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“Endeavor to portray Muslims as ‘brown’ and foes of jihad terror as disliking them for racial reasons is dishonest”

Feb 8, 2017 2:14 pm By Robert Spencer

Linda Sarsour recently claimed that because she was “brown” (a dubious claim at best), “Palestinian,” and Muslim, as well as an outspoken woman, she was “the Islamophobes’ worst nightmare.”

This is just more denial and projection. In reality, she is criticized for being in favor of Sharia oppression and linked in numerous ways to Hamas. But this is just more Leftist inversion of reality.

“Why liberals keep giving radical Islam a pass — and what it will take to change their minds,” by Dave Urbanski, The Blaze, February 7, 2017:

One might conclude that given example after example of radical Islam’s heinous acts around the globe even after 9/11, liberals would cease giving them a pass or the benefit of the doubt.

But even after Fort Hood, Boston, Paris, Garland, Chattanooga, San Bernardino and Orlando — to name a few attacks — some liberals clearly don’t feel that way. Indeed, a new CBS poll indicates that 66 percent of Democrats believe Islam is no different from other religions when it comes to encouraging violence….

Robert Spencer — director of Jihad Watch and a noted authority on the pervasiveness of radical Islam — told TheBlaze he’s seeing the left not only continuing to give Islamic extremism a pass but also noticing liberals beginning to normalize elements of it.

And he needed to point no further than the much-heralded Women’s March, which hit the streets the day after Trump’s inauguration — and featured speaker and march organizer Linda Sarsour, a “Palestinian Muslim American” who’s come under scrutiny for threatening statements she made against Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali several years back.

“Ms. Sarsour is not interested in universal human rights,” Ali told the New York Times, adding, “she’s a defender of Sharia law. There’s no principle that demeans, degrades and dehumanizes women more than the principal of Sharia law.”

Despite this, Spencer said liberals continue their “glamorization and glorification” of Sarsour — as well as their “vilification of anyone who points out her ties to Hamas, vicious hatred of Israel … even in publications such as Elle.”

Other normalization examples include the “the proliferation of World Hijab Day events, which ignore the many women who have been brutalized or even killed for not wearing the hijab, and the spread among Western leftist feminists of the idea that the hijab and Sharia restrictions on women’s rights are a beautiful sign of cultural diversity, to be celebrated rather than condemned.”

Spencer agreed, too, that left-wing bias against Christianity and Judaism finds a kindred spirit with radical Islam, as both share “hatred for Judeo-Christian Western civilization.” Furthermore, radical Islam’s goal of bringing down “the West” taps into a kind of liberal self-loathing that wouldn’t mind seeing America brought low, given it’s viewed by some liberals “the source of all the evil in the world.”

Another tool the left tends to use — and Affleck’s “Real Time” appearance spells it out — is the characterization of Islam criticism as “racism,” despite the fact that Islam isn’t a race.

“Racism is our national trauma,” Spencer added to TheBlaze. “The endeavor to portray Muslims as ‘brown’ and foes of jihad terror as disliking them solely for racial reasons is a cynical and dishonest enterprise that has the effect of intimidating people into being afraid to oppose jihad terror. Of course, many leftists are so poorly educated and unable to think critically that they no doubt believe all that.”

So, what — if anything — might possibly turn the tide on the left?

Spencer noted that it very likely would take something at least as terrible as another 9/11-scale attack, as “with with every jihad attack some people wake up.”

But the “leftist intelligentsia knows that,” he said, which poses an issue, since “after every attack, there is a strenuous effort to exonerate Islam from any responsibility for it.”

Here’s Spencer discussing Islam and the left’s assault on free speech in 2009 — and you might say his words have proven rather prophetic in America over the last several years:

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  1. Somebody says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 2:24 pm

    Muslims will never stop playing victims, they will do everything to suppress opposition, and when they are strong enough, than you and your children will be victims of islam.. Expect for beheadings, rape of children and babies, child marriages and any thing you thought immoral..

    • jihad3tracker says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 6:25 pm

      FOR A SOLID DOSE OF REALITY ON RACISM IN THE EARLY MUSLIM PERIOD, TRY THIS:

      The brilliantly funny Dr. David Wood’s “Muhammad — the White Prophet with Black Slaves” on YouTube, with many other of his superb videos When he is arguing a specific point about Islam, THERE IS ALWAYS ABUNDANT CITATION FROM THE QUR’AN, HADITH, AND SIRA to establish his contentions.

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 8, 2017 at 7:47 pm

        Yes, Jihad3tracker–you can watch that fine video here:

    • Leon says

      Feb 9, 2017 at 12:31 pm

      Get the bitch out of this county back to Gaza strip.

    • Concerned says

      Feb 10, 2017 at 7:26 am

      In countries where Muslims are the minority, they scream for minority rights…
      In countries where Muslims are the majority, there are NO minority rights….chew on this.

  2. PRCS says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 3:07 pm

    Let’s be clear:

    This is not about “radical” Islam.

    • Somebody says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 3:10 pm

      Islam is islam, like Erdogan said.

  3. marina says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 3:33 pm

    Linda Sarsour is doing that ISIS one finger salute in the picture. That is nightmare not her brown skin.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 7:48 pm

      Exactly, marina. Not that she is very “brown”, in any case.

    • billybob says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 8:06 pm

      No – she just fished a booger out of her nose.

  4. Gen Jones says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 3:37 pm

    Linda wants street cred as a Brooklyn home girl but also wants Palestinian cachet. Now she’s “brown”. She’s the definition of opportunism.

    • Shmooviyet says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 6:07 pm

      Well said. Sarsour wants to belong in as many “kept-down” groups as possible.
      Trying to squeeze herself into the ‘black community’ by referring to herself as “brown” is a slick sleazy move by a muslim, hoping to convince certain blacks that they are one in the race battle.
      As someone with a downright Heinz-57 “brown” heritage, I see her claim as deceitful, dangerous BS!

    • Paul says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 7:15 pm

      The “brown” Muslim Arabs are history’s biggest colonialists; imperialists; and slave traders. Brown does not equal victim.

      • carol says

        Feb 9, 2017 at 2:38 pm

        She’s sucking up to the “disadvantaged crowd” and will doubtless solve all their problems (and give them a surplus of ‘refreshing’ new ones). She’s “olive-skinned” and they are traditionally considered “white” IMO. Google seems to agree:

        “North Africans in the United States. Under the U.S. Census definition and U.S. federal agency, individuals with ancestry from North Africa are considered white. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations also explicitly define white as “original peoples of Europe, North Africa, or the Middle East.”

  5. Angemon says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 4:33 pm

    Linda Sarsour recently claimed that because she was “brown” (a dubious claim at best)

    At least Rachel Dolezal put on blackface when she pretended to be black…

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 7:58 pm

      Rachel Dolezal is no doubt a confused, meretricious, messed-up person, but at least she was not trying to impose Shari’ah law on us. Sarsour and her ilk are far more dangerous.

      • carol says

        Feb 10, 2017 at 1:45 am

        Don’t her fans realize that when someone uses it in a Western land it has sinister implications?

        “The gesture has been used by jihadis for years, including high profile ones like Osama bin Laden. Within the jihadi context, the raised index finger takes on political meaning as well, widely rejecting any form of government not under Shariah law,”

        To them it signifies the plan for our downfall.

  6. Jan says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 4:58 pm

    In my country opposing mass migration is not a matter of ideology – both those on the right and the majority of people on the left agree Islam is a threat to Europe and allowing millions of people to move to the continent is a horrible idea.
    In America and in Western Europe there is an absurd war that you are waging against each other, and you need to stop it, by all means.

    I believe the liberals’ problem is that if Islam is recongized for what it is, this would authomatically mean muslims as a group are in some respects inferior, and thinking badly of a whole group is taboo – recognizing group differences might lead to every member of a group being discriminated against just for belonging to the group.

    You need to try to unite against Islamism with as many people on the left as possible, and abandon all other issues, otherwise we are all doomed.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 8:01 pm

      Where do you live, Jan?

  7. ElderlyZionist says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 5:16 pm

    Linda Sarsour is no browner than Robert Spencer, or than me, for that matter, when I get some sun exposure.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 8, 2017 at 8:06 pm

      So true.

  8. somehistory says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 5:42 pm

    She isn’t the color of brown…she’s the color of evil.

    No amount of fear do I feel toward this evil tool of satan, but if she invaded my dreams, it would likely be a total nightmare…just for the fact of having to see her face while at rest.

    She is bowing to the beast, and the beast has a numbered days of existence.

  9. mortimer says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 5:57 pm

    The purpose of Sharia law is to remove the human rights and civil liberties of women and ‘others’.

    Sharia law is like an anaconda, squeezing the life out of a victim. Then the snake swallows and digests the victim.

  10. davej says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 6:31 pm

    “66% of Democrats believe that Islam is no different from other religions…”

    This is what we are up against – those who have eyes but refuse to see. They are willing to embrace Sarsour even as she waves her disgusting finger in their faces, calls herself “brown” (obviously not true) and demands Sharia law in America.

    The evil trinity of weak leaders, deluded leftists and aggressive Islamists is a clear and present danger to America.

  11. Guest says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 7:02 pm

    She is as brown as I am – ie not at all. Nice try, Sarsour, jump on any bandwagon that might help the jihad along…

  12. gravenimage says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 7:43 pm

    “Endeavor to portray Muslims as ‘brown’ and foes of jihad terror as disliking them for racial reasons is dishonest”
    ………………………

    Yes, it is dishonest–but this is very, very common these days. It is also absurd–that the virtually white Sarsour can smear black African Ayaan Hirsi Ali using this ridiculous claim is ludicrous.

    Similarly, a young Chinese woman killed by white Muslim Jihadists at the Boston Marathon Bombing somehow lost out to them as a “person of color”.

    Of course, this has nothing to do with race in any case, but purely with ideology.

    As long as it keeps working for Mohammedans pushing Shari’ah barbarism, though, they will keep using it.

    Fine piece by Dave Urbansk.

  13. More Ham Ed says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 7:43 pm

    She’s a sorry sour sarsour paleshtian.

  14. Catherine says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 9:12 pm

    How’s this: I oppose jihadi terror because its proponents WANT TO KILL ME.

    “Brown”? Who cares? The left’s growing obsession with race, ethnicity, and skin color must be making Hitler dance in hell.

    How have we become so jaded that we are nonchalant about EVEN ONE terrorist attack in our country? Why such hysteria over President Trump’s enacting a travel moratorium — similar to those enacted without a peep by Presidents Obama, Bush, Reagan, and Carter — for the purpose of improving visa screening for individuals from certain risky nations?

    I pray it will not require something as drastic as 9/11 to wake people up.

  15. PRCS says

    Feb 8, 2017 at 10:19 pm

    “Brown” Sarsour with an actual brown woman.

    http://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=FmxPx%2f5y&id=F38B3DDAB984996F0AB6A38424A37DA8C6E3318E&q=linda+sarsour&simid=608034737575628426&selectedIndex=52&ajaxhist=0

  16. don vito says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 12:00 am

    LS = transmoslem

  17. Red says

    Feb 9, 2017 at 4:01 am

    Her face is the …….. it’s not covered. NOT the colour of her skin, Not where she was born BUT her lies ands BS! are islamophobic. Her lies and innuendos are creating more phobia in islime than is necessary. A liar and a cheat is she. did i mention her face?

  18. Brenda Romano says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 10:45 pm

    There are only four races: white, black, yellow and red. Check the DNA.

    Muslim women in the United States and other Western nations often allow themselves to be used to whitewash Islam’s image as it is presented to the public at-large. These women living in the West operate under the banner of “reaffirming” the rights of women have “traditionally” enjoyed in Islam.
    Muslim women who seek to promote Islam as a tolerant and progressive force for women’s rights often draw less than honest conclusions from the simple quranic affirmation of property rights. Muslim women say that they are Muslim and that they have the same rights and respect as a man, that Islam respects them and allows them the same freedom as men enjoy. Of course these women are saying this while they are in the United States or some other Western nation. They are living in a society where the sort behavior which many Muslim men display towards women in Muslim countries is not tolerated. In the West, both law and public opinion discourages activities such as wife beating and marriage to underage girls. Society would frown upon a man who forces his wife wear a veil and stay inside the house unless he was with her nor would it be accept women having an inferior legal and moral status to men. In the West, Islam has no choice but to respect the rights and dignity of women or face public wrath. One wonders what these Muslim women would say or think if they tried to take the same attitude in a totally Muslim country. These worthless claims about Islam made by Western Muslim women on the basis of some supposedly “enlightened” view of women’s right is nothing more than a cloak that is woven to try and cover the ugly truth about Islam’s attitudes toward women.

    Linda Sarsour is not only evil but she’s a moron.

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