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Old Joe Biden’s ghostwriters issued a statement Thursday to congratulate Muslims on Eid al-Fitr, the feast marking the end of the fasting-by-day-and-gorging-by-night month of Ramadan. Predictably, it was anodyne and obsequious in the extreme, with Biden celebrating how Muslims “decorate their homes, give gifts to loved ones, wear new clothes, and visit family and friends.” The faux president is made to add: “I am moved by the generosity that is shown from families that can provide food and give charity to those in need through Zakat-al-Fitr.” In the course of all this flattery, Biden’s writer drops in a serious note: there is now a U.S. government task force dedicated to fighting “Islamophobia.”
The statement quickly shifts from telling us how wonderful it is that Muslims wear new clothes and visit family and friends to depicting Muslims as victims: “Eid al-Fitr marks the completion of a holy month dedicated to devotion, charity, and reflection—a time when we also remember Muslim communities around the world that are enduring conflict, poverty, hunger, and disease, and those that are displaced from their homes.” That served to set up the big announcement. Biden’s ghostwriter continued: “As we celebrate our blessings this Eid, let us also recommit ourselves to the timeless work of building peace and standing up for the rights and dignity of all people.” When the White House writers start depicting Old Joe babbling about peace and human rights, you know something bad is coming.
Doing this work for peace and human dignity will apparently require new restrictions on speech: “My Administration is also committed to addressing all forms of hate, including Islamophobia. This is why I established an interagency task force with senior government officials to tackle this and related challenges and encourage every American to build a more inclusive nation.” Good, because Lord knows we aren’t “inclusive” enough yet. Every last person in the world doesn’t live here on the taxpayer dime yet, so there is a long way to go.
Meanwhile, exactly what pressing need is this interagency task force designed to address? Are Muslims in the U.S. really subjected to such widespread discrimination and harassment that the feds need to step in? The record shows otherwise. FBI hate crime statistics show that Muslims are rarely targeted in hate crimes, which far more often victimize Jews and others. In fact, anti-Muslim hate crimes actually declined by 42% from 2020 to 2021. But those facts don’t fit the narrative that Muslims face widespread discrimination and harassment in the United States, and so the facts have to take a back seat.
And how is the new “interagency task force with senior government officials” going to “tackle” “Islamophobia”? No doubt we will now be inundated with taxpayer-funded material about how wonderful Islam is. In the nature of things, however, there will still be human disputes, and some of them will involve Muslims. Now that “Islamophobia” has been established as targeted by the government, these disputes will all be ascribed to “Islamophobia” and offered as evidence of how urgently needed this “interagency task force” really is. The “Islamophobia” task force will therefore likely enjoy ever-increasing budgets. That’s how government agencies work: they have to justify their existence, so they keep having to find more and more of the thing they’re supposed to be stamping out.
Most importantly, since the Biden regime is now officially committed to efforts to convince us of the wonderfulness of Islam, it is not likely to look kindly upon critics of the religion, including opponents of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women. Will the interagency task force make any efforts to protect the right of Americans to oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression? Will it be careful to distinguish such criticism from the alleged hatred that this task force is supposed to be combating, or will it act upon the assumption that any and all criticism of Islam, and even of jihad terror, subjects Muslims to “hate” and must accordingly be silenced?
Since the Left has been insisting that opposition to jihad violence is “hate” ever since 9/11, my money is on the latter. But this is a preposterous claim that, if followed logically (which of course it never will be, as this “Islamophobia” business is fundamentally illogical), would preclude any criticism of anything as possibly leading to “hate” and violence. In practice, it will preclude all criticism of anything the Left favors. And the freedom of speech will be eroded even further.
Ugly Sid says
Restart the Crusades.
David Ray says
Unfortunately, we have softies like Bush43 who quickly shied away from utterances like “crusade”; rather preferring terms like “Religion of peace”.
His tac was too invite muslims to the White House & suck up to them by visiting a mosque with his shoes off,
Our leader’s response to islam doing an evil unprovoked attack was to use our finest as canon fodder – tethering our armed servicemen with fatal & restricting rules of engagement. (It was deemed more important to appear congenial, than to crush the murdering bastards.)
As an added bonus Jug-eared Barry imported more islamic “refugees” by the 10,000s at the low low price of $67,000 a head, and building taxpayer funded housing.
The results were predictable. In Idaho rapes of women became commonplace. When residents rightfully complained, AG Loretta Lynch threatened to charge them with hate crimes. (That’s just one example.)
To this day, captured jihadists get banquet style meals, exceptional health care & kid-glove treatment; even when tossing fecal matter, urine, and sharp projectiles at Marine guards. (It’s called Club Gitmo for a reason.)
Contrast that with the 3rd world conditions endured by the Jan 6th protesters who literally have to strain sentiment from water with their socks, eat food not fit for a dog, denied health care, and given woke defence lawyers who take impish pleasure in undermining their rights. They’ve also been beaten by woke guards – off camera, of course.
Lethal says
Muslims ARE victims, victims of Satan’s lies.
World@70 says
Does this look like a conflict with the separation of church and state? Looks like it to me but also a message to Iran that says, hay folks I’m with you guys. Come on and sign that JCPOA, in fact, why don’t you wright it for me. That way I can use the toilet and go take a nap. Uh? Is that the right order?
angel kasparov says
Islamophobia is a badge of honor.
Nobody in the right frame of mind could possibly support the followers of the genocidal pedophile from Arabia who’s hell bent on world domination, to kill or subjugate all others just to establish a brutal dictatorship.
Guy Jones says
We’re simply witnessing more dishonest, feckless and despicable dhimmitude, from the vile Dhimmi-crats.
Muslims are not now, nor have they ever been, a victimized group of people. On the contrary, it’s usually Muslims who are victimizing non-Muslims, by following the supremacist, totalitarian and belligerent dictates of their wretched ideology of “Submission.”
Steven Chavez says
STOP MAGA-PHOBIA! Try wearing a MAGA in public and you’ll see the violence and hate-filled tirades.
STOP THE WHITE-PHOBIA!
STOP THE CHRISTIAN-PHOBIA!
STOP THE CONSERVATIVE MINORITY-PHOBIA!
STOP THE STRAIGHT-PHOBIA!
STOP THE REBUBLICAN-PHOBIA!
And yet, the Com-Left are with the signs: “STOP THE HATE!”
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William James Ward says
Our faux president will now probably be invited to Muslim Nations to attend
the beheadings of Christians and all against Islam. Biden is a spreader of
evil and would destroy all that is good in America, The future will be very
dark and bloody, pray and be prepared to defend what is left of America.
Kit_Jefferson says
It’s not a phobia when the threat is real and the biggest real threat to this nation is currently liberal politicians, bureaucrats and liberal journalists.
ed says
It certainly looks like at least one of Biden handlers is Barack Hussein Obama
Andrew Blackadder says
islam is a Fascist Religious Cult in every way and even though they tell us how evil we all are and that islam is the best of all faiths and that will take over all other religious beliefs, I still see those Of The Left falling over themselves to protect and defend a religion that despises their very existence and so this Leftism-Islamism love is really weird as they are 100% the opposite of each other and anybody that cannot that see that obvious link must be either brain dead or think Old Joe is a bloody genius.
TRex says
Where are all the news reports of violence against muslims? They must be in the same place as all the reports of violence against tranny’s. Everyone with a brain knows if either of these things happened it would be headlines for days and days. As usual, the leftists have created a crisis out of thin air and attributed it to “extreme MAGA Republicans” or anyone else who won’t go along with the false narrative. This administration and all its adherents are living a lie based on wishful thinking.
Sir Peter says
To impose sharia law
Intrepid says
I don’t know why the Leftists just don’t come clean and admit they converted to Islam 20 years ago. It’s the only reason to suck up to this false religion the way they do.