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I have an idea. What if they just stopped blowing stuff up?
The world is on fire; war is raging in Ukraine and Gaza, and a global war could break out at any moment. The Southern border is a fictional line on a map. Americans are being steadily robbed of their savings and prevented from being able to get ahead by the cruelest tax of all, inflation. The Biden regime, in a series of unprecedented and deeply un-American moves, has weaponized the Justice Department in order to destroy the leader of the political opposition. But in the midst of all this, the regime also hasn’t lost its focus on the real problem facing the world today: “Islamophobia.”
Jewish Insider reported Friday that according to “Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff,” that is, Kamala Harris’ husband, “the Biden administration plans to soon release new guidance on best practices for combating Islamophobia.” Why is Emhoff, who is a private citizen, involved in any administration initiative? Apparently he had to get something to do, and (presumably) taxpayer money to do it with, and what better job for the nation’s first “Second Gentleman” than to combat “hate,” which the Biden regime is dead-set against unless the recipient is Donald Trump and his supporters?
Emhoff, according to Jewish Insider, “revealed the news while kicking off a roundtable on ‘interfaith coalition building’ he convened with a group of religious leaders at the White House, after noting that many of those participating in Thursday’s meeting are ‘part of the interagency group that the president stood up to counter antisemitism and also Islamophobia.’”
It is good that the Bidenites are tackling antisemitism, which was broken out with new virulence and violence all over North America and Europe since Hamas jihadis murdered 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023. But “Islamophobia”? The world has not seen attacks on innocent Muslims on anything like the scale of attacks on Jews since Oct. 7; nor should it.
In fact, actual incidents of “anti-Muslim hate” are so rare that they have to be invented in order to shore up the left’s sagging victimhood narrative. In a typical incident, the Daily Mail reported on July 11 that “University of Washington student Isha Hussein claimed that her roommate made Islamophobic remarks and threatened to stab her with a knife as she prayed. The roommate denied the allegations but was temporarily removed from her dorm and later moved out due to the hostility she faced. However, a campus police report concluded it ‘could not establish probable cause’ after a witness contradicted Hussein’s account.” This is just the latest in a long, long line of claimed incidents of “Islamophobia” that turned out to be fake.
So why is the Biden regime treating antisemitism and “Islamophobia” as equivalent? Because that’s one pathway to getting votes in Michigan this November: play up Muslim victimhood, act as if Israel and the Palestinians are equally at fault in the present war, and pretend that Muslims are getting attacked at the same rate Jews are.
Even worse, the term “Islamophobia” is an illegitimate conflation of two distinct phenomena: vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology of jihad terror, which is always necessary. The objective of this conflation is to silence that analysis by falsely claiming that it leads to or causes those attacks.
And so now we have this initiative, under the guise of an effort to counter those vigilante attacks. But what it will lead to will be those who support Israel or criticize the jihad ideology will be liable to be considered an enemy of the state. The Biden regime has never been a friend of the freedom of speech, as we saw with its pressure on the social media giants to silence Covid dissidents.
Despite, or more likely because of, the negative implications for the freedom of speech, the regime is pressing forward full-speed ahead on its plan to fight “Islamophobia.” Emhoff explains: “The first deliverable, in May of 2023, was the first-ever national strategy to counter antisemitism. We are now getting into year two with additional actions. There will be an Islamophobia plan coming out soon as well, and making sure we are fighting hate wherever it exists.”
This is the most hateful administration in American history, demonizing its principal foe and half the electorate as enemies of the republic. But there’s hate and and there’s hate. Opposing jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, that’s hate. Hating Donald Trump and Israel? Why, that’s love!
Allan Goldstein says
Ask a leftist if he believes the Vatican is the seat of Catholicism.
Ask a leftist if he believes Mecca is the seat of Islam.
After he answers “yes” twice,
Ask him if believes Jerusalem is the seat of Israel, or is he a ni**er.
If the leftist happens to be Emhoff, respond by calling him “Islamofascist.”
Martina Vaslovik says
Millions of Persians in Iran and millions more Muslims in Indonesia are turning to Jesus, and yet I never hear of them being accused of Islamophobia. Islam simply does not spiritually satisfy them as it’s not even a real religion but an aggressively expansionist militant utilitarian collectivist ideology under color of religion. It is a universal economic failure everywhere it does not have money coming out of the ground and makes for very unhappy societies when one man can have 4 wives and 3 other men have to go without, and resort to homosexuality which is only superficially forbidden by Islam, and then there is boy play, Baza Bachi, widely practiced in Afghanistan. (see the documentary The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan) Often in Muslim families the youngest boy becomes the sexual outlet for the father and older sons. Imagine how that poor kid grows up. Inbreeding is rampant under Islam with first cousin marriages being the norm, which also does not make for a happy or prosperous society, nor does the fact that Islam makes men it’s slaves by giving them their own slaves, their women. That brings us to female genital mutilation (FGM) which is done to restrict all pleasure in sex to the male, and then there is honor killing, all of the victims of which are curiously female.
Domenic Pepe says
A devastating indictment, Martina.
You have explicitly and clearly identified the core depravity of Islam.
People all over the world in fact should be Islamophobic in order to protect themselves from depraved Islam.
Alkflaeda says
There’s only one thing that I disagree with in your masterly summary – I think that Islam is a spiritual phenomenon, just an occult one. The hadith says that the being who dictated the Qur’an crushed Mohammed’s chest, which is typical of trance mediumship. So we have a medium as Islam’s founder, not a prophet.
Beto says
Interesting insight
Siddi Nasrani says
Mohammad was never a Prophet according to the old & news testaments.
• A true prophet’s words will be fulfilled (Deuteronomy 18:21–22; Jeremiah 28:8–9).
• A true prophet’s teachings are consistent with Scripture (2 Peter 1:20–21; Revelation 22:18–19).
• A true prophet’s teachings will encourage righteous behavior and provide spiritual benefit (Deuteronomy 13:1–4; Jeremiah 23:13–14, 32; Ezekiel 13:17–23; 14:4–8; Lamentations 2:14).
• A true prophet’s life will reflect a divine call (Isaiah 28:7; Jeremiah 23:10–11, 14; 29:9; Zephaniah 3:4; Matthew 7:15–20).
• A true prophet will acknowledge Jesus Christ as divine (1 John 4:1–6).
Wesley says
Let’s not forget, to even quesiton islamic doctrine is punisable by death. . Ask an Iranian citizen.
Questioning the Jewish faith, meh, nohting happens, even in Israel.
Domenic Pepe says
Depraved psychopathic murderous berserk violent freedom crushing Islam
has been a scourge on humanity for 1400 years.
Enough already.
This important and vital knowledge about Islam is deliberately censored from schools and Universities by the Biden woke leftist government administration..
In fact, Obama and the Clintons and the Bushes and Biden and Harris and Pelosi and Schumer etc.etc.etc. suck up to them.
Even Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, is not beneath taking 2 billion dollars from the Saudi “Royal” family and additional billions from the Qatar and United Arab Emirates “Royal” families..
Just the management fees alone for Kushner’s Miami based company, Affinity Partners, will provide millions of dollars per year to the Kushners.
Have these people no shame whatsoever ?
Not exactly the proper thing to be doing with the Islamic scourge of humanity, in my humble opinion.
Where do I sign up for my share of the loot ?
Intrepid says
After 1400 years of war, Islamic supremacy and the need to conquer every inch of ground that is not theirs, not to mention the endless kowtowing of the Left to these jihadi vermin by letting them in the country, I can truthfully and proudly say I am an Islamophobe. I can truthfully say I hate them and what they are trying to do Christianity and Judaism. And my country. They are scum.
A Leftist enabled domestic Islamic disaster is coming. They are already here via the Biden open border policy and the idiotic Obama policy of letting Muslims in from Somalia. Weapons have been smuggled in and are cached in the mosques. God knows what is going in Dearbornistan MI as most of the area is a Jihadi no go zone.
Everyone should read Townhall contributor Kurt Schlichter’s book called “The Attack”. In this book he details a possible coordinated jihad attack in the U.S. over three days by small groups of armed Muslims and cosplaying white wannabe terrorists, first against businesses, second against Americans in their homes, and finally against infrastructure. The attacks take place mostly in the unarmed blue state cities and suburbs. The jihadis do not want to be confronted by armed Americans
Kurt Schlichter said it best in his TownHall articles:
townhall com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/03/25/america-is-going-to-be-targeted-for-a-massive-terrorist-attack-will-you-be-ready-n2636901
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/06/17/joe-biden-reminds-us-to-buy-guns-and-ammunition-n2640535
Bottom line, buy guns and ammo in the areas of the country where you still can. You guys who live in blue cities and blue states, MOVE NOW! You are sitting ducks. Democrats want you unarmed.
Don’t believe me? Fine. Be a fool and live in your Leftist fantasies.
Domenic Pepe says
” … A Leftist enabled domestic Islamic disaster is coming … ”
The treacherous left democrat party and Islam make such compatible bedmates.
Domenic Pepe says
I think Jared Kushner needs to read Mathew 16:26
…..“What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul ?” Matthew 16:26
Two billion dollars from the Saudi “Royal” family to Kushner. apparently assuages the pain.
And a few billion more from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates helps too.
Beto says
Kushner is a Jew… He could care less about Matthew
Domenic Pepe says
Kushner should exercise a bit more prudence and wisdom regarding getting cozy with the Saudis, and Qatar, and the United Arab Emirate.
But I guess a few billion Islamic OPEC oil dollars can still cover for all the Islamic atrocities, depravities, murders, and violence, and hatred and lies.
This so-called Kushner Affinity Partners deal stinks to high heaven.
Trump needs to disown his greedy idiot son-in-law.
How about counting me in for some of the loot ?
Allan Goldstein says
🎵 I saw a picture yesterday
🎵 In a men’s room, near L.A.
🎵 Lying on the floor beside the throne
🎵 Had I not recognized the cross
🎵 I might have failed to know the boss
🎵 I thought: “Lord, you look neglected and alone.”
🎵 I picked it up with loving care
🎵 I wondered who had placed it there
🎵 And then I saw there was no paper on the roll
🎵 I said “Lord, what would you do
🎵 if you were me and I was you…
🎵 Take a chance and save your pants, or your soul?”
🎵 He said: “Kinky, this is Jesus; I’m no square
🎵 You can find those pictures
🎵 Everywhere
🎵 So if you’re — hung up on the pot
🎵 Feel free to use my favorite shot
🎵 I’ll be around…..when things turn brown”
😃
— RIP ….. Kinky Friedman
owensgate says
Fighting ‘Islamophobia’? Yeah, right. As if in 1940 we should have fought “NAZIphobia”, and supported the “German-American Bund”! IDIOTS! What part of “Dar al Harb” do you not understand??? We should be fighting Islam tooth and nail. They want to drag us, kicking and screaming, back to the 7th Century! I think the “Fear of Islam” is the beginning of wisdom.
Chris Shugart says
“Islamophobia” is a pseudo-clinical term that implies that normal Americans have an unreasonable fear that there are radical Muslims who would like to kill them if they had the chance. The real mental cases are the ones who pretend that there’s no such thing as Hamas jihadis.
Siddi Nasrani says
“Islamophobia” – A word created by fascists & used by cowards to manipulate morons.
By Andrew Cummins.
Spurwing Plover says
Biden now makes the Wimpy Kid look and Feel little more like real a Man
Alkflaeda says
If the LGBTQ+ precedent is anything to go by, we know what comes next. Anyone who fails to celebrate and endorse Islam will be regarded as unfit to be a foster-parent, social worker or whatever. Not sure what the Islamic equivalent of Drag Queen Story Hour will be, but rest assured, there will be one. Doubtless there are books being commissioned for school libraries as I write this, about how turning to Islam resolves teenage questions, featuring heroes who champion Palestine on campus. If they get Queers for Palestine to write them, they can kill two phobias with one contract.
Wesley says
Without a doubt, those folks will LOVE living under Islam. . as will the feminists in our society!
Deborah says
Excellent article, Robert ! Thank You. Could not agree more. Here’s an item I must share; there is NO word in Arabic for Daughter!! Girls are nothing but chattel, to be married off or even sold at age six to old men who want to emulate Mohammed himself . ( He claimed he waited til the child was nine to consummate the marriage…) Mass Child Weddings are performed today even in Western Nations for Muslim men. Seems child brides are ok for Muslims, but illegal in the rest of the Western World that will so quickly drop western standards of behavior in order to accommodate “Islamic Culture”, Diversity, Equity and whatever. As for the abused youngest brothers ; in Afghanistan our soldiers often found little boys in Villages chained to their beds with make up on to resemble girls. Our troops were shocked and and tried to rescue these little boys, but that was not allowed for “cultural reasons”. Naturally, it became important to normalize this behavior in Western Nations to avoid dealing with Sharia Law ! So, CAIR ( the Council on American Islamic Relations) invented the word ISLAMAPHOBIA. And Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists are beaten over the head with it on a regular basis by their own cowardly leaders. Even the violent Rape of “uncovered” women and girls is not punished, because it is considered their own fault for not covering their heads ! It is encouraging to read that some brave Muslims are converting to Christianity. May God bless them and their children.
Charley says
No one heard of “Islamophobia” until after 9/11
Franko says
That was the good old Bush family that did that.
Frank Clarke says
All Islamic societies are — architecturally — anti-technological, and the more fundamentalist they are, the more this becomes literally true. The paradigmatic fundamentalist Muslim society exists only within the matrix of a pre-industrial dark-age technology where education and wealth are starkly rationed to those at the top of the pyramid, and the bulk of society simply does what it’s told.
Left to their own devices, all of Islam would revert to this in 20 or 30 years. We should let them.
There are drawbacks to that plan, certainly. The principal drawback is that it promotes slavery, and slavery is both a moral and an economic abomination. It is a moral abomination because it supports and reinforces the idea that one person can own another. It is an economic abomination because it acts as “an anchor to windward”; it makes stagnation more economically attractive and thus impedes progress. This is why whenever in the modern world one finds slavery being practiced, it is a virtual certainty that it is happening in a Muslim nation. The Muslim mind-set does not see this stagnation as a problem to be solved. It is not ‘a bug’; it is a feature. The availability of labor at below-market rates artificially alters the cost of capital to make investing in alternatives less profitable and thus less attractive. In such a situation, technological progress happens almost exclusively among those who do not own slaves.
In an earlier time, the 14th century, The Black Death swept through Europe wiping out an estimated 1/3rd of the population. Human labor then became — because of its shortage — more valuable, and this was followed by an easily-predictable exodus of serfs (servants/slaves) from the farm to the city where they were paid wages for their labor and entered, thereby, an emerging middle-class. The sudden decline in the availability of farm labor seeded a need for mechanical substitutes, and this may have been the embryonic stage of the later industrial revolution.
RS says
A WORD TO THE WISE: ON THE RAPIDLY SHIFTING GEOPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE OF THE 21ST CENTURY.
The Genesis of Alliance…..The origins of the Islamo-leftist Alliance is rooted in a convergence of mutual interests, and ideological blind spots. On one side, radical Islamic groups espouse a fundamentalist worldview that seeks to impose its interpretation of Sharia law in the West and oppose the Western influence in the Muslim world. On the other side, extreme leftists advocate for radical social and political revolution, often viewing Western capitalism as the primary sourcd of global injustice. These groups are collaborating together driven by a hatred toward a common enemy: the West and its allies.
The Islamo-leftists alliance holds a particular hatred for Israel, the Jewish people, and their Western values in the Middle East. In the U.S. the Occupy Movement, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and the ‘Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions…BDS movement are key factors. The Antisemetism which reached its zenith during the Holocaust, has resurged again with intensity. The deligitimization of Israel is a core tactic of the Islamo-leftists agenda, aiming to strip Jews of their connection to their ancestral homeland.
Tom Franczak says
Aw jeez. I’ve collected the complete set 0f -phobias and -ists and I’d hate to break it up.