The establishment media takes for granted that there is a rise of “anti-Muslim activity” in the US, and this story is one of many that assume that, but it’s necessary to call out the lie whenever possible anyway. There are no examples given of the “marked increase in anti-Muslim activity,” and FBI figures show that hate crimes against Jews are much more common than hate crimes against Muslims. But Muslim groups and Leftist groups in the US both find it useful to claim that Muslims are experiencing a wave of discrimination, harassment, and persecution in the US. This claim helps them demonize Trump and his attempt to limit immigration from jihadi hotspots, and to cast counterterror efforts in general in a bad light, because, you see, they create “hate” against Muslims. Just stay quiet and you’ll be okay.
“As anti-Islam activity rises, campaign aims to boost voter turnout among Muslim-Americans,” by Aaron Schrank, Southern California Public Radio, August 27, 2018:
More than 100 people gathered at the Middle Ground Muslim Center in Upland Friday as part of National Muslim Voter Registration Day, a campaign that aims to boost Muslim-American turnout in the November midterm elections.
The day of registration is part of a broader effort to increase civic engagement among Muslims and follows in the wake of a marked increase in anti-Muslim activity, coinciding with President Trump’s campaign and post-election rhetoric and terrorist events in the U.S. and abroad.
After a traditional call to prayer, Marc Manley, the Muslim center imam and religious director, issued a call to action, urging local Muslims to vote their values.
“That should absolutely be part of our civic engagement,” Manley said. “And if we want society to be better, than we need to participate ourselves.”
About 4 in 10 Muslim-Americans said they voted in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center, compared to the estimated 58 percent of all eligible voters who went to the polls that year. But Muslim candidates are running for public office in record numbers this year, and Trump policies like the so-called Muslim travel ban have spurred more political engagement among Muslim voters.
The ban prohibits most travel from several Muslim-majority countries. The administration cites national security for the restrictions, but many Muslims view it as a move against their religion.
“That definitely had major implications into the public psyche of Muslims,” said Ishraq Ali, organizing director with MPower Change, a Muslim social justice advocacy group. “Given the administration’s anti-Muslim rhetoric, we’ve seen a kind of uptick.”…
Guy Forester says
Dear Mr. Schrank:
Your first assignment for your course in modern security issues in current affairs for journalists is the following. It is due in 48 hours. Please send your assignment via e-mail as a word or compatible attachment.
1. Please explain how islamophobia led to the San Bernardino massacre.
2. Please indicate with actual facts and figures how many muslims or those mistakenly thought to be muslim were actually killed or physically harmed since December 2015 in the USA.
3. Please indicate the total number of honor killings, attempted IED uses, actual IED uses, stabbings, beheadings, and other physical attacks (like acid, etc.) by those claiming to be muslim since December 2015 in the USA.
4. Please construct a table comparing total numbers for each listed activity noted above.
5. Please include endnotes that indicate sources of data.
PRCS says
I’ll pretend to be Mr. Schrank:
Re: items 1-5:
Um, er, eh, uh, hmm.
SAE says
I’m certain that that response,, “Um, Er, eh, uh, hmm, the notion, um”, is from obama. It sounds EXACTLY like him.
Guy Forester says
Thank you for your enlightening and informative response. 🙂
SAE says
Must’ve offended an Obama supporter, Guy Forester?
There’s no rule on Comments not being humerous…but you’re welcome!
Lydia Church says
Okay, time for a review of the sequence of events here….
1. islam creates terrorism.
2. Terrorism on the rise creates distrust of muslims.
3. Due to distrust of muslims, they want to put more in power.
That sort of ‘logic’ only makes sense in the warped world of islamomania!
They deserve the all time idiot award, or maybe second place right after Trudeau.
SAE says
Lydia, it’s Leftist logical lunacy. ?
Be grateful you’re unable to comprehend it because ….
It takes a very unique kind of lunatic to think that importing
welfare recipients that want to kill you … is a good idea.
gravenimage says
Southern California Public Radio: “As anti-Islam activity rises, campaign aims to boost voter turnout among Muslims”
………………..
In other words, as the Infidels get wise to the horrors of violent Jihad, Muslims need to ramp up the stealth Jihad.
God, I hate Islam.
Savvy Kafir says
Exactly! Muslims are ever the victims, in the eyes of both Muslims and their ignorant, logic-challenged, PC allies. They’re the ones who are always on the defensive, the poor dears … no matter what horrors they’ve unleashed upon infidels in the name of their religion, or what sort of religiously-motivated barbarism they’ve imported to the infidel world.
This is just one more aspect of Islam that makes it so repulsive — the endless whining and pleading of victimhood, from the world’s most savagely aggressive colonizers. What a rotten, thoroughly disgusting bunch!
gravenimage says
So true.
sidney penny says
“The ban prohibits most travel from several Muslim-majority countries. The administration cites national security for the restrictions, but many Muslims view it as a move against their religion.”
Muslims view the slightest/any/whatever/Trump thing as a move against their religion
J D S says
Thank God for what President Trump is TRYING to do to protect us from the onslaught of terrorist who are using terror to try and force us to bend to Islamist ways. I said TRYING..because those on the left socialist order, democrats in office and others, are doing their best to stymie President Trumps effort.
We who believe in a free society with justice for all need to be helping the President with all the fervor in our being.
Muslims are moving in the political arena to place their values upon us by running for office in local, state and federal elections in numbers that are growing with each election….It will take time but remember they multiply like rabbits and more than one wife or concubines helps that…look for Muslims to work to change the one wife law and so many if our other of our laws that bind us together as a free democratic republic..
pemba says
Muslims and Islam are all terrorists, they always pretend to be victims, while they go around killing,
stabbing, bombings, and drive vehicles into the crowds of people, whenever, they get caught, CAIR will make a statement their guy is mentally disturb. The parents and the rest of family will say their kid was good boy.
America should treat the Muslims/Islams like China is treating their Muslims/Islam, Put them all in a Camps isolate them from civilized citizens, shut the CAIR and refrain the Mosques from any type of political involvement in religion.
Ban the Human Right movement in USA, because Human Right is always looking for rights of Muslims, they do not mention the Right of non-Muslims killed by Muslims follower of Islam.
Angel says
To better educate your clueless friends to the horrible real nature of Islam, point them please to mideastbooks.com/islam.html . Maybe they’ll learn a thing or two.
Savvy Kafir says
Thanks for the tip, Angel! That’s a great selection of books.
And, if your clueless friends are of the liberal/ left-wing persuasion, please point them to “The Savvy Kafir’s Intro to Islam — A Primer for Puzzled Progressives”. Written by a tree-hugging religious skeptic (Yours Truly), it’s custom-made for PC liberals, snowflakes, & SJWs. Ralph Hunt Sidway calls it “a brisk, entertaining read” that “really crackles with wit and positive energy”.
mortimer says
Imam Marc Manley urged Muslims to vote for THEIR VALUES ! And what are those ‘values’?
I’m glad you asked.
Here are the ‘VALUES’ that Muslim voters want:
1 No Golden Rule 2 No free speech 3 No democracy 4 Jihad – holy war of supremacism 5 Honour killings 6 Taqiyya – sacred lying 7 Taqlid – group think 8 Circular reasoning 9 Misogyny – repression of women 10 Rape of kafirs as jihad prizes 11 Genocide 12 Ethnic cleansing 13 Al-Walaa wal-Baraa – Islamic apartheid 14 Torture 15 Plundering 16 Cruel and unusual punishments 16 Backwardness – stagnation 17 Violence against women 18 Slavery 19 Discriminatory Sharia law 20 Hatred of the arts 21 No music 22 Pedophilia disguised as child marriage 23 Fifty generations of cousin marriage and genetic defects 24 Cruelty to animals 25 Extortion tax to humiliate disbelievers 26 No historic basis 27 Anti-intellectual obscurantism 28 FGM 29 Arab racism 30 Theocratic totalitarianism 31 Vigilantism 32 Amoral, opportunistic character of Mohammed that all Muslims must imitate 33 Hatred of non-Muslims as an essential doctrine 34 History of Islam includes the genocidal murders of 270 million non-Muslims in Islamic holy wars, terrorism, persecutions and enslavement directed against non-Muslims. 35. Holy books of Islam contain more calls for violence than all other foundational religious texts.
mortimer says
Imam Marc Manley urged Muslims to vote for THEIR VALUES ! And what are those ‘values’?
I’m glad you asked.
Here are the Islamic ‘VALUES’ that Muslim voters want:
1 No Golden Rule 2 No free speech 3 No democracy 4 Jihad – holy war of supremacism 5 Honour killings 6 Taqiyya – sacred lying 7 Taqlid – group think 8 Circular reasoning 9 Misogyny – repression of women 10 Rape of kafirs as jihad prizes 11 Genocide 12 Ethnic cleansing 13 Al-Walaa wal-Baraa – Islamic apartheid 14 Torture 15 Plundering 16 Cruel and unusual punishments 16 Backwardness – stagnation 17 Violence against women 18 Slavery 19 Discriminatory Sharia law 20 Hatred of the arts 21 No music 22 Pedophilia disguised as child marriage 23 Fifty generations of cousin marriage and genetic defects 24 Cruelty to animals 25 Extortion tax to humiliate disbelievers 26 No historic basis 27 Anti-intellectual obscurantism 28 FGM 29 Arab racism 30 Theocratic totalitarianism 31 Vigilantism 32 Amoral, opportunistic character of Mohammed that all Muslims must imitate 33 Hatred of non-Muslims as an essential doctrine 34 History of Islam includes the genocidal murders of 270 million non-Muslims in Islamic holy wars, terrorism, persecutions and enslavement directed against non-Muslims. 35. Holy books of Islam contain more calls for violence than all other foundational religious texts.
J D S says
Hey Mortimer…I wonder how many of the 35 that you listed do hardly any of our politicians know about….
gravenimage says
These idiots are completely ignorant about Islam.
Brenda says
We know this is a lie. If there was any anti-Muslim activity the Media would be all over it.
gravenimage says
True.
Richard Courtemanche says
Islamic and bias gov policies against non-Muslims have created this atmosphere. You started it, you fix it fairly, oŕ things will only and rightky get worse.
don vito says
Kufr’s vote your values. Don’t fall for this propaganda by government radio. Saracens are here to dominate kufr.
Robert_k says
At one time CAIR had a pic on their website of their visit to the studio of NPR . Need I say more?
Robert_k says
At one time CAIR had a pic on their website of their visit to the studio of NPR. Need I say more?
Prabh says
Islamics are abusing ideals of democracy – as soon as they have the numbers they will install Sharia regimes around the world. Everyone will be forced to learn the most uneuphonious language in existence: arabic.
Right now it is thought that 25 percent of world is muslim – what will happen when this number rises to over 50 percent? The nightmare of a global Caliphate must be prevented.
Perhaps a weaponized form of feminism might reduce the birthrate of jihadists around the world.
Deprogramming can’t really work because people don’t live in isolation – at the end of the day they will be surrounded by Islamic family members and Islamic friends who will have more influence than any deprogrammer.
It would be good if there could be changes made to Islam itself – a rejection of proselytization and jihad but in over 1400 years this hasn’t happened.