Mobashra Tazamal is “a researcher on Islamophobia at The Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University.” Her article here illustrates yet again something that I’ve been pointing out for years: for the Hamas-linked Bridge Initiative, a program of the bought-and-paid-for Georgetown University, and for establishment academics such as Mobashra Tazamal, no resistance to the global jihad whatsoever is allowed, no matter how tepid, half-hearted, or fantasy-based. It’s all “Islamophobia.” Any resistance to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women immediately puts one on the road to becoming as inhumane, brutal, and repressive as Communist China is to the Uighurs. Any opposition to, say, beheading schoolteachers in the middle of the street for showing a cartoon of Muhammad is the “logic of eradication or quarantining.” The only response to jihad violence that Bridge Initiative would find acceptable would be complete surrender.
“Dismantling the counterterror narrative is long overdue,” by Mobashra Tazamal, The New Arab, October 15, 2020 (thanks to Hussam):
Concentration camps, facial recognition cameras, razing of mosques, networks of government informants, and separation of families: this is what the Uighur people, a Turkic ethnic Muslim minority numbering around 11 million, are currently reckoning with in their occupied homeland….
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has defended its actions in the region, describing the camps as “re-education centres” and “hospitals” needed to de-radicalise and rehabilitate Uighurs who are infected by an “ideological virus,” that virus being the second largest belief system in the world: Islam.
Beijing maintains its discriminatory policies are needed because Uighurs are a threat to the stability of China and thus mass imprisonment is necessary “to turn them [Uighurs] into normal persons…”
While China’s violence against Uighurs dates back decades, the language of terrorism entered the government lexicon shortly after US President George W. Bush inaugurated the global “War on Terror”….
This war created a transnational undefined enemy who was not just a political foe but a fundamental threat to the safety of the wider population. Today, Chinese authorities claim that camps and surveillance are needed in order to fight the “three evils” of “separatism, extremism, and terrorism.”
Following the 9/11 attacks, words and phrases such as “radical Islam”, terrorism, and extremism went mainstream.
The hyperfocus on counterterrorism resulted in the development of a cottage industry of self-styled experts who cashed in on lucrative government grants and opportunities. Their studies and analysis were used to support the construction of “radical” or “extremist” Muslims who represented the primary threat to global stability….
In his latest book, Sean Roberts notes how the war on terror discourse has facilitated a “logic of eradication or quarantining a threat that is culturally profiled as an ‘extremist’ strain within Islam [and that] fosters an aggressive Islamophobia that is ultimately pregnant with genocidal tendencies.”
By marking Muslim populations as “terrorists”, states brand the entire population a threat to the global system, “making them not just deserving of marginalisation but of complete obliteration or intensive quarantining.” Such is the “logic” China uses to defend its genocidal campaign against Uighur Muslims.
Governments across the world continue to use the counterterror language to target, scapegoat, persecute, and eliminate Muslim communities in their own countries. The authorities label these groups “extremist” or “terrorists,” allowing them the space to carry out violence without much international condemnation….
Patrick White says
The Chinese are too ambitious for my liking, and they don’t have enough body in their hair. But what I do love about them is that they invented paper, gunpowder, the dreaded (but necessary) catheter… and Muslim re-education camps. Long may these latter last, and be emulated by civilised countries across the globe. They’re a wonderful and effective idea, and the nearest thing we’re going to get to an antidote to this 1400-year-old cancerous geo-political project masquerading as a religion.
Brian Ozzy says
Hear, Hear. Couldn’t agree more!
Maureen Chaloner says
I am afraid I have to agree with you. Islam is a dreadful ideology full of hate and death. China has gone extreme, but in the right direction. It’s a shame for many Muslims who realise their ideology is not peaceful, but cannot escape, especially women. The answer for the West however is to repatriate Muslims to their own countries, and anyone who wants to stay in Europe must leave their ideology behind. I can’t see that happening though because Islam is too entrenched into our town and cities. We also have the Muslim Mayors in many towns and cities now. We could bring in new laws in future that prevents ANYONE ( to make it fair) of foreign birth or ancestry from becoming a Mayor or an MP. I am afraid its the OLY solution to stop the spread of Islam. Also laws preventing Muslim men having more than one wife and no benefits of any kind until the individuals have been living in the UK or Europe for at least 5 years and have no criminal record during that time. Harsh ? Yes, but vital if we are to save our countries..
Kepha says
Official China fears traditional theism of any kind. They are repressive towards Christians in their central and eastern provinces, too. Most ridiculous of all was when the Jewish descendants in Kaifeng started exploring their ancient religious roots, followed by a few of those elderly “foreign friends” goin frum in their old age, the CCP circulated an internal memo sweating bullets over what happened to the Soviet state after “those people” got uppity–and unlike Christianity and Islam, China’s Jewish revival affects at most a few hundred people.
Official China also knows very well that it is the last, best hope for 20th century totalitarianism, continues to hail Stalin as a hero, and can even find a shred of sympathy for Hitler (another extreme nationalist, after all). It has further signaled that it is willing to use nuclear weapons on people whom it loudly insists are its “own” (Han-inhabited Taiwan). Its ideology is that whatever the Party says is right–in the 1950’s, Mao says every Chinese born is a pair of hands and potential soldier; in the 80’s, punishing people who have more than one child (frankly, I’m proud to be distantly related to people whose response to the one child policy was to “disappear” over-zealous health officers when told to abort or else).
Communist China’s possible collision with the Dar-ul-Islam is one of two ugly tyrannies.
Michael Copeland says
China has ascertained something that Western states, apart from Eastern Europe, are only beginning to learn, that Islam, a rival and supremacist governing ideology, is a threat to the stability of any non-muslim state. Muslims announce this themselves, witness Abu Izzadeen: “We are definitely a danger to democracy”. It is no secret. “Democracy, liberalism, freedom… need to be destroyed”, says Anjem Choudary. “Destroying the Western civilisation from within” is a stated aim of the Muslim Brotherhood plan. Mosques in China have been razed because they are conspiracy houses. The Chinese State is forthright in its own defence.
See “Islam’s Agenda: Muslims Speak”:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/02/islams-agenda-muslims-speak/
Mauricio says
+1
john smith says
+1
Maureen Chaloner says
I agree. We need to start pulling down Mosques or closing them en masse. They are BARRACKS and places where weapons have been discovered and where Imans teach young Muslims to hate the West and us Infidels!.
Mauricio says
Remarkable! China seems to incarnate here what all muslims will face in the end of times. When will the West apply this methods?
mortimer says
Mobashra Tazamal is doing a rearguard defense of jihadists by asking the West to hide them completely even when they are out in the open.
It’s a bold and preposterous deceit. How can someone be so blatantly false?
Byron Allen Black says
It’s the pointy-heads. Intellectuals seem to cultivate their “blind spot”: look at those who passionately defended Stalinist Russia in the 1930s, during the show trials and terror – including august personages like G.B. Shaw. Later they would plead “We had no way to know!” or even “It wasn’t as bad as it was reported”, claims undercut by Solzynitsen and others.
Then there were the academics and intellectuals who denied the accounts of “pyramids of skulls” with the Khmer Rouge (supported both by the USA and the PRC), saying it was CIA propaganda and lies. When the truth came out they had a “cover story” of course.
What’s happening in Minnesomalia is a great tragedy as well: millions of dollars of welfare mony and chiseled “social / educational” funds are being sent in suitcases back to the horn of Africa and terrorist gangs. Who is reporting this? Who is talking about Ilmar Ohan marrying her own [gay] brother to expedite his immirgartion statuis? Certainly not the corporate media.
Kepha says
I agree that our “innaleck-chools” misled the country badly, and have been doped to the ears with their Marxist opiate. Further, our chattering class has been misled about Islam ever since the fool Malcolm X got Alex Haley to ghostwrite his “otterboggerfee”.
However, re Democratic Kampuchea, the chief reasons why the US continued to recognize it after the Viet invasion of Cambodia were (1) Viet-manned Soviet armor parked 170 miles by improved road from the heart of our Thai allies’ capital and (2) rising up with Pol Pot’s fleas by lying down with the “good, peace-loving Communist” Deng Xiaoping’s China. We were never truly sympathetic to Pol Pot and his gang.
Jayell says
Statistics have shown that about 92% of terrorism worldwide has specifically been inspired by islam. So, ‘by marking Muslim populations as “terrorists”, states brand the entire population a threat to the global system’ is hardly wide of the mark when the connection between these populations and the creed they follow has already been clearly demonstrated. Does Mobashra Tazamal think we’re idiots?
Maureen Chaloner says
Its TAQQIYA…deceit to further the cause of Islam….
Fred van de Bunt says
There is a lot of idolatry around in Islam at the moment. In France many people got killed become of idolatry. The message from these Islam idolators is very threatening: “Do not ridicule my idol, Mohammed, or I kill you, I destroy your society, you unbeliever, I eliminate you.”
Those communists in China are still building their country, and they see freedom of religion also more as the freedom to practice a hobby.” So they have no time and resources to treat every idolator with the greatest respect, care and understanding, like they are new born babies.
Fred van de Bunt says
“become of idolatry” should read “because of idolatry”, sorry.
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
Concentration camps, facial recognition cameras, razing of mosques, networks of government informants, and separation of families…
If it were anyone other than muslims getting this I would call it a human rights violation. But with islam it makes my heart sing. The snake that has been terrorizing humanity for centuries is getting eaten by a bigger snake, and for the first time in my life I’m fond of big snakes.
James Lincoln says
Agostino Armo Pellegrini,
islam has met its match, and then some, with the Chinese Communist Party…
john smith says
Well said,AAP
Check Burry says
Why research this so called phobia, the muslims created it, so they must already know all about it, no research needed, as they drew the plans, so why do they need a university course, is it to make it more palatable, like hot dogs.
petervburrows says
Love you folks!
https://silvercityburro.com/2020/10/02/chinas-muslims-a-different-perspective/(opens in a new tab)
Mauricio says
Good link, thanks!
Caroline Rausch says
China is right — these Muslims should be eliminated, this is one thing the Chinese have done right.
Boycott Turkey says
If the Uighur s ever got the upper hand they would do worse to the Chinese fact I think China should deal terrorism and Islam how it wants I think the persecution of Uighur s is exaggerated in the media as the west and China don’t get along I agree there’s human rights abuses going onbut there’s no Genocide even the UN said there’s no Genocide as there’s no evidence of dead bodies in mass graves i remeber I use to hear of terrorist attacks on the Chinese by uighars they are just as bad
Kepha says
The Uighurs’ struggle against Communist China is an anti-colonialist struggle. Frankly, the more Beijing hears such things, the better.
Peter WF says
Search “world map average IQ”
NOTE – the 2 smartest nations do NOT have a jihadi problem. China is one of them.
Search “world map marry first cousins”
Search “world map muslims”
Search “world map corruption”
b.a. freeman says
“… states brand the entire population a threat to the global system …”
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… and because of agressive abuse of uighurs by the CCP (although gentle by genocidal CCP standards, since arrested uighurs aren’t shot in the head immediately), china is the nation that is most likely to actually to control its muslim problem first. other non-muslim dictatorships, like russia, will no doubt catch on fast, and implement their own anti-muslim and anti-islam plans.
one of the posts i read by a fellow islam-hater suggested that all young children be removed from muslim families, and that older children and adults be allowed to live out their lives. then, after the last “muhammed” died, whether peacefully in his sleep or with a State bullet in his skull, islam would die. that would be a brutal, inhuman thing to do, but almost all nations (except for some that were free over the past couple of centuries) have had no qualms implementing other brutal, inhuman policies abusing their citizens, and it looks like the most successful nazi nation in the world – china – is close to implementing that very policy.
Naildriver says
I’m just as mystified with the ‘doublethink’ regarding our relationship to the communist Chinese as the ‘double think’ regarding Islam; perhaps the most dangerous enemy the USA has confronted.
Err, meaning that Islam is the most dangerous enemy the USA has confronted.
The USA would be entitled to regard Muslims as invaders; or people who have rejected citizenship in favor of an alien nation; as they intend sedition and violence against the USA simply with defining themselves Muslim.
Ignorance of all the implications with belonging to Islam is not a defense to being held responsible to be the USA’s enemy — that includes millions of blacks, hispanics or others, who converted out of racism, while imprisoned for felonies, or simply hating the USA. Calling those who resist Islam’s invasion ‘white supremisists’ won’t work either — nor abate a real shooting war to fight Islam’s invasion.The sooner militia’s put up a fight the better and here’s why.
Just as with communism Muslims should be a marginalized group however it is defined officially — because it has destructive intentions to the USA, it’s people and constitution.
Certainly it is reasonable, and necessary really, to deny Muslims positions in the military, FBI, CIA, political offices in all levels of government, teaching in public schools, or even day care because the system, Islam, requires the destruction of its host.
People should note that China still maintains economic ties with many Muslim countries — and, none to my knowledge have ceased dealing with China as a result of its treatment of 8 million Uighurs Muslims.
There is a very dangerous point of no return the USA approaches; where it must incorporate Islam as legitimate or throw in with the communist Chinese and Russia’s tyranny to reject Islam (not likely) — a world order division — Why do you think the Chinese are making such a big deal of the South China Sea and its oil? They see it a coming world division already.
A good leader may be able to turn this collusion and treason strengthened by Obama around — I do hope Trump understands what’s happening.
It appears Islam is about to become impregnable to rejection by the USA , owing to economic entanglements and Europe’s current inclusion of it. But Islam is the enemy; and one the Chinese would have Islam infesting the USA like a virus on steroids. It would give them a decisive advantage — an advantage just as that between a man and an ape. The communists could feed off the corrupted West till it finds it necessary to take us over.
truthout says
No there isn’t any reason why they will become impregnable unless we fail to do our duty.What entanglements [and more importantly Europe’s inclusion of it will spell their doom, not ours}? All countries of the world have a vested interest in resisting Islam. As to the Chinese wanting the Islamo fascists to infest us.Yeah but they are trying that anyway. Islam is the cancer of the planet period. Considering that china has tasted the west then it makes no sense to infect us,SInce that cancer readily spreads any way.