Israel at War—"Islamophobia"

Way, way back in 2007—six years after 9/11—the Left, along with their many trained hamsters in the mainstream media (they would evolve into a "propaganda media" over the next 16 years) were really, really worried about intolerance directed at Islam. Here's what I wrote in August, 2007:

CNN News reports:

"Islamophobia" and the defamation of Islam are the most conspicuous forms of racism and intolerance today, and a global U.N. conference on racism planned for 2009 should come up with practical solutions to deal with them, an Islamic bloc representative told a preparatory meeting in Geneva Monday.

The 2009 meeting is intended to review a U.N. conference on racism, held in Durban, South Africa, just days before 9/11, but the 56-nation Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC) wants Islam to be high on the agenda.

Hmmmm. The reality is that Western nations have contorted themselves not to offend Islam (think -- the UK’s recent policy against the phrase “Islamic terrorism”). Western media has self-censored in ways that sometimes threaten freedom of speech (think -- the Danish cartoon controversy). Western police have often looked the other way as Moslem “youths” have expressed their “outrage” through violence that has ranged from burned cars (think --Paris) to cold-blooded murder (think--Theo van Gogh). And the general public in Western nations — except for a relatively few incidents in which the perpetrators were arrested and prosecuted for hate crimes (is that ever done in, say, Egypt?)— has remained remarkably calm in the face of murderous Islamofascist terror attacks and virulently anti-Western speech emanating from Wahhabi mosques through the Western world.

Like many things about our modern world, we encounter another “through the looking glass” moment. Islam is the victim in all of this, and we in the West are the aggressor. And now, Islam expects the UN to do something about it. Yet Islam does absolutely nothing about the underlying actions that make many people uneasy. Business as usual.

Robert Spencer comments:

The coinage of the term "Islamophobia" is an exercise in blaming the victim. If Muslims want to end "Islamophobia" instantaneously, here's how:

1. Focus your indignation on Muslims committing violent acts in the name of Islam, not on non-Muslims reporting on those acts.
2. Renounce definitively not just "terrorism," but any intention to replace the U.S. Constitution (or the constitutions of any non-Muslim state) with Sharia even by peaceful means.
3. Teach Muslims the imperative of coexisting peacefully as equals with non-Muslims on an indefinite basis.
4. Begin comprehensive international programs in mosques all over the world to teach against the ideas of violent jihad and Islamic supremacism.
5. Actively work with Western law enforcement officials to identify and apprehend jihadists within Western Muslim communities.
6. Do those five things, and voila! "Islamophobia" will vanish. No UN program needed.

We in the West are, of course, guilty of extreme indulgence. No western politician gives Islam tough love, probably the only kind of love that will save it. We tacitly assume that Islam is incapable of reforming itself, and as a consequence people in positions of responsible leadership make relatively few demands of those Muslims who claim that they abhor Jihadist Islam.

Why not ask for more aggressive action within the religion? Why not call organizations such as CAIR what they are—propaganda fronts for Islamofascists, not “moderate” advocacy groups? Why not suggest that free speech trumps religious sensitivity, and a culture of “outrage” does nothing to move Islam into the 21st century? Why not argue that religious education alone will keep Arab Moslems poverty stricken, living in crippled economies with no prospect of improvement?

Remember, I wrote this 16 years ago—eerie, isn't it. Then, as now, mainstream Islam (and their millions of Leftist supporters) take the position that an Islamist death cult, Hamas, is an anomaly. That Islam is "the religion of peace," and that it bears no culpability for the actions of a few psychopaths.

But it seems as if Islam keeps generating these death cults—al Queda, the Taliban, Boco Haram, ISIS—to name just a few. Many of the religion's religious leaders are Islamists who preach Jew-Hatred to tens of millions of adherents. Almost all Islamic countries have ejected the Jews who once lived there. They are now proudly Judenrein and have the gall to suggest that Israel is an "apartheid" state. 

Islam spawns Islamic death cults like Hamas while suggesting that Israel is committing "genocide" against the peaceful and suffering palestinians. Yeah, those would be the same peaceful and suffering palestinians who cheered in the tens of thousands as Hamas paraded the naked bodies of raped and murdered young Israeli women while spitting on them in contempt. The claim of "genocide" is so ridiculous it would be almost comical, given that the palestinian's population has risen every year since Israel left Gaza and turned over the West Bank to the palestinian authority. Genocide doesn't work that way, but the Muslim activists and their leftist useful idiots embraced insane ideas, so there's that ...

And yet, somehow, the West is the guilty party in all of this? When it defends itself or retaliates against islamic psychopaths, it's somehow at fault?  Islam—one of the largest populations on the planet—is the "victim," and Islamophobia (in 2023 as in 2007) is something we need to worry about? WAFT!!

So, let me repeat what I wrote 16 years ago:

Why not ask for more aggressive action within the religion? Why not call organizations such as CAIR what they are—propaganda fronts for Islamofascists, not “moderate” advocacy groups? Why not suggest that free speech trumps religious sensitivity, and a culture of “outrage” does nothing to move Islam into the 21st century? Why not argue that religious education alone will keep Arab Moslems poverty stricken, living in crippled economies with no prospect of improvement?

Why not?