This is a typical “backlash” story, of the kind that invariably appears after a jihad attack or foiled jihad plot. It attempts to deflect attention away from the jihad terror and onto Muslims as victims, their religion unfairly demonized. One bad apple shouldn’t be taken as spoiling the bunch, we’re told. The real problem is not the jihad mass murders, but the imagined response from the “far right”: “It’s starting again, prepare yourselves, Arab Muslims.”
Nothing ever really does start, but that doesn’t keep the mainstream media from turning out these stories. Sidestepped here, as is always the case in these weepy creepy “backlash” stories, is the fact that Islamic jihadis can and do point to Islamic texts and teachings to justify their actions and make recruits among peaceful Muslims. No mention is made of the fact that Muslim clerics have been involved in jihad terror activity and have exhorted Muslims from the pulpit to commit acts of violence.
If Muslims really fear “backlash” and the “demonization of Islam,” they should be the first to act against such clerics, and would be working publicly and honestly to reform those teachings. Mosques and Islamic schools would be implementing programs to teach against the understanding of Islam that justifies hatred and violence. But “backlash” articles never deal with any of that — they’re all always just about how Muslims fear reprisal attacks. Meanwhile, FBI statistics show that anti-Semitic attacks are far more common than attacks against innocent Muslims. Yet you never see articles about that.
“Muslims Fear Backlash After Brussels Attack: Far-Right, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Often Follows Violence,” by Michael Kaplan, International Business Times, March 22, 2016 (thanks to Daniel Greenfield):
The attacks in Brussels Tuesday morning come as far-right nationalist parties across Europe have been gaining support by raising alarm over Europe’s porous borders and purported rising extremism among Muslim communities. Muslims across Europe fear that the terror attacks, which left at least 26 people dead, could lead to a new wave of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence, Vocativ reported Tuesday.
“It’s starting again, prepare yourselves, Arab Muslims,” one European Muslim reportedly tweeted. A Syrian boy held a photo, posted on Twitter, apologizing for the attacks.Belgium is home to millions of Muslims, as are the neighboring Netherlands, France and Germany. A vast majority of Muslims are believed to be moderate, opposing such violence in their countries and overseas. But radicalization has become a growing problem among Muslim communities in Europe. Hundreds of Belgians have traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS.Following the Paris attacks on Nov. 13, which claimed 130 lives, far-right parties pointed toward the violence as examples of threats posed to the European Union from migration into the continent. While many have raised security concerns over the hundreds of thousands of Syrians and migrants from elsewhere who have crossed into Europe in recent months, Muslim communities across Europe have come under growing scrutiny.
“Those who said yes to immigration, who transported immigrants from war zones, those people did not do everything for the defense of European people,” said Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban following the attacks in Paris.
Pressure is likely to intensify following the attacks in Brussels, which targeted a subway station and the airport, wounding at least 130 people in addition to the 26 who were killed. It is still unconfirmed whether ISIS was responsible for the violence.
Muslim organizations in Europe typically come out quickly to condemn terrorist attacks, fearing backlash. Many distance themselves from the attackers and seek to assure their compatriots that Islam is a religion of peace.
“I as a Muslim condemn these terrorist attacks. We ourselves are biggest victims of terrorism around the world. #Brussels,” one Muslim wrote on Twitter following Tuesday’s attacks.

Dude says
Yes, fear the backlash of bacon on mosque doorknobs.
gravenimage says
Oh, the humanity! sarc/off
shoehorn says
…and the phantom hijab-yanker
Dude says
… and fires set at mosques by muslim attendees of said mosques.
WorkingClassPost says
Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
gravenimage says
Nope. We all knew fake whining about “backlash” would not be long in coming…
PRCS says
So fast, one must wonder if he knew in advance.
Keith says
Must admit I have not heard any European leaders come out and say yet that this has nothing to do with Islam. Maybe I have missed that phrase but maybe their is hope.
pdxnag says
They will stop whining about backlash when Muslims become at least 35-40% of a nation. Then they will just switch to all-out unapologetic Jihad, non-stop.
Tracy Davies says
Oh no you have missed nothing,the governments won’t come out and say its Islam. I am sick of them whining about a backlash as well,what do they expect?…Exactly how much more are we meant to take,everyday on daily commutes wondering if some rapefugee is going to blow you up,its a piss take and government say stay calm,not for much longer,and Merkel keeps letting them in? This is just the beginning and its sickening,if we say anything we get arrested. No doubt over weekend they will set fire to a few of their own mosques,if it was up to me i would knock them all down and deport all descenders to Saudi Arabia let them have their Sharia Law the full bloody force of it,no picking and choosing which bits they want to follow.And deport all the ones in prison why should we pay for them to be there?,especially when some of our armed forces are homeless sleeping on the street.
ICH says
Its like Clockwork !!!
Cant wait to hear Obamas broken record
Vyx says
How long before Obama says that the only way to stop this violence (I doubt he’ll call it Muslim violence) is to bring thousands of more Muslims to the US?
خَليفة says
Brininging muslims to USA may reduce violence in Europe, but will increase violence in USA.
Islam is like a huge pile of fresh chicken manure – you can have it in one eye-sore of a pile in your yard or distribute it throughout your yard in small, less noticable piles, or scatter it evenly over your entire yard – in the end you simple cannot hide the stench of it.
Someone who is always doing bad things and always apologizing for them but does not stop doing the bad things is not really sorry. Have you Ever known someone with psychopathic tendencies? – they do bad things, say they are sorry, then repeat the same bad things ? – that’s part of the Islamic playbook. The umma of Islam acts with a common cause.
Patti says
CNN carried his speech from Cuba this morning. I’d tell you what he said, but I turned it off as Doon as I heard his lying voice.
Tracy Davies says
Oh no you have missed nothing,the governments won’t come out and say its Islam. I am sick of them whining about a backlash as well,what do they expect?…Exactly how much more are we meant to take,everyday on daily commutes wondering if some rapefugee is going to blow you up,its a piss take and government say stay calm,not for much longer,and Merkel keeps letting them in? This is just the beginning and its sickening,if we say anything we get arrested. No doubt over weekend they will set fire to a few of their own mosques,if it was up to me i would knock them all down and deport all descenders to Saudi Arabia let them have their Sharia Law the full bloody force of it,no picking and choosing which bits they want to follow.And deport all the ones in prison why should we pay for them to be there?,especially when some of our armed forces are homeless sleeping on the street.
grace says
Yep. I was waiting for the “backlash stories”. So we get attacked by moslems but the govt and media rush to defend islam.
Carolyne says
After the tragedy which the Muslims caused in New York, Teresa Heinz ( Kerry) and George Soros set up a fund from their “Tides Foundati9on” to assist gay Muslim men who might be subjected to backlash. I heard of no case of backlash against Muslims after any of the atrocities they commit in civilized countries.
As far as I know the money is still sitting there because there is never any backlash against Muslims after these assassinations and particularly against gay Muslim men. In fact, there are few gay Muslim men because they are killed by fellow Muslims when their proclivity is discovered.
grace says
Turnbull will probably be on telly tomorrow , once again declaring islam to be the “religion of highest scholarship”.
Peggy says
He makes my stomach turn but giving my vote to Shorten is even worse.
What I will do is give my vote to Australian Christians or One Nation if they happen to have a representative in my electorate. If not there are other minor parties we can vote for.
I pray that the two main parties will feel the pain of us voting for minor parties. For as long as we continue to vote for Labor or Liberal, nothing will change. It is up to us to make that change and we have the power to do it.
Election is almost here so please spread the word. I will do my best.
TheBuffster says
Then there’s these people, but they may not be in your area yet: http://australianlibertyalliance.org.au/
Peggy says
Thanks, I will look out for them.
PJG says
Yes, Buffster. that’s the answer.
grace says
Keith, it’s such a given now that “it has nothing to do with islam” that they didn’t even feel the need to say it. It’s “terrorism” don’t you know? Never mind that the terrorists are always moslems.
BTW check out Jared Wyand on twitter. You can read it without joining. What a cracker of a soldier. Great commemts on there.
PRCS says
Terrorism. Radicalism.
Every term or phrase that whitewashes written, Orthodox Islam.
Anything and all to ensure the average citizen’s continued belief that Islam is “a religion of peace” that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of “extremists”.
mortimer says
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID!
Someone should tell the International Business Times to get clued in and actually do the reading list of Islam so they won’t continue to be UNACQUAINTED and UNINFORMED, if not BRAIN DEAD about Islam.
Islam is a terrorist ideology per se started by a terrorist Mohammed.
Muslims who do not imitate Mohammed are ‘bad’ Muslims. Muslims who imitate Mohammed are ‘good’ Muslims. The latter are terrorists.
Jay Boo says
Muslims are afraid that even the BBC will stop trying to shame the EU into taking in more disloyal invaders.
The BBC — Have they no shame?
Phil says
I am starting to think that the MSM has a template already prepared with a “fill in the blanks” section that has locations and dates for everyone of these horrible atrocities. Muslims should fear backlash, but not of the violent type. They should know that their mosques, their leaders, and they themselves are beginning to be held responsible because their inaction is as strong as any terrorist action. Until they start policing themselves, and changing their attitudes, they will always be held in suspicion because everyone else will always wonder if the Muslim sitting next to them is going to be the next mass murderer.
PRCS says
“Until they start policing themselves…”
The vast majority won’t because they know what Islam teaches, too, and they know that their fellow Muslims–and Big Al–will look upon them with great disdain were they to try to do that.
Better, I think, to cut a deal with the next batch of jihadis the authorities catch: have them tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about Islam at a public podium.
Who better to tell our friends and neighbors about Islam’s barbarities, hatred of other religions, etc.: Anjem Choudary or Hillary Clinton.
Demsci says
I think when they are not pressured it is hopeless to expect anything constructive from the vast majority of Muslims.
Them distancing themselves from the supremacist, hostile, violent Muslims is completely useless, because it signifies nothing like taking our side against that of their fellow Muslims that are our enemies.
But non-commitment to our side makes Muslims by now totally untrustworthy as the mentioned suspicion in the article already points to. Yet commit themselves to us they steadfastly in vast majority refuse. Those who do, like Irshad Manji, Zuhdi Jasser et al, get shunned by that majority.
But we have more chance of change with the so-called swingvoters or fence-sitters among ourselves, who presumably want to continue our democratic system. And with a majority in parliament we finally can at least start moving in the right direction, if need be with baby steps and experiments.
The backlash will come in the form of anti-Islam-parties rising. This will put big pressure on voter-losing politicians. Who then are more ripe for compromise.
Among those politicians and their voters I see this eternal partition in 2 of Muslims;
I. The normal, neutral majority of Muslims who must be considered innocent and suported according to them.
II. The Tiny Minority Of Extremist Muslims (TMOEM). which we are at war with.
But when we introduce a 3rd part of Muslims; The Positive Exception of Muslims, who are at first the Tiny Minority of Democratic Muslims (TMODM), but who can grow, under pressure from our majority, who can threathen with withdrawal of much of what Muslims prophit from in DEMOCRATIC societies or even with deportation,
then we can try to wean the swingvoters off their continued insistence of innocence of the “normal neutral Majority of Muslims”. Because then they can choose to tolerate, support ONLY the TMODM, the positive exception of Muslims. This they can do because with this way of thinking the swingvoters can be satisfied that the Muslims get a choice, while staying in Islam.
So far, I think, the swingvoters, were not open to any kind of anti-Islam policy that left Muslims no choice while staying in Islam.
As all this presented proof of anti-democratic supremacist hostile violent texts in Islam and the resulting hundreds of millions of anti-democratic Muslims, still never was enough to convince a majority of swingvoters to accuse ALL OF ISLAM and ALL OF MUSLIMS,
except of course the tepid, non-practicing ones, who of course could “wake up to Islam” anytime.
Westman says
There is always a “peaceful” Muslim who knows the violent jihadist as we have seen repeatedly. Many times they knew that violence was imminent, yet did nothing. Some were even even lying Imams.
Yet, muslims refuse to eject the “bad apples” from their midst. The conclusions that are drawn from this refusal to self-police can only degrade the image of Islam and Muslims. CAIR’s propaganda is not enough; only real, physical rejection of militant jihadists will restore any credibility to the “peacefulness” of Islam.
There will be no backlash of native Europeans carrying explosives into Molenbeek. That behavior belongs exclusively to Islamic Jihad and its supporters.
mortimer says
Westman wrote: “muslims refuse to eject the “bad apples” from their midst. The conclusions that are drawn from this refusal to self-police can only degrade the image of Islam and Muslims.”
Muslims may not criticize another Muslim and especially no one may criticize the doctrine of jihad, which would result in a death sentence for apostasy.
50% of Muslims want a caliphate and strict Sharia, but they do not approve of terrorism. They want ‘stealth jihad’ it seems.
mortimer says
Headline: “Muslims Fear Backlash After Brussels Attack”
This is mere psychological projection because Islam requires retaliation.
“Believers, retaliation is decreed for you in bloodshed.” Koran 11.173
“O you who believe! retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the slain.” Koran 2.178
Shafi Sharia Law legal manual ‘Umdat al-Salik'(English: The Reliance of the Traveler): “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.” (Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2).
The Western world is based on the Golden Rule ethic, rather than the ‘vengeance’ ethic of Islam.
TheDane says
Well, there comes a time when retaliation becomes a must, I believe. We cannot just sit idly by and say that we lean on our principles, if these devils – time after time – kill scores of people. I do believe that it is time to pass revenge – big time! Let there be consequences, let the moslem scum see that the Europeans can get angry and retaliate. Same as psychopaths, moslems (=psychopaths) only have respect for harsh responses.
TheBuffster says
Does “Reliance of the Traveler” specify what kind of retaliation is required? Because the Old Testament requires an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but from the actual person who committed the act. Does “Reliance” say to go after other people of the same religious group beyond the murderer?
Yes, I know that under the Dhimma contract, if one dhimmi breaks the contract, all protection can be rescinded. But “retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right” sounds like normal punishment of a murderer – the person who actually committed the crime, not mass retaliation against people belonging to the same religion as the murderer.
Dan says
“I as a Muslim condemn these terrorist attacks. We ourselves are biggest victims of terrorism around the world. #Brussels,” one Muslim wrote on Twitter following Tuesday’s attacks
No you are not because you are still alive, and apparently still have enough money to afford a cell plan.
We will believe these kinds of photos once Muslims start turning in their sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, nephews and nieces, husbands and wives, cousins, life long friends, neighbors and acquaintances, and even people who are “Six Kevin Bacon Steps Away” from you who have ever once expressed agreement, sympathy, or empathy with and/or for any violent act or Shariah Law.
Until then, you’ve used up all your “Get Out of Jail Free” cards
Offer expires in 10, 9, 8…
Laurence says
Well said.
worldcitizen1919 says
This is an extremely well written article.
Forget about Muslims coming on air to denounce the attacks.
If Islam as a whole is sincere then every Mosque & Muskim school on earth should be initiating programs of educating teaching non violence.
It should be mandatory worldwide and if not implemented then the cleric and Mosques/schools should be closed and deregistered until they comply.
It may take time but a lot of this is caused by clerics inciting hatred.
Good one Robert!
mortimer says
worldcitizen claimed: “It may take time but a lot of this is caused by clerics inciting hatred.”
It’s the ideology of Islam that is to blame, wc. The mullahs are merely reading and reciting what they memorized verbatim from the Islamic source texts. There is no non-jihadist Islam, contrary to what your pamphlets taught you.
You are woefully uninformed about the doctrine of the OBLIGATORY jihad doctrine, because you have not read those SOURCE TEXTS of foundational Islam.
Please inform yourself and do the HARD WORK of reading the source texts of Islam, rather than taking the lazy man’s approach of reading pamphlets from Haifa.
How lazy are you going to be?
gravenimage says
All true, Mortimer. “worldcitizen1919” is heavily invested in pretending that Islam is not violent.
Len Vaness says
Mortimer,is taqiyya described in the Koran? If not, where is it referenced? I think that this practice is the underlying evil of Islamic ideology,but I need knowledgeable confirmation. Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Jose says
Yes,this is the actual reason of violence…the teaching they get..the innocents are brainwashed by the devilish teaching of murder and this teaching in their text is the real killer with a false and fake promise of eternal life…..
Laurence says
‘If Muslims really fear “backlash” and the “demonization of Islam”’ – perhaps those who refuse to integrate, who refuse to become a part of the nation to which they have come to live, who refuse to accept Western laws and refuse to reject sharia laws, who are Islamist in thought or word or action through and through, whose desire it is to Islamize the nation they are living in or other nations, who participate or support in terrorist attacks directly or indirectly, who sympathize with terrorists, and any other such non-Western and non-broad minded values and ideals. . . then perhaps yes, they should fear, and deeply so.
Sile Draper says
Spot on! They should be condemning terrorists attacks and speaking out not moaning about backlash . I heard a US expert saying one of the problems was there were countries within countries where the followers of the religion of peace refused to integrate and wanted to carry on as before with locals adapting to them.
Tommy Brown says
you’ve used up all your “Get Out of Jail Free” cards. there are more of you than ISIL why not fight back like we did in America? We fought the Brits and we won our freedom. GEEZ you are a bunch of weak cowards. Just shut up and go color, we have heard enough for today.
gravenimage says
Tommy, few Muslims are fighting ISIL because most of them agree with their aims. Even the few who do fight them in most cases are not actually opposed to Shari’ah and the hideous Caliphate–they just want to be the ones running it…
Sam says
Before Obama says it I am going to say it “this has nothing to do with Islam”. Poor Obama just he was helping a mass murderer Castro in Cuba now he has to say something nice about Islam again. He just works so hard at no avail.
Westman says
If the trial of Geert Wilders continues after this and the coming tragedies, it would illustrate the utter delusion of European “leaders”.
So far, this has been the elite’s backlash to violent Islamic Jihad: persecute anyone who describes the cause and tries to save Europe or their country. I wonder what they are plotting for Hungary’s Viktor Orban?
Champ says
What “backlash” are they talking about? As in a few more people waking-up to the unvarnished Truth about islam & company being a “religion of violence” and not of peace? Oh the poor dears!
Brand Michaels says
Ali Ahmed: “Poor me, as Syrian I have suffered worse than anyone else in this world. And our prophet suffered worse than any other prophet. Poor me! Now I deserve to go to Paradise, which I think is Sweden… And after using the virgins there I will send for my wife and eleven children which are starving in Greece.”
YES, that they act like children is true. We can see it everywhere in North Europe. In SFI (Swedish For adult Immigrants), they destroy the lessons for other immigrants than Middle-east and North-African Muslims by behaving like 8 year old children in the classroom. They scream straight out, and wants personally have the teacher’s undivided attention. They cheat openly, trying to dominate the teacher (especially the men against a female Swedish teacher), and backbite continually students from Europe, America and East Asia.
They are so good in this “poor me.behavior” that they got higher allowances and social benefits than other people in European societies. We know that from den the extensive statistics collected about almost everything in our orderly communities, but still no politician seems to be able to change these injustices. Studies show that Muslim men from Middle-East get lower prison punishments when committing the same crimes as other people. It’s poor me in the court too, and obviously the judge buy it in Scandinavia, Germany and Netherlands.
Alan says
They fear”backlash” you know bacon on a mosque door something horrifying like that. We fear death. Of course the “backlash” is so much worse than death or having your leg blown off!
gravenimage says
International Business Times: “Muslims Fear Backlash After Brussels Attack”
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Everyone knew it wouldn’t be long before these sickening fake “backlash” stories started. Several posters on threads about the Brussels attacks have already commented that this was coming.
It’s so boiler plate at this point it doesn’t take long.
More:
“It’s starting again, prepare yourselves, Arab Muslims,” one European Muslim reportedly tweeted.
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The only thing that’s happening again is that Muslims are murdering more Infidels. Muslims always seem to be happily prepared for that:
“Islamic State supporters on social media scream ‘Allahu akbar.’ celebrate Brussels jihad mass murders”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/03/islamic-state-supporters-on-social-media-scream-allahu-akbar-celebrate-brussels-jihad-mass-murders
Then there were the riots in Molenbeek after the Jihadist involved in the Paris Jihad attacks was arrested. Perhaps the Muslim community is not so “moderate” after all…
More:
“Those who said yes to immigration, who transported immigrants from war zones, those people did not do everything for the defense of European people,” said Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban following the attacks in Paris.
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Some sanity from Hungary.
More:
“I as a Muslim condemn these terrorist attacks. We ourselves are biggest victims of terrorism around the world. #Brussels,” one Muslim wrote on Twitter following Tuesday’s attacks.
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Just because Muslims are happy to murder each other does not somehow make them less of a threat to us.
Angemon says
Citation needed. On lots of places. How many “backlashes” against muslims are there recorded in recent history? Does “far-right, anti-immigrant sentiment” follows, for example, bank robberies, or domestic violence, or child abuse? No. If, for example, Spaniards went to France and start wrecking havoc, French people would start distrusting Spaniards and making it difficult for them to enter France. There’s no “far-right” or “anti-immigrant” sentiment in that – French people people would have nothing against letting German, or Italian, or Portuguese people in, they’d just be weary of Spaniards because of their track record.
What’s Michael Kaplan trying to say? That deductions based on empirical evidence are a bad thing? Belgians are going to be weary of muslims, foreigner or not, because muslims commit acts of violence against Belgians. It’s that simple.
No, they happened independently of anything “far-right nationalist” parties did. Why are they deemed the bad guys when they turned out to be right?
How many “anti-muslim backlashes” happened after the mass murder of Charlie Hebdo staff members by muslims carrying out the will of allah? Or after the murder of people simply enjoying a concert in the Bataclan by muslims carrying out the will of allah? What makes this attack different than those?
What is starting again? Only jihad against the unbelievers, by the looks of it…
That’s the whole problem, isn’t it?
Citation needed.
So much for their “moderation”…
And no one managed to use logic and facts to prove them wrong. Not because they’re impervious to logic and facts but because logic and facts are on their side, and shouting “xenophobia”, “racism”, “bigotry” and “far-right” can only take their opponents so far…
And were called “xenophobic, racist, right-wing bigots”. The questions? Unanswered, so far.
Well, duh! We’ve seen what happens when they’re allowed free reign…
And he’s right.
The implication is that, without the fear of a “backlash”, they wouldn’t do it.
As opposed to confronting the people who have allegedly “hijacked” or “misunderstood” islam.
Always the victims, aren’t they? Poor, little, innocent, crybaby snowflakes…
TheBuffster says
Good post, Angemon.
“‘Muslims Fear Backlash After Brussels Attack: Far-Right, Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Often Follows Violence'”
Yes, fear the *sentiment*!
Well, let’s face it, anti-Muslim-immigrant *sentiment* does rise after a mass murder in the name of Islam. And it’s normal for Muslims to fear a backlash. But why is that *news*? (Yet again.) Of course they’re going to fear a backlash, and be uncomfortable about people giving them dirty looks when they go out wearing Muslim garb. But what should you expect when you’ve signed up with a religion that commands you to wage war against the unbelievers until all of mankind is under the rule of Islam? You’re part of that religion, but you don’t want to go along with the ugly stuff?
Can’t save your pretty cake and eat it, too. When a lot of other Muslims get serious about what’s commanded in the texts and are acting on it, it’s time to get real with yourself, face the texts, and make a decision about what you *really* believe and whether Islam really stands for what you really believe.
What would be really newsworthy would be if a Muslim cleric came out and said: “I’ve seen the light! Islam’s doctrines order Muslims to conquer unbelievers, and I can no longer pretend otherwise to myself or my people. I APOSTASIZE! And I call on all Muslims of good will to read their Korans and the Bukhari Hadith Collection, and leave the religion of supremacism and conquest!”
Now THAT would be newsworthy.
TheBuffster says
As to the “far right” nonsense, wouldn’t it be nice if once in a while a writer bothered to define what they mean by “far right”?
It’s a term that can mean anything from “nazi-like” to free market purist. Maybe it means “racist”. Or anti-immigrant. But those terms are usually meant to mean anti-immigrant in general.
Hitler and Mussolini, usually considered to be “far right” were totalitarians who were also nationalist and racist. It was the totalitarian, collectivist (the individual must live for the state/collective and die for it if the state so wills) nature of those regimes that made them so deadly to those who were the wrong nationality or race or who didn’t want to submit to the will of the state. The far left may not destroy on the basis of race, but it sure does destroy on the basis of those who dissent from the dictates of the state. The far left and the far right are the same thing – dissenters go to prison or die, and the state doesn’t serve the people, the people serve the state – or else. Submit or die.
And what other ideology makes that demand?
Anyone who understands the crucial value of individual liberty and the protections of individual rights that are named in the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution, and who love and are true to those rights *cannot* be “far right” in the sense implied by those who smear the likes of Robert Spencer and others who speak out against the jihadist doctrine. Most speaking out are doing so because they love liberty, and liberty is not welcome to “far rightists” any more than it is to far leftists.
And why are the spectrum ends imagined to be “far right” and “far left”, when the content of those ends are both anti-individual rights, anti-liberty, and pro-submission to the collective/state?
Communism, Fascism, Nazism, and Islam all belong on the same end together.
Angemon says
TheBuffster posted:
“As to the “far right” nonsense, wouldn’t it be nice if once in a while a writer bothered to define what they mean by “far right”?”
Well, there’s the center-right, the right and the alt-right. The alt-right are the people who use the same tactics and actions favored by the far(well, increasingly mainstream)-left (authoritarinism, thuggery, silencing of critics, etc.) but under opposite ideology (the far-left would physically and verbally assault Trump for suggesting a moratorium on muslim immigration to the US while the alt-right would physically and verbally assault Barack Obama for his open border policies). Well, that might be an exaggeration – I don’t recall “far-righters” rioting in the streets and looting because the police did their job properly.
tl;dr: the evil, nasty “far-right” are the people who act as almost evil as the far-left while holding a non-leftist ideology.
somehistory says
Oh, boo hoo. moslims murdered the people who took them in, and other moslims don’t want the truth of the matter to be fully revealed, so they cry, “backlash, backlash” when there is no backlash.
And on top of crying *backlash,* they claim they are “the biggest victims” of terrorism.
They will say anything and everything but the truth in order to get attention as victims.
Even if…and I may be the only person to think this, but I don’t believe more moslims are killed in terror attacks than any other group of people…they are more often killed, it doesn’t diminish the horror and terror and wrong done to other groups and peoples.
islam shouldn’t get a *pass* and *collect* on terrorism just because moslims kill other moslims.
When they kill those who reject islam, and other rejectors tell the truth about islam, this is not really a *backlash* as moslims claim in order to increase their chances of being excused for wanting to rule the entire world of mankind with their unlawful behavior. Behavior that includes terrorism.
Truth is not backlash. Truth is necessary, right and lawful. Truth is essential to life.
Vlad says
The reason it didn’t take long is because Islam has a way of preparing apologies even before the attack happens, so that when the attack happens, there is an immediate face of peace to confuse the victim. It’s exactly what all abusers do. They attack you, but as soon as they think you are getting upset, they try their hardest to win you back and prove to you that they really love you.
Abdul says
nothing to do with Islam
Wellington says
The fact of the matter is that backlash against Muslims in the West, certainly here in America, has been insignificant, very little at all. Muslims are by far most in danger from fellow Muslims and not from Christians, Jew, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, atheists, et al., since one of the few givens in life is that when Muslims are not busy killing non-Muslims for not being Muslim they are busy killing fellow Muslims for not being properly Muslim.
One reason for this regular occurrence by Muslims going very public after yet another Islamic terrorist attack (now over 28,000 since 9/11), openly worrying as they do about a backlash against them, is that built in to Islam is not only a supremacy aspect but also just about the worst case of a “poor-me” aspect I have ever come across in any ideology or organization. I think at least part of this is due to an inherent narcissism that can be found in the Islamic texts (e.g., Sura 3:110) and certainly in Islam’s founder, whose character oozes self-absorption. Not only is a Golden Rule for all absent in Islam because of the supremacy aspect but also because of this narcissistic element. And thus the “boo-hooing” ad nauseam by Muslims after more killing and maiming by, let’s see here, yes, Muslims.
As I have written before at JW, Islam is the religion for adults who don’t want to grow up (extra so for men). Yes, indeed, Islam is ready made for this. It’s just one more obnoxious feature of the worst religion ever created by man.
Brand Michaels says
“Islam is the religion for adults who don’t want to grow up (extra so for men). Yes, indeed, Islam is ready made for this. ”
YES, that they act like children is true. We can see it everywhere in North Europe. In SFI (Swedish For adult Immigrants), they destroy the lessons for other immigrants than Middle-east and North-African Muslims by behaving like 8 year old children in the classroom. They scream straight out, and wants personally have the teacher’s undivided attention. They cheat openly, trying to dominate the teacher (especially the men against a female Swedish teacher), and backbite continually students from Europe, America and East Asia.
They are so good in this “poor me.behavior” that they got higher allowances and social benefits than other people in European societies. We know that from den the extensive statistics collected about almost everything in our orderly communities, but still no politician seems to be able to change these injustices. Studies show that Muslim men from Middle-East get lower prison punishments when committing the same crimes as other people. It’s poor me in the court too, and obviously the judge buy it in Scandinavia, Germany and Netherlands.
I must say one thing. Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population. But Indonesian and Malaysian Muslims are not at all like Muslims from Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan/Pakistan. Indonesian Muslims are like other normal people in East Asia. They don’t behave like children, they are not full of hate and conspiracy theories about UK and USA like the Middle-East Muslims. The law allow them to drink alcohol and eat pork if they want, just like 50 million Christians and Hindus there. Maybe because Indonesia was absorbed by Islam quite late in history. Of course al-Qaida tries to win over Indonesian Muslims too, but so far they have had not much success. The whole country were involved in hunting down the responsible for the Bali bombings, they were quickly arrested and executed for terrorism and mass murder.
Wellington says
Thank you for your comment, Brand Michaels. Respecting the specific matter of Indonesian Muslims not being as “devout” as Muslims many places elsewhere, I would have to respond with a “so what?”
During the Cold War Italian Communists and Communists in certain other countries (e.g., the former Yugoslavia) were somewhat relaxed in the way they implemented Marxist tenets but this never made Marxism OK. You see, and as I have written before here at JW, an ideology should be judged by what it says and not by the fact that some adherents of that ideology don’t fully implement its tenets. And Islam says lots of horrible things, such as the calling for severe punishment or death for criticizing Islam, Mohammed or the Koran and death for a Muslim who converts to another religion (Mohammed himself said, “He who changes his Islamic faith kill him”——Bukhari Hadith 9.84.57). So, the fact, that Indonesian Muslims may be not be as bad as Arab or Iranian Muslims, in the final analysis, doesn’t mean much at all, the reason being that Islam in its theological blueprint is rotten to the core.
Wellington says
Not “…may be not be as bad…..” but rather “….may not be as bad……”
Arcesilaus says
Aww, are the widdle Muslims afraid of being deported? Don’t worry, we just need to hug and everything will become better.
Ginger says
Backlash – I wish.
traci94 says
It seems like Muslims always fear backlash, but they never or rarely (I’ve never heard it) express sympathy for the actual victims of the terrorist attacks. All they seem to care is the so called “backlash” they are going to experience. They sure don’t appear to be a sympathetic people to anyone other than themselves. Additionally, I’ve never heard any Muslim explain WHY any one of us shouldn’t fear Islam. I’ve heard the term “Islamaphobia” to describe supposedly an irrational fear of Islam. What is a good term to describe having a very rational reason to fear something?
Mikey says
Yes that’s EXACTLY right. They only care about themselves and other muslims. Even muslim charities make me sick. Why? Because they only help other muslims. While Western Charities help anyone in need, although mostly muslims. They don’t express sympathy because they have no sympathy. On the contrary, most support it.
Mikey says
Oh Boo feckin Hoo. As always the aggressors claim to be the victims. But it’s not them you say, it’s just a few extremists who have a misguided interpretation of the “religion of peace”. Then observe yet again that there are no thousands of “moderate” muslims protesting in Europe’s Cities, holding placards reading “not in MY name”. No, there never is. And if there are a tiny few (like a dozen) then the lying liberal Western media will falsely portray it as far greater than it really is.
Peter Ahlskog says
Is it strange that people start to fear Muslims after this? And some scared people can react with fury and violence. Our politicians are atheists or close to, and don’t understand the power religion can have over people, even a political ideology masked as religion – exactly what Islam is.
Nothing in Koran come from God.Which god creates man and woman and then sends down a book, only talking to one of the sexes??? What god has to mention six times in the same book that his prophet Mohammad is not mad. What god expands his mind about how many wives Mohammad where allowed to have every time Mohammad change his mind?
Mohammad was a merchant. He was traveling with caravans all over Arabic peninsula making business for over 25 years. He often traveled with Christian and Jews, and most of these were exiled from the main Christian area because they had a abnormal faith, counting over 20 gospels, etc. In the evenings, behind the camels, they told him stories from the Christian and the Jewish bibles, sometimes twisted stories where Jesus never died on the cross, Maria never gave birth to Jesus in Bethlehem, etc, etc. Mohammad had a dream that also Arabs should be given a revelation from God. He had many reasons for that. Emotional, commercial, political, power for his own tribe, an unified Arabia which could compete with other countries and even conquer them. The Koran he made up verse by verse, and chose his tribe’s own god, the Lah (Al Lah) living inside Kabah in Mecca, as the worlds only god.
Mohammad created at strongly political terror ideology, strongly masked as a religion of peace. Mass murderers can go to paradise as martyrs the same day. This illusion makes the followers political and radical. Suicide bombers are recruited among the hundreds of thousands teenage Muslims in Europe who didn’t make it in school and sees no future for themselves in France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden or wherever they live. It is an ideology utilized to create jihadists. Today, in most European countries, IS and other Middle East-based Muslim organizations have cells of future mass murderers with a lot of weapons from former communist countries like Yugoslavia, and with trained experts in how to build different kind of bombs.
It’s not easy for politicians and authorities in small countries like Belgium, Denmark or Sweden, to say “Go back home” to 10,000 – 15,000 Syrians coming to the border every week. “Deport them”, some say. Yes, but how? Who shall pay the air tickets? Should police and soldiers shoot women and children if the crowd of thousands refugees try to come into the country? How explain that to U.N? But Europeans are now in great danger with whole cities with millions of Muslims living around our capitals and larger cities.
I also think USA and Bush are responsible for a lot of this mess. President Bush created the instability in Middle East which caused the refugee crisis. Isn’t it STRANGE that SWEDEN has MORE SYRIAN and IRAQI “refugees” THAN USA????
Sanders says
Something no one is talking about is how capable and organized this b**t*r***s are.
After seeing the attacks on Paris and the kind of weapons they used, and now this attack on Brussels I have come to think that they have a pretty decently-sized network with a good supply chain.
I’m afraid that what we have witnessed this past year and this is just the warm up.
My fear is that European governments do not seem willing to do anything about it. At some point the European citizens will retaliate, perhaps some stabbing, perhaps some beatings, a fire here and there.
Idiots in the MSM will use it day and night to point how bigoted, far-right and xenophobic Europeans are, and the orcs using this as an excuse could rightfully justify an even more steady flow of their “pacific” violence and turn large European cities into mini-Lebanons.
Our dear leaders rather than do anything and being called racis will grant them even more of our money on grandiose plans to find them an education, jobs and homes for free.
This will become a circle and the only endgame that I can foresee is a Civil war sooner or later.
And a bloody one indeed.
Peter Ahlskog says
Look at the map. Europe is a little too close Middle East and North Africa. I’m sure that both U.N. and North American politicians would protest if Europe build a high electrified wall along the South European coast. At the same time, USA refusing more people from Middle East to enter the country and the nice Canadians only importing immigrants with valuable higher education.
But it’s hard to imagine that someone would succeed to take control over whole Europe. The Romans tried, as Napoleon, Hitler and EU, and they have all failed. Europeans are too diversified and can become quite dangerous when they are enough frightened.
WaveDancer says
The threat lies within the demography! In 2020 in most European countries Muslims will be the absolut majority within the 20-30 year old population. This will NOT be reversable again!
More Ham Ed says
A new, recent, very concise video from David Wood:
Jihad Returns to Belgium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C48FArTKtJA
I watched this while enjoying a nice toasted HAM sandwich.
TheBuffster says
😀
citycat says
Muslims/Islãm terrorize and murder and rape and destroy Infidel stuff, but more importantly is the idea that they fear a back lash from the propagation of their religion as dictated by the Qur’an.
I have seen a Muslim doing a Nazi salute after a great devastation of Infidels, i doubt they will be crying over this atrocity.
“prepare yourselves, Arab Muslims”
for the next phase, and the one after that, and the one after that.
The law seems irrelevant, this was gonna happen anyway, all this jihad in what ever appropriate form needed to fit any particular terrain of the Infidel.
They could have been more subtle, like in Engeland.
There’s obviously more to the story.
What i like about the word Infidel is the predictive text that gives God for Inf.
willem says
Good bizniss for candle makers.