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You're An Islamophobe and a Racist, Admit It!
December 27, 2024
Should I achieve the notoriety that I expected while I was alive, and that is a big if, my detractors are bound to accuse me—especially those who have not read my books—of being an Islamophobe and a racist, as if Islam was a race and not a religion made up of as many ethnic groups as there are ethnicities.
If you accept my definition of Islamophobia as a rational fear of the irrational then the accusation will have some merit. As to the accompanying, now ubiquitous accusation of racism as an oppressive religion seeks to take on the mantle of defender of the oppressed, it’s a sentiment we all harbour, to one extent or another that is both good and bad. It’s the bad we must guard against, and those who make that accusation in conjunction with a fear of Islam tend to betray a racism of the worst kind.
ISLAMOPHOBIA
(Abbreviated from Fade to Black – Triumph of the Irrational, Boreal Books)
Having read this far, you should appreciate that a fear of Islam is a legitimate fear, not a phobia. It is a rational fear of the irrational.
Fear is what non-believers who get close and personal with the Koran and Allah’s unrestrained visceral hatred and cruelty for their kind will experience, for that is the intent. It is a fear nourished and amplified by the Author’s demand of believers when it comes to dealing with those for whom He has nothing but contempt that they avoid them, enslave them or kill them depending on the circumstances.
We have come to a point in our history where criticism of Muhammad and the god for whom he claimed to speak is equated with insulting Islam, thereby making anyone who would offer a contrarian opinion, such as that Islam is not a religion of peace, a target for reprisals that include threats to life and limb. It does not matter that leaders of men, for whom Allah’s Words are fighting words, agree with you.
Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No-one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels. There is no excuse for any Muslim not to migrate to the Islamic State... joining is a duty on every Muslim. We are calling on you either to join or carry weapons [to fight] wherever you are.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in an audio message made public May 14, 2015
The Islamic State taking Allah’s at His word about being harsh with unbelievers:
9:123 O you who believe, fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them see how harsh you can be. Know that Allah is with the righteous.
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If you can't blow them up or shoot them, try to be alone with the infidel and crush his skull with a rock, knife him to death, run him over with your car, throw him off a cliff, strangle him, poison him… It does not matter whether he is a policemen or a civilian, the sentence is the same. They are our enemies and spilling their blood is justified.
Abou Mohammed Al-Adnani, the second most senior leader of the Islamic State after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Kill everyone; the evildoers are all targets for us. Don't bother looking for a specific target, just kill them.
Dar al-Islam (Land of War) No. 3 (My translation of an exhortation to believers worldwide published in Islamic State's French language signature magazine.)
Through defamation and by threatening murder and mayhem, Islamists have taken control of the message. A key component of that message is that if you fear Islam you are an Islamophobe and you should be ostracized, if not sanctioned. Should you challenge the designation with horrific quotes designed to terrorise from an implacable deity, and its self-proclaimed mouthpiece, expect more accusations that your fear of Islam is unfounded and to lose that fear or else! Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
Those who would accuse you of Islamophobia would like you to concentrate on the smiling faces and ignore the guns. Don’t!
AFP-JIJI: "Combination of pictures showing the five gunmen who carried out the July 1, 2016 attack in Dhaka, during which 20 hostages were slaughtered at a restaurant, posing in front of a flag of the Islamic State group at an undisclosed location." Image may be subject to copyright.
If we are losing the battle, it is partly because of discussion-ending accusations of islamophobia and racism and laws that make criticism of a person’s religious beliefs a crime. After the London bombings of July 2005, the British government saw to it that no serious discussion about the Book or the man, that were the inspiration for the slaughter of 54 British citizens ever took place by silencing critics of Islam with threats of fines and imprisonment. The British government, sought to appease would-be cold-blooded mass-murderers through a Munich-like Faustian bargain in the face of opposition from Muslims themselves.
We also recognize that a free society must have the scope to debate, to criticize, proselytise, insult and even ridicule belief and religious practices in order to ensure that there is full scope – short of violence or inciting violence or other criminal offences - to tackle these issues.
From a plea by an alliance of Muslims, Christians, humanist, secularist urging the British Parliament to reject legislation limiting the rights to criticize religious beliefs and traditions.
It silenced critics of Islam with threats of fines and imprisonment. A tacit bargain was struck with those for whom terrorism is a means to an end. Put away your bombs, guns and knives and you will be allowed to recruit, largely unopposed, in our corner of the Land of War (anywhere the Sharia is not the law of the land).
The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 was given royal assent on February 16, 2006. From one day to the next, the country that fought a world war to preserve us from genocidal fanatics became a more tolerant and intolerant society; more tolerant of religious zealots and less tolerant of their critics.
An illustrative caution from a British publisher who considered taking on Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice before the subway bombings:
With the new race and religious hate laws coming through [after the London bombings] it could be considered illegal if Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice is deemed an attack on a person’s religious belief.
The West has implicitly, if not explicitly, accepted Islam’s argument that limits should again be placed on criticism of religious beliefs, thereby allowing militant Islam to advance almost unchallenged. This gradual surrender of hard-won fundamental freedoms in the face of religious intolerance is slowly neutering the most effective weapons against the spread of this type of tyranny: freedom of expression and freedom of speech.
I you are accused of being an Islamophobe wear the label proudly, you’re the rational one.
YOU'RE A RACIST. ADMIT IT!
(Abbreviated from Canada – The Fractured Nation Interviews, Trafford Publishing)
Johnny: Let’s talk about your world now that Canada is no more. Do you think the creation of the North American African-Caribbean League was a good thing?
Maude: Not really, but it was inevitable.
Johnny: Inevitable! Why?
Maude: During troubled times people will seek refuge with people they trust. Canadian multiculturalism encouraged people to look to their ethnic communities for support. When the troubles came, that is what they did. All those government sponsored commercials railing against racism actually encouraged it by accentuating our differences instead of why we should trust each other. A trust that comes from knowing we share the same values no matter the color of our skin.
The North American African-Caribbean League became a sanctuary from the real and imagined threats posed by the “others.” It is a cliché worth repeating, understanding brings down barriers, fear creates them.
Johnny: Yet, you leave this safe sanctuary to go out and speak against oppression of women of all races. Why?
Maude: Because they are all my sisters and they are in trouble.
Johnny: Isn’t this a form of racism, racism against the male race?
Maude: The male race? That’s a bit of a stretch even for you Johnny. You should be careful when using that emotionally charged word. It has been my experience that those who accuse others of racism tend to harbour racist sentiments of the worst kind.
Johnny: I am not a racist.
Maude: We are all racist to one degree or another. Faced with a choice in saving a member of our race as opposed to another, we will tend to save one of our race, the same way a mother faced with the choice of saving her child or her neighbours will tend to chose her own. We do it without thinking. What I call pre-meditated, cold-blooded racism is what we have to guard against. Racism that promotes hate; that promotes ideas that one race is superior to the other in all things … that sort of thing. To love your race is okay. To hate or demean other races is not.
Johnny: You won’t get an argument from me there. However, I don’t agree with your statement that faced with a black and white choice, no pun intended, between saving a member of our race as opposed to a member of another race we will tend to save one from our race. I think we will save the one that we consider a friend, whatever his or her racial make-up.
Maude: Johnny, Johnny, Johnny … you continue to surprise me. If what you are saying is that we should all be friends, you won’t get an argument from me.