Check your Muslim privilege: Islamophobia kills. A brilliant article by the great Daniel Greenfield:
“Muslim Privilege Killed 49 People in Orlando,” by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage, June 16, 2016:
The deadliest mass shooting in American history happened because of Islamophobia.
Islamophobia killed 49 people in Orlando. It didn’t kill 49 Muslims. Instead it allowed Omar Mateen, a Muslim terrorist, to kill 49 people in the name of his Islamic ideology and the Islamic State.
Omar, like so many other Muslim killers, could have been stopped. He talked about killing people when he worked at G4S Security, a Federal contractor that provided services to the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department. But, according to one of the co-workers he stalked, a former police officer, his employers refused to do anything about it because he was a Muslim.
The FBI conducted an investigation of Omar Mateen. They put him on a watch list and sent informants. They interviewed him and concluded that his claims of Al Qaeda ties and terrorist threats were reactions to “being marginalized because of his Muslim faith.” Omar told the agents that he said those things because “his co-workers were discriminating against him and teasing him because he was Muslim.”
And they believed him.
Poor Omar wasn’t a potential terrorist. He was just a victim of Islamophobia.
Omar got away with homophobic comments that would have gotten Americans fired because he was Muslim. He weathered an “extensive” FBI investigation because he was Muslim.
Anyone who says that there is no such thing as Muslim Privilege ought to look at Omar Mateen.
There is a direct line between Omar’s Muslim privilege and the Pulse massacre. Omar Mateen’s Muslim privilege protected him from consequences. While the media studiously paints the image of a beleaguered population of American Muslims suffering the stigma of constant suspicion, Omar’s Muslim background actually served as a shield and excused behavior that would have been unacceptable for anyone else. Omar Mateen’s Muslim privilege shielded him until he was actually murdering non-Muslims.
And Omar’s case is not unique. The Fort Hood killer, Nidal Hasan, handed out business cards announcing that he was a Jihadist. He delivered a presentation justifying suicide bombings, but no action was taken. Like Omar, the FBI was aware of Hasan. It knew that he was talking to Al Qaeda bigwig Anwar Al-Awlaki, yet nothing was done. Instead of worrying about his future victims, the FBI was concerned that investigating him and interviewing him would “harm Hasan’s career”.
One of his classmates later said that the military authorities, “Don’t want to say anything because it would be considered questioning somebody’s religious belief, or they’re afraid of an equal opportunity lawsuit.”
Would the FBI have been as sensitive if Nidal Hasan had been named Frank Wright? No more than Omar Mateen would have kept his security job if his name had been Joe Johnson.
It’s an increasingly familiar story.
The neighbors of San Bernardino killers Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik noticed that something strange was going on, but they were afraid of profiling Muslims. If they had done the right thing, the 14 victims of the two Muslim killers would still be alive. If the FBI had done the right thing with Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood victims would still be alive and whole. If the FBI had done the right thing with Omar Mateen, his 49 victims would still be alive and those he wounded would still be whole.
We have some basic choices to make. We can empathize with Muslims or with their victims.
We cannot however do both.
After 9/11, Muslims somehow became the biggest victim group in America. And even if you contend that most Muslims are not responsible for the actions of Islamic fundamentalist groups, even if you believe that most Muslims are being wrongly blamed for the actions of a smaller group of radicals, the pernicious myth of Muslim victimhood has become a distorting force that protects terrorists.
Muslim victimhood has elevated Islamist groups such as CAIR to the front row of political discourse alongside legitimate civil rights organizations, despite their terror links and history of obstructing law enforcement efforts to fight Islamic terrorism, while mainstreaming their Islamist agendas.
Muslim victimhood has silenced the victims of Muslim terrorism. Every Muslim terror attack is swiftly diverted to the inevitable “backlash” narrative in which the media turns away from the bodies in the latest terror attack to bring us the stories of the real Muslim victims who fear being blamed for it.
This obscene act of media distraction silences the victims of Muslim terrorism and rewards the enablers and accomplices of Muslim terrorism instead. It is every bit as terrible as claiming that the real victims of a serial killer are his family members who are being blamed for not turning him in, instead of the people he killed and the loved ones they left behind.
Muslim victimhood protects Muslim terrorists like Omar Mateen. It shields them from scrutiny. It invents excuses for them. While Omar made his preparations, while the FBI investigation of him was botched, the media leaped nimbly from a thousand petty claims of Muslim victimhood. And the worst of them may have been Tahera Ahmad, a Muslim woman who claimed she was discriminated against when a flight attendant poured her soda in a cup instead of being given a can. This insane nonsense received days of media coverage. That’s more airtime than any American victim of Islamic terrorism has received.
The media will wait as short a period as it can and turn away from Orlando to some manufactured viral media claim of Muslim discrimination that will be unbearably petty. Meanwhile the next Omar Mateen will be plotting his next act of terror.
It’s time to tell the truth.
Islamic terrorism is caused by Muslim privilege. These acts of violence are motivated by racism and supremacism in Islam. Allahu Akbar, the Islamic battle cry often associated with acts of terror and ethnic cleansing since its origin in Mohammed’s persecution of the Jews, is a statement of Muslim superiority to non-Muslims.
Muslim terrorism is not the groan of an oppressed minority. Its roots run back to racist and supremacist Islamic societies in Saudi Arabia and Egypt where non-Muslims have few if any civil rights. Muslims are a global majority. Islamic terrorism is their way of imposing their religious system on everyone.
Standing in solidarity with Muslims after Orlando makes as much sense as standing in solidarity with Klansmen after the Charleston massacre. No one should be standing in solidarity with hate groups.
Omar wasn’t radicalized by the “internet”. He got his ideas from Islamic clerics who got their ideas from Islam. He was “radicalized” by the holiest texts of Islam. Just like every other Muslim terrorist. His actions weren’t “senseless” or “nihilistic”, he was acting out the Muslim privilege of a bigoted ideology.
Even in this country, the majority of hate crimes are not directed at Muslims. Instead Muslims have disproportionately contributed to persecuting various minority groups. Orlando is only the latest example of this trend. In Europe, Jews are fleeing Sweden and France because of Muslim persecution. In Germany, gay refugees have to be housed separately from Muslim migrants. So do Christian refugees.
This isn’t the behavior of victims. These are the actions of oppressors.
Muslims are not part of the coalition of the oppressed, but of the oppressors. The sooner we recognize that, the sooner we can deal stop Islamic terrorism and protect the victims of Muslim terrorists.
Muslim privilege killed 49 people in Orlando. How many people will it kill next week or next month? How many will it kill in the next decade or the next century?
The Muslim genocide of non-Muslims is already happening in Syria and Iraq. Islam has a long genocidal history. And if we continue to confuse the oppressors and the oppressed, the next genocide we fail to stop may be our own.

abad says
The fact of the matter is this:
These people simply DO NOT BELONG in the United States of America 2016 Common Era.
They just don’t.
The entire Mateen family should be deported back to Afghanistan.
Christianblood says
You are right. As long as there are muslims who follow the evil teachings of the islamic death-cult, there will be jihad, hate and violence. In the same way, as long as the US authorities embrace the evil house of Saud and their evil doctrine of hateful, genocidal jihad and islamic supremacism there will be islamic subversion and bloody jihad in the US soil. Click on to the link below to see how Saudis islamic fanatics are playing the highest US officials like violins:
http://theduran.com/stranger-fiction-kerry-saudi-prince-pledge-fight-extremism-orlando-shooting/
Mark Swan says
Thank You Mr. Spencer for this article on Muslim privilege, turning a blind eye to any
potential threat to human life is inexcusable.
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“…the evil house of Saud and their evil doctrine of hateful, genocidal jihad and islamic supremacism”
How does Saudi islam differs, for example, from Iranian islam?
Western Canadian says
And again we have a paid troll come by, to bore us with his inane drivel. He lies about the soviet union NOT being a fascist state that imported its ideology into the West, in a very successful stealth jihad. Our educational systems are corrupt, dealing with indoctrination as opposed to education. Or media eagerly lick the boots of their leftist masters and allies in islam, as opposed to telling us the truth. Hollywood produces money losing pictures, that teach hatred and lies about the West, marching to the soviet drum beat. Our politicians are at their most corrupt, thanks to the influence of the true believers, fellow travelers, useful idiots and others…. Just as the self proclaimed ‘elite’ embraced fascism from the nazis, the soviets, and now from the muslims….
Note to History: You can stop repeating yourself now.
Jaladhi says
That will be a good start but don’t bet on it!
Shane says
Damn right! this guy learned to hate gays and America from his father. His sharia law loving father should never have been allowed to immigrate to America. Please everybody Tweet and Like this important article about muslim privilege. We have got to stop giving muslims who hate the benefit of a doubt. This guy was a ticking time bomb who should have received more scrutiny from the FBI, not less.
The fact is that the FBI does not have enough agents to investigate all the potential muslim terrorists in the country today, so it makes no sense to continue to allowing 100,000 muslims to immigrate into the USA every year as it adds more people that the FBI should keep track of!
WakeUpCall says
Islam has a track record of massive murder of non-believers during its expansion. According to historian Will Durant, “The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history”. By the estimate of Koenraad Elst the population of Indian subcontinent reduced by almost 80 million between 1000 and 1525.[109] In course of their conquests and rule in India, the number of Muslims in India increased through Immigration and Conversion. No other religion or ideology(including Nazi), has ever committed massive murder in such a a big scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests_on_the_Indian_subcontinent
It’s time for each and everyone of us to ACT to protect the safety and freedom of all of us and our next generations.
We need a strong leader like Winston Churchill who can EDUCATE and LEAD our people to defeat the evil ideology. History is repeatedly teaching us that Appeasement will only aggravate the situation.
I am a leftist but I support Donald Trump because:
1. He stands firmly against the evil ideology
2. He is the only presidential candidate who rejects the money and influence from Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia who fanatically export Wahhabism,
Vote FOR TRUMP, for the sake of the safety and freedom of our family and our NEXT generations
We need to voice our opinion against the evil ideology to our family and friends, our community, our local leaders such as mayors, governors, congressmen/women, and senators by via a variety of means such as word of mouth and sending mails or emails.
NewWorldParty.org says
According to American Thinker, Muslims have killed 270 million people over 1,400 years. This is many times more than both world wars combined. Hitler was a boy scout in comparison.
SBJ says
That’s a conservative count. I’ve read upwards to 500 million, give or take.
Pong says
Supporting Trump doesn’t excuse being a leftist. Lefties are in collusion with moslems and have similar totalitarian ideology. By supporting Trump you will have to perform ideological acrobatics. It is a political schizophrenia.
biff says
After WWI, it took years for Europeans to immigrate to North America. They had to be interviewed, make sure they were going to be compatible, bringing something with them of value, ie education, skills etc.
This is common sense.
It has nothing to do with racism, of fear of nutbar Muslims.
The govt needs to start requiring a license to buy a Koran.
Every copy of the Koran needs to come with an “govt contact/FBI” to help “guide them in their learning” to make sure they do not “misunderstand Islam”.
The Koran needs to be licensed like a car or firearm. Owning and operating can hurt other people.
762x51FMJ says
Florida State law forbids conceal and carry in establishments that earn more than 50% of their revenue from the sale of alcohol. This needs to be repealed.
If even an handful of conceal and carry holders of the estimated 300 persons in the Pulse nightclub were armed, and registered as non drinkers by the club,
during reloading or when his back was turned someone could have gotten off a shot. And lives could have been saved.
Jackson03 says
“during reloading or when his back was turned someone could have gotten off a shot. And lives could have been saved.”
Hear, hear!! You got that right.
Carolyne says
I wondered why no one, as far as we know, attempted to disarm him or immobilize him while he was reloading. Now I understand. Everyone but him had been rendered helpless by anti-gun fanatics.
quotha raven says
Pithy comment, Carolyne. What you point out puzzles me as well. It’s almost inconceivable that one guy with a gun (or two) could hold at bay upwards of 300 people in what I gather is a pretty big place with several rooms.
Cheers!
quotha raven
Jaladhi says
In the FBI manual on terrorism, the very first lesson should be “never ever trust and believe an Muslims”. And if you do it might cost you and your fellow citizens their lives as happened in Orlando this week. Will they ever learn their lesson?? Not until all FBI manuals are restored to their original content before alteration under the direction of this administration.
jewdog says
The Orlando massacre happened thanks to the convergence of three things:
1) The shooter had severe psychological problems.
2) The shooter had access to a powerful weapon.
3) The shooter believed in the Sharia mandate to kill gays.
Number one is the hardest to remedy, but 2 and 3 certainly can be taken care of by stricter gun and border controls (assuming his father could have been barred earlier).
The Democrats are correct to call for gun control and the Repbublicans are correct to call for more restrictive immigration policy. It’s just too bad that both policies can’t be enacted. Maybe if Trump made a large donation to the Clinton Foundtion, then Hillary would consent to be his running mate.
Carolyne says
Do you really think that stricter gun control laws would prevent these idiotic Muslims and specifically this one killing infidels? The club was already a “No gun Zone,” yet that didn’t stop Mateen, did it? As long as Muslims are bent on killing us, they will find ways to obtain guns, but those of us who are law-abiding will not. He is a case in point. He disobeyed Florida law by bringing a gun where alcohol was served. He was not concerned with infidel laws. He had his own Sharia law.
quotha raven says
To Carolyne, who sez ” The club was already a “No gun Zone,” yet that didn’t stop Mateen, did it?”
“no gun zone” = open invitation to jihadis and bad guys to shooting up with relative safety for themselves a “soft target”
As Pulse and a number of other “no gun zones” attacked by jihadis have proved beyond any doubt.
Wakee, wakee!!
Cheers!
quotha raven
Arnold Joppich says
Too few people know what the Quran says and what the Imams teach. Your comments are good.
Mockingjay says
Excellent article. As always.
“Muslim Privilege” – what an accurate description of so many leftists’ attitude toward islam.
And, it seems, that this attitude now is even more pernicious in the US than it is or has EVER been in Europe (with the exception of Britain possibly).
NewWorldParty.org says
Muslim Privilege is created by political correctness, which is created by lying.
The media has been lying profusely, in order to get political correctness.
Huffington Post is one of the biggest liars and enablers of Muslim Privilege.
HuffingtonPost brainwashed people into believing that Mexican and Muslim are races and then lies repeatedly by calling Trump a racist. They have an article titled “Donald Trump Finally Admits His Campaign Is Racist”. Trump never admitted to this.
Carolyne says
Ariana Huffington has an interesting story. She emigrated from Greece and married a Conservative Republican Congressman. She herself claimed to be a conservative and as such appeared on many TV shows. However, after a few years and a few children, her husband decided he was gay and left her for a boyfriend. She became a liberal. I don’t know if she did that as revenge or truly changed her political thinking, but I suspect the former. Anyway a year or so ago, Huffington Post was bought by AOL. I don’t know if she has any or no say about its present editorial content.
quotha raven says
“The Muslim genocide of non-Muslims is already happening in Syria and Iraq. Islam has a long genocidal history. And if we continue to confuse the oppressors and the oppressed, the next genocide we fail to stop may be our own.”
A brilliant article, and thank you for it. I would only add that Nigeria and many, many other countries throughout the world are experiencing genocide at the hands of Muslims.
Cheers!
quotha raven
gravenimage says
Muslim privilege killed 49 people in Orlando
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Fine analysis from Daniel Greenfield. I wonder how many more Omar Mateens are out there right now, telegraphing their murderous intentions, but surrounded by those so “politically correct” that they would feel guilty saying anything?
Guest says
Every terrorist should be reported and then executed on capture. No ‘if,’ ‘ands,’ or ‘buts.’
bytheway says
Excellent article – it is exactly why islam has flourished in the UK.
common sense says
I think everyone agrees with this article. With the exception of lefty retards.
somehistory says
This is true, plainly, clearly, and finely written…and those people extending the privilege will hate and reject it.
Lately in the *news* from colleges and other organizations, people claim all of the problems in the country stem from *white privilege.* They say whites should be ashamed of being white and that something must be done to exterminate this privilege that comes automatically to white people. Of course, it is all hogwash and bologna and is causing much trouble. Some people have even called for killing whites in order to end the privilege. Nothing has been done by noted authorities to put an end to the nonsense, instead.
But this privilege being extended to moslims….just because they adhere to islam, is real and growing.
The women that have gotten away with false complaints to the police of harassment for wearing the scarf, been allowed to wear a scarf where others are not allowed to wear headgear, sued companies and gotten money and attention, etc are all examples of this privilege.
moslim men have gotten money for not doing their jobs and given special privileges at work. clock boy received rewards for taking what looked like a bomb to school to terrorize classmates and staff.
But as the article points out, the worst result is it allows terrorists to roam free and plan and obtain weapons and whatever…in plain sight, while their victims are unaware of the danger they face.
The student in CA who, it was alleged was kicked out of a study group, was known to the authorities.
The Boston murderers were known to the authorities.
It seems each time these terrorists reach their goal of killing innocent people, the news finally leaks out that they were known to the authorities and some had telegraphed their plans….and nothing was done to stop them.
It is even possible that some of these *new* converts are joining because they are already psychopaths and they want the privilege of acting on their murderous feelings.
It will only get worse. The wild beast of islam has a limited time, and the evil of its activities will only escalate until that time ends with the destruction of islam.
Alan Falk says
For the past several months, I’ve been promoting the term “Supremacists” on a variety of blog sites.
White, Black, Islamic, Christian, Jewish…. whatever…
The Problem seems to be that virtually any and every group or cult or religion has some fraction of its adherents who believe in the Supremacy of Their Beliefs and that, because of that Belief, they have the right or duty to convert or get rid of anyone or everyone who Isn’t One Of Their Group.
I suspect that this is one of the Root Causes of most of the crap going on in the world today (oh, and that can include Obama and Putin and most all of the dictators in Africa and Central and South America, North Korea, China… and on and on.)
In that sense, they’re all the same. They express the same beliefs and actions. And if the rest of us allow them to continue, we’re all screwed.
Western Canadian says
There is a rather missive difference between believing that your group possesses the truth,while others do not, and FORCING IT DOWN OTHER PEOPLES THROATS AGAINST THEIR WILL AND WISHES. Just in case you haven’t noticed.
linnte says
Daniel Greenfield I adore you! Your mind is a steel trap and that is good. Well said and shared to Facebook. Thanks!
Debi Brand says
“Muslim privilege killed 49 people in Orlando”
Indeed, last Sunday morning, and no doubt, often times before, Muhammad-obeying-and-following Manteen relished himself in our freedom of religion laws.
Debi Brand says
“Omar wasn’t radicalized by the ‘internet.’ He got his ideas from Islamic clerics who got their ideas from Islam. He was ‘radicalized’ by the holiest texts of Islam.”
Amen, my Friend.
Mateen simply tended to the basic tenets of his faith system, thus, obeyed Allah, clung fiercely to sunnah.
Carolyne says
Mateen likely entered the world radicalized. Its in the genes.
davej says
Reject all rationalizations and excuses of mental illness, homophobia, lone wolf, home grown, etc etc.
He was a practicing Muslim and the son of a practicing Muslim. Muslimism involves a lot of hatred and death threats as well as the actual murder of gays, women, infidels and even other Muslims who aren’t quite perfect enough.
Excusing him and excusing his wife is not going to cut it.
Excellent essay BTW. Should be required reading for all. Can we publish it it daily papers across the USA?
linnte says
Dave, I bet you wouldn’t offend Mr. Greenfield if you sent it to news papers. I do doubt they would print it though. And it probably needs edited, as most papers have a limit on size of letters to Editors. But do it! I email stuff from here lots.
dumbledoresarmy says
From the article – “Standing in solidarity with Muslims after Orlando makes as much sense as standing in solidarity with Klansmen after the Charleston massacre. No one should be standing in solidarity with hate groups.”
YES.
davej says
Muslim inbreeding is a scientific fact, unfortunately.
Dr Nicolai Sennels is a Danish psychologist who has studied this problem.
The result of 1400 years (50 generations) of first cousin marriages is very high rates of birth defects and a loss of at least 10 – 16 points of IQ.
Interestingly if you google Dr Sennels the top result is The American Muslim Association, accusing him of “Nazi-like propaganda” .
But if you scroll down a bit you will find this reality based piece.
Read it and weep:
http://www.newenglishreview.org/Nicolai_Sennels/Muslims_and_Westerners%3A__The_Psychological_Differences/
scherado says
I have seen the enemy. It is us.
caroleigh says
Every single damn Muslim coming into this country should be asked one question.
“DO YOU PRACTICE/APPROVE SHARIA LAW.”
If the answer is yes, shoot him
Dum Spiro says
The media will wait as short a period as it can and turn away from Orlando…
…probably to something like the one year anniversary today of the nine shooting victims inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church located in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. They’ll try to deflect the Muslim aspect of the Orlando jihad by lumping both into a tragic gun violence narrative (for which they’ll then be happy to tout some kind of gun control “solution”).
More people can be disabused from that false comparison by reading excellent articles like this Muslim privilege article by Mr. Greenfield…
— Spero
Neville J. Angove says
Emotionally, I am against discrimination against Muslims. I hate discrimination, and tarring all Muslims with the same brush seems wrong.
But intellectually, I see things differently. About 10% of Muslims are reported as to as thinking terrorist actions are justified (because Muslims are not recognized as being superior)? About 70% of Muslims think society should be governed by Sharia Law. As was shown in Paris, about 100% of Muslims were happy to shelter the ringleader of the terror attacks.
100%.
Face the cold equations!