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Raymond Ibrahim: Islamic Hate, Not Islamic State

May 11, 2017 10:15 am By Raymond Ibrahim

A lie conceals the truth. And ugly but hidden truths never have a chance of being acknowledged, addressed, and ameliorated. Because of this simple truism, one of the greatest lies of our age — that violence committed in the name of Islam has nothing to do with Islam — has made an intrinsically weak Islam the scourge of the modern world, with no signs of relief on the horizon.

It is, therefore, useful to expose the main strategy used by liars in government, media, and academia: 1) to ignore the generic but chronic everyday reports of Muslim violence against non-Muslims around the world; 2) to address only spectacular Muslim violence, which, because it is almost always committed by professional jihadi groups can be portrayed as a finite, temporal, localized problem: defeat that particular “terrorist group” and the problem vanishes.

By way of example, consider the Islamic targeting of Christian churches. Last month, after two Egyptian churches were bombed, leaving 51 worshippers dead, everyone was quick to point out that something called “ISIS” — which of course “has nothing to do with Islam” — was responsible.

On Easter Sunday, 2016, more than 3,000 miles away from Egypt, in Pakistan, approximately 70 Christians were killed in a bomb attack, also specifically targeting Easter celebrations. Then we were told that something called “Taliban” — also “nothing to do with Islam” — was responsible.

Meanwhile, some 3,000 miles west of Egypt, in Nigeria, Christians are also under attack. There, 11,500 Christians have been killed and 13,000 churches destroyed. According to the official narrative, something called “Boko Haram” is responsible. This is another group that habitually bombs churches during Christmas and Easter; another group that, we are told, “has nothing to do with Islam,” but rather is a finite, temporal, localized problem: defeat it, and the problem vanishes.

About 5,000 miles west of Nigeria, in the U.S., Americans were told that something called “al-Qaeda” attacked and killed 3,000 of their countrymen on 9/11; defeating that finite group would cease the terror. Its leader, Osama bin Laden, was reportedly killed, and victory loudly proclaimed — until, that is, an even more savage manifestation called the “Islamic State” came on the scene and went further than al-Qaeda could’ve ever dreamed.

The problem is not merely that the liars in media, government, and academia refuse to connect the dots and insist on treating each of the aforementioned groups as disparate, finite groups with different “political” or “territorial” motivations — none of which has anything to do with Islam. The greater issue is that regular Muslims who are not called “ISIS,” “Taliban,” “Boko Haram,” or “al-Qaeda,” commit similar acts — and much more frequently — though this is rarely mentioned by big media lest people begin to connect the dots.

Thus, although ISIS claimed the Egyptian church bombing before Easter, it is everyday Egyptian imams who “preach hatred and violence against Christians to the public over loudspeakers”; it is everyday Muslims who persecute Christians “every two or three days”; every day Muslims who riot and kill whenever a rumor surfaces that a church is going to be built, or that a Coptic kid “blasphemed” against Muhammad, or that a Christian man is dating a Muslim woman. In short, it is every day Muslims — not “ISIS” — who cause Egypt to be the 21st worst nation in the world in which to be Christian.

Similarly, though the Taliban claimed 2016’s Easter bombing, it is everyday Muslims who discriminate against, persecute, enslave, rape and murder Christians almost every day in Pakistan, making it the fourth worst nation in the world in which to be Christian. And though Boko Haram is always blamed for the more spectacular attacks on Christians and their churches, it is everyday Muslims, including the Muslim Fulani herdsmen, who make Nigeria the 12th worst nation in which to be Christian.

This is the real issue. While the media may name the terrorist groups responsible for especially spectacular attacks, few dare acknowledge that Muslims in general engage in similar acts of violence and intolerance against non-Muslims all around the world. Indeed, Muslims — of all races, nationalities, languages, and socio-political and economic circumstances, hardly just “terror groups” — are responsible for persecuting Christians in 40 of the world’s 50 worst nations in which to be Christian. Accordingly, what “extremist” “terrorist” and “militant” groups are doing is only the notable tip of the iceberg of what Muslims are doing all around the world. (See “Muslim Persecution of Christians,” reports which I’ve been compiling every month since July 2011 and witness the nonstop discrimination, persecution, and carnage committed by “everyday” Muslims against Christians. Each monthly report contains dozens of atrocities, most of which if committed by Christians against Muslims would receive 24/7 blanket coverage.)

It bears repeating: media aren’t just covering up for Islam by pretending that the spectacular attacks committed by Islamic groups on non-Muslims are finite, localized, and most importantly, “have nothing to do with Islam.” They are covering up for Islam by failing to report the everyday persecution non-Muslims experience at the hands of everyday Muslims — Muslim individuals, Muslim mobs, Muslim police, and Muslim governments (including America’s closest “friends and allies”) — and hardly just Muslim “terrorists.” They dare not connect the dots and offer a holistic picture which doesn’t merely implicate this or that group but Islam in general.

Accordingly, the world must continue to suffer from Islamic aggression. Not only have these lies allowed countless innocents to be persecuted into oblivion in the Muslim world, but they have allowed the same persecution to enter America and Europe, most recently via mass immigration.

The fact remains: an ugly truth must first be acknowledged before it can be remedied. It may be hard to acknowledge an ugly truth — that Islam, not “radical Islam,” promotes hate for and violence against non-Muslims — but anything less will just continue to feed the lie, that is, continue to feed the jihad and terror.

In short, the problem is not so much the “Islamic State”; it is Islamic hate. The former is but one of many temporal and historical manifestations of the latter, which, as an integral part of Islam, transcends time and space.

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  1. mortimer says

    May 11, 2017 at 10:34 am

    ISLAM HAS AN ‘ESSENTIAL’ DOCTRINE OF HATE: ‘AL BARAA’ = Islamic Apartheid

    A propaganda definition of jihad we often hear ‘meaning to purify oneself or one’s community’, is incorrect as a matter of fact, since all four schools of Sunni jurisprudence say that the primary and paramount definition of jihad is kinetic war against non-Muslims to forcibly establish submission to Islamic law globally. Al Qaeda’s bin Laden explained jihad like this: “Battle, animosity, and hatred…directed from the Muslim to the infidel…is the foundation of our religion. And we consider this a justice and kindness to them.” -Osama bin Laden

    Al Bughoud = Hatred of Kafirs for the sake of Allah, or Al Mu’adaat, this is the opposite of Al Muwalaat, it is:
    – To Hate
    – To keep distance from
    – To be enemy to
    – To desert
    – To decline to help
    – To disrespect
    – To put down
    – Not to ally with
    – Not to support

    * ‘Essential’ doctrine (usul ud-deen) means that all Muslims must believe and practice hatred of dirty kufaar ‘for the sake of Allah’ or they will not enter Islamic paradise. Hatred of kufaar is incumbent upon all Muslims.

  2. mortimer says

    May 11, 2017 at 10:44 am

    Nine of the most dangerous countries for Christians are Islamic. Pakistan, Nigeria and Mali are the most dangerous Islamic countries for a Christian.

    What is Pope Francis going to do to protect Nigerian and Pakistani Catholics… besides take sides against them?

    • marina says

      May 11, 2017 at 12:00 pm

      Pope Francis will wash more Muzlim feet thinking that appeasement will stop the persecution of Christians.

      • Rufolino says

        May 12, 2017 at 3:18 am

        Pope Frankie, Merkel, et al., are doing more damage to Europe than Hitler. Europe recovered from Hitler…

  3. Ciudadano says

    May 11, 2017 at 10:50 am

    Completely agree. To certain point terrorism has become a distraction from the major problem of regioliously motivanted intolerance and violence in the Islamic World. Even it has become an easy excuse for muslim that argue that they are also victims of terrorism.

    Just to reiterate more evidence of intolerance and violence in islam:

    Thirteen Muslim-majority countries punish apostasy (abandoning Islam) or “blasphemy” (ie the least criticism of Islam or mahoma) with death http://tinyurl.com/ld6vjkh For example in Saudi Arabia recently a Man was’ Condemned to death by atheism ‘http://tinyurl.com/m2a92tl.

    Most islamic countries haven’t signed off the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, instead they come up with their own Cairo Declaration of Human Rights which explicitly rejects freedom of conscience and religion and establishes superiority of Islam over other religions. It is not coincidente that Islamic and communist countries consistently get the worse human rights scores.

    According to Aid for the Church in Need there are “334 million persecuted Christians in the world”, mainly in Islamic countries (http://tinyurl.com/j8ygyus).

    In Indonesia, allegedly the most moderate Islamic country, Ahok, the Christian governor of Jakarta, was convicted in a blasphemy trial http://tinyurl.com/mskvm4w The “blasphemy” he committed was “interpreting” verse 5:51 Of the Koran “Oh, you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies! … “to defend themselves against the fundamentalist Muslims who used this verse to convince people not to vote for him.

    The fact is that intolerance and violence have been instrinsic to Islam since its inception. Terrorism is just the must spectacular manifestation of the violent Islamic ethos. Muhamed said “I have been made victorious with terror” and those words up to this day encourage terrorists and jihadits.

  4. Philo sophy says

    May 11, 2017 at 11:50 am

    Why so much talk about Islam? Let people talk more about pure Secular State, A state without Islam as well as Christianity and anything approaching Islam, like communism-socialism… a labor state–Khalistan….

    Civilization means State without followers of Religion, and dedicated to protect citizen. NO Welfare State, that is likely to turn towards labor state and then Islamic State….hatred for citizen, for woman and children as easy target to break

    Let’s propagate for Secular State.

  5. jihad3tracker says

    May 11, 2017 at 12:56 pm

    ANOTHER EXCELLENT BLOG POST AND (LINKED) ITEM BY MR. IBRAHIM — In the final paragraph, “Islamic hate”. This is a timely coincidence:

    As many of us might know, several days ago, CAIR put out yet more BS taqiyya in a screed titled “The Empowerment Of Hate”, which privilege-guilt ignorant reporters at 2 MSM local TV stations in my city ate up without any pushback questions.

    Obviously the “hate crime” moniker is getting epoxied as the buzz topic for clueless Left-loving media personnel, so I HAVE A SUGGESTION FOR OUR COUNTER-JIHAD READERS:

    SEND THE LINKED ARTICLY BY MR. IBRAHIM TO AS MANY CHIEF EXECUTIVES as possible in TV stations around your geographical area. And write a paragraph on your own journey from ignorance to knowledge.

    Also, for the RESIDENT SCHOLARS visiting JW, who know well just where hate in the Qur’an and Hadith is found, cite some choice verses and passages as evidence.

    You can conclude by making the crucial point that Islam has been waging such pathology since Muhammad was alive. Such sick violence is not going to cease — jihad attacks are happening with increasing frequency & lethality.

    If the media persons considering this reality have families with children, those younger ones’ lives literally depend on shedding comfortable illusions about The Religion Of Shredded Pieces. Then recommend three or four best websites for comprehensive history and context.

    • jihad3tracker says

      May 11, 2017 at 1:22 pm

      ******* AN IMPORTANT TACTIC ABOUT THE TV STATION EMAILS ********

      Because urban areas are so competitive for broadcast media, and viewership “ratings” numbers can be the determinant of how many companies pay stations for ad time:

      PLEASE INCLUDE IN YOUR MESSAGE TO THOSE MEDIA SOURCES THAT YOU ARE SENDING BASICALLY AN IDENTICAL EMAIL TO SEVERAL OTHER STATIONS.

      And, that, unless the station executive reading your remarks takes them seriously and ACTUALLY GETS REAL ABOUT JIHAD & ISLAM — other TV broadcasters will beat them out for a healthy profit margin.

  6. Politicianphobia says

    May 12, 2017 at 9:45 am

    Islamic hate is spreading worldwide. Hibtz ut-Tahrir is spreading hate in Canada–Imam Mazin Abdul-Adhim, London, Ontario calls for Shari’ah law (treason), Imams call for the death of Jews. Why are they not charged with hate speech ? The Liberals and NDP vote for discussion on M-103. What is wrong with this picture? Puppet people all around the world are bowing to their demands. Justine scolds Canadians for being intolerant. I loathe him. Raymond is right, Islam spreads hate.

  7. SAKOVKT says

    May 12, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    Raymond Ibrahim has one major problem here.

    Christianity rejects Judaism as well as Islam over the issue of the personality of Christ.

    Neither accepts Christ as who He said He was in the New Testament.

    If one is to accept the Judaic version, then there is nothing to reject the Islamic version.

    If one can edit divine revelation to suit the needs of the time, then the revelation is not timeless.

    It is ephemeral, political, and nothing more.

    What goes around, comes around.

    That is Timeless.

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