Note the author’s disingenuousness. He says that “anti-Muslim hate crime tripled in London during December 2015,” and that “Anti-Semitic hate crime had surged to 93 percent in London by the end of 2015. Human Rights First reported a doubling in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2015 compared to the previous year.” But this doubling and tripling and the curious “surged to 93 percent” is all relative to what the original numbers were, and those he does not provide. If they made his case, he would have, without any doubt, but the fact that he left them out and just gave percentages instead strongly suggests that anti-Semitic incidents are far more common in Europe than incidents of “Islamophobia” — just as is the case in the US. And yet Europe is holding an “Islamophobia” Summit, not one on anti-Semitism.
Muddassar Ahmed likewise doesn’t bother to note that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe because the Muslim population there is on the rise. The vast majority of the perpetrators of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe are Muslims.
While making no mention of this, Ahmed does acknowledge, amid a moral equivalence argument, that there is Islamic terrorism: “ISIS attacks intend to divide Western societies by establishing the ‘gray zone’; the destruction of peaceful co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims. An Islamophobic reaction is precisely what ISIS terrorists and far-right Islamophobic activists hope for in order to realize their clash of civilizations narratives.” This is a very strange statement; it appears to mean that in the West, Muslims and non-Muslims live in harmony, but ISIS, out of hatred for non-Muslims, and “Islamophobes,” out of hatred for Muslims, both are trying to ignite a “clash of civilizations.”
The two, however, despite Ahmed’s best efforts, are not equivalent: ISIS kills people; “Islamophobes” don’t. “Islamophobes” just talk about the aspects of Islam that jihadis use to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims. So what Ahmed is essentially saying is that Europe (and the US as well, no doubt) must do two things: stop ISIS from committing acts of violence, and stop “Islamophobes” from criticizing Islam. Then Muslims and non-Muslims will live in harmony in Europe, and “extremism” will be vanquished.
The problem with this rosy scenario is that stopping criticism of Islam would be tantamount to adopting Sharia blasphemy laws. It would be, in effect, surrender to the forces who want to impose Sharia on the West. In the event of such a surrender, ISIS attacks in Europe wouldn’t even be necessary, for the goal of a Sharia Europe will have been attained.
“Europe’s first Islamophobia summit highlights European-wide problem,” by Muddassar Ahmed, Jerusalem Post, June 25, 2016:
This week’s UK referendum on European Union membership could tilt the EU toward either greater disintegration or stronger union; Europe finds itself at a vital crossroads.
The UK campaign against membership has not been without its controversies; images of Syrian refugees have been used in campaign posters to evoke fears of about an impending demographic invasion of Europe. On the other hand, the upcoming EU presidency in July will go to a Slovak government whose party leader openly admires the 1939-1945 Nazi-sponsored Slovak state that sent 75,000 Jewish citizens to Nazi concentration camps, and a prime minister who said Muslim refugees are not welcome in Slovakia.
It is within this increasingly politicized climate of fear, divisiveness and bigotry that the first ever European Islamophobia Summit will be taking place in Sarajevo this week; a gathering of political leaders, journalists, academics and civil society representatives from across Europe and the US.
Anti-Muslim hate crime and bigotry after all is undoubtedly a real problem.
Anti-Muslim hate crime tripled in London during December 2015.
According to Dilcra, a French government body, the number of Islamophobic hate crimes increased three-fold in 2015. According to Spain’s largest Islamic organization, the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities, 2015 saw an 11-fold increase in reports of anti-Muslim hate crime. And calls by US presidential candidate Donald Trump to ban all Muslims from entering the US represents the kind of collective stigmatization of a global religious community that could end up creating dangerous and disturbing precedent.
But it isn’t just anti-Muslim sentiment that has been on the rise in Europe. Anti-Semitic hate crime had surged to 93 percent in London by the end of 2015. Human Rights First reported a doubling in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2015 compared to the previous year, and the recent attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando by what appears to have been an Islamic State-inspired attacker also drew attention to the existence of a deep-seated homophobia. According to UK Home Office records, the number of UK homophobic attacks reported to police leapt by nearly a quarter in 2015….
That’s why the first European Islamophobia Summit will be discussing cross-community unity against all forms of discrimination and prejudice – something central to any comprehensive response.
And yes: problems of extremism do indeed afflict the Muslim world.
Islamic State (ISIS) demonstrates that.
But counter-Islamophobia efforts are crucial to counter-extremism efforts.
ISIS attacks intend to divide Western societies by establishing the “gray zone”; the destruction of peaceful co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims. An Islamophobic reaction is precisely what ISIS terrorists and far-right Islamophobic activists hope for in order to realize their clash of civilizations narratives….
The author is the spokesperson for the first European Islamophobia Summit, being held in Sarajevo from the 24th to the 26th of June.

Veritas says
Why have they not issued a Fatwa against the infidels of the ‘Satanic State’ if they have sullied the name of Islam?
Alien Republican says
What about the skyrocketing incidences of gynophobia, homophobia and ateophobia as well increasing crime and cultural supremacism among the lastest arrivals of “migrants” ?
biff says
Infidelaphobia
See Urban dictionary.
“An irrational fear or hatred of non muslims. Infideliphobia is widespread in the muslim world.”
Ralph Statum says
Muhammad was a pedophile, a narcissist, a mass murderer, an assassin, a looter, a lecher, a torturer, a terrorist, a cult-leader, a misogynist, and a rapist
“… Muhammad was a great leader. He fought many offensive battles, tortured, looted and killed innocent people and raped their women, assassinated his critics, ordered mass murder, addicted to pedophilia and reduced thousands of others into slavery in the name of God. His conduct was ungodly. But he also successfully twisted the sense of morality of his followers, distorted their sense of Humanness and linked doing good and a service to God to all ungodly things …”
“… If you think Islamic terrorism is a new phenomenon, think again. Islam owes its success to terrorism. The prophet of Islam boasted, “I have been made victorious with terror”. [Bukhari: 4.52. 220] Since the day Muhammad set foot in Medina, he started his campaign of terror. His followers have been doing the same ever since …” Definition, Symptoms & Cause of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder
“ISLAM: EVIL IN THE NAME OF GOD” Death Punishment for Apostasy in Islam
“Allah Allows Sex With Pre-Puberty Kids!”
Islam is the biggest pedophilia ring & the biggest mad house on earth. The better a Muslim follow & imitating the model “par-excellence” & (page 61) Khayru-l-Khalq (the Best of Creation, Q33:21) the better is it for him!
Concerned Indian says
Being the real aggressive,manipulative and hypocritical parties both Islamists and Leftists are playing victims. As such Left Liberals have always suffered from masochism and when hit back,play victims because that makes them feel virtuous. What is a legitimate concern can’t be a phobia.No educated and decent Muslim ,such as a doctor or professor,who arrived by air is resented in Europe.There are many in both Western and Eastern Europe.They have never faced any Islamophobic attitude or experience.It’s only the migrants who are invading Europe as if it’s their own land ( the way they have fought with the border guards) who are disliked as the entire population of “war-torn” Syria,Afghanistan and other nations has not moved out.Only certain people have.How has the West or East European nations ascertained their status as people fleeing persecution? Racist,Islamophobe are just a couple out of many terms used by Left Liberals to subdue the opposition.There must be another such meet by people who are articulate,talk in measured manner who can prove decisively that what people feel is not a phobia but a conviction based on historic evidence and we don’t want to repeat history.If some people want the migrants,no problem–take the migrants in your home especially the homes of political leaders who are well guarded,well furnished and usually large so that the Muslims can be safe from the racists and Islamophobes,comfortable and won’t get claustrophobic.
Christianblood says
(After Paris and Brussels jihad massacres, Europe to hold “Islamophobia” summit).
They are traitors. Hang them all!
Western Canadian says
And hang the left wing traitors who trained them, and put them in positions of power!!!
Christianblood says
western canadian
I agree with you on this!
Jay Boo says
INFIDEL-Phobia
That is the real issue
biff says
Jay, you got that absolutely right.
The real problem is Infidelphobia. Muslims killing everyone else they do not understand.
The noble savages and their enlightened culture. Progressives hope that in 50 or 100 years Muslims might buy a fucking clue.
In the meantime the important thing is to normalized and deny terrorism and violence exist in our communities.
“join our religion of peace or we will kill you”
biff says
The absurdity of it all. The doublespeak.
The left strategy to defeat Islam is to embarrass them into entering the modern world.
Progressives think that the more we lie down in front of Islam and show them how we are willing to “work together” that Islam will give up it’s middle ages ideas.
Progressives think that social isolation and peer pressure is a “winning strategy” to defeat radical Islam.
That’s how far off the rails society has gone.
Imagine if WWII or leaders went around saying shit like
“Nazi are not representative of the real German people”
“We do not understand why Nazi want to have war”
“We are searching to understand the hidden *motivations* of the Nazi”.
“Nazi socialism is a tool of peace”.
Progressives and their trojan horse thinking.
Congratulation to the British people on Brexit. Look to Switzerland as an example of not being part of the EU. Highest standard of living in Europe. The only was Switzerland stays successfull is ignoring the insanity of the EU.
Few progressives even realize Switzerland never joined the EU. They would have had to be informed about things like history. They would need to spend time with their head pulled out of their ass listening to real people with real problems.
billybob says
I have considered this multiple times. In spite of many good and well-meaning Muslim who think so, Islam cannot be reformed. You can’t simply rationalize the violence away (saying violence was only permitted when the early Muslims were attacked and so on). It is not just the problem of violence. There is the misogyny and the sexual perversions and the heartless character of Sharia laws and so on. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Something of the original character of Muhammad will always leak through, because Islam is a reflection of him, and he was not a good person, by any stretch of the imagination.
He may have been charming in his peaceful days. They say he was called upon to resolve disputes because he was considered an honourable man. However, later in Medina he revealed his true nature, or he became corrupted along the way there. Whichever doesn’t matter. His true nature was just as thoroughly evil as Genghis Khan or Attila the Hun or even Adolf Hitler or any other ruthless conqueror. As long as the Quran, Hadiths and Sunna exist, people will keep rediscovering “Real Islam” and off they go again. Among their first victims will be the reformers, then on to kill the rest of us.
Though it seems a long way from talking about Islam, there is a parallel in a contemporary character who may have once been an inspiration to many North American black families. Pull-up-your-pants Bill Cosby was the role model TV dad for a decade. Recently we have collectively discovered he wasn’t at all what he seemed. Turned out he was a serial rapist who preyed on vulnerable young women who looked up to him as a professional role model. You can’t sit down and watch reruns of the Cosby Show for moral inspiration without now thinking it was all fake. A fake role model is worse than no role model. In the same vain, Muhammad has nothing to offer as role model. Take him out of Islam along with all the previously mentioned violence and misogyny and oppression and Machiavellian Sharia laws, and nothing remains but an empty hole.
Tommy says
Never post an image of moo-HAM-id ;/
Angemon says
Right, that’s why Tell MAMA Tells Lies…
biff says
Sunni Muslims must be discussed constantly at Islamaphobia conferences.
Shia are the “Real Islam” since they do not kill Infidels as often as Sunni (in Obama thinking).
“Fake Islam” killing “Real Islam”.
Saying that Sunni Islam is a huge part of the Radical Jidah problem is never going to happen.
America does not want to upset the Saudi rulers by speaking truths.
If people used their brains and common sense they might decide “peace oil” from Canada is a lot better for the world then Sunni Islamic death oil from Saudi Arabia.
Need to keep up the endless scary talk about the oil, death of the planet etc to keep us buying death oil.
Here is Leneord Nimoy discussing the coming “ice age” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei-_SXLMMfo
Socialists have pushed the environmental angle from global cooling and global warming. We cannot even get a weather report for a week out that is right but we are 100% totally convinced that WE ARE RUINING THE WORLD CLIMATE.
The most important takeaway is that just like Islam terror, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE and the global elite have the answers.
The global elite do not care if the climate is cooling or warming. The only objective is to enslave you in the process.
linnte says
That’s the plan. And they don’t give a rat’s puckie.
WTF says
iSSlam is the cancer, islamophobia the awareness of this sickness
biff says
It’s not Islamaphobia when they are really trying to kill you.
Michael Copeland says
THE RELIGION OF NO PEACE
“No peace can be made between us [Muslims] and the non-believers.
This what our holy book says. This what Allah says.”
Yusuf al Qaradawi
Risto Kantonen says
Hah, the nazi card, classic. Let’s address that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relations_between_Nazi_Germany_and_the_Arab_world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler#Hitler.27s_views_on_Islam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aserbaidschanische_Legion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini
Amin al-Husseini in pictures with nazis, http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/gallery/
Muslim immigrants chanting death to jews and Adolf Hitler in Germany, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isRnEx4HIzQ
So muslims trying to take the moral high ground when it comes to tolerance of jews is ridiculous.
Nigel GFF says
“…But counter-Islamophobia efforts are crucial to counter-extremism efforts…”
Translation: more funding. (‘Give us the bullets’).
“…lies, damned lies, and statistics”. (Disraeli (some say Twain)).
Peter says
When will there be an “Infidelphobia” Summit?
Solve ISLAMIC infidelphobia, infidel paranoia, infidel denigration, infidel-dehumanization, infidel delegitimization, infidel inferiorization, infidel subjugation, infidel enslavement, infidel extermination, and infidel-hatred, and there will be no so-called “Islamophobia”!
After “Brexit,” it is time for the EU to get REAL.
WorkingClassPost says
This summit sounds like fun.
Does anyone know how much it costs, or do ‘phobes get In for free?
linnte says
Where was Muddassar when Anjem Choudary and his ilk were on the streets saying “Kill the police and Kill Cameron”? When any Muslim group protests violently to intimidate groups like Britain First, where were the “peaceful” Muslims protecting them; speaking loudly to Islamic supremacists that this is not what Islam is? Oh, because that IS WHAT ISLAM IS!
He is all talk and no action, like the total population of Muslims in Britain and Europe. Cowards! Rapists! Supremacists! Islam needs to be eradicated.
linnte says
In all honesty, I don’t think I have ever seen any evidence in the media of real non Muslims perpetrating hate crimes against Muslims, except graffiti or bacon on a door handle of a Mosque. Guess I need to do a proper search for actual HATE crimes, like bodily injury. Graffiti and bacon, a hate crime does not make.
Angemon says
And considering how starved for “islamophobic” hate crimes the media are, that’s saying a lot.
linnte says
I AM going to do a search. Maybe you who have a real computer could do that too. I can’t post the results, but you could. This will be interesting!
Angemon says
Here’s a small collection:
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Fake_Anti-Muslim_Hate_Crimes_and_Other_Lies
Angemon says
Is Russia invited to the summit? I heard “islamophobia” was setting in there.
Sam says
This is another proof that West will not wake up to Islam until Islam dominates Europe like it does in Iran and Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries. Then maybe?
linnte says
Sam, that’s when Revolution starts. God help them! And I think it will take America longer to arrive at that point because of our guns. But I bet it is fair to say, if Revolution happens in Europe and Britain, it just might give anti-jihadists fuel for stomping in Islam big time. Keep em loaded!
citycat says
One feels the pain but not the cold that caused the pain.
So get warm to rid the cold to FREE the pain.
One feels the fear but does not see the cause of fear.
Becoming an Ostrich is a temporary avoidence tactic.
So get over the hidden fear of Islam to realise the cause.
Islam’s tricky smokescreen city runs on fear and Islamophobia promotions- the mind fog, with ego tripping misogynistic promises as traffic control.
Guest says
My head hurts from the amount of stupidity in this article.
Will1925 says
Britain is the spiritual home of Muslims – because of political correctness and fantasies of multiculturalism they do and say as they please, and few dare criticise them. Not only could leaving be the EU be a huge mistake economically, but it has very little to do with Britain’s massive immigration problems. Britain imported criminality and terror decades before the EU – street crime from black Jamaicans, non-integration, sexual abuse and terrorism from Pakistani Muslims, fraudsters from Nigeria and the rest of black Africa. London became known as “Londonistan” because of the number of hate-filled Muslims it sheltered, while banning truth-speaking, intelligent people like Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. It took the French TEN YEARS to get a suspect in the Paris bombings of the 1990s extradited as British courts (not European ones) fought his extradition. When the European courts upheld France’s ban on the veil (something Britain doesn’t have the guts to do), the French Muslima was represented by BRITISH lawyers. Add to that toxic mix the world’s most lawless people, Somalis (Britain is their destination of choice), Afghans, Iraqis, Albanians et al – all from outside the EU. Romanian and Bulgarian gypsies are a workshy nuisance, but petty criminals at worst. They will not try to kill you. Brexit and “Leave” blamed everything on the EU. Immigration? Britain’s fate was already sealed long ago.
King Tut says
the Jews have brainwashed Europeans beyond repair.
Guest says
It’s stupid like this that caused the Brexit in the first place.
anonymous says
By killing infidels, the moslems are only practicing their religion. It’s an ancient form of worship, just like the religious dances of some cultures.
By stopping them from doing that or by arresting them, the west is clearly intolerant. It’s like prohibiting catholics from taking holy communion And their god will send them to hell if they don’t kill their allotment of infidels.
What must the poor moslems do? It just proves how bad the west is.
George says
hey, you hit the nail on the head !!
George says
the muslims are the phobic, like: CIVILIZATION-PHOBIC; PEACE-phobic; TOLERANCE-phobic… and so on…
they belong to islamic countries… there are many.