“As it unfortunately happens in any part of the world after a terrorist attack carried out by Islamist groups, the immediate consequence is a backlash against the Muslim community.”
That’s a false claim. There is media handwringing about a backlash against Muslims after every jihad massacre, but hardly ever is there an actual backlash.
There is no justification for attacks against innocent Muslims, anywhere at any time, or attacks on any innocent people. The concern after a massacre of Christians by Muslims, however, should be on how the victims can be protected against further such attacks. Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero’s analysis here reflects the establishment media’s ironclad rule: whenever non-Muslims attack Muslims, Muslims are the victims. And when Muslims attack non-Muslims, Muslims are the victims. Her remarks here are part of the larger practice of ignoring the ways in which jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to incite violence (and charging those who do look into this with “Islamophobia,”) and pretending that Muslims are being victimized worldwide, which is false.
“(C)overt Islamophobia: the aftermath of the Sri Lanka Easter attacks,” by Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero, Open Democracy, October 21, 2019:
On April 21st, 2019 eight explosions happened all through the island of Sri Lanka almost simultaneously. The explosions specifically targeted the West via luxury hotels and Christian churches where the Easter Sunday services were being celebrated.
The number of casualties eventually reached 253 and (unusually) 48 hours later, the Islamic State claimed the authorship of the attack in collaboration with members of a local extremist organization, the National Thowheeth Jama’ath.
The socio-political and emotional chaos provoked by a massacre of this magnitude was as expected as unwanted, ranging from the unbelievable links politicians wanted to find to explain the disaster to the high number of scapegoats searched, found and used as a mere distraction strategy to give citizens the fake impression of having assumed responsibilities. Then came the questions of the inaction of a government that had been previously warned of the radical extremist behaviour of the National Thowheeth Jama’ath by the Muslim local community several times in the last years as well as the information about the possibility of a terrorist attack by the intelligence services. But it was too late, way too late.
As it unfortunately happens in any part of the world after a terrorist attack carried out by Islamist groups, the immediate consequence is a backlash against the Muslim community. This is the latent islamophobia nesting in those who are waiting for any tragedy to happen as if the horror begot by a few would legitimate them to spread their hate. The main victim of ISIS is primarily the Muslim community. obviously not talking here of the religion of the individual casualties.-not any kind of differentiation is needed then, but what I mean is the aversion and stigmatisation the Muslim community suffer systematically as a direct result of the terrorist actions of a few….
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
People who are Muslim follow the teachings of this man- Mohammed: A pedophile, sex slave owner, mass murderer, suicidal, polygamist, racist, misogynist, rapist, who sought world domination through violent subjugation.
People who are Nazis follow the teachings of this man- Adold Hitler: A mass murderer, suicidal?, racist, who sought world domination through violent subjugation.
FYI says
Unfortunately Mr Bergolio{or francis },the listening “pope” of the “listening church” won’t be of much use to persecuted christians:he’s just too busy these days, what with blessing naked pagan statues in the vatican gardens*{Organised by the “Global Catholic Climate Movement”,I kid you not}or unveiling a new virtue-signalling sculpture of migrants,his pet pro-islam,pro globalist agenda showing through.
*Apparently some faithful Catholics subsequently took them from the church they were displayed in and threw them into the Tiber..good for them.pachamama is a pagan fertility godess and is fine for Amazonian people but surely not appropriate in a church.what next from Rome?fatiha “prayers” said,koranic readings from the pulpit?
GreekEmpress says
FYI,
I googled this story, and found a lot of articles on it.
Thanks for posting it here. It never ceases to amaze me what I learn from people on this site.
Goofy says
Phobia are mental disturbances which make the patient fear something without reason. When you have just lost 400+ lives to Islamic terrorism, which is prescribed in the Koran your fears are well founded. There is absolutely no reason to protect Muslims from the consequences of their own crimes. Nobody consider Nazists to be poor, persecuted people
dunroamin says
Exactly. Nobody accuses holocaust survivors of Nazipohobia. The fear & loathing of Muslims is equally deserved.
Walter Sieruk says
The cry of those of the left wing is “Islamophobia” A phobia is an irrational al fear yet those Easter Sunday jihadists with their murderous bombing attacks against all those Catholics in Sri Lanka shows that the fear of Islamic terrorism is not irrational. Furthermore those murderous on that day at Sri Lanka did have a very harsh reality check after they died in their jihad suicide/homicide bombings. For instead of finding themselves in a paradise, with or without virgins, they found themselves, to their shock and horror, trapped and suffering in the fires of hell, Luke 16:1-31. As the Bible teaches murderer “will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:21. The Bible also gives a list of those who are fated to suffer terribly forever in the Lake of fire and murderers are on that list, Revelations 21:8.
Moreover, all those heinous jihad suicide/homicide attacker are both murderous and demonic. It now should be made known that this jihad murderous bombing is the outcome of the Islamic doctrine from the Qu‘’ran [the Koran] of a sexual paradise with many virgins, houris , in it for the male Muslim /jihadist who dies fighting in the jihad for the cause of Islam is found in the “holy book” of Islam, the Koran, in Sura 44:54. 55: 56. 78:31. Also there is the Koranic instruction of Sura 9:111 which teaches “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Getting back to the origin doctrine of Islam from the Koran of a sex –filled paradise with many houris for the use only by the male jihadist who dies fight for the advancement of Islam. All this started when the founder and prophet of Islam, Muhammad manufactured Islam he put , had stolen, some of sex doctrine of Zoroastrian mythology and a yet smaller bit of Hindu mythological sex teachings along with as well as mixture pagan Arabian folklore and myth plus a heavy dose of Judaism and Christianity . Also some of it apostate “Christianity” For the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, couldn’t discern the difference between genuine Bible based Christianity and bogus “Christianity.”
Those words and teaching Muhammad gathered from many sources, including the virgins /sex place mythology. , and taught as “Divine Truth” were written down on many things then later compiled and then went into the composition of the Koran. So the hoax of the Koran is actually a mixture and fusion Judaism Christianity and mythology of other religions and now the Muslim clerics with the Koranic brainwashing of young Muslims who are thoroughly mind programmed into believing this Islamic/Koranic virgins myth. This deception of false doctrine /myth into the thoughts of some people was predicted in the Bible along with the false teachers who engage in the indoctrination of such a myth /doctrine into the minds and hearts other people . For it is written “For the time will come when they will not stand wholesome teaching, but will follow their own fancy and gather a crown of teachers to tickle their ears. They will stop their ears to the truth and turn to mythology.” Second Timothy 4:3,4. [N.E.B.]
Walter Sieruk says
It’s not really Islamophobia but Islamorealism. For those murderous jihadists in their horrible Easter Sunday jihad bombings in Sri Lanka were not acting 2:191. out in a hijacked form of Islam but actual Quran based non-watered down hard core . As the Quran teaches in 9:111, “The believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, they kill and are killed.” Likewise, this “holy book” of Islam also instructs in 47:4 “ Whenever you encounter the disbeliever strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…”
Let’s face it, using bombs as those as the Sir Lanka jihadists did can, for sure, make a greater “slaughter among them” than a sword can. There are the other verses the give instruction for violence and killing for the cause of Islam, as 2:191. 5:33. 8:39.9:5, 38-39.
Martin says
BBC News – Forgiving the Sri Lanka bombers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_324vJYKNlo
Peter WF says
They have no choice but to fight back.
Muslims preach hate and violence either directly or passively condone it. Read the islamic texts. Or some of Robert Spencer’s books. What about their predatory actions in Jayne Senior – “Broken and Betrayed”.
How long will that take to sink in? Learn from other people – why wait til you experience the violence personally? You may be dead before you learn this way.
The BBC is a smooth the water organisation.
somehistory says
Thanks for the video. He seems like a very good person, this boy who lost his mom.
Save Europe says
Typical Al-BBC. They have to throw in a token Muslim male who bemoans the fact that business has dropped at his shop, since the terrorism, because he’s a Muslim. As usual, victimhood.
Simon Platt says
Yesterday, I listened to a report on BBC radio commemorating the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka. They were very concerned that Moslem businesses in parts of Sri Lanka were losing customers.
sidney penny says
I happen to know a few non Muslim Sri Lankans IN Sri Lanka
They say it is a false claim.
They say it is wrong to make the false claim because the Muslims will used this even more to claim their victim status and that does not help community harmony in Sri Lanka.
Infidel says
Just assuming that ‘Open Democracy’s’ claims were accurate:
This would be welcome news. After the Easter bombings of the Sri Lankan churches, everyone there – Christians, Buddhists, Hindus – should be wary about Sri Lankan Muslims. (Usual disclaimer about the ridiculousness of the term ‘Islamophobia’ – there is nothing irrational about any fear of Islam/Muslims)
gravenimage says
Far-Left Open Democracy says “Islamophobia” on the rise in Sri Lanka after Easter jihad massacres
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Who cares about all these dead Christians–the real problem is that some Infidels in Sri Lanka may be leery about Muslim violence. Bad dhimmis!
somehistory says
The ‘reporter’ and her article are full of baloney. The only “backlash” that ever happens, is that the knowledge and understanding of what islam and moslims are all about, spreads to a few more individuals.
All of the times, in place after place, city after city, country after country, where moslims have murdered large numbers of people and destroyed buildings and people’s lives and caused the citizens to live in terror, there has not happened any “backlash” where the local moslims have been made to pay for what other moslims have done.
moslims always claim it…”so afraid to go shopping, or to their barracks, or walk on the street, or wear their moslim rags”… but there is never any retribution or payback. Some may see distrust in people’s eyes, or some people may frown at the local moslims they see, but there is nothing more than that.
What is more, many times it has been that people feel sorry for the local moslims after a terror attack and go out of their way to try to make the moslims feel at ease, and safe, and welcomed, and even these ones will apologize for the “rest” of the community for making the moslims feel afraid and unwanted.
The whole thing is sickening. there is no “phobia’ of islam. and any fear people feel toward moslims, the molsims want….they wish to “strike terror” into the hearts of non moslims and it fills them with unholy glee. As it does their demon father/god.
mortimer says
A jihad attack against worshippers in a church is dastardly. WHO WOULDN’T DEPLORE AN IDEOLOGY THAT MOTIVATED THAT ATTACK ???
Though most Muslims dislike jihad, they are doing nothing to stop jihad.
gravenimage says
I agree, Mortimer–save with this last. I see little indication that most Muslims are actually opposed to Jihad. Very few Muslims ever speak out against Jihad against Infidels.
Save Europe says
I get fed up with the usual rhetoric from Muslims, in the West, after a terrorist attack saying – ‘these people were not Muslims.’
A completely ignorant and in many ways, arrogant form of denial.
I always refer to the terrorists as Orthodox Muslims – following the Koran to the letter.
gravenimage says
+1
Mark says
But they have to come out and say in public other wise these things will always be happenning. The change has to come first from within then it will expand.
elee says
K 2:217 inter alia. I believe mortimers assertion is based on what Muslims have told pollsters. If Muslims are a peaceful people, how many of them denounce known violent jihadists?
Jerry says
Islamophobia is the irrational fear that Muslims would continue to commit atrocities against non-Muslims as well as other Muslims who do not adhere to their sectarian views and practices just as have been doing unceasingly for about fourteen hundred years.
Lydia Church says
What in the blazes is she talking about???
“As it unfortunately happens in any part of the world after a terrorist attack carried out by Islamist groups, the immediate consequence is a backlash against the Muslim community.”
1. No, it’s not. 2. But it would be understandable if it was. 3. The immediate consequence is the violence against the victims.
“This is the latent islamophobia nesting in those who are waiting for any tragedy to happen as if the horror begot by a few would legitimate them to spread their hate.”
1. There is no such thing as ‘islamophobia.’ 2. We don’t need to ‘wait’ for the tragedies to happen, they are bombarding us. 3. It is not horror begot by a ‘few’, but by MANY. 4. Yes, it would legitimize us spreading our hate for islam. 5. But, it is not us spreading the ‘hate,’ muslims are the ones spreading their hate. That is why the terrorism happens to begin with!
“The main victim of ISIS is primarily the Muslim community.”
1. False. The main victim of ISIS is the CHRISTIANS!!!
“obviously not talking here of the religion of the individual casualties.-not any kind of differentiation is needed then,”
1. Are they avoiding to name the victims here? 2. This statement does not even make sense. 3. It is not punctuated correctly either.
“…but what I mean is the aversion and stigmatisation the Muslim community suffer systematically as a direct result of the terrorist actions of a few….”
1. Again, it is not a ‘few’, but MANY. 2. The muslim community does not suffer systematically, or aversion and stigmatisation either. 3. The Christian victims suffer directly by the terrorist attacks of the muslims. The Christian religion is under attack by the muslims by mandate of their religion. There. That is it in plain English, naming it like it is!
Trick_or_Treat says
— As happens in any part of the world after YET ANOTHER heinous terrorist attack carried out by muslim terrorists acting (as usual) on the murderous dictates of their stinking qur’an, the consequence is an immediate backlash against muslims and islam —
Well, I know some might possibby find this a little crazy, far-fetched, and hard to believe, but I can actually see a tiny bit of logic in just why some people jump to the conclusion of making that link between terrorist attacks carried out by muslims, and muslims and islam.
Yes, I’m serious. I’d be scratching my head with a little more incredulity if every terrorist attack carried out by muslims precipitated an immediate backlash against the Country Woman’s Association.
Angemon says
Citation and examples needed. What, do Somali muslims start attacking other Somali muslims as retaliation to a jihadi terrorist attack waged by Somali muslims?…
gravenimage says
Yes–this is of course an absolute lie. Where have Infidels in Sri Lanka blown up a Mosque? What calumny.
elee says
Islamophobia is exactly what Muslims are commanded to create. K 8:12 inter alia.
infidel says
Do terror and kill innocent Khafirs and then play victims..
gravenimage says
Yes–Muslims do this all over the world.
Alan Lancaster says
I have just challenged the author of this awful article to answer the questioned posed to the Extremism Commission in this open letter:
https://shariawatch.org.uk/?q=content/letter-extremism-commission
I won’t hold my breath waiting for the reply.
gravenimage says
+1