There is no Islamophobia anywhere in the Western World. There ought to be much more of it because it's infiltration of Western societies is extremely dangerous. But the Islamists have already won. The most regressive civilization on earth has fully captured the so called progressive left. It has captured virtually every government in the Western World. One year ago yesterday President Biden gave a speech as he was facing a backlash from all the vicious Jew hate emanating from the Red/Green alliance. His speech decried "Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia" as if there is any Islamophobia as if Islam wasn't the prime force behind the new anti-semitism as if he couldn't denounce the Jew hate alone because it would upset the Muslims." This is how the Islamists have succeeded. And when Trump actually tries to stop it he's accused of "weaponizing anti-semitism.
Doug you just stated perfectly everything I was going to attempt to comment. 100 percent, spot on. In fact, I'm tempted to use your full statement as a social media post (credit to you). With your permission, of course.
Politicians with backbones of straw when they feel the need to denounce antisemitism always co-mingle it with the mythical “Islamophobia”. They cannot just denounce Jew hatred by itself.
Exactly -- if someone in a keffiyeh had committed the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre, every politician's statement on it would be carefully calibrated as "condemning, in the strongest terms, antisemitism, islamophobia, and all forms of hate."
It's pretty sad that the Overton window in the West has moved to making it naturally suspicious for anyone to specifically call out antisemitism on its own, for fear that it might offend Muslims' religious right to Jew hate.
It’s funny because I constantly hear “you can’t criticize Israel without being called antisemitic,” but this is yet another inversion of the truth, which is that you can (and should!) say anything and everything about Israel whether it’s true or not-make it your whole personality. But do not ever criticize Muslims or Arabs who are never to blame for anything. Real examples I hear: 10/7 was Israel’s fault b/c they “let it happen,” the hostages are Israel’s fault cause Netanyahu rejected a (horrible) deal…they don’t ever look at the big picture of 16 million Jews vs 1.8 billion Muslims. The things they’re starting to say out loud are frightening.
When your holy books say it is OK to lie, slaughter, manipulate, and deceive the kafir, and there is no notion of Lashon Hara (speaking evil) as there is in Judaism, you have a massive advantage over the Jew when it comes to promoting propaganda, deceptions, and hatred. Scripture in the Koran considers this to be a virtue. I wish this were not so, and would love to be proven wrong.
It's painful to me to see people forcefuly ignorant of both Islam's history and its values. If not for Western power there would be nothing stopping Turkey, Saudi, Algeria, etc from either murdering or enslaving us all. It's not hyperbole - this is actual history. Islam is a value set that embraces murdering non-believers full stop.
Islam should be treated like child-pornography and banned everywhere.
This is enough for me only one of many examples from the holy book of the death cult:
Sahih al-Bukhari 2926 : Book 56, Hadith 139
“Judgment Day will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Jews will hide behind the rocks and the trees, but the rocks and the trees will say: Oh Muslim , oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him – except for the gharqad tree, which is one of the trees of the Jews.”
Scary stuff. Believe the Islamists when they say that they want death to us. Death cult masquerading as a religion.
I was in the initial throes of a discussion on whether the pro-Hamas demonstrators were antisemitic <sigh> when I said - Islam is a violent religion. She said No, no, no. I said, read the Koran. She said, I did, when I was 16. Riiiight - who knows what idealism she read into it at the wise old age of 16. I told her she needs to read it again, but I didn't get the sense it went over well. Ya know, when a Jew has just read it, and tells you you missed something, I'd expect there to be some respect. The level of denial I see is terrifying.
The Islamophobia shaming game is a form of DARVO= deny, attack, reverse victim & offender. The perps in this case are the ones screaming about islamophobia.
Please let the public know that the term Palestinian or Palestine was a label borrowed from the Roman Era of Syria Palestine, by the British Empire during their mandate. Arab residents rejected it, and even after Arafat endorsed it, a PLO spokesperson stated it was a lie being used to restore the land to an Arab empire. There were Arabs in the holy land in the Ottoman Empire who remained when the British took over and they rejected the term Palestinian. So when you use it as author you are maintaining a false status quo. There are many Arab states, more than planned in order to get land of Israel on time for Holocaust survivors thru the UN. One of these countries is fine for those Arabs who do not feel an allegiance to Israel, such as Arabs in Gaza or in Judea and Samaria. Thank you and Shabbat shalom.
Phony claims of "islamophobia" surge after muslim attacks against infidels as they quickly try to pivot the narrative onto muslim victimhood.
Far from being "islamophobic", the west is much too tolerant to the point of enabling our own destruction to the forces whose aim is to islamize our societies starting with making our public spaces into being sharia compliant. Paradoxically all in the name of "diversity" and "tolerance" of course as our feckless politicians will tell us. And if you don't submit, you're a racist islamophobe.
Islamophobia is another virus that has been encouraged to spread by cowardly Western politicians who are so fearfull of "offending" their Muslim communities. Their Jewish communities? Not so much. The absolute hypocrisy of those trying to defend this, while ignoring the obvious Jew hatred going on is just too much to bear. Because Israel has reported that the fires may not be arson but due to "climate change, high winds, etc.." an Arab member of the Knesset warned the Israeli officials to be careful with their words (alluding to Muslims being blamed). I wonder if he also scolded those Palestinians who cheered the fires and yelled to burn it all down. Was he concerned about those words? Or how about the abhorent words of Samer Elzanen from BBC Arabic who openly called for Jews to be burned "as Hitler did." Did those words offend the Knesset member? We also have enemies within, like the 500 Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist rabbis, "Some of those who purport to speak for American Jews, like Abe Foxman, the longtime former head of the Anti-Defamation League, and a group of 500 rabbis from the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements, have taken to mimicking the rhetoric of antisemitic groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)." Yes, Islamophobia is a contrived method to silence those who are pro-Israel, but they give us so many examples of how to fight back. Anything they say can be countered with facts, whether they want to hear them or not. And the point is, they must hear it from us, on social media, news media comments, universities, anti-Israel organizations and a variety of other venues. We should never allow them to silence us with their lies and exaggerations, and fantasies about their religion and history. If we do, the silence will only serve to empower them.
Worse still, I predict that within 20 years, the Red-Green Alliance will have successfully leveraged their hegemony over the "social justice" narrative to effectively erase Jews from the Holocaust, saying only that the Nazis persecuted "Queer folk, black and brown people, and religious minorities." Divorcing Jews from the Holocaust is, in fact, their most important revisionist-historical project, because it is the perfect vehicle for DARVO.
Considerable point of view. But I didn't like the way of portraying the Arabs as Palestinians. The so-called the Palestinians are mostly members of the Arab tribe of neighboring states artificially created around Israel, and the Arabs living in Israel are divided into two, Israel's defenders and opponents.
Palestine has never been called a nation before the beginning of 1990, the designation came into use with the political terrorism of Arafat and the PLO. Jews weren't even addressed as Palestinians, at a time when the region was addressed as Palestine before and after the creation of the state. The designation is older than any state recognized as Arab has received its name.
1956 years ago, were there more Arabs than Bedouin tribes in Jerusalem than in its surroundings? NO, but they had the right and opportunity to trade and live in harmony with the Jews for hundreds of years BC. Now in power is a policy that opposes the sovereignty of the Jews, and speaks in the language of a snake about the tribe that belongs to the mixed Arab communities. It also includes a policy created by terrorists around the world to arouse a new wave of anti-Semitism against Jews.
Accusing someone of Islamophobia is a way to put him on the defensive. Thus, you have to take time out from condemning jihad terror to give platitudes to Muslims who aren't terrorists or terror supporters. I propose responding to such accusations by going on the offensive. E.g., "A phobia is an unreasonable fear. Are you claiming that it's unreasonable to fear another 10/7 massacre, after Hamas leaders explicitly promised more such massacres?"
There is no Islamophobia anywhere in the Western World. There ought to be much more of it because it's infiltration of Western societies is extremely dangerous. But the Islamists have already won. The most regressive civilization on earth has fully captured the so called progressive left. It has captured virtually every government in the Western World. One year ago yesterday President Biden gave a speech as he was facing a backlash from all the vicious Jew hate emanating from the Red/Green alliance. His speech decried "Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia" as if there is any Islamophobia as if Islam wasn't the prime force behind the new anti-semitism as if he couldn't denounce the Jew hate alone because it would upset the Muslims." This is how the Islamists have succeeded. And when Trump actually tries to stop it he's accused of "weaponizing anti-semitism.
Doug you just stated perfectly everything I was going to attempt to comment. 100 percent, spot on. In fact, I'm tempted to use your full statement as a social media post (credit to you). With your permission, of course.
Granted
are you on Facebook? I'll be posting there on some Jewish sites (fighting antisemitism).
Politicians with backbones of straw when they feel the need to denounce antisemitism always co-mingle it with the mythical “Islamophobia”. They cannot just denounce Jew hatred by itself.
Exactly -- if someone in a keffiyeh had committed the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre, every politician's statement on it would be carefully calibrated as "condemning, in the strongest terms, antisemitism, islamophobia, and all forms of hate."
It's pretty sad that the Overton window in the West has moved to making it naturally suspicious for anyone to specifically call out antisemitism on its own, for fear that it might offend Muslims' religious right to Jew hate.
That's utterly hypocrisy.....
Islamo-awareness would be a better term to describe the act of warning against the extreme dangers of the totalitarian Islamic political religion.
It’s funny because I constantly hear “you can’t criticize Israel without being called antisemitic,” but this is yet another inversion of the truth, which is that you can (and should!) say anything and everything about Israel whether it’s true or not-make it your whole personality. But do not ever criticize Muslims or Arabs who are never to blame for anything. Real examples I hear: 10/7 was Israel’s fault b/c they “let it happen,” the hostages are Israel’s fault cause Netanyahu rejected a (horrible) deal…they don’t ever look at the big picture of 16 million Jews vs 1.8 billion Muslims. The things they’re starting to say out loud are frightening.
When your holy books say it is OK to lie, slaughter, manipulate, and deceive the kafir, and there is no notion of Lashon Hara (speaking evil) as there is in Judaism, you have a massive advantage over the Jew when it comes to promoting propaganda, deceptions, and hatred. Scripture in the Koran considers this to be a virtue. I wish this were not so, and would love to be proven wrong.
It's painful to me to see people forcefuly ignorant of both Islam's history and its values. If not for Western power there would be nothing stopping Turkey, Saudi, Algeria, etc from either murdering or enslaving us all. It's not hyperbole - this is actual history. Islam is a value set that embraces murdering non-believers full stop.
Islam should be treated like child-pornography and banned everywhere.
This is enough for me only one of many examples from the holy book of the death cult:
Sahih al-Bukhari 2926 : Book 56, Hadith 139
“Judgment Day will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Jews will hide behind the rocks and the trees, but the rocks and the trees will say: Oh Muslim , oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him – except for the gharqad tree, which is one of the trees of the Jews.”
Scary stuff. Believe the Islamists when they say that they want death to us. Death cult masquerading as a religion.
Still searching for a gharqad tree to plant in my yard.
I was in the initial throes of a discussion on whether the pro-Hamas demonstrators were antisemitic <sigh> when I said - Islam is a violent religion. She said No, no, no. I said, read the Koran. She said, I did, when I was 16. Riiiight - who knows what idealism she read into it at the wise old age of 16. I told her she needs to read it again, but I didn't get the sense it went over well. Ya know, when a Jew has just read it, and tells you you missed something, I'd expect there to be some respect. The level of denial I see is terrifying.
…she read the Rubiyat of Omar, pressed upon us, and dreamt of Peter O’Toole seducing from a camel…
The Islamophobia shaming game is a form of DARVO= deny, attack, reverse victim & offender. The perps in this case are the ones screaming about islamophobia.
Please let the public know that the term Palestinian or Palestine was a label borrowed from the Roman Era of Syria Palestine, by the British Empire during their mandate. Arab residents rejected it, and even after Arafat endorsed it, a PLO spokesperson stated it was a lie being used to restore the land to an Arab empire. There were Arabs in the holy land in the Ottoman Empire who remained when the British took over and they rejected the term Palestinian. So when you use it as author you are maintaining a false status quo. There are many Arab states, more than planned in order to get land of Israel on time for Holocaust survivors thru the UN. One of these countries is fine for those Arabs who do not feel an allegiance to Israel, such as Arabs in Gaza or in Judea and Samaria. Thank you and Shabbat shalom.
Phony claims of "islamophobia" surge after muslim attacks against infidels as they quickly try to pivot the narrative onto muslim victimhood.
Far from being "islamophobic", the west is much too tolerant to the point of enabling our own destruction to the forces whose aim is to islamize our societies starting with making our public spaces into being sharia compliant. Paradoxically all in the name of "diversity" and "tolerance" of course as our feckless politicians will tell us. And if you don't submit, you're a racist islamophobe.
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"Claims that “Islamophobia” is surging become more frequent whenever there is some political advantage to be gained from it".
Islamophobia is another virus that has been encouraged to spread by cowardly Western politicians who are so fearfull of "offending" their Muslim communities. Their Jewish communities? Not so much. The absolute hypocrisy of those trying to defend this, while ignoring the obvious Jew hatred going on is just too much to bear. Because Israel has reported that the fires may not be arson but due to "climate change, high winds, etc.." an Arab member of the Knesset warned the Israeli officials to be careful with their words (alluding to Muslims being blamed). I wonder if he also scolded those Palestinians who cheered the fires and yelled to burn it all down. Was he concerned about those words? Or how about the abhorent words of Samer Elzanen from BBC Arabic who openly called for Jews to be burned "as Hitler did." Did those words offend the Knesset member? We also have enemies within, like the 500 Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist rabbis, "Some of those who purport to speak for American Jews, like Abe Foxman, the longtime former head of the Anti-Defamation League, and a group of 500 rabbis from the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements, have taken to mimicking the rhetoric of antisemitic groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)." Yes, Islamophobia is a contrived method to silence those who are pro-Israel, but they give us so many examples of how to fight back. Anything they say can be countered with facts, whether they want to hear them or not. And the point is, they must hear it from us, on social media, news media comments, universities, anti-Israel organizations and a variety of other venues. We should never allow them to silence us with their lies and exaggerations, and fantasies about their religion and history. If we do, the silence will only serve to empower them.
Worse still, I predict that within 20 years, the Red-Green Alliance will have successfully leveraged their hegemony over the "social justice" narrative to effectively erase Jews from the Holocaust, saying only that the Nazis persecuted "Queer folk, black and brown people, and religious minorities." Divorcing Jews from the Holocaust is, in fact, their most important revisionist-historical project, because it is the perfect vehicle for DARVO.
Considerable point of view. But I didn't like the way of portraying the Arabs as Palestinians. The so-called the Palestinians are mostly members of the Arab tribe of neighboring states artificially created around Israel, and the Arabs living in Israel are divided into two, Israel's defenders and opponents.
Palestine has never been called a nation before the beginning of 1990, the designation came into use with the political terrorism of Arafat and the PLO. Jews weren't even addressed as Palestinians, at a time when the region was addressed as Palestine before and after the creation of the state. The designation is older than any state recognized as Arab has received its name.
1956 years ago, were there more Arabs than Bedouin tribes in Jerusalem than in its surroundings? NO, but they had the right and opportunity to trade and live in harmony with the Jews for hundreds of years BC. Now in power is a policy that opposes the sovereignty of the Jews, and speaks in the language of a snake about the tribe that belongs to the mixed Arab communities. It also includes a policy created by terrorists around the world to arouse a new wave of anti-Semitism against Jews.
Accusing someone of Islamophobia is a way to put him on the defensive. Thus, you have to take time out from condemning jihad terror to give platitudes to Muslims who aren't terrorists or terror supporters. I propose responding to such accusations by going on the offensive. E.g., "A phobia is an unreasonable fear. Are you claiming that it's unreasonable to fear another 10/7 massacre, after Hamas leaders explicitly promised more such massacres?"
Agreed. Well written article.