This is highly unusual, and probably a slip on Saylor’s part. I wouldn’t be surprised if Nihad Awad and Ibrahim Hooper call him in for a reprimand. The usual line that Hamas-linked CAIR takes, along with its Leftist and Islamic supremacist allies, is that “Islamophobia” is entirely a product of a well-heeled and sinister cabal of “Islamophobes” who have somehow succeeded in spreading “fear and hatred” of Muslims among a large segment of the American population, solely by means of malicious and mendacious propaganda.
This is arrant nonsense, and Hamas-linked CAIR has now admitted that it knows it is nonsense. The obvious reality is that no one would have a negative view of Islam or Muslims at all were it not for jihad massacres, boasts of imminent takeover, mass rapes by Muslim gangs, and the like. It is telling that Hamas-linked CAIR and its allies devote so much of their time and energy to demonizing and stigmatizing those who call attention to this activity and its justifications within Islamic teaching. Do they want to intimidate people into fearing to oppose the advancing jihad, so that it can advance unimpeded? It sure seems that way.
“Anti-Islamophobia Conference Only Tells Part of the Story,” by Dexter Van Zile, Algemeiner, May 16, 2018:
Corey Saylor, a prominent Muslim activist in the United States, made a stunning admission last week. Speaking at a counter-Islamophobia conference at the University of Minnesota, Saylor admitted that anti-Muslim sentiment is driven in part by jihadists who kill in the name of Allah.
During a session titled “How Islamophobia Became Mainstream,” Saylor told the audience in the Hubert Humphrey Auditorium that “violent extremist groups that claim that Islam gives sanction to their actions contribute to Islamophobia.”
“There’s no doubt about it,” he said. To not acknowledge the impact that groups like ISIS have had on attitudes about Islam and its adherents “would be to not have a complete conversation.”
Oddly enough, Saylor’s acknowledgement that jihadists make people frightened of Muslims and Islam took place at a conference organized by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) — a group with historical ties to Hamas, a jihadist organization that, by Saylor’s logic, contributes to the problem he is trying to fix.
Such irony was baked into the overall agenda of the May 10, 2018 conference titled “Challenging Islamophobia.” For example, the conference, dedicated to promoting the rights of Muslims in American civil society, featured a talk by Hatem Bazian, a professor at UC Berkeley who has worked assiduously to undermine the rights of Jews on college campuses in the United States.
For example, Bazian founded two groups, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and American Muslims for Palestine. Members of SJP have shouted down pro-Israel speakers and, in some instances, physically attacked Jews on college campuses.
During his talk, Bazian asserted that David Horowitz promoted Islamophobia in American society by writing The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America and getting it sold in airport bookstores.
“It’s not easy to get your book to be sold in airport bookshelves,” Bazian said. “There has to be some sophisticated marketing agency behind you.”
Horowitz’s targeting of academia, Bazian argued, “is part of a sophisticated campaign to neutralize possibility in an area where we could have sophisticated critique, not only of ourselves but also society in general.”
The absurdity is palpable. Bazian, who helped undermine the principles of civil society by establishing a cadre of anti-Zionist shock troops who harass Jews on college campuses, accuses Horowitz of undermining the ability of college professors to do their work. And how has Horowitz done this? Through engaging in a critique of his own by writing and selling a book….
elee says
Inadvertent hell. They want us to fear them. Kor’an 3:150 inter alia, and there’s been a lot of alia through the centuries.
Lydia Church says
“Saylor admitted that anti-Muslim sentiment is driven in part by jihadists who kill in the name of Allah.”
Yeah, because the koran tells them to!
And another clue for those conference attendees:
the koran is the book that has the rules for the religion of islam!
And that sorta, kinda would lead to antagonistic sentiment, don’t you think?
Thus the anti muslim sentiment is justified… but over here at JW we already knew that.
So it’s like… uh… how many more clues do you need
to connect the dots?
Like… like…. DUH!
mortimer says
Lydia the HADITHS tell them they MUST make the dirty kafirs FEAR THE POWER OF ISLAM. Muslims who are not FEARED, are ‘rubbish’. Allah rejects them!
“Prophet Muhammad said; It is expected that the nations will call other nations to share them against you (Muslims) as the eaters call each other to eat from the food in front of them in a large wooden plate A person asked, Will that happen because of our small number on that day? The Prophet said, No. Your number will be great, but you will be rubbish like the rubbish of flood-water. And certainly Allah will remove from the hearts of enemies the fear of you and surely Allah will throw Wahn in your hearts. A person asked, What is Wahn, O Messenger of Allah? The Prophet said, Wahn is to love this world and to hate death.” – Abu Dawud 4284
Ray Jarman says
It is not islam that unnerves me; it is the fear that our governments will capitulate and permit these animals to take our nations by deceit. We continue to accommodate them at our own expense.
George Williams says
He is playing to the Trump Homeland Security chief’s and other Trump appointees narratives that jihad is not the product of true Islam, but an aberration. You can only tell people for so long that what is happening has nothing to do with Islam before the people begin to get a clue as to the truth and mitigation becomes necessary. I’m hoping that John Bolton disabuses Trump and his apologists for Islam of the notion that jihad is an integral part of orthodox Islam, Islam as practiced by Mohammed and his successor Muslims for 1400 years.
mortimer says
JIHAD is any AGGRESSION directed by Muslims against the DIRTY KUFAAR.
Jihad is the SIXTH AND MOST IMPORTANT PILLAR OF ISLAM.
Jihad causes Islam to advance.
ALL jihad is AGGRESSIVE and takes several forms.
End PC says
Islamophobia never became mainstream because there is no such phobia = fear of Islam is reasonable in view of its texts & very violent and oppressive history. What has become mainstream (hopefully) is Islamorealism.
mortimer says
ALLAH WANTS the kufaar to fear Muslims. If they don’t FEAR the Muslims, those Muslims are ‘rubbish’ (Abu Dawud 4284)
DHazard says
Corey Saylor is now an alt-right, white supremacist, Nazi, misogynist, homophobic, Islamophobe. And he is probably also a drug addicted has-been like all Coreys.
Granddaddy says
This guy Saylor is trying to make it sound like they’ve made a mistake and that all this hate and rape and deception have been unintentional and that they’re really just at heart a lot of misguided but reasonable mass murderers. Sure, why not?
Garfield says
Saylor is just trying to reinforce the idea that Islam has nothing to do with jihad and jihadists make Islam “look bad”.
When people are told that Muslims are being demonized they get upset…And then they don’t research for themselves what is actually IN the koran.
What is needed is to expose the SUPREMACIST angle of islam. Then people will wake up and see what Muslims are doing: waging civilizational jihad. Their lies and arrogance make perfect sense when it’s understood that their foul book tells them they are superior and should take whatever they want from non muslims. They have no respect for anyone bc they see everyone as inferior.
Also the treatment of women in Islam HAS to be expoaed. The left takes slave bag hijabs and says Muslim women are being “modest”. They hijack every idea and twist it. A woman in a slave bag hijab is expressing her supposed superiority.
They media is complicit in covering for islamofascists. And what’s really bad is that speaking up about it, such as complaining to school officials about sharia propaganda and writing letters to the editor correcting lies and pointing out things like FGM and child marriage doesn’t feel safe to do…….
Niemoller says
Hamas-CAIR is the political wing of a jihadist organization. Jihadists enslave, rape and murder non-Muslims in the name of God. They do so every day in diverse places around the globe.
Theologically, the worst sin is doing evil in the name of God. Therefore, according to moral logic, either jihadists are the most evil people to God, or God blesses major crimes against non-Muslims. Which is it, Hamas-CAIR?
Niemoller says
Hamas-CAIR is the political wing of a jihadist organization. Jihadists enslave, rape and murder non-Muslims in the name of God. They do so every day in diverse places around the globe.
Theologically, the worst sin is doing evil in the name of God. Therefore, according to moral logic, either jihadists are the most evil people to God, or God is enjoys enslaving, raping and murdering little Yazidi, Christian and Buddhist girls and other non-Muslims. Which is it, Hamas-CAIR?
Kasey says
Whoever coined the term Islamophobia was way off the mark as in this case. When the fear of Islam is factually based, then it Islamoreality in one form or another that is involved.
It’s a diversionary term designed to deflect any valid criticism or facts which reveal the true lethal nature of Islam as an ideology masquerading as a religion.
gravenimage says
Hamas-linked CAIR rep admits: Muslim groups that claim Islam sanctions their violence “contribute to Islamophobia”
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What–the fact that Islam is hideously violent contributes to people having an issue with Islam? Say it ain’t so!