“We see this in many parts of the world, with growing pockets of intolerance and anti-immigrant sentiment. This has included instances of unacceptable rhetoric against Muslims, including in the United States, and particularly during this Presidential campaign season.”
Verma here echoes the common Leftist/mainstream media conflation of concern about jihad terrorists coming into the country with “anti-immigration sentiment” and “unacceptable rhetoric against Muslims.” No advocate of the massive migrant influx has ever addressed the problem that Trump (who is clearly Verma’s target) is trying to address: how to keep jihad terrorists from entering the country from among peaceful refugees. They just say they will “vet” the migrants, when that vetting has been shown to be deeply flawed and ineffective. To call the concern over jihadis entering the country “anti-immigrant sentiment” is patently dishonest: no one — no one — is concerned about Hindu or Buddhist or atheist or any other kind of migrants. There is only concern over one group, and it isn’t because they’re “brown,” it’s because many of them are lethal.
Verma also conflates this concern over jihadis with “unacceptable rhetoric against Muslims.” Once again, this is unfair and untrue. Neither Trump nor anyone else of substance has engaged in any rhetoric denigrating Muslims as a whole. The concern is about jihad terrorism. If the Muslim community would actually work against jihad terrorism in an honest, transparent manner, there would be no problem. Instead, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has more than once advised Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. In January 2011, its San Francisco chapter featured on its website a poster that read, “Build A Wall of Resistance / Don’t Talk to the FBI.” In November 2014, CAIR-Florida’s “14th Annual Banquet Rooted in Faith” in Tampa distributed pamphlets entitled “What to do if the FBI comes for you” and featuring a graphic of a person holding a finger to his lips in the “shhh” signal.
Another CAIR pamphlet, entitled “Know Your Rights: Defending Rights, Defeating Intolerance” featured a graphic of the Statue of Liberty likewise making the “shhh” symbol. Cyrus McGoldrick, a former official of Hamas-linked CAIR’s New York chapter, even threatened informants, tweeting with brutal succinctness: “Snitches get stitches.” Zahra Billoo of CAIR-San Francisco regularly tweets that Muslims have no obligation to talk to the FBI, and should contact Hamas-linked CAIR if the FBI asks to talk to them.
Is that “unacceptable rhetoric,” or can such rhetoric only be uttered by foes of jihad terror? Hamas-linked CAIR and its allies routinely tar any discussion of how jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims as “hate speech” against Muslims as a whole. Verma is just repeating their talking points, heedless of the fact that his rhetoric is directed toward silencing all opposition to jihad terror, as all such opposition has been characterized as “hateful” by these Islamic supremacist groups.
No U.S. official, moreover, should ever denounce “unacceptable rhetoric.” The message of the First Amendment is that any rhetoric that isn’t advocating violence or criminal activity is acceptable. But this administration is, of course, on record against the First Amendment in numerous ways.
“US Ambassador to India Richard Verma denounces ‘unacceptable rhetoric’ against Muslims,” PTI, November 1, 2016:
NEW DELHI: US Ambassador to India Richard Verma today reached out to Muslims here, denouncing “unacceptable rhetoric” against the community, particularly during the ongoing Presidential campaign in US, and in pockets of “intolerance”.
Verma said that any form of discrimination was “unjustifiable” and stressed on the need to embrace diversity, which he said was the real promise in the shared values of India and the United States.
Delivering a lecture at the Jamia Millia Islamia University, Verma said Indo-US relation was at the central level, crediting the leaderships at New Delhi and Washington for the upswing in ties, which he said will continue “well into the future”.
“Strains to the international order, compounded by globalization and economic inequality, are also bringing to the fore voices who seek to exploit our fears and build barriers to cooperation.
“We see this in many parts of the world, with growing pockets of intolerance and anti-immigrant sentiment. This has included instances of unacceptable rhetoric against Muslims, including in the United States, and particularly during this Presidential campaign season,” Verma said.
Responding to a question on the anti-Islam sentiments in US, Verma said no explanation can justify discrimination against any individual, while underlining that a broad swathe of the population was not discriminatory.
He called for the coming together of “like-minded partners” to overcome challenges like terrorism and asymmetrical warfare, cyber threats, environmental degradation and climate change in the 21st century.
Describing India and US as “melting pots” that celebrate diversity, respect minority rights, freedom of religion, protect free speech, the Indian-origin diplomat said Maulana Azad’s message of diversity and knowledge holds more importance than ever….

Kay says
Sounds so good . . . wait– wasn’t there something about work visas, something Khan is also related to, something that is making jobs for white collar workers in our country even scarcer?
And what does “snitches get stitches” mean?
Mubarak says
Forgive me as a western for being a little self-critical again:
Freedom of speech is a rare phenomenon in the West. Two thousand years ago in the same hemisphere it was not so.
In Acts 16 we find the most beautiful example of free speech ever penned:
Paul and Silas exercised their free speech in a hostile environment in Philippi, Macedonia. They were thrown in prison for their “offense”, “but about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;” —
Here we see – if we have ears to hear with – the ultimate example of free speech and moreover spoken in a prison!
The effect was truly awesome: captives were set free and enemies were converted and turned into friends and the local – and heavenly – magistrates were trembling with fear.
What a stark contrast to the “Allahu Akbars!” accompanying the hateful, resentful and revengeful “Acts” of the prisoners of Islam. And what has the robotic, mind-numbing recitations of the Quran achieved to the benefit of mankind anyway?
But where are the “Jews” sent in godly distress to set them and us free, so that we also can pray and sing freedom into being in the virtual prisons of our time?
Michael says
You no more studied Acts 16 than you are a “western”. Your bogus rhapsodies on the Bible show that you are either deeply confused or a patent liar. Anyone who defends islamic rape culture (as you certainly have) is surely the latter.
Mubarak says
Defending and trying to understand and explain is not the same thing, Michael – at least not in my mind.
The associate editor of City Journal recently opened an article with the sentence:
“It’s hard to escape the feeling that we’re getting what we deserve.”
I read this as a general statement not only applicable to the coming election in the US, and I testify to the same “feeling”.
I don’t delight in rape and violence and certainly not in the Muslim religion and ideology spreading in Europe, as is evident from my comments, but a culture that “pisses” Christ and the gospel has left itself without excuse, and its house will be left to it desolate.
You might not have the same understanding due to your confusion or unwillingness to see this connection. And how do YOU understand and explain, if you feel it is incumbent on you i.e. -?
Mubarak says
PS: And let me explicate one thing: The gospel we don’t deserve because it cannot be deserved – to the offense of many.
Michael says
I’m so relieved to hear you take no delight in rape culture. You only want to “understand and explain” the brutal sodomy of little boys in swimming pool changing rooms. And by grown men in good standing in the muslim community no less.This is so reassuring. How do you explain that exactly?
You are not the Prophet. Jeremiah for our time. I suspect you are a lying, trolling, muslim propagandist. If you have this heartfelt belief that islam is the scourge in the hand of God to chasten the West just say so. But to play the double speak prophet with your phony,maudlin Bible talks is just revolting.
You have no idea of the broad swath of Western people who understand the Gospel quite well, who understand what Liberty is for. We also understand the vile wickedness that is islam and the wretched collaborators in our midst.
Mark this down. We are not giving in. We can repent of our own sins and concurrently fight the filth of islam. It is not for you to be telling people what they deserve. If you did understand the Gospel. you would not be soft-selling the murderous sexual domination cult of islam. There is not one clean idea in all the koran. It is the darkest collection of evil thinking ever assembled in one volume.
And let me explicate one thing for you. Nobody was saying we deserve the Gospel. We know it is the truth and islam is a lie. Did you bring it up because your islamic moral superiority could not resist?
gravenimage says
Fine rebuttals to the repugnant Mubarak, Michael. Thank you.
Mubarak says
You say: “If you have this heartfelt belief that islam is the scourge in the hand of God to chasten the West just say so.” —
Which is exactly what I have done:
When the ancient Israel turned away from God, God in turn turned their enemies loose on them in order to bring them back to himself. Were the enemies of Israel then beyond reproach?
This is the unoriginal analogy GI – and many with her – won’t entertain.
To the extent that the West turns away from or squanders its rich Judeo-Christian inheritance its house will be left to it desolate. And the enemy that in malicious delight will move in is Islam with its mocking puppets.
PS: —- and there is no trolling or stealth jihad in this perspective.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/10/huffpo-germany-of-course-everything-in-europe-should-be-in-arabic-for-refugees/comment-page-1#comment-1545639
And:
It is the God of the Bible who calls the shots, and he is not mocked.
The West deserves what it gets. A culture that “pisses” Christ will have its own “piss” sprinkled upon its head AND ISLAM WILL BE IT!
Is Christianity letting Islam doing its dirty work then, you may ask?
Not at all, but where Christ is not or worse: told to “piss off”, Barabbas will take his place by default.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/10/trudeau-on-anniversary-of-ottawa-jihad-attack-diversity-makes-our-country-strong/comment-page-1#comment-1544689
And recently:
https://thefederalist.com/2016/11/02/mets-jerusalem-exhibit-pursues-jihad-means/
“Call it jihad-by-other-means.”
Maureen Mullarkey – an artist who writes on art and culture.
Summa summarum:
The Left’s affinity for Islam is a profound hatred for Christianity and that explains it’s “John the Baptist” function for this religion of debauchery. –
The Left and Islam share the same paradise of pride and lust with the difference that Muslims wants to take this worldly paradise a step further, i.e. to heaven.
*Shariah is the ironic judgment the Left provokes and Islam invokes.*
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/11/metropolitan-museum-of-art-presents-islam-cleansed-of-imperialism-brutality-absolutism-and-institutionalized-inequality-of-non-muslims/comment-page-1#comment-1548541
You say: “We know it is the truth and islam is a lie.” —
Which is exactly what I have said:
Islam is begotten in a lie by a deluded prophet and therefore beyond reformation, and a reformed lie is just worse after the reformation than before.
The well-intentioned nativity – in this respect- of Maajid Nawaz and his protector Sam Harris is regrettable. Lying and deception in all their expressions are the hallmarks of Islam, and Sam Harris’ participation in the seminar that profoundly changed his life “The Ethical Analyst” should have given him the tools to understand that.
Sam Harris’ attempt to get his friends of the list/hook is plain cowardice.
He should have applied for a prominent place on the list instead in identification with them.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/10/selective-outrage-leftist-atheist-critics-of-islam-enraged-that-splc-hit-list-of-islam-critics-includes-leftists-and-atheists/comment-page-1#comment-1546266 —-
Try to be fair in your assessment!
Michael says
Yes by all means let’s be fair, or at least clear.
1. You equate the West with the traitorous marxist elites who take bribes from islamic cess pools. A false equation.
2. You fairly revel in the notion that islam is conquering the West because of we deserve it.
3. You twist and contort the Judeo-Christian scriptures to falsely support your notions.
4. You utterly fail to honestly treat the brutal sexual deviance and hypocrisy codified and supported in the koran.
5. You dance around the bush verbally, obfuscating, and wasting everybody’s time.
Together all this makes a good case that you are a lying, trolling, islamic propagandist, your protestations not withstanding.
Considering the endgame for islam, I would get out while there is still time and stop all this nonsense. The Lord God, Jesus Christ is merciful, but, as you say, He is not mocked.
gravenimage says
Yet more from the repugnant Mubarak:
You say: “If you have this heartfelt belief that islam is the scourge in the hand of God to chasten the West just say so.” —
Which is exactly what I have done:
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Yes, he has–claimed that it is God’s will that Muslims rape little children and murder us, and that we should invite in more Muslims to abuse us in God’s name. *Ugh*.
This is, in fact, not uncommon from Muslims–claiming that if we are “real” Christians, that we will bare our throats–and the throats of our children–to the Muslim blade to atone for our sins, real and imagined.
Given that the only “sins” he has cited have been our flouting *Islamic* norms–not Christian ones–this is clearly meant to get us to adopt Shari’ah strictures.
More:
When the ancient Israel turned away from God, God in turn turned their enemies loose on them in order to bring them back to himself. Were the enemies of Israel then beyond reproach?
This is the unoriginal analogy GI – and many with her – won’t entertain.
To the extent that the West turns away from or squanders its rich Judeo-Christian inheritance its house will be left to it desolate. And the enemy that in malicious delight will move in is Islam with its mocking puppets.
………………………….
Now–and this should come as no surprise–Mubarak is just cutting and pasting his own previous spam.
Just more calls for the West to roll over for Muslim conquest–clad in cynically misquoted Biblical garb.
More:
PS: —- and there is no trolling or stealth jihad in this perspective.
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Calls for surrendering to Islam–how could that *possibly* be construed as stealth jihad? sarc/off
More:
It is the God of the Bible who calls the shots, and he is not mocked.
The West deserves what it gets. A culture that “pisses” Christ will have its own “piss” sprinkled upon its head AND ISLAM WILL BE IT!
Is Christianity letting Islam doing its dirty work then, you may ask?
Not at all, but where Christ is not or worse: told to “piss off”, Barabbas will take his place by default.
………………………….
And here he is again, claiming that the West deserves to be destroyed because we didn’t murder the “artist” of this puerile piece. Good lord.
Mubarak shows once again that he understands *nothing* about either freedom of expression or Christian ethics.
More:
Try to be fair in your assessment!
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Shameless shilling for Muslim savagery, cloaked by a meretricious appeal to a good faith he is incapable of understanding. Hows that?
gravenimage says
More from the appalling Mubarak:
Forgive me as a western for being a little self-critical again:
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Mubarak is not “a western”, and this is not self-criticism.
More:
But where are the “Jews” sent in godly distress to set them and us free, so that we also can pray and sing freedom into being in the virtual prisons of our time?
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And what “virtual prison” might that be? Mubarak has said that we deserve to be raped by Muslims for allowing women to attend public celebrations, and to work and study alongside men.
It seems that he is the one who wants to see us imprisoned in Islamic Purdah. This is nothing Christianity demands.
More:
Defending and trying to understand and explain is not the same thing, Michael – at least not in my mind.
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Uh huh–he is just desperately trying to understand and explain Muslim rape culture–notice that he has never exerted the same effort in grasping the elemental fact that *no one* deserves to be raped–not by anyone, and not by his violent coreligionists.
More:
The associate editor of City Journal recently opened an article with the sentence:
“It’s hard to escape the feeling that we’re getting what we deserve.”
………………………….
Mubarak has pulled this blatant bullsh*t here multiple times at this point–criticizing the suicidal foolishness of the West is *not* the same as advocating we be raped and murdered by Muslims.
He has even claimed that *Robert Spencer* is calling for Muslim rape.
More:
I read this as a general statement not only applicable to the coming election in the US, and I testify to the same “feeling”.
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Well, *of course* this is a general statement from Mubarak–he has claimed that we deserve to be raped not just for the ‘reasons’ I cited above, but also because we allow mixed-gender youth wrestling, lingerie ads, and even *protests against Muslim rape* if done in silly clothing.
The upcoming election will, likely, just give him another ‘grievance’.
More:
I don’t delight in rape and violence and certainly not in the Muslim religion and ideology spreading in Europe, as is evident from my comments, but a culture that “pisses” Christ and the gospel has left itself without excuse, and its house will be left to it desolate.
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This is probably the third time Mubarak has mentioned this–that we all deserve to be raped and murdered because of an ugly piece of ‘art’ from almost thirty years ago.
How dare we have failed to put out a Fatwa on Andres Serrano?
As I have noted, many Christians and others protested this work at the time–unlike his fellow Muslims, Christians do *not* murder people who criticize or mock their faith–nor should they. But Muslims have long done this–claimed that if Christians really cared about their faith, that they would be willing to murder for it.
But Christianity does not work that way.
As for Mubarak’s claim that he does not delight in Muslim rape and violence, that is hard to swallow–he has, in fact, done *nothing else* since he arrived here in the wake of the Muslim mass-molestations on New Year’s Eve in Europe.
More:
You might not have the same understanding due to your confusion or unwillingness to see this connection. And how do YOU understand and explain, if you feel it is incumbent on you i.e. -?
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Ah, yes–anyone unwilling to laud Muslim rape must be “confused”. *Ugh*.
More:
PS: And let me explicate one thing: The gospel we don’t deserve because it cannot be deserved – to the offense of many.
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This is about the concept of divine grace–not a call for the abuse of innocent people.
Michael says
Thanks much GI.
Our beloved neighbors of the free West could use a good dose of Tolkien. When Sauron is aligning the dark forces for conquest it’s time for the hobbits to go to war! Not wring hands and let the Orc hordes have sway.
Jaladhi says
Varma is an Obama hack so what else is he going to say. He has conveniently forgotten how his Hindu ancestors were looted, invaded, raped, butchered and murdered by Muslims invaders in India. More than 80 million Hindus have been slaughtered by Muslims in India in last 1400 years and for him to go to a Muslim university and deliver this shameful diatribe is simply disgusting. He should read true history of Islamic genocide in India!
aDhimmiSaysWhat? says
I think your 80 million number might be lowballing it. Muslim historian Firishta put the number at 400 million. I think a conservative estimate would be closed to at least 200 million.
Ali Bey says
Frankesteinish traits.
Angemon says
This guy looks like Sadiq Khan’s younger brother.
Scott Rose says
Within the last two weeks, a national board member of CAIR, the Council for American-Islamic Relations, (whose top officials donate to Clinton) praised a jihadist for wounding 5 and murdering 2 in Jerusalem. The CAIR national board member is Lamis Deek. One of the jihadist’s victims was an unarmed, 60-year-old Jewish woman. Yet, Deek said that the jihadist is a “lion of Jerusalem” and that he acted in “self-defense.”
Then, I notice that Linda Sarsour, the hijab-wearing Muslim who holds a low-level position in the NYC government in Brooklyn, and is courted by Democratic politicians, and whom Obama hailed as a “change maker” (or some such), on social media openly promotes the anti-Israel site “Electronic Intifada.”
David says
And this “Creature” is THE US AMBASSADOR to India?
Good GOD! Yet another obama appointment!
Obama, who said: “I am not a muslim. I am a Christian”.
But wrote in his book: “I will side with the Muslims, should the political winds blow in an ugly direction. ”
We’ve had many a crook and criminal in Washington before. But none disgust me more then Barry and Hillary !!!!!
David says
Barry Obama and Granny Clinton = Two scales from the hide of the same DEMON !
tom says
Obama zombie! US should stay out of India. Modi does what he is good for India no one can influence him.
JawsV says
“To call the concern over jihadis entering the country “anti-immigrant sentiment” is patently dishonest: no one — no one — is concerned about Hindu or Buddhist or atheist or any other kind of migrants.”
The left says “immigrants” so they don’t have to say “Muslims.”
Allan says
On the contrary, leftists say “immigrants” so that they don’t have to say colonists, migratory invaders, and new voters. If the leftists chose the more accurate descriptions, people would ask about what sort of colonies are being established and what the goals of the invaders and new voters might be. Then leftists, if they were truthful, would reply that many colonists are bullying, thieving theocrats, and that the invaders and new voters are expected to be race warriors and a replacement population.
gravenimage says
True.
Havoc says
“No Muslims. No Mosques”
.
It works. If they’re not here, we don’t need to speak of them.
August West says
I am concerned about unacceptable rhetoric about Islam.
Islam = Peace
Is an example of unacceptable rhetoric.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
What o’erweening arrogance to presume to tell the Indians what they should or should not do about Islam. The Hindus(and Sikhs,, Jains) of India have been on the receiving end of Islam for hundreds of years; they do not need self-righteous lectures from an American ambassador. Carpenter, stick to your last.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Oops — that should be.
Shoemaker, stick to your last.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Unless you’re making wooden shoes.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e6/f5/c9/e6f5c956d7d6682800381915097c85ae.jpg
gravenimage says
So true, Hugh.
pdxnag says
Well, Islam deserves no respect other than to acknowledge its mortal threat to free people. It necessarily follows that people who favor it also deserve no respect.
The universally recognized punishment of death for followers who leave Islam is itself quite enough to deny Islam and Muslims protection of their hateful supremacist and seditious views under the American First Amendment.
Rob says
Isn’t the first step of an Ambassador tendering one’s resignation to the incoming President?
Bring it on!
Peter says
Presumably, the ambassador is educated. Maybe he should denounce Islam’s “deplorable” doctrines against non-Muslims.
Voytek Gagalka says
Ambassador Verma is clearly afraid that in the case of Mr. Trump’s winning, he will lose his job. That is his only concern about phantom of “anti-Muslim rhetoric.”
Westman says
“Melting pot” India? Pakistan just originated out of thin air? And was Bangladesh another product of Islamic harmony? These re-writes of historical Islamic attitudes are amusing to the aware and lethal to the ignorant.
And the 1947, ’65, and ’71 wars over Kashmir were simply a misunderstanding and unacceptable rhetoric? India could have totally defeated Pakistah in 1971 but didn’t want to administer or herd cats – a wise choice at the time. Now they have to deal with a nuclear power.
The next nuclear war is likely to be Pakistan-India or Iran-Israel; that is the reality of Islam. The Ambassador’s plea is simply lost in the wind or perhaps, “blowing in the wind” – and he’s facing the wrong direction.
Ali Bey says
vermiform mind.
gravenimage says
Heh.
Carolyne says
Unacceptable to whom? It is acceptable to me, especially in light of the culture which murders, rapes, commits pedophilia, oppresses women, mutilates females, etc. etc. etc.
What’s not to accept? Anything said against Islam is not enough.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Listen up, Ambassador Vermin!
Since islam genocided over 90 million Hindus back when that was a huge percentage of them, they KNOW what they’re talking about – unlike a craven Submissive cuck like you!
gravenimage says
US Ambassador to India Richard Verma denounces “unacceptable rhetoric” against Muslims
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How dare anyone criticize Muslims raping and murdering us?