Students at a Muslim Sunday school in central Connecticut are being taught by Dr. Reza Mansoor to be “media-savvy.” In previous posts, we discussed their sadness at the way Muslims are too often mistreated by those who cannot get beyond 9/11, about their need, according to Dr Mansoor, to clear up “misconceptions” about the faith that some islamophobes still harbor, and to insist that Islamic and American values are “completely compatible” — in short, to be trained in the arts of exaggeration and dissimulation in order to be Defenders of the Faith.
“Students also raised the issue of the controversial Muslim travel ban by President Donald Trump.
“If you’re not welcome to someone’s house, you’re not going to feel safe going there,” said Laila Mehar, 27, a student who is a bit older. “You’re not going to feel at home. Again, cultivating a sense of fear. So we think that we’re seeing a lot of that today with the refugees coming in.”
What the reporter, no doubt channeling Mansoor, uncritically calls the “Muslim travel ban,” needs yet again to be clarified. It is not a “Muslim travel ban.” It is a ban on admitting people from seven countries, two of which were non-Muslim, where the American government believed there was a heightened threat from terrorists, and the ability of the governments in those seven countries to monitor such threats was deemed inadequate. 95% of the world’s Muslims remained unaffected by this so-called “Muslim travel ban.”
Nonetheless, Mansoor told the class, he still thinks America is a great place to practice Islam — that it remains a safe haven for immigrants like himself. Mansoor explained how he came from Sri Lanka almost 30 years ago after his medical school there was bombed.
“We don’t want the Muslim ban and the ‘Islam hates America’ and stuff to change this nation that welcomes immigrants and that has made America such a beautiful country,” Mansoor said.
Much is made, in this report, of the supposed anxiety felt by these Muslim high school students. It is worth noting that Dr. Mansoor could have helped relieve his students of some of their unnecessary anxiety by explaining that the so-called “Muslim ban” was nothing of the kind. He might have explained, too, that reports of attacks on Muslims in this country have been deliberately exaggerated by some of those claiming victimhood (their stories, as they unraveled, can be found online), that given the many Muslim terror attacks in America and Europe, it is perfectly understandable that many Americans are wary of Islam…and that — he could have added — “we Muslims have a duty to confront, not to deny, the Qur’anic verses that have led Muslims to wage Jihad against all others for 1,400 years. We must not flinch from examining the contents of the Quran, to see if a way to establish a real modus vivendi, a true coexistence with those we have been commanded to fight and to kill — let’s not keep up the pretense that such verses do not exist — is possible. Dissimulation, taqiyya, may continue to fool many Infidels, but those many can become few.”
The class was winding down. “All right, good job, guys,” he said. “Time for pizza.”
Outside, one of the security guards could be seen patrolling the property. Eleventh-grader Nisaa Mohamed, 16, said she feels safe at her mosque. But as a Connecticut high schooler who wears a headscarf, Mohamed said she’s had to deal with people calling her a terrorist.
Victimhood is powerful. Mention of the security guard is meant to remind us of the dangers these young Muslims face. And while all over the Western world we see Muslims attacking non-Muslims in attempts to terrorize them, we are supposed to believe that, although Nisaa Mohamad “feels safe at her mosque,” implicitly she does not “feel safe” elsewhere (else she would have said “I feel safe”), and “people” have “called her a terrorist.” Skepticism is in order. How many people have called her that? Twenty? Ten? One? None? It’s an easy claim to make, impossible to disprove.
“My friend and I, who also wears a scarf, we took our time to explain to them that our religion does not motivate or promote violence,” Mohamed said, “and that we’re a religion of peace.”
In other words, Nisaa Mohamed and her friend “took [their] time” to misinform — more exactly, to lie — about Islam, to Unbelievers. It’s not credible that she can truly believe “that our religion does not motivate or promote violence.” The Qur’an is full of violence. Nisaa Mohamed is 16, and presumably by now has read the Qur’an, and if she did, she can hardly avoid having come across at least some of the 109 verses that command Muslims to wage violent Jihad against Unbelievers. Did such verses as 2:191-193, 2:216, 3:151, 4:7, 4:89, 812, 8:60, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4, for example, make no impression on her? What did she think “Fighting is prescribed for you” (2:216) meant? Or “Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers’’ (3:151)? Or “Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Satan” (4:76)? Or “(Remember) when your Lord inspired the angels… ‘I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them'” (8:12)? Or the Verse of the Sword, that tells Believers “when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them.” (9:5). Even just one of those verses, and there are 109 verses of that ilk, would have been sufficient to show that Islam — the Qur’an — “motivates and promotes violence.” Either Nisaa Mohamed is practicing her taqiyya, or she has no idea what is in the Qur’an. I know which explanation I find more plausible.
Like Mohamed, Ameen Parks is one of the only [sic] Muslims at his Connecticut high school. He tries to be a good ambassador for his faith, he said — just like he’s been taught in Sunday school. But when an incident involving Muslims happens out in the world, he hears the stereotypes and racist jokes.
An “incident involving Muslims” means, for the less demure, “when there is a Muslim terrorist attack.” And what are those terrible, quite baseless “stereotypes” he hears? Something to do, perhaps, with Muslims and terrorism? Now why would any decent person make that connection? Could those 35,000 terrorist attacks since9/11 have something to do with it?As for “racist jokes,” Ameen Parks is, like so many Muslims, deliberately confusing a faith with a race, but by now it is impossible for that obvious point to be accepted.
“I try to clear things up,” Parks said. “But a lot of people you just can’t change. They’re really stubborn.”
How does Ameen Parks “clear things up”? Does he emulate his classmate Nisaa Mohamed and roundly declare, with as much fabricated sincerity as he can manage, that Islam does “not provoke or promote violence” of any kind; that the terrorists in question could not, therefore, be “real Muslims” and thus it’s “case closed,” except for the islamophobes and anti-Muslim racists whose minds are permanently made up — “a lot of people you just can’t change…they’re really stubborn”? Could it be that ever more people, mugged by the Muslim reality, are no longer willing to give Islam a pass, and to pretend that “extremists” who “have nothing to do with the real Islam” are behind all this explosion of terrorism? If they now are “stubborn,” it is because they are tired of having been misled by Muslim apologists for so long, have conducted their own investigation of what the Qur’an inculcates and, properly informed, are now “stubborn” in their newfound, appalled understanding.
mortimer says
An exercise in FEELINGS OVER FACTS. Anyone equipped with the statistics of Islamic terrorism (3 jihad attacks every day of the year since 9-11, almost 36,000 jihad-related deaths since 9-11) will demolish this nonsense.
The good thing about what this TAQIYYA-SHOVELLER is doing is to encourage Muslim youth to study common objections to Islam. In studying these objections to Islam, many former apologists of Islam have realized Islam cannot be successfully defended, because the criticisms of Islam generally hold water.
At this point, the former Islamic apologists have recognized much to their chagrin that Islam is false.
Here is ‘Brother Ismail’ (former Muslim apologist):
mortimer says
correction : almost 36,000 thousand jihad ATTACKS … there have been almost 200,000 jihad-related DEATHS since 9-11 … about 28 jihad-related deaths every day since 9-11.
James Lincoln says
Thanks for the video, mortimer.
I have included a link to the YouTube website that includes this video – including comments from viewers.
Very interesting. One viewer, unbelievably, claimed that Brother Ismail is really a fake EX-Muslim, an “always Christian”, who was just out to smear Islam. Apologists will say ANYTHING…
ntesdorf says
This guy is still seriously deluded even after seeing the faults in Islam.
gravenimage says
The feelings over facts are–this Taqiyya artist hopes–on the part of the foolish Infidels.
mortimer says
Why Dr Mansoor’s classes will backfire … because the criticisms of Islam are VALID!
FARHAN (a former Sunni dawa-apologist for Islam) left Islam after his beliefs were challenged … Hear Why did Farhan left Islam :
gravenimage says
Mansoor is not challenging these Muslims’ beliefs.
And while there are a few brave Muslim apostates who have left Islam, most do not.
LLetto says
I am more seeing Moslims as indoctrinated innocents. This improved view replaces the unbridled anger I previously felt, at the sight of a scarf.
mortimer says
Response to LL: Muslims are humans who have the wrong information. Muslims are like sports fans emotionally invested in their ‘team’ to the point that they are no longer rational. Sports fans sometimes riot when they meet supporters of other teams. However, in addition to the ‘team spirit’ of Islam, Islam has amoral, opportunistic ethics which decree that Muslims should mistreat ‘others’ and deprive them of human rights. Muslims who study human rights experience cognitive dissonance, but the emotional bonds of Islam are extremely powerful and Muslims have trouble breaking away from these emotional bonds even when they realize that Islam is false.
gravenimage says
Many of these “innocents” will happily murder you, and many more support those who would.
somehistory says
moslims are not taught how to be normal humans dealing with other normal humans. They are taught islam only and to whine when islam is not accepted as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. They are taught to fabricate incidents of the contrived phobia and to pretend innocence. They are taught that they are above the law and it is their “right” to take over and make whatever country in which they reside bow to islam.
I was watching an episode of “family Feud. I do that sometimes to take my mind off serious things…such as islam and moslim’s desire and goal to force me into subjection.
When Steve Harvey, host guy, went to speak to one of the families, …oh, no…there was a moslim all scarved up, long, all-covering garment, looking smug for the camera.
None of the others in the family were dressed in that fashion and most of them were young women.
When it was time for the moslim to be at the center stage and hit the button, she hit it fast, before the other contestant could. Harvey turned to her for an answer and she just stood there, dumb look on her face. The buzzer sounded and the guy gave an answer for his family.
I’m fairly certain that had the question been about moslims or islam, she would have had a response. As it was just about what 100 people had said in a survey about ordinary life in the U.S., she had no clue.
Imagine for a moment….moslims begin to disappear from the cities and towns…for whatever reason, and only a few are left. Those few realize that islam is not going to conquer the country and moslims are losing all of the political and social power they had gained. Those few would have no idea how to get along in a society where islam is seen for the evil that it is.
I have no sympathy for those who voluntarily choose this foul odor to follow and would easily take my life and the lives of my loved ones.
Angemon says
How about, instead, you tell that to your coreligionists who are waging violence for the sake of islam?
gravenimage says
Exactly, Angemon. If these Muslims *really* believed that Islam was a religion of peace, they would be trying to convince their pious coreligionists how they were getting Islam so very, very wrong, instead of slinging Taqiyya at good Infidels.
Lynn says
I feel safe at my large Christian Church because we have armed guards during services. It is horrible that armed guards are needed now. When I was growing up churches didn’t need armed guards.
somehistory says
“I try to clear things up,” Parks said. “But a lot of people you just can’t change. They’re really stubborn.”
The arrogance of this statement. They want everyone else to just roll over and concede that every lie they tell is the truth. We should concede no such thing, but remain adamant that islam is violent, murderous, and evil, and that they are all liars for denying the truth.
gravenimage says
+1
tim gallagher says
Lessons in how to “handle” the media just means becoming better at taqiyya, becoming better liars, who can disguise the barbaric content of Islam. I prefer it when you get the upfront Muslims, who are unable to lie to us in their slimy way and who tell us straight out how they hate the infidels and tell us how they aim to harm us.
gravenimage says
Tim, this is the difference between what Hugh Fitzgerald calls the “Slow Jihadists” and the “Fast Jihadists”. They both have the same goals, and just use different tactics.
tim gallagher says
As you say, gravenimage, they both have the same goals. I’m always wary of hearing about people being taught to “handle” the media better. I suppose I can see how, say, a conservative might need to be taught how to cope with the leftie media types trying to trip them up, but, when it comes to Muslim spokespeople, it is bound to be all about learning to lie more convincingly to the infidels and learning to fool the infidels about their goals more effectively. Those terms ,”Slow Jihadists” and “Fast Jihadists,” are a good way to describe the tactics being used.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Tim.
gravenimage says
At the Islamic Association of Greater Hartford, Young Muslims Coached to Handle the Media (Part 3)
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“Handle the media”–ie, lie and whine to them.
dumbledoresarmy says
A long time ago, somebody here at this comments forum remarked that Islam consisted of “thuggery, and image management”. The jihadis engage in the thuggery, to terrorise and kill people. Then people like this bloke Mansoor come along and engage in the ‘Image management”, smiling fake smiles and lying through their teeth, and teaching *others* – say, butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-my-mouth long-lashed dimpled-cheeked hijabettes, shedding crocodile tears and adept at victim theatre – to do likewise. It’s also known as ‘badcop/ goodcop’ and it’s *intended* to mess with your head. And sooo many people fall victim to this whiplashing confusion, as on the one hand, they encounter the barrage of news reports of Muslim attacks and on the other, the oh-so-sweetly-smiling Muslim workmate who is busily ‘running interference’, flattering them and soft-soaping and telling soothing lies and *also* playing the victim card for all it’s worth.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, DDA.