An American journalist of Iranian origin, Borzou Daragahi, tweeted the news of India’s first death due to Coronavirus. A few hours later, he retweeted the story, this time with the caption, “Retweeting this story again, just for the fun of it. Enjoy.” He, driven by the overpowering hatred for India, derives joy from the news of death of a man he doesn’t know. This man is an educated, twitter verified, journalist. An established “moderate” man who doesn’t appear to be very distanced from the radicals in his fold, who share the same burning hate for the infidels, and who gloat at their death.
Ali A. Rizvi, a Pakistani-Canadian author and a self-proclaimed atheist, sent out a tweet on February 28:
What to do if you have coronavirus:
1. See your healthcare provider — make sure you call ahead.
2. Separate yourself from family and friends.
3. Wear a face mask.
4. Cover all coughs/sneezes.
4. Attend every Trump rally in your area.(Do all steps in reverse order)
Overlooking his numbering gaffe – so much for being an educated one — we find ourselves incapable of ignoring the catastrophic cerebration at play. With the Covid-19 crisis worsening into a global pandemic, every individual carrying it is a ticking time bomb with the potential of taking down enormous numbers of the people they encounter. The “atheist” of sorts has not been able to come very far from a typical “fidayeen” or a “suicide-attacker” who enters crowds with explosives strapped to him and explodes. The aim is killing as many as possible if they belong to a conflicting school of thought – religious or political. In the case of Trump vs Rizvi, it’s both.
Corona seems to be the latest favorite among a particular fold of like-minded fellows. Even after having served as the 17th Chief Election Commissioner of India, Shahabuddin Yaqoob Quraishi couldn’t get above his congenital pettiness, and ended up wishing for Prime Minister Modi to get infected with coronavirus. After a huge outrage across social and mainstream media, the former CEC tendered a “sincere apology.”
Speaking of India, American comedian Hasan Minhaj suddenly woke up to his “Indian origin” right before the 2019 elections and tried to wield his minuscule influence by running derogatory commentary on Modi. He had conveniently stayed away from this “Indian” identity when a Muslim politician in India declared that that 25 crore Muslims would need just 15 minutes without the police to show 100 crore Hindus who was more powerful. He didn’t stir up the Indian inside him to condemn this bigotry, but without knowing the first thing about Narendra Modi — except that the “Muslims of India detest him” — in solidarity with his brethren, he showed up to spew venom about an elected leader.
So powerful is the Muslim brotherhood that it compels the moderate Minaj to lie through his teeth to vilify Modi and claim that he was denied entry to the “Howdy Modi” event. The truth was that he didn’t visit the premises as a media person, and was offered a seat that he refused. Such mindboggling fraudulence!
While the world mourned as billowing flames engulfed the Notre Dame Cathedral, Hafsa Askar, a member of the national board of the left-wing students’ union UNEF, took to Twitter to share, “How much are people going to cry for some bits of wood? I swear to Allah you like French identity too much while we don’t give a rat’s ass objectively it’s your madness of little white people.” A student Vice President! And these are her thoughts, her venom-infused, hate-slathered thoughts.
When the New Zealand masjid attack shook the western world in 2019, Christians worldwide stood firmly by their side. Television hosts went on to sport the hijab while reading the news. After a Muslim child was violated in India, millions of Hindus flooded Indian streets deploring the heinous act. Liberal, secular Hindus cried on social media, saying they were “ashamed to be Hindus.”
Remind me if you have witnessed moderate Muslims coming out in crowds condemning the numerous terror attacks perpetrated by their coreligionists, which have left mankind bleeding. Twinkle, Geeta, Sanskriti and Divya are just a few of the Hindu children who were raped with unthinkable brutality. Neither did the Hindus get an apology, nor did any Muslim hang his head in shame for the depravity of his coreligionists.
Have oceans of moderate Muslims taken over roads protesting the unremitting Christian genocide by Islamist militants in Nigeria? Have they initiated a movement to fight the persecution of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh?
This paradox has been overused to water down the inhumanities of radical Islamists, the paradox of the “moderate Muslim”. Each time one calls out the barbarity of Islamists, a crafty liberal beckons, “Hey, don’t stereotype. Look at the moderate Muslims”.
This weekend, grab your cup of coffee or chai, seat yourself in a comfortable chair and reflect: “Who are the moderate Muslims, and when was the last time you chanced upon them?”
The journalist cited at the beginning of this article, the one who finds an Indian’s death “funny,” is one of the finest specimens of a “moderate Muslim”. While the radical goes out slaughtering the innocent, all too many moderates celebrate the deaths of innocent people.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Thank you, Radhika Singh. People measure the so-called “moderate Muslim” against the brothers who cut off heads, rape infidel women, enslave people and any manner of unspeakable horrors. The do not measure them against civilised human beings. May I invite you to read the part of “The Muslim’s Inner Struggles” dealing with ethics, here on JW. I’d be interested to read your thoughts.
Ali Rizvi’s tweet is obscene. On Wikipedia he is described as a humanist. Take nothing at face value.
b.a. freeman says
“Take nothing at face value.”
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… *ESPECIALLY* on wikipedia, where armies of leftist liars continuously revise articles to make certain they are slanted to the left.
James Lincoln says
Anjuli Pandavar says,
“People measure the so-called “moderate Muslim” against the brothers who cut off heads, rape infidel women, enslave people and any manner of unspeakable horrors.”
Very true.
The bar to be considered to be a “moderate muslim” is set very, very low…
gravenimage says
+1
toomanyhobbies says
so now we know their IQ as they apparently cannot count higher than 4…
so instead of attend a; make that go visit a mosque at prayer time…
nicu says
There are no moderate Muslims : once a Muslim always a Muslim – they always will be for them ! So many atrocities and there were never rallies of Muslims for the Non – Muslim victims !
PRCS says
Self preservation.
They don’t want other Muslims to cut off THEIR heads.
FYI says
Some people who leave islam to become atheists,humanists or agnostics are genuine.
But some people are clearly NOT:we know about the dissembling tricks muslims use{Taqqiya,Tawriya,Taysin,Kitman,Muruna,Daurura} and how the koran gives permission to lie to promote islam{koran 3:28}
Bearing FALSE witness is an islamic speciality:so I am afraid I would not automatically trust somebody who claims to be an ex-muslim.Let’s see the proof!
After all,it is quite possible for a muslim to falsely claim to be what he is not whilst still promoting islam as islam permits this:as we here at JW well know.
We know about the dissembling tricks they use.
I am impressed by anybody who genuinely leaves islam:if you say you are an atheist etc that’s fine.. but the problem with islam is that LYING is used to promote it so you cannot blame anybody for being somewhat sceptical.
{If you are an ex-muslim who now identifies as an atheist and are being targeted by muslim fanatics{personal abuse,parody accounts,death threats}you most likely ARE genuine:why would you bring all that hassle on yourself?And you didn’t do anything wrong did you?}
Be wary of muslims who claim to be “atheists” or “moderates”:Let’s see the proof!
Agustina Saragossa i Domènech says
A “Radical” Muslim wants to kill you, a “Modera te” Muslim wants the Radical one to kill you
Ajay says
Wow Radhika Jee. That will hurt a lot of pseudoseculars and so called liberals.
ArmyAviator says
The so-called “Miderate” Muslim is the guy who holds down YOUR wife, as the RADICAL Muslim positions himself between her legs!
OTTER says
There is nothing called a moderate Muslim. This non-existent species are actually the most potent enablers of Muslim terrorists who are carrying out the real tenets of their faith.
Thus, in effect, they form a cordon for the violent in their faith who are willing to kill-and the fact is that a majority of people are not willing to kill as it requires a depth of psychological hatred which most people find it difficult to summon up and because of routine family and office life.
But what they can do, they do. They dissimulate, lie, accuse, exaggerate, throw hysterical fits every time anyone tries to make a connection between Islam and terrorism. This is what ‘moderates’ do.
As they are so numerous, they win the war of language, and ultimately they create a sufficient distance in the popular perception between Islam and the false Islam which we are expected to believe it is a religion of peace.
No Muzzies Here says
Under the powers of the emergency situation, this individual can and must be arrested for posting his words calling for infecting crowds of people.
PRCS says
Can and must?
I’m not familiar with Canadian law…..
Jayell says
“Retweeting this story (about the Indian killed by the corona virus) again, just for the fun of it. Enjoy.”
Even the most twisted, irresponsible, morally bankrupt sociopath in my acquaintance would not sink to the depths of coming out with an obscenity like that. I wonder how Daragahi would react if people were to start posting the same sort of delinquent garbage about the astronomical numbers of corona virus victims in his native Iran? Mute acceptance of being hoisted by one’s own petard? Or self-righteous shrieks of ‘islamophobia’?
By the way. isn’t it about time this whole ‘radical/moderate islam’ debate stopped? We’ve had it over and over aagain from the experts and religious leaders that there is only ONE ‘islam’ and that’s to be found in the islamic ‘holy’ texts – which are neither open to interpretation nor ‘moderate’. Perhaps the devious con-artists who keep pushing these spurious fabrications subscribe to the view that the longer you repeat a lie, the more likely it is to be believed by the intellectually-challenged masses. And one certainly gets the impression that those of an islamic persuasion know a thing or two about being intellectually challenged.
Walter Sieruk says
One difference between “Moderate Muslim” and a ” Radical Muslim”is that a moderate Muslim engages in
the sly and insidious stealth jihad to infultrate and subvert a nation of the West for Islam.
The one called the “Radical Muslm” is the Muslim who engege in the violence and killing of Westerners in the violent jihad in the attempted overthrough of a country ofthe West.
Another difference between the two diffetent types of Muslims may be that the “Radical Muslms ” activity take part in the vioent and murderous jihad for Islam .
By ,some type of contrast , a “moderate Muslm” dosen’t take part in the violenceand killing of thej ihad for Islam but might send money to violent and deadly jihadist Muslms as ,for example, those of Hezbollah and Hamas
ELI says
Islam is at fault even when involving atheists (with Muslim names).
Otter says
‘Moderate’ Muslims are the ultimate defense shield for the real Muslims. Unless you penetrate this barrier, we will not be able to get to the hard-core.
Mobuyus says
He ain’t no Canadian. He may be one of blackie trudeau’s “Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian”. You can bake your boots in an oven that don’t make them biscuits.
James Lincoln says
It took a while for the average Jihad Watch reader to recognize that islam is islam – and that there is no moderate version of iIslam.
It will take a while longer for the average Jihad Watch reader to recognize that muslims are muslims – and there are no moderate muslims.
They all support jihad in various ways, either directly or indirectly…
gravenimage says
The Paradox of the “Moderate Muslim”
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Good piece from Radhika Singh. As always, it turns out that most “moderate” Muslims are anything but.
Here’s Borzou Daragahi sneering at the idea that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a terrorist organization:
“I know you’re a terrorist, but what am I?”
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/irgc-terrorist-designation-what-s-in-a-name/
Scheherazade Smith says
A wonderfully written piece exposing the hypocrisy and general immorality of most Muslims. Thank you so much.
rubiconcrest says
The moderate Muslim surely exists but we know not of their numbers because they are mum. It is for the same reason that many Trump supporters will not appear in public with a MAGA hat. Intolerant liberals have them cowed. In the case of the moderate Muslim the fear of great bodily harm is 100 times worse. Protest is a form of apostasy. They will pay a price that most of us never would be willing to pay. We have to find a way to be less judgmental, more understanding and protective. Which politicians of either party speak to the moderate Muslims explicitly, vowing to defend them from the orthodox members of their communities?
Bernie Doran says
Ali A. Rizvi (no doubt formerly a Shi’ite) claims to be an atheist, and obviously hates Trump. It’s likely that on leaving his former religion, he was brain washed into believing that socialism rather than Allah is the answer to all our problems – and his mindset acquired a definite twist to the left. But Rizvi should know that there are many atheists who support Trump. His tweets only indicate how petty he is.
OLD GUY says
Is there truly a moderate Muslim? If there is how do you tell them from the others, do they dress differently, do they ware a MAGA hat, do they post anti sharia statements on Facebook? They certainly don’t speak out in any kind of numbers about the radical Muslims. Do the moderate mosques fly the American flag and pledge allegiance to America, do they take oaths of office to up hold the constitution of the U.S.A.
Haven’t seen any so I’m not sure, if you look at the elected islamic officials in office now most won’t take the pledge to uphold the constitution. That tells me they support sharia law not U.S. law.
infidel says
years back, I had written a small piece .. titled the Moderate-Jehaadi UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE. Just like in Quantum Physics how subatomic particles and even light behaves both as particle and wave and flit between the two modes, the so called moderate Muslim flits continuously between the moderate and Jehaadi mode and hoodwinks non Muslims. If U think that the subatomic particle is a wave, it will behave like a particle and viceversa and so too with the moderate and Jehaadi modes of the animal Muslim.
Tom says
Calling them the “moderate” majority of Muslims is a misnomer, they should be simply and accurately named the “silent” majority of Muslims, for they fall silent when a voice is needed to condemn those who perpetrate horror on the world. They are, by their silence, passive supporters of the Islamic Jihad and of political Islam.
If this is not so then let ALL Muslims who oppose the jihad against the unbelievers stand up and raise their collective voice in opposition.
I guarantee there will be total silence and crickets will be more vociferous than Muslims.
Please prove me wrong.