Hamid Dabashi, the tireless apologist for Islam and slavish admirer of the late Edward Said, about whom he wrote an unforgettable “Ode to Edward Said,” has recently delivered himself of some remarks about the vast and sinister campaign being waged throughout the world against innocent Muslims. In Dabashi’s vivid and hysterical imagination, it’s a truly frightening story.
Here it is:
What is happening to Muslims around the globe? In China they are put into concentration camps, in Myanmar they are slaughtered en masse, in India they have been the targets of systematic pogroms, in Israel along with Christian Palestinians they are mowed down on a daily basis, in Europe and the United States they are subject to increasing demonisation and persecution.
In China, Muslims are not placed in “concentration camps” as that term is commonly understood from the Nazi and Communist models. They are not murdered, not subject to ghoulish medical experiments, not tortured to death, not worked to death. They are in “re-education camps,” where they are certainly subject to grueling sessions of memorization and forced recitals of anti-Muslim and pro-Communist slogans. Awful places, these re-education camps, compared to ordinary life, but positively paradisaical compared to the real “concentration camps” — such places as Belzec, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Kolyma. Don’t expect Hamid Dabashi to make the distinction — as far as he is concerned, Muslims today are the “new Jews,” suffering just like the Jews did under the Nazis. A Chinese “re-education camp” for Uighurs, where the only deaths are from natural causes, is likened by Dabashi to a “concentration camp” with a mortality rate of 99%. The ability to make distinctions is not Dabashi’s strong suit.
As for the Muslim Rohingya, they were fleeing Buddhists who, after Rohingya insurgents had attacked 24 police posts in August 2017, erupted in fury against the Muslim minority.
Of the 1.3 million Rohingya, 700,000, or about half, have fled to Muslim Bangladesh. The total number of Rohingya killed to date has been estimated at 10,000. All such deaths are to be deplored, but they also ought to be correctly described. 10,000 is less than 1% of the Rohingya population, and they cannot reasonably be described as having been “slaughtered en masse.”
As for India, to describe the communal violence there only as directed at Muslims — “they have been the targets of systematic pogroms” — is ludicrous. There have been killings of both Hindus by Muslims and of Muslims by Hindus. Does Dabashi have to be reminded of what happened during the Partition in 1947, or in the decades since? In 1951 Muslims were 9.8% of the Indian population; today they are more than 14%. in the same period, the Hindu population of both Pakistan and Bangladesh has gone steadily down. In Pakistan, Hindus were, in 1951, more than 20% of the population in what was then West Pakistan; now they are 2%. In Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), Hindus were 22% of the population in 1951, 13% in 1974, and 8% today. In other words, the Hindu percentage of the population in both Pakistan and Bangladesh has steadily decreased, while the Muslim percentage of the population of India, per contra, has steadily increased. It is a case of Muslims driving out Hindus — through persecution and murderous attacks, including pogroms — not the reverse.
The largest “pogroms” by far since the Partition of India have been the killings of Kashmiri Pandits (Hindu Brahmins) who have been murdered, often in quite sadistic ways, frequently being raped and tortured before being killed. Thousands were murdered in the early 1990s. Most tellingly, 300,000 to 600,000 Hindus were living in the Kashmir Valley in 1990, but only 2,000–3,000 remained there in 2016. That provides some idea of the fear the Muslim pogroms engendered. Dabashi makes no mention of this pogrom carried out by Muslims against the Kashmiri Pandits since the 1990s. Nor does he mention the Muslim attacks that have markedly decreased the number of Hindus in both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Nor does Dabashi mention a single one of the several hundred Muslim terror attacks with mass casualties — most famously in Mumbai, in New Delhi and Delhi, in Hyderabad, and in dozens of other cities. He fails to note, too, that in recent years there has been an upsurge in Muslim terrorist attacks in India, with more than 600 separate attacks — out of a total of more than 800 attacks annually — being perpetrated by Muslims on Hindu victims. For Dabashi, the Muslims alone are victims; the Hindus alone are the killers.
Dabashi bewails, finally, the murderous Israelis, who “[kill Muslims] along with Christian Palestinians they [sic] are mowed down on a daily basis.”
“Mowed down on a daily basis”? Since the Great March of Return began in Gaza at the end of March 2018, the Israelis have done everything they could not to “mow down” those “Palestinians” in Gaza who were marching on the security fence. The Israelis used tear gas and rubber bullets, and only in the case of “Palestinians” who actually made it to the fence, and were managing to cut their way through to Israel, did they use live fire, aiming below the knees to stop marchers. Only in the most serious cases, with those who were right at the security fence, throwing Molotov cocktails and other explosives, including grenades, or in some cases had guns, and were shooting at Israelis, or letting loose incendiary kites over Israel, did the Israelis aim above the knees at those who were an immediate threat to the lives of Israeli soldiers and civilians. There have been about 170 “Palestinians” killed in the 270 days since the Great March began on March 30. That is less than one person a day. That does not constitute “mowing down on a daily basis” innocent “Palestinians” — all of those “innocents” have been armed, with Molotov cocktails and other explosives, or grenades, guns, incendiary kites, and all of them have been intent on killing Israelis.
tomias says
If Muslims are treated so badly in these foreign countries than go back to a Muslim country. I am sure they are not being prohibited from leaving the countries the are in Unlike the Jews of World War II.
J D S says
Muslim apologist aplenty….but there is no apology for what Islamic believers have done to incontinent Peoples throughout the world….The true number they have murdered will never be known..but the most awful thing is that they believe that MURDER is justified by the Koran and other Muslim writings and
teachings..
Buraq says
Hamid Dabashi’s ‘jihad of the pen’ is particularly dangerous. Islam teaches that a martyr lives only once, whereas the works of the scholars endure for generations.
Imam ʿAbd al-Raʾuf al-Munawi said “The ink of the scholars was weighed against the blood of the martyrs and the former was heavier”.
Clearly, this clown’s writings have to be flensed by critics before they can become a fixed, false narrative in the minds of the general population.
Terry Gain says
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/flensed
gravenimage says
Good post, Buraq.
mgoldberg says
It is remarkable how facts are turned around in Islamic thinking. That the muslims have caused, instigated and demanded death and suffering to untold millions all thru their history and now, today, is completely ignored by this ‘scholar’.
The fault lies in the lack of thorough refutation of his assertions, and claims, because that indeed is the problem. The lack of responsibility for the horrors commited by Islam against ‘all others’ and teh secondary attacks which he himself is guilty of: accusing others of what Islam is a direct producer of and cause of- the homicidism of mega millions then, and now.
This has gone on long enough. The utter lack of refutation in the majore media, which of course, defers to the oppressed version of anything and everything, meaning that the facts are distorted and even reversed rather than sifted for the realities and meaning beneath the distorted ones that favor the apparently ‘oppressed’, even as their role in being oppressors is denied.
Phil Copson says
Dabashi and his like “accidentally-on-purpose” confuse “concentration camps/internment camps” with “extermination camps” as a way of throwing mud at their opponents, and leading the terminally-credulous to believe that the British had a policy of exterminating the Boers in the 1890s, or the Americans exterminated US Japanese citizens during WW2, rather than rounding them up for the duration.
FYI says
Ask Hamid Dabashi to explain.. SAHIH MUSLIM #6985:islam’s call for the destruction of the Jews
“There is a Jew behind me…kill him”
Like the Armenian Genocide and the Hindus,islam has a long,long history of exterminating non-muslims in the name of their false god ,allah “the best of deceivers” k3:54
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Hamid Dabashi on All the Terrible Things Being Done to Muslims (Part One)
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What Hamid Dabashi *really* means is that Muslims are not allowed to take over in some places…
Dabashi is a nasty piece of work–he is Iranian, and has said of Iran, “Iran needs to be understood as the site of an ongoing contest between two contrasting visions of modernity, one colonial, the other anticolonial”.
No mention of the horrors of Islam at all–or where hanging gay people,Theology” screaming “Death to America!”, vowing to wipe Israel off the map, and stoning women to death fits in with modernity.
When Columbia University President Lee Bollinger’s said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a “petty and cruel dictator” who lacked the “intellectual courage” to offer real answers on denying the Holocaust Dabashi wrote that Bollinger’s statements were “the most ridiculous clichés of the neocon propaganda machinery, wrapped in the missionary position of a white racist supremacist carrying the heavy burden of civilizing the world.”
He is an Iranian plant.
He has also claimed that “Islamism”–that is, Islam in its full bloody horror–is a form of “Liberation Theology”. What he means by this is violence against anything even vaguely civilized.
He has written that “binary opposition between ‘Islam and the West’ as a major narrative strategy of raising a fictive centre for European modernity and lowering the rest of the world as peripheral to that centre”. In other words, he is rejecting the fact that the West is civilized, and Islam is not.
Unsurprisingly, he is an antisemite who *hates* Israel. He has been involved with the “Intifada” against her. He also particularly hates America.
There’s much more.
He is ensconced in the West, doing as much damage here as possible.
tim gallagher says
Muslims are treated badly!! What about the appalling way Muslims treat non-Muslims. The Muslim attitude is unbelievable. I guess it all comes from the Muslim supremacist attitude. They are the best of people and all non-Muslims are below them. Hence, they seem to think that they have the right to do anything they like to non-Muslims but non-muslims aren’t allowed to fight back or treat Muslims as anything but their masters. I find this narcissistic type of Muslim attitude is like the Nazi Aryan master race attitude. The Nazi supremacist attitude was race based. But, I think the Muslim supremacist attitude, based on being a member of the religious ideology of Islam, is very similar. To my mind, Muslims deserve to be treated badly because that is the way they have always treated non-Muslims. I like the comment of Tomias (up above). If you MUslims don’t like the way you are treated then bugger off to some Muslim country and live there. You won’t be missed.
b.a. freeman says
actually, tim, even if U *are* part of the ummah, race *still* matters:
https://islamicvirtues.com/2013/12/12/superiority-of-the-race-of-arabs-over-non-arabs/
as U can see at this link, your average muslim is lightyears beyond any kuffar, while any arab is far better than any non-arab muslim, the quraysh tribe is better than any other arab, and anybody from the bani hisham clan in that tribe is better than any other clan. to put a cherry on top, our friend goes on in another article to say that an arab letting his daughter marry a non-arab does the same thing to himself as rubbing s**t on his face (OK, he said “feces,” but my point is his analogy):
https://islamicvirtues.com/2013/12/13/non-arab-men-are-not-suitable-for-marriage/
the best part of this 2nd racist article is that bani hashimi can only marry within the clan. the fact that these geniuses are *not* all drooling idiots from centuries of inbreeding is a testament to the hardiness of the DNA/RNA/ribosome system within their inbred cells!
but of course, *none* of this, which the author appears to treat as settled and generally-accepted islamic practice, could *possibly* be construed as racist. heaven forfend, no! ooo-oo, the ummah is endangered! or rather, this guy is a f***ing liar, and the lying criminal leftists who allow this wanna-be mass murderer into the country are traitors of the worst sort.
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the information, b.a. freeman. I have seen mentioned a few times here at Jihad Watch that Arab racist superiority is an aspect of Islam. With all the other evil attitudes and agendas that Islam contains it is no surprise that a vicious Arab racism would also a part of this foul ideology. There seems to be no end to the evil in Islam. How about that title: “islamicvirtue”- what a sick joke that title is. I can’t find anything that I’d call virtue in Islam. Oh, but of course, Islam’s morality is totally upside down. What decent people find evil, Islam finds virtuous. I agree with your comment about how the left keep giving barbaric Islam a free pass when they should loathe all aspects of islam (its misogyny,homophobia and so on)
Jay says
If moslems had a different doctrine, one that did not call on them to destroy all other peoples, then they would be treated as equals, and would be treated fairly. Until they renounce islam however, they will continue to be treated “fairly” by which I mean, AS ENEMY.
b.a. freeman says
well, they’ll be treated that way by anybody who has bothered to learn about islam.
+1
b.a. freeman says
wow.
i just read the al-jazeera article, and i haven’t seen so much bulls**t piled in one place since the beginning of the internet; the gall of this liar is breathtaking. at some point, i’m going to *HAVE* to do some research on which came first: leftist lies, or islamic lies. yes, i know that the left has been lying since 1789, at least, but did they invent the technique of the Big Lie, or did they learn it from somebody else – like the ummah? a similar question could be asked about the mafia, whom i suspect originated under muslim rule of sicily. was *their* criminal behavior copied from the conquerers?
Ed Lee says
If Islam (or any other religion) is so good, why does anyone have to apologize for it?