Indeed they have. The idea that opposing jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, non-Muslims and others would be stigmatized and marginalized to the degree that it is today is breathtaking. Most people now take for granted that any negative statement regarding Islam, even criticism of jihad terrorists, is “Islamophobic” and to be shunned and silenced. And so the advancing jihad is essentially unopposed; most people are afraid to say a word. And the social media giants are steadily choking off all criticism of Islam; even MasterCard and Discover have now begun denying their services to those who dare to violate Sharia blasphemy laws.
I wrote about this phenomenon at length in my book Confessions of an Islamophobe.
Note the reference to the Canadian government’s persecution of Jihad Watch writer Christine Douglass-Williams for daring to oppose jihad terror, toward the end of this piece.
“‘Islamophobia’ Invention Has Served Its Purpose Spectacularly Well,” by Philip Carl Salzman, PJ Media, January 15, 2019:
“Islamophobia” is an idea recently invented and defused by advocates and apologists for Islam for the purpose of silencing criticism of Islam. The term “phobia” indicates an irrational fear, which is how users of the term hope criticism of Islam will be understood.
As is well-known, criticism of Islam, of Allah, of Mohammed, or of the Koran is forbidden by Sharia law; violators (or even those unjustly accused) are subject per Sharia law to summary execution. Where execution for this offense is rarer due to its extralegality, such as in America and Canada, defenders of Islam have tried to avoid criticism by presenting themselves as unjust victims of persecution and by using moral suasion through the concept of Islamophobia.
Islamophobia has become a standard topic in Middle East Studies and Islamic Studies courses, often presented in conferences and publications as a great threat to the well-being of Muslims in North America. In reality, government statistics on religion-oriented hate crimes indicate that Jews are by far the most targeted group — and many of these cases are perpetrated by Muslims. Muslims are targets in a small minority of cases.
Some Middle East and Islamic Studies professors appear to believe it is their job to present Islam in the best possible light. While daily Islamist militias and proto-states fight to conquer land and populations in the name of jihad for the caliphate, professors and media commentators claim that jihad actually means “inner struggle to submit to God.” Most of the West’s most prominent political leaders announce that Islam is a religion of peace, even as they contemplate going to war against jihadis. They claim that the Islamic State “has nothing to do with Islam,” even as the Islamic State justifies its policies and actions with detailed references to Islam’s foundational texts.
The Islamic State has distinguished models to follow: Did not Mohammed spur the military thrusts of the great Arab Muslim Empire, which soon conquered land between India and Iberia for Allah? Does not the Koran divide the world into the Dar al-Islam, the land of peace, and the Dar al-harb, the land of infidels and war?
From the Koran to present-day Muslim imams and ayatollahs (read the word-for-word translations published by the Middle East Media Research Institute), a prominent theme is the commanded killing of infidels and the conquest of the world. This theme is repeated in the charters of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, the writings of bin Laden and myriad others, and by preachers of Middle Eastern origin and funding in mosques throughout America and Canada.
Attempts to monitor mosques for hate speech and threats to the public order — such as were tried in New York — are denounced by politicians such as New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio. Fear of Islamophobia accusations has now become a serious inhibition to those charged with public safety, just as fear of racism accusations has long inhibited government authorities from dealing with serious breaches of the law throughout the West. Abductions, forced marriages, gang rapes, and even “honor killings” committed by Middle Eastern and South Asian immigrants to Western countries often go unpunished by government agencies.
North American feminists dare not speak of abuse of women in the Muslim world, from the Koran and Sharia law to daily family life, lest they be accused of Islamophobia. Members of the National Women’s Studies Association recently voted to boycott Israel, but cannot bring themselves to comment on child marriages, forced marriages, female seclusion, honor killings, gang rapes of infidel women, or the enslavement and sale of females for sex slavery.
Western opinion leaders have even advocated for Islamic supremacists by forbidding criticism of Islam. The Canadian Parliament recently condemned “Islamophobia,” and a Parliamentary committee is now crafting measures to implement this motion. Christine Douglass-Williams was fired from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation board for criticizing political Islam, showing that the government is willing to terminate appointed employees — even of so-called independent institutions — for alleged Islamophobia. Just as in the Canadian “Human Rights” Commissions and Tribunals, truth is not allowed as a defense….
Read the rest here.
Buraq says
Islamaphobia (so-called) is the only ‘crime’ in the world that is impossible to commit! For this ‘crime’ to exist, there must first be a peaceful religion that preaches peace. Islam does the exact opposite. Therefore, Islamaphobia is a ‘crime’ that cannot be committed!
Only a clown or a liar would disagree!
Jayme says
The issue in Canada is the charter protects speech unless its hate now to say Isis is a threat to the world if that’s hate we just better toss the charter out.
mortimer says
ISLAMOPHOBIA is a propaganda term invented by DICTATORS, used by MORONS in order to silence brave non-Muslims who object to ISLAMIC TERRORISM.
ISLAMOPHOBIA is a DISTRACTION from valid argument and necessary debate whose only purpose is to disarm non-Muslims ideologically.
ISLAMOPHOBIA is a Trojan-horse word or verbal trick designed to make people feel before any discussion has occurred, that it is morally wrong to discuss JIHADIC TERRORISM, in order to brush off their valid concerns about Islamic terrorism and render non-Muslims ideologically defenceless against jihadic aggression. (Note that ALL jihad is political aggression.)
ISLAMOPHOBIA is a FALLACY IN REASONING … a TROJAN-HORSE term, a 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 Islamic Ideology. “Islamophobia” is a word whose aim is to stop people from thinking analytically about jihad terrorism.
DanC says
Oh, I remember the spat @CBC between a young Ayaan Hirsi Ali and some moron (Avi Lewis?) who later went to (go figure!) Al-Jazeera and married the socialist nut (redundant, I know) Naomi Klein. I think it’s still on YT, she responded very polite and nice ‘there is no such thing, Islamophobia’ 🙂 I remmeber she also explained why there are no ‘moderate’ Muslims, just Muslims. And Yes, some take from those books everything seriously and some others, Not.
mortimer says
Agree with Ayaan Hirsi Ali re ‘no such thing as Islamophobia’. The term is merely a VERBAL TRICK to distract people from VALID CONCERNS about ISLAMIC TERRORISM and ISLAMIC POLITICAL SUPREMACISM.
DanC says
Of course there’s no such thing, my son (27 yrs) says: Islamophobia is an impossible thing, like 1=2; because a phobia is an irrational fear and you can’t have an irrational fear of an ideology. To fear/reject an ideology you have to know it, to rationalize it.
gravenimage says
Remember, they called Ayaaan Hirsi Ali–who is a black African feminist–a “racist” and “far right”.
Renate says
Thanks to Justin Trudeau and his father before him, Canada is LOST.
DanC says
If Liberals are voted out later this year we might still have a chance. Canada should take a lesson from Ontario where Provincial Liberals don’t even have party status anymore 🙂 This is what Federal Liberals deserve.
mortimer says
The Lib-Jihadist Party of Kanuckistan is widely rejected by Canadians, except for Maritimers who have been drinking their Screech mixed with libtardinous bilge water and are thus in a state of neurasthenic hysteria as a result.
Terry Gain says
Maratimers are in love with welfare payments.
Terry Gain says
Canada is not finished unless we reelect Trudeau, which is unlikely. It’s not clear to me that Americans are more Islamo-aware than Canadians.
Or Else! says
Ha! Just another entry in the SJW, Neo-Marxist, Progressive Leftist dictionary.
Facts and truth don’t matter. Anything can be anything they want, just because they say it is.
e.g. Trump Supporter = Nazi
The dangerous part is that globalist corporate interests, social media giants, and the MSM are all on board and spewing the same nonsense.
How about, “Islam = Totalitarian, Supremacist Ideology”? Not a chance that definition makes it past their dictionary’s selection committee.
somehistory says
In 2011, hillary clinton met with the oic and she told them that Americans would have to be “shamed” into banning criticism of islam. She explained to the group of moslims, a bloc in the U.N., that the First Amendment of the Constitution would prevent a law from being written and passed that would outlaw any words, thoughts, feelings or ideas, against islam or moslims.
(These exact words probably were not said by her, but she did say “shaming” would be all they could do due to the First Amendment protection of Free Speech.)
The oic coined the word, using the idea that homosexuals had been able to use so successfully…”phobia” of the thing undesired, disliked, hated, etc. Even though a “phobia” is something over which people don’t have control and for which many seek help from doctors and psychotherapists to overcome. Before the homosexuals used the “phobia” idea, irrational fear was not something most people condemned. Most people with an irrational fear drew sympathy and understanding from others.
Now, the oic have found out that a lot of people can be mind-pummeled into thinking that a “phobia” is a horrible crime and that it is rampant and unceasing against moslims. With constant whining, complaining, yelling, speeches, articles, hoaxes, and any other tactic dreamed up by them, they have made the word sound worse than any other one might imagine. Worse than any crime is the “phobia” of islam, and moslims are using its power to the full.
The day will soon dawn, however, and the Truth will be fully revealed. islam will be fully exposed for the evil that it is, and then, it will be destroyed.
Intelligent and informed individuals don’t have an irrational fear of islam, But, we do know how dangerous it is, and how evil.
Michael Copeland says
Muslims are COMMANDED to engender fear:
“TURHIBUNNA” – terrorise them – Koran 8.60 .
Canada says
To all who know.
Robert, I wonder how many Canadians really know the number of Muslims that are now imbedded in Gov., the, our peace keeping, non Military, again imbedded with Muslims, all of our new recruits, local police, R.C.M.P.’s, and most of our Doctors that were imported from such countries in the late 1990’s, early 2000 because of Gov. not willing to pay our Canadian Doc’s, left for the states, nurses too, so the importation of foreign workers, most Muslim countries.
You can not leave Islam. Death.
You can not leave being corrupt when people who are the same are.
So easy to see.
Jayme says
Our media as well and some reporters have openly stated how much the hate what Canada stands for.
Jay says
We need to all stop kowtowing to moslem enemy and start fighting back. As a totalitarian system, islam is forbidden in the USA under the McCarran-Walter Act, and we should enforce that law.
Terry Gain says
Jay
I wish that it were so. Though, it seems, if Wikipedia is correct, that communists are still prevented from becoming U.S. Citizens. Perhaps we need to prove that all Muslims are communists. They are, after all, totalitarians.
From Wikipedia
Parts of the Act remain in place today, but it has been amended many times and was modified substantially by the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965.
When regulations issued under the authority of the Passport Act of 1926 were challenged in Haig v. Agee, Congress enacted § 707(b) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1979 (Pub.L. 95–426, 92 Stat. 993, enacted October 7, 1978), amending § 215 of the Immigration and Nationality Act making it unlawful to travel abroad without a passport. Until that legislation, under the Travel Control Act of 1918, the president had the authority to require passports for foreign travel only in time of war.
Some provisions that excluded certain classes of immigrants based on their political beliefs were revoked by the Immigration Act of 1990, however members of Communist Parties are still banned from becoming citizens of the United States.[citation needed]
thebigW says
” members of Communist Parties are still banned from becoming citizens of the United States.[citation needed]”
Yeah, the USA just allows home-grown Communists to flourish lol, like John Brennan our former CIA Director when he was a younger guy, in 1976 supporting the Presidential candidate for the CPUSA (Communist Party of the USA), Gus Hall.
” On September 16, 2016, for some reason, the sitting CIA director announced he had voted for Communist Party USA leader Gus Hall in the 1976 presidential election.
“Brennan’s late-career confession came during a panel discussion of “diversity in the intelligence community” as he recalled his own CIA employment polygraph in 1980. On being asked by the polygrapher about whether he had ever worked with or for a group dedicated to overthrowing the US, he spoke up about his 1976 vote for the CPUSA.
And what did Gus Hall, the leader of the CPUSA say when the future Director of the CIA was so impressed by him to vote for him for POTUS? Let’s see,
…what is especially striking in Hall’s speechifying is the visceral hatred of the USA that animates it. America is — “the arsenal for the military fascist dictatorships and the reactionary colonial rulers the world over” –“the lair of the assassins, the home base of the hit men of imperialism” — “the main source, the cesspool of corruption of the lifeline of the capitalist world” — “they operate like the gangsters that they are are, who have lost all possibility of winning public support for their operations or ideas.”
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kkCrcq4bpM4J:dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/3733/Another-Look-at-Brennans-Red-Thread.aspx+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Mark Swan says
The United States and many other Western nations are at a crossroads. Free speech is dying, and if it dies, so will many other precious things.
Kirsten Powers is a self-declared liberal. She became alarmed by what she saw and responded by writing The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech. Another liberal, Juan Williams, describes the book this way: “Kirsten Powers explodes and skewers ‘The Silencing’—the demonizing and repression of different views, especially conservative views. Here is a liberal calling out other supposedly liberal people who claim to believe in free speech but tell all who disagree with them to shut up.” Powers calls these speech censors illiberal, to distinguish them from true liberals.
Earlier this year, Dennis Prager explained to attendees at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville, Tennessee, the difference between liberal and leftist—pointing out that liberals promote open-mindedness and compassion, while leftists preach tolerance, but only for their causes. Left and right are often political terms, but extreme leftists—who have taken over many universities—are totalitarians who suppress opposition by whatever means are at their disposal. It is important for all of us to understand these differences. Whether we speak of leftists or illiberals, we are not attacking liberals or promoting conservatives. Leftists, Marxists and anarchists are making huge inroads into our culture. This is a dangerous turn for Western nations and a frightening attempt at totalitarian thought control.
University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson burst onto the public square by refusing to use so-called “alternative pronouns” or refer to a single individual as they, as some gender-confused individuals demand. “‘I’ve been watching the rise of political correctness on campuses basically since the early 1990s’…. It seemed to go away for a while, he said, then ‘over the last five years, it has come roaring back’” (Tom Spears. “How controversial U of T prof Jordan Peterson became a lightning rod.” Ottawa Citizen, March 10, 2017).
When Britain’s former mental health tsar Natasha Devon told the head teachers of the country’s leading girls’ schools that they should no longer refer to students as girls or ladies but should address them with gender-neutral terms, liberal-leaning Piers Morgan came unglued on Good Morning Britain: “‘It’s preposterous. Utterly preposterous. It’s over. No more boys, no more girls. No more men, no more women. The world is over,’ Morgan said. He added that People who ‘agree with this garbage’ were ‘virtue signalling clowns’” (Luke Kinsella. “UK teachers told to use gender-neutral pronouns.” News.com.au, November 23, 2017).
Ben Shapiro is a conservative voice decrying authoritarian thought control. The titles of three of his seven books explain why the most leftist universities attempt to shut him up: Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth; Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans; and Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV.
Articulate voices—both liberal and conservative—are pushing back, but biased media and courts seem to be, at this time, on the side of advancing behaviors and lifestyles contrary to social values and suppressing free speech.
Some erroneously think we spend too much time talking about political correctness, LGBT issues, “bathroom bills” and the like— They are naive. These issues should concern every morally sound person, and they affect our ability to tell the truth in a chaotic world. Without freedom of speech, we cannot sound the
alarm and call on people to think. How these issues are defined is at the core of this.
The point is that wrong behaviors are promoted and leftist activists strive to silence any who disagree with their agenda. Dr. James Dobson laid bare this fact in his 2002 book, Bringing Up Boys, pointing out that “feminists and homosexual activists want to dissolve the traditional roles of mothers and fathers and, in time, eliminate such terms as wife, husband, son, daughter, sister, brother, manhood, womanhood, boy, girl, masculine, and feminine. These references to sexual identity are being replaced with gender-neutral terms, such as significant other, spouse, parent, child, and sibling” (p. 17). Dr. Miriam Grossman explains their agenda this way: “Their goal is an androgynous culture, where the differences between male and female
are discounted or denied, and the bond between them robbed of singularity” (Unprotected, p. xxi).
This so-called enlightened approach is detrimental to reality—allowing this twisted reasoning to have all the say, is outrageous negligence by all who know it is wrong and don’t speak-up.
Wellington says
Fine post, Mark. The Western Left has lost its collective mind and the chief beneficiary of this is the religion that wants all of the human race to submit, to be slaves to one degree or another.
So much of the world is mad. What other sane, alternative conclusion could possibly be drawn?
Westman says
Criticism is the only honest reaction of a free world to the mind-numbing control of Islam over almost a fifth of humans; a control that renders them unable to produce little more than the necessities of a lifetime eaten up by religious and political ritual.
Islamophobia is coined to make us believe that there is some clinically irrationality for that crticism, when in fact, we are simply nauseated by Islam’s absurd claims, barbaric doctrines, oppression of women, and everlasting war against “the other” as a lifestyle.
We are suffering from Islamonausea which has its base in the actual toxins of Islam. There is always honesty in nausea.
Mark Swan says
Thank You Wellington, Yes Mad, and coming about,
with Islam salivating at the prospect of weakened prey,
surely worsening things immensely.
It is real enough alright, certainly not in a good way.
When we turn to our news sources what do we hear—
enough gloom to fill the time allotted there—
Where is all the good news, uplifting inspiring, refreshing
stories that help with our well being and remind us that
there are so many good things to lift our spirits, that
help life feel worthwhile, pleasant and sane.
It could go a long way towards balancing things-out and
relieving the madness to some extent.
Mark Swan says
Absolutely Westman, there is nothing irrational in criticizing Islam—the more
people Islam exposes itself to, the more this nausea will spread.
gravenimage says
Excellent post, Mark.
Mark Swan says
Thank you gravenimage, these people mentioned there, indicate that the
nonsense is being called out, for what it is, that there probably are
many more ready to say it is enough already. We are not alone.
Indiana Tom says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-EN_QplYYU
Battle says
Robert Spencer, good one.
Lydia Church says
The era of reason is over.
However, I still refuse to be silent.
I will still speak out against islam until it kills me.
Salome says
Isla o phobia is nothing but a snarl word.
gravenimage says
“The inventors and purveyors of ‘Islamophobia’ have succeeded beyond their dreams in silencing criticism of Islam”
………………….
This is grimly true.
sheliak says
Although academics, politicians, clergy and the media are slaves of the cult of Islamophobia, many millions in the west understand clearly the nature of the mortal threat at their throats.
dan christensen says
The Elite in power in Germany, the government, has ordered a scrutiny of the antislam party “AfD”. This party is fast growing and have plans to enter the EU parlament.
The purpose of such a scrutiny is of course to throw suspicion on anybody, who opposes the ongoing substitution of Germans with muslim Arabs. The political correct Elite thereby hopes to scare the voters to shift back to the islam-friendly sector. The chosen strategy will probably backfire – the ordinary Germans knows very well that their own future is at stake.
FYI says
“islamophobia is white supremacy” says the banner.
They probably don’t know but……
islam’s “prophet” muhammed was,according to islamic teachings, a WHITE man
who owned,bought,sold and killed BLACK SLAVES.{Sahih Muslim 3901 etc}
So,in effect,muhammed it seems was the Arab version of a…white supremacist.
The Irony of course would be lost on the virtue-signalling students with their
“islamophobia is white supremacy” banner;in fact they would most likely not even know what Irony is,afflicted as they are by the Great Leftardism Plague that sweeps through the colleges and universities.
They should have a more apposite Leftard banner:”Save us Snowflakes from melting in the Sun of Reason”,”White sugar is white supremacy”,”isLAM is not ISlam”..
james reid says
A phobia is an irrational or illogical, fear of something. There is nothing irrational or illogical to speak out against an ideology that wants World Domination, that wants “non – members” murdered, raped, enslaved, or subjugated. There is nothing irrational, or illogical for speaking out against an ideology that advocates paedophilia. There is nothing irrational, or illogical for speaking out against an ideology that holds up as the “role model” for men, (notice only men get a role model), to follow is the conduct of Mohammed – a mass murderer, bandit, paedophile, rapist. It is these dingbat Libtards that are irrational & illogical. What do you call people who are afraid of the Truth & unquestionable Facts?
Giacomo Latta says
The Left and MSM mostly.
Giacomo Latta says
If you happen to know one of these knobs, please inform them that islamophilia is white supremacy, at least as far as Iranians are concerned. They are whiter than white and are Hitler’s beloved Aryan race.
Mike says
The Muslims got the template of how to subgiate the west & how to play the perpetual victims from the Jews. Criticism of Judaism & Jews is anti-Semitism & can result in criminal charges. No one is more vocal about pro mass immigration of Muslims into the west & Europe than the Jews. Islam & Judaism have many more things in common. I don’t want either of them in my nation. The paradox of tolerance is real.
gravenimage says
Ah…another claim that the real problem is the ‘filthy Jooooooooooos’, I see…
Michael Perloff says
Since a phobia is an unwarranted or irrational fear of something, there is no such thing as a phobia about the civilization-destroying ideology of Submission (Islam in Arabic). It’s the only “religion” where the more its followers become observant, the more they tend to become intolerant and prone to violence. Therefore, having a negative attitude about it is entirely warranted.
Consider that if Submission/Islam is truly a “religion” of peace and tolerance, then wouldn’t extremist Muslims necessarily have to be extremely peaceful and tolerant?