I’ve often noted that the term “Islamophobia” is used for two different phenomena: vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and criticism of Islam, including analysis of how jihadis use Islam’s texts and teachings to justify violence and oppression, which is always necessary. Here, Pakistan’s president is clearly talking about criticism of Islam, and trying to get the world’s Muslim countries to act together against the freedom of speech.
“President urges joint efforts of Islamic world to counter Islamophobia,” Dunya News, August 2, 2021:
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – President Dr Arif Alvi on Monday urged the Islamic countries to work together on countering Islamophobia and changing the perceptions of the world about Muslims.
Talking to the visiting Arab Parliament’s president Adel bin Abdul Rahman Al-Asoomi here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, President Alvi said the Islamic world was facing the challenges of terrorism and Islamophobia, which could be overcome through close coordinated efforts.
President Alvi said Pakistan had a natural affinity with the Arab nations due to their shared bonds of common faith and culture. Pakistan, he said, attached great importance to its ties with the Middle Eastern countries and wanted to further strengthen relations with them in all areas of mutual interest….
The President highlighted that Pakistan was making efforts to promote peace in the region, particularly in Afghanistan….
The President apprised Adel bin Abdul Rahman Al-Asoomi about the apartheid policies of the Modi-led Bharatia Janta Party government in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), saying that India was involved in the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiris by altering the demography of Kashmir through the Citizenship Act.
He reiterated Pakistan’s support to the just cause of Palestinians and called for the establishment of a viable, independent and contiguous state of Palestine on the basis of internationally accepted parameters, with pre-1967 borders and Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
The President of Arab Parliament termed Pakistan an important country for the Arab world, which had played a historical role in supporting the cause of Islamic Ummah.
He underlined the need to work closely by the Islamic world to meet their common challenges….
Kepha says
If you want to change the world’s perception of Muslims, it would help if Pakistan would truly defend the rights of its religious minorities (especially Christian and Hindu girls who get kidnapped, raped, and forcibly converted to Islam to marry their abductors); also, if there was less Islamic terrorism.
Wellington says
Counter Islamophobia? This is as much of a farce as averring that Marxistophobia or Naziophobia or KKKophobia or anarchistophobia,, et al. should be countered.
But there is a difference here among all the heinous and stupid ideologies I just named above, a la Robert Spencer and to wit, Islam continues to hide behind a veil, a religious veil, that has given it a “magnificent” and long-lived protection that no other heinous and totalitarian ideology has ever established long term.
And which is why the Islamic ideology is the single most menacing totalitarian ideology of all time. It disguises itself with a religious overlay and thus has an advantage that no other iniquitous ideology or organization has ever possessed. Here, Islam is simply in a league of its own; it is indubitably in this regard “superb.”
Hopefully, I have in brief accurately described the “menace.” Assuming I have, remedies aplenty are in order, the most basic and simple one is characterizing Islam—all of it—as malevolent. Don’t see many “remedies” out there right now being implemented to nix the best-disguised (and longest-lived) malevolent ideology of all time. Damn.
Mike says
plus 1
Islam therrorises the world
keep in mind the Koran says make friends with thy enemies
make sure they gain you trust and when they trust you
kill then
Infidel says
Did the president of the Arab Parliament (incidentally, how many of the 22 Arab League countries have parliamentary systems?) ask his host why Pakis are so enamored w/ the Turkish teleserial Diriliş: Ertuğrul, which had been relaunched in Pakistan in Urdu as a serial dubbed ‘Ertuğrul Ghazi’? The Arabs hated that project b’cos it projected Turkey as the true Islamic nation, negating the fact that the Arabs are supposed to have that honor
Also, did the president of the Arab Parliament check w/ the Saudis and Emiratis before this trip? How many Arab countries has Pakistan managed to win over to its cause? We know that the Saudis and Emiratis currently have a sour relationship w/ them: it’s only Kuwait and Qatar that they may be friendly w/, thanks to Iran and Turkey
Hoi Polloi says
“countering Islamophobia,” they and their teachings make clear, can only truly be done by slaughtering opponents; thereby making opponents not phobic, but clear-sighted. A point that gets made daily here by far more knowledgeable commenters than I will ever be.
OTTER says
The Muslims in Kashmir carried out ethnic cleansing of Hindus and have the cheek to talk about ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Kashmiris and altering the demographic balance. These are murderers pretending to be victims. And does this worldwide’Islamphobia’ actually have a valid cause? Actions speak louder than words, but Muslims seem blind to the carnage they commit. This is a fascinating psychological phenomenon. And a morally repulsive one, I might add. For Muslims, the rule is: If you don’t let me kill you, you are violating my human rights.
Infidel says
Your last sentence is dead on! Something I’ve not seen anyone articulate until now
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Keith O says
“counter Islamophobia”.
Two simple ways to do this.
Openly condemn terrorism and violence against women, infidels and anyone who speaks out about terrorism and
purge the koran and any other religious text of any statement that encourages violence.
Do this and maybe, just maybe the free world will start to take notice.
PRCS says
O.K., sure.
But first, just tell that the amputation of a human being’s hand and foot isn’t isn’t one of Allah’s “divine” punishments (https://quran.com/5/33) and that it isn’t carried out by Muslims to this day.
Iran: Criminals Lose Hands And Feet As Shari’a Law Imposed
https://www.rferl.org/a/1079325.html
Somali schoolboy tells of how Islamists cut off his leg and hand
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/20/somali-islamists-schoolboy-amputation-ordeal
PRCS says
Why are my comments “awaiting moderation:?
gravenimage says
PRCS, this happens all the time to me–or certainly used to. Using more than two links automatically sends a comment to moderation. (This is because sometimes posts with lots of links are spam–although certainy not always).
I used to regularly forget and think it was anything over three.
You can either break your comment into a couple of posts, or else just wait for them to be approved.
PRCS says
Thanque.
I see that the post has now posted.
tim gallagher says
These maggots can try to cover up the evil, barbaric nature of islam and, unfortunately, some sleepwalking fools will probably buy their crap, but many of us are awake to what islam is all about, and they are wasting their time with their bullshit. “Changing the perception of Islam”. Yeah, right. Islam is evil and primitive garbage. Trying to make it seem pleasant, to anyone who is informed about islam, is an impossible task. If only every non-Muslim would wake up to islam’s evil nature we would be well on the way to putting islam in its right place, in history’s garbage bin, the place where it should have been deposited centuries ago..
gravenimage says
Yes, Tim–funny that Islam is always the only major faith that has constant problems with people’s perception of it…
Another story from today:
“Egypt’s Sisi: Islamic scholars must counter ‘erroneous thoughts that spread with aim of distorting image of Islam’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/08/egypts-sisi-islamic-scholars-must-counter-erroneous-thoughts-that-spread-with-aim-of-distorting-image-of-islam
This seems to be a global epidemic. This couldn’t have anything to do with Islam itself, could it? sarc/off
tim gallagher says
gravenimage, if only almost all of the non-Muslims in our societies would wake up and see what a malignant, evil ideology islam is. The people here at Jihad Watch are wide awake and are immune to islam and all the crap these Muslims try to sell us, but so many people aren’t awake at all. As you say, down below, words have a different meaning for these Muslim propagandists. Any time that they are addressing the hated infidels, they are bound to be lying. I don’t think that islam can ever change, so, though I do meet the occasional pleasant Muslim, I really only have the time of day for people who have left the evil ideology.
gravenimage says
+1
PRCS says
They’re not being challenged to renounce/denounce those Qur’an passages (hadit, too) which cause these unfortunate misperceptions.
You know, things like:
Polygamy, FGM, punitive amputations, men are in charge of women (in the 21st century, no less), the moral supremacy of “respectful” Muslum women over unbelieving riff raff, etc.
Imagine the fancy tap-dancing Pakistan’s president would have to do to explain such issues if someone were to even dare ask.
gravenimage says
Yep. Bizarrely, President Dr Arif Alvi has said that it is actually India using Afghanistan to wage terrorism against Pakistan. Then, he has claimed that Pakistan has “defeated terrorism”–and has sacrificed its people and economy to do so.
https://www.facebook.com/Dr.ArifAlvi/videos/pakistan-has-defeated-terrorism-sacrificed-its-economy-and-people-to-it-presiden/663692197885182/
More proof that Muslims use words differently than we do…
PRCS says
Delusional!
tim gallagher says
But they can’t ever change or denounce any of the foul content of Islam, can they, PRCS? Isn’t the whole foul load of crap just perfect, and god’s last word and set in stone? The trouble is that so many people, average people here in our western countries, actually listen to these Muslims, and seem to buy their bullshit. Here at Jihad Watch, the people don’t have blinkers on and they see islam very clearly for the evil garbage that it is. It is refreshing, but, out in our societies there still so many gullible sleepwalkers around. I know that I never believe any of the bullshit Muslims try to sell me.
PRCS says
You’re correct there. They can’t And, of course, Islam’s “enlightenment” resulted in Wahabism/Salafism.
And, about being set in stone:
If those oh, so perfect words, “revealed” before the beginning of time and chiseled in a stone–still floating in one of the seven heavens, we’re told–who chiseled it when “Allah” abrogates them?
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the information there, PRCS. I was using the term “set in stone” , in a general sense, as in meaning unchangeable, but I had no idea about those details you gave. Islam is so full of bullshit, the garbage about the chiseling in stone and the stone still floating around in one of the seven heavens, being a clear example. Islam has to be just about the greatest load of crap ever invented. I suppose it wouldn’t matter that much except that islam is so violent and evil and a danger to us all.
PRCS says
Islam has its own “Yellow Brick Road”–sharia.
And there’s a fraud at the end of theirs, too.
gravenimage says
I think the Wizard of Oz–humbug that he was–was quite a bit more benign than the foul “Prophet”.
tim gallagher says
That’s right, PRCS and gravenimage, islam is all a gigantic fraud which has cost its non-Muslim victims 270 million lives and still counting. A disaster for humanity that has stunk up this world for far too long.
gravenimage says
Pakistan’s president urges Islamic countries to counter ‘Islamophobia’ and change world’s perceptions about Muslims
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Let’s see–Pakistan is known for persecuting non-Muslims, free-thinkers, and women–aren’t they the ones creating these negative perceptions of Muslims?
OLD GUY says
Just more propaganda from the islamic leadership. Definition of “islamophobia” the truth spoken or written about islam.
Spideyweb1 says
Islamophobia… to an Arab brain, using that filthy derogatory word justifies to them, shutting down all criticism of the satanic screed know as the Quran, will put all “unbelievers” in their place.
We need a symposium of all Christian Catholic and Jewish countries to combat Islamic nazi propaganda and indoctrination booths set up all over America and Europe by men dressed in 7th century bedsheet claiming “Jesus was a Muslim” join us you dirty kufar!
Someone said it best.. Islam is nothing more than Communism with a god…
Bikinis not Burkas says
I have changed my perception of Islam, they are more evil than one can imagine!
gravenimage says
Spot on.