Kinzler is quite right when he says: “Anti-Semitism has resulted in millions of deaths. Genocide without end. Then there is racism, slavery. That, too, has led to tens of millions of deaths in history. But where are the millions of deaths linked to Islamophobia? I do not deny that people of Muslim faith are discriminated against. I just refuse to put it on the same level. I think this is an absurd deception.”
It is also an insult to the memory of the Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, and a few years ago, it was a common Leftist talking point. Many, many others have likened “Islamophobia” to anti-Semitism, including Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders; the notorious non-Muslim Islamic apologist Karen Armstrong; Jeffrey Goldberg, “journalist” at The Atlantic; hate-filled fascist Reza Aslan; Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison; Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times; Canadian Muslim leader Syed Sohawardy; and Philadelphia chapter leader of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations Jacob Bender. Many others have repeated it. The blazingly brilliant Daniel Greenfield takes it apart in this video.
The idea that Muslims are the new Jews is put forward by the Left, but it also has opponents on the Left. In 2014, as part of his ongoing awakening to the nature and reality of the jihad threat, about which he has since gone quiet, Bill Maher noted:
Jews weren’t oppressing anybody. There weren’t 5,000 militant Jewish groups. They didn’t do a study of treatment of women around the world and find that Jews were at the bottom of it. There weren’t 10 Jewish countries in the world that were putting gay people to death just for being gay.
Indeed. Further, no one is calling for or justifying genocide of Muslims. No individual or group opposed to Islam is remotely comparable to the National Socialists. Not that facts have ever gotten in the way of a good meme.
Maher isn’t alone on the Left in having pointed out the absurdity of likening opposition to jihad to the lead-up to the Holocaust. The late Christopher Hitchens also refuted this idea when writing a few years ago about the notorious Ground Zero Mosque proposal:
“Some of what people are saying in this mosque controversy is very similar to what German media was saying about Jews in the 1920s and 1930s,” Imam Abdullah Antepli, Muslim chaplain at Duke University, told the New York Times. Yes, we all recall the Jewish suicide bombers of that period, as we recall the Jewish yells for holy war, the Jewish demands for the veiling of women and the stoning of homosexuals, and the Jewish burning of newspapers that published cartoons they did not like.
“German professor under police protection for stance on Islamophobia,” by Stefan Dege and Heike Mund, DW, March 16, 2021:
A German professor at a university in Grenoble, France, has become the target of a hate campaign for not wanting to compare anti-Semitism with Islamophobia.
“Fascists in our lecture halls! Dismiss Professor Kinzler! Islamophobia kills,” read the large banners hanging at the University of Grenoble. Activists from the French student union Unef also posted the slogans online.
Five months after the brutal murder of history teacher Samuel Paty, being accused of Islamophobia is not something that is taken lightly in France. Following a debate that sparked outrage at the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies, two professors are under police protection.
Here’s how it happened: 3 1/2 months ago, students and teachers at the university were discussing the title of a planned seminar on the topic of equality. Should “Islamophobia” be included alongside “anti-Semitism” and “racism”?
Professor Klaus Kinzler, who teaches German language and culture at the university, felt that Islamophobia wasn’t comparable to anti-Semitism. Following his advice to not include the term “Islamophobia” in the title of the seminar, he was excluded from the email discussion.
Incidentally, the Stuttgart-born professor is married to a Muslim woman….
Similarly, political scientist Claus Leggewie points out that those activists aren’t fighting against the powerful, the establishment, the far-right or the real fascists, but against people whose views are seen as “not being pro-Islamic enough.”
Leggewie describes the case as being about “canceling” specific persons, silencing them, and “banning ideas and discussions.”…
Racism and anti-Semitism — which are both criminal offenses in secular France — have nothing to do with Islamophobia, in Kinzler’s view.
“Anti-Semitism has resulted in millions of deaths. Genocide without end. Then there is racism, slavery. That, too, has led to tens of millions of deaths in history,” he told Die Welt. “But where are the millions of deaths linked to Islamophobia?” he asked, nevertheless clarifying: “I do not deny that people of Muslim faith are discriminated against. I just refuse to put it on the same level. I think this is an absurd deception.”…
In the end, he says, he is less offended by the students who launched the hate campaign than by his colleagues, researchers and professors — who have distanced themselves from him without searching for dialogue.
Mount Zion says
The coward professors have distanced themselves from him not because they dissagree with him but because they are afraid of reprisals from the muslim comunity and beeing attacked on the internet and having to fear for their lifes and having to go into hiding and having to be under police protection and and and .On a second thought I don’t really know if I can call them cowards because who knows how I myself would act under that kind of pressure having to take care of my family and at the same time having to fear for my life . What other religion behaves like that ? Threathening your life if you dissagree with them . It’s only and always Islam that toxic and evil religion of peace .
Antiislamiman says
There is no such thing as Islamophobia. Well done Professor
BlackSabbath says
Absolutely. He called as it is.
Keith O says
We need more like him to stand up on their hind legs and tell the truth.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
CogitoErgoSum says
Is there any other religion in the world other than Islam that commands its followers to fight anyone and everyone who does not accept its dominance over them? Muslims are to fight you until you submit to them …. by any and all means available to them. Calling you an “Islamophobe” and a bigot if you do not give them what they want is just another means of carrying on the fight – and it will go on and on and on until one side or the other submits. Do not submit to them – EVER.
gravenimage says
Certainly no other major religion does this.
Mount Zion says
I also forgot to mention that the german professor expressing a perfectly reasonable opinion is the one who has to get police protection . It is not the supposed victims of islamophobia who are under police protection . Victims and minorities don’t generally have that kind of power to walk free when threathening a Professor while the same Professor has to go into hiding and get police protection for making a statement that makes perfectly sense , who is the victim here ? That says it all , Islamophobia is just a very efficient tool to manipulate western society into thinking that the muslim invaders trying to transform western societies into muslim hell holes are the real victims that need to be protected and if you dissagree you need police protection so that the poor dear victims will not get you . It’s just absurd the mess we are in.
Dude says
That’s just how stupid they are. Their gang believe that nonsense, so why don’t we? So frustrating!
Dumbfounded, death threats are their only alternative.
He couldn’t get takers in Mecca. What made him think that it would be easier after adding all the evil to please the bandit gangs of Medina? They should simply recognize that now only evil or naive people will join voluntarily.
Give up, folks. Read the damn books. I’ll bet most of them would turn their backs and walk away if they knew just how evil it is. They can’t all be that weak-minded or gangsta.
Michael Copeland says
See “Quiz II: Can You Guess? Not Difficult.”
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/03/quiz-ii-can-you-guess-not-difficult/#more-51753
Green Infidel says
First of all, anti-semitism doesn’t care if you’re an Orthodox Jew, secular Jew or even an atheist of Jewish background like Karl Marx, etc. In fact, typically anti-semitism includes statements like “Jews are rich”, or “Jews are communist” (with such Jews being less likely, to be deeply religious?!), but rarely says anything about what’s in the Torah.
Whereas typical “Islamophobia” criticises certain, specific statements in the Koran and Hadith, and draws links from such statements to actual actions carried out, by attackers who identify as devout Muslims…
Anti-semitism attacks anyone of Jewish background even if they couldn’t care less about their Judaism, whereas I’ve yet to see an “Islamophobe” attack Salman Rushdie, Hirsi Ali or any of the multitude of Muslims and ex-Muslims who also believe Islam is not beyond criticism…
BlackSabbath says
A while ago I read a book called “Submission” by French author Michel Houllebecq (English version, I don’t know French). That novel was being reviewed by Charlie Hebdo when it was attacked first time by the islamists. The point is that this fiction book depicts the grueling reality of islamatization of France. A link to the book is here if anyone has interest.
https://www.amazon.com/Submission-Novel-Michel-Houellebecq/dp/1250097347
gravenimage says
Yes–this book sounds interesting but very grim.
Johnny B says
Any critique of Islam is considered Islamophobia these days. Teachers are even afraid to quote the Quran, that’s how bad it is. If Islam was “only” a religion, it might not be so problematic, but now that we see Islamic political parties pop up all over Europe we’re not supposed to criticise or have an ideological debate with them!? That’s crazy, it’s not going to happen even though the attempts to silence us are coordinated from the highest offices around the EU. I know they monitor sites like these and people like us who are not afraid and will not shut up just because they don’t like what we say. And no, this has absolutely nothing to do with racism or white supremacy, that’s just non-sense.
born saturday says
as long as the income supports, the modern jizya is payed don’t worry brothers… we will be free to even be christian… its just hard for all the people to conceive the idea of occupied teritory whithin europe at this time and age… unless they live in it… so as islam expands so do more people who live in it begin to realise that they live in occupied areas of europe… europe is no longer safe and secure… its bound to sink in terrorism as soon as more people wake up…
jim says
A phobia is not necessarily bad, if one is afraid of a poisonous snake or of teasing lions or of jumping from high places. It can be a justified fear. And of course the beheading of teachers for talking about free speech and open debate is also based on a phobia against freedom of speech. Should countries curtail freedom of speech simply to allay the fears of authoritarians who fear freedom of speech? It is a bit like the king who had all the spinning wheels burned so that the princess would not prick her finger. But a witch managed to smuggle a spinning wheel into the tower anyway. Free speech is like a spinning wheel, almost all free speech is good, should it be suppressed to satisfy people have speechophobia?
gravenimage says
France: Professor under police protection after refusing to liken ‘Islamophobia’ to anti-Semitism
………….
This *poor man*. So much as say that Infidels are not seriously endangering Muslims and Muslims threaten to murder you.
More proof that charges of “Islamophobia” are just projection.
Andrew Blackadder says
If I tell a muslim fellow that I believe his religion seems very violent, and he then turns around and attacks me very violently for saying this, is he being a good muslim by doing so?.
Anybody who reacts to a violent action merely because I do not believe the Quran is the word of allah or that I disagree 100% with the words in that book, appears to me to be very shallow in their faith as my opinion appears to be more important to them, rather than their own deep faith that they believe I am wrong,so by their attacking me only shows the shallowness of islamic teachings.
islam is a Fascist Religious Cult… 100%…
Oren says
I would also add, people who criticize Jews, including professors, dont need police protection so they dont get attacked.
Also, nobody has tried exterminating black people either. In G-d I trust.
Tom says
The politics of cowardice and fear is what prevents those who should speak out from doing so.
Those who fail to stand and speak the truth will end up just as dead as those who stand against the cancel culture and the narrative that Islamophobia is the same as Anti-Semitism.
As Churchill so aptly put it “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last”
Del says
Hey, “professor”, spend some time on this site. It gives current running totals. Unfortunately it doesn’t include the killings and deaths for all the last 1400 years. You might want to do a simple search on Muslim killings across Africa and Afghanistan. Hundreds of Christians are executed or raped or beheaded by Muslims every week in Nigeria alone. This “professor” is either a Liberal or a Democrat.
https://thereligionofpeace.com/
https://barenakedislam.com/