The term “Islamophobia” is an illegitimate conflation of two distinct phenomena: crimes against innocent Muslims, or discrimination against them, neither of which is ever justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology of jihad terror, which is always necessary. Islamic advocacy groups and their Leftist allies have been insisting for years that such analysis, too, constituted “Islamophobia.” And they mean to silence it and force the West to adopt what are in essence Sharia blasphemy restrictions.
“PM Imran Khan hails Trudeau for condemning Islamophobia,” The News International, January 30, 2022:
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has lauded Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his “unequivocal condemnation” of Islamophobia.
In a statement issued on Twitter, PM Imran Khan welcomed Trudeau’s plan to appoint a special representative to combat Islamophobia, which he termed a “contemporary scourge”.
“His [Trudeau’s] timely call to action resonates with what I have long argued,” the premier wrote as he urged the international community to make efforts for ending the growing menace of Islamophobia.
“Let us join hands to put an end to this menace,” PM Imran wrote.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said that Islamophobia is not acceptable at any cost and vowed to make his country safer for Muslims.
Taking to Twitter, the Canadian premier wrote: “Islamophobia is unacceptable. Full stop. We need to put an end to this hate and make our communities safer for Muslim Canadians. To help with that, we intend to appoint a Special Representative on combatting Islamophobia.”…
Kenneth J Johnson says
Islamphobia – we must put a stop to this hate. What is the coknnection between an un founded fear of Islam and hate. These people have their wires crossed. These are two seperate subjects. And fear of Islam is only self plrotection, and necesssry,. KEN
mortimer says
The ‘Islamophobia’ smear campaign is a clever Trojan horse subterfuge by Islam’s propagandists to prevent any criticism of Islam, while at the same time stealthily imposing discriminatory Sharia law.
Sharia law prohibits non-Muslims from speaking about Islam at all and does allow them to mention Islam in any manner whether positive or negative.
Sharia law requires that only the mullahs will have the ability to speak publicly about Islam. Even the ordinary Muslim is afraid to say anything about Islam without permission or authorization from the mullahs to do so.
Islam is an HONOR CULTURE and the ‘honor’ of Islam come before any concern that a statement or declaration is true or false. If a false statement containing errors adds ‘HONOR’ to Islam, then that statement is acceptable. If a TRUE statement containing zero error tends to distract from the ‘HONOR’ of Islam than that statement is ‘HARAM’ or ‘IMPERMISSIBLE’ by the mullahs.
The issue of whether something is ‘ISLAMOPHOBIC’ or ‘halal’ (permissible) is determined by the ‘HONOR’ the statement gives to Islam and not by truth, falsehood or by factual accuracy.
Spideyweb1 says
Bravo Mortimer, you hit the camel on the hump
The Messenger says
“Islamophobia” is a term coined by Islamic leaders to bolster the claim that Islam is a victim of repression and unwarranted hatred.
Islam is not a peaceful religion. Islam is an intolerant, repressive, maniacal THEOCRACY based on laws written by a maniac who called himself a prophet and threatened non-believers with death.
mortimer says
SO … ISLAM IS SUPPOSED TO GET A FREE PASS WHEN ABUSES OCCUR?? Not likely. No religion gets a free pass. Not Islam, not the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) either.
Jihadi Justin is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood. Why is his own party allowing Islam to be above investigation and criticism? To have more rights than the RCC? That’s UNACCEPTABLE today.
No religion is above criticism. That is the message of the decision of the Boston Globe in 2002 to expose widespread clerical pedophilia in Boston, the largest Roman Catholic city in the USA.
There is no argument of SPECIAL PLEADING for Islam to have the status that the Roman Catholic church had before 2002.
We live in a world shaped by the Boston Globe’s investigations of 2002 and later. Islam has not been subjected to similar investigations, but it is well known that pedophilia is rampant in Islamic madrassahs (Koranic studies academies).
PM Imran Khan knows that there is much pedophilia in the MADRASSAHS.
Read following:
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Boston_sex_abuse_scandal
– https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/21/boston-globe-abuse-scandal-catholic
– https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/09/22/magazine/they-knew-they-let-it-happen-uncovering-child-abuse-catholic-church/
Islam should NOT get more rights than the RCC in the matter of justifiable criticism.
gravenimage says
Of course, the Boston Globe in 2002 was not the first criticism of clerical abuse in the Catholic church, nor has there been any law preventing the criticism of Catholicism. Would the same were true re Islam.
Violet C says
A phobia is ‘an unrealistic fear’ .
I haven’t been under a rock for the last couple of decades. Terrorism by one group and one group alone is very real.
Nope, no Islamophobia here.
mortimer says
British philosopher Anthony Flew discussed the illogical errors in “Islamophobia’:
“I would never regard Islam with anything but horror and FEAR, because it is fundamentally committed to conquering the world for Islam… it is, I think, best described in a Marxian way as the uniting and justifying ideology of Arab imperialism.”
– Philosopher Anthony Flew was renowned for his work on the philosophy of religion
“Islamophobia is a word created by fascists, used by cowards, to manipulate morons.” — Christopher Hitchens (Western Atheist)
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The Islamophobia slander is non-empathetic, supremacist mirroring and psychological projection.
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The ‘Islamophobia’ slander-word is a Trojan-horse excuse for censorship. Moreover, it is a ‘Big Lie’ implying that one should not criticize a supremacist political ideology (Islamism), because the apologists of that supremacist ideology may have hurt feelings. If ‘hurt feelings’ are the ultimate criterion, then nothing controversial should ever be said, because someone will be upset.
The Islamophobia slander is a distracting accusation based on seriously flawed reasoning. Our modern concern for universal human rights cannot reasonably be called a ‘phobia’.
The ‘Islamophobia’ slander-word is merely an excuse for censorship and is a ‘big lie’, implying that one should not criticize a supremacist political ideology (Islamism), because the apologists of that supremacist ideology may have hurt feelings.
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Robert Spencer correctly states that to say Islam is a race “is absurd on its face”.
Ibraham Hooper, former leader of CAIR, confessed that “Islam is not a race. It is an IDEOLOGY”.
In conclusion, if Islam is an IDEOLOGY, then we are allowed to discussed and criticize Islam, since it is an IDEOLOGY in the realm of IDEAS.
All IDEAS may be discussed, weighed and evaluated for their strengths, weaknesses, veracity and merits.
NO IDEA is above criticism. That is the conclusion of the Age of Enlightenment in which we still live. Islam is a PRE-ENLIGHTENMENT ideology which is resisting the Enlightenment.
It’s time for Muslims to accept modernity.
revereridesagain says
+1
But make that ANY kind of ideology. “Revelation” is not an excuse for immunity from question.
gravenimage says
Of course, in a free society, any ideology can be criticized, including those that claim revelation. It is only Islam that claims in its texts that no criticism is allowed.
CycloneSteve says
Islamophobia – the irrational fear of Islam
How can someone who knows Islam ever NOT fear it?
How can any level of fear be considered irrational?
mortimer says
Reply to Steve: actually people do experience real phobias and phobia may ruin their lives. However, people with a phobia are NOT dangerous to others, because they simply want to stay away from what they fear.
It’s preposterous to compare a dislike of Islam and jihad to a phobia. Jihad is unacceptable in the modern world.
No reasonable person can give any support to jihadism.
gravenimage says
Yes, there are certainly real phobias. I have a slight fear of heights, which goes beyond the normal caution involved in dealing with high places (a *very* common phobia).
As you note, fear of Islam is actually generally very rational, given the threat Islam genuinely represents..
Don McKellar says
I wonder if he knows Trudeau went into hiding at an undisclosed location when a bunch of truck drivers arrived in Ottawa to protest him? I wonder if he knows that a resolution was brought up in parliament to condemn blackface — and therefore Trudeau’s numerous blackface escapades caught on camera? I wonder if he cares? No, of course not. Trudeau is an empty suit who will gladly promote any Islamophobia propaganda that comes his way.
mortimer says
When Trudeau falls out with the jihadists (a real possibility), then he will be scared witless … he will have a GENUINE fear of Islam.
Allah and Mohammed actually want Muslims to terrify non-Muslim kafirs.
‘TURHIBUNNA’ (terrorize them) Koran 8:60
john smith says
The western world is slowly but surely being engulfed by islam, and while such treacherous leaders as Trudeau, and Biden remain in power, the future looks extremely bleak.
mortimer says
Disagree with John Smith: Islam is not going to engulf anything. Islam is collapsing from within.
john smith says
I hope your right Mortimer as I also want islam to collapse, but it doesn’t appear to be collapsing to me, anything but. I am well aware of the fact that many are leaving islam, but unfortunately not enough. You just have to take a look as to what is happening here in the UK, there are now over a hundred sharia courts operating in our country, muslim rape gangs are raping our children with impunity. It was only a few days ago Tommy Robinson released a documentary entitled “The Rape of Britain”, I was fortunate enough to have viewed it before it was quickly taken down here. I recommend anyone to watch it, it’s a real eye opener.
muslims are now pouring in to this country on daily basis, and if drastic steps aren’t immediately taken, I hate to say this, but we are lost.
Mortimer, I do wish I could share your optimism, but sadly I can’t.
Rufolino says
What “steps” do yo suggest should be taken ?
Apart from deportations, which are perceived as unacceptable, it appears there aren’t any viable steps availaable. The damage is done and the stage is set..
gravenimage says
Please don’t give up. Rufolino. Educating about the threat of Islam is important, and supporting–and urging–deportation starting with the worst Jihadists. Urging a brake on Muslim immigration, or at the very least rigorous vetting, are also good steps.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, there are some leaving Islam, which I am very glad of. But grimly Islam is still growing, and there is a lot of enabling and dhimmitude going on in the West, and many are ignoring the threat altogether. I think it is still anyone’s guess whether the fight against Islam will prevail or not. We cannot let down our guard.
Infidel says
Islam has b/w 1.5-2 billion active followers. I’d hardly call that ‘collapsing from within’
raja says
Infidel,
It is no way close to “collapsing from within” like say, Soviet Union. Even if a Muslim wants to do anything right, he might be hindered by allah of koran the greatest fascist.
Such is the influence of evil. The Left will always deny that evil exists but will gleefully invoke it for genocidal purposes.
born saturday says
another modern traitor of the west that sacrifices civilisation to barbarians and leads his country to suicide….
nobody by now can believe that these modern traitors are leading us to the cliff out of stupidity…. they have all been bribed to betray their people and betray civilisation in its whole….
they are guilty of the crimes daily performed by muslim perpetrators all around the world not just in their countries….
if there is such a thing as real history after the islamization their names will remain in history as the biggest traitors of the world throughout all of known history….
ofcourse they find excellent allies in the neo marxists in the usa, rather than pakistan….
john smith says
Spot on Born Saturday.
born saturday says
thanks but, is there disorientating trolls also posting comments on this blog sometimes, or is it my idea??
john smith says
Born Saturday I have absolutely no idea why you should think I’m a troll, I taken your side when you attacked a particular person on this site only a few days ago. I have no idea were you are coming from.
gravenimage says
Yes, there are some trolls who post here. Sometimes their posts are removed, sometimes if they are enlightening about the nature of Islam they remain.
born saturday says
if you are not a troll you should imagine there is other and that jihad does not stop on the internet and that some would take absolut right in disorientating you and others who visit the site… i am obviously talking about the comments above which i will not name but i hardly ever even read when i see the same user… trouble is they change names too so you can never be sure what you are reading… did you ever imagine billions of muslim would leave this site alone without trolling to disorientate??? or even worse if you read some of them…. like i said when i see the title i hardly even read them… however i reply to you as you seemed non muslim, but easily deceived….
gravenimage says
Born Saturday, John Smith is a staunch Anti-Jihadist, *not* a troll.
James Lincoln says
For a normal person, being lauded by Imran Khan would rank high on the list of worst insults.
But for jihad Trudeau, this is the ultimate compliment.
john smith says
I’ll go along with that one James
Wellington says
Me too, john smith. James nailed it here—twice over.
The kiss of death to any sane person who prizes liberty is anyone praising Justin Trudeau who has damaged his great country enormously. So enormously destructive has this idiot been that I, as an American, wish all patriotic Canadians well and extend to all of such Canadians (especially the truckers) the best of wishes for the preservation of one of the greatest political entities that has ever existed, i.e. Canada, and which Trudeau, whether in complicit mode or through just sheer ignorance (N.B. the two are often tied at the metaphorical hip) has done his best to destroy. As awful and stupid as Biden has been (also every last PM of the UK since Major), Trudeau has been even worse.
Long life to Canadian truckers. And, too, Let’s Go Brandon. The Western Left is a gigantic moron presently and far more of a menace to the West than Islam, which could easily be contained and deservedly marginalized if only fools aplenty like Trudeau, Johnson, Biden, Blinken, Merkel, Macron, Blair, Obama, Pope Francis, Ardern, et al. had not come to power in the first place.
The West is presently led overwhelmingly by idiots and cowards (many corrupt people too, though there is an overlap here often times with idiocy and cowardice). We need Abraham Lincolns and Winston Churchills now and few are in sight, if any. Damn.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Thank you for the compliment.
I’ll go out on a limb:
If both Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill were both “time-traveled” into 2022:
Lincoln would be treated like Trump.
Winston Churchill would be treated like Tommy Robinson.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
E T says
Today the Conservatives dumped the leader, the flip flopping, global, O’Toole. Things are changing fast – – people who used to hide when I spoke of the vaccine injured, the Muslim mania little Justine spews, now want him GONE. Things are changing fast, thank God for the truckers, the men of courage. Now wonder the clown prince is in hiding.
Vultures aren’t intimidated by lifeless carrion, BUT pit them against a vibrant life force and they’re overwhelmed. Power to the people – we ain’t gonna take their bullshit anymore.
Doug Ford and Christine Elliott be very careful of your next move. FREEDOM
Infidel says
ET
IMO, the ‘Conservatives’ should fold, and direct their supporters towards Max Bernier and the People’s Party
It was really rich hearing Comrade Justin yesterday – the person who’s been in blackface so many times – call the truckers racist, when there is no data of any racist incident by any. And it was also horrible to see the side report of nails discovered on the freeways – reported on Newsmax
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
Pakistan’s Khan hails Canada’s Trudeau for his ‘unequivocal condemnation’ of ‘Islamophobia’
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One would hope being praised by this thug would give Justin Trudeau pause–but I doubt that it will.
Infidel says
Canada will become another Ummah Kaliphate if Trudeau continues much longer. At which point, if we in the US return to sanity ourselves, we’d shut down that border
JHL says
I have jihadphobia. During the 1930s, the politically correct would say we have Naziphobia.
David Foot says
Pakistan is not the Fire-fighter, Pakistan is the Arsonist. Make no mistake
UK and USA have been giving Pakistan millions to help defeat our troops in Afghanistan
We need to defund Pakistan and keep Turkey at a distance, they are not our friends, and have never been our friends.
Infidel says
We need to withdraw from NATO. The only military operation of note that NATO did was bomb Serbia in the 90s, so that Kosovo could be pried out of Serbia’s hands. I don’t blame Russia for demanding that Ukraine not be included in NATO: that war against Serbia taught Russia that NATO is not to be trusted
Once we leave NATO, it won’t be long before others, such as Greece, drop out as well. That will isolate Turkey. We need to terminate relations w/ Pakistan and ban the entry of all Pakistani citizens into this country: China, Turkey and Iran can have them
gravenimage says
Infidel–with all respect–Putin is threatening his neighbors because he believes that any land that suffered under the Iron Curtain should be Russia’s forever. He is also involved with Belarus in sending Muslims to the Polish border. Surely he is not doing that because of NATO?
Infidel says
NATO is one of the reasons that he’s doing it, if not the only or the major one
sidney penny says
“Taking to Twitter, the Canadian premier wrote: “Islamophobia is unacceptable. Full stop. We need to put an end to this hate and make our communities safer for Muslim Canadians. To help with that, we intend to appoint a Special Representative on combatting Islamophobia.””
Note Trudeau says Muslim Canadians, not Canadian Muslims
Muslims always come first anywhere..
Canada First? nah
sidney penny says
Andrew Cummins once said, in a quote often misattributed to Christopher Hitchens,
that Islamophobia is “a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.”
CogitoErgoSum says
USA: Let’s go Brandon!
Canada: Truck Fudeau!
Infidel says
The latter sounds really well tuned, given who’s leading this uprising in Ottawa
CogitoErgoSum says
As that prominent Canadian, Neil Young, would say: Keep on honkin’ in the free world.
Infidel says
Except that Comrade Young is a Marxist when it comes to freedom to choose whether or not to take the vax
CogitoErgoSum says
Yeah, old Neil still believes in stickin’ it to the man.