Back in 2005, Freedom House issued an important study of Saudi-funded U.S. mosques, finding these mosques to be filled with publications stating that “it is a religious obligation for Muslims to hate Christians and Jews and warn against imitating, befriending, or helping such ‘infidels’ in any way, or taking part in their festivities and celebrations. They instill contempt for America because the United States is ruled by legislated civil law rather than by totalitarian Wahhabi-style Islamic law. Some of the publications collected for this study direct Muslims not to take American citizenship as long as the country is ruled by infidels and tells them, while abroad, above all, to work for the creation of an Islamic state. The Saudi textbooks and documents spread throughout American mosques preach a Nazi-like hatred for Jews, treat the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion as historical fact, and avow that the Muslim’s duty is to eliminate the state of Israel. Regarding women, the Saudi state publications in America instruct that they should be veiled, segregated from men and barred from certain employment and roles.”
Who funded this new Freedom House report? At a time when Muslim migrants are creating unrest (and participating in jihad terror attacks) in Europe, the idea that “Islamophobia” constitutes a threat to European democracy is not only risible, but serves the sinister of agenda of fostering complacency regarding the genuine threat that manifested itself in Paris and Brussels.
“Islamophobia threatens democracy in Europe, report says,” by Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, April 13, 2016:
In a report on the health of democracy in the post-Soviet world, Freedom House painted a bleak picture of the state of liberal values in parts of Europe. The Washington-based human rights advocacy organization, which publishes a global freedom index every year, highlighted a number of worrying trends in 29 countries in Eastern and Central Europe, as well as former Soviet states in Central Asia.
Chief among them was the strengthening of authoritarian politics in a number of countries, as well as the rise of “illiberal nationalism” in others, particular European Union democracies like Poland and Hungary. The European struggle to come to grips with the migrant crisis on its borders, as well as ongoing economic turmoil, are the leading causes of this democratic malaise, according to Freedom House.
The new assessments were published this week in Freedom House’s annual Nations In Transit report, focused on the countries that started transitioning toward democracy after the fall of the Soviet Union. It uses the organization’s specific ratings that evaluate nations across a range of criteria, from corruption to the strength of electoral institutions to the independence of the media. Weighted for population, the average Democracy Score in the 29 countries profiled by Freedom House has declined for 12 years in a row. Here’s a sampling from Central Europe:
“The biggest challenge to democracy in Europe is the spread of deeply illiberal politics,” details Freedom House’s press release. This, as WorldViews has charted over the past year, has been very much on display in the response to an influx of refugees and migrants from Syria and other countries. Right-wing politicians, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, fanned populist flames by grandstanding over the threat of Muslim migration.
Their rhetoric, garbed in ominous declarations of a clash of civilizations, played to domestic audiences and, in a few cases, boosted the political prospects of some ruling parties. Governments from Poland to Slovakia to Hungary rejected E.U. proposals to accommodate tiny numbers of refugees.
Leaders in these countries, the report states, “exploited the crisis to strengthen their populist appeal, disregarding fundamental humanitarian principles and the ideals of democratic pluralism for short-term partisan gain.”…

Jovial Joe says
What a disgusting report. Since when was it a ‘fundamental humanitarian principle’ to open one’s borders to people acculturated to want to destroy your way of life? In truth it’s the elite’s and leftist’s scaremongering about ‘Islamophobia’ and its use as an intimidatory tactic to silence criticism and opposition to mass Muslim immigration that threatens democracy.
mortimer says
JJ wrote: “intimidatory tactic to silence criticism and opposition to mass Muslim immigration ”
Thanks for that. Freedom House is losing its credibility by condemning resistance to immigration…is that not free speech? Why does Freedom House determine how much immigration is the right amount.
They’ve stepped over the line.
And regarding their finding about Saudi-funded mosques: more than the mosques they studied are ‘Saudi-funded’. No doubt many Islamo-pandering politicians, journalists and editors are also ‘Saudi-funded’…should they not be forensically audited and condemned?
Islam_Macht_Frei says
Well, there is a historical precedent – have we forgotten the rampant “Naziophobia” that was running amok in Germany in the ’30’s? Who can forge the trouble THAT caused?
D J says
Lord Reith managed to keep that nasty ‘Naziophobe’ Winston Churchill off the BBC pretty much throughout the 1930s.
As you say it didn’t end well.
Gary says
Oh Malarkey! Europe is threatened BY Islam!
Jesus IS the final Authority on God. Jesus IS freedom!
Muhammad was a disobedient vessel. He was a slave to sin. And everyone who believes his lies walks in darkness! PERIOD!!!
Bill says
This is how the left operates. They thrive on chaos. They create chaos and disorder. Then in the vacuum, they step in and impose their order. This why the left is so anxious to promote the evil and chaos of Islam. In the end, they believe that the leftists will be the only ones standing. (Although, I think as between the left and entrenched Islam, I think the Jihadis may have the edge. It is a close call) Despite Freedom House’s professed concern over “authoritarian” government, They want that, only they want to be the authoritarians. They want that authoritarian infrastructure in place. They need it to be in place, so that when the moment arises, they can seize it and operate the machinery with ruthlessness that is the hallmark of all leftist and socialist regimes. While the immediate focus is in Europe, It is happening in the USA right now.
Darth Artifex says
I agree Bill. Socialism is the creation of an authoritarian state that dictates not only how to behave and how to live, but what to think. Any independent thought and statements are decried, attacked, and eliminated with full prejudice. The left is not pro-free-speech, they are totally against free speech. The left is completely authoritarian, undemocratic as the academics are the elites and dictate public acceptability, claiming that they are democratic because they represent the majority, which is not only false, but by their dichotomy they are the majority because anyone who disagrees is anti-social, and their opinions are illegal, therefore discounted. It is the I’m right because I say I’m right, and you agree with me because I told you that you agree with me. If you actually disagree with me you are a crazy anti-social criminal because I told you what you believe. Look at homosexuality in Western Countries … Look at transgender where it is a psychiatric disorder by definition, and yet it is not corrected, it is dictated to the rest of us that we are wrong for pointing out that it is an illness. Islam is total authoritarian dictatorship that the left is piggybacking power on. This victim oriented society has divided individuals into rights groups, where race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, and sanity (Gender illnesses like transgender) give varying levels of privilege. Malcolm X would be proud of the state of affairs for black muslims in the United States, and the special status, with increasing separation from mainstream in legal, criminal, educational, and financial institutions. On this current trend, black muslims will be legally garaunteed legal protections against non-black, non-muslim infidels, with guaranteed income (only for Black-Muslims) at an upper middle-class level not requiring employment or education, but as an entitlement for being a black-muslim … just as Malcolm X advocated all those years ago. Cheers … I can only hope for an acceleration of Islamic Attacks in order to expose the left, and catapult Trump into the Presidency, with a full Congress and Senate to implement his agenda. Unfortunately it is sad, but the losses in this WAR will expose the lefts lies, and bring the people to force the governments to fight this war. It only takes one side declaring war for their to be a war, and the Progressives, Liberals and the Left in war terms are collaborators.
Bill says
Look at any institution of alleged higher education in the USA. What you have described is in full throttle at almost all of them, with the unqualified support and encouragement of faculty, administration and trustees. Private or public, it is all the same. This forum has documented many abuses as it relates to PC adherence and unbridled worship of the “Islamophobia” doctrine. But the same treatment is given to non-socialist opinion, thought, and speakers on any other issue as well.
Beagle says
I did not read all the comments to the WaPo article. But a substantial sampling suggests the readership is not buying it about 100% to 0%.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yep.
I went and had a look at those, too, after reading your comment here. I read them *all*. WHOOO-EE!
A few idiots and one outright Islamophile (probably a Muslim in a mask) but… everyone else… it could have been a thread from here at jihadwatch, pretty much.
Hope says
Yes. I was encouraged reading those comments posted on the WP article! People are waking up and getting angry, FINALLY!
sham says
DEMOCRACY AND WOMEN:
Is Democracy really able to provide eternal values that will be
conducive to human salvation? In reality, Democracy is but the rule of
the majority. Can it be really possible for the majority in a society to
develop and formulate the laws that are to be necessarily followed for
the conduct of life of a people? The majority of the people in Europe
and America have accepted the system of dating wherein young girls
and boys come to know each other intimately, to intermingle with each
other freely and even to sleep together as well before marriage. It is,
after all, this acceptance and licentious ways that has served to torment
that society with the afflictions of deadly diseases like AIDS and of
other numerous mental disorders. In fact, the increasing rate of crime
and sex related diseases in third world countries, like India, which are
passionately following the western values owes this to their dependence
on democracy to deliver the right course of conduct. Here, the fact
becomes clear that it is the Lord God Himself, who created man, Who
is to teach how man is to lead his life.
What is modern democracy? It is nothing but a new name that
has been conferred upon Capitalism. Are not man and woman equal
in the capitalist world? For those who seek to give the answer merely
by looking upon the participating presence of both the sexes at the
offices, it may be possible to give ‘yes’ as an answer. However, they
refuse to accept the fact that Capitalism prevents woman from fulfilling
the role which nature has demanded of her. Modern Democracy can
very well ask woman to work alongside man, to earn her salary and
to go forth into the market place. But who, indeed, can ask man to
undertake pregnancy, to give birth and to breast-feed like the woman.
It may, perhaps, be possible for capitalism to ask the nation to provide
for woman who gives birth to a child who knows not its own father.
But, which, indeed, is the ideology that can confer solace upon the
woman who yearns to be fondled by the father of the child within her?
It may be possible for a consumerist culture to provide baby food for
the offspring that is born without ever being able to know the identity
of its own parents. But, which television ad is it that will provide
contentment to the minds of the little ones who yearn for the love of
the mother and the protection of the father?
The equality of the sexes is a myth; a myth that has been fostered
within human minds by democracy with the aid of the media. A woman
can never become likea man nor can a man ever become likea woman.
Western democracy, which teaches woman to be like man, is, in reality,
making the life of woman unbearable. Through this, it wrecks the
family and, with it, the very moral fibre of the society as well.
Capitalism sees every thing in the world as a part of
consumerism. Man and woman are no exceptions. Their emotions or
their problems are hardly issues of its concern. For it looks only to the
market. It thinks of nothing but the objects that will serve to accelerate
the various processes therein. This is the position of woman in
capitalism. She is always the model, the call-girl, the stenographer, the
secretary, the dancer, the actress; but never is she allowed to be the
mother by capitalism. After all, her being a mother would diminish her
market value; wouldn’t it?! Then she becomes an old woman; an
inhabitant of old-age homes; one destined to live the rest of her life
counting the days to her end.
The Qur’an, however, presents a most practical, yet moral,
system. A practical system which moves forward always in harmony
with human nature. In its vision, the human being is not only the one
with rosy cheeks and unwrinkled skin, but he is also the child within its
mother’s womb as also the aged one awaiting death. Indeed, its
command encompasses even the dead body which is never to be
violated.
The Qur’an is never in conformity with the utilitarianism of
Capitalism. This is the main point of divergence where the Qur’anic
vision differs from the view of modern democracy over the subject of
woman. The Qur’an never sees woman as a source of economic gain.
It never agrees to see her as an instrument of trade either; for she is
one half of the human soul; the veritable mother of society. It is her
motherhood which Islam considers first and foremost. It emphasizes
that it is on the lap of the mother that the very bedrock of the institution
of the family, the fundamental unit of morality that is so vital in society,
is nurtured. The Lord Creator, who revealed the Qur’an, is well aware
of the difficulties and limitations faced by a woman who becomes a
mother. Indeed, these have been given due consideration by the Qur’an.
The outlook of capitalism is that it is virginity – in fact, that hypocritical
pretentious virginity – that has the most ‘market value’. This has also
been the basic difference in the professed value – frameworks of Islam
and Capitalism.
billybob says
You totally miss the point of Western democracy. The whole point is: Personal choice.
If a woman wants to be a software engineer, she can.
If a woman wants to be a traditional wife, mother, and homemaker, she can.
If she wants to be a welder or a soldier, she can.
The choice is up to her.
Not all women a sutide to be the traditional mother/homemaker, just like not all women are suited to be computer programmers. The society functions best when each contributes with that that they are best at.
You Islamic model for women above all else removes choice from them. They become slaves to the dictates of Islam. From there it only gets worse…
Islamic culture, guided by the wisdom of the Quran and Hadiths, has invented many creative solutions to help prevent women from committing sexual transgressions.
FGM (female genital mutilation) can make sex so painful for her that she wouldn’t dream of having intercourse until it is imposed upon her by her husband, once forced into marriage.
Then there is the wisdom of Gender Apartheid, to keep women separated from men at all times – even in the mosque where you would think she should be safe from temptations. Beyond that, dressing a woman in shapeless bag and wrapping her hair in a hijab makes her so ugly and unappealing that most man will feel revulsion at the sight of her.
Government laws can promote moderation in the public arena, like for example, the Morality Police in Iran who watch out for a woman whose hijab may have slipped and exposed a bit of hair.
Islam provides strong indoctrination so that a woman internalizes the concept that she will go to hell if she dare touch herself or merely fantasize about committing a sexual trangession.
The message is that a woman’s value before marriage in an Islamic culture is totally invested in her vagina. Her virginity must be protected at all cost, because without it, she is nothing but a dishonour for her family to quietly dispose of.
Her own sexuality is denied. It is her duty before God to serve the sexual needs of her husband whenever he wants, and in any manner he wants, as long as she is not “unclean”.
Of course, I don’t expect you would actually respond to this? You are nothing but a sham.
Peggy says
You make it sound like women are emotionless drones who should be directed only to serve man and bear children.
Where are our choices in Islam? If a woman dares to feel anything and think for herself she will be punished. Is that what your book teaches? How can that be love?
God is love not hate and you really have to hate someone to force them to live in any way they don’t want to.
So if this is your God demanding that one half of the population only exists to serve then I don’t want anything to do with that God because it is not God but Satan who demands it.
All you have to do is think about how you are told to treat the most vulnerable and if it’s with cruelty then as a rational human being you must start to doubt whoever demands this of you. They cannot possibly be loving and therefore they cannot possibly be God.
Angemon says
Democracy in Europe is threatened by the same thing as democracy outside of Europe: the lack of a well-informed population. And labels like “islamophobia” are part of the problem – deeming fair criticism of islam as a phobia – meaning a mental illness – is a mean to silence criticism and discussion.
Kepha says
And those of us teaching in the public school find ourselves tied into a fundamentally authoritarian socialist institution/instrument of misinformation. **sigh!**
Bob says
It’s nothing more than a spelling error- the ‘phobia’ part is redundant. Islam is itself the greatest threat to democracy, apart from the left-wing loonies!
خَليفة says
If by democracy they mean that the majority of Muslims have other plans for Europe.
Fessitude says
The answer to this apparent paradox of the Freedom House’s statement in 2005, vs. its statement now, is either that the Freedom House has been somehow co-opted by more aggressive PC MCs (and/or by Islamopologists) — or that its 2005 report wasn’t as anti-Islamic as one might have assumed it to be.
The telltale indication of this lies in one statement:
“They instill contempt for America because the United States is ruled by legislated civil law rather than by totalitarian Wahhabi-style Islamic law. ”
I’ve found that most Islamo-critical analysts who focus on “Wahhabi” (or, more fashionably because it sounds more knowledgeable, “Salafi”) tend to be also the type to harbor a fierce defense of innumerable (usually “most”) Muslims Who Just Wanna Have a Sandwich (in the immortal words of Ben Affleck — cf. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/raymond-ibrahim-ben-affleck-portrait-of-islams-clueless-apologists). A concern for some amorphously general demographic of Muslims thus, all too often, trumps our security concerns about Islam qua the Islam of all Muslims (and not just of MOE, the Minority Of “Extremists”).
خَليفة says
A true Muslim would not eat a sandwich as that is a western invention, and to embrace something of the west is to be one of them.
So, Muslims, if you see your friend eating a sandwich, know that your friend is adopting western ways, and you know what to do…
linnte says
I emailed these NUTZOS! Challenged them to read the Qur’an and Hadith. You all can do this! Just look up Freedom House. I know there are better spoken antiJihadists here than me! Now I am going to finish my Book, Infidels guide to the Koran and leave JW alone for a day! Hahahaha!
dumbledoresarmy says
Look on the bright side, people.
it is possible that the rapid increase in Islamopuffery we are seeing all over our media at the moment, and the *explosion* in finger-wagging articles and ‘reports’ – like the one under discussion – about the evils of “Islamophobia”, indicates that the Enemy is… starting to feel uneasy, perhaps even beginning to panic.
That whereas from where *we* – the Resistance – are, slogging away in our daily lives (workplace, family, place of worship, social circle e.g. sports club) and in social media battles and in comments streams and letter after letter to seemingly wilfully-oblivious politicians, it can seem like we’re getting nowhere much, the view from the *other* side might be.. somewhat different; that *they* are seeing a shift in the tides of the world, a shifting that involves more and more and more Kuffar, the world over, *waking up* and *networking* and starting to push back against Islamisation. Trump and his proposal about a moratorium on Muslim immigration is just a ‘straw in the wind’… one more indicator that *something is happening*.
So, my suggestion? We REDOUBLE OUR EFFORTS.
Lanya LaPunta says
Democracy in Europe threatened by “Islamophilia”
Change a few letters and the truth is revealed.
Those mohammedans and their islamophiliac allies have killed democracy, in Europe. They have long since passed the “threat” stage.
Alistair cromley says
Freedom House is your average cloak and dagger style organisation dressed up as a humanitarian “democracy” spreading relief agency. It’s heavily funded by the state department and it is made up of spooks and former White House analysts and workers.
It’s merely another branch of the US government operating independently.