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March 12, 2007
On Controlling What Can Be Said About Islam And Jihad
Topics: DhimmitudeDavid Thompson addresses the problem of what amounts to thought control by Islamists and their apologists, in what he refers to as "The Passive-Aggressive Jihad" - how efforts to control what can be said about Islam and by extension what can be thought about it - have been recast in terms of supernatural sensitivity and an allergy to criticism. No less shamefull is when it is framed as a reaction to racism:
As, for instance, when the Abu Bakr Jamia mosque in Cambridge invoked a "compassionate and merciful" Allah to intimidate staff and students at a Cambridge college, while describing an innocuous student newspaper as "hate speech" and an "incitement to ethnic hatred." Or when that tragicomic convert to Islam, Yvonne Ridley, pompously declared: "My faith is my nationality and when you attack it you are being racist." Some have resorted to other, no less tendentious, ploys; most recently with the notion of "cultural racism" - a term that's used freely in certain quarters and without clear definition, but which nonetheless imprints on the reader an unmistakable suggestion of nefarious intent.Bone up on how the islamists and that Islamoapologists exercise victimhood in claiming that they are victimised by words, even statements of fact, in order to shut down criticism of their beliefs, acts, and agenda - by continuing to read all of "The Passive-Aggressive Jihad.""The word 'Islamophobe' - like its pseudo-synonym, 'racist' - has acquired the status of a declamatory WMD. Deploying the term, even by vague insinuation, can generally be counted on to shut down the frontal lobes of pretty much anyone on the left, like some rhetorical kryptonite."
Posted by Abdul at March 12, 2007 2:49 PM
Islamophobia is a fear of Islam, right? So why would I fear Islam. If I dislike the spiritual ideas it presents and do not prefer to keep the company of its practitioners does that mean I am afraid of them? I would propose instead that my dislike is rather more like Islamoloathia. I loathe the spewers of vile filth who practice hatred of Jews and Christians as part of their religion, I loathe the head cutters for the animals that they are and I loathe the people who put guns in the hands of children and teach them hatred. All of these things are disgusting displays of a religion that purports to be peaceful. Peaceful? Yeah... right... pull this leg and it plays jingle bells!
Posted by: Rick at March 13, 2007 10:47 AM
You're right on point there,Rick. No one fears Islam, but they damned well better fear and be determined that we face and deal with the religious fanatics that make up a large and growing segment of Islam. Islamophobia is a conjured up term to make Muslims seem like victims, instead of the victims that are created by the Islamists.
They, the jihadists, may think we just fell off the turnip truck yesterday, but we didn't, and we're not buying what they have to sell!
Posted by: Richard at March 13, 2007 11:00 AM
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