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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Global Islamophobia Follows Trump’s Embassy Move

Dec 7, 2017 8:49 am By Robert Spencer

Why would anyone think Muslims would react violently? My latest in FrontPage:

President Trump displayed more courage and integrity Wednesday than Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama ever did when he ended twenty-two years of waivers postponing the U.S. Embassy to Israel’s move to Jerusalem, declared that the U.S. recognized that Jerusalem was Israel’s capital, and announced that preparations for the embassy move would begin forthwith. And the world reacted with…Islamophobia.

“Today,” Trump said, “we finally acknowledge the obvious. That Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. This is nothing more or less than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do. It’s something that has to be done.” He added: “This decision is not intended in any way to reflect a departure from our strong commitment to facilitate a lasting peace agreement. We want an agreement that is a great deal for the Israelis and a great deal for the Palestinians….The United States remains deeply committed to helping facilitate a peace agreement that is acceptable to both sides. I intend to do everything in my power to help forge such an agreement.”

Nonetheless, the reaction was predictable. Pope Francis obliquely denounced the move, saying: “I appeal strongly for all to respect the city’s status quo, in accordance with the relevant UN resolutions.” A spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: “We do not support President Trump.” French President Emmanuel Macron said that Trump’s move was “regrettable.” British Prime Minister Theresa May called the move “unhelpful for peace prospects.”

Why were all these leaders, and many more, lining up against the move? Because Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “warned of the dangerous consequences such a decision would have to the peace process and to the peace, security and stability of the region and of the world.” And Jordan’s King Abdullah said the move would “undermine efforts to resume the peace process.”

Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi urged Trump “not to complicate the situation in the region.” Saudi Arabia’s King Salman got to the heart of the matter when he said that the move “would constitute a flagrant provocation of Muslims, all over the world.” Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag warned on Twitter: “Declaring Jerusalem a capital is disregarding history and the truths in the region, it is a big injustice/cruelty, shortsightedness, foolishness/madness, it is plunging the region and the world into a fire with no end in sight.”

Those threats and others made the likes of Merkel, Macron, May and Pope Francis quail. They’re afraid that now that Trump has declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital, Muslims around the world will respond by rioting and killing innocent people. That is, after all, what Abbas means by “dangerous consequences,” and Bozdag by “a fire with no end in sight.”

But – the Islamophobia! Are Merkel, Macron, May and the Pope actually suggesting that we must tiptoe and walk on eggshells around Muslims, lest they react violently to the slightest “provocation” and innocent people get killed? All four of them would vie with one another to be the first in line to insist that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. So how can they be thinking that Muslims will react in any other way to Trump’s announcement than with calm, equanimity, and a renewed determination to return to the negotiating table?

If any other people had assumed that Muslims would riot and kill over this announcement or any other, May, Merkel, Macron and the Mad Pontiff would be the first to denounce them for “Islamophobia.” But since they are the guilty parties in this case, I will have to do the job: I hereby point the finger and utter the J’accuse to all four of them, and any other non-Muslim leader, who is warning today of the imminent danger caused by this “provocation”: you are revealing your “Islamophobia,” and contravening your own stated principles.

You are also admitting, inadvertently, that you know the truth: that the numerous incitements to violence and hatred in the Qur’an and Sunnah do tend to lead to Muslims behaving violently at the drop of a hat, or the move of an embassy. If this be “Islamophobia” to point out and oppose, then every sane person should be an “Islamophobe.” This is the case I make in my new book Confessions of an Islamophobe, the book that demonstrates that everyone who cares for human rights and free societies should be an “Islamophobe.” Get your copy here.

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", dhimmitude, Donald Trump, Featured, Israel, Jerusalem, Robert Spencer Tagged With: Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis, Theresa May


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  1. Charles says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 9:11 am

    THERE IS NO “peace process”
    The muslims have NEVER WANTED PEACE with their Jewish Neighbors! The goal has always been to murder them!
    That’s it! That is the whole “Deal” in a peanut shell.
    If your do not know this simple TRUTH, your a total imbecile.
    If the Jews were not armed to the teeth AND willing to FIGHT, they would have been wiped out way back in 1948!

  2. Diane Harvey says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 10:01 am

    I just read the Muslims promised 3 days of rage just to show Trump who’s boss.

    How will we ever know which days are official rage days and which are just Muslim normal rage days?

    Time to dust off Shakeel Ahmad Bhat, Islamic Rage Boy,

    https://www.google.com/search?q=Islamic+Rage+Boy&client=firefox-b-1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj10YWBlfjXAhXjSd8KHfieCKYQ_AUICigB&biw=1279&bih=957

  3. WPM says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 10:34 am

    Pope Francis wants “status quo” what is status quo to the Islamics killing Christians ,Jews , and other non Islamic people in the Middle East and around the world? Is that acceptable to the Pope ,would the pope feel right about sharing space in Roman Catholic Churches around the world with Moslems for their services? The Pope does not have the right morally or legal to tell Israel and the United States that they cannot put the American Embassy in the Jewish Capital .This Pope is going to appease a murdering mob to bully two legal freely elected countries that both have freedom, freedom of all religions, equal rights for all, that both believe in the golden rule for all ,to appease a bunch of Islamic fascist ? The rest of the duly elected Western appeaser leaders and Islamic middle eastern despots it is accepted behavior. This Pope better wake up after Islam fascist finish with Saturday people for breakfast they will come for all the Sunday people including us Roman Catholics.

  4. cezanne says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 11:40 am

    what peace process? you mean the one that’s been scuttled by the Palestinians for the past 50 + years? Israel took back their capital city precisely because of the arab violence against them. Oh but please muslims are peacefull, yea and sh*t doesn’t stink and gays don’t want to flickky flick with boys!

    • Naildriver says

      Dec 7, 2017 at 1:37 pm

      cezanne, you are a fool to make such ignorant statements — though they’ll find little argument from many here, saying that gays ‘like boys’, implying pedophilia, is a lie.
      The vast majority don’t, but to represent Spencer here with such a comments undercuts the purpose to persuade people of Islam’s short comings and jihad threat to the West. Too many avoid it already thinking small minds as yours are proof their repugnance for this site, as nothing but bigots and homophobes, i.e.. right wing morons.
      But, as Robert Spencer has pointed out on a number of occasions Islam’s devotees will kill gays as is directed in Islamic texts; suggesting to me, besides that being wrong, gays could assist rather than support Islam, as most them do now.
      There is positively no reason a gay, or liberal shouldn’t feel welcome on this site if their views are in accord with the necessary fight against Islam.

  5. Norger says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 11:48 am

    Excellent analysis, as usual, Mr. Spencer. Merkel, May, the Pope et al are guilty of Islamophobia and the soft bigotry of low (albeit realistic) expectations.

  6. Michael Copeland says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 1:09 pm

    Days of Rage are an old device. They are part of “Instil terror in the hearts of unbelievers”.
    Lame and cowardly media will be taken in, and report them as justified protests.
    See “And Take Their Wives as War Booty” on Liberty GB:
    https://libertygb.org.uk/news/and-take-their-wives-war-booty

  7. Naildriver says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 1:15 pm

    The SCOTUS needs to clarify that Islam can also be this nation’s enemy — where instead of praising it, as our government shamefully praises Islam, our government condemns it as the enemy it is.
    Even if Trump was choosing his words for diplomatic softening of his move of the US embassy, to include Islam as a ‘great religion’, it was a mistaken comment. Islam deserves no parity with anything but evil and intolerable enemy status.
    For the atheists and agnostics it also makes persuading them of Trump’s secular intentions and the government’s impartiality, further confusing and obfuscating any efforts to educate them to Islam’s menace — and there are many millions of them.
    So, they bundle immigration of Muslims as no worse than Catholics or Buddhists, and it perpetuates the lie Trump is only doing this for his ‘far right’ White male supremacist’ Christian base.
    These distinctions are important since the left and Muslims are doing rather well redefining the narrative that there is no problem with Muslims and that the issue is all about white supremacists.

  8. Ted says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 2:03 pm

    First, all the world’s Christians don’t hold the Pope as their representative on this planet. He does not speak for us. Our head Christ and Christ alone. Second, peace is an easy word to use. Only works when everyone desires it. Jerusalem belongs to Israel. Has for thousands of years longer than Islam has been around. Third, there is no Palestine. It was a designation given to Israel by the Romans long before Islam was born. No Palestine, no Palestinians. Check the real history of who the Palestinians are. Ask Jordon how peaceful Palestinians are. Years ago Palestinians, Jews and Arabs lived together in peace, what happened? Politics.

  9. JosephTruthful says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 2:35 pm

    “Truthophobia”
    is the disease & toxic pestilence underlying the blatant hypocracy (as Robert Spencer eloquates, it is these cretins who are the Real isLIEmaphobes!) of dope Francis, ugula burqel, sharia may, macaroni spine, jihadstin turd-dolt, sadist leper-con and all the other abandoners of Christian/Judaeo Civilization and enablers of hamas/hezbollah terrorisist supremacy.
    palestine is a miserable, dysfunctional shariaDiahrea sewer cesspool of hate ideology and deluded koranimal human rights abuse.
    I feel sorry for the poor people there that have been deceived by the false “prophet” and have had the Wisdom & Truth of Jesus’ Gospels completely censored from them and replaced with deceitful hatred.
    It reminds me of how the innocent Japanese populace were told that “the animal Americans would eat their babies”.
    Jerusalem was and IS a Jewish, then Christian epicentre of Decent, Prosperous, Western Culture thousands of years before the musLIEim pervert zealots laid false claim to it and exacted the blasphemy, heresy and defacement of civilization that they do everywhere the stench of shariaDiahrea toxifys the land (somolia, saudiBarbaria, syria, sudan, libya, lebanon, yemen, afghan, pakstan, palestine, iran, iraq, chechnya, and of course the NoGoZones soiling once proud now shameful europe & uk).
    Teaching children toxic hatred of Christians & Jews and denying and censoring the populace from Christian/Judaeo Values & Truths is child abuse & tyranny at it’s most evil.
    A worldwide “Children’s Aid Society” should be established and any child being taught isLIEmic hate ideology should be rescued from their abusive perverted “parents” and given a chance at Enlightenment & Salvation.
    This is the Information Age and it is becoming near impossible for the musLIEim fiefdoms to keep their masses deceived & deluded under the toxic hate veil of isLIEam.
    isLIEam will be extinguished as it’s long suffering peoples are liberated by the Truth of Western Judaeo/Christian Values.
    The hate monger imams & muftis will be rendered ineffectual as the masses they have brainwashed with their hate cult are Disinfected & Immunized by the Enlightenment & Salvation of Jesus’ Gospels.
    palestine (and all the isLIEmic fiefdoms) needs to be flooded with Bibles, and a massive media blitz to end the truthophobia, and Peacefully Liberate the long suffering victims of the mass murderer child-rapist false “prophet’s” supremacist hate ideology, misogyny, subjugation & human rights abuse.

  10. Guy Forester says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 4:30 pm

    Did we really expect anything different?

    To HRH King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud:

    I applaud your current attempts to modernize the KSA and to root out systemic corruption. Our countries, while vastly different, have more to gain by working together rather than working against each other.

    However, to suggest the POTUS has acted in a way that will provoke muslims the world over is nonsense. Like 15 of your citizens crashing airplanes into our cities and killing over 3,000 people is not a provocation? If Bush had any rocks, he would have sent the Marines into Riyadh and Jeddah instead of Baghdad.

    Quit financing the PLO/PA and related groups and things will suddenly get better there for you and everyone else. Remember, half or more of your neighbors, let alone half your subjects, would remove you and the House of Saud first chance they got.

    You, oh King, need us more than we need you.

  11. Voytek Gagalka says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 6:03 pm

    Apparently, “Islamophobia” is only when those “enlighten” elitists (plus Mohammedans) say it is. Under the pain of utter condemnation and character assassination (sometimes including physical one) NO ONE ELSE is allowed to use or suggest of any “Islamophobia.” Such pointing, I am afraid, will be used against those who dare to point it out. Nevertheless, their hypocrisy MUST be exposed and that must be stated: You DAMN REAL HYPOCRITICAL ISLAMOPHOBES, all of you!

    Great article, Mr. Spencer!

  12. underbed cat says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 6:44 pm

    Hamas is a terrorist group, they always protest and do this with or without an reality of an announcement.

  13. 762x51FMJ says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 6:46 pm

    Jerusalem is.
    #1 A sacred Jewish city 2000 B.C.
    #2 The birthplace of Christianity 0-33 AD
    #3 Another site of Islamic murder and conquest ( 654 AD – Present )

  14. AnneM says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    Remember that the Bible refers to Jerusalem many more times than the Koran. Just the facts.

  15. Risto Kantonen says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 9:58 pm

    The reactions were predictable, however, this needed to be done. Islam only respects strength, and will exploit everyone and everything that bows to it. So we must stop bowing to it.

  16. Billy Chickens says

    Dec 7, 2017 at 10:39 pm

    After all Jerusalem IS the capital of the State of Israel – has been for the past 70 years.

    And…doesn’t this show that liberals are gasp! anti-Semitic? Which means that they are Nazis! White supremacists! Members of far right white neo-Nazi supremacy groups! Muslim sympathizers since hating Jews is written in the Hadith!

    Or…possibly they are all afraid that the price of oil will dramatically rise. But…if liberals had allowed countries to dig for oil beneath their own soil, they would not have had to bow down to Islam in the first place. But…that would make the playing field equal, and we can’t have that. We must be tied to deals with the OIC for oil, which means oil in exchange for Muslim immigration, which means the mess Europe is in now, which means someone – President Trump – had to push the aggression of the Islamic countries back which means they are angry because now others will have the courage to do likewise.

    It’s imperative that Islam must be pushed back to the deserts from which it came and no longer bother higher civilization. Islam must be quarantined somewhere and they can fight among themselves. God, I hate Islam.

  17. More Ham Ed says

    Dec 9, 2017 at 3:07 am

    A highly recommended video:

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