Riz Ahmed claims “it is really scary to be a Muslim right now.” He says this when he is at the top of his profession, flooded with acting offers, an Emmy winner without a care in the world. How “scary” is it to be a Muslim in America today? In Washington, two Muslim women — Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib — have not only been elected to Congress, but have immediately become media stars, along with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for their “progressive” politics; the antisemitic remarks of Omar and Tlaib have been largely forgiven in the mainstream media. More mosques are opening around the country every week. More Ask-A-Muslim-Anything events are held in town halls, churches, mosques, colleges. The campaigns of Da’wa in prisons proceed apace, with no attempt to block them. Many non-Muslim prisoners are terrorized into converting to Islam; that is, they join the prison’s biggest gang, the Muslims, for their own safety.
Riz Ahmed exaggerates for effect; life is not “really scary” for him. No one is going to come by to pick up him and other Muslims and, as he claims to worry, to “ship them out.” Where in the United States has any innocent Muslim here legally ever been picked up only to be “shipped out”? Does Ahmed also think that the Gestapo will soon be knocking at his door? His self-pity is indecent.
Here’s what’s “really scary” in this world: Life for Christians in Pakistan and Nigeria and Egypt, where they are routinely attacked and murdered by Muslim mobs and armed gangs. Life for Jews has become “really scary” in cities with large Muslim populations, in Malmö, Sweden, in Seine St-Denis in Paris, around Tower Hamlets in East London. Jews have been repeatedly attacked in these cities by Muslims, as they have been attacked by Muslims even in the middle of the Orthodox areas of Brooklyn. In Germany Jews have been advised not to wear their kippahs in public. Some Jews have been leaving those neighborhoods in European cities where Muslims dominate, moving elsewhere in those cities, or even moving outside those cities; other Jews are leaving Europe altogether, to find refuge in America or Israel. Life is “really scary” for them, but Riz Ahmed shows no signs of recognition, much less sympathy, for the Jews now living in what has become an ever more islamized and, therefore, hostile Western Europe.
What should have been said, with more justice, is that it is “really scary” to be an Islamocritic right now, not just in the U.S., but in much of Europe, too. If you run a website like Jihad Watch, critical of Islam, that site will be subject to endless attacks by hackers determined to shut it down. Google and Facebook will direct traffic away from that site; the Southern Poverty Law Center, and similar left-wing NGOs, will declare your website to be a “hate site,” though the SPLC has never offered a convincing example of “hate speech” by the writers at Jihad Watch. It is Islamocritics, so often threatened with physical attack, who must sometimes pay for private security guards at their public appearances; the cost of such security can be prohibitive; this security cost naturally limits the Islamocritic’s appearances to a very few deep-pocketed venues that can assume the security costs themselves.
In Europe, the situation of Islamocritics worsens. Tommy Robinson goes to jail for his mention of grooming gangs, while the extremist Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary receives weekly checks from the government, and lives in a $400,000 house — owned by his in-laws — with the rent paid by British taxpayers. In France, the Islamocritic Marine Le Pen has had her reputation deliberately sullied; she is described as “far-right,” though there is nothing in her policy pronouncements that suggest far-right views; it is enough that she is against Muslim immigration to earn her the fixed epithet “far right.” In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, who cannot go anywhere without security guards, is now on trial, for the second time, for a remark he made about Muslims. He simply asked a cafe full of people in the Hague whether they wanted “more or fewer Moroccans in this city and the Netherlands.” The audience responded by chanting “fewer, fewer, fewer.” And Wilders said: “Well, then we will arrange that.” He also said that The Hague “should be a city with fewer problems and, if possible, fewer Moroccans.” He was making an obvious point: that the more Muslims there were in the Netherlands, the more problems there were. as borne out by the statistics: higher rates of crime, especially of murder and rape, by Muslims; grooming gangs, as in the U.K. though on a smaller scale, much higher unemployment rates for Muslims than for any other immigrant groups, for Muslims seem in no hurry to find work, nor do many of them have marketable skills. The benefits supplied by the Dutch government are very generous and in some cases the unemployed, with benefits, are better off than the employed, without those benefits. These benefits include free or highly subsidized housing, free education, free medical care, unemployment payments, family allowances, and more. That is what Geert Wilders was objecting to when he asked people in that cafe if they wanted “more or fewer Moroccans” and they replied “fewer, fewer, fewer.” That’s not hate speech; it is an expression of frustration by those who feel taken advantage of financially by the Muslim economic migrants who have settled in their midst. Yet Geert Wilders has been hounded by the Dutch government in the courts, and he may yet be hit with a large fine for that single inquiry that he made of Dutch voters (“Do you want a lesser or a greater number of Moroccans?”). And even though he is an old-fashioned liberal in his economic policies, who is concerned about cuts in benefits to the elderly becoming necessary because of the vast sums expended by the government on Muslim migrants, he will forever be described in the mainstream media as “far right.” He has been, unsurprisingly, the recipient of many death threats. For Geert Wilders, life is, and will always be, “really scary.”
In Germany, the retired central banker Thilo Sarrazin, who wrote about the costs of Muslim migrants on German society, culture, and the economy in his best-selling Germany Does Away With Itself, has also had the Homeric epithet “right-wing” affixed to his name, though he was always a member of a centrist party; he became “right-wing” the moment he began to criticize Islam. He has dared to point out that “no other religion in Europe makes so many demands. No immigrant group other than Muslims is so strongly connected with claims on the welfare state and crime. No group emphasizes their differences so strongly in public, especially through women’s clothing. In no other religion is the transition to violence, dictatorship and terrorism so fluid.” For these remarks, Sarrazin has also been getting death threats over the last nine years, ever since he first published Germany Does Away With Itself. For Thilo Sarrazin, too, life is “really scary.”
Riz Ahmed, sitting in his well-appointed apartment with his Emmy no doubt on display, claims it is “really scary to be a Muslim right now.” I am certain Riz Ahmed has never required security guards to accompany him. He isn’t scared; no one has threatened him; he doesn’t know what real terror is like. Tommy Robinson, Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, and Thilo Sarrazin, prominent Islamocritics who need security everywhere they go, could try to explain that kind of terror to Ahmed. So could the 12 cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo, including Stephane Charbonnier, who knew the dangers he and his collaborators were risking (they had received many death threats), but famously said that he would rather “die on his feet than live on his knees” — if any of them had survived the murderous attacks by the Muslim brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi. And a whole series of French Jews murdered in recent years by Muslims only because they were Jews — Sébastien Selam, Ilan Halimi, Jonathan Sandler, Gabriel Sandler, Aryeh Sandler, Myriam Monsonégo, Yohan Cohen, Philippe Braham, François-Michel Saada, Yoav Hattab, Lucie Attal and Mireille Knoll — could have given Riz Ahmed a few lessons in what real terror feels like, if any of them had survived. But since they were all murdered, and Riz Ahmed is acclaimed by many and threatened by no one, having had to endure nothing more taxing than an extensive search before boarding planes, he should have the decency to shut up.
somehistory says
A person who is constantly afraid of being fired from his job, can cause the boss to think about, and eventually, fire that one as the employee keeps manifesting traits the employer sees as a detriment to his company.
This moslim creep…who evidently, as shown by other comments to the effect that he acts out moslim “stories”…only acts as a moslim, keeps calling attention to the fact that he is molsim and has “traits” that are detrimental to the society in which he lives. One is not “acting” when all one does is portray oneself.
Why not “round him up” and send him back to pakistan? Society will go on without him and his platform for complaining…about something that hasn’t happened and he knows is not likely…and whining, will be razed.
Leslie Fish says
I would answer: “Not yet, Rizzy boy, but keep on provoking everybody who isn’t a Muslim and the date will get a lot closer.”
mortimer says
RIZ AHMED thinks that the US arbitarily arrests people AS THEY DO IN ISLAMIC PAKISTAN and KSA.
Is Pakistan Mulling Mass Executions Of Dissidents?
https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/pakistan-mulling-mass-executions-of-dissidents-/29997829.html
2017–19 Saudi Arabian purge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9319_Saudi_Arabian_purge
Disappearances spark fears of crackdown on leftwing dissent in Pakistan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/10/pakistan-military-critics-dissapearances-dissent-crackdown
Sun says
It’s scary to be a Muslim in the US? Riz Ahmed is a sissy.
He should imagine how scary it is to live as a Western woman or a Jew in the Islamic world.
mortimer says
Yes, women in the Islamic world live in constant fear. Christians in northern Nigeria live in constant fear for their lives. Over a thousand are murdered by vigilante Muslims every year.
Baha’is and gays in Iran can be picked up without any charge. Saudi Arabia picks up dissenters and they disappear.
gravenimage says
+1
Wellington says
Yeah, “sissy” is a good descriptive of this turkey. I will think of him in the future as Rizzy the Sissy.
mortimer says
More psychological PROJECTION … arbitrary mass arrests often occur in Islamic countries.
RIZ AHMED thinks that the US arbitrarily arrests people because that’s what they do IN PAKISTAN … his home. No … the USA has habeas corpus.
Is Pakistan Mulling Mass Executions Of Dissidents?
https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/pakistan-mulling-mass-executions-of-dissidents-/29997829.html
2017–19 Saudi Arabian purge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9319_Saudi_Arabian_purge
Disappearances spark fears of crackdown on leftwing dissent in Pakistan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/10/pakistan-military-critics-dissapearances-dissent-crackdown
mortimer says
NEWS FROM PAKISTAN … ARBITRARY ARRESTS AND HANGINGS !!
https://gandhara.rferl.org/a/pakistan-mulling-mass-executions-of-dissidents-/29997829.html
Pakistani political discussions are reverberating with talk of hanging 5,000 people to cleanse the country of opposition.
After weeks of rumors of a possible large-scale crackdown against opposition politicians and dissidents being contemplated in the upper echelons of power, a senior government minister has publicly advocated hanging thousands of Pakistanis outside the existing laws and constitution of the country.
“If it was in our hands, hanging 5,000 people today would change the destiny of [Pakistan’s] 220 million people,” Faisal Vawda, Pakistan’s minister of water resources, told Geo TV on June 11. “Our next 20 generations have to wait to do this [purge] in accordance with the law.”
gravenimage says
Good posts, Mortimer.
CRUSADER says
And, good inclusion of links!!!
William Mack says
Christophobia!
CRUSADER says
Far more “scary”, today, to be a crusading conservative truth-telling patriot….
Yet, “once more unto the breach”…..!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOOZDO5KDv4
Hudson says
Man them Brits are yappy!
CRUSADER says
Yup! Takes a lot of yapping to whip Brits into true action for good cause.
David Longfellow says
The most likely danger this guy is likely to face is from muslim extremists.
Angemon says
Indeed.
bob kelly says
He is playing the victim , islamic style, He and his Hollywood friends could be raising millions for woman and children who are victims of islam
jewdog says
You can’t round up zero. It’s still zero.
AntiIslamicman says
It’s really scary being around Muslims as you just don’t know when the next bomb is going to off. He’s trying to play the victim that won’t work on me. Anyone who is a Muslim has to be brain dead.
joanofark06 says
I’d say satan influenced.
Satan hates Christians, Jews, etc….Muslims hate Christians, Jews, etc
Wow, there’s a definite connection there, to each other!
E T says
Mean while back at the ranch, ISIS is spewing more hate to America on the 4th of July, stay safe and have a Happy 4th.
gravenimage says
You aren’t wrong, E T:
“Worries of ISIS-Inspired Attacks Cloud July 4 Holiday Weekend”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-authorities-gear-july-4-amid-worries-isis-inspired-n385176
gravenimage says
Muslim Actor Riz Ahmed: “Is This Going to be the Year When They Round Us Up?” (Part 2)
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More tedious fake victim mongering.
tim gallagher says
So many Muslims are just so full of bullshit, like this guy. The people who live in genuine fear are non-Muslims who are unfortunate enough to live in Muslim countries. And if this Muslim actor does feel some fear, then I say good, it might give him some insight into the fear that oppressed non-Muslims endure in Muslim countries and, also, I believe Muslims deserve to feel some fear because of the appalling way they always seem to treat non-Muslims. What goes around, comes around. Maybe this actor should spend his time trying to change Islam and try to get it to ditch its hatred of non-Muslims and stop treating non-Muslims so appallingly. If he does think Muslims are disliked and feel threatened, even though I think he’s lying about that, then, maybe if they treated non-Muslims better, that might change. Muslims, constantly the oppressors, certainly do know how to play the victim. They are the world champion whingers.
Dorothy Webb Davies says
ActuaLLY i THINK mUSLIMS ARE GENERALLY DISLIKED IN THE CIVILISED WORLD. It’s not surprising considering the way they go on. However, I don’t hear of any of them being issued with death threats, once or twice some unrepresentative person has tried to give them a taste of their own medecine, but generally we are very polite to these intruders and try to make them feel at home. We even try not to laugh at them because we realise they are so self-important that they have no sense of humour (generally speaking, of course) I have never heard of this actor but he sounds a wimp.
tim gallagher says
I agree, Dorothy. I keep thinking that anything that Muslims do cop is well and truly deserved. And I agree that we, the people in western countries, are too polite and too nice (but, as you say, it is probably because we are civilised people in the civilised world) in the way we generally treat Muslims, since Muslims treat non-Muslims so badly in any country where Muslims are in charge. I agree with you that Muslims are “intruders” or “invaders”, who are an enemy who want to impose barbaric Islam on us all.
Godless Infidel says
Let’s hope so. They have to go back. All of them.
Hell Awaits says
I certainly hope it will be that kind of year.
SamB says
Riz Ahmad is simply using his new found status to call attention to a President he dislikes. Previous presidents did not entertain Muslim rhetoric; the present incumbent in the White House has a duty to his supporters to highlight inequity in the world and the over abundance of illegality in this homeland of the US President. Now Riz is mute concerning the plight of the Kaffir in his erstwhile dar-al Islam where a Nation state is yearned for. This is impossible in a world shrunk by an information that is ubiquitous. And, Riz is non the wiser that Islam is not hegemonic to popular conversation except where they inflict pain on humanity at large. Islam is dying thought pattern not just unchangeable but because it demands respect; respect is earned not fought over a barrel of a gun!
Robert Laity says
Actually, Banning Islam/Sharia Law (which is unconstitutional on it’s face, in the USA) would be a prudent act of societal self defense. Islam and Sharia are inextricably linked. The U.S. Supreme Court stated 216 years ago that ” a law that is repugnant to the constitution is void”. Sharia Law is an example of such a law or set of laws that is “Repugnant to the constitution”. Islam denies the right of freedom. In Muslim nations one MUST be a Muslim or pay a tax to be left alone. This is in western nations known as extortion. Islam actually condones the most perverse acts with animals, pedophilia, honor killing, maiming of women’s sex organs, maiming of people who minor crimes. This is known as cruel and unusual punishment. Whether people want to admit it or not, Islam is antithetical to civilization, extremely dangerous and it is NOT a religion. Islam is a system of tyranny and oppression operating under color of religion. I am a Navy Combat veteran. I did NOT risk my life so that in my older days I would have to be subjected by an overthrow of our free and sovereign government by Islamic infiltrators. Barack Obama is one of those. Obama, whether you deny it or not, is a muslim . He is also a fraud,usurper,traitor and spy under U.S. Law. http://www.thepostemail.com/09/17/2010/there-is-no-president-obama. Muslims aren’t safe in the U.S.? Why should they be? They ARE out to defeat America. It’s as plain as the nose on your face. People like Omar,Tlaib,Obama and Farakhan have already said as much. See: “What Islam is NOT” on youtube.
OLD GUY says
WELL SAID, not on my watch!!
Andy says
Oh puh-leeze. They’re bending over backwards to accommodate you.
FYI says
“scary”?
He’s lucky he is not gay in a muslim country:
Or a Coptic Christian in Egypt.
Or a Pakistani Christian in muslim pakistan.
Or a Nigerian Christian in Nigeria.
Or an atheist or ex-muslim anywhere in the islamic world.
They have the right to say “scary”
The insufferable smugness of the privileged virtue-signalling muslim actor.
Jack Cade says
It will come to us removing Muslims from the West or the West will die.
dumbledoresarmy says
Not only from ‘the west’. From *every* majority-Non-Islamic country that is currently afflicted with a dangerous, whining, threatening, infiltrating-and-subverting mohammedan colony within the gates. Think of India, Russia, Thailand, the Philippines.. they would all be *immensely* better-off, without Muslims in their midst. Ethiopia. Central AFrican Republic. Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya.. They’d all be better off, if the Muslims in their midst, were required – and compelled – to depart.
And any country lucky enough *not* to have Muslims in their midst at the moment – there *are* some! – or only a very few (e.g. Iceland) needs to wake up, and.. make sure they *never* let in any, and if they do have some though only a few, then.. kick them out, right NOW, demolish the mosque or mosques, and reap the economic and social benefits of a Muslim-free environment, further down the track.
Imagine if, say, all the Caribbean majority-christian countries, all the little Pacific countires, and a lot of Latin America, put a total ban on Muslim immigration right now, and enforced it, and then also, in those cases where *some* Muslims have slithered in.. gave them the boot. They would save themselves *enormous* amounts of trouble and expense; they would, indeed, save their lives, and those of their citizens.
paul budrunas says
I certainly hope this is the year that all you muzzies get rounded up and dealt with in the harshest manner possible. I’ve read the Qu’ran and know EXACTLY what your psychopath Mohammed instructs you to do! Islam needs to be cleansed from the face of this planet!
joanofark06 says
Now…what do you know about satan?
I know that he (satan) hates Christians, and Jews, and etc.. AND Muslims hate Christians, Jews, and etc.
Satan hates the God of the bible, or ANYTHING to do with the God of heaven, and Muslims hate the God of the bible, and ANYTHING to do with the God in heaven.
Now if they DID know about anything in the bible, or the God that’s in it, then they would throw away their satanist book, the koran, and denounce islam.
Kepha says
This whining about how “anti-immigrant” the Trump administration is is insane. Our First Lady is an immigrant, and her parents got in under family unification provisions. Nobody is going after people who come legally and respect all the other laws of their new home. Indeed, for such people, the USA probably remains one of the most welcoming countries on earth.
If matters of Islamic identity were limited to dietary laws, items of dress, and observing Fridays as the day of communal worship, 97 percent of the American population would be perfectly accommodating. But what are we to do when People blow up buildings, kill marathon runners, and physically assault women perceived as “immodest”? And, when it comes to Muslims who refrain from such behavior, who is attacking them?
Richard Courtemanche says
Round up! Don’t know where you get your fear from, Ahmed? If you’re really a peaceful Muslim, you should be happy if there’d be a ’round up’ to protect you from radical Muslims