … .”
    From Muslims Against Voting
    Plenty more at:
    http://libertygb.org.uk/news/islam-instructs-hatred-muslims-speak

    “Their alienation”, Ambassador?
    Muslims are INSTRUCTED to alienate themselves from the filthy kuffar.
    “the purveyors of hate have sought to turn the tide against the advocates of openness and humanitarianism.”
    Yes, absolutely right: the muslim male purveyors of Islam’s instructed hatred for the kuffar worked their hatred well on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Bielefeld, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Vienna.

  17. R Cole says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    When Pakistan makes the ‘Islamophobia’ argument – you know clearly it is about the sharia.

    ::

    It Ain’t Christian!

    Whereas most on the Left – if they have heard of sharia law at all – have been brought up in the Christian tradition – when they hear something of Islam that doesn’t fit in with this – then they call it ‘racist’ [a part of which is personal, in that they do not wish to be called the same] or the new term ‘Islamophobia.

    But the difference is – when Muslim groups and countries like Pakistan call ‘racism’ or ‘Islamophobia’ – with full knowledge of Islam – having been brought up listening to its politically incorrect versions, presented as the norm – this is where they separate from the Left. The Muslim calls are for sharia laws to be implemented in the west.

    The Left are loyal to a political position and the Muslims are loyal to Islam – there is a huge difference.

    ::

    The Islamo-Confidence Game

    Red flags are all over the online Oxford dictionary definition of Islamophobia – it says those who dislike Islam are ‘islamophobes’ – so that immediately we have a conflict with religious freedom, freedom of conscience, freedom of thought and speech or expression. All of these fundamental human rights are those which the Islamic world takes issue with. In Saudi Arabia they behead those who leave Islam, in Pakistan they jail those who express a dislike for the religion.

    US Muslims have openly supported changes to the Constitution – to bring it in line with Islamic values.

    For Islam the Left serve a purpose – the Muslims know if they can get them upset enough they will fetch them the sharia laws – in violation of western norms. The Left love a good cause – [but these Islamic religious waters are deep]. And although the Ambassador’s emotive speech is littered with the language of human rights – it is the antithesis of this.

    In Pakistan Christians are believed to be ‘unclean’ and inferior – such beliefs led to a Christian couple being jailed for 25 years for merely touching a Koran with their ‘unclean’ hands. Further the rape, kidnap or murder of Hindu and Christian women and girls is carried out with impunity in Pakistan. Pak Christians complain of having their plates smashed after a meal in restaurants – and there are reports of signs requiring customers to identify their religion when ordering – at food or drink stalls. One Christian man was beaten to death on the spot for drinking from a Muslim only cup at one of these stalls.

    And as for walls there is at least one area in Pakistan which an impoverished Christian community lives in a walled off area.

    Pakistan also has some the strictest blasphemy laws in the world – yet the highest terrorism – the anti-“Islamophobia” argument – as a means to control terrorism – falls apart here.

    ::

    Poor Islam

    In truth the only religion that is having a problem with other religions in the world is Islam. Yet at the same time they demand the most respect – for their beliefs.

    They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree – the religion must be a reflection of its founder. A deep insecurity runs through Islam. And after 1300 years it’s clear it can never be satisfied. The belief that one is superior – and further the need for others to acknowledge their belief in Islam’s supremacy – causes Muslims to butt heads with all other groups – everywhere they go.

    ::

    A dose of reality!

    Rather than pander to this religious monster that sliced its way out of Arabia – we should douse it with a bucket of water.

    Islam no longer has the Roman gold of Constantinople or the riches of other plundered regions to the East – so at the moment they are trying to capitalize on sympathy. And the Ambassador’s ‘islamophobia’ UN speech is only all about that!!

  18. Dan Jones says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 3:48 pm

    “phobia” is an irrational fear…

    Followers of the pedophile are a threat to all mankind… no phobia here, just facts…

    More End Time News At:
    http://www.shininginthedark.com/?page_id=4526

  19. Westman says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 4:06 pm

    I wonder what Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi will say when her own country pushes India into war and is losing? Will she call them Islamophobic, which implies fear?

    Her consternation, and that of many Muslim apologists, is the increasing hostility toward Islam, a conversion of fear(phobia) to repugnance; a repugnance well earned by the ideology of Islam itself, buttressed by many reprehensible acts in the name of Muhammad and Allah.

    Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi is speaking from a position of fear. The sources of fear are her own “brothers” in ISIS who, if not stopped, will someday be coming for her, an India that is becoming stronger as Pakistan stagnates, and a free democratic West that is waking up to the reality of Islamic Ideology.

    Islam, like many other religions that preceded it, is in decline for the same reasons. In a world of science and progress it can only make itself revelant by aggression, as we see with ISIS and a hundred other militant Islamic groups. The world’s Islam is a divided mess.

    When Muslims shout “Islamophobia”, we should pity them. They are phobic, not just about the West rejecting Islam, but even of their own Ummah who reject them.

    • Carolyne says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 10:03 am

      Actually, I think they are hydrophobic–Didn’t Winston Churchill say they were like “Rabid dogs?”

  20. Ciudadano says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 5:10 pm

    A representative of Pakistan preaching tolerance is the epitome of hipocrasy. A representative of an islamist country comparing criticism of islam with the holocaust is the epitome of intelectual dishonesty. All that suits very well the UN which has become the united impostors of the world. Is there a greater imposture than having Saudi Arabia as the head as the UN counsil for Human Rights? Don’t we have to tolerate every single year the representatives of the most opressive countries lecturing about human rights to the rest of the world? UN has become a corrupted international burocracy usefull only for legitamizing anti democratic, anti human rights countries.

  21. sidney penny says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 8:52 pm

    Axis of Evil

    Iran,Pakistan and Saudi Arabia

  22. Hope says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    We will fight to the last man and the last woman to stop the Islamization of our countries, that is for damned certain. If that is Islamophobia, put me on the front lines.

  23. sidney penny says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 10:11 pm

    At UN, Pakistan calls on world to combat not jihad terrorism, but but but

    DRUM ROLL

    “Islamophobia”

    • mortimer says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 7:21 am

      More denial of the political supremacism doctrine of the Master Religion.

  24. sidney penny says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    “If a Muslim cleric spews hatred and incitement to violence, Maleeha Lodhi says nothing.
    But if a non-Muslim in the West quotes that cleric, it’s another ignorant Western media portrayal of Muslims.”

    Robert Spencer ,you hit the nail on the head.

  25. sidney penny says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    “No actual vigilante violence against Muslims and their businesses, mosques and community centres is ever justified. The scope of this violence is far smaller than the scope of jihad terror attacks by Muslims in the West: 130 killed in Paris, 14 in San Bernardino — and that’s just the last few months.
    But that doesn’t get UN or Pakistani government attention.”

    I do not remember this:

    Speaking at an event organised at the UN by Pakistan Mission and the OIC on the 130 killed in Paris

    Speaking at an event organised at the UN by Pakistan Mission and the OIC on 14 Killed in San Bernardino

    • mortimer says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 7:28 am

      However, Islamic vigilantism was and still is AUTHORIZED BY THE FATWA DEPARTMENT OF AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY, the leading authority in Islam. (emphasis: LEADING AUTHORITY in Islam)

      There is a profound denial that VIGILANTISM is normative Islam. Vigilantism is tearing Pakistan apart in an Islamist civil war. Pak politicians are not immune is they object to primitive, discriminatory Sharia law.

  26. sidney penny says

    Feb 6, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    “As hate inevitably breeds hate, Islamophobia will breed its antithesis. “It is a recipe for a clash of cultures – a clash we must avoid if the world is to have any hope of collective action to end the chaos in the Middle East and eliminate all forms of terrorism”, she added….”

    What is hate speech?

    Everyone should watch this video or at least the last 10 minutes even start at 1.58 and hear the last 6 minutes.

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/cal-poly-free-speech-under-attack-in-academia

  27. citycat says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 1:33 am

    Doesn’t one attack the cause of the psychological condition “Islamophobia” and not the person who is labelled “Islamophobic” by, it would seem, enemies of freedom and individuality, who, it would seem, come across as individuals slagging down individual infidels.
    The tern “Islamophobia” is nothing more than a time wastng war tactic.
    I wonder who originated “Islamophobia”.
    Suppose 1000’s of infidels went to the psychiatrist to get the low down on their “Islamophobia”.
    Maybe it’s something in the water supply.
    And could one trust a Muslim psychiatrist.

    • Oppressaphobe says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 12:10 pm

      I did a bit of research on the term and it seems to have been propogated by groups like the UN, in particular.

      It is nothing more than a tool to wage war against the infidel, and the stupid kafir bought it hook line and sinker.

  28. citycat says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 2:14 am

    You love death?
    Other peoples’ death or your own?
    If you love death then why are you still here?
    Those that love death, by virtue of Qur’anic brainwashing, then embrace death, move on, leave those alone who love and appreciate the unique gift of life.
    Go on.
    Get reincarnated.
    You may come back as a Jew, or a Christian, or an Atheist, or a Muslim woman.
    Who knows?

    • Blurb1000 says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 3:23 am

      God forbid. A muslim woman? How can you be so cruel?

      Nobody deserve a faith like that.

  29. worldcitizen1919 says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 3:52 am

    If they want to complain about being verbally insulted then they too have a responsibility to stop incitement. There is ample proof on the Internet in video form of preachers inciting hatred against the west, America, Israel, Jews, Baha’is and Christians.

    Do not unto others that which you don’t like done to yourself is the rule I think that needs to be followed here.

    Playing the victim on one hand but maliciously inciting on the other is insincere and should be called out.

    You want respect then give respect.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 7:19 am

      wc, More than 60% of the Koran is hatred of the evil kafirs who refuse to believe that Mohammed is a prophet.

      The problem is the Koran. You need to read the Sira, hadiths and canonical commentaries. You still don’t realize that there is no ‘good’ version of Islam.

      Islam is like a computer that has been fed the wrong data and therefore keeps spitting out wrong data. Garbage in: garbage out.

      The source documents of Islam are toxic and cannot be tampered with because they are supposedly ‘perfect, complete and eternal’. You are naïve about changing Islam. You should start that reading list now. There is no shortcut.

  30. Janet says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 5:35 am

    Screw the UN and Pakistan! When will Muslims realize that it’s their religion and ideology that is causing all the problems! Before you know it there will be more cities like Dearborn, Michigan! They will become no go zones and it’s all down hill from there! People better wake up or you can kiss the USA as we know it goodbye!

    • Mark says

      Feb 8, 2016 at 11:59 am

      Oh come on why do you think they practice warfare lying to disguise what evil filth islams teachings are…. because they are equally evil for following and obeying it.

  31. linnte says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 7:37 am

    I just emailed the UN and told them that Ms. Lodhi has no right to tell me what I can or cannot say about Islam. To hell with this bullshit! Because I recognise the strife Islam brings to WHEREVER it goes does NOT make me Islamophobia, it makes me wise!

    • Oppressaphobe says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 8:08 am

      America needs to reject the UN if it wants to survive.

      A billion letters wouldn’t phase this insulated group of thugs.

      At least we can say we had a president that went it alone without this evil islamic organization.

      Thanks Dub Yah…hee..hee..hee!.

  32. Oppressaphobe says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 7:39 am

    *F*U* and yours Bo-Key-Ston!

  33. Oppressaphobe says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 7:45 am

    Screw the U.N.–they’ve screwed America forever!

    We need to evict the U.N. from NYC.

    It is a terrorist organization as it supports so much garbage all around the world.

    It’s too big, it’s too fat, it’s too lazy, it’s too top-heavy, it’s too crooked, it’s too evil and everything I hear from that group sounds like a bunch of spoiled kindergarteners.

    THEY HAVE NEVER SOLVED ANYTHING. LOOK AT MEXICO RUN BY GANGS. LOOK AT THE ME WHERE WOMEN ARE MEAT AND STILL CAN’T DRIVE. LOOK AT THE SEX TRADE, DRUGS, ON AND ON. WHAT GOOD ARE THEY?

    GIVE ME A BREAK!

    • Oppressaphobe says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 7:50 am

      And did I forget to mention the Christian genocide?

      Oh,my bad!

      • Oppressaphobe says

        Feb 7, 2016 at 8:00 am

        In fairness, I should mention an accomplishment: a report denouncing meat and milk.

        And that is so pro America!

        The U.N. hates America and yet we support it.

        Wonder where Obama gets his hatred for America and why he wants to run the U.N. And yet we work to pay for both of these pieces of crap.

        Wake up America!

  34. StraightShooter says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 7:54 am

    I would like to add 4 new words to the global conversation. Variations of the derogatory “Islamophobe” that are, in the case of the counter jihad or with people enlightened in the ways of Islam, a more accurate set of expressions.

    Based on the root words of “Islam” and “Sophia” (Latin for wisdom)

    Islamosophe
    Islamosophic
    Islamosophia
    Islamosophes

    The words indicate people (one or more) who have the wisdom to know what Islam is; and can be used whenever the slurs based on Islamophobia are used, with eminent interchangeability.

    Islamosophic indicates one who is wise to Islam, rather than one who is irrational towards it.

    • Oppressaphobe says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 11:48 am

      PERFECT!

    • Karen says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 8:15 pm

      I love it!

  35. Oppressaphobe says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 11:46 am

    OMG!! It sounds horrible!

  36. Laurence says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 12:54 pm

    ‘Decrying the rise of Islam worldwide. . . and [warning] that if timely steps were not taken to check this disturbing trend, it could threaten regional and global peace and security.’

    Can you even imagine *ever* hearing or reading such words as coming out of the UN? Me neither.

    After all, please remember the mantra – “allahu akbar!” No, no, not that one, the other one. Oh, you mean the one about it being a “religion of peace and non-violence” and having done so much for the world from time immemorial? Yes, that’s the one. And when all people everywhere accept that, then everything and everyone the world over can come together as one, and tremble under the wintry crescent moon.

    • Oppressaphobe says

      Feb 7, 2016 at 2:43 pm

      ” everyone the world over can come together as one, and tremble under the wintry crescent moon ”

      Nothing says globalist like U.N.

  37. Karen says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 8:01 pm

    Would Amb. Lohdi be pleased or revolted if the West emulated Pakistan’s treatment of non-Muslims?

  38. JAS says

    Feb 7, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    How about Islamo-nauseated, or Islamo-disgusted, or even Islamo-amused. There is nothing positive to say about the dark-ages murder cult called islam. It needs to be completely eradicated from the earth, expunged totally to rid us of its foul stench forever. It will be better than a cure for cancer, heart disease and diabetes all in one! There is nothing on this earth that even approaches the evil of this putrid mind-sickness!

  39. Mark says

    Feb 8, 2016 at 11:56 am

    UNITED NATIONS: Decrying the rise of Islamophobia worldwide,

    TRANSLATION

    UNITED NATIONS: Decrying the rise of PEOPLE FINDING OUT WHAT EVIL FILTH SHE AND HER KIND ARE AND WHATS IN ISLAMS MAINSTREAM BOOKS.

  40. Petey says

    Feb 8, 2016 at 1:11 pm

    As hate inevitably breeds hate, Islamophobia will breed its antithesis. “It is a recipe for a clash of cultures – a clash we must avoid if the world is to have any hope of collective action to end the chaos in the Middle East and eliminate all forms of terrorism”, she added….

    By All forms of Terrorism, she means Islamophobia USA and of course Israel!

    She makes it clear that freedom of expression does not allow insults against Islam and what she considers to be hate speech.

    And I make it clear, no Slave of allah from shitholistan is going to interpret Freedom of Expression for me. Only a free man from the promised land is qualified to do that!!!

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