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UN top dog: “Islamophobia” fueling terrorism

Feb 13, 2017 7:32 am By Robert Spencer

This statement fits into the UN’s ongoing efforts to compel states that protect the freedom of speech to adopt “hate speech” provisions that would effectively involve their adopting Sharia blasphemy provisions.

The idea is that anyone (especially President Trump) who says there is the slightest problem with Islam (or “radical Islam”) is only aiding Islamic State propaganda that the West is waging war upon Islam. This is predicated on the further assumption that Islam is a religion of peace, and that the motivation for jihad terrorism couldn’t possibly come from within it. So the poor dears must only become terrorists when we say bad things about their religion, so if we just stop doing that, all will be well.

The only problem with this scenario is that the Qur’an’s exhortations to the conquest and subjugation of unbelievers are not predicated on what those unbelievers say or don’t say. The jihad will continue, and if we shut up about it, many people will remain ignorant and complacent about it as it advances.

”‘Islamophobia’ Fuelling Terrorism: UN Chief Antonio Guterres,” Agence France-Presse, February 12, 2017:

“Islamophobia” in parts of the world is fuelling terrorism, the head of the United Nations said on a visit to Saudi Arabia Sunday, as anti-immigrant sentiment rises in some countries.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made the comment to reporters after talks with Saudi King Salman, Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef, and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

“One of the things that fuel terrorism is the expression in some parts of the world of Islamophobic feelings and Islamophobic policies and Islamophobic hate speeches,” Guterres said at a joint news conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir.

“This is the best support that Daesh can have to make its own propaganda,” Guterres said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group of Sunni extremists in Syria and Iraq.

The terrorist group has also claimed deadly attacks in Saudi Arabia and in Europe….

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  1. Dov Berrol says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 7:42 am

    It’s the other way around: Islamic terrorism makes a Kafir like me fear Islam.

    The Arabs have an uncanny way of turning reality upside down to further their takeover of the planet. Rape victims are the guilty party, Arabs are victims of colonialism even though they militarily conquered huge swaths of Africa and Asia, Islam came first before any other religion, Mohammed is the ideal human being, ad nauseum.

    • Mark Swan says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 10:03 pm

      Their summation of why they hate non-Muslims is easy enough to understand.

      “The fact is, even if you were to stop bombing us, imprisoning us, torturing us, vilifying us, and usurping our lands, we would continue to hate you because our primary reason for hating you will not cease to exist until you embrace Islam.”

  2. Somebody says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 7:43 am

    UN is not needed anymore. These people are idiots…

  3. Somebody says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 7:45 am

    Have a look at SWEDEN’S feminist government don hijabs …… These people deserve to be …

    https://www.unwatch.org/walk-shame-swedens-first-feminist-government-don-hijabs-iran/

  4. jihad3tracker says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 7:48 am

    IF YOU WANT CONTEXT FOR ROBERT’S 3RD PARAGRAPH, GO TO WWW (DOT) CITIZENWARRIOR (DOT) COM — and type “The Qur’an’s last word on non-Muslims” in that website’s search box at the upper right homepage.

    I have recommended that resource before — it is about Taubah, Surah 9, the second to last chapter CHRONOLOGICALLY. Therefore, as many of us know, verses commanding subjugation or violence against infidels and heretics REPLACE EARLIER PEACEFUL ONES according to the principle of ABROGATION.

    If you can assemble the motivation, talk to clueless relatives, friends, your faith leader, and anyone else who still fails to get reality regarding what we see everyday around the planet: Allah was the subconscious of a camel-tender around 14 centuries past, who had the brilliance to claim that his plan for conquering resistant people proceeded from God.

  5. KrazyKafir says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 7:52 am

    Behold the face of a quisling dhimmi stooge.

  6. Jerry says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:04 am

    “islamophobia is fueling terrorism.”

    Yes, that’s true. But only in the same way that umbrellas cause rain or sunglasses cause the sun to shine.

    There are too many folks in high places that don’t have the courage to speak the truth in regard to muslims demonic “religion.” So their brilliant solution is to ignore the facts and instead blame the victims of islam’s fascist hate. Imagine if the world had responded to Hitler the same way, by ignoring reality and instead blaming the allies’ reaction to Nazi aggression. But that’s what we’re told in regard to islam, that our justifiable fear is causing muslim violence. If you believe that then you probably believe umbrellas cause rain too. Such people are perpetuating lies and misinformation about the world’s most dangerous religion. The consequence of this callous indifference to truth will be more senseless death and the loss of our freedoms and culture.

    The western world is in the last minute of the 4th quarter and losing. Trump is the Hail Mary pass millions were praying and hoping for. I just hope the appeasers don’t kill him before he can score.

    • Dawn says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 12:35 pm

      So true, I get so aggregvated by what is happening in the USA why don’t people just see what is really going on it makes me tired.

  7. Judge Smales says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:12 am

    Also, this just in: Pregnancy causes intercourse.

  8. Reverse logic says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:26 am

    Cancer causes smoking.

  9. vivienne Havalant-levijonhufvud says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:51 am

    Wonder how much Guterres has been paid to spout this Bull shit on behalf of the Islamiic UN? It crossed my mind just about 10 minutes ago, the EU Scandinavia & UK have been bought by all Islam billionaires to take in these Islamic foot soldiers to enforce Islam upon up us. The Saudi’s can certainly afford it. Any excellent tough minded investigative journalists out there willing to go underground and find out. The question constantly arises ‘why’ so many MALE Muslims of fighting age?

    • Richard Paulsen says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 1:58 pm

      Agree. Obvious. No need a journalist digging. Easy to únderstand anyway. However the majority go on voting for parties cheating them.

  10. Cretius says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 10:03 am

    Remember first in any Mohammedan defense of Islam that lies and deceit are encouraged to protect and to achieve the goals of Islam. Perhaps then ‘collective responsibility’ is the proper response to Islamists. If lies and deceit are used then all are held accountable.

    Islamophobia is propaganda construct invented by the Muslim Brotherhood intended to shut down any real inquiry into the teachings and the 1,400 year history of aggressive holy war against non-believers. The facts speak for themselves. Witness also the bloody chaos in the west being perpetrated by the latest Muslim invasion.

    Western civilisation will be destroyed from within if we do not address the predations of Islam in the world. Islam has been spread by the sword and historically has only being checked and rolled back by military action!

  11. no_one says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 10:23 am

    When this guy was up for election, there were rumors he was involved in a pedophile ring. No wonder he would defend another pedophile. Anyone who says islam is peaceful insults me. My people have suffered from it for centuries and some new ‘historians’ and ‘intellectuals’ try to say it is not true. Bloody liars. UN is not needed anymore. It is a tool to install Sharia everywhere.

  12. marina says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 10:33 am

    So why did terrorist attacks happen during Obama’s tenure? Obama was always appeasing the Muslims.Muslims don’t need any excuse to become violent.

    • Brenda Romano says

      Feb 13, 2017 at 10:55 am

      Islam is violent. Under Islam all non-Muslims are infidels and should be subdued or killed. Just read the Koran. There was terrorism before The Muslim Brotherhood invented the word “Islamophobia.”

  13. Angemon says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 11:42 am

    Expect nothing but more calls to take is muslim refugees” during Guterre’s tenure as UN’s Secretary-General. His speeches from when he was the High Commissioner for Refugees tell me all I need to know about it.

  14. DogOnPorch says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 12:13 pm

    Islam is waging war on the West. Always has.

  15. Richard Paulsen says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 12:58 pm

    A traitor. A mullah in disguise. Telling others what to do and how they are. His own country Portugal 2010 just some 65.000 muslims or 0,6%. Europe average 6% or some 44 million.
    Sweden, the country of feminism and hijabs some 12% today.
    How come he became leader of the UN? He hates Europe and europeans. Wrong person to lead UN.

  16. Steve Brown says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 1:34 pm

    I think that the UN head is not referring to criticism of Islam but persecution of Muslims through Islamophobia (whatever that is). But Robert’s point still holds. Even if perceived persecution drives peaceful Muslims into armed terror groups then they weren’t that peaceful to begin with.

  17. Lynn M says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 1:35 pm

    A phobia is an irrational fear of something. It’s not a phobia is they really are out to kill you.

  18. shoehorn says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 4:40 pm

    Any fool can see that ‘Terrorism’ causes “Islamophobia’, not the other way round. Every self-respecting democracy should withdraw from the dhimmified dictator and OIC-infested unrepresentative swill known as the UN forthwith.

  19. john collins says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 6:22 pm

    Islamic terrorism is fueling terrorism. Islamophobia is a myth. Christophobia and Judeophobia are the real victims. Quit justifying and protecting those who wish to conquer and destroy us, you globalized fool!

  20. Denise Smith says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 7:22 pm

    The globalists need war for depopulation and to keep getting richer!! The industrial revolution is over they got machines now to do many jobs.
    The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception, sterilization and abortion, but must be met in the present by the reduction of numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever means necessary”.
    Initiative for the United Nations ECO-92 EARTH CHARTER

    “No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a LUCIFERIAN Initiation.”

    – David Spangler

    Director of Planetary Initiative

    United Nations

  21. abad says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    The UN is a Muslim-based and Muslim-driven organization to further their peculiar vision of a one-world global order.

    Do not expect the UN to concern itself with Christians or Jews persecuted in Muslim-majority nations.

    Time for the UN to be put out of commission once and for all.

  22. STJOHNOFGRAFTON says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    UN Chief Antonio Guterres suffers from the irrational belief that Islamic terrorism is caused by an irrational fear of Islam. This UN flunky is basking in his rationally irrational philosophies, smugly unaware that he is an abject hypocrite

  23. Baucent says

    Feb 14, 2017 at 5:13 am

    “One of the things that fuel terrorism is the expression in some parts of the world of Islamophobic feelings and Islamophobic policies and Islamophobic hate speeches,”

    So what we knew before was that Guterres was a Socialist politician. So his views are predictable. Here we see the default answer Leftys cling to; Islamic Terrorism is all our fault and no fault lies with the Koran.

  24. More Ham Ed says

    Feb 14, 2017 at 6:36 am

    ” ‘Islamophobia’ Fuelling Terrorism”

    I’m thinking it has somethin’ to do with the unholy ko ‘ran and the more than 109 violent verses that speak to current day followers, since the unholy ko ‘ran contains NO overall theme otherwise.

    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx

  25. Eyes Open says

    Feb 14, 2017 at 7:20 am

    NO the koran and the hadiths are fueling terrorism

  26. fedupAmerican says

    Feb 14, 2017 at 9:04 am

    When I was in high school bullies would wait for me on the way home and attack me. I would hit back. According to the islamophobia argument I shouldn’t have hit back because that just made the bullies angry and motivated them to bully me. While this was ongoing I became involved in athletic activities and built up my strength. Than one day I defeated the bully, I trapped him in a head lock and squeezed and he became terrified and never bothered me again. What was interesting was the other bullies didn’t either. Word got around. The worst thing you can do is not fight back against bullies. Same with Islam, you have to fight back but fighting back is not enough, you have to win. Islam says strike terror in the non-believers, but what really needs to be done is to strike terror in the believers. Muhammad said “I have been made victorious through terror” that’s exactly what is happening throughout the west, Islam is becoming victorious because people are afraid. They’re also confused. It is the Muslims who have to be afraid that is the key to peace.

    Moshe Dayan once said The essence of Israel’s security in this region (Middle East) is deterrence. When we formed the State in 1948-9, we were very weak. The Arab States had planes, tanks, heavy artillery and many more soldiers than us. We had very little heavy military equipment. In the period 1949-55, we absorbed almost a million immigrants. Tent cities sprung up all over the country. We were totally disorganized. Had the Arabs mounted another major invasion, we could have lost. We devised a solution to this problem. It was deterrence. Think about being lost in a forest and surrounded by hostile animals. If you light a torch, boldly approach them showing no fear — they will retreat. But, if you show fear — they will attack and you are lost. We used this principle to save Israel during those early years. Every time we were attacked, we retaliated ten-fold. We showed daring and penetrated deep within their borders to attack our targets… You know the result. The Arabs were afraid and never attacked. Deterrence worked.

    The Muslims have to be afraid, very afraid if there is to be peace.

  27. ninetyninepct says

    Feb 14, 2017 at 10:43 am

    This idiot actually gets a paycheque. Hard to believe. This ignorant comment is right up there with thinking that if there were no laws then nobody would ever commit a crime. Incredibly stupid.

    This whole “hate speech” thing is being attempted in Canada where the jihadist extremist terrorists in Trudeau’s Liberal Government are trying to make any comment regarding Islam subject to criminal charges. Many Canadian police forces are already Shariah compliant including the RCMP. It is no stretch to expect that a web site such as this would be against the law and I could expect my door being smashed down by the anti-free speech police.

    All phone calls, all e-mails, all communication would be monitored by the Liberal Sharia enforcers.

    Call or mail your Canadian MP and demand they vote against M-103.

    • Joe McDonald says

      Mar 6, 2017 at 5:42 am

      50,000 death threats & counting.
      Real Canadians!

  28. Voytek Gagalka says

    Feb 14, 2017 at 8:26 pm

    If UN Chief Antonio Guterres would have any brain cells left still capable of reasoning and not yet being affected by his fast advancing senility, and if he would not be such an opportunistic coward he is, he would surely understand that his very visit to such country as Saudi Arabia fuels more jihad terror than any possible unfriendly comments about Islam made by non-Muslims (notorious “Islamophobia”). Why? Because S.A. finances jihad! And by endorsing them, appeasing them, *recognizing* them, one helps indirectly to spread that said jihad and Islam, and thus ensure that “Islamophobia,” which should be rather be called healthy Islam-aversion will only bloom.

  29. Richard Courtemanche says

    Feb 17, 2017 at 1:29 pm

    And it’s also a fraud fueling hate against Muslims.

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