The fear of being labeled a bigot has cost lives. My latest in PJ Media:
Counterterror analyst Paul Sperry reported in the New York Post last Saturday:
[The New York Police Department] censored an anti-terror handbook to appease offended Muslims, even though it has accurately predicted radicalization patterns in recent ‘homegrown’ terror cases.”
So it is demonstrated yet again: Islamophobia endangers us all.
To clarify: “Islamophobia” is a propaganda neologism with no fixed meaning.
Nowadays, it is frequently used to refer to two phenomena that are actually quite disparate: vigilante attacks and harassment of innocent Muslims, which are never justifiable; and honest examination of how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify hatred, violence, and oppression. Both are called “Islamophobia,” and held to be beyond the pale in polite society.
When I say that “Islamophobia endangers us all,” I am referring to the application of the label “Islamophobia” to realistic appraisals of jihad terrorists’ motivating ideology. The stigmatization and marginalization of such analysis is endangering Americans, and will continue to do so.
Here’s how. Patrick Dunleavy, former deputy inspector general of the New York state prisons’ criminal intelligence division, noted:
[The discarded NYPD report] was extremely accurate on how the radicalization process works and what indicators to look for.
Former FBI agent John Guandolo explains the facts on the ground:
The FBI has its hands full with over 1,000 open cases on ISIS terrorist suspects already in the U.S., and it needs the help of well-trained eyes and ears on the ground at the local and state level. The bad guys know if police don’t know this stuff at the ground level, they win.
In December 2015 in San Bernardino, when the Islamic jihadist couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik murdered fourteen people at a Christmas party, a friend of one of their neighbors recalled that the neighbor had told him about suspicious activity at the couple’s home. Said the friend:
Sounds like she didn’t do anything about it … She didn’t want to do any kind of racial profiling. She’s like, “I didn’t call it in … maybe it was just me thinking something that’s not there.”
For years, this neighbor had been force-fed the value that noticing suspicious behavior by Muslims amounts to “bigotry” and “racial profiling,” or “Islamophobia.” Fourteen people are now dead because politically correct niceties were preserved; because hurt feelings were placed ahead of objectivity.
This wasn’t a singular incident. The fear of “Islamophobia” charges has overridden, or threatened to override, concern about jihad terrorism for years. On December 22, 2008, five Muslims were convicted of plotting to enter the U.S. Army base in Fort Dix, New Jersey, to murder as many soldiers as they could. A sixth received five years in prison for weapons offenses. The plot was uncovered in January 2006 when two of the terrorists entered a Circuit City in New Jersey and asked a clerk to convert a videotape to DVD. The video showed men shooting automatic weapons and screaming “Allahu akbar.”
Although the clerk was alarmed, he hesitated over what to do.
Years of politically correct indoctrination from the establishment media made him wonder if it would be wrong to stop these men. Finally, he asked a coworker:
Dude, I just saw some really weird s—. I don’t know what to do. Should I call someone or is that being racist?
His concern was ironic, given that the Fort Dix plotters were all white European Muslims from the former Yugoslavia. In any case, his coworker urged him to contact police, and he ultimately did.
His hesitation is yet another indication of how successful American Muslim advocacy groups have been in portraying resistance to the global jihad as “racism” and “Islamophobia.”…
Read the rest here.
PRCS says
From the article:
““incubators of extremism”
What would a “man on the street” interview reveal if average American citizens were asked to define at what point a Muslim’s compliance with Qur”an and Sunn’ah becomes “extremism”?
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: How Islamophobia Endangers Us All
The fear of being labeled a bigot has cost lives.
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It has indeed. How many times have we heard about suspicious neighbors or coworkers unwilling to say anything, lest they be branded “Islamophobes”?
At Ft. Hood, this even extended to high-ranking military personnel.
mortimer says
Say ‘NO’ to POLITICAL CORRECTNESS… it costs lives!
epistemology says
I’m a proud Islamophobe, I don’t give a bit what all these idiots think about me. I know Islam is terrorism and the same ideology as Nazism. I’ve been banned on facebook so many times for saying what I think about the religion of piss.
mortimer says
Say ‘NO’ to JIHADISM… bigoted warfare against disbelievers.
mortimer says
IDEOLOGIES DO NOT HAVE RIGHTS.
IDEOLOGIES DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO ‘RESPECT’.
PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE AN AUTOMATIC RIGHT TO ‘RESPECT’.
PEOPLE MUST ‘EARN’ RESPECT. IDEOLOGIES MUST ‘EARN’ RESPECT.
Pierre Le Kuffar says
Islamophobia – if you look at the word long enough it’s sheer ridiculousness appears, islamo phobia….islam o’phobia…isla mopho bia…isla mofo beer.
Islam is infested with TERRORISTS whose AIM is to TERRIFY hence the name, but…BUT….B U T if we are AFRAID of the people who KILL MAIM MUTILATE BOMB BEHEAD AND RAPE in an effort to scare as many people as possible then shame on us for fearing the fear-mongers we are islamoPHOBIC!
This is so pathetic that leftist progressives have fallen for the trap and along with them many virtue signalling non-thinkers.
BC says
To paraphrase the saying about paranoia. It is not Islamophobia when the Islamists really are trying to kill you.
simpleton1 says
I believe this bears repeating.
[The New York Police Department] censored an anti-terror handbook
This I understand is the anti-terror book.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/files/NYPD_Report-Radicalization_in_the_West.pdf
So copies can be made, (in case this censored or shut down some how) and still spread, may be to security guards, local police, soldiers and interested friends.
Another form of wising up.
Although there are many things there that we may know, it also comes from the view of what should be looked for and done from a policing security approach.
It shows 5 case studies, and the process of becoming a terrorist, but then the 4 stages itself can be fulfilling to others
It may appear dated, by events up to 2006, What then what has changed over the pasts 1400 years of islam.
If any thing time as well as our knowledge now, simply proves all its points in its summation of 86 pages.
Would be interesting if there is another updated around as well.
Oyia Brown says
If a phobia is a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous, surely Islamophobia is a self contradictory term!.
NEIL C. REINHARDT says
IN MY VIEW, ANYONE WHO IS NOT ONE IS A FOOL WHO IS IGNORANT OF WHAT IS IN THE QURAN., THEIR INTENT IS TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD, INSTALL THEIR STUPID LAWS AND KILL ALL JEWS, ATHEISTS LIKE ME AND ANYONE ELSE THEY CHOOSE TO.
NOT BEING AFRAID OF PEOPLE LIKE THAT IS ILLOGICAL, IRRATIONAL AND NOT OVERLY BRIGHT!
Benedict says
“The fear of being labeled a bigot has cost lives.” –
Could these “no to islamophobia” demonstrations in fact be a profound form of islamophobia? A kind of incantation in order to make the evident evils of Islam go away by declaring them nonexistent?
Just a hunch.
Ganesha_akbar says
If one wishes to speak of fear or “phobia”, one should speak instead of Candorphobia– the fear of and revulsion toward perfectly legitimate criticisms of Islamo-supremacists.
Secular Muslims (interested in reform) are left unsupported precisely because most Leftists fear being accused (falsely) of hate-mongering by sharia enablers, more than they’re haunted for branding themselves as moral cowards over abandoning the defense of human rights.
Muslims in America may be the very soul of moderation. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable for folks to ask for more from (allegedly) “peaceful” Muslims than disingenuous whitewashing of uncomfortable elements of Islamic sharia tradition, as practiced by the San Bernardino jihadists.
A genuine tiny minority of anti-sharia Muslims may be found at the Institution for Secularization of Islamic Society (the original ISIS)
Americans remain breathless in anticipation of the vast majority of (allegedly) “peaceful” Muslims supporting this genuinely tiny minority of their co-religionists… but don’t hold your breath. Sharia enablers are determined to fight the Muslim Brotherhood’s enemies to the last infidel.
See also, “Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left”
[Graduate Library Stacks: HN90.R3 H583 2004]
Mark Swan says
Islamophobes
Have you been branded an Islamophobe – a slur word invented by Muslims against non-Muslims?
Then join the ranks of the world’s greatest political leaders, military leaders, writers, philosophers, historians, researchers and intellectuals; the movers and shakers of history.
Here are just a very few of them and their opinions:
An extremely large percentage of Muslims in South Asia today are the progeny of forcible conversions and systematic rape campaigns by marauding Muslim invaders.
– Dr. Younis Shaikh
Pakistani medical doctor, human rights activist and freethinker.
Some, indeed, dream of an Islam in the future, rationalised and regenerate. All this has been tried already, and has miserably failed. The Koran has so encrusted the religion in a hard unyielding casement of ordinances and social laws, that if the shell be broken the life is gone. A rationalistic Islam would be Islam no longer.
– Sir William Muir
Scottish Orientalist, scholar of Islam, and colonial administrator (27 April 1819 – 11 July 1905).
The brotherhood of Islam is not the universal brotherhood of man. It is brotherhood of Muslims for Muslims only. There is a fraternity but its benefit is confined to those within that corporation. For those who are outside the corporation, there is nothing but contempt, slavery and enmity.
– Dr.B.R. Ambedkar
Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956).
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities – but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
– Sir Winston Churchill
British Conservative politician and statesman of the United Kingdom (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965).
Religious harmony is a desirable thing. But it takes two to play the game. Unfortunately such a sentiment holds no position in Islamic theology.
– Ram Swarup
Independent Hindu thinker and prolific author (1920 – 26 December 1998).
Over a billion people believe in Allah without truly knowing what Allah supposedly stands for or what he really demands of them. And the minority that do understand continue to be Moslems because they have redefined their morality and ethics to fit within the teachings of Islam, which are floridly lacking in morality. They therefore redefine what is good and evil in order to fit their lives into what is preached by Islam, instead of examining Islam to see if it fits within the good life. Backwards thinking, imposed by a backward religion.
– Professor Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970).
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
– Will Durant
American writer, historian, and philosopher (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981
There are such “social values” today in Europe, America, and Australia only because during those thousand years the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do – that is, to beat back the Moslem invader.
– Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
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Politicianphobia says
Last year I asked a group of ten women what they thought of Islam, all agreed it is a religion of peace. None ever heard of sharia law. When I started to tell them a few things about Islam I was immediately told I am an Islamophobe, a bigot and racist. Sweet women turned to nasty women. One year later all ten women have told me how sorry they are for being so cruel to me and yes I was right. They started reading about Islam and were shocked. If 10 people tell ten people. What you don’t know WILL hurt you.
dumbledoresarmy says
Very encouraging story, there.
A reminder to all of us that *waking up can take TIME*. WE may not get to personally witness the ‘aha’ moment when someone who has yelled at us indignantly, in a random conversation, face to face or on the internets, after we have drawn attention to a few uncomfortable things about Islam, later on – – perhaps months or a yeat later – gets curious, whether because of something we said or something else that happens or is said, and does a bit of reading, and goes “OH SHIT THIS IS FOR REAL!” and becomes… Islamo-aware, and very much Islamoleery.
Our job is to try, as calmly and briefly as we can, to point out a few salient facts. I think, myself, that the apostasy law and the blasphemy law are useful ones to emphasise. For me, it’s the apostasy law that is the ‘deal-breaker’ as far as Muslim immigration goes. Both it and the blasphemy law are very obviously in operation today, and not only in the dar al Islam; they are ugly as hell and they can be connected directly to the Islamic texts and the example of Mohammed. Muslim antisemitism (a subspecies of general Muslim hatred of all Kuffar) is also something we need to draw to people’s attention.
There are other things one can, according to context, bring up. The hatred of dogs (with the relevant Hadiths). The sharia ban on music and representational art. Child ‘marriage’, with the example of Mohammed and Aisha and a slew of examples of the Mohammedan model being well and truly emulated here and now, in Islamic countries (e.g. Yemen and Afghanistan, whose pre-Islamic cultures and societies were totally different from one another, yet whose Islamic culture and society are dismally similar), and also among Muslims in the Lands of the Infidels. And the wife-beating verse. Learn it by heart, in a couple of different versions. And when you do point it out, also mention casually that there is not even one verse anywhere in any part of the Bible that is *remotely* similar.
Your story should encourage us all to keep on keeping on – educating, warning, educating, warning.
Because people *are* listening and people *are* waking up.
RK says
NOTE TO SELF AMERICA AND TO THE WORLD- being called “racist,” “Islamophobic” and “intolerant” is a chief stealth weapon of Islamic supremacists who are attempting to advance the Sharia in the West. WAKE UP TO THE TRUTH! WAKE UP AMERICA! Be careful what u wish for people…. YES indoctrination IS very real- this game of twists and turns, deceit and pretend. That too is written in their Koran.
What happened to the word “assimilate:- NOT us to them in our own Country but vise-a-versa, them to us…hmmm???
A REMINDER: – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President:
“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be NO divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Lydia says
The term “Islamophobia” is the problem. There is Islam and there is terrorism as a result, which in turn results in fear or ‘phobia.’ That is natural for the natural man. But to claim it is an ‘irrational’ fear, now that is what is irrational because it is a rational fear. Their koran teaches to do terrorist acts, that is not ‘extremist’ islam, that is the norm. So when we see these things increasing all over the landscape, the normal reaction is to be vigilant. The same approach was applied to the spread of the nazi dictatorship, so that it would not spread and take over to rule the world with evil. No one called out “naziphobia”! They saw the problem and addressed it accordingly and eradicated it. But now all of a sudden they cry out like victims, they are the perpetrators, and it’s all a propaganda spin. The foolish fall for all of the indoctrination in all these big agenda areas on a daily basis. I thank the Lord that He spared me from that blindness and I see clearly. Now I am totally NOT afraid of anything they can ‘do’ to me, just like the martyrs throughout church history had nothing to fear either. But I know that puts me in a special place. Of course any regular person would fear all the terrorism and it is sad to see but I have no personal fears.
Politicianphobia says
Lydia, I am with you. People need to stand up and be counted. NOW
Lilythewise says
It is not a phobia if they’re actually trying to harm you.
It is in their holy book the Quran. I notice people who defend Islam have never read the Quran.