Pat Condell sounds off on “Islamophobia Awareness Month”

by sheikyermami on December 1, 2012

WTF?

Classic Condell contends that “Islam is the problem and Islamphobia Awareness month should more accurately be called Islamic Cultural Terrorism Awareness Month… The concept of ‘Islamophobia’ comes from the imaginations of aggresssive Islamic supremacists who have paranoia on a permanent hair trigger and see violence as the solution to criticism.”

Pat Condell: Ha Ha Islamophobia (YouTube)

“The arrival of Islam in the West has not enriched our society, but set against each other over fundamental freedoms that we used to take for granted.” (TROP)

At the end of the video, Pat Condell calls for a Hatred and Violence in the Qur’an Awareness Month. I’m all for it. Let’s start today and go through December.

Hatred — here’s some from the Fatihah, the first sura of the Qur’an:

“Guide us in the straight path, the path of those whom Thou hast blessed, not of those against whom Thou art wrathful, nor of those who are astray.” (1:6-7)

The traditional Islamic understanding of this is that the “straight path” is Islam — cf. Islamic apologist John Esposito’s book Islam: The Straight Path. The path of those who have earned Allah’s anger are the Jews, and those who have gone astray are the Christians.

The classic Qur’anic commentator Ibn Kathir explains that “the two paths He described here are both misguided,” and that those “two paths are the paths of the Christians and Jews, a fact that the believer should beware of so that he avoids them. The path of the believers is knowledge of the truth and abiding by it. In comparison, the Jews abandoned practicing the religion, while the Christians lost the true knowledge. This is why ‘anger’ descended upon the Jews, while being described as ‘led astray’ is more appropriate of the Christians.”

Ibn Kathir’s understanding of this passage is not a lone “extremist” interpretation. In fact, most Muslim commentators believe that the Jews are those who have earned Allah’s wrath and the Christians are those who have gone astray. This is the view of Tabari, Zamakhshari, the Tafsir al-Jalalayn, the Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas, and Ibn Arabi, as well as Ibn Kathir. One contrasting, but not majority view, is that of Nisaburi, who says that “those who have incurred Allah’s wrath are the people of negligence, and those who have gone astray are the people of immoderation.”

Wahhabis drew criticism a few years back for adding “such as the Jews” and “such as the Christians” into parenthetical glosses on this passage in Qur’ans printed in Saudi Arabia. Some Western commentators imagined that the Saudis originated this interpretation, and indeed the whole idea of Qur’anic hostility toward Jews and Christians. They found it inconceivable that Muslims all over the world would learn as a matter of course that the central prayer of their faith anathematizes Jews and Christians.

But unfortunately, this interpretation is venerable and mainstream in Islamic theology. The printing of the interpretation in parenthetical glosses into a translation would be unlikely to affect Muslim attitudes, since the Arabic text is always and everywhere normative in any case, and since so many mainstream commentaries contain the idea that the Jews and Christians are being criticized here. Seventeen times a day, by the pious.

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sheikyermami December 1, 2012 at 2:38 pm: Two Vastly Different Explanations Re the Coinage of the Term “Islamophobia” (and Never the Twain Shall Meet)

First, the Ontario “Human Rights” Commissions’:

In contemporary usage, the term “Islamophobia” dates from the 1990s. The British Runnymede Report of 1997, titled Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All, defined Islamophobia as “the dread, hatred, hostility towards Islam and Muslims perpetrated by a series of closed views that imply and attribute negative and derogatory stereotypes and beliefs to Muslims” (Kalin, 2011, p. 8). After 9/11, the term was used in a 2002 report published by the European Monitoring Centre on Xenophobia and Racism (EUMC), documenting incidents of violence and discrimination against Muslims in Europe (Cesari, 2011, p. 21). Although contested, the word has come to refer to both anti-Muslim (group of people) and anti-Islam (the religion) sentiments. These may overlap with racism, xenophobia, anti-religious and anti-immigrant views as well (Cesari, 2011, p. 24). Islamophobia does not stem only from the events of 9/11, but is part of the pre-existing ways in which Muslims are perceived as “different” from the larger society.

Second, Discover the Networks’:

The term “Islamophobia” was invented and promoted in the early 1990s by the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT), a front group of the Muslim Brotherhood. Former IIIT member Abdur-Rahman Muhammad — who was with that organization when the word was formally created, and who has since rejected IIIT’s ideology — now reveals the original intent behind the concept of Islamophobia: “This loathsome term is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliche conceived in the bowels of Muslim think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics.” In short, in its very origins, “Islamophobia” was a term designed as a weapon to advance a totalitarian cause by stigmatizing critics and silencing them.

This plan was an outgrowth of the Muslim Brotherhood’s “General Strategic Goal for North America,” by which the organization aimed to wage “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands … so that … God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.” To implement this plan, the Brotherhood enlisted the help of 29 likeminded “organizations of our friends” (one of which was IIIT), whose task would be to depict themselves as civil-rights groups speaking out on behalf of a Muslim American population that was allegedly besieged by outsiders who harbored an illogical, unfounded fear of them — i.e., by a society replete with “Islamophobia.”

Although the term was coined in the early 1990s, “Islamophobia” did not become the focus of an active Brotherhood campaign until after 9/11. Since that time, Islamist lobby organizations (including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR) and Muslim civil-rights activists have regularly accused the American people, American institutions, law-enforcement authorities, and the U.S. government of harboring a deep and potentially violent prejudice against Muslims. The accusers charge that as a result of this “Islamophobia,” Muslims are disproportionately targeted by perpetrators of hate crimes and acts of discrimination.

But FBI data on hate crimes show that the foregoing accusers are wholly incorrect. The incidence of anti-Muslim abuses nationwide has actually declined since September 2001…
See what I mean about existing in alternate realities?

(Scaramouche!)
Pray Hard December 1, 2012 at 5:07 pm: Point being that no matter how it originated, it is a contrivance designed to conflate Muslim issues with the civil rights issues of blacks and to exploit the current spate of commensurate white guilt, political correctness, multiculturalism and fear of offending so as to put us in our place and to keep our mouths shut about Islam. Sound about right?

All I can say is that the Muslims had better ride this pony while they can, because it is coming to an end.
Pray Hard December 1, 2012 at 5:17 pm: “like Mike Tyson is qualified to run NASA”
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH!!!!!!!!!
Hill December 1, 2012 at 5:43 pm: “harboring a deep and potentially violent prejudice against Muslims.”

Well yes, the problem with that statement is the following:

-USS Cole bombing
- 9/11, Pentagon, Fight 93.
-2002, Egyptian gunman kills two Israelis, injures four at the El Al ticket counter at the Los Angeles International Airport.
-2002, the Lackawanna 6 arrested for terrorist connections.
2002, 11 Killed by the (Muslim converts) Beltway sniper.
2003, 11 arrested in Alexandria, Va. for planning attack on US servicemen.
-2006, Muslim men use SUV’s in San Francisco, CA and Chapel Hill, NC attempting to murder strangers.
-2006, Muslim gunman fires on women at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, WA.
-2006, British authorities arrest 24 terrorists planning to use liquid explosives on airlines to attack US targets.
-2006, 7 arrested planning to bomb the Sears Tower.
-2007, 6 arrested plotting armed attack on Fort Dix, Cheery
Hill, NJ.
-2007, 4 arrested in Trinidad plotting to bomb fuel pipelines near JFK airport.
-2009, 4 arrested plotting bombing attacks on New York Jewish centers and attacks against Air National Guard aircraft.
–2009, A solider shot in Recruitment Center, Little Rock, AK.
-2009, Fort Hood.
-2009, Yemeni terrorist attempts to detonate bomb on flight from Amsterdam to Detroit; bomb only ignites, and passengers and crew subdue the terrorist.
2010, failed car bombing in Times Square by Pakistani terrorists.
2010, Pakistani-American arrested plotting bombing attack on Washington subway.
2010, thwarted attempt to bomb multiple US-bound airliners with parcel bombs sent from Yemen.
2011, 2 arrested plotting attacks on a Manhattan synagogue.
2011, thwarted attempt to attack restaurant near Fort Hood with bombing and shooting attack; Naser Abdo arrested.
2012-Benghazi.

and many other examples not listed.

The a fore mentioned gives credence to the cliche, Just because you are paranoid, does not mean they are not trying to kill you.

To distrust Islam and Muslims is merely prudence.
Hill December 1, 2012 at 5:46 pm: @Pray Hard December 1, 2012 at 5:07 pm

Well said.

The manipulation of white guilt. So true.