My latest in PJ Media:
If you believe the establishment media, which is something I would never recommend, you know by now that Muslims have had a very, very tough time in the United States since 9/11. The week before the twentieth anniversary of the jihad attacks, and on the day itself, media wonks treated us to story after story about how Muslims in the U.S. have had to deal with “Islamophobia” and hate on a massive scale over the last twenty years. America for Muslims is a dismal hellscape of Trump-supporting yahoos screaming “Islamophobic” abuse at frightened, hijab-wearing grandmothers. Yet over that very same time span, the number of mosques in the U.S. more than doubled. Islamophobia? Really?
The sob stories came thick and fast. I touched on a few of the early ones here, but their numbers dramatically increased as the terrible anniversary drew closer. On the day itself, ABC News informed us that “20 years after 9/11, Islamophobia continues to haunt Muslims.” ABC quoted the winsome and staunchly patriotic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) claiming a victim status for Muslims equal to that of the 2,977 people who were murdered: “As Americans, as people who are living here, we were also attacked. This is our community, this is our country, and there were Muslims who lost their lives in those towers, who were Muslim firefighters, who lost their lives. There is a desire by many to use our faith and our identity as a weapon against us and to ‘other’ us. That has been really harmful in so many ways.”
This harm was apparently international. CBC chimed in with a story entitled, “‘It’s like living in a nightmare’: Canadian Muslims describe their experiences after 9/11.” The story begins with the sad story of a poor Muslim attorney who has suffered so very, very much since 9/11: “Growing up in Edmonton in the 1970s and 1980s, lawyer Dany Assaf never saw himself as any different than his friends and neighbours. His family had a rich history in Canada — his great-grandfather moved to the country from Lebanon in 1927 and helped build the first mosque in Canada. Like many boys his age, Assaf also dreamed of becoming an NHL player. His family’s Muslim faith never came in the way of their Canadian identity. ‘We never imagined, we never even thought that we could ever be portrayed as the “other.”’”
But all that changed on the fateful day. Now Dany Assaf says: “It’s like living in a nightmare because now you’ve got stereotypes and prejudices that are being attributed to you when you have absolutely nothing to do with this kind of terrorist act.” What does Assaf do for a living again? That’s right, he’s a lawyer. Apparently all the “stereotypes and prejudices” he has supposedly had to suffer with since 9/11 have not prevented him from notable professional success.
There is more. Read the rest here.
gravenimage says
Islamophobia? On 9/11, There Were 1,200 Mosques in the U.S. Guess How Many There Are Now?
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These barracks have actually been mushrooming since 9/11.
And now with the further current invasion by Afghan Muslims, no doubt they will “need” even more..
mortimer says
“The mosques are our barracks,
the domes our helmets,
the minarets our bayonets,
and the believers our soldiers.”
-Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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gravenimage says
+1
mortimer says
The legacy media are corrupt and in the pocket of the OLIGARCHS who are promoting the suppression of free speech.
Fred van de Bunt says
As a western European living in the Netherlands I was labelled by our NATO friend and Turkish Islamist ruler Erdogan not long ago as a Nazi, among other labels, like being a racist, an islamophobia adherent and a fascist.
Do I suffer as a victim from this? No.
But unelected bureaucrat rulers, like the mayors in the Netherlands, and the EU bureaucrats in Brussels suffer from it, and they accuse me, an ordinary Dutch citizen from being wrong, lacking a tolerant attitude, open to diversity?
I do have to say that all those Platonical idea’s seem to have turned in ideological stives for diversity, tolerance and a peaceful sharia law abiding Islam.
Nazism was an idea, the idea of the unity of the nation and socialist sharing, an idea that ended up becoming a victim of the ideology of Nazism.
I would say, be aware, my rulers, and your Turkish NATO friend and Islamist Erdogan, that an idea is very different from an ideology, supported by its ideological laws, be they Nazi laws, sharia laws, or laws that command tolerance and diversity through repression.
And to this Canadian victim lawyer I would like to say: your idea of the existence of God, Allah, has nothing to do with the sharia law ideology followed by many. Why do you feel being a victim then?
Johnny B says
“Islamophobia” is the ultimate weapon with the largest delivery system in the world: the Left.
Raluca Voda says
Since islam defines itself as “all other religions phobic” i take the liberty at being an islamophobe myself, on the one hand. On the other, since islam is a hateful sectarion ideaology, not a race or religion, i am not a racist either, so Ilhan Omar can take a flying one at the moon as of right now.
jim says
One would not shower sympathy on Nazis or communists because people do not like what they do, and yet this is what happens for political purposes. The left would not do this if there were no political advantages in doing it.
mr clive delmonte says
It’ll soon be Abu Biden, won’t it?
Clifford Fodor says
Is there such a thing as Naziphobia or Japanesephobia? There were no qualms about hating our enemies back in World War II? Why do we fear being called “Islamophobic” and “anti-Islam” so much? We should do what they did to us and what they want to do with us.
John says
Appears the continued policies of mass foreign immigration to the United States are working VERY well for muslims. Bin-biden just gave them a 100,000 plus-up bonus.
Alfredo says
The unmistakable impression when reading the sob stories in the woke media is one of a nightmare for the poor victims, the followers of the “beautiful religion of peace.” It wasn’t the close to 3000 people who died on that fateful day who are the victims.
It was the poor Muhammadans…
The deception being perpetrated on the gullible useful idiots is of a magnitude that is beyond belief.
If the poor Muhammadans are so oppressed as their apologists claim, how come the number of mosques has more that doubled since 9-11? Not only that, the projected grand mosque few blocks away from ground zero is not a far fetched dream. The intention to build it is very close to becoming a reality. That would be a great slap in the face to all patriotic Americans. It would be a great insult over a great injury.
Make no mistake America is under concerted and relentless attack by the woke media controlled by hypocritical champagne socialists who hold the “religion of peace” very dear to their wicked hearts, because it represents an affront to what they loath even more, Christianity.
Hank says
Mosque planting since 911 went from 1200 to 3000 Mosques in the US confirms that Islamization is on course. The Leftist-Green-LGBTQ-Muslim Alliance has been undermining the Judeo-Christian values and culture for decades resulting in Islam systematically encroaching and attempting to replace it. The intention of the Founding Fathers who built the Nation on their Biblical Christian Faith never intended it to be replaced by Islam dictated by an Arab from the 6th century.
“It’s been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified a people who knew that it was not enough to depend on their own courage and goodness, that they must also seek help from God – their Father and preserver. Where did we begin to lose sight of that noble beginning, of our conviction that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to? Do we really think that we can have it both ways, that God will protect us in a time of crisis even as we turn away from him in our day-to-day life?
“God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children’s classrooms.”
“There are only two things that the liberals don’t understand: the things that change and the things that don’t. “
“I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. “
-Ronald Reagan
OLD GUY says
The islamic Muslim migration invasion runs ahead at full speed with the help of our lefty controlled government. Next thing you know they will want to make us even more inclusive and rename America to Ameristan land of the unfree. Won’t it be fun when every male on the street will have his own AK47 to shoot in the air. And don’t forget about the loud speakers blaring out the call to prayer. We’ll be DIVERSIFIED then or DEAD.l
James Lincoln says
Muslims have an irrational fear of islam being criticized.
gravenimage says
They know that Islam has no rational defence, so the Islamic solution is to criminalize all criticism or even questioning of Islam, through “blasphemy” laws and the threat of violence.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
So, from a muslim’s point of view, perhaps the fear is indeed “rational”.
gravenimage says
🙂