When they can’t rebut criticism of Islam, Muslims and Leftists cry racism. My latest in FrontPage:
I was reading a story at Jihad Watch about how UK MP’s are calling for “Islamophobia” to be classified as “racism”, in which they invoke the words of a college student, and how they want to criminalize claims that Islam is spread by the sword. They’re doing this even though Islamophobia doesn’t exist and is only a tool concocted by the Islamic enemy to kill criticism of Islam, that Islam is a religion, not a race, and that Islam was indeed spread by the sword, and by the sword of Mohammad himself. As Robert Spencer aptly puts it, “this entire initiative is a totalitarian war against reality”.
These anti-reality totalitarians will stop at nothing to push their dishonest agenda. Case in point: I have light skin and red hair. I was born to Albanian Muslim parents in America and I was raised Muslim. I have a good number of Muslim relatives who are white, and even some who have blond hair and blue eyes. Yet when Muslims and leftists dismiss my criticism of Islam, I mention that I was raised Muslim, and they either deny it, call me a liar, and even an Uncle Tom.
Look at the state of the “world” that calls itself Islamic. It’s a world that completely lacks self-criticism, which leads it to blame its horrific state on everyone but itself. We in the West criticize the West and praise Islam, just like Muslims. This self-destructive streak of ours has to end or our worlds will resemble each other more than they already do.
As I wrote in my introduction to My Mohammad Cartoons Vol. 1 book:
“I draw Mohammad because if I don’t -and many have stopped drawing him- then we will more closely resemble the Islamic world, which is a world where the bad guy won. I will continue to do my individual part to make sure that our world is never going to be that world, one Mohammad cartoon at a time.”
As for “Islamophobia”: a phobia is “a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous”. It’s rational to fear an irrational, political religion like Islam, one that is motivating a war against the civilized world; a war that’s being fought by the Islamic enemy on every imaginable front, while we do everything we can to not offend Muslims, as if it’s a moral imperative.
As Andrew Cummins tweeted, (often wrongly attributed to Christopher Hitchens): “Islamophobia. A word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”
The real problem is not “Islamophobia”, but Islamophilia, which is rampant in the West. Muslims not only want to kill criticism of Islam by any means necessary, but they want us to praise Islam, even though Islam condemns us.
We often hear about Islam’s “blasphemy laws”, but we rarely hear it said that whatever “laws” Islam has are irrelevant when it comes to us. We take it for granted, for some twisted reason, that Islam’s “laws” should be observed by all, even by non-Muslims.
One of the ugliest ideas pushed by the Obama administration was that “we will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.” That’s grotesque, especially when it comes to Islam and its belief that to be non-Muslim is to be non-human. It’s that evil idea that leads Muslims to commit the most obscene acts of violence against non-Muslims. The only innocents in Islam are Muslims, so we’re all guilty until proven Muslim.
And it’s that evil idea which instantly contaminated new Muslim convert Sinead O’Connor to tweet something that she herself was shocked by. She’s now named Shuhuda’ Sadaqat, and she tweeted shortly after she converted, on Nov. 2, 2018:
“I’m terribly sorry. What I’m about to say is something so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it. But truly I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that’s what non-Muslims are called). Not for one moment, for any reason. They are disgusting.”
And the vile Islamic propagandist Linda Sarsour “magically changed from white to a ‘woman of color’ in an instant”, just by putting on a hijab.
Islam is religion. It’s politics. It’s ideology. It’s not race. And it’s ridiculous that this argument has to be made, but we live in ridiculous times, so here we are.
This all boils down to Freedom, to Freedom of Speech. We have the freedom to criticize anything and anyone, at anytime, most especially those evil people and things which forbid criticism.
Bosch Fawstin is an Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist currently adapting a novel into a graphic novel, to be announced soon He’s the winner of the Mohammad Cartoon Contest, which ended with a jihadist attack where only the would-be murderers died. He’s the creator of the anti-jihad superhero, Pigman, featured in The Infidel series. Bosch’s first graphic novel is Table for One. He is also the author of ProPiganda: Drawing the Line Against Jihad, a print companion to The Infidel.
Elisha says
“When they can’t rebut criticism of Islam, Muslims and Leftists cry racism.”
That’s because there is only ONE truth, that being what God has revealed to us through the Bible. To seek truth requires earnestness, courage and humility (Psalm 145:18, Jeremiah 29:13, James 4:6, 1 Corinthians 2:10-14). Simon Greenleaf, Sir William Ramsay, James Warner Wallace and Lee Strobel are but a few of many former strident atheists throughout history who couldn’t ignore the evidence (historical, scientific, prophetic) for the Scriptures when challenged. For those who refuse, this is the reason why:
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. – 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
Andy says
Thankfully,
This is a site of different opinions/videos and we should see EVERYONE’S opinion /videos regardless if we agree with them or not. Thankfully Mr.Spencer and JW don’t censor.
I wish I could say the same for some Judeo-Christian Heritage Countries Around The World.
Andy says
We say comments not because they are easy or tickling the ears of people who want to hear such words but because they are the truth and should be read and heard by people today.
We are losing are Judeo-Christian Heritage in our countries today. These issues need to be addressed.
Thankfully we have this site to spread the word (amongst others) and people who are putting themselves on the front lines to fight this evil which is covering our world.
I have been thinking for the past couple of years now, I wonder if this is how the indigenous people of North America felt when the Europeans were increasing all over the land and eventually would take over.
Now (in North America) around the world we have indigenous people in the lands being taken over by a people who claim what they follow is a religion of peace. If you try and dispute this, You will be a Racist/Bigot/Islamaphobe. Orange Man Bad
I saw this comment by Paelorian in the Great Replacement Video
What we are observing is that almost every majority-white country is decreasingly white and moving toward a white minority.
The only holdouts who seem interested in self-preservation are in eastern Europe.
It’s sad that most whites no longer value their own continued existence. I am especially distraught about countries where whites are the indigenous people and multiculturalism and demographic change has only recently been introduced.
The natives will lose their nations. According to that UN report, it’s not just whites but other races under threat, like the Japanese. Well, I wish for Japan to not be diluted into a “cosmopolitan” nation that will no doubt diminish it’s unique accomplishments, like lawfulness and cleanliness.
Anyone who celebrates the eradication of white nations is genocidal. Don’t let them get in the way of your survival! It’s up to you to reproduce and assert your sovereignty.
I may not even be white, but I’m against evil and seeking the destruction of a moral people is evil. I’m actually Jewish (worth mentioning because I get personally blamed for white genocide in this comment section), and the same thing is happening to my people. About 75% of non-Orthodox Jews are marrying non-Jews and destroying their own Jewishness.
They’re going to disappear because they’ve adopted the progressive idea that our heritage and people don’t matter and that we should dispose of that and join the Borg Collective and be the same, a new people without a past. I’m not joining that movement.
I actually believe in diversity. Preserve our peoples. Preserve our nations. Preserve our virtues. It’s looking like the white world will turn into a diaspora, with little redoubts where white holdouts cling to survival and perhaps irredentist dreams of national rebirth.
It happened to my people with about two thousand years of national exile, and I wouldn’t wish it on any nation. It’s a horrible fate and typically means death for the nation and culture.
boakai ngombu says
Elisha … and sadly, “… They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might, when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints …” (2Thes. 1:9, 10; ESV)
jewdog says
Third World countries, particularly Muslim ones, are afflicted with a terrible inferiority complex when it comes to western civilization, which is obviously successful, and better. The humiliation is deeper for Muslims, who are taught that they are superior simply by virtue of their beliefs. The way they deal with it is to excuse their failures on racism, the dirtiest sin by current standards, rather than deal constructively with the intrinsic shortcomings of their culture. Islamic ideology helps feed their illusions as it discourages introspective criticism and identifies Islam as the Master Faith. White really means western, which is a state of mind, culture and belief, not race.
DHazard says
A typical Muslim response to your flawless logic is to bring up some problem with judaism, christianity or Atheism that has nothing to do with the topic. If that doesn’t work then the ad hominem attacks are launched, you Zionist dog. And finally, if all else fails, you kill the person who is “spreading corruption on the Earth “. Same is true for leftist non-Muslims, but even they know that killing someone for Islamic blasphemy is wrong so they just shut down your internet presence, charge you with a crime that was made up just to protect Muslims (UK, UN, Canada, etc.) and sentence you to jail with a hefty fine.
gravenimage says
I Became White After I Left Islam?
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Fine piece from Bosch Fawstin.
bonnie loranger says
islam is NOT a race
bonnie loranger says
Quran 3:110
Race, Racism
and Islam
“Islam is an ideology. It’s not a race.”
Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR spokesperson
“Whoever resembles a people, he is of them”
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
“We’ve seen this before. There’s a
master race. Now there’s a master faith.”
Benjamin Netanyahu
This article points out that Muslims are not a race, as is often implied, but if they were then it would make Islam the world’s most dangerous race-based supremacist ideology.
Islam is Not a Race
Those openly critical of Islam are sometimes dubiously slurred as racists, regardless of what their true views on race may be.
In fact, Islam is not a race. Islam has nothing at all to do with genetics, nor is it an innate characteristic. It is an ideology – a set of beliefs about individual behavior and the rules of society.
People generally choose their beliefs; they do not choose their race. Therefore Muslims are not a race of people. In fact, there are Muslims of all races. Does a person change their race by adopting or leaving Islam?
Criticizing Islam is not racism. There is no such thing as “anti-Muslim racism” any more than there is “anti-Christian racism,” “anti-Republican racism,” or “anti-Capitalist racism.”
So why would anyone claim differently?
It is because the battle over Islam is being fought in the West, the only arena in which it can still be critically debated. It is also here that repugnance toward racism is strong and nearly universal. From politics to high-risk mortgages and illegal immigration, fear of the race card is one of the strongest influences on public policy.
At the same time, it is nearly impossible to defend Islam on its own merits in the West in free and open debate. According to its own texts, the religion was founded in terror. Its political and social code is deeply incompatible with liberal values.
Muslims societies usually rely on threat of violence to suppress intellectual critique of Islam and the freedom of other religion to fairly compete, which, if allowed, would be the slow death of Islam. Their counterparts in the West have learned to rely on the race card. If they can paint any criticism of their religion as “racism,” then the massive evidence against Islam can be dismissed out of hand without having to contend with it.
Slinging the worst of all slurs to compensate for deficiency of fact and logic is weak enough, but it is ironic given that what is being defended in such cheap fashion is an ideology that is overtly supremacist in nature. In fact, Muslims who have learned to parrot allegations of racism are not thinking too far ahead…
What if It Really Is… a Race?
It might seem that casting Islam as a race – or Muslims a race of people – successfully protects the religion. Tough examination, either of the common ideological tie or its social effects, could be dismissed as racism. But everything is not as it seems.
If Muslims are a race because of Islam, then it means that Islam is a racial ideology. Therefore, what this ideology has to say about its own and other “races” becomes very important.
In fact, the Quran posits an enormous qualitative distinction between Muslims and non-Muslims that is hard to miss. Believers are loved by God, whereas infidels are hated to the extent that they are tortured for eternity (3:32, 4:56) merely for not believing. Muslims are told not to take unbelievers as friends (3:28) and to shun them (3:118). Those outside the circle are called “helpers of evil” (25:55), “wicked” (4:160), “fond of lies” (5:42) and compared to the worst of animals (8:55, 7:176, 7:179). Muslims are told to be merciful to each other, but ruthless to those outside of the faith (48:29). Violence is also sanctioned against those who are obstinate against Islamic rule (8:12-13, 9:5).
If Islam is a race, then Christianity and Judaism are races as well, meaning that if the Quran speaks of them as inferior, then it is a racist book. In truth, the Quran does more than that. In a stunning show of religious bigotry, Muslims are ordered to fight Jews and Christians “until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (9:29). There is no reason given in the verse other than religious status for bringing Jew and Christians under the heel of Islamic rule.
Sharia, the canonical law of Islam, is openly discriminatory toward non-Muslims. Clothes and eating utensils used by non-Muslims are considered ‘unclean’. They must keep to one side of the street, accept a “lesser form of greeting,” and are not allowed to mix with Muslims at certain events. A Muslim cannot be put to death for killing a non-Muslim.
No other religion filters perception through group identity to the extent that Islam does. Around the world Christians, Jews and other individuals are routinely brutalized merely because they are a member of a non-Muslim group, not because they have done anything to personally deserve having their lives taken, their children maimed or their property torched. Meanwhile, other Muslims are generally indifferent to this violence and reserve their true outrage for circumstances involving Muslim victims of non-Muslim acts, however unintentional or relatively slight.
So, if Muslims are a race, Islam would not only be a racist ideology, but arguably the most hateful and destructive in history.
Consider the words of Abul Ala Mawdudi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami party, and imagine that he is speaking about race (ie. substitute the word “white” for “Muslim” and “non-white” for “kufr”):
All those who are born of Muslim lineage will be considered to be Muslim, they will be subject to all Islamic laws, they will be compelled to perform the religious duties and obligations, and then whoever steps outside the fold of Islam will be executed. Following this announcement utmost effort should be made to save as many sons and daughters born of Muslims as possible from the lap of kufr. Then whoever cannot be saved by any means should be cut off and cast away, sadly but firmly, from his society forever. After this act of purification a new life for Islamic society may begin (source)
How much tolerance should there be for an ideology like that?
It is bad enough that hundreds of millions of people have been killed in the last fourteen centuries by divinely sanctioned Jihad and slavery, but to retroactively supplant the stated motive of religious supremacy with that of racial superiority is hardly a step in the right direction for a religion seeking the acceptance of an increasingly skeptical audience.
Conclusion
Race is an arbitrary label that has no legitimacy. Therefore anything based on race, including racism and racial discrimination is unsound at best and immoral and inhumane at worst.
Human beings are individuals and should only be judged as such.
Islam is not a race. Muslims are not a race. Islam is an ideology that should be open to critical examination. Muslims, however, are individuals who should be protected from harm or harassment in the same way and for the same reasons as anyone else.
GR
Editor, TROP
jayell says
“The real problem is not “Islamophobia”, but Islamophilia, which is rampant in the West.”
I’m afraid that this is just one symptom of the general descent into perversion that we’re witnessing in the West. Islam is just one piece of squalid cultural garbage that would never have been tolerated to the current extent 50 or more years ago. We badly need re-education.