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The Fetishization of Islam in the West

Dec 11, 2018 10:44 am By Joshua Winston

Adherents to Islam – Muslims — are not rare on planet earth. They comprise a quarter of the world’s population, and yet they are treated in the West as though they are delicate flowers on the verge of extinction. They are above criticism and are not responsible for any of the atrocities that come out of their communities. Islam is practiced by every race of people in every country on the globe, so it’s safe to say that Islam is not a race. That should be very clear by this point, and the ‘racist’ label has never applied. Islam is also a very bad idea at every level – religiously, politically and legally. Islam gives rise to societies that are corrupt and unjust, and where minorities and non-Muslims suffer. I don’t just question people who say they are Muslims, I question anyone, regardless of skin tone or gender, who looks at Islamic doctrines and tells me that Islam is a good idea worth defending.

What does it mean to fetishize something? It means to have an irrational and excessive commitment to a thing. This is what we are seeing in the West today. People are overly invested in Islam whilst being unable to articulate why they are so drawn to and protective of it. Jews, who are a minority, are not accorded the same protection or respect as Muslims are in the West, with anti-Semitism becoming normalized and even slightly fashionable. Jews are fleeing the West because we are seeing the rise of anti-Semitism with the advent of more and more Muslims settling here. What is it about Islam that people are so passionate about? Freedom of speech is being eroded, with Parliaments in the UK and Canada drafting bills that outline what ‘Islamophobia’ is and determining what punishments should be meted out if a person doesn’t like Islam and is critical of it.

Animal welfare activists are silent when it comes to Islam. Police, councilors, politicians, care-home workers and teachers all turn the other way when it comes to grooming and rape gangs. Children’s lives don’t matter when it comes to supporting and defending or confronting Islam. Segregation goes on in London universities and at Labour party meetings in the UK, and feminists don’t bat an eyelid. A senior police officer tweeted out that arresting parents who commit female genital mutilation (FGM) on their daughters isn’t in the child’s best interests (physical abuse does not come without psychological and emotional abuse being applied also, so yes, arrests are in the child’s best interests). The officer’s sergeant had to take to Twitter to delete that tweet and tell us that every instance of FGM will be investigated and arrests will be made in his area. After a two-year period that saw hundreds of girls butchered, Freedom of Information (FOI) requests show that there has not been one arrest made in Middle England, and none in the area this sergeant presides over. In Bristol, the Somali community are saying they are being racially targeted because police want to ensure that girls aren’t being cut, even though FGM is a cultural practice of Somalis – clearly they would like to continue with the practice in the UK unchallenged.

Islam is very akin to fascism, insofar that it enjoys suppressing any opposition to it, and it also enjoys living under strict autocratic dictators (think Palestine or any Muslim majority country outside of capitalist and Westernized Dubai). Muslims vote for Muslims wherever they settle, no matter how qualified or not the person is. The only thing that matters to Muslims is that their representatives are sharia-compliant. Muslims have the notion of the Ummah, and by this they would classify themselves, wrongly, as being of one race worldwide, one brotherhood. The left align with Islam in this regard (think Antifa from UK to the USA to Australia – same tactics and of one mind). The left and Islam want more government and more suppression of any opposing factors who disagree with them, as well as wanting less freedom of speech and the closing down of differing ideas. And, like angry Muslim men who are infuriated for the smallest of reasons, they attempt to use violence to intimidate others in a bid to get their own way.

Islam and the left, at this particular juncture in time, make for good bedfellows. The left, I suspect, visualize a world where their tactics have succeeded and no one is allowed to hold any differing opinions to their own. Like thought-police or Nazis, they would walk among us, listening in to conversations for any wrongthink, and making arrests on a whim, much like the morality police do in Muslim-majority lands. Muslims, for their part, I can only imagine are gleeful that they have found such massively ignorant and uninformed support from the left. I also suspect the left visualize themselves living peacefully among their Muslim allies when they have won the ideological war that is raging in their heads and in real life. If there ever does come a day when we are living under leftist/Islamic rule, it will be interesting to see for how long these two groups can peacefully coexist. Islam doesn’t tolerate non-Muslims when it becomes the majority. When Muslims become the majority, then the persecutions begin and rule of law does not apply, and Muslims demand that they are viewed as superior to everyone else and able to hold special privileges. The one thing that might allow Islam not to put its boot on the throat of the left is their united hatred of Jews and Israel. Only time will tell, and we shall see if reason and logic win out, or whether or not we’ll be living under a leftist/Islamic regime.

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  1. Cyrus Basile says

    Dec 11, 2018 at 10:48 am

    no to real christianofobia

    • Rufolino says

      Dec 12, 2018 at 6:21 am

      Joshua Winston: true, true, true !

  2. Benedict says

    Dec 11, 2018 at 1:28 pm

    “What does it mean to fetishize something?” ……

    To fetishize something is to make an idol out of something; a man for example; a man named Muhammad for example and a book named the Koran for example. A graven image you treasure in your mind because it flatters your depraved nature is a fetish and an idol.

    But:

    All makers of idols are nothing,
    and the things they treasure are worthless.
    Their witnesses fail to see or know anything,
    so they are put to shame.

    Who fashions a god or casts an idol
    which profits him nothing?
    Behold, all his companions will be put to shame,
    for the craftsmen themselves are only human.

    Let them all assemble and take their stand;
    they will all be brought to terror and shame.
    The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals;
    he fashions an idol with hammers
    and forges it with his strong arms.
    Yet he grows hungry and his strength fails;
    he fails to drink water and grows faint.

    The woodworker extends a measuring line;
    he marks it out with a stylus;
    he shapes it with chisels
    and outlines it with a compass.
    He fashions it in the likeness of man,
    like man in all his glory,
    that it may dwell in a shrine.

    He cuts down cedars
    or retrieves a cypress or oak.
    He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.
    He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.
    It serves as fuel for man.
    He takes some of it to warm himself,
    and he kindles a fire
    and bakes his bread;
    he even fashions it into a god and worships it;
    he makes an idol and bows down to it.

    He burns half of it in the fire,
    and he roasts meat on that half.
    He eats the roast and is satisfied.
    Indeed, he warms himself and says,
    “Ah! I am warm;
    I see the fire.”

    From the rest he makes a god, his graven image.
    He bows down to it and worships;
    he prays to it and says,
    “Save me, for you are my god.”

    They cannot comprehend or understand,
    for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see,
    and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
    And no one considers in his heart,
    no one has the knowledge or insight to say,
    “I burned half of it in the fire,
    and I baked bread on its coals,
    I roasted meat
    and I ate.
    Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it?
    Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

    He feeds on ashes.
    His deluded heart has led him astray,
    and he cannot deliver himself or say,
    “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

    • somehistory says

      Dec 11, 2018 at 2:11 pm

      Originally written by the prophet Isaiah, a “true” prophet of the True God.

    • mortimer says

      Dec 12, 2018 at 1:28 am

      I disagree with the word ‘FETISHIZATION’. The Leftards are not worshipping Islam, but they are making ISLAM EXEMPT FROM CRITICISM FOR A STRATEGIC REASON ONLY.

      The Leftards have a fundamental and irreconcilable difference with Islam, namely, theology. Leftards are godless as a rule.

      Furthermore, the Leftards do not want POLITICAL RIVALS which Muslims are. The RED-GREEN AXIS is only temporary until the Leftards can gain unopposable power and a permanent majority in governments around the world. When they have the majority in every election, there will be no more need for elections. They will control everything including Muslims and they will start suppressing and arresting Muslims as soon as they gain the level of power they yearn for … as they are doing in China.

      • isaac says

        Dec 12, 2018 at 5:08 am

        That’s a nice thought. Better than the alternative.

  3. dan christenen says

    Dec 11, 2018 at 1:42 pm

    The general view is that islam incarnates extreme misanthropy and indeed evil itself.
    Islam is first and foremost pure hypocrisy; systematically developed and refined through centuries of constant exercise in lying, deceiving, hating and fighting against civilization.
    The world needs islam just as much as fish need bicycles.

  4. somehistory says

    Dec 11, 2018 at 2:26 pm

    There is an end coming to all of this. It isn’t what the moslims expect. it isn’t what those showing favor to moslims and a fervor for islam are expecting. Each of these believe…wrongly…that they will ascend above the other and will then be the only ones in control of mankind; the only ones worshipped.

    Revelation 13 tells us clearly that the ‘wild beast” will endeavor to force all mankind to bow to it and to its “image”..having help from the second “wild beast”…which other verses describe as a “false prophet,” and from satan the devil, the “original serpent, dragon.”
    But there are people whose names are “written in the Lamb’s Book of Life” and these ones will not bow to this beast and its image.
    When the right time…according to the True God’s Will,…has arrived, the “wild beast” and the “false prophet” along with the ‘original serpent, dragon,” the devil, will be thrown into the “lake of fire.”

    This action…the throwing into the “lake of fire”… by Christ Jesus, will bring an end to the worship of the “wild beast” and its “image.’ A complete and final end. No more adherents to islam will be found, nor will there be those who are using islam to destroy Christianity.

    Now is the time for people to wake up and see what is happening. It means everything, even life itself.

  5. mortimer says

    Dec 11, 2018 at 2:43 pm

    EXCELLENT POINT BY Joshua Winston. He said that a ‘RACIST’ claim has never been raised against Muslims !!! But perhaps this is where we should concentrate our EFFORTS.

    After all, RACISM IS A TWO-EDGED SWORD. So … we must start to refer to ‘ *RACIST*, ANTI-EUROPEAN ATTACKS BY *RACIST* MUSLIMS FROM XYZ’.

    If Islam is a RACE, and if it is RACIST to criticize Islam, then when Muslims ATTACK, CRITICIZE, KILL or SPEAK AGAINST ‘OTHERS’ … then this must be an act of RACISM.

    If the Left insists that Islam is a RACE, we must call out RACIST MUSLIMS at every opportunity… until the public gets it.

    Yes, when Muslims attack EUROPEANS , the Muslims must be RACIST.

    • somehistory says

      Dec 11, 2018 at 3:08 pm

      ++

  6. gravenimage says

    Dec 11, 2018 at 9:06 pm

    The Fetishization of Islam in the West
    ………………………..

    All too common. *Ugh*.

  7. 762x51FMJ says

    Dec 12, 2018 at 9:34 am

    After every attack, Islam steals the victimship from the real victims by screaming that a massive islamophobic backlash is occurring.
    Over time this causes the terrorized populace to develop Stockholm syndrome and blame themselves for the actions of the terrorists.
    The final page is drawn when they all gladly line up to be executed for not believing.

  8. Bill Quest says

    Dec 13, 2018 at 7:10 am

    The first rule of totalitarian izzzlam is you will not criticize totalitarian izzzlam.
    It’s quite obvious that this most merciful , this most benevolent, this most gracious of politico-religious tradition simply cannot ‘earn’ our absolute respect on its own merits , therefore it demands state enforced veneration , these state coerced submission to a totalitarian creed is the norm in most Islamic states where sharia’s blasphemy tenets  forbids, with a vengeance, any criticism of the state ideology. You criticize the state-ideology at your peril , the wrath, indignation and punishment will be swift & administered by the authority of the state . Self-reflective critical thought , introspection of ones religious beliefs  has no legacy in theocratic states .  
    Sharia’s long-long-long-long arm has infested the west ….Sharia drops it’s velvet glove, exposing a bloody iron-fist ,it’s about ideological fascism and insisting all the ideology’s fetishes need to be considered sacrosanct and beyond all criticism ……. Lest you suffer the vicious wrath of righteous indignation by the ideology’s foot soldiers .
    I vaguely & fondly remember the days when Islam did not blight our consciousness, and infest our world with sharia compliancy ….
    This attempt to weaponize blasphemy by normalizing it is simply another ‘ Islamic-issue’ to render izzlam’s fetishes absolutely sacrosanct in the Western psyche ….it’s about unconditional sharia compliancy, drip-by-drip-by-drip-by-drip ….destroying an egalitarian society by a million halal cuts ……
    Similar to all ideological , socio-political isms , Nazism, socialism, communism, fascism…. Islamism needs to subjugate the masses … & it seems where the others failed the totalitarian cult of Islamism is gaining ground …

  9. Bill Quest says

    Dec 13, 2018 at 7:12 am

    The first rule of totalitarian Islam is you will not criticize totalitarian Islam…..
    It’s quite obvious that this most merciful , this most benevolent, this most gracious of politico-religious tradition simply cannot ‘earn’ our absolute respect on its own merits , therefore it demands state enforced veneration , these state coerced submission to a totalitarian creed is the norm in most Islamic states where sharia’s blasphemy tenets  forbids, with a vengeance, any criticism of the state ideology. You criticize the state-ideology at your peril , the wrath, indignation and punishment will be swift & administered by the authority of the state . Self-reflective critical thought , introspection of ones religious beliefs  has no legacy in theocratic states .  
    Sharia’s long-long-long-long arm has infested the west ….Sharia drops it’s velvet glove, exposing a bloody iron-fist ,it’s about ideological fascism and insisting all the ideology’s fetishes need to be considered sacrosanct and beyond all criticism ……. Lest you suffer the vicious wrath of righteous indignation by the ideology’s foot soldiers .
    I vaguely & fondly remember the days when Islam did not blight our consciousness, and infest our world with sharia compliancy ….
    This attempt to weaponize blasphemy by normalizing it is simply another ‘ Islamic-issue’ to render izzlam’s fetishes absolutely sacrosanct in the Western psyche ….it’s about unconditional sharia compliancy, drip-by-drip-by-drip-by-drip ….destroying an egalitarian society by a million halal cuts ……
    Similar to all ideological , socio-political isms , Nazism, socialism, communism, fascism…. Islamism needs to subjugate the masses … & it seems where the others failed the totalitarian cult of Islamism is gaining ground …

  10. Odo Saunders says

    Dec 17, 2018 at 1:03 pm

    I am afraid that the animal activists and certain feminist groups are turning out to be Islam’s useful idiots. These groups never raise their voices to complain about halal meat or the activities of grooming gangs in the north of England. If the Muslims gained political control in England, these groups would be among the first to be persecuted. Their inaction is so short-sighted.

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