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Hugh Fitzgerald: Just Who is in the “Perpetual Crosshairs of Bigotry”?

Aug 17, 2016 11:27 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

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After the killing of an imam and his assistant in Queens last week, the media were full of stories about Muslims, in Queens, in New York City, all over the country, apparently terrified that yet another “hate crime” had been directed at them.

The headlines all went like this:

“Dread increases for Muslims.”

“Fear among Muslims in Ozone Park.”

“Muslims decry ‘hate crime.’’

“Muslims blame Trump for ‘hate crime’.”

And the stories under the headlines painted a picture of Muslims terrified of being attacked by those hate-filled Infidels who, we are asked to believe, make the lives of ordinary Muslims so scary:

“I’m scared to walk in the street.” said one Muslim.

““We’re scared now to walk in the street,” said Gousuddin Khan, who worships at the mosque.”

“It makes all the Muslims scared,” Choudry [a Muslim resident of Ozone Park] said. “Last time someone got shot in this neighborhood that I know of was probably 2001.” This wording implies that that “someone” was a Muslim, shot “in this neighborhood” by a non-Muslim – but there is no record of this happening.

CAIR, of course, was all over the case, offering a reward and taking the occasion to report, hysterically, about “an unprecedented spike in anti-Muslim incidents nationwide since Trump’s bigoted call for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States.”

And Muslim “residents demanded authorities treat the brazen daylight shooting as a hate crime.” They did this before any suspect had been identified, certain that establishing in the public’s mind the idea that yet again “a hate crime” had been committed against Muslims could only help promote the notion that they were constantly the victims, rather than the perpetrators (as in fact they so often are), of “hate crimes.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio added his own log to the bonfire of the bigotries:

“While we do not yet know the motivation for the murders of Maulama Akonjee and Thara Uddin, we do know that our Muslim communities are in the perpetual crosshairs of bigotry.”

On the basis of what facts did the Mayor make his inflammatory remarks that fit perfectly with CAIR’s script of Muslims being terrified of “hate crimes,” because they keep claiming they are? The Mayor might have been asked to list all the attacks on Muslims that support his claim that they are in the “perpetual crosshairs of bigotry.” (Incidentally, he needs to be reminded that the number of genuine anti-Muslim attacks are far fewer than the number of anti-Semitic attacks in this country). Does the sober discussion of what is in the Qur’an and Hadith count, for Mayor de Blasio, as a “hate crime,” because all kinds of unpleasant Qur’anic quotes might alarm non-Muslims about Muslims? Does unadorned information about the texts and tenets of Islam become part of the “crosshairs of bigotry”? You know, the kind of thing you can read at Jihad Watch? I’m afraid it does.

Even if we were to accept as true all claims by Muslims about “attacks” on them, the numbers are very small. Professor Brian Levin has compiled a complete list of “anti-Muslim” attacks for the past five years, of 150.8 anti-Islamic “hate crimes” per year for a monthly average of 12.6, little more than one attack every third day, for the entire United States, with a population of several million Muslims. And what qualifies as an example of anti-Muslim bigotry? It includes not only a pig’s head thrown at a mosque, or attempted arson, but also such things as someone being yelled at once, or a letter sent to a mosque calling Islam “evil.” Not exactly Kristallnacht. We know that many well-publicized examples of supposed anti-Muslim attacks or discrimination ultimately turned out to be unsubstantiated. Consider the Muslim husband in New Jersey, Kashif Parvaiz, who claimed a group of armed men entered his house and one of them shot his wife while screaming “terrorist” (proving that the crime was prompted by hatred of Muslims) when, in reality, the husband had conspired with his mistress to kill his wife, and figured he could blame her death on a “hate crime.”

And for an example of supposed “discrimination,” take the group of hijabbed Muslim women who decided to sue a California restaurant because they were asked to vacate a table on the restaurant’s patio (so that other customers could take turns enjoying these, the most desirable tables) after 45 minutes and when they refused to do so, had to be escorted out. It turned out that the 45-minute rule was prominently posted on all the patio tables, that the women in question were politely offered alternative (non-patio) seating after the 45 minutes had expired, that the restaurant was often full of Muslim women customers, many of them hijabbed, who had never had any complaint, and had always been served without incident, and finally, that one of the restaurant’s co-owners was herself a Muslim. The restaurant is counter-suing, and the restaurant will win.

Of such trumped-up cases, that initially inculpate non-Muslims – for everything from discrimination to murder – is much of the Muslim victimhood narrative fashioned. But even when the truth comes out, the public often remembers only the initial charges and pays less attention to the subsequent correction of the record. CAIR well knows that, as Mark Twain said, “a Lie can go half-way round the world, while the Truth is still putting on its shoes.”

Now how many cases in this country of the killing of non-Muslims by Muslims, beginning with the attack of 9/11/2001, do we know about? Here’s a short list of the best-known examples: the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, Fort Hood, San Bernardino, the Pulse nightclub, the Boston Marathon. But there are dozens more of smaller scope — such as the Chattanooga and Little Rock attacks on Navy recruitment and reserve centers — and hundreds more if we were to include all the attacks that were planned but foiled before they could take place. And the non-Muslim victims so far run into the thousands.

How many Muslims, do you think, have been killed for being Muslims, by non-Muslims, in this country, up to last week? 300? 150? 100? 25? 5? None? The correct answer is “None.” In all this time – since 2001 — there has not been a single proven case of a Muslim being killed by a non-Muslim because he was a Muslim. (I am not including the case of the Sikh man who was murdered, presumably because he was mistaken for a Muslim.) The man who shot three Muslims in North Carolina did so, the evidence showed, because of a long-simmering feud over parking spaces. After all the “dread” and “fear” reported among Muslims, all the “I feel scared” and “we feel scared” stories, after Mayor de Blasio’s insistence that Muslims are “in the perpetual crosshairs of bigotry,” an unwary reader could be forgiven for thinking many Muslims must have been enduring a wave of terror in this country to have felt all this “fear” and “dread.” But if Oscar Morell turns out to have been the killer, and if he did kill the imam and his assistant because they were Muslims, this will have been the first such case, rather than one in a long line of such cases.

Now perhaps some intrepid journalist will dare to ask the Mayor, in public, to tell us how many Muslims he thinks have been killed in this country in “hate crimes,” where all Muslims are supposedly in the “perpetual crosshairs of bigotry.” The Mayor almost certainly will not know the right answer, and when he haltingly tries to supply some guesstimate, it can be held up for examination and, when the inquiring journalist supplies the correct answer, ridicule. And a follow-up question for him: how many terrorist attacks by Muslims on non-Muslims have there been in this country, or in Western Europe. Here he will stumble again. There is no need to be gentle with Mayor Bill de Blasio. He deserves what he gets. If he can’t be shamed, then let him be mocked, into sense.

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 11:37 am

    Hate Crime ???
    Why are the pro-Hillary members of Congress not holding an angry Sit-In in support of gun control? Where is Obama’s furious rhetoric against GUNS.

    This after all is only about GUNS, isn’t it.

    • Jay Boo says

      Aug 17, 2016 at 11:39 am

      We must find the gun that did this crime and lock it up.

      • WorkingClassPost says

        Aug 17, 2016 at 1:36 pm

        Aha, gunophobia.

        We’d be better to have some dialogue with it, and check it’s mental health, maybe it was mistreated by a previous owner.

  2. Rob says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 11:46 am

    Gunner Lee Rigby in the UK realised, but too late, how dangerous it is to walk the streets.
    The people killed in Orlando weren’t on the street at all, but that did no good.

  3. mohamonator says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 11:47 am

    Wanna bet that the perp was a recent convert, who had some doctrinal dispute with the imam, perhaps for not being enough of a hardliner? Of course, we are not likely to hear any of this in the MSM.

  4. Isabellathecrusader says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 11:49 am

    You know, its interesting how we hear about Muslims fearing for their lives in post Apocalyptic America, but we NEVER hear about them leaving the country out of that fear. Nope, instead they are bringing in Mom and Pop and all the relatives they scrounge up. And our president is too. Yeah, in fact, they’re not fearful. Not at all.

    • Kay says

      Aug 17, 2016 at 11:55 am

      Good point!

      As an example, I NEVER desired to travel in a M-majority country. Everywhere but!
      That it seems inescapable that they continue coming here and becoming more and more vocal about their ways (e.g. no Ms I previously knew wore hijab) is a nightmare.

  5. JSteering says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 11:51 am

    There is one simple question to be asked of Muslims and others crying “Islamophobia” and pushing the victim narrative: why would any rational being in the non-Muslim world NOT be angry, suspicious, and fearful of a religion whose followers believe they are doing their religious duty by slamming airliners into buildings and murdering 3000 people, cutting the throats of 85-year-old priests, or crushing babies in strollers with trucks? Who are the real victims here?

  6. Kay says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 11:51 am

    Good article. I wish everyone would read it. I have many compassionate and intelligent friends who blindly believe the unfounded charge of rising bigotry and violence directed against Mohammedens.

    Then, they hear of gun control and/or police “violence” and their fear is further misdirected . . . against our own society.

    • KnowThyEnemy says

      Aug 17, 2016 at 2:47 pm

      Your friends may be compassionate but ‘intelligent’ they are NOT! If they were, they would not fall for Muslim’s perpetual victimhood nor would they let themselves be played like pawns by the mainstream media.

      Intelligent people consider what all parties have to say and then use their brain before concluding what the truth most likely is, and still keep their minds open for anything they might not have come across. They don’t just gobble down MSM’s bullsh*t and then close-mindedly continue to believe only what they have been told, as most of the liberals, progressives, and even some conservative/republicans do!

  7. Adrian says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 11:54 am

    Time to retire the knee-jerk label “hate”…

    Just like calling your opponent “fascist” has essentially become meaningless, so too with the all-too-common “hate” smear to claim special victimhood…

    There are more important crises going on.

    • WorkingClassPost says

      Aug 17, 2016 at 1:41 pm

      I wonder if this devaluing of the word is deliberate, so that people won’t be so shocked when they learn that the koran actually preaches hate against non muslims.

  8. Tommy says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 11:55 am

    Remember all police are racist and all muslims are angels

  9. Angemon says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 12:01 pm

    “It makes all the Muslims scared,” Choudry [a Muslim resident of Ozone Park] said.

    Oh, those poor, little snowflakes, all thinking, acting and feeling the same way!

  10. Schrödinger says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    There are Lies, Damned Lies and Islam.

    And that brilliant wordsmith Mark Twain (through no fault of his own in never envisioning the Internet nor full speed and span of modern day communications) was at best only half right in that lies – particularly muslims and their pernicious, relentless mendacity known as Taquiya – today circumvent and strangle the globe multiple times while plain, noble truth still struggles being heard.

    • DefenderofIslm says

      Aug 17, 2016 at 11:37 pm

      Mark Twain never put Islam in that qoute.

      • Schrödinger says

        Aug 19, 2016 at 4:21 pm

        True, Twain never did allude to islam in that well known expression. However I did.

        I did, paraphrasing it to help emphasise that islam is ONE BIG LIE, a composite of indefensible falsehoods, all premised upon a blatant, cruel, monstrous original deceit. I’m no Mark Twain, however I fully share his revulsion of islam.

        Humans must be inspired by compassion, not only for our own species but all sentient creatures. Freedom, happiness and true understanding ought be embraced as our highest ideals. And understanding is best attained by unhindered, rational inquiry. Faith ought always by informed and tempered both by the totality of our experience and full freedom of inquiry. However human freedom and dignity also has it’s price — it must be valued and defended.

        Muslims (islamic apologists alike), expose your beliefs to rational criticism, to full and free inquiry! Yet nothing’s more threatening, certainly not to muslims themselves. Freedom in all it’s forms is simply anathema to islam, akin to the symbol of the cross to Dracula. It strikes terror into the hearts of every believing muslim! — not just violent jihadis. All would rather trade it away, even kill and fight to the death in exchange for islam’s supremacist delusions and vulgar anticipated rewards — both of this world and it’s imaginary afterlife. It instead depends upon hatred, deceit, dissimulation, coercion, compulsion, violation, theft, violence and terror. It’s the only religion thus dependant for it’s establishment, expansion, compliance with it’s dogma and dictates, and it’s continued existence. The moment muslims relent in this regard is the beginning of the end for islam. The moment they relinquish these stratagems is the moment islam ceases being islam. All adult muslims comprehend this. It is the worst totalitarianism ever.

        It’s true Christianity threatens non believers with punishment in an eternal afterlife — something they will disagree with, even deplore. However any such fate is up to the judgment of the Christian God. Therefore whether Christian or otherwise, one is free to believe and live as they choose in this life. Some Christians such as 7th Day Adventists actually reject the notion of any eternal damnation, simply maintaining death is final for non Christians, a far preferable belief in my opinion. The Christian religion also has many positive attributes — not just the zero sum “benefits” muslims seek for their “investment” in islam. Hinduism has it’s caste system, or vestiges thereof. However it has no notion of any religious obligation to impose itself upon the entire world. Many Hindus are concluding caste is not only incompatible with modernity but never part of the original Vedic scriptures. Shorn of caste, Hinduism is arguably one of the better religions. Judaism is not a proselytising religion and no threat to anyone — including muslims.

        Only islam claims the unequivocal religious obligation to both deceptively and violently impose it’s tyranny upon the entire world. For this reason it must be treated very differently to all other religions. Every “defender of islam” must be challenged, and islam opposed and exposed for what it is and put into retreat from every non muslim land. Alliances must be formed between all non muslims to achieve this end. Islam and it’s ideology is the enemy of the entire world (including muslims).

        Religious or otherwise, any ideology so reliant upon intolerance, punishment, fear and abhorrent zero sum “rewards”, anything trashing all truth to that end alone cannot itself be fully tolerated. And the more evil the ideology, the bigger the lie needed to hide that ugly truth. None is larger than the grotesque claim that “islam is a religion of peace”.

        By all means be compassionate to muslims — but help destroy the lie that IS islam!

  11. Charli Main says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    Christians have been in the cross hairs of Muslim bigotry for the last 1400 years. Muslims are afraid ???
    Great news. I hope that they are all living in terror like the Christians of the Middle East are currently doing in their ancestral homelands.

  12. Islamorefugee says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 1:57 pm

    ‘Strike terror in their hearts’ :this is what the ‘believers’ book contains.

  13. marina says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 2:19 pm

    Muslims are crying and screaming out loud when one of their own is killed. But when their co-religionists butcher hundreds of non muslims then their silence is deafening.

    They think all these infidels are inferior to them.

  14. Crusades Were Right! says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 2:22 pm

    “The American infidel dogs who persecute us Muslims have reduced my whole family to a terrified, quivering wreck! Imagine what they will be like when our plane arrives there!”
    ; ¬)

  15. JawsV says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 2:42 pm

    I want to know who shot the imam. What’s taking so long????

    • WorkingClassPost says

      Aug 17, 2016 at 2:53 pm

      Yes, this story’s gone strangely quiet.

      By now we’d expect to hear all about the victims in every news broadcast, so what’s to hide?

      Was the imam preaching tolerance so he was plugged by a devout muzzie?

      Or could it have been a homophobic muslim, if he had a ‘special’ relationship with his assistant?

      What about money, maybe they’d been caught pocketing the donations?

      So many angles, but the silence suggests that islam won’t come out of it very well.

  16. jewdog says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    In the old days, accusing someone of being a communist was a popular insult, but now it’s racist. As to the facts? You want facts and statistics? All you’ll get here, as Mark Twain might have put it, will be lies, damn lies and damn few statistics.

  17. overman says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 3:48 pm

    “spike in anti-Muslim incidents”

    l saw this plastered across the screen on CNN NEWS today, while the interviewer was asking a young chinese woman who was in full-pity mode [brainwashed as usual], how much anti-muslim hate existed in the ozone area where these muslims were shot – you can guess the answer.

    Even though the shooter is apparrently hispanic, the story doesn’t add up. He denies doing it, but a gun and clothes were found in his apartment.
    He left $1000 at the crime scene [imams money].
    No criminal record to speak of in 35 years [except minor canabbis charge].
    His brother says he has never been violent, and had no grudge against muslims.
    The cops think it was a paid Hit.

    Perhaps a Clinton plant. Did a muslim pay him to do this, in order to raise anti-Trump sentiment, and also raise the issue of anti-muslim ‘hate-crimes’ at the same time [two birds with one stone]. Very auspicious timing if you ask me.
    lt’s all very fishy at the moment.

    “Morel, from the borough of Brooklyn, appeared calm and spoke little during his brief appearance. He agreed that surveillance video showed him at the scene of the murders earlier on Saturday, but denied being the killer.”

  18. overman says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 3:50 pm

    Another Mark Twain quote:

    “That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters”

  19. Norger says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 4:29 pm

    And, if this turns out to be an anti-Muslim hate crime, for those keeping score at home, the NYC death toll since 9/11 now stands at: Jihadists–2606, Islamophobes–2.

    Total jihad terrorist murde plots foiled in NYC since 9/11–over a dozen, total Islamophobic murder plots foiled–0

    Total casualties (all physical injuries) in NYC since 9/11–Jihadis have inflicted over 10,000; Islamophobes–2.

    Who is in whose “crosshairs” here?

  20. linnte says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 6:42 pm

    Well good that they are scared! The West is terrified of Islamic terrorists. Turn about is fair play.

  21. Lynne says

    Aug 17, 2016 at 9:07 pm

    Where is the sympathy for the victims?

    • linnte says

      Aug 17, 2016 at 9:31 pm

      Sorry. No sympathy here. And no I don’t feel “unChristian” about not having sympathy either. Not when every every bone in my body screams Islam must be eradicated in the West. Lynne, we are at WAR with Islam. War. Islam is our enemy.

      • Champ says

        Aug 17, 2016 at 11:45 pm

        I wholly agree, Linnte!

        • linnte says

          Aug 18, 2016 at 10:13 am

          Glad you do! And we will win this war.

  22. Gee says

    Aug 18, 2016 at 8:55 am

    Islamofascists commit more hate crimes per capita than any other group in the US. Their main target are Jews.

    The Islamofascists commit more violent hate crimes against Jews than all their phony ‘Islamophobic hate crimes’ combined

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