“For too long, terror attacks have been depicted as a uniquely Muslim problem, with acts of violence described as ‘terrorist only when it applies to Muslims,’ said Abbas Barzegar of the Council on American Islamic Relations. He works on documenting and combating anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamophobia.”
This is not true. Terrorism is not uniquely depicted as uniquely a Muslim problem, and no reasonable individual would dispute that there are many forms of terrorism in this world.
The article below claims that white nationalists are as much of a terror threat as jihad terrorists. There is, in reality, no comparison. The jihad is an international movement, and there are numerous jihad groups: ISIS, al Qaeda, Hamas, Hizballah, Boko Haram, the Taliban, Abu Sayyaf, al Shabaab, and many others. There are no comparable white supremacist terror organizations anywhere.
The New Zealand shooter had no connection to, nor did he act on behalf of, any white supremacist group. His “manifesto” was self-contradictory and idiosyncratic. There is no conceivable justification for his actions. Yet it is noteworthy that as a “white supremacist” he had no impulse to randomly attack Hindus, Buddhists and blacks. His motives should also be examined as a safeguard against further such attacks. The threat of jihad terror far surpasses other forms of terrorism today as a global threat, and is increasingly causing alarm in the West amid reckless immigration policies and strenuous efforts by Islamic supremacists to shut town discussion. Jihad attacks in the form of both murder and assaults are now a much greater problem everywhere due to unvetted immigration.
Nazism was once a sizable global menace and an organized threat which aimed to conquer free societies and violate the rights of their citizens. The same could be said of Communism. Today, that force is Islamic supremacism.
The more Westerners open their doors to enemies of Western society who have documented their own intentions to subvert democracy — while accusing us of making this up — the more our once orderly democracies (which included peaceful immigrants from peaceful religions) will turn into war zones like areas in Africa and the Middle East, courtesy of the jihadist mandate against the House of War.
Every Western citizen should be asking why these same Muslim groups that are fixated on the New Zealand massacre are also not equally fixated on jihad crimes worldwide. They try instead to conceal them and even deny them.
Some recent news from welcoming Europe:
- Internal police figures revealed “authorities in a district of rural Germany covered up a long list list of asylum seeker crimes including rape, assault, and child sex abuse so as not to ‘stir up prejudice’, it has been alleged.”
- Dutch Islamic scholar Ruud Koopmans stated that “Muslims are more difficult to integrate into Western society than other migrant groups because of a literal interpretation of the Quran prevalent among Muslims.”
- Islamic jihad accounts for 91% of European terror victims.
“Is It Terrorism? Post NZ Attack, Muslims See Double Standard,” by Aya Batrawy, NBC Philadelphia, March 24, 2019:
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been hailed on social media by Muslims around the world for her response to two mosque shootings by a white nationalist who killed 50 worshippers. She wore a headscarf at the funerals in line with Islamic custom and swiftly reformed gun laws.
An image of the prime minister embracing a grieving woman was projected onto the world’s tallest tower in Dubai over the weekend with the Arabic word for “peace.”
Yet for many Muslims, Ardern’s most consequential move was immediately labeling the attack an act of terrorism.
That stands in contrast to numerous ideologically-motivated mass shootings in North America by white non-Muslim gunmen that were not labeled acts of terrorism, say Muslim leaders and terrorism experts.
For too long, terror attacks have been depicted as a uniquely Muslim problem, with acts of violence described as “terrorist only when it applies to Muslims,” said Abbas Barzegar of the Council on American Islamic Relations. He works on documenting and combating anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamophobia.
“We’ve got an issue in this country where anytime a violent act is committed by a Muslim, the media starts at terrorism and then works backward from there,” added Colin Clarke, a senior research fellow at The Soufan Center, a New York-based think tank.
It’s the opposite when the shooter is non-Muslim and white, said Clarke, who’s spent his career studying terrorism, particularly Muslim extremism.
The March 15 attacks on the New Zealand mosques raised questions about whether Islamophobia and the threat of violent right-wing extremism was being taken seriously by politicians and law enforcement.
The gunman in the New Zealand massacre called himself a white nationalist and referred to President Donald Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity.” Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, has been charged with murder in the attacks.
Trump expressed sympathy for the victims, but played down the rise of white nationalism around the world, saying he didn’t consider it a major threat despite data showing it is growing…..