Eleven Jews were murdered in Pittsburgh; no Muslims were. But Antonio Guterres called on the world to “roll back the forces of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia…” Why add in “Islamophobia”? Because the idea that “Islamophobia” is akin to anti-Semitism is a common Leftist talking point, along with the Leftist claim that Muslims in the West are being unfairly targeted for discrimination, harassment, and persecution, just as Jews were and are. Many, many Leftists besides Guterres have made this claim, including Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders; Prince Charles; the notorious non-Muslim Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong; Jeffrey Goldberg, “journalist” at The Atlantic; Leftist media darling and pseudo-intellectual hack Reza Aslan; Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison; Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times; the deceptive Canada-based Islamic supremacist imam Syed Sohawardy; and Philadelphia chapter leader of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations Jacob Bender. Many others have repeated it.
Daniel Greenfield takes it apart in this video. The idea that Muslims are the new Jews is put forward by the Left, but it also has opponents on the Left. In 2014, as part of his ongoing awakening to the nature and reality of the jihad threat, Bill Maher noted:
Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000 militant Jewish groups. They didn’t do a study of treatment of women around the world and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There weren’t 10 Jewish countries in the world that were putting gay people to death just for being gay.
Indeed. Further, no one is calling for or justifying genocide of Muslims. No individual or group opposed to Islam is remotely comparable to the National Socialists. Not that facts have ever gotten in the way of a good meme.
Maher isn’t alone on the Left in having pointed out the absurdity of likening opposition to jihad to the lead-up to the Holocaust. The late Christopher Hitchens also refuted this idea when writing a few years ago about the notorious Ground Zero Mosque proposal:
“Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,” Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like.
“Leaders around the world react to Pittsburgh mass killing,” CNN, October 27, 2018:
(CNN) – The massacre of 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh was felt around the nation and the globe.
…UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
In a statement, Guterres called anti-Semitism “a menace to democratic values and peace.”
“The Secretary-General calls for a united front — bringing together authorities at all levels, civil society, religious and community leaders and the public at large — to roll back the forces of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hatred, bigotry, discrimination and xenophobia gaining strength in many parts of the world,” he said….
mortimer says
Islamophobia is the Strawman Fallacy or a Frankenword or a Cheap Shot or a Conflation of the Legitimate Dislike of an Ideology with an Unfair Prejudice against People or the Self-Righteousness Fallacy or a Question-begging Strategy or a Definist Fallacy to declare victory prior to discussion in order to prevent all reasoned debate about JIHADISM a classic Islamic ideology.
In the Frankenword or Definist Fallacy, a propagandist defines the terms in the argument so as to create prejudice against his opponent, thus giving himself an unfair advantage even before the opponent’s argument has been presented. Islamophobia is a FRANKENWORD, also called a “portmanteau word”. It combines two unrelated thoughts in order to create a shorthand term that bypasses a lengthy explanation and intellectual scrutiny.
‘Islamophobia’ is a word that bypasses the presentation of proof that the person who is slandered is guilty of a crime. ‘Islamophobia’ allows the judges to simply skip the whole trial process and go directly from an accusation to the sentencing, leaving out the requirement to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt prior to applying condemnation and punishment.
‘Islamophobia’ is a way of saying someone is guilty without a trial or a proper hearing of the case. That is why it is often pronounced with such smug triumphalism. Smug people who use the term want to escape from the burden of having to prove whether their accusation of bigotry is valid or not. Whoever protests the term is taken by the denial to be guilty.
The ‘Islamophobia’ strawman fallacy is like the medieval witch test: if the alleged witch was thrown bound into a pond and floated, she was guilty, but if she sank and drowned, then she was innocent. Either way, the witch died. That’s the technique modern Leftards are using to stop debate about the AUTHENTIC Islamic doctrine of JIHADISM, about Islamic supremacism and Islamic MISOGYNY. They’ve found a way to throw the ideological opposition down the well without permitting them to have a full hearing. DESPICALBE PEOPLE WHO USE THE WORD ‘ISLAMOPHOBIA’ as a DISCUSSION-KILLER. They are killing our civilization. Many of these elites are BRIBED WITH ARAB OIL MONEY.
Frieder WEIGOLD says
There ist no Islamophobia. There is only Islamism against the rest of the world.
mortimer says
Frieder, let us examine the FRANKENWORD ‘Islamophobia’. Let’s separate its elements and see if this is a reasonable term.
(A ‘Frankenword’ has two non-matching elements put together like a Frankenstein’s monster constructed from deceased body parts … then they teach it to walk so it may terrorize people.)
“ISLAM” understood as a POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OF WORLD CONQUEST based on a religious mandate for Arabs to conquer the world.
“PHOBIA” a psychological condition causing a traumatized, internal emotional state or paralyzing fear.
Since the word is NOT “MUSLIM-O-PHOBIA”, we should respond to them by asking,
“YOU HAVE NO PROBLEM OFFENDING ME BY CRITICIZING WHAT YOU ASSUME ARE MY POLITICAL BELIEFS …
… SO WHY SHOULD I NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO CRITICIZE THE POLITICAL BELIEF of someone who favor JIHAD … A TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY OF WORLD CONQUEST?”
Why do only MUSLIMS and LEFTISTS get to have freedom of expression?
Fred Middleton says
They love to forget, deliberately, that Muslims are the most anti-Jewish people on Earth. Nothing this madman said could not have been heard from Hamas, Hizbullah, Fateh, Iran et al
mortimer says
I was Born to Hate Jews
How do devout Muslims born in the West feel about Jews? How do they feel about Western values in general? Kasim Hafeez, who was raised a devout Muslim in England, explains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCQEmeGfFmY
lisalles says
AND now you see why the US pulled out of the UN. Good move President Trump!
gravenimage says
Hasn’t happened yet, lisalles.
mortimer says
correction: THE DESPICABLE PEOPLE WHO USE LAZILY THE WORD ‘ISLAMOPHOBIA’ as a DISCUSSION-KILLER are killing our civilization. Laziness or sloth is a deadly sin. Intellectual laziness in leaders is PROFESSIONAL, CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE.
Walter Sieruk says
That UN Secretary General is an idiot Furthermore, That vicious despicable murderous shooter, Robert Bowers, in the synagogue in Pittsburgh Pa. is a very strong reminder of the wisdom found in the speech given by a former US President, William Howard Taft, For in that speech President Taft declared “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Likewise, every sane person knows and understands that the murders, Bowers, committed is a heinously evil things to do and evil and that by his behavior Bowers had himself to be evil. Furthermore, that hideous fiend of a man had also proven himself to be totally and completely un-American. As Theodore Roosevelt had in one of his speeches made it known that “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are American and nothing else.”
Walter Sieruk says
That UN Secretary General is an idiot Furthermore, that vicious despicable murderous shooter, Robert Bowers, in the synagogue in Pittsburgh Pa. is a very strong reminder of the wisdom found in the speech given by a former US President, William Howard Taft, For in that speech President Taft declared Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Likewise, every sane person knows and understands that the murders, Bowers, committed is a heinously evil things to do and evil and that by his behavior Bowers had himself to be evil. Furthermore, that hideous fiend of a man had also proven himself to be totally and completely un-American. As Theodore Roosevelt had in one of his speeches made it known that “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are American and nothing else.”
The European says
Islamophobia is a word that has been coined by leftists who want to silence criticism of Islam. The term does only exist in the minds of self-deluded left-wing ideologues, but it has no foundation in the real world. Our fear of Islam is fact-based, our fear of Islam is the accurate knowledge of Islam, our fear is not the fantasy of a vicious and hate-mongering mind, but it has been instilled in us through a meticulous reading of Islamic sources and history. Our fear is to be considered a warning to the world, a warning from Islam which has brought nothing but tears and bitterness, warfare, destruction, and subjugation. It’s not “Islamophobia” we are suffering from, but from Islam itself, and we are aghast at the stupidity, oblivion and complicity of our leaders.
To mention “Islamophobia” alongside with anti-Semitism one must be forgetful of what anti-Semitism has done to the Jews. Our “Islamophobia” keeps us alert, it might even one day save the West from the evil of Islam, our “Islamophobia” does not kill Muslims, but anti-Semitism killed Jews by the millions, and it still kills them -in the name of Islam.
abad says
+1
I am surprised that ISL has not claimed responsibility for this synagogue shooting.
TrueFreeThinker says
What’s the word for people that hate Christians? Surely their must be a word for the people that hate Christianity since Christianity is the most persecuted religion on earth today. Oh wait, there isn’t.
How come we don’t have to constantly say and be told that Christianity is a religion of peace? I never hear that about Judaism either.
Now that l think about it…… remember after 9ll we always heard that “they hate our freedom” and “they hate our way of life” we’ll that was just l7 years ago, they no longer hate our freedom, they don’t dislike our way of life anymore? They’re quietly bringing hundreds of thousands (or more) muslimes here (U.S.) a year and forcing us to believe that it’s a religion of peace. No ones supposed to notice any of that apparently!?!
mortimer says
TFT, they use the term Islamophobia to deny the freedom of speech to their political opponents.
They are setting themselves up as a TOTALITARIAN COURT of CENSORSHIP.
Anyone who criticizes the ideas or ideology of the Left is denied a platform so that the Left may have an unchallenged MONOPOLY on information.
Information that is inconvenient to the Left is AIRBRUSHED out of the photo.
lebel says
I predicted that RS would somehow link Pittsburg with Islam but didn’t see this one coming. It’s clever actually.
revereridesagain says
Of course. No mention of the actual nature of Islam, its history of violent conquest in the name of jihad, the savageries committed in Musilm countries against women, children, gays, anyone who doesn’t conform to the Sharia. Just throw “Islamophobia” in with the scourge of anti-Semitism. Muslims make good Democratic voters. And, potentially, enforcers.
gravenimage says
It wasn’t Robert Spencer who linked the Synagogue shooting with Islam–it was the UN Secretary General.
But lebel always wants to smear anyone who dares to stand against Jihad. Bad, bad dhimmis…
mortimer says
Lebel is always looking for tricks from other people because that is HOW LEBEL’S MIND WORKS and it is WHAT LEBEL IS DOING HERE … tricking people.
Ha, ha, Lebel. We will get you every time. Islam cannot be defended by any argument.
gravenimage says
+1
Mirren10 says
Lebel, please show us where exactly Mr Spencer links the Pittsburgh Synagogue murders to *islam* ?
Halal Bacon says
me thinks this traitor has been smoking some muslim wurst
mortimer says
The Leftist-Globalists have decided to MISREPRESENT MUSLIMS as OFFICIAL DESIGNATED ‘VICTIMS’, when in fact Muslims are PERPETRATORS of MOST TERRORISM.
The Leftist-Globalists have turned reality INSIDE-OUT.
It is a wonder that this DECEIVING ‘NARRATIVE’ of Muslim victimhood has lasted so long. I observe that LARGE NUMBERS of PEOPLE are now QUESTIONING THE FALSE NARRATIVE that Muslims are in any way ‘victims’.
D-spot says
what a putz!! The U.N. ivory tower brigade strikes again…….good grief!!
Dov Berrol says
Unfortunately, secular assimilated American Jews who are vehemently anti-Israel will now start using this horrible massacre against the Republicans and the current administration’s support for the Jewish State. Here is writer David Simon already blaming Netanyahu for the attack in Pittsburgh – disgusting:
https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Jewish-American-writer-David-Simon-blames-Netanyahu-for-Pittsburgh-attack-570532
Mac-101 says
This shooter scumbag is so stupid. It’s hard NOT to believe he is a MK Ultra stooge. Yes, Trump has been the best friend of Israel that any American President has ever been. Also, it is very obvious that the Left, comprised of many secular Jews, is workin as hard as they can to take down Trump and his presidency.
.
So this clown hates Trump and by his action supports the very type of Jews I suspect he hates in their bid to take down Trump.
.
So ridiculous, it appears Satan MUST be controllin them ALL!
gravenimage says
UN Secretary General condemns “Islamophobia” in statement about Pittsburgh synagogue mass murderer
………………..
Sickening dhimmitude–especially given the fact that the main threat to Jews in Europe and Israel is Muslims.
TrueFreeThinker says
It’s always Opposite Day with leftists. Democraps are the racists. Leftists are the nazi’s. Leftists are the fascists.
There is a Synagogue massacre so therefore watch out for islamaphobia. It simply makes no sense as nothing out of leftists mouths makes any sense nowadays!
The U.N. has been complicit and helped ruin Europe and almost all the leftists l know think that Europe is moving in the right direction and they always say that the U.S. should be more like Europe in every imaginable way. Thank god we have the constitution.
Halal Bacon says
that fat bastard looks like the lad from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkH4UgIJRmA
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Right-wing Bolsonaro wins Brazilian elections with landslide despite mass protests”
https://www.rt.com/news/442500-brazil-bolsonaro-elections-victory/
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Well Guterres is working for the OIC after all ….
Pam J Minnick says
A phobia is a persistent, excessive, or unreasonable fear of something to the point of impairment.
If Islamophobia was real, the people who have been accused of having it would be avoiding Muslims at all cost, they wouldn’t even want to talk about Islam, that is what a phobia is.
Islamophobia—is meant to silence you.
Denny says
Muslims are the mot protected of all groups in the west and their privilege far surpasses their number and its disgusting even mentioning them together with this tragedy. Shame on musliminfested UN.
SamB says
Robert, I have another take on this rejoinder “Why add in “Islamophobia”? Because the idea that “Islamophobia” is akin to anti-Semitism is a common Leftist talking point, along with the Leftist claim that Muslims in the West are being unfairly targeted for discrimination, harassment, and persecution, just as Jews were and are”. Muslim number seem to be growing; they are anything from 1200 -2000 Billion souls. They are thus a sizeable grouping(unlike the 15m Jews). Lets introduce a “new” paranoia “Nasaraphobia.” The rationale behind this that no Christian has freedom in the Dar-al Islam. Muslims have a presence in almost all the countries of the world. Moreover they possess roughly a third of all land in the world. They have a law against Christians and other human beings- non-Muslims. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are the worst of them all. Currently a Christian lady’s life is hanging on a thread because of shari’a(in Pakistan). Is there any law in any Dar-al-Harb country that is intolerant toward Muslims? Are Muslims working against Western (Non-Muslim) law? How do we term this? I know we are not in control of the media but this is what ought to be proclaimed more often. let Nasaraphobia become a neologism ad infinitum thus highlighting the plight of non-Muslims in the Dar-al-Islam.
Vicky says
The UN at the heart of worldwide unrest and unleashed barbarism. This is entity has been ordering member countries, like the U.S., to take in jihadis as refugees, and tells them how many. That is the definition of handing over your sovereignty.
End PC says
That he even uses the bogus word “Islamophobia” shows he’s a twit-head fool & an Islamic tool.
J.W.K. says
As one whe knew the people who were murdered, and a former Synagogue member, shame on him for making their deaths a political opportunity. It is not enough that we lost some of the finest, dearest people G-d ever put on this earth, now along come the sleazy politicians to cheapen or try to cheapen our loss. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!
shea says
Mn come on, What about the dead Jews and the ANTI SEMITISM???
Brian hoff says
Islamoprobic is real . then why do some Islamoprobic people opposed the builting of mosque in america. I remember than time when rome Catholic have than hard time builting they churches in some part in america the same for they school.
gravenimage says
“Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–would have us believe that wanting to prevent the building of supremacist Mosques that teach the hatred and murder of Jews and Christians and all other Infidels is just baseless bigotry. Nice try…