The Sunday New York Times for September 18 carried a story by Eric Lichtblau about a “study” by “researchers” at the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at the San Bernardino campus of California State University, purporting to show that “hate crimes against US Muslims are not just “on the rise” but have “soared to their highest levels since the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.” While the FBI’s hate-crime statistics are not going to be released until November, data from this center, which is compiled from police reports, suggest that “hate crimes” against Muslims have risen 78% in one year. Some “scholars” of the subject believe that the anti-Muslim animus cannot be linked to the attacks all over the place, in Europe and America, by Muslim terrorists, nor to the attacks carried out in the Middle East – in Syria, Iraq, and Libya – by members of the Islamic State, nor to the aggressive, often criminal, behavior, of so many Muslim migrants in Europe, with the constant stream of news about gang rapes, mob violence, property crimes large and small. No, it’s all the fault of some remarks of Donald Trump about the need to keep out, or at least vet more thoroughly, Muslim migrants. It’s not what Muslims do, it’s not what anyone can read in the Qur’an and Hadith, it’s what people like Trump say that supposedly explains the rise in these “hate crimes” against Muslims.
The Times article never mentions the scandal surrounding reports of “hate crimes” against Muslims, which is that more than a few such reports have later turned out to be false. And even were we to accept at face value every one of those claimed to be an anti-Muslim “hate crime,” for 2015 it amounts to 260, that is, five a week, less than one a day, in a country with 325 million people. Does this really constitute a “soaring” rate? And the evidence suggests that we have a right to be doubtful about some of those counted as “hate crimes.”
Here are a few examples: a fire supposedly set at a Texas Islamic Center in February 2015 turned out to have been set near the mosque, by a homeless man, Quba Ferguson, just trying to keep warm. In New Jersey, a Muslim man, Kashif Parvaiz, exploited the willingness of people to believe that there is murderous and rampant Islamophobia, claiming that an anti-Muslim killer had shot his wife in front of their son, screaming “terrorist” as he did so. It turned out that the man’s mistress was the killer, put up to it by him so he could rid himself of his wife and marry her. Nothing “anti-Islamic” about it.
Qur’ans were burned at an Islamic Center, and the Center’s imam, calling for restrictions on “free speech” (meaning anti-Islam speech), was joined by the media, all in a frenzied state about this supposed “hate crime.” Eventually it turned out that the book-burner was one Ali Hassan Al-Assadi, a Muslim angry with people at the local mosques, who said he burned the Qur’ans in retribution.
Want more? There’s the University of Texas Muslimah who claimed that “a gunman followed her to the campus and threatened her.” She finally admitted to making up the whole story.
Or yet another story of mosque vandalism, this time in Fresno where, after CAIR went wild with claims of yet another “hate crimes,” it turned out to have been prompted by a private grievance by one Asiuf Mohammad Khan against a Muslim woman and her family.
Google away, and you’ll find many more examples of crimes first reported as anti-Muslim “hate crimes” that turn out to have been the work of Muslims, or of non-Muslims whose motive had nothing to do with Islam.
And sometimes the original false story of a “hate crime” refuses to die, and for many becomes the accepted version of what happened, even if the investigators long ago concluded otherwise.
There was, most notably, the killing of three young Muslims in Chapel Hill, by a neighbor in the same apartment complex. This was immediately reported as a “hate crime.” But the man had a long history of being agitated about parking spaces, and no history at all of being anti-Muslim. His Internet postings showed, rather, antipathy to Christianity. As to the parking spaces, he had fought with both Muslim and non-Muslim neighbors over who could park where.
But because the three people Craig Hicks killed were Muslims, at the time of the murders Muslims immediately swung into action, declaring that of course Hicks’s motive could only have been a deep-seated hatred of Muslims. Nihad Awad of CAIR was quick off the mark: “Based on the brutal nature of the crime, the past anti-religion [but they were all anti-Christian!] statements of the alleged perpetrator, the religious attire of two of the victims, and the rising anti-Muslim rhetoric in American society, we urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to quickly address speculation of a possible bias motive in this case.” Linda Sarsour, a well-known Muslim activist, insisted that the murders sent “a message to other young people in the Muslim community that the fear [of anti-Muslim hate crime] is valid.” There was much more in this vein from various Muslim activists, not one of whom could point to a single anti-Muslim statement or act by Craig Hicks. But if Muslims were killed, who cared if it was all about a parking space? It was about a parking space for Muslims. And that made it about Islam.
What everyone who came into contact with Craig Hicks knew was that he was very angry, but what he was very angry about was not Islam but the quality of life at his apartment house. And what enraged him – the neighbor from hell – were such commonplace problems as too much noise coming from other apartments. One of the Muslim survivors said that the first complaint they ever had from Hicks was over the level of noise he and his friends made while they were playing “Risk”: “You were too loud, you woke up my wife.” But what really exercised Hicks were disputes over parking. Sometimes other residents would have more visitors than they had visitors’ permits for; sometimes those visitors, or the residents themselves, parked in places not designated for them. All of this was fodder for the lunatic Hicks. But he was as incensed with non-Muslims over parking problems as he was with Muslims.
Hicks’ wife of seven years testified: “I can say with absolute belief that this incident had nothing to do with religion of the victims, but it was related to a longstanding parking dispute that my husband had with the neighbors.” Not once in their seven years of marriage had Hicks ever mentioned any hatred of Muslims. But about parking spaces, he had plenty to say. And U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand was equally certain: “The events of yesterday are not part of a targeting campaign against Muslims in North Carolina…..there was no information this is part of an organized event against Muslims.”
Yet, in the just-published story in the New York Times, Eric Lichtblau includes this:
The statistics almost certainly understate the extent of the problem [of anti-Muslim “hate crimes”], researchers say, because victims are often reluctant to report attacks for fear of inflaming community tensions, and because it is sometimes difficult for investigators to establish that religious, ethnic or racial hatred was a cause.
In the killing last year of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C., for instance, the authorities did not bring hate crime charges against a neighbor who is charged with murdering them, despite calls from Muslims who said there were religious overtones to the violence. The police said that a parking dispute, not bigotry, may have led to the killings.
Why does he report with such bland certainty that the “statistics understate the extent of the problem” when we have so many cases of Muslims falsely reporting “hate crimes” (e.g., a man followed and threatened me, a man set fire to our mosque, a man burned a stack of Qur’ans, a man called my wife a “terrorist” and shot her, a woman mocked my hijab) for various reasons, and when we know that CAIR encourages such reporting and makes an enormous fuss over every case? Are there really examples of victims being “reluctant to report attacks”? Where does this information come from? All the evidence goes the other way. CAIR doesn’t fear “inflaming community tensions,” but wants to exaggerate the level of anti-Muslim hate crimes; it positively relishes every “hate-crime” it can add to its growing portfolio of victimhood.
In the next paragraph, Lichtblau appears to suggest that there was something wrong when the “authorities did not bring hate crime charges against” the killer in Chapel Hill. Note Lichtblau’s use of “for instance,” which means that he thinks the Chapel Hill killings were an example (a “for instance”) of a police department not bringing “hate crime” charges because “it is sometimes difficult for investigators to establish that religious, ethnic or racial hatred was a cause.”
But this was an absolutely clear case. Yet Lichtblau writes that “a parking dispute, not bigotry, may have led to the killings.” “May”? No, a parking dispute did lead to the killings. That was what the police investigation concluded. Why, at this point, does he still cast doubt by writing “may”? There was no evidence, it needs to be repeated, of any anti-Muslim feeling by Craig Hicks. He did, online, express animus toward Christianity. About Islam he expressed no antipathy. Quite the contrary: he wrote that “knowing several dozen Muslims, I’d prefer them to most Christians.” His parking space rage was directed at Muslims and non-Muslims alike, as neighbors testified, a source of constant disputes and agitation.
Eric Lichtblau has no reservations about the reporting of anti-Muslim hate crimes, or rather, he sees under-reporting where others, actually looking at the claims made initially about hate crimes, might conclude there has been too quick a willingness to label something a “hate crime.” He ignores the role that CAIR plays in egging Muslims on to report these “hate-crimes.” Naturally some of them will conclude that fabricating such crimes must help the cause of Islam. Lichtblau might at least have acknowledged that there have been cases where Muslims have falsely reported “hate-crimes” and given his readers a dozen examples.
And he is flatly wrong to hint that the Chapel Hill Police were not able to bring a “hate crime” charge against Hicks only because it was “difficult for investigators to establish that” motive. It was not “difficult,” but “impossible,” because there was not the slightest evidence to support such a charge.
What was it that prevented Eric Lichtblau from telling the truth about the Chapel Hill case? He ought to have written:
“The statistics on hate-crimes against Muslims remain controversial, for each year there are a number of such charges that have then turned out to be false. Take, for example, the murders of three Muslims in Chapel Hill. Despite all the evidence that Craig Hicks was consumed with anger about a number of things, about parking spaces and noise, and Islam was never one of them. Yet CAIR and many Muslims continue to insist that the Chapel Hill murders were motivated by anti-Muslim hate, and no amount of evidence that something else explains his rage will, it seems, convince them.”
That’s how Eric Lichtblau might have injected a salutary note of skepticism about Muslim reports on “hate crimes.” He chose not to. And that is a pity, not just for those who are trying to understand all the ways and means of the Stealth Jihad, but also for Eric Lichtblau himself, who in this case did not do what the New York Times claims it always does — that is, to publish all the news that’s fit to print.
Coda: It’s been ten days since Eric Lichtblau published his piece about the “under-reporting” of attacks on Muslims. How many attacks on Muslims by non-Muslims in this country have there been in that time? None. And how many attacks on non-Muslims by Muslims have there been in the same time? Oh, there was Ahmad Khan Rahani, who planted bombs in New York and New Jersey. He studied at a pro-Taliban seminary in Pakistan; he made reference to ISIS in his journal. His motives are still being investigated. And there was a Somali man who stabbed ten people at the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota. His motives are still unclear, but there’s been an awful lot of racial tension, according to the Associated Press, and “several Somalis said they saw pickups driving through predominantly Somali neighborhoods the night after the attack, waving confederate flags and honking.” So as of now the most likely explanation, according to authorities, is that Dahir Ahmed Adan was getting even for a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest that hasn’t yet been pulled down from its plinth in Pickpocket Woods, South Carolina (courthouse, cannon, a hero on a horse). And there was Arcan Cetin, a Turkish Muslim who murdered five people at a Macy’s store in the Cascade Mall in Washington State, and posted at Tumblr “Say SubhanAllah” (Glory to Allah)” and praised al-Baghdadi and Khamenei. But the police are still “no closer to determining the motive.” And there was the Muslim, Amjad Hussein, who made death threats to a SUNY professor, but no one as yet can figure out why.
And as for under-reporting on a monumental scale, it is only thanks to a leak that we all learned, a few days ago, that in one year the FBI had 7,712 “terrorist encounters.” None of them were reported to the American public until now. How many attacks by Muslims have been foiled, all over the Western world, that we will never hear about? Eric Lichtblau, please take note.

Moses says
The LAME steam media always sticking up for Islam even if it means going against their people.
BC says
5 ‘crimes’ (probably calling names) in 2014 and 10 in 2106 my god that is 100% rise!!! Muslims must be in fear of their lives, but note they still go on hating non Muslims.
Not a single Muslim has been seriously harmed as far as I know, but of course ‘insulting Islam or the ‘prophet’ counts as a hate crime. On the other hand many especially Jews have been injured or killed, what about those hate crimes NYT?
jim mayer says
A Turkish Muslim arrested in WashState. What a shock. The MSM just screamed,”DARN IT!!” in unison. They were rooting for a Latino murderer. As a bonus, he shared on twitter whom we know Muslims want for Prez, HRC. So, let’s see now…
The Nice Attack Was by a Muslim
The Paris Attacks were by Muslims
The Shoe Bomber Was By a Muslim
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The Underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U.SS Cole Bombers were Muslims
The Madrid train bombers were Muslims
The Charlie Hebdo attacks were Muslims
The SanBernadino Attacks Were Muslims
The Chattanooga Massacre was a Muslim
The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
The Davao Philippines Attack Were Muslim
The Orlando Night Club Attack was Muslim
The Minnesota Mall stabbings was a Muslim
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
The Moscow Theatre attackers were Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
The Beheading of French priest was a Muslim
The AnkaraAirportTurkey Attack were Muslims
The Washington Beltway Snipers were Muslim
The Pan-Am Flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Take Over were- Muslims
The AirFrance Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
The BattaMeena Pakistan Attacks were Muslims
The Beirut U.S Embassy bombers were Muslims
The Libyan U.S Embassy Attack was by Muslims
The Buenos Aires suicide bombers were Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
The Kenyan U.S Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims
The Besian Russian School attackers were Muslims
The 2 Bombings in New York, New Jersey – Muslims
The First World Trade Center bombers were Muslims
The Brussels Airport Suicice Bombings were Muslims
The Beheading of journalist Daniel Pearl was Muslims
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
The Bombay & Mumbai Indian Attackers were Muslims
The Narcissist ColinKaepernick & girl friend are Muslims
The WashingtonStateMall Shooting Murders was Muslim
The Sept 11, 2001,19Arab Airline Hijackers were Muslims
The Oklahoma beheading of a grandmother was a Muslim
The Pirates Off Barbary Coast in Jefferson’s time- Muslims
The Daily Inhumane acts by the Religion of peace- Muslims
(A small accounting of contributions to humanity by Muslims)
People who live & let live without slaughtering one another:
Hindus living with Jews = No Problem
Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem
Baha’is Living with Jews = No Problem
Jews Living with Atheists = No Problem
Hindus living with Baha’is = No Problem
Christians living with Jews = No Problem
Jews Living with Buddhists = No Problem
Buddhists Living with Sikhs = No Problem
Shintos Living With Atheists = No Problem
Hindus living with Christians = No Problem
Buddhists Living with Hindus = No Problem
Baha’is Living with Christians = No Problem
Christians Living with Shintos = No Problem
Buddhists Living With Shintos = No Problem
Atheists Lving With Buddhists = No Problem
Confusians Living with Hindus = No Problem
Confucians Living with Baha’is = No Problem
Shintos Lving With Confucians = No Problem
Atheists Living with Confucians = No Problem
Where the Poop Always Hits the Fan:
Muslims living with Jews = Problem
Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem
Muslims living with Hindus =Problem
Muslims living with Baha’is = Problem
Muslims living with Shintos = Problem
Muslims living with Atheists = Problem
Muslims living with Christians = Problem
Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem
Muslims living with other Muslims=Problem
Muslim Orgs accepting applications for new members:
ISIS: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Ansaru AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Hamas: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Taliban: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Badr : AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Nusra: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Qaeda: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Hezbollah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
AbuSayyaf: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
BokoHaram: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Islamic Jihad: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
LashkareTaiba AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
JemaahIslamiya AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
PalestineLiberOrg AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
MuslimBrotherhood AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
AbdullahAzzamBrigs AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
But watch out for all those Islamophobic TERROR ORGANIZATIONS!
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Geoffrey Bastin says
What a fine list and I will save a copy for future reference. Well done and keep up the good work.
Dan says
Stop beating around the bush and just make your point already, will you? (Sarc)
Kolga says
Don’t forget us Aussies.
They’re gang raping and killing us too, down here.
Skaf rape gang.
Lindt Cafe murders.
Recent tourist murder.
Police accountant slaughtered.
The list goes on.
jihad3tracker says
EXCELLENT, JIM —- YOUR WORK AND AESTHETIC ARRANGEMENT IS MUCHLY APPRECIATED BY ANCIENT OLD ME. Here is an idea which just popped into my mind as I saw how superbly organized those facts are. Maybe, when spare time coalesces on your (or any Jihad Watch reader’s) calendar:
A PORTRAIT OF MUHAMMAD COULD BE MADE FROM SEGMENTS OF THOSE SEQUENTIAL “BLOCKS”. For example, rows of 3 or 4 to render eyebrows and eyes, many of the half-bell citatations — with their mirror image reversal — to form a neck, and twisted by a graphic app feature for his turban. AND SO ON — USE CREATIVITY.
One cautionary, though: begin with the biggest blank JPG field possible — newer software for such work should be able to offer about 5,000 pixels on the long dimension.
THEN SEND WHAT WE COME UP WITH TO ROBERT HERE, AND HE CAN FORWARD THEM TO PAMELA GELLER, the most courageous civilian in America, risking her life to pushback against Islamic intimidation (the Garland Texas cartoon contest in early May 2015). She can choose a grand prize winner and two runners-up.
GET THOSE COUNTER-JIHAD TYPING FINGERS IN MOTION ! !
Myrtle Linder says
The Word Of GOD warns us of this very thing in 2 Timothy 3:1-13 that this will happen and it tells us what to do about it is verses 14-17 in the same chapter!!
mortimer says
This is what Mohammed did with words in Mecca and later with terrorism in Yathrib. Always, he and his Muslim gangsters were the victims. Islam Melodrama 101 portrays Muslims as victims before they make a power grab.
These technique are called JIHAD OF THE TONGUE and JIHAD OF THE PEN.
Kay says
Really? They have those things, jihad of the tongue and pen?
All I know is I’m sick of it– the crimes AND the simpering politicians and media and “progressives” who apparently by the comments they make are seeing an alternate reality. It also hurts to see/hear the alternate meanings of words that seem to be destroying our language– and trust in our society along with it. Journalism and its ability to inform have heretofore seemed to me so honorable . . .
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes. Those are actual technical terms.
There is also “jihad of the purse”, which involves the use of money to advance Islam, whether by bribing certain persons to convert, or corrupting infidel politicians, or financing jihad.
jihad3tracker says
AH, YES — THOSE AWFUL HATE CRIMES OUR PLANET IS PLAGUED WITH.
I am sure we all agree that they should be condemned by every human of decent intent, and we must know who commits the overwhelming predominance of them, right ?
Here is a website keeping track of how many have happened: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com. The current total is 29,310. And can you guess the “faith” of persons doing such evil ?
NOT CHRISTIANITY, NOT JUDAISM, NOT HINDUISM, NOT BUDDHISM, NOT EVEN PRIMITIVE VOODOO.
****************** ISLAM IS THE PERPETRATOR *********************
But you already knew that — being familiar with the life of sick sociopath Muhammad and bloodthirsty Allah.
SO, WHEN TALKING WITH OR WRITING TO LEFTISTS, and pushing back against their privilege-guilt tears, BE SURE TO SHIFT THAT DIALOGUE INTO SIMPLE REALITY.
Keith says
Not always easy to push the dislogue into simple reality as the leftists are usually so far from detached from reality that they can not see the wood for the trees and they actually believe their own lies.
zub says
78% over what sample size? It’s so easy to distort the truth with statistics.
Kay says
I guess these accusations (of Islamophobia) are just a way to ease in blasphemy laws and to let Mohammeden crimes go undeterred and to keep the rest of us from comparing notes and banding together. My hunch is that many non-Muslims have suffered in silence rather than inflame tensions.
dumbledoresarmy says
You wrote – “My hunch is that many non-Muslims have suffered in silence rather than inflame tensions.”
Or, worse, the authorities including police actively refused to investigate and prosecute Muslims for actual *crimes*, because of the fear of being seen as ‘racist’ or ‘Islamophobic’; most awful recent example, the coverup of the Muslim sex gangs that were – and still are – preying upon Infidel girls (many of them very much underaged) in the UK. A member of the British counter-jihad resistance wrote up a massive and damning report about it, entitled “Easy Meat”.
Dreadnaught says
As ever, Fitzgerald had produced a well-written article that accurately describes the view from street level that MSM on both sides of the Atlantic dare not publish.
Please keep up your brave and high standards of journalism. Thank you,
citycat says
First impressions gleamed from the media may stick in the mind.
Islam’s first sperm in virgin infidel lands is the start of the false first impressions in virgin infidel lands. You know how they like to rape virgins. You infidel are a virgin to be raped by Muslims in thought word and deed by a dreamnightmare.
Enjoy oh blind infidel.
Muslims know the truth and lies of Islam’s forthing.
Some infidels buy the Islamic lie. I don’t know how much they pay for it, but it seems to costing a lot.
So the infidels that know the truth of Islam are traitors or anti-jihadists or lazy ostriches.
The apathy of the infidel does not help against the invasion of Islam.
Cy Halothrin says
Ah yes, those poor persecuted Jihadis, the victims of discrimination. Would you believe that in some countries, it’s against the law to molest children or behead gays? The white racists have even made it illegal to honor-kill your daughter or carry a suicide vest on board an airplane!
Muslims should not take this lying down! It’s time to organize a new movement:
“Terrorist Lives Matter”
Les says
Lichtbrau is one in a long list of democrat liberals like Soros, Hussein, Hellary etc etc etc who hate Christians and hate America and they are glad to use these Muslime animals to do their satanic work. Liberals are no different than Mohammed and all the dictators in the Middle East who use these Muslime animals to do their dirty work.
Unfortunately ISIS is now out of control and just wait until Iran gets the nuke, not only will Rome burn but so will the whole world and you can thank liberals and democrats for unleashing hell.
particolor says
I get the feeling someone’s getting a Heap of Clams from an Oil Producing Country ??
David says
Hello Hugh ( The writer of this article)
You really need to write two articles when they get this big. Personally I only read 4 paragraphs and yawned and went to the next article after that. How about a readers digest version of what you want to say. Of course, you can write a article so long that only 1 tenth of the readers will read if your lucky.
Have a nice day!
David
Laura says
Seems to me, it’s your attention span that needs attention, rather than Hugh’s writing skills needing criticism! Read perfectly fine to me! Excellent article, Mr. Hugh!
duh Swami says
You must have a lot of spare time…
Greyhound Fancier says
Keep up the good work!
Jack Diamond says
Yes, where is that Weekly Reader version of Jihad Watch? You know, for children…of any age.
Mirren10 says
”You really need to write two articles when they get this big. Personally I only read 4 paragraphs and yawned and went to the next article after that. How about a readers digest version of what you want to say.”
How about you stick to Noddy and Big Ears in Toyland ? That would be at your level. This site is for intelligent, literate adults.
Paul Clark says
It seems the anarchist, democrats, BLM and other black racist political hate groups have learned well the demonic tactics of Islam and the atheist Communists from which many of these hate groups have derived. They all lie well which is evident in the writings and communications of their media cohorts. They will continue to lie and blame others for their incompetence. Obama and Hillary have done so for years. Thank God we have people Hugh Fitzgerald that expose their lies.
Dov Berrol says
In the spirit of the Islamic doctrines of “taquiya” and “war is deceipt”, Mohammedans are the biggest revisionists of history on the planet. Whether it is ancient history, or the retelling of an event that happened an hour ago, Muslims will always redesign the narrative to their benefit in the war against non-Muslims.
dumbledoresarmy says
Their cult transforms them into “people of the lie”. (Ever read M Scott Peck’s book about evil, “People of the Lie”? He argues that one of *the* indicators of truly inveterate, wilful evil is lying; not just occasional lying, but a persistent pattern of deceit of every kind, lying to the self and to others). The other marker of Islam, par excellence, is what someone called Harry Frankfurt calls, bluntly, “bullsh*t” – see his book on the subject, entitled “On Bullshit”, for more; and an explanation on how it differs from what we westerners call lying. (The great journalist Martha Gellhorn, in her article “The Arabs of Palestine”, published in 1960, encountered this all the time in her conversations with the the Arabs who are now called ‘palestinians’; it drove her bananas, and she came up with her own word for it – she called it “madhattery”).
The Quran, the Hadiths and the Sira are full of examples of both; that is, of outright lies of every variety, and also pure madhattery or BS. Which is I think why normal, sane non-Muslims, whether western or non-western, usually find *reading* these texts a wearisome and even mind-bending experience.
I think it might be possible to argue that the Islamic foundation texts are not the way they are because of innocent ignorance and/ or innocent literary incompetence on the part of those who created them; rather, they are the way they are because they are *meant* to be that way, the deliberate intent is to mess with the head – and the emotions, and the conscience – of the reader. They are antihuman, antireason, antimoral.
Long, long ago, the Jewish philosopher Maimonides noticed and remarked upon the outright antirational / irrational/ nonrational character of Islam and of Islam’s ‘god’.
You might find this article to be of interest, on the subject of Muslim fictions, BS, nonsense-and-lies, madhattery:
http://www.meforum.org/3262/palestinian-history-nonsense
The Rhetoric of Nonsense Fabricating Palestinian History
(One may profitably read this account as a case study of something that happens *wherever* there are Muslims engaging in aggression against non-Muslims).
The author of the article made use of Frankfurt’s theories re. ‘bullsh*t’.
Here is perhaps the most important section of the article:
“…A useful avenue of investigation is to consider Abbas’s words as a type of rhetoric with a form and underlying philosophy. When viewed in this way, Abbas’s spokesman was not lying as such but doing something else.
“As philosopher Harry Frankfurt put it
QUOTE The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides … is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him; what we are not to understand is that his intention is neither to report the truth nor to conceal it …
‘A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it …
‘**For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: He is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false.
His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose…** END QUOTE FROM FRANKFURT
[NOTA BENE – understanding this, is *key* to understanding why one cannot trust a word that issues from the mouth of a Muslim – dda]
(And Joffe continues:
“As Frankfurt describes it, such nonsensical rhetoric is constructed impulsively and without thought—entirely out of whole cloth.
“It is unconcerned with truth and so, unlike a lie, has license to be panoramic, unconcerned with context.
“The user is endeavoring to bluff, and the desire for effect is paramount.
“Whereas lying is austere and rigorous because it must triangulate against truth, nonsense loses, and loosens, the grasp on reality. …”.
Precisely.
Mirren10 says
Excellent link, dda. It’s gone into my favourites. Thanks for posting it.
John Marst says
Always look at what Islamic State does and says, for it is the touchstone of Muslim purity. They do nothing without authority from the Qur’an and hadiths, unlike the hypocrites and unbelievers.
To be a true follower of the psychotic Allah and his “messenger” Muhammad, who projected Allah from his sick and twisted soul, all members of Islam, a totalitarian ideology masquerading as religion, are called upon to do the same as Islamic State. And given enough secular power, they always do to one degree or another.
It’s a low bar, but Islamic State is much more authentic and honest than deluded apologists from the New York Times and elsewhere, who seek to obfuscate more than enlighten.
citycat says
Short attention span clips on tv, adverts, radio with drumming in where there used to be spaces between the words, so that you don’t think in the spaces. So one does not have to make a mental effort, just in case you suss their evil controlling shenanigans.
The mind enmasse is being reduced for control.
Summat like that.
duh Swami says
Victim hood in is a blessing from Allah…It brings with it sympathy and protection., and often money…
I heard the ‘hate crime’ lies from the MSM (KFBK in Sac…the ancestral home of Rush Limbaugh), who made no effort to ‘fact check’ anything and let the report stand as authentic…Is that just stupidity or has the MSM become ‘radicalized’ in favor of Islam?
Florida Jim says
Another Obama , Hillary and Kerry success story.Why don’t they move to Russia or Iran where they will love them?
Stuart Archer says
These so-called “crimes” have nothing to do with muslims. Its all Antimuslumaphobia by these Islamist. The sky is falling, little “Chickenshits”.
davej says
Start with a foregone conclusion (dreaded backlash), then fill in with naive and inconclusive examples. Perfect example of Islamic deception and victim mongering.
Fair and balanced – not. Very grateful for Robert’s shrewd analysis and intellectual honesty.
Stephanie says
Robert Spencer,
I’m a student at CSUSB and I have known one of the directors of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism for a couple of years. I’m really hoping to change some of his viewpoints on the matter of Islam. He is an amazing person, but the problem I think with liberals is the fact that their understanding of Islam in relation to Muslims is superficial and based on friendships and acquaintances (there is a large presence of Muslims at this school). I’m hoping that my research will push the limits at this institution as I hold them to their own standards of opposing censorship. Love your work, by the way! I hope to meet you one day… That would be awesome!
John Stefan says
God bless your hard work of getting the truth out and God bless the listeners to listen and to believe – for the sake of our nation and the church.
dumbledoresarmy says
A poster, above, declared that Mr Fitzgerald’s article was far too long, and so dull that he (the poster) was caused to yawn, and gave up, after four paragraphs.
The poster is implicitly demanding that Mr Fitzgerald write much shorter, snappier articles.
If the poster thinks he (the poster) can do better, then I suggest that he shows us how.
Let him 1/ read the article that Mr Fitzgerald has ably dissected and 2/ read Hugh’s dissection thereof.
The poster should then, in the space of four paragraphs, dissect the *same* article, making sure to reproduce the main points of Hugh’s argument, boiled down so as to fit into just four paragraphs. If the poster knows so much about writing and arguing, it should be easy-peasy for him.
Gen Jones says
Agreed, DDA! When I see that there’s a new Hugh Fitzgerald post at JW, I know I’m going to learn something important and expand my vocabulary. Robert Spencer has excellent taste in selecting writers to post at JW and we benefit from them all.
dumbledoresarmy says
Here’s the thing that got *me*.
Note the information about the original article, in the first paragraph.
“The Sunday New York Times for September 18 carried a story by Eric Lichtblau about a “study” by “researchers” at the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at the San Bernardino campus of California State University…”.
The **San Bernardino** campus.
The very same San Bernardino at which, on 2 December 2015, two Muslims attacked a work Christmas party – attacking people with whom the male Mohammedan had in fact worked, and who had given him and his wife a baby shower – and murdered 14 people whilst seriously injuring 22 others (all of whom the Muslim attackers would have *intended* to murder).
CJ says
The solution is obvious. For their own sake and safety, muslims should stay far, far away from the US. It’s a horrible, terrible, awful place of crime, pestilence and disease, filled to the brim with ignorant, toothless white trash who rank farting contests as the height of culture.
Muslims, don’t come near this pigsty of a country. You’ll HATE it here. Stay away. Stay far, far away.
Highsider says
Trump in the White House will bring us back to an even keel. Make America great again…….end executive jihad……Vote Trump!