Maajid Nawaz has another article out, and the cover picture for it is, as usual, of his face (it’s rarely a picture relating to the content of the piece). This time he’s looking contemplatively at the viewer. At other times, he’s staring wistfully in a pastel-coloured turtleneck, or gazing off into the middle-distance as though enthralled by a beatific vision, or in contemplation of a deeply profound wonder. In his article, Maajid tells us that the word Islamophobia is a “misnomer.” In the wake of the New Zealand terrorist attack, Maajid says Islamists have used the word in order to insist that Islam is above scrutiny, and that any condemnation of Islam is simply a phobia attributable to anyone who doesn’t like their reading and interpretation of the Quran. Keep in mind that if there is a jihadist or extremist reading to be found in the Quran, then it was put there by the Quranic author/s or compilers, and is therefore a very legitimate reading of it – Pope Maajid doesn’t get to tell his fellow Muslims what is or what is not the correct way to read the Quran, or any other book, for that matter.
In the UK, the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims have put forward a definition of Islamophobia which states: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.” Notice how they managed to get two references to race in that one sentence, even although, as allegedly educated adults and Muslims, they should know very well that Islam is not a race. As a solution to all of this, Maajid has put forward his own word. He would like us to use “Muslimphobia” instead of Islamophobia. Maajid claims that, “Islamophobia” conflates scrutiny of Islam, a powerful world religion, with hatred of all Muslims: “the word ‘Islamophobia’ is too blunt. It fails, in principle, to distinguish between hating Muslims and criticising Islamic doctrine.”
The word “Muslimphobia” is also “too blunt,” and that it tightens the noose around the necks of non-Muslims, and the wrong kind of Muslims, more than the word “Islamophobia” does. Maajid claims in the article that the APPG’s definition is bringing the blasphemy laws in through the back door. But if people start using the word “Muslimphobic,” then the blasphemy laws are kicking down your front door, with no need to knock first, and definitely no need to ask permission to enter. At least with “Islamophobia,” it’s quite clear that it is Islam that is being discussed; the texts, the cultural practices that Islam gives rise to, the constant bloodshed and unrest between sects and unbelievers, and not individual Muslims in general. Muslims are already masters of victimhood. It is their stock in trade. Introducing a word such as “Muslimphobia” into the public discourse would be giving these people more ammunition to beat us over the head with in their bid to be perceived as the biggest casualties in society.
This is the way in which Muslims are imposing themselves and their will onto the rest of us here in the West. Islam, to my mind, is one of the worst ideas ever to have been made manifest on planet Earth, and it’s not just Muslims that I call in to question for adhering to Islam. I question anyone who looks at Islam and thinks it’s a good idea, and that’s regardless of race and gender. What better word could we come up with to describe people who aren’t too keen on Islam and the doings of so very many Muslims? Entire villages in Pakistan killing a mentally ill man for blasphemy, for example – no lone wolf or crazed individual there, simply your everyday, next-door neighbour kind of Muslims. The same Muslims who are hunting for Asia Bibi, you know, the Christian lady whose crime was to drink from the same water container as her superior Muslim co-workers. Similarly disturbing things are also happening in Afghan, Yemen, Africa, and across the Middle East. Death to blasphemers, and a good old-fashioned stoning for adulterers. It’s an insult to the dead and the currently oppressed to say that anyone has a phobia about Islam. Maybe Maajid and Muslims have a phobia against criticism.
Everything offends Muslims, and every time they say they’re offended they get their own way. Muslims jump on any and all perceived slights or wrongdoings to further the false narrative that they are the constant victims. Requests for government handouts and public donations skyrocket every time a Muslim gets called a name. It’s like watching a rugby scrum to see all of the Muslim community leaders in their rush to get on to the TV or the front page of the newspapers to see who can whine the loudest and the longest about Islamophobia. The public are sick to death of it, and speaking out about it is not and can never be a crime, although it will be if Islam gets its way. If Maajid and co. want “Islamophobia” to disappear, there’s a very easy solution – stop whining and stop wanting preferential and special treatment above everyone else. Just get on with the business of living, and most importantly stop moaning and foot-stomping like little girls with hurt feelings. London’s Muslim mayor has suddenly found money to give mosques extra protection after the New Zealand attack, even although the city is under-policed and experiencing unprecedented crime levels. Catholic churches didn’t receive this special treatment after Father Jacques Hamel was slaughtered on his altar by two Muslims. Maajid and co. don’t seem to realize where the public discontent towards Muslims is coming from. It’s coming from exactly this place of Muslims constantly whining and wanting more and more privileges. Muslims are no better than any other group of people on the planet. It’s time they realized that.
To be fair, in the article Nawaz is condemning the government for allowing “pro-Islamist” supporting group MEND to define Islamophobia (I’ll call them terrorist supporting, because Islamist and terrorist are one and the same to my mind, and there’s too many -ists and -phobias going around just now that I feel the need to simplify language in relation to Islam). But I also sense a little bit of jealousy in Pope Maajid’s article. I get the impression he would have liked the government to call on him and have him define exactly what Islamophobia is. Thank God they didn’t; otherwise, we would be having to use the word “Muslimphobia.” “Muslimphobia” is far more sinister and dangerous than “Islamophobia” because it concentrates the criticism or the hatred or the dislike onto an individual and that in turn makes it a personal assault. Muslims would relish in this. At least “Islamophobia” is broader and more vague, and being accused of it isn’t an attack on a person in the way that a racist attack or a “Muslimphobic” attack would be.
11B40 says
Greetings:
Me, I’m still a-hoping and awaiting the arrival of “Kuffarophobia”.
mortimer says
Gullible Person: Islamo-phobia Islamo-gullible Islamo-credulous Islamo-unsophisticated Islamo-novice Islamo-greenhorn Islamo-simpleminded Islamo-brainless Islamo-nitwit Islamo-surrenderist Islamo-laughable Islamo-ludicrous Islamo-preposterous Islamo-misleading Islamo-implausible Islamo-somnolent Islamo-baffled Islamo-befuddled Islamo-mystified
Lying Muslims: Islamo-obscurantist Islamo-zombie Islamo-morbidity Islamo-toxicity Islamo-pathic Islamo-absurdity Islamo-deceptiveness Islamo-conspiratorial Islamo-delusional Islamo-conspiracism
Dhimmis: Islamo-Leftard Axis Islamo-fascist Islamo-supremacism Islamo-rant Islamo-mania Islamo-propaganda Islamo-misinformation Islamo-trickster Islamo-conman Islamo-charlatan Islamo-fraudster Islamo-deceptive Islamo-shamming Islamo-sycophants Islamo-grovellers Islamo-fawners Islamo-flatterer Islamo-panderers Islamo-crawler Islamo-enabler
POLITICAL SCIENCE OF ISLAM or Islamo-examination Islamo-comprehension Islamo-analysis Islamo-STUDY Islamo-fact-finding Islamo-realism Islamo-common-sense Islamo-level-headedness Islamo-rationality Islamo-perceptiveness Islamo-discernment Islamo-reasonableness Islamo-threat-awareness Islamo-identification Islamo-detection Islamo-exposure Islamo-unmasking Islamo-demystification Islamo-diagnosis Islamo-discernment Islamo-perception Islamo-interpretation Islamo-scrutiny Islamo-inquiry Islamo-surveillance Islamo-review Islamo-sifting Islamo-auditing Islamo-probing Islamo-delving Islamo-insight Islamo-consciousness Islamo-education Islamo-study Islamo-examination Islamo- testing Islamo-learning Islamo-examination Islamo-research Islamo-assessment Islamo-investigation Islamo-inspection Islamo-inquest Islamo-inquisition Islamo-survey Islamo-probe Islamo-scholarship
Islamo-deception Islamo-snakeoil Islamo-wooden-nickel Islamo-bulls**t Islamo-puffery Islamo-fraud Islamo-disinformation Islamo-tricks Islamo-sham Islamo-deceit Islamo-chicanery Islamo-flimflam Islamo-humbug Islamo-mendacity Islamo-treachery Islamo-guile Islamo-scam Islamo-cheat Islamo-swindle Islamo-con Islamo-flimflam Islamo-hokum Islamo-sleight of hand Islamo-legerdemain Islamo-snowjob Islamo-artful deception Islamo-artifice Islamo-two-facedness
mortimer says
I know what I was just searching for “ISLAMO-USEFUL-IDIOT”.
jule says
I guess it doesn’t help that if a Muslim doesn’t obey or BELIEVE they get killed in some horrible way. I do hate Islam & feel bad for all the Muslim people born into it. I guess there is no way changing Islam but AT LEAST we might get it into Supreme Court and make them read it with Hadiths and say It can n longer be Taught here because it breaks all the laws regarding ‘free Speech’ Slander, libel, treason, inciting destruction to Jews and rulership of all others, Threats, inciting taking over our Government because its just Human made and they must follow Allah’s way over any man-made. It just might be possible to make reading/teaching the Qur’an to another generation in USA Not Possible. Maybe not in my lifetime but people are going to have to catch on before its worse than today and it is already really bad. Worse than even we see here. If more towns like somewhere near Boston or part of Boston sue schools for mis-teaching the Israel situation defending themselves from jihad ordered in the Qur’an maybe enough can get it to the Supreme Court…..At least TRY. A few years back, some LA school district got all Qur’ans taken out of the library and changed the way MB want things taught in classes. Media barely covered it. Free speech does have rules. laws in USA. What Qur’an/Hadiths teach goes against most of them.
End PC says
Always object strongly to such phony neologisms. In particular, Never allow your enemies to define phobias that are just words “created by fascists to manipulate morons.”
mortimer says
The ‘Islamophobia’ canard is GASLIGHTING: accusing mentally healthy and morally fine people of insanity and/or bigotry because they criticize a political ideology of supremacism.
To make it illegal to criticize Islam is making Islam the OFFICIAL IDEOLOGY and the OFFICIAL RELIGION of the UK. England and Scotland already have an official state church.
CRUSADER says
Would it be “phobic” to do this?:
Bob Ross Paints Muhammad with Period Blood! | Louder With Crowder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAWv9Yo2c_o
CRUSADER says
Lame-stream Media just spreads the dread…
WaPo propagandizing for foreign regimes and terrorist organizations?
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273288/time-investigate-washington-posts-qatari-collusion-daniel-greenfield
Even as the New Zealand government was condemning the Erdogan regime for using mosque shooting footage in its election rallies, the Washington Post decided to give the Islamist tyrant a platform.
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mortimer says
It is LEGAL in England to criticize the official state Church of England.
It is LEGAL in Scotland to criticize the official state Church of Scotland.
Therefore, it is LEGAL in England and Scotland to criticize Islam. This matter should immediately be shelved for that reason.
Or Else! says
phobia/schmobia
It’s called recognizing and calling out a civilizational enemy. 1400 years of evidence to back it up.
mortimer says
Well expressed. Islam is a political ideology in competition with and intolerant of all ideologies.
Or Else! says
Funny, isn’t it? The Western Left eats up good-evil stories on Netflix, HBO, etc. but doesn’t recognize that such a script is continually playing out in real life.
The Left are like the rooftop welcomers in “Independence Day”. Cheering acceptance and inclusivity until the laser shows itself. “Oh crap….”
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“Muslimphobia” and “Islamophobia” are both intolerable. They both connote “irrational hatred and fear” of Islam. Anxiety about Islam, fear of Islam, even hatred of Islam, are all perfectly rational. The best word to use, the only accurate word, is “islamocritic” and its variants (“islamocritiism,” “islamocritical”).Such words suggest rational dismay, rather than “irrational hate and fear.” Islamocriticism. Use the word unsparingly.
CRUSADER says
Islamocritical!
Islamocritical!
Islamocritical!
Catchy….
Irshad Manji, herself, once had “trouble with Islam (today)”….
….but now she dislikes labels.
somehistory says
moslims and their henchmen won’t stop using one “phobia” and begin using another…they will just add the second one to their whining and calling everyone else phobic for disliking their evil beliefs and practices.
Where is it written…in a place where we All must read and obey…that we have to LIKE everything someone else wants us to like; to APPROVE of what someone else wants?
The news feeds are chock-full of people being “slammed” for saying something, or writing something that expresses their “dislike’ of something that another does or likes or wants to do, etc. It’s akin to having to say one likes pig’s feet more than all other foods because the guy from MASH offers it as a delicacy. One should be able to express dislike. it may be considered unkind to express dislike of another person, but it shouldn’t be against the law…anywhere.
I hate islam. I am not afraid of it, I do not have a ‘phobia’ about it. I have not met and gotten to know any moslim that I came to “like,” but I have never had a fake fear of any of them; I do not have a ‘phobia’ of moslims.
If they can have this new “phobia” applied to them so that no one can criticize, then Mr. Trump should have his staff announce a “Trumpophobia” for all those in government and the media that daily express their hatred of him.
Enough is enough. Enough with the “phobias.” islam is evil. moslims who practice it, engage in evil practices.
Salome says
What are ‘expressions of Muslimness’? Stoning people to death? Chopping bits off people?
jayell says
Yes. And add to that the smug arrogance of the gratuitously blinkered pseudo-religious bigot and the self-righteous sociopath.
gravenimage says
+1
Lydia Church says
I will use neither term since both terms are irrational.
‘Phobia’ refers to an irrational fear. ‘islamophobia’ and ‘muslimophobia’ are not irrational fears, they are very real and rational fears based on very real dangers. However, I have no fears of them because they cannot scare me. I keep doing my Christian things and when my time comes to die I will so do and am not afraid of anything. But that’s me.
Rev.G says
I think the proper term would be Muslim-phoney-a.
sheliak says
Muslim Playbook 101: Continuously play all sides against the middle.
joscefi says
Islamophobia, Muslimphobia, really, why do we need to invent new terms when the traditional phrase “bullshit” covers this so adequately?
Charles says
I agree. There is a difference. There should be a deliniation between “Muslimphobia” and “Islamophobia”. This will certainly address the nuanced difference between the people and the ideology.Fair criticism has opened the views of many Muslims to the doctrine. Some have even professed their atheism, many have relegated the belligerent of the ancient texts to dangerous anachronisms. I think we need to examine his position. Its not so far off base. We can criticise all doctrines.
gravenimage says
Maajid Nawaz: Use the word “Muslimphobia” instead of “Islamophobia”
The word “Muslimphobia” is also “too blunt,” and that it tightens the noose around the necks of non-Muslims, and the wrong kind of Muslims, more than the word “Islamophobia” does. Maajid claims in the article that the APPG’s definition is bringing the blasphemy laws in through the back door. But if people start using the word “Muslimphobic,” then the blasphemy laws are kicking down your front door, with no need to knock first, and definitely no need to ask permission to enter. At least with “Islamophobia,” it’s quite clear that it is Islam that is being discussed; the texts, the cultural practices that Islam gives rise to, the constant bloodshed and unrest between sects and unbelievers, and not individual Muslims in general. Muslims are already masters of victimhood.
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Joshua Winston is quite correct here–“Muslimophobia” would actually be much worse, and would unjustly stigmatize those legitimately concerned about the threat of Islam even more so.
The mendacious Maajid Nawaz likely realizes this.
CRUSADER says
Did you read his book “Radical : My Journey out of Islamist Extremism” ?
(Maajid Nawaz is only 41 years of age, but he looks ten years older than that, or more!)
gravenimage says
CRUSADER, I have not read it, but I do know of it.
Maajid Nawaz is a pretty equivocal figure, though. He has supposedly rejected “Islamist Extremism”, but sadly he regularly whitewashes Islam and lies about those who oppose it. Here are a couple of stories:
“UK: Maajid Nawaz suggests people only dislike ISIS bride Shamima Begum because she is ‘brown’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/03/uk-maajid-nawaz-suggests-people-only-dislike-isis-bride-shamima-begum-because-she-is-brown
and
“Quilliam and Co.’s Undeserved Reputation for Effectively Countering Jihadism”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/07/quilliam-and-co-s-undeserved-reputation-for-effectively-countering-jihadism
The Quilliam Foundation has also smeared Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller, calling them “alt-right leaders”.
There are, sadly, more examples.
Ren says
First, islam is to blame because it is a criminal ideology.
Then, muslims are to blame because they endorse islam.
So I am both islamophobe and muslimphobe.
Max says
Sharia law will be imposed in the West, not when Muslims become majority but when Muslims and convenient idiots become majority.
CRUSADER says
Why wouldn’t it be called Muslim-O-Phobia?
That way it could sound Irish!!!
Shari says
The use of ‘phobic’ is also a way to attribute a mental disorder pathology to dissenters. It should not be accepted. What may be built on that foundation later?
NotALibNoMo says
A “phobia” indicates a “fear”. I don’t fear islam. A more appropriate term would be islamoaware. An awareness of islam. Or islamo-giggle-snorts if you prefer. But fear? Nope.
Dries says
Call it what you want . . . a rose by any other name smells just as sweet and islanic/muslim atrocities will remain vulgarly repugnent – regardless of what it is labeled.
Tom says
Ok if that is what they want, so be it, BUT we will also expect the use of words like Christianphobia, Sikhphobia, Hinduphobia, Jewphobia (Anti Semitism) and on, and on, it goes, Ad Infinitum. See how ridiculous it becomes, and how divisive it is ??
Muslims are no more victims than any other group, and in fact less so, as there are many more hate crimes committed against Jews and others than are committed against Muslims.
Muslims however, unlike Sikhs or Buddhists or Hindu’s have a religion that is entwined with geopolitical and supremacist aspirations of world domination and the submission of all non believers to the doctrine and Sharia of Islam. That is the main reason that people in the west are critical of Islam and its devotees.
History tells us that it is wise to be critical of any ideology that espouses world domination.
Stop Kafirophobia says
Spot on!
Olli Hekkala says
Islamophobia = all criticism of Islam. (Because you don’t understand REAL Islam.)
Muslimphobia = all criticism of Muslims. (Because Muslims are best of people.)
It seems that Muslims are eager to get themselves some protection like Jews have in “antisemitism” accusation. It is horrible and real history that Jews have been target of undeserved persecution through history.
What is Muslims reasoning here? They have been unfairly targeted? I think if we read history of Islam and Muslims, they have a lot more to blame themselves than Jews(?Killing of Jesus?).
But they push this phobia narrative and count on that world doesn’t know history and present day reality of Islam and Muslims, which would make whole “phobia” definition ridiculous.
Olli Hekkala says
And I don’t say that there is no GENERALIZATION of Muslims according to Islams teachings and examples of people following those teachings. But it is GENERALIZATION. If you wan’t to use word PHOBIA, it is no either Muslim of Islamophobia, it is phobia of faith of individuals or sects, which may get all wrong about these individuals or sects, which all generally call themselves Muslims.
So it would be:
Not Islamophobia but Sect X phobia.
Not Muslimphobia but individual X phobia.
b.a. freeman says
… if there is a jihadist or extremist reading to be found in the Quran, then it was put there by the Quranic author/s or compilers.
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quran 3:7 says, “It is He Who has sent down to you (Muhammad) the Book (this Qur’an). In it are Verses that are entirely clear, they are the foundations of the Book …” thus, the best way of interpreting the quran is to take its words at face value, since that is what is meant by “clear.” and in case there are any doubts, my copy of the quran (“the noble quran”) has 147 ayat containing the word clear; not all of those have to do with the supposed clarity of the quran, but a large number do. i’ll have to read through them sometime to see what the proportion is.
… the … (APPG) on British Muslims have put forward a definition of Islamophobia …
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how many other religions have a word in the vernacular defining “phobia” for them? i’m *sure* that there are probably psychiatric words defining mental conditions in which the patient irrationally fears somebody of any particular religion, but i’m just as certain that *none* of those words is in common use. thus, i believe that i can predict that there will soon be a new version of the DSM with a definition of “islamophobia” in it. subsequently, we can *count* on governments at all levels in the u.s. to re-incarcerate all those who are insane … for their own good. the admission will be made that when all such patients were released in the (1970s?), it was a serious mistake. immediately after that, islamophobes from the general public will begin to be involuntarily incarcerated for treatment.
i’m sure that everybody here is sick to death of my predictions of civil war in every nation, but that is *exactly* what is coming. before the pious ummah began to be imported into every free nation in large numbers, the left had to be satisfied with “educating” freedom out of the people, both by taking over the educational institutions, but more importantly, by destroying the family, through which traditions and religious beliefs are transmitted to the next generations. even though they are, and have been, quite successful at that, it probably would have taken them more time than they wanted to wait in order to be in the position to seize absolute power. the pious ummah, by *voluntarily* attacking innocents at random at every opportunity, need only to be imported, and their attacks covered by hypocritical alinskyite calls on our societal judeo-christian ethics and morals by the left, and the integrity of society will be *physically* attacked, in addition to the cultural attacks of the left. in the end, life will become so precarious that the government, which has a higher proportion of leftists in its emply in the first place, and is also controlled by the left (as we have recently seen), need only declare martial law to “solve” the problem of the attacks. the rest degenerates from there, and i have written about it multiple times, so i won’t beat everybody about the head and shoulders with the description yet again.
get ready, folks; it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Venkat says
Dismissal of an entire religion of a billion as fake isn’t practical it’s better to support some of the saner voices in that religion to bring some sense into the already brainwashed by makes sense
Larry A. Singleton says
Just posted the following on the Faiths Forum for London Twitter page: https://twitter.com/londonfaiths
This slaughter was a gift from heaven for all these “Islamophobia” shills and those slamming “racists” and “hate groups” per SPLC’s and other’s propaganda and lies. Question: Explain the “Islam” in “Islamophobia”. Why is it verboten to even discus the “Islam” in “Islamophobia”?
Was immediately blocked/censored like I was on Fakebook for daring to mention the “trannies/crossdressers” being allowed into children’s classrooms and libraries.
These are truly the New Nazis.
I had also posted this prior to the above comment:
Oops. Big surprise; I can’t find it. I’d mentioned that I’d read this APPG “Islamophobia Defined” screed from front to back. Asked that they explain the “Islam” in “Islamophobia” and to tell me why it’s verbotten to even discuss “Islam”.
I think I mentioned how instead of conversation the only “dialogue” is censorship and brutal suppression of the truth.