“Take a deep breath…This topic is heavy,” stated Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC) cofounder Namira Islam on June 26 at New York University’s (NYU) Washington, DC, center. Speaking on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s upholding of President Donald Trump’s temporary travel restriction, Islam’s panel presented “Islamophobia” as exemplary of an nonredeemable, bigoted America.
Alongside Vanessa Taylor, whose views I have previously discussed, Namira Islam, during the event “Beyond the Ban: Resisting Structural Islamophobia,” claimed that the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision “reflected a longer history of structural systems of oppression.” Considering “immoral policies” such as Trump’s falsely described “Muslim ban” prompted her to call upon the auditorium audience of about 40 to perform deep breathing relaxation exercises. These listeners included like-minded leftists including Institute for Policy Studies Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow Khury Petersen-Smith and National Religious Campaign against Torture Executive Director Ron Stief.
Islam’s jargon references to “undocumented [i.e. illegal alien] Muslims” and how in America “certain communities become white over time” reflected both the panel’s and MuslimARC’s sectarian ideologies. MuslimARC’s “Anti-Racism Guide for White Muslims” screams strident racial shibboleths with statements concerning how Americans “live in a society where all people are racialized from the time we are born.” White Americans “have been socialized as white people, with messages from our families, teachers, media and society about whiteness under an umbrella of white supremacy, both subtle and overt.”
According to the guide, this socialization “results in not being able to fully recognize or understand how racism is perpetuated in society” and an “inability to see our own racism as well as being complicit in racism by our silence.” Astonishingly, Americans actually “perpetuate racism when we take a ‘color blind’ approach” and “anti-white racism does not exist, because racism by default is a system that benefits white people and harms People of Color.” People should not even cite the “fact that you are married to a person of color, or have children of color, as proof that you are ‘not racist.’”
Reflecting on the Supreme Court decision, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Legal and Policy Director Abed Ayoub gloomily foresaw a foreboding future. Trump’s continuing conservative judicial appointments meant that the “Supreme Court is going to be a rubber stamp for upholding structural racism, structural Islamophobia and basically like a white supremacist agenda.” Meanwhile, Ayoub reiterated the outrageous Holocaust-trivializing slander that American border detention centers are “concentration camps.”
For all of Ayoub’s premonitions of impending doom, he ironically noted the mundane nature of Trump’s exercise of executive power restricting entry into the United States from several terrorism hotbed countries. “The structures and mechanisms in place to allow something for the Muslim ban have existed for decades, if not since the founding of this country,” Ayoub noted. “The president has authority to determine who can come in and out of this country” and “prior presidents have used similar tactics,” as when Jimmy Carter temporarily excluded Iranians or George H.W Bush Iraqis.
By contrast, Ayoub and ADC have radical views, such as their past whitewashing of convicted terrorism supporters. He has praised and supported anti-Semitic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and derided the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as an Israeli foreign agent. Both he and ADC signed a petition calling for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, defamed by him as an “apartheid” and “ethnic cleansing” state. He opposed the pro-Israeli Kenneth Marcus for a Department of Education civil rights post because, among other things, “Marcus has long opposed affirmative action.”
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) Director of Research Dalia Mogahed continued her past statistical and sophistic sleights of hand in attempting to explicate undefined charges of an “irrational fear of Islam” or “Islamophobia.” The statement “Knowing a Muslim, knowledge of Islam…is linked to lower Islamophobia,” assertively appeared on one of her slides. Yet she never specified what this “knowledge” is (her sharia apologetics?) or which Muslims people should know (the panel’s radicals?).
Mogahed undermined her own arguments when she noted that a person’s education level, along with other factors including age, sex, religiosity, native-born or immigrant status, did not affect “Islamophobia.” Apparently multifarious people worldwide are deviating from her Islamic intellectual conformity, but she associated critical thought diversity concerning her faith ideas with prejudice against individuals. “By bashing Islam all day and believing that is exceptionally evil, you are then demonizing the group that believes in it,” she ominously intoned.
Contrastingly, Mogahed asserted that “Islamophobia is one branch on a larger tree of bigotry,” as attitudes towards blacks, Jews, and LGBT-identifying individuals supposedly correlated with greater “Islamophobia.” These claims reflected ISPU’s previous propaganda that grouped Muslims in an intersectional rainbow coalition of oppressed minorities. Meanwhile, Muslim antipathies towards any of these groups, such as Jews or lesbians like Taylor, remained unstated.
DC Justice for Muslims Collective (DCJMC) Maha Hilal member provided no more enlightenment with her leftist cant-laced “Islamophobia” definition. This is a “contrived hate and fear that is built into structures of the state and society for the pursuit of power and the justification of war and repression” and “is maintained and perpetrated by white supremacy.” Similarly obtuse, MuslimARC’s online glossary listed “Bigot: Someone who has strong prejudices towards a group or idea,” without explaining how beliefs could suffer from bigotry.
DCJMC online materials likewise equal MuslimARC in absurdity. DCJMC’s Guiding Principles stated
that all these forms of violence, such as capitalism, colonialism, poverty, racism, patriarchy, ableism, caste-based violence, Islamophobia, homophobia, and transphobia, create a world where the status-quo dehumanizes us as Muslims.
DCJMC also makes superficial pop-Marxist claims that discriminatory immigration policies throughout American history have had the
express purpose…to concentrate wealth and power among elites at the very top, through cultivating an entrenched system of white supremacy, buttressed by capitalism and sexism, and shaped by ableism.
Unsurprisingly, Hilal lamented Muslims as innocent victims of policies that are “symptomatic of a larger narrative that the U.S. national security apparatus is rooted in,” in which the “U.S. is always the victim of other people’s actions.” Trump’s policy is “banning people from the countries that we have destroyed from entering this country,” she declared. She failed to explain how America was responsible for turmoil in the travel ban countries of Iran, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen, or why their inhabitants had a “right to come to this country.”
Such statements reflected Hilal’s open border fantasies. She correspondingly appealed to Department of Homeland Security, Immigration, and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials to abandon their careers in protest. “You are standing on the side of oppression.”
Hilal’s anarchic condemnations of national security and law enforcement included American jurisdictions as well. “Rampart use of informants in the Muslim community…serves a specific purpose…to destroy the Muslim community…to break bonds,” she declared. She has counterfactually previously written of captured jihadists at the American Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center that the “vast majority of prisoners are innocent of any crimes.”
Contrastingly, Israel looms large as a danger for Hilal, like the other panelists. She has signed the same pro-BDS petition as Ayoub and ADC, and has written that Israel promotes “Jewish supremacy.” Islam’s MuslimARC similarly recommends the Israel-hating, Hamas-derived Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
After honoring the anti-Semitic Muslim radical Linda Sarsour, NYU with this panel has demonstrated once again the illiberal dry rot afflicting prestigious academic and policymaking institutions. Such anti-Western, anti-bourgeois gobbledygook, now conjoined with the cause de jour of Islam, has long outlived any pretensions of radical chic, and is simply an offense against common sense. Such philosophical frivolity would be funny were the times not so serious.
owensgate says
“…previously written of captured jihadists at the American Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center that the “vast majority of prisoners are innocent of any crimes.” OK, but here’s the distinction: During WWII, when we had thousands of German Wehrmacht incarcerated in POW camps, THEY were not guilty of “crimes” either, and after the War was won, they returned to Germany and for the most part resumed their lives, eventually becoming allies against the Communist expansion. Everyone knows this. As for “Jihadi’s”, it’s a Religious Faith thing. The “Crime” they are guilty of is denying the Deity of Christ, and believing their god “allah” commands them. What SHOULD have made a difference, is had we provided them with Christian “Born Again” ex-moslems to teach them who was who, but instead we provided them with USGS surveyed directions to Mecca, Naval Bureau of Standards accurate to the second “prayer times”, and white glove distributed New Korans, probably full blown “Wahabbi” editions, and we are now heaping our rewards.
jarmanray says
Mr. Harrod states, ” Such philosophical frivolity.” I wish that people would refrain from using words like philosophical and academic in regards to these apologists for hate. I don’t remember ever recalling anyone referring to the KKK as having a philosophical view point. Employing the word philosophical even with the word frivolity is an insult to the great philosophers from Socrates, Plato, Descartes to Hagel who wrote intelligently and offered many points of view to ponder. Mr. Harrod’s article does, however, provide a lot of useful information concerning the morons on stage and their blabbering.
CRUSADER says
Saying that the KKK (for example) has held a philosophy
is akin to saying that Islam is a religious faith….
both are stupid ideologies!
Yes, it is the idiotic ideology, stupid,
which identifies such as fit only for worms. 😉
One can state this as philosophical frivolity when referring to the KKK or to Islam, but such low levels of philosophy or religion barely make it over thresholds of serious thought, contemplation, or belief. They, instead, fail at the door of dignified intelligence; and they certainly falter at the gate of righteousness.
Feedup says
I’ve been watching Europe since 9/11… I educated myself on Islam… I read their Qur’an… It’s not the color of their skin… It’s the fucked up ideology in their heads that I don’t agree with… So, call me a white supremacist, bigot, whatever makes YOU feel better… But, as long as I have a breath left??? I will fight and scream and yell AGAINST Islam!!! They will have to separate my head from my shoulders!!!
owensgate says
Interesting. I’ve spent eight years total working in Islamic countries, so I’ve seen their philosophy in action. But what’s more confusing is, you seemed to have passed muster with the “f” word, and the “b” word; my last three posts failed to appear, so apparently it’s possible to have a thought that is too far to the “right” to be allowed. As saying one is a “Born Again” Christian. The World does indeed hate Christians more than anything. I don’ mind a bit.
b.a. freeman says
😀
they will most certainly *try* to separate your head from your shoulders! they will no doubt try the same with me; as i intend, i hope that U are able to take out a few of the leftist traitors and/or pious muslims who eventually come to kill U.
Carol Bennett Cason says
Amen
Nycrealist says
Islam is just antithetical to human and civil rights, and freedom of speech. The West knows this but bends over backwards because they don’t want to believe it. Restrict immigration from these places and enforce laws on our books that are being broken like bigamy. Add facecoverings to what is illegal. Then the West has a chance.
CRUSADER says
Here’s something pertinent:
“Culture Jihad:
How to Stop the Left from Killing a Nation”
—- book by
Todd Starnes —-
The Left is bulldozing through American history. We the People are the only ones who can stop them.
America is on the verge of another Civil War. Socialism is on the rise. Free Speech is under assault. People of Faith are facing persecution. Gun owners are in the crosshairs. Our public schools have been turned into indoctrination centers.
A leftist mob made up of socialist politicians, academic elites, raging feminists, and effete Pajama Boys has partnered with Antifa, illegal aliens, and other radical groups to finish what President Obama started—a fundamental transformation of our nation.
Can America be saved?
(Political columnist, commentator, author, and radio host Todd Starnes addresses this issue and more in Culture Jihad. He believes that if good-hearted patriots rise up together we can stop the jihad. It is possible to keep America great.)
Westman says
Hmmm. How far can this nonsense go? If I run a cleaning crew of Arab or Hispanic illegals then I am a White Supremist. If Jose or Ahmed do the same then it’s OK. Got it.
If Ahmed complains about another Muslim’s behavior in the refugee camp, it’s just normal. If I say something about a Muslim who killed or raped a volunteer, I am a White Supremist. Got it.
Isn’t it interesting how trite and tired “Islamophobia” has become and is now being replaced in the US by “White Supremist”. This, of course, is also going to wear out even more rapidly as the status of Islam continues to decline with every Jihadist attrocity.
I understand in the 1960’s, hippy teens played around with new religions and no one was too concerned that it would lead to violence. However, since the 1990’s Islam has been giving factual lessons about its reality as a religion – based and grown in conquest with a special apartheid for unbelievers.
Its jihadists are relentlessly wearing out tolerance for the intolerant Islam. Short of all jihad stopping, Islam will never recover a peaceful image in the West. Without an accepted reformer of its own, similar to Jesus, who does away with the violent prescriptions of the Quran, Islam is on the road to world-wide conflict and war as Islamic Supremists.
Angemon says
Ah, one of those panels where the panellists all agree on all the core issues and simply disagree on small details – “muslims are the most oppressed by straight white working class males. No, women are. No, blacks are. No, disable people are”. No dissidence allowed…
somehistory says
What a tremendous load of hogwash is quoted in this article. One example: “White Americans “have been socialized as white people, with messages from our families, teachers, media and society about whiteness under an umbrella of white supremacy, both subtle and overt.”
I’m White, but my White parents “overtly” taught me that all people are people deserving of respect until they demonstrate otherwise.
moslimes daily, and unceasingly complain about “all moslims” when terrorism is the topic and islam is the focus. Yet, they make such claims about “all White Americans” being racists from birth.
It would be funny if not so evil and stupid and dangerous…to White Christians, esp. A baby just born, doesn’t know anything about “color” or islam (too bad) and therefore, cannot have negative feelings about these.
moslims gloaming on to the “gender” thing and the homosexual thing in order to gain support…until their numbers are to the point of takeover, pick on the one group not included moslims have no real concern for anyone or any group. They are **users**
moslims do not appreciate anything. I say to them, as a country music singer sang many years ago, “if you don’t like it, leave it,” Of course, they won’t as they are here to take over and force all to bow to satan’s wild beast…as they already do.
These evil creeps are being outspoken about their goals and everyone concerned with what is right, moral, ethical… should be paying attention. Basically, they are saying that White Americans …meaning all who oppose them and islam…will have to be eliminated
Lydia Church says
Impossible, since islam is not a race of darkies.
Lydia Church says
Impossible, since islam is not a race of dark skinned only.
No Fear says
Islam wants to replace (what they call) racially based supremacism with their own religious based supremacism.
gravenimage says
Washington, DC: NYU Brademas Center Panel Claims “Islamophobia” is “White Supremacy”
………………………
What race is Islam again?
Eric Jones says
This panel of fake intellectuals would not last 24 hours in Saudi Arabia without being human trafficked or otherwise abused. They would be wise to look at the structural inequalities in Islam.
Eric
Francis Weber says
Muhammad said women are deficient of intelligence!
https://muflihun.com/bukhari/6/301
Pull on an Islamic head dress raise your hand and scream “Look at me, look at me, I agree with Muhammad, I am STUPID!”
Francis Weber says
The perfect man, NOT, defective DNA.
Muhammad was WHITE!
http://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/Reference/Hadith-2340/
Muhammad was a dwarf and fat!
http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/154
Anton Savarese says
Is a ‘race’? Is it a ‘religion’? Is it a ‘skin tone’? Is it a ‘geo-political system’? Is it “islamophobia’? Nope! It is BULL..
Christians all over the world are being killed, tortured, enslaved, and THEY are the victims here?
In Minnesota alone 13 Christian Churches have been burned to the ground since 2012.. ..No press coverage. ..No one caught.. …Just crickets…
Please give me a break, and WISE UP!
UNCLE VLADDI says
Total global “Islamophobia!” is islam’s own most officially desired end-goal outcome.
And “white supremacism!” is like “sky-is-blue”-ism. There’s no real need to go there.
Rooster says
I find it interesting how its Muslims and their patsy’s who scream Islamaphobia much like those who scream racism are about color and not character. What a bunch of manipulators. When all is done and said the American Patriot will fight to the death to defend Anerica’s liberties. The only way to ensure America’s values is to eradicate all Muslims from our borders. Shame on us for allowing Islam a place in our country. Even Thomas Jefferson did his research about Islam to squash their pirate activities against US. Come on man….wake up and stand against the most evil of evils….ISLAM!
gary fouse says
Why does anyone even bother going to college anymore? Their time would be better spent flipping burgers.
OLD GUY says
Islam and the Muslims that support their racist B.S. can kiss my WHITE ASS.
PRCS says
OG,
While I understand the point you’re making, IMO, it would be better to remind them about the white members of the ummah.
Linda Rivera says
Muslims are the biggest racists on the planet. They’re racist against ALL RACES and colours of people who are not Muslim.
Muslims are the biggest supremacists on earth. As soon as Muslims enter a non Muslim nation they immediately demand special rights and special privileges not given to other people groups.
Muslims demand to be given time at work and school to pray five times a day. Special wash basins. Special prayer rooms for Muslims in public buildings.
Muslims demand that at their places of employment they must be allowed to break the rules regarding work attire because they’re Muslims. They’re special. They should not have to obey non Muslim rules.
Muslims block traffic and pedestrians by praying in the streets and on sidewalks. Muslims demand they’re allowed to do this because they believe that Muslims are the most special, best people on earth and should be allowed to block streets and sidewalks whenever they feel like it.