Islam is not a race, and “Islamophobia” cannot be a form of racism. Nevertheless, if this state action were merely to prevent and/or prosecute vigilante actions against innocent Muslims, there would be no problem with it. But will it also lead to restrictions on the freedom of speech and foreclosure of honest opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women? You can count on it.
“Council of Europe resolution is a call for action against Islamophobia in Europe,” Amnesty International, October 10, 2022:
Amid rising Islamophobia in Europe, amplified by politicians using anti-Muslim rhetoric, parliamentarians from 46 countries will vote in a plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on a resolution that accuses authorities in several European states of normalizing discrimination against Muslims and calls for state action to address Islamophobia as a form of racism.
Amnesty International’s research and recommendations are among the sources that informed the PACE report on which the resolution is based.
Ahead of the debate and vote on 11 October 2022, Nils Muižnieks, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Europe, said:
“This resolution should be a wake-up call. Racist laws, policies and practices have no place in Europe. Hate crimes against Muslims and those perceived as being of Muslim faith are too often not officially recorded or effectively investigated. The surveillance of Muslim men, women and even children is readily accepted as normal practice, and a range of counter terrorism measures are operating outside criminal justice systems, without adequate safeguards.
“The everyday intolerance, bias and discrimination that many Muslims experience is a form of racism. Muslim women are disproportionately affected, as they face discrimination on multiple grounds. Very often their access to public places is restricted through policies and practices that are based on harmful gender stereotypes. Various laws across Europe prohibit Muslim women to wear religious symbols and dress at the workplace, in schools and in public generally. Policy makers must stop using racist and discriminatory rhetoric against Muslims and immediately take action to ensure that they can enjoy their fundamental rights to equality and dignity, and live their lives without discrimination.
“When fear mongering politicians are demonizing Muslims to win votes, it is more important than ever for Muslim communities to have a voice at the table. Yet we are witnessing situations where organizations simply advocating for the protection of Muslims’ human rights are treated with suspicion and prevented from participating in public life, or even dissolved, often on spurious security grounds. Protecting national security does not justify disproportionate and unnecessary restrictions of human rights.”…
The PACE report and resolution highlight that any acknowledgement of the issues faced by Muslims must be followed by action in the form of national anti-Islamophobia action plans. It includes concrete recommendations to Council of Europe member states.
CogitoErgoSum says
I guess it’s a human right to be stupid.
milo minderbinder says
CogitoErgoSum says
Oct 14, 2022 at 3:39 pm
I guess it’s a human right to be stupid.
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Yes, it is. However, this is planned stupidity, with the “global elite” (umbrella word) the issue is never the issue, it’s the narrative that matters. They, the “global elite” must control the media in all its forms in order to bring about their “New World Order.”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
mg says
That they can ignore all the vast numbers of abuse of non muslim woman by muslims across many nations, that they can ignore the violence perpetrated upon non muslims by Muslims across many nations, that they can ignore the forced isolated of muslim communities from the states laws and states cultures rendering entire muslim communities not merely
unfriendly to non muslims but out and out dangerous. That’s why they care nothing for the facts or the truths upon which those facts should be based. The only solution is for the populations of these European nations to overturn the tyranny of the EU and become independent states as the source of reason, pride
and real growth of the society’s they represent.
Wellington says
And I await the over 50 Muslim nations that will vigorously issue a declaration decrying prejudice and animosity against non-Muslims.
I think I will have a long wait.
gravenimage says
+1
tim gallagher says
No doubt about that, Wellington.
gravenimage says
Council of Europe calls for state action to address ‘Islamophobia’ as a form of racism
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Grotesque–Islam is a religion and an ideology, *not* a race. You find people of all races and ethnicities that are Muslim.
Islam teaches violence and the destruction of all Infidel societies, so non-Muslins have *every right* to be wary of it.
Wellington says
+1
Uma Maheswar Nakka says
+1
tim gallagher says
I agree, gravenimage. Violent and intolerant islam is definitely something any sane person, as opposed to these wankers from the Council of Europe (whatever that is – is it part of the EU?) would be very wary of. I’m always glad to hear that islamophobia is on the rise. It means people are finally waking up to malignant islam’s nature.
Hank says
How about state action to address the lack of serious repatriation to address the illegal Muslim migration invasion, and punishment for politicians who created an Islamic 5th column and exposed citizens to its violent destabilization of society.
tgusa says
As hard as I try I cannot wrap my head around this craze of non Islamic pandering to islam. A lot of people do not like nor do they wish to engage in many tenets of islam. So really, what is the purpose behind this grotesque panderfest? Please don’t say new world order because there is no way to put together a world order in such a differing world, it just wont work.
Well, there is one way, the meanest nastiest most unprincipled group wins and then through violence imposes their will on all the others.
Scotsman48 says
Lets not mention the attacks by muslims against non muslims across Europe but instead denigrate those that even mention it… By jove I think Ive got it now….