“Islamophobia has declined among other groups but has increased among Muslims.”
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
“We find that over time, Islamophobia has declined among other groups but has increased among Muslims,” the latest scaremongering report on Islamophobia warns.
The claim comes from Dalia Mogahed, a former Obama adviser and Islamist ally, at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. Like its Islamist allies, the ISPU’s reports exist to clamor that Islamophobia is an overriding threat from bigoted Americans still upset over 9/11.
But the latest report has to admit that there’s hardly any imaginary ‘Islamophobia’ to be found.
Except among Muslims.
Alongside all the good news that 6 out of 10 Muslims support Biden, critical race theory and gun control, there was some unhappy news for ISPU to reveal. The report’s “Islamophobia index” asked questions such as are Muslims especially violent and do they hate America?
Americans only scored 25 out of 100 on the Islamophobia Index. Muslims however scored 26.
A Religion News Service article headlined the story, “US Muslims have negative stereotypes about themselves.”
This puts Muslims far ahead of Jews (17) and Protestants (23) in the Great Islamophobia Race.
Do Jews and Protestants know Islam better than Muslims do? Mogahed is reduced to arguing that Bob Cohen and Dave Andrews are more credible than Mohammed Al-Masri.
24% of Muslims believe that Muslims are more prone to violence. 35% of Arab Muslims believe that to be true. 19% of Muslims say that “most Muslims living in the US are hostile to the US.” Among Muslim men that number rises to 23% and among Arab Muslims to 31%.
Only 5% of Americans, 5% of Jews, 6% of Catholics and 7% of evangelicals believe Muslims are less civilized than others. 19% of Muslims however say that it’s true. 11% of Muslims strongly believe that it’s true. 23% of Muslim men agree that Muslims are less civilized. 29% of young Muslims believe it, and 34% of Arab Muslims think that Muslims are less civilized.
Islamic activists have spent two decades falsely accusing Americans of Islamophobia for being concerned about Islamic violence.
What does it mean that more Muslims believe that Muslims are violent than Americans do?
ISPU’s survey blames what it calls Muslim Islamophobia on Americans. But that doesn’t explain why a third of Arab Muslims believe something that only one in twenty Americans believes.
In 2018, the ISPU survey found that 18% of Muslims believe that Muslims are “more prone to violence”. Since then the number of Jews who agree that Muslims are more prone to violence fell from 15% to 9% and the number of Catholics who think so declined from 12% to 8%.
This drop was likely driven by the shortage of recent successful Islamic attacks in America.
But the number of Muslims who believe that Muslims are more prone to violence shot up from 18% to 24%. Why would Muslims become more likely to think that they’re violent even as Americans come to believe the opposite? Americans are paying attention to the national news, while Muslim immigrants are more likely to be tracking the news in their own home countries.
While Islamists are prone to blaming everything on America, this has nothing to do with us. Islamic violence in America and other western nations is a spillover from the Muslim world.
Muslims know it even if Americans willfully deny it.
Last month, Salman Rushdie, born into a Kashmiri Muslim family, was brutally stabbed by a Shiite Lebanese Muslim over a novel from the 80s mildly tweaking Islam. Rushdie was the most famous of the many Muslim immigrants who left Islam behind only to live in fear.
Bosch Fawstin, a regular artist and writer at Front Page Magazine, made the journey from being raised as a Muslim to becoming the first targe of ISIS in America when its terrorists attacked the Mohammed cartoon contest in Garland, TX.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the ex-Muslim dissident who had to flee the Netherlands for America, responded to Rushdie’s stabbing by writing, “When Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of ‘The Satanic Verses’ author, I thought he was standing up for Islam — and for me. So, a group of us did the best we could: We scribbled the book’s title on a piece of cardboard and burned that. If Rushdie had been murdered then, I would have been happy.”
Many Muslims living in America have come out of bloody war zones like Syria, Iraq and Yemen marked by brutal internecine Muslim violence. They might have very good reasons for recognizing the innate connection of Islam to violence because they actually lived through it.
They’re just not allowed to talk about it.
‘Islamophobia’ was a term coined by Islamists to silence experts on Islamic terrorism. But it did not take long for them to casually deploy the term against Muslims willing to condemn terrorism.
Their idiotic lies were quickly picked up by leftist allies who proceeded to libel Zuhdi Jasser as an “Islamophobe”. The Southern Poverty Law Center was forced to pay out millions in a settlement to Maajid Nawaz after listing him as one of its “anti-Muslim extremists.”
Now the Islamists have convincingly demonstrated that Muslims are the real “Islamophobes”.
If recognizing that Islamic terrorism is a problem makes you an Islamophobe then according to the Islamists a third of Arab Muslims and a quarter of Muslim men are Islamophobes.
When Muslims are more likely to be “Islamophobes” than Americans, that exposes the big lie of the label. What does it even mean that Muslims are afraid of other Muslims? Are they all bigots?
Stuck with her own statistics, Dalia Mogahed borrows from intersectionality to emphasize that, what she calls, “white Muslims”, are much more likely to admit the reality of Islamic violence. Generally Arab Muslims are the ones who identify as white. They also come from the epicenters of Islamic violence. Mogahed, who is Egyptian, doesn’t bother trying to explain what it is that would make Egyptians, Syrians, Iraqis or Jordanians more ‘Islamophobic’ than Indonesians.
And if the descendants of Mohammed are more likely to be Islamphobic than converts and the African and Asian peoples their ancestors conquered, what does that say about Islam?
By the end Mogahed is reduced to arguing that Muslims suffer from “internalized Islamophobia” after September 11 because 27% of Muslims, as opposed to only 11% of Muslim converts (even if they’re white), believe that members of their ideology are more prone to violence. That’s an argument that a white female convert like G. Willow Wilson has a more credible take on Islam than actual Muslims who were born into the religion and lived as a part of the culture.
The invention of Islamophobia was a means of shutting down important conversations about Islamic violence. But the violence is very real, even if we are currently experiencing less of it.
Over the last decade, Islamists successfully weaponized false claims of ‘Islamophobia’ to suppress most research and reporting on Islamic terrorism. Law enforcement and intelligence training was shut down. Experts were deplatformed and marginalized. Having run out of counterjihadists to persecute, Islamists are busy accusing Muslims of Islamophobia.
The underlying pattern is the same one driving Muslim violence across the Middle East. When the infidels have been purged or subjugated, the Jihad turns on itself. Sunnis battle Shiites. Salafis fight it out for the claim to absolute power. Terrorist groups splinter. Islam was born out of violence, derives its moral authority from violence and cannot exist in the absence of violence, physical or ideological, against an ‘other’ as its most fundamental form of self-definition.
Politicians initially attributed the mysterious killings of Muslim men in Albuquerque to ‘Islamophobia’. But then the real killer, an Afghan Muslim, was caught. The perpetrator of the worst ‘Islamophobic’ killings in America had been a Sunni Muslim targeting Shiite Muslims.
Muslims know a whole lot more than Americans about the violence inherent in Islam. They might have more to say about it if the Islamists weren’t calling them Islamophobes.
Infidel says
How do other groups, such as Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, et al stand in these sweepstakes?
CogitoErgoSum says
I would guess that the winners in the Islamophobia sweepstakes would be ex-Muslims.
CogitoErgoSum says
The hypocrites among the Muslims fear the ones who are not hypocrites. There are those who accept the duty to fight the Infidels and there are those who just want to live in peace. But the ones who don’t like all the fighting are the hypocrites and they are not loved by Allah. I don’t know why the hypocrites call themselves Muslims. Oh wait, it’s because those who leave Islam expose themselves to a death penalty. That is a reason to be afraid of Islam.
somehistory says
To know them is to have a knowledge that “them” wants to kill others not just like “them.” mozlums know by personal experience that mozlums are taught to hate and kill those they hate. this “knowledge” is the ‘phobia.’
Every time I read that mozlum’s name…the one “bo” admires and hired, I can’t help but picture the deadly snakes in Riki Tiki Tavi which were out to kill the family, but esp the female who wanted to kill little Teddy.
milo minderbinder says
“Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Calls TX Governor a Racist for Busing Illegals into Her City without Permission – Then She Quickly Busses Them to Affluent Suburb Nearby Without Permission”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/chicagos-mayor-lightfoot-promises-illegal-immigrants-bussed-texas-receive-shelter-food-sends-nearby-town-without-informing-mayor/
This is “good’ news. The left is going bonkers, that someone, like Gov. Abbott is beating them at their own game!
What better place to settle these poor, under privileged illegal aliens, than in an affluent neighborhood where the people have the means to provide for them. Heck, they might even help these poor illegals get a mortgage to purchase the house next door.
My neighbor told me that it disgraceful that we don’t welcome these poor, illegals into our country. Then my neighbor said, “I just don’t want them living near me!” Knowing that my neighbor is a hard-core democrat, I didn’t challenge the hypocrisy on display.
somehistory says
one of the *council* people of d.c. says Abbott and Ducey are turning her city into a “border town.” And that is the point. She even named cities in Texas which are overrun with illegals.
and *her* city has hundreds of thousands of people and has been sent a few thousand illegals, while Eagle Pass, TX, has about 30 thousand legal residents and gets 10 thousand illegals at a time, and has at least 2 hundred thousand illegals.
They forgot the old saying “what’s good for the goose,” but only think about what’s good for thee but not for me. A hypocrite is one of the worst kinds of people….and that’s on Good Authority.
CogitoErgoSum says
It is good to help people who need help but is it good to encourage people to break the law by crossing the border illegally? Also, most of the illegal immigrants coming to the U.S. are passing right through Mexico. These immigrants are more suited to living in Mexico due to the language and cultural similarities. What is wrong with Mexico? I tend to think these people coming here to the U.S. illegally are not being honest about the reasons they want to live here. I would not want dishonest people living next to me either.
somehistory says
Exactly right. If someone breaks the law, I don’t want them near me because they are a lawbreaker. If they are willing to break one law, what is to prevent them from breaking another? If they don’t respect a nation’s border, why should I believe they will respect my front door, or my car door, or my daughters or granddaughters?
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, and it looks to me like Mexico is a dishonest neighbor right now.
somehistory says
I’ve never been out of this country, but according to things I have read and heard, an American can’t just walk across the border without id of some kind acceptable to the border patrol. We can’t even get on a plane to fly to another state or part of a state without id acceptable to the airport authority.
so, how come these illegals don’t have to prove who they are and their *purpose* for leaving their countries in order to be allowed out? Do these other nations only have laws that apply to tourists from other countries?
Do they just allow their citizens to leave if they are headed here so they can benefit from money sent back to them, as the afghans are presently doing…with the free cash biden is handing them via “charities.”.. and as mexicans have done for decades?
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, and the Mexicans are not even being good neighbors to the countries to the south. They are telling those people who cross the southern border of Mexico to keep on moving – to the U.S. I have no problem with a wall between the U.S. and Mexico at all.
milo minderbinder says
somehistory says
I’ve never been out of this country, but according to things I have read and heard, an American can’t just walk across the border without id of some kind acceptable to the border patrol. We can’t even get on a plane to fly to another state or part of a state without id acceptable to the airport authority.
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Excellent point.
Do you remember when the Democrats from the Texas State Legislature were protesting against changes in the voting laws to require ID, etc., and they walked out and flew to Washington DC.
In this video, Rep. Nancy Mace R-SC does a “masterful” job interviewing one of the Texas legislators, (D) Senfronia Thompson and outing the hypocrisy of the Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnJasqv9X_s
somehistory says
thank you. and yes, I do recall that. they were sitting close and not wearing mask, while insisting that other travelers do so.
and it is hypocritical to require all of us to have id to fly…except the illegals coming in; they only need a copy of their arrest warrant…but they don’t want people to have to show anything in order to vote. Of course, if they could figure out a way to know if the one voting was for the other candidate, that person would need five forms of id.
milo minderbinder says
somehistory says
i watched the video. She certainly showed her up to be quite ignorant on the subject and the need for id’s.
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somehistory says
i watched the video. She certainly showed her up to be quite ignorant on the subject and the need for id’s.
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Rep. Mace “masterfully” demonstrated that requiring ID to vote is NOT a hardship, as ID is required for many activities of daily living.
I particularly liked the way Rep. Mace initiated the process; she first established a rapport with the Texas Legislator, she put her ease. I thought that was an intelligent and fruitful session.
somehistory says
Yes, she was very clever and the woman had no clue where it was going. And when she realized, she tried to make it look as if Blacks and others don’t vote in large numbers…saying Whites are a much higher percentage…and then it was only two percent more.
Others could learn from Ms. Mace. Like Job’s “friends” could learn from the young man, Elihu He was a ‘master’ at questioning, and then giving the correct answers.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“and it is hypocritical to require all of us to have id to fly…except the illegals coming in; they only need a copy of their arrest warrant…”
So, on that basis, if a United States citizen happens to forget their drivers license when they get to the airport, can they pull up their most recent arrest warrant – and use that instead?
milo minderbinder says
CogitoErgoSum says
It is good to help people who need help but is it good to encourage people to break the law by crossing the border illegally?
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Good points.
This situation, with the current Administration, encouraging people to enter this country illegally, and then, rewarding them for breaking the law is mind boggling.
What’s even more frustrating is the “gaslighting” that is taking place. There are so many differences of opinion on this subject, that I’m starting to suffer from “data overload” which is causing “paralysis of analysis.”
The question that I ask those who support illegal immigration for “humanitarian” reasons is, just how many people should we allow into the country, before we reach the point of diminishing returns?
We are not taking care of our own citizens, let allow millions of illegals entering the country.
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” Matthew 14:7
Furthermore, we cannot solve the world’s poverty problem. Yeshua Ha’Mashiach said:
“For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you do not always have Me. Matthew 14:7
China and India, each have a population of approximately 1.4 billion people. The USA is the third most populated country in the world, approximately 340 million people. China and the USA have approximately the same land area, and India’s land area is approximately one third the size of China and the USA.
So, if the concern is to take care of the poorest of the poor and those who are truly in life threatening situations, why not allow several hundred million people into the country? If China and India can handle 1.4 billion, why can’t the USA allow, hmmmm, maybe 300 to 400 million people to enter the country?
I wonder what the end result would be?
somehistory says
i watched the video. She certainly showed her up to be quite ignorant on the subject and the need for id’s.
James Lincoln says
milo minderbinder says,
“My neighbor told me that it disgraceful that we don’t welcome these poor, illegals into our country. Then my neighbor said, “I just don’t want them living near me!”
May I suggest that you ask your neighbor what happens when we run out of “other people’s neighborhoods”???
gravenimage says
+1
Dave says
This organization appears to be legitimate, in the sense that they are sincerely objective in their reporting, though less so in their conclusions and interpretations of their own findings. I wanted to make sure they weren’t the conservative equivalent of groups like the SPLC which presents itself as a supporter of justice and equality but functions more as as a propaganda outlet for the extreme left. They are not such an organization which makes their findings about Muslim opinion both valuable and somewhat surprising. More and more the left distances itself from it’s “base” while creating false enemies and promoting agendas that have nothing in common with many or even most other liberal thinkers. The Institute for Social Understanding has it’s flaws but they aren’t cowards prone to hide data that is cognitively dissonant to their own personal opinions. This is as close as it gets to honest Muslim self reflection being openly presented to the public. And it is also a position the World desperately needs where honest discussions about our differences can take place. The irrational rantings of a minority of extreme leftists, who have appointed themselves the emperors of morality, isn’t aging well.
Wellington says
My take away from this: Still far too many non-Muslims in America indefensibly remain willfully ignorant about Islam.
No excuse for this. None.
gravenimage says
So true. there was an excuse right after 9/11–over 20 years later there is not.
gravenimage says
Survey Says Muslims More Islamophobic Than Americans
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Maybe they just know Islam better than Infidels do…
Infidel says
One thing I didn’t get from the article: when they say muslims are more islamophobic, do they mean islamophobic about other muslim sects/schools of jurisprudence, or islamophobic about their very own subset of whatever they belong to? That would make a major difference. The former wouldn’t mean that they are islamophobic at all, whereas the latter would!
gravenimage says
Yes–this is unclear.
mick says
I guess the Iphobia score of Iraqi Sunni for Shia is about 60, and vice versa.
The Iphobia of Muslim Berbers for Uslim Arabs is around 40.
These are scores for fellow citizens within borders. The scores increase for trans-border phobias, eg Iraqi Sunni for Iranian Shia.
I don’t believe the low scores for white Americans inc Jews.