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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: “Islamophobia” Outbreak in California

Nov 16, 2018 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

A Muslim was found with a Qur’an, a book on terrorism, and a sawed-off rifle. What else could this be but “Islamophobia”? My latest in FrontPage:

The San Francisco Chronicle has discovered a case of “Islamophobia,” and their intrepid reporters are on the job: “An Alameda County prosecutor,” we’re told, “recently held up an unusual piece of evidence while arguing that a man charged with a weapons violation should remain jailed without bail: a Quran.”

It seems that “the religious text, paired with a book on the psychology of terrorism, as well as a sawed-off rifle — all allegedly found in Dajon Ford’s car at the time of his arrest — was cause for concern, Assistant District Attorney Matthew Golde told Superior Court Judge Yolanda Northridge at an Oct. 19 bail hearing.”

Golde, says the Chronicle, asked rhetorically: “What are his plans?” According to the paper, “the Quran was cited among several arguments Golde made suggesting Ford was a threat to the community, in addition to noting his previous criminal history.” But the predictable response has come: “the move has drawn heat from at least one local civil rights attorney, and stunned defense attorney Claire White, who called Golde’s line of questioning ‘racist’ and ‘Islamaphobic [sic].’”

White complained that Golde’s mention of the Qur’an “allows the discussion on public safety to turn not on what actual facts are, and more on fears and prejudices.” And in a blandly reported conflict of interest that appears to have made no difference in the treatment of this case, the Chronicle reports that “White said Ford’s books came from the library of her and her late husband, Dr. Prince White, who was the program and police campaign coordinator for the Urban Peace Movement, a civil rights organization that had worked with Ford in the past.”

Why did Golde mention that Ford had a Qur’an? He rightly explained: “I brought out everything that was there and the judge made the decision, and the judge made the decision based on public safety.”

Indeed. And back in the real world, that is, outside San Francisco, the UK’s Mail On Sunday reported in October that Michael Adebolajo, the Muslim who brutally murdered British soldier Lee Rigby on a London street in 2013, “broke down in tears as he claimed Choudary’s flawed interpretations of the so-called ‘Qital [killing] verses’ of the Koran inspired him to plot the attack on Rigby.” Adebolajo said: “It was Choudary’s reading of the verses, which talk of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, which justified attacking a British soldier in Britain.”

The Mail devoutly hopes, without explanation, that Choudary’s interpretation of the Qur’an is “flawed,” but unfortunately, numerous jihadis think otherwise. Consider, for example, the case of a young woman named Mary Hare, who is suing the University of British Columbia for failing to protect her against a Muslim named Thamer Almestadi, who entered her dorm room and slashed her throat in October 2016. “A court,” the Canadian Press reported last July, found Almestadi “not criminally responsible because he was suffering from a psychotic episode in which he believed the Qur’an had sent him a message to kill Hare.”

Did Almestadi really need a “psychotic episode” to get the idea that the Qur’an wanted him to slit the throat of a non-Muslim? The Qur’an says this plainly: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4).

Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd wrote several years ago: “If we follow the rules of interpretation developed from the classical science of Koranic interpretation, it is not possible to condemn terrorism in religious terms. It remains completely true to the classical rules in its evolution of sanctity for its own justification. This is where the secret of its theological strength lies.”

Was Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd having a psychotic episode? Was Taliban terrorist Baitullah Mehsud, when he wrote much the same thing? Said Mehsud: “Allah on 480 occasions in the Holy Koran extols Muslims to wage jihad. We only fulfil God’s orders. Only jihad can bring peace to the world.”

There is a controversy in San Francisco over Matthew Golde’s mention of the Dajon Ford’s Qur’an because we are supposed to pretend at all times that the Qur’an and Islam have nothing whatsoever to do with violence and terrorism, and every Allahu-akbaring Muslim who goes on a stabbing spree or drives his car into a crowd of Infidels is mentally ill. Golde, by contrast, is being realistic, and is catching heat for it. Reality is more out of fashion than ever.

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  1. Mickey says

    Nov 16, 2018 at 1:06 pm

    This is how it all starts. You have a bunch of idiots that don’t even research what Islam and Sharia are and then they call everyone else racists, bigots or Islamophobia. Americans, don’t let these liberals shut you up with their buzz words because they are ignorant and don’t care about truth.

    Let’s just look at how that started in Europe. These people will use your laws against you. They can call me anything they want, but I will not shut up.

    • James Lincoln says

      Nov 16, 2018 at 4:23 pm

      Mickey is correct.

      Do not let words like racist, bigot, Islamophobe, xenophobe, nationalist, etc., intimidate you.

      These words have – fairly recently – lost their true original meanings and are now used as weapons to attack / silence clear thinking people.

    • mike says

      Nov 16, 2018 at 7:05 pm

      Islamaphobic is the exact word for it. By the time the left and the democrats figure it out it will be to late. Buy guns by the truck loads. The left will try the confiscate them leaving America defenseless. kill or be killed that’s what it will come to. The law will be Islamaphobic adding to the problems.

    • jule says

      Nov 17, 2018 at 4:03 am

      When these courts or psychologists say someone must be having a psychotic episode to do exactly as the Qur’an says, they are saying Mohamed was psycho thinking he heard an ‘angel’ telling him these were messages from Allah and to get them written down and establish Islam as the one and only Abrahamic Religion now legit on earth. The one and only religion that all people must be made to Believe and follow or face death and an angry Allah. Those people brought up to actually Believe this stuff or face death are not nearly as psychotic as the ones who wrote it up. And spread the ‘religion by the sword, beheading those who said ‘your crazy’. They were just Islamophobes, right? and so should expect to get the punishment for Allah.
      So much Denial in USA. About so many things. Seeing Islam for what it is is just one thing this country tries to deny.

      • Michael Copeland says

        Nov 17, 2018 at 10:32 am

        “Indeed, he is mad.”
        “Surely he is possessed!”
        “Most surely he is mad.”
        “He is certainly insane.”

        This is what Mohammed’s neighbours said.
        http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=68&verse=51

        • jule says

          Nov 17, 2018 at 10:29 pm

          Until he got about 100 to pick up the swords and chop a few heads.

        • jule says

          Nov 18, 2018 at 12:14 am

          And they were telling the truth that he was mad and possessed as his wife new full well & did everything she could to make him think he maybe was being used as some kind of messenger. And what better way to defend the lie than to say..if they do not believe me, they must be enemy or even satan. Allah SAYS. What kind of fools would fall for that? only when threatened with terror and fear. And wait….maybe all this could be used for something even bigger, the Warlords connived…A great world caliphate even the Romans would have envied. and make all the useless little people fight for the elite warlords..or ehhh Allah. (‘allahthe warlords’)

          I’ll tell the rest later about how they through the wife and her Christian friend, read the old Torah/new Christian books popular in their country, Syria, Persia, and plotted to steal Abraham though some obscured relation to the half Egyptian Ishmael from thousands of years before. That would make them King of Kings. Abraham could give them Authority if they could pull it off.

  2. mortimer says

    Nov 16, 2018 at 2:03 pm

    The Koran’s 164 Jihad Verses: K 002:178-179, 190-191, 193-194, 216-218, 244; 003:121-126, 140-143, 146, 152-158, 165-167,169, 172-173, 195; 004:071-072, 074-077, 084, 089-091, 094-095,100-104; 005:033, 035, 082; 008:001, 005, 007, 009-010, 012, 015-017, 039-048,057-060, 065-075; 009:005, 012-014, 016, 019-020, 024-026, 029,036, 038-039, 041, 044, 052, 073, 081, 083,086, 088, 092, 111, 120, 122-123; 016:110; 022:039, 058, 078; 024:053, 055; 025:052; 029:006, 069; 033:015, 018, 020, 023, 025-027, 050; 042:039; 047:004, 020, 035; 048:015-024; 049:015; 059:002, 005-008, 014; 060:009; 061:004, 011, 013; 063:004; 064:014; 066:009; 073:020; 076:008.

  3. mortimer says

    Nov 16, 2018 at 2:05 pm

    Danish researcher Tina Magaard, Ph.D. concluded that Islam is the most warlike religion. After three years analyzing the original texts of ten different religions, Tina Magaard concluded that the Islamic texts stand out by encouraging terror and violence to a larger degree than other religions do. She stated that ‘Islamic texts encourage terror and fighting to a far larger degree than the original texts of other religions. The texts in Islam distinguish themselves from the texts of other religions by encouraging violence and aggression against people with other religious beliefs to a larger degree.’
    “What is striking is not in itself that one can find murderous passages in the Islamic texts, as such passages can also be found in other religions. But it is striking how much space these passages take up in the Islamic texts, and how much they focus on an us-and-them logic in which infidels and apostates are characterized as dirty, rotten, criminal, hypocritical and dangerous. It is also striking how much these texts demand that the reader fight the infidels, both with words and with the sword. In many passages, Muhammad plays a central role as one who encourages the use of violence, whether it comes to stonings, beheadings, acts of war or execution of critics and poets.”
    Tina Magaard finds it particularly objectionable that so many Islamic scholars in her opinion knowingly fail to disclose these facts, and use their positions of power to create specific standards for what you can say. Often, they also blame Danish racism rather than objectively stating that extremists actually find justifications for using violence and threats in Islam’s holy scriptures.…and Islamic scriptures are THE MOST WARLIKE OUT OF THOSE OF TEN RELIGIONS.

  4. mortimer says

    Nov 16, 2018 at 2:17 pm

    -Egyptian scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, also makes not of the religious roots of Islamist terrorism: “If we follow science of koranic interpretation we cannot condemn terrorism in religious terms. It remains completely true to the classical rules in its evolution of sanctity for its own justification. This is where the secret of its theological strength lies.”

    -Taliban terrorist Baitullah Mehsud wrote : “Allah on 480 occasions in the Holy Koran extols Muslims to wage jihad. We only fulfil God’s orders. Only jihad can bring peace to the world.”

    -Ibn ?azm (a great Andalusian scholar) wrote irhab (terrorism): “And Allah said: “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrorise the enemy of Allah and your enemy.” [8:60] – So terror was commanded upon us.”

    – scholar ?Abdullah ?Azzam wrote: “We are terrorists and terror is an obligation in the book of Allah. Let the West and East know that we are terrorists and we strike fear. ‘And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrorise the enemy of Allah and your enemy.’ [8:60] So terror is an obligation in the Book of Allah.”

    Understanding that irhab is from Islam and forms a part of our religion should be clear then for anyone who reads the words of Allah and the explanations of the scholars who spoke about the topic. In fact to deny that irhab is part of Islam implies rejection of the Book of Allah and thus apostasy from the Religion.”

    -scholar ?Abdul-Qadir bin ?Abdul-?Aziz: “Terrorism is from Islam, and whoever rejects that he has disbelieved. And that is due to His Most High’s saying: “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrorise the enemy of Allah and your enemy.” [8:60] So terrorising the Kafir enemy is a Shar?i obligation by the clear text of this Ayah, and whosoever rejects that he has disbelieved, due to Allah’s statement: “And none but the disbelievers reject Our Ayat” [29:47]. And the Juhd mentioned in the Arabic of the Ayah, is the rejection and believing upon the tongue. And Allah said: “And who does more wrong than he who invents a lie against Allah or denies the truth, when it comes to him? Is there not a dwelling in Hell for the disbelievers.” [10:17]. So whoever says that Islam is free from terrorism or wants to differentiate between the two, then he has disbelieved. So terrorism is from Islam. And with this, you know that the ones who say that they want to wage war against terrorism, they only want to wage war against Islam in reality. And from the combating against terrorism is the combating against Islam – and they are only covering up the facts from the ignorant ones.”

  5. mummymovie says

    Nov 16, 2018 at 2:37 pm

    A koran, a book on terrorism, and a sawed-off rifle?

    What’s there to be afraid of?

  6. somehistory says

    Nov 16, 2018 at 2:46 pm

    There is precedent for introducing into criminal proceedings the written words found in books to show intent and motivation of the accused .

    ‘Turner Diaries’ introduced in McVeigh trial

    Writings mentioned casualties, killing
    April 28, 1997
    Web posted at: 3:05 p.m. EDT (1905 GMT)
    DENVER (CNN) — At the trial of Timothy McVeigh, an FBI agent introduced clippings from an anti-government novel, “The Turner Diaries,” that were taken from the car McVeigh was driving when he was arrested 90 minutes after the Oklahoma City bombing.
    One of those clippings had this phrase highlighted: “But the real value of all of our attacks today lies in the psychological impact, not in the immediate casualties.”
    Another highlighted phrase read, “We can still find them and kill them.”

    In trial testimony Monday afternoon, FBI agent William Eppright also introduced a note taken from McVeigh’s car that read, “Not abandoned. Do not tow. Will move by April 23. Needs battery and cable.”
    Prosecutors allege that McVeigh put that sign on his car to keep it from being towed from a parking space near the Alfred Murrah federal building. According to the prosecution, he parked the car there in order to make his getaway after the building was bombed.
    “The Turner Diaries” is a novel popular on the anti-government right. Included in the plot of the book is a bomb attack on a federal building.
    http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/28/okc/

  7. Angemon says

    Nov 16, 2018 at 5:13 pm

    and stunned defense attorney Claire White, who called Golde’s line of questioning ‘racist’ and ‘Islamaphobic [sic].’”

    White guilt?

    • Westman says

      Nov 17, 2018 at 12:05 am

      Why not? WASPophobia is de rigueur of every leftist tongue and judge even when their own youth background was WASP. And, like the Salem Witch trials and every articulation of communism, there are motives of an economic theft nature.

  8. gravenimage says

    Nov 16, 2018 at 9:50 pm

    Robert Spencer in FrontPage: “Islamophobia” Outbreak in California
    …………………….

    Thanks for covering this story, Mr. Spencer.

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