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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Tlaib: Democrats Were Upset with Omar’s Anti-Semitism Because of “Islamophobia”

Mar 21, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The weapon that leftist leaders have used for years is now turned against them. My latest in FrontPage:

When Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), one of the Democratic Party’s three new stars, was asked in an interview on Showtime’s aptly named “Circus” about why some Democrats were unhappy with the anti-Semitic remarks of her fellow rising star Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), she gave the answer that we will hear again and again as long as she and Omar are in Congress: the problem is “Islamophobia.”

“Circus” host Alex Wagner asked Tlaib: “Rep. Omar…Why do you think people in your own party reacted so strongly to what she said?”

Tlaib responded: “You know, I’m trying to figure it out. This past week I feel, and I know this would be somewhat shocking for some, but I think Islamophobia is very much among the Democratic Party as well as the Republican Party. And I know that’s hard for people to hear, but here’s only been four members of Congress that are of Muslim faith. Three of them currently serve in this institution. More of us need to get elected but more of us need to understand as we come into this institution that I have a lot of work to do with my colleagues. ”

Wagner was sympathetic (of course): “So, you think Democrats have some Islamophobia, and that’s at the root of some of this consternation?”

Tlaib was certain: “I think our country’s struggling with it.”

This was a revealing exchange. The idea that anyone might be troubled by allegations that supporters of Israel have a higher loyalty to another country besides the U.S., and are being bribed by moneyed Jewish organizations, is absurd to Rashida Tlaib — after all, she likely believes both of those things. So to her, the uproar over Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic remarks, even though the Democrats capitulated so spectacularly to Omar, is all because of “Islamophobia.” And she says she has a lot of work to do — i.e., work to make sure that no one dares oppose anything a Muslim says or does, for fear of being tarred with this smear term.

The message is clear: from now on Democrats (and everyone else) must accept Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic remarks (and make no mistake, more are sure to come), and anything else that she and Tlaib say or do, because otherwise they will be tarred as “Islamophobes” and accused of bigotry against Muslims.

Well, the Democrats have been making this bed for a long time, and so it is fitting that they now have to lie in it. For years they have foreclosed upon any and all honest discussion of the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism, dismissing it all as “Islamophobia” and, even more irrationally, as “racism,” and eagerly signing on to and validating forces such as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in their efforts to stigmatize and silence opposition to jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others as “hatred.”

Through their pet media outlets, they placed the idea that it was “bigoted” to speak about Islam as having anything to do with violence and terror, despite 34,000 jihad terror attacks worldwide carried out in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings since 9/11, into the American mainstream. Their propaganda portrayed honest counter-terror analysts as a sinister cabal of “Islamophobes” bent on slandering Muslims to make money.

They never proved those “Islamophobes” false. They never showed flaws in their analyses. They just smeared them relentlessly and made their names poisonous, without ever showing the slightest concern about the evil they were enabling by stigmatizing all opposition to it. The mechanisms by which they did this are still in place, well-heeled, and still energetically operating.

But now the same thing is being done against them, if they dare suggest that the monster they themselves created is going too far. And so those who for years have demonized and vilified their political foes instead of engaging them civilly and rationally are confronted with a force that is even more radical than they are, that has learned their methods well and doesn’t hesitate to use them against their teachers and instructors.

Pelosi and her cohorts have been given notice: toe the line or you will be destroyed. They will get in line.

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  1. Wellington says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 1:14 pm

    Muslim hatred of Jews (and it’s all over the place in the Koran), if mentioned to Muslims, is now being turned into evidence of that phony word, Islamophobia. Joseph Goebbels couldn’t have done any better than this.

    • underbed cat says

      Mar 21, 2019 at 2:23 pm

      2008 Words matter memo strikes again word suppression,…along with existing document PSD-11 aligning with the MB and giving them cover so we could sort of obey sharia law.? Muslim antisemitism anti Christian anti gay is always innocent and denied. The OIC is the 57 islamic states at the conquered U.N. that requested hate speech even if right out of the Quran to be criminalized almost accomplished, stage setting gets dangerous when we can’t defend our nation because the door was wide open and no one was allowed to check the passage.

  2. VRWC member77 says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 1:18 pm

    The left are being subject to the fact that Islam won’t be a conforming subject to (as Robert has referenced in the past) their Procrustean Bed. I hope it shocks all of them to their core for a very long time, as they quite deserve it.

  3. CRUSADER says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 1:22 pm

    We really have to come up with an apt term which negates “islamophobia”

    Islamophilia = love of islam

    so that wouldn’t be it, unless we say folks are totally lost by going too far in comforting islam….

    So what would the term / phrase be that adequately combats this smear word???

    • rubiconcrest says

      Mar 21, 2019 at 4:34 pm

      Charges of Islamophobia can be countered by saying that one is an ‘Islamorealist’. This changes the conversation from phobia to reality. People who use the term islamophobia generally have not done any independent thinking or research on the subject.

  4. PATRICK JAMES (@puertavieja_) says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 1:25 pm

    Much like ‘racist’ these days, the made up word ‘islamophobia’ just means shut up, I don’t like what you are saying…it is not used to invoke discourse but to stifle it.

  5. Geoffrey de Brito says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 2:00 pm

    The author states, “Pelosi and her cohorts have been given notice: toe the line or you will be destroyed. They will get in line.”

    They may indeed “get in line” but if they do, they will be committing political suicide. Not that they won’t still get votes, just not enough to remain competitive. The rise of antisemitism in the democrat party is to be welcomed because it is ultimately indefensible to those not filled with hate.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 21, 2019 at 10:46 pm

      The unhinged hard Left is going after moderate–or even semi-moderate–Democrats. Deeply disturbing.

  6. Demsci says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 2:05 pm

    There exists the terms iconophilia and iconoclasm, as opposites; it is about the loving or banning of images, in sculptures and paintings. Islam is iconoclastic.

    So an alternative opposite of Islamophilia could be Islamoclasm.

    I see that this would problematic also, as it would probably be seen as too aggressive and as a negative violent strategy of suspicious right wing characters.

    But it need not be meant as inciting violence, but only attacking the ideology/ obsolete religion Islam. By Islam-savvy people who sense a danger from Islam or maybe want to out compete it in favor of another ideology/ religion/ even better acceptance of science.

    It should be made clear that Christoclasm and Atheistoclasm etc also are allowed.

  7. Demsci says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 2:08 pm

    It s advantage is that it is not an irrational fear which is how Islamophobia is presented, but a ideological or pragmatic opposition to Islam.

    • Demsci says

      Mar 21, 2019 at 2:18 pm

      And ideally it could be meant as being not against Muslims as persons, but only against one aspect of their person; Islam. There must still be freedom of religion, but also the right to criticize any ideology or religion, including our own.

  8. somehistory says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 2:42 pm

    “More of us need to get elected but more of us need to understand as we come into this institution that I have a lot of work to do with my colleagues.
    ************************************
    *She* …this creepy, ugly moslim creature…sees her job, not as a Rep of the People, but as someone to force everyone…everyone…to bow to her wild beast god. *She* must make sure no one speaks any truth about islam or molsims and their goals of a complete global takeover of all aspects of human life. *She* must force everyone in the House, and further, in the Senate and down into the Public to cease telling the Truth or objecting to anything moslims say or do…esp the cair operative, snake omar.

    If excuses are made for their evil behavior, and those pointing out the evil behavior are told to shut up or suffer serious consequences…like lose a job teaching about the evil and what to do about it…sooner or later it will be impossible to point out the truth and what to do about it. That point has been reached.

    The FBI was told to delete information from its training manuals, words were not allowed to be spoken by the State Department or other agencies, and pelosi and schumer and others went along with this wrongful and idiotic instructions. Man-made disasters and work-place violence replaced common sense terms for terror. Now, those same people are being told more has to be done. A few words were not enough. Hiding the terror will now give way to allowing it by being made to approve of it.

  9. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 3:12 pm

    Are there enough anti-American Americans to elect even one Representative? Who are the fools making up the numbers?

  10. Lydia Church says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 10:27 pm

    Testing…

  11. Lydia Church says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 10:29 pm

    So when Omar makes anti-Rep. Rashida Tlaib remarks, and Tlaib gets upset, well then that’s just…
    ‘islamophobia’!
    Ha! It works both ways!

  12. gravenimage says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 10:49 pm

    Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Tlaib: Democrats Were Upset with Omar’s Anti-Semitism Because of “Islamophobia”
    …………….

    What mendacious crap.

  13. CRUSADER says

    Mar 22, 2019 at 2:35 am

    PsyOps

    Ideological Warfare

    Mind Combat

    Word Play

    • rubiconcrest says

      Mar 22, 2019 at 10:00 am

      You’ve got to hand it to them. Peace = total world domination. Fasting = stuffing oneself dusk to dawn. Golden rule = Muslim rule.

  14. SamB says

    Mar 22, 2019 at 3:42 am

    One can almost forgive the Democrats for this impasse for they are a potpourri of ideas and causes. How do you plug a wall that is leaking strange ideas everywhere? I mean the Democrats represents atheist and pan-religionist and oppose Christianity. These are strange sleeping partners, Islam and pan-religionist. Now if this does not turn you off from your lover I don’t now what would

  15. `terra Nova says

    Mar 22, 2019 at 5:00 am

    Darkness and Taqyya will always destroy themselves and conquerers too. Action and reaction

  16. Justine says

    Mar 22, 2019 at 8:49 am

    islam/democrats/socialists/cair/mb/justice democrats are synonymous; only mission is to take America down with their bullshit. muslim leader was hitler’s buddy in the holocaust and muslims don’t want to own up to it. soros owns the democrats/msm; the 3 musketeers now in Congress are soros/cair puppets.

    the term islamaphobe was CREATED by the muslims to detract/cover their mission. we’re sick of them; islam is not a religion; it is an ideology. God cannot be good and bad; only good. God does not punish; we punish ourselves through our thoughts and beliefs.

    wake up people

  17. windrush48 says

    Mar 22, 2019 at 9:20 am

    Neither Tlaib, nor Omar, are “Representatives” for Michigan, or Minnesota …. BY LAW.
    As ‘muslims’,they must hold the koran and sharia ABOVE ALL ELSE.
    BY LAW, any ‘member of Congress’ MUST HOLD THE CONSTITUTION (and the rest of the Organic Laws of this Republic) ABOVE ALL ELSE.
    Both of these “Whores of Islam” have proven their contempt for the Constitution. Omar has show her total disregard for the rules of behavior by her refusal to abide by the “no head coverings” in the House and has shown her total disregard for all that is decent by her constant “ISIS gang sign” of ‘one finger’ symbolizing that ‘islam’ is first and foremost.

  18. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Mar 22, 2019 at 10:08 am

    “Who are the brain police”? Frank Zappa of the musical group, The Mothers of Invention

  19. Giacomo Latta says

    Mar 22, 2019 at 2:06 pm

    Don’t stop now, Rashida. Call every damn Democrat an Islamophobe until they leave the party or disinvite you.

  20. brane pilot says

    Mar 22, 2019 at 2:13 pm

    I am 70 years old and I cannot remember a single time when the first act of newly arrived representatives in Washington was to express contempt for the USA and its institutions and describe the POTUS as subhuman.
    This is something totally new.
    People from foreign cultures are bringing alien ideologies into our government and attempting to force them upon us under pain of Law.
    This is very, very dangerous.
    The real intent of the 1965 Immigration Reform Act is only now becoming apparent.

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