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Here We Go Again: Pensacola Muslims Fear “Backlash” After Jihad Massacre

Dec 10, 2019 9:00 am By Robert Spencer

My latest in PJ Media:

The Pensacola News Journal was first out of the gate this time around with what is a recurring feature of establishment media coverage of jihad attacks: the follow-up weeper about how the local Muslims are shocked (Shocked!) by the massacre, and are now cowering in fear of an “anti-Muslim backlash.” That backlash rarely, if ever, materializes, but when has the media ever allowed reality to intrude upon a good narrative?

The News Journal interviewed Salma Ashmawi of the Islamic Center of Northwest Florida, and Ashmawi hit all the expected notes, asking: “What can anybody do in a case like that except pray?” Ashmawi added, said the News Journal, that “the mosque’s membership is also raising money to help the victims.” She said: “We are all Pensacola residents. We’re hurt and we’re in mourning.”

Amid all this pious magnanimity, Ashmawi also remembered to play the victim: she “said parents who usually take their children to Sunday school at the mosque are planning to keep their children home this week out of fear they will become targets of backlash aimed against Muslims.”

Ashmawi explained: “I’m getting a lot of people telling me they’re not coming. Even teachers are not bringing their children. If the teacher doesn’t mind, her husband is like, ‘No absolutely not. You have no idea what people are saying out there, and I don’t want my kids to get hurt.’”

Nonetheless, the Muslims of Pensacola will bravely soldier on: Ashmawi told the News Journal that the Sunday school service would be held as usual, and would, of course, focus on the victims: “For the ones who come, we’ll use that time to talk about unity and standing by anybody who is injured or hurt. And how something like this unacceptable just like any crime. It was murder. It’s a crime. It is unacceptable. We are in a civil society. We don’t do things like that.”

No claim that Muslims were the real victims would be complete without a bit of moral equivalence, so Ashmawi “said what the shooter did was an act against God and against humanity, though she added that Christians don’t have to live in fear or face calls to apologize every time someone claiming to be a Christian does something wrong.” She did not, of course, mention the fact that jihad murderers quite often scream “Allahu akbar” while killing infidels, while Christian criminals don’t generally invoke Jesus while in the midst of their evildoing.

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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Filed Under: backlash, Featured, Jihad in the U.S., journalistic bias, Robert Spencer Tagged With: Florida, Islamic Center of Northwest Florida, Pensacola, Pensacola News Journal, Salma Ashmawi


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  1. Trick_or_Treat says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 9:04 am

    And they fear rightly, because the way things have bein allowed to keep going, it will come.

    • Jeramia Smith says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 9:38 am

      Can you think of even one example till now? They scream victim to the media every time, but is there an example of revenge taken for an attack?
      Have you ever heard their imams confirming their attacks?

      • Ned Kelly says

        Dec 11, 2019 at 3:12 am

        True..WHEN have we EVER heard of a backlash,…oh that’s right….NEVER

        • DazzleMe says

          Dec 12, 2019 at 10:11 am

          Exactly! NEVER

    • Clifford Fodor says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 3:15 pm

      Why call it backlash. It should be called “war.”

      • Savvy Kafir says

        Dec 10, 2019 at 9:35 pm

        Agreed. Fighting back, against people who want to destroy us (one way or another), is not quite the same as “backlash” motivated by anger or hatred. More like a long-overdue acknowledgment of the fact that Muslims have brought a war of conquest, waged by various means, to our country and to the West in general.

    • Save Europe says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 5:58 pm

      The answer for ‘them’ is actually REALLY easy. March in protest at Muslim terrorism, drive terrorism out of their communities with frenetic passion, and/or reform their supposed ‘holy book.’

      Yet, they will never do ANY of the aforementioned.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 9:44 pm

      Yeah, right–pretending that the real issue is Infidels targeting Muslims is absurd calumny.

    • Peter35 says

      Dec 11, 2019 at 2:55 am

      Really? When, where? Any idea how many moslem atrocities have occurred just since 2000?
      Just since 2000 THOUSANDS of westerners have been murdered, burnt alive, stabbed, beheaded, tossed out of high buildings (or jumped out of the falling trade towers) or been run down or torn to bits (think 11 year old Ebba Åkerlund walking home from school) by moslems, and yes, ALL the perpetrators were moslem.

      To date, only THREE people have tried to retaliate and all three have been vilified, not only by the MSM and general public, but also by at least 90% of bloggers who should by now know what islam is–who moslems are—the ENEMY.

      moslems continue with their war against us secure in the knowledge that there will be NO backlash. They continue to play westerners like a violin.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 11, 2019 at 9:26 pm

        36,000 Jihad terror attacks just since 9/11.

      • DazzleMe says

        Dec 12, 2019 at 10:13 am

        Amen

  2. Keys says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 9:49 am

    Got Kaffirphobia ?

    Tell the slain sailors’ families and friends that you are afraid. Tell your Mosques to make amends for what your fellow Muslim has done in the name of Allah. But you are forbidden to make amends to undeserving kaffirs, unless you lie.

    One of the Pensacola Saudi “students” is still missing. Have the mosque he’s hiding in turn him in, and reveal the true reason he decided to “disappear”. Have your mosques collect money for the families of the slain (if they will accept it), and encourage Saudi Arabia to give them a “halfpenny”.

    Finally, right now, pack up and go live in a country where you are not afraid !

  3. R Russell says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 9:56 am

    Victim mentality again. We are wise to it now.

    • Save Europe says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 6:00 pm

      Sadly, not enough people are.

      Still the mantra – ‘Islam is a religion of peace’ is believed by FAR too many.

  4. PRCS says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 10:09 am

    What did the Pensacola News Journal article’s author (Jim Little [jwlittle@pnj.com]) take away from dear Salma’s excuses? Has he heard them before? Has he personally followed-up on her assertions? Does he think they’re credible?

    And does Salma actually believe Qur’an 5:32 reads as she and other Muslims assert? Or is she just practiced in the art of deceit?

  5. Keya says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 10:41 am

    Christians don’t apologize when another christian commits violence. Because they are not commanded by Jesus or the bible to kill non christians. Muslims think they can get away by saying anything.
    This Ashmawi woman should be asked about the offending passages of the unholy koran. Why does Allah command that Kafirs be killed or punished!

    • Gail says

      Dec 12, 2019 at 12:43 am

      Muhammad only SAID Allah commands that Kafirs be killed or punished. It’s really MUHAMMAD who wanted them dead because they refused to believe in his (made-up) “religion” (cult).

  6. rubiconcrest says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 10:48 am

    The Pensacola News Journal and it’s parent the USA news network, owned by Gannett Co., Inc., deserve to go bankrupt. We know that ‘fearing backlash’ is the standard Muslim Brotherhood talking point. They must be getting money from the ME to publish this stuff.

  7. AP says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    These people are not Americans, and they don’t want to be Americans, they want to remove Americans by any means necessary, if you think not you are a fool Read the Koran.

  8. Norger says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    “You have no idea what people are saying out there, and I don’t want my kids to get hurt.’”

    You mean stuff “people out there” are saying stuff like “kill the unbelievers where ever you find them”, non- Muslims are the “most vile of created beings”, Muslims should’t take Jews and Christians for friends etc,? The hypocrisy and cognitive disconnect is just staggering.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 9:45 pm

      Yep. But, unfortunately, far too many people in the West are totally ignorant of what the Qur’an teaches, and therefore will buy this whiny-ass “Muslims = victims” bullshit whenever some infidel-hating taqiyya artist serves it up.

      • Gail says

        Dec 12, 2019 at 12:48 am

        Amen.

  9. Patriot One says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 1:10 pm

    If you know a Muslim, ask them if their quaran says tip lie, cheat, and kill infadels.

  10. Mo says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 2:17 pm

    “Here We Go Again: Pensacola Muslims Fear “Backlash” After Jihad Massacre”

    As the late, great Andrew Breitbart would always say:

    So?

    People have wised up to this Muslim victim mentality. We’re not buying it.

    But how it enrages me when they immediately do the, “BUT CHRISTIANS!” When’s the first, last, or any time a follower of Christ committed mass murder because the Bible told them too? What bull!

  11. Crusades Were Right says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 2:57 pm

    Christophobia and Islamophilia…

    …two REAL sources of “hate speech”.

  12. Mark C. Lowe (@MCLowe) says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 7:07 pm

    Good! Go back home. You’re religion is incompatible with American values. It’s that simple.

    • Mark C. Lowe (@MCLowe) says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 7:09 pm

      Sorry, that should be your. Don’t need some lefty grammar cop seizing on an auto-correct that I missed.

  13. x says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 7:49 pm

    The fear the muslims have is real to them from their perspective. In a muslim country, if a Christian did some crime, the muslims would attack all Christians in revenge. This is because they do not understand the western concept of individual responsibility and the rejection of collective punishment. So they just assume that people in the US would do the same to them what they would do to others. This idea of collective guilt permeates muslim society. This is also why honor killing is so prevalant in muslim society.

    So they will whine and whine, but it will not save them from Hell.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 9:48 pm

      Muslims *know* that Infidels do not act this way. This is just done to try to make Kuffar feel unearned guilt, and to distract from Jihad.

  14. gravenimage says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 9:40 pm

    Here We Go Again: Pensacola Muslims Fear “Backlash” After Jihad Massacre
    ……………..

    *So* sick of this fake victim-mongering bs.

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Dec 10, 2019 at 9:48 pm

      It really is unattractive, isn’t it? What despicable people!

  15. ana says

    Dec 10, 2019 at 11:04 pm

    I 100% sympathize with those poor darling muslims in Florida. For their safety and out of reverence for their cultural diversity lets send them to Syria, Iran, or Somalia for safe keeping. There are some wonderful real estate opportunities in Turkish controlled Syria this week.

    Those poor muslims should not tolerate the backlash. They should assert their right to live in a muslim country today! Flights for Turkey are departing every day.I understand that Ethiopian Airlines has tremendous vacancies in their 737 Max flights. Lets organize some charter flights for them.

    • Gail says

      Dec 12, 2019 at 12:54 am

      Well, of COURSE they do not want to do that because they are here solely to attempt to turn this into a muslim country!! We CANNOT let this happen. Educate people about Sharia law. Print out what Sharia law is all about and HAND IT OUT while we still CAN. Look what’s happening in the U.K.!! Sickening!!

  16. Bikinis not Burkas says

    Dec 11, 2019 at 4:26 am

    The “Code of the West”
    do unto others before they do it unto you!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 11, 2019 at 9:29 pm

      Not so.

  17. Giacomo Latta says

    Dec 11, 2019 at 10:13 am

    And as for a piece on the anti-American (or anti-Christian, whatever) backlash that drove this event in the first place? Does the latest copy of the NYT or the WP have it?

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 11, 2019 at 9:31 pm

      Spot on, Giacomo.

  18. DazzleMe says

    Dec 12, 2019 at 10:16 am

    VICTIMS, hardly, again playing the victim and America believes this bull****!

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