Here we go again: always the victim, no matter what. If anyone has a “dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims,” it’s not because of “the plight of the Rohingya Muslims and the spate of elections held in the United States and Europe over the last year.” Nor is it because of the nefarious deeds of Bannon, Horowitz, Gaffney and me. It’s because of the jihad attacks today in Edmonton and Marseille. It’s because of the Muslim in Italy who raped and beat his wife and forced her to wear a burqa. It’s because of the Muslim in Oklahoma who beheaded a coworker and invoked the Qur’an to justify his actions. It’s because of the Muslim in the UK who paraded a “Hitler You Were Right” sign.
And that’s just the news from the last few days.
“Muslims must step up fight against Islamophobia,” by Mushtak Parker, New Straits Times, September 30, 2017:
THE plight of the Rohingya Muslims and the spate of elections held in the United States and Europe over the last year have seen a surge in Islamophobia, which the Oxford English dictionary defines as “a dislike of or prejudice against Islam or Muslims, especially as a political force”, and others as “an irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against Islam or people who practise Islam”.
Whether it is in the form of cartoons or tweets, or online blogs, social media has been a godsend for anti-Muslim prejudice. In Myanmar, some of the worst perpetrators have been right-wing nationalists who fought repression under the military junta, where Internet trolls and cartoonists have been vicious in their anti-Muslim diatribe.
It is in the US and Europe that the “war against Islam” has been brewing in recent decades in tandem with the rise of the Far Right or AltRight (Alternative Right), partly in response to a perceived loss of identity and economic status, revolt against the establishment, and partly because of the spate of refugees and immigrants coming to the West.
The flood of fake news and race hate social media stoking up anti-immigrant and anti-Islam sentiments has played a crucial role in the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD), the new “Darling of the Far Right” in the West, entering the Bundestag following last week’s German elections. This is the first time a fascist party has done this since Adolf Hitler’s National Socialists in 1939….
Rosenwald also, reportedly, funds a spate of AltRight Islamophobic organisations and individuals, including Breitbart, the Far Right American news network and its former chairman, Steve Bannon, until recently President Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist, and pundits, such as Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney, and David Horowitz. Gaffney’s Syariah Watch website is like an oracle on Islamophobia….
mummymovie says
You’ve got to laugh: The media will stop at nothing to drum up victimhood and generate hashtags and outpourings of sympathy for muslims in the interest of resettling more muslim ‘refugees’ and importing more Islam to the west:
Now the BUDDHISTS are the bad guys!
Those villainous monks in their orange robes, picking on the poor, poor peaceful muslims… Oh, the horror!!
David says
so True.
mummymovie says
We must rescue those poor Rohingya muslims from from those evil Buddhists immediately!
We’ll send them straight to your neighborhood- How does that sound?
Save Europe says
So true. Those Buddhists are terrible 😉 I would send the (ahem!) ‘refugees’ to Antarctica, but it would be harsh on the Penguins….
JOHN says
Please! Do not give Trudope any ideas, there are more than enough misbehaving muslims in Canada already.
Bev says
I can’t believe we’re sending tax dollars to support the Islamists. We’re basically rewarding them for trying to spread their vile ideology in a Buddahist country.
“You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog. If we are weak, our land will become Muslim” – Ashin Wirathu,…
pat mott says
Little sympathy I’m afraid!
Voytek Gagalka says
“This is the first time a fascist party has done this since Adolf Hitler’s National Socialists in 1939…”
They should better get their historical records straight before claiming any “victim status” for themselves. That quotation alone, for me, has the power to dismiss whole of their false claims, outright. Hitler’s fascist party (NAZI) came to power in 1933 and their party was present in the Reichstag for some years BEFORE that year. Not that they had anything whatsoever to do with the current AfD party which, albeit a “right-wing” party, is rather nationalist and patriotic. Deliberate lies and distortions of historical records definitely do not help your case, pesky Mohammedans!
gravenimage says
Yes–of course, this is nothing but calumny.
Westman says
Mushtak Parker claims resistance to islam is a result of: “…the Far Right or AltRight (Alternative Right), partly in response to a perceived loss of identity and economic status, revolt against the establishment, and partly because of the spate of refugees and immigrants coming to the West.”
Mushtak, you couldn’t be more in error about the causes of resistance to Islam or the thinly-disguised false belief that if your perceived “islamophobia” went away there would be open arms for an Islam that is not fit for the 21st Century.
Why do the refugees not flock to majority Muslim countries, Mushtak? Why are these millions of Muslim refugees willfully expressing “Islamophobia” for Islam’s own countries and why are some Muslim countries expressing “Islamophobia” by refusing to take them?
If Muslims can’t reconcile Islam, and fight among themselves, then what validity do you have, Mushtak, in declaring Western resistance to Islam as “Islamophobia”? Islam is a house divided.
The West is not suffering from islamophobia, Mushtak; it’s suffering from Islamo-awareness that keeps hammering upon us in the form, typically, of some Muslims, carrying the names of Muhammad and his Companions, committing attrocities on, and in, the West while invoking the name of Allah. Islamoviolence.
AWARENESS, Musktak. Memorize the word and what it means because Islam’s ideology and its inability to keep to itself(Dawa, forbidding, mayhem) will always lead to awareness of Islam; and that awareness will lead to resistance.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Westman.
mohamonator says
Parker’s piece is cut-and-paste from the mohamo-apologist playbook. INVEIGH against manifold “dark forces” arrayed against hapless mohammedans. MINIMIZE, or in this case, totally ignore mohammedan jihadist attacks. PLAY UP terrorist attacks by followers of other faiths or ideologies.
In short, keep slinging the taqiya at the filthy kuffaar in the knowledge that the more uninformed or gullible among them will take the bait.
gravenimage says
All too true.
mortimer says
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Michael Copeland says
can easily result in Islamonausea
Vajapeya says
See the plight of “Hindu” Rohingyas(If ever they existed. They are just Bangaldeshi Hindus).given in this link. Nobody seems to weep for the close to a million Hindus killed off in Bangladesh in the 1970’s.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-4919172/Forced-conversions-reported-Rohingya-refugee-camps.html
gravenimage says
Some of us do. But most people don’t know anything about how Infidels have been oppressed and murdered in both east and west Pakistan (now Pakistan and Bangladesh).
Linde Barrera says
I bet my last nickel that the surge in “Islamophobia” is because normal people have connected the dots and seen that Islam can equal terror if you don’t do it the Islamists’ way. ? And who wants to bet I am correct?
gravenimage says
Spot on, Linde.
abad says
The Rohingya Moslems did all of this to themselves.They are incapable of living alongside Buddhists, Christians, Jews, anyone else for that matter.
Therefore, they have no one to blame but themselves.
gravenimage says
Muslim “journalist”: “Plight of Rohingya Muslims and elections in US and Europe have seen surge in Islamophobia”
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Don’t you know the Rohingya Muslims should be allowed to rape and murder Infidels in peace?
“Myanmar: Mass graves found as Rohingya Muslims massacre Hindus, burn their homes, kidnap women for marriage”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/09/myanmar-rohingya-muslims-massacre-hindus-burn-their-homes-kidnap-women-for-marriage
More:
The flood of fake news…
Rosenwald also, reportedly, funds a spate of AltRight Islamophobic organisations and individuals, including Breitbart, the Far Right American news network and its former chairman, Steve Bannon, until recently President Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist, and pundits, such as Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney, and David Horowitz. Gaffney’s Syariah Watch website is like an oracle on Islamophobia….
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Notice that Mushtak Parker does not actually say what any of these groups have said about Islam that is “fake”. This should *not* surprise.
Here’s more from Mushtak Parker, claiming that terrorism is a “universal phenomenon” that has nothing to do with Islam.
“A universal phenomenon”
https://www.nst.com.my/news/2017/01/202902/universal-phenomenon
Oddly, he uses the shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale airport in Florida as an example–yet does not mention that victims heard Esteban Santiago-Ruiz using a Muslim name, nor mention that he claimed he had been forced to fight for ISIS.
Tom says
Islamophobia, Islamophobia, Islamophobia, Islamophobia, Islamophobia, Islamophobia, Islamophobia, Islamophobia,
See it’s just a word, nothing to be afraid of, so let them say it as much as they want and laugh in their face as they say it. Once the power of a word is taken away, then it just becomes, once again, a word, one of many thousands.
Racist used to be the BIG scary word but that has gone now because people don’t allow it to have any meaning, other than the person using it is uninformed or just plain stupid.
Bowen G says
Islamists More Responsible for Rohingya Refugee Crisis Than Anyone Else
Mohshin Habib, a Bangladeshi author, columnist and journalist, is Executive Editor of The Daily Asian Age.
The current crisis of Rohingya refugees fleeing Burma is being depicted — wrongly — as the “ethnic cleansing” of an innocent Muslim minority, but the true aggressors are radical Islamists among the Rohingyas themselves, who with guns, machetes and bombs are killing their own people — in addition to Buddhists, Hindus, and others that get in their way”, reports Mohshin Habib.
The current crisis is being depicted — wrongly — as the “ethnic cleansing” of an innocent Muslim minority by Burma’s security forces, and the “apathy” to the plight of the Rohingyas by Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s foreign minister and its de facto head of state.
“Their [the Rohingyas’] tactics are terrorism. There’s no question about it. [Kyi is] not calling the entire Rohingya population terrorists, she is referring to a group of people who are going around with guns, machetes, and IEDs and killing their own people in addition to Buddhists, Hindus, and others that get in their way. They have killed a lot of security forces, and they are wreaking havoc in the region. The people who are running and fleeing out to Bangladesh… are fleeing their own radical groups…. [T]he international community has to sort out the facts before making accusations.” — Patricia Clapp, Chief of the U.S. Mission to Myanmar from 1999 to 2002.
The origins of the Bengali Muslim jihad in Western Myanmar in the late 19th century through the World War II era, illustrates that it is “rooted in Islam’s same timeless institution of expansionist jihad which eliminated Buddhist civilization in northern India.” — Dr. Andrew Bostom, author and scholar of Islam…
To grasp the intent of the jihadists in Rakhine, it is important to look into the workings of ARSA — formerly Harakah Al-Yaqin (“Faith Movement” in Arabic) — which was created after the June 2012 Rohingya riots against a Buddhist community.
The group’s main leader, Attaullah Abu Ammar Junnani (known familiarly as Ata Ullah), was born in Karachi, Pakistan to a migrant Rohingya father and grew up in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where he attended a religious Islamic school and developed ties with Saudi clerics. According to the Burmese government, Ata Ullah, at some point, also received training in guerilla warfare under the Taliban in Pakistan. Although he claims to be fighting “on behalf of Myanmar’s long-oppressed Rohingya Muslim minority,” his methods are those of all Islamist terrorists. The danger to Burma — and the reason that India and Bangladesh fear that the refugees pose a security problem — is that Ata Ullah will manage to radicalize a growing number of Rohingyas, both inside and out of the country.
Rather than placing all blame on the Burmese government for this critical situation, the concerned international community and human rights groups must recognize the real threat. Only then can Kyi begin to implement the recommendations spelled out in the plan for a “peaceful, fair and prosperous future for the people of Rakhine” — which she herself commissioned.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11045/myanmar-rohingya-crisis
Michael Casmer says
Where is Richard Gear on all of this?
Save Europe says
…….and yet he does not speak of ‘non-muslimphobia’ after so so so so many Muslim attacks towards the West in a very few months.
Richard Courtemanche says
While they play victimhood, their evil grows.