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Baraa's avatar

Great article! I wasn't aware of the paper "Islamist Terrorist Attacks in the World 1979-2021" Thanks for citing it. Additionally, I want to add the following:

One of the main issues with Islam is the fact that it hides under the umbrella of religion even though it's a totalitarian ideology that nests itself into all aspects of life including politics, the economy, military, strategy, and the judiciary system. When a religion says that if you leave it or criticize it you should be killed then it should no longer be treated as a religion. Therefore, parliaments in the Western countries and the European Union should seriously consider the reclassification of what Islam is. When Sharia Law enters the constitution and becomes the dominating source of legislation then it going to be too late because challenging those barbaric laws in court will mean challenging God himself according to Islam. There is an urgent need to stand strong in supporting intellectual criticism of Islam as an ideology just like any other ideology and people who condemn such criticism under the justifications that it incites hate should be constantly reminded what democracy actually means and what made the West they live in advanced and prosperous in the first place. Thank you, Amir! Please keep up the good work.

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War for the West's avatar

Uh, the Muslims declared war on the world 1400 hundred years ago and have endlessly engaged in conquest, enslavement, slaughter and oppression. For anyone tempted to say 'but muh Crusades', watch this video to see that Muslim caliphates invaded the West 500x more than the Crusaders attacked Muslims. https://youtu.be/I_To-cV94Bo?list=PLkIfcgmTjUgAGevalYcGA2d7c4Pxz8DML And even then, the Muslims took over Christian holy lands, not the reverse so the case for the Crusades is much stronger morally than any of Islam's conquests.

As such, Islam is incompatible with Western civilization. It will always seek to Islamize any society in which Muslims are allowed in large numbers. The idea that we can form a stable nation and community with each other is idiotic. The only possibility is for a Muslim who's very secular, denounces Jihad and is okay living in Western nation with our virtues. And that's a small minority of Muslims. Look at global polling data, the majority of Muslims support Jihad against the West. Let them have their premodern, backwards societies. Why do we allow them to use our nations like toilet paper for education and status and money etc? What is wrong with us?

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Connecting The Dots's avatar

Well said...to answer your questions:

"Why do we allow them to use our nations like toilet paper for education and status and money etc? What is wrong with us?"

The west allowed and bought wholesale the liberal/progressive/socialist/communist infiltration/subversion strategies of tolerance and inclusion. They lapped it up like honeyed Pablum.

No thought to what injecting these intentionally radical and disruptive ideologies (political or religious) would do to a homogenous, relatively successful and well functioning society.

We always fail to recognize the incrementalism, operating in the background, until it's too late to stem it.

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War for the West's avatar

I think it's far worse than that. The cultural revolution requires angry groups of people filled with resentment and revolutionary fervor. A devout Muslim is an easy recruit to the politics of resentment. I think they saw this as an accelerant of our destabilization. It's working, we've managed to import the Israeli-Pali conflict to our universities and streets. I believe there is a real desire to bring society tumbling down so a new constitutional order can be implemented by the Leftists/Globalists/NeoCons. They are itching to throw our liberties in the dustbin.

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Bubba Gump's avatar

The word "Islamophobia" itself is absurd. A phobia is an unreasonable fear. Check your dictionary. Since when is it unreasonable to be concerned and even fearful of violent antisocial extremists? Stop importing them.

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Lindsay's avatar

Yes of course the term is a misnomer and a bastardisation of language. Islamophylia on the other hand is a huge problem .

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Karen Hunt aka KH Mezek's avatar

Just discovered your Substack. Thank you for your rational discourse. Much needed in an increasingly irrational world.

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Jon Marr's avatar

Someone said recently “If Islamophobia is the problem. Why are we putting anti-vehicle Barriers and armed police around Christmas markets and not mosques”

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Amir Pars's avatar

I love that! Stealing it.

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90s Liberal lyotom's avatar

moderate muslims are not tackling islamist extremism. secular liberal pluralists must.

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SUE YORK's avatar

Moderate Muslims are scared of Islamist extremists. When will Starmer start to tackle these extremists.? When Lord Ali dies?

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Lucy_Tamb's avatar

I wondered a million times when this lie will die, when people will stop defending islam and start condemning it.

Now I think I finally understood why this lie is so stubborn.

You mentioned the fairy tale The Emperor's New Clothes, where the king walked around naked, but people didn’t admit it because some charlatans had spread the rumor that he was wearing a cloth.

Why did the people believe the charlatans? why was that lie so successful?

Because the charlatans didn’t just tell “the king is wearing a cloth”, in this case would have been easy to debunk the lie. But they said instead: “the king is wearing a cloth invisible to the eyes of fools”. They linked the lie with reputation. And since people care about their own reputation (they care about reputation more than the truth!), they began praising king’s cloth in order to appear clever.

Likewise with islam: muslims didn’t just say that islam is good, they said: “islam is good but looks bad in the eyes of the racists”. And so people started defending islam to avoid being seen as racist.

It doesn’t matter how correct your reasoning is. It doesn’t matter how many atrocities are committed in the name of islam. If you want this lie to finally die, it's not enough to replace the lie with the truth. You also have to replace the reputation of racist with another reputation.

In the fable The Emperor's New Clothes, an innocent child shouts “the king is naked!” and then the voice of truth begins to spread. This is what we need in the real world: a pure voice – that cannot be accused of racism – shouting: “islam is dangerous!” so that criticizing islam can no longer be linked to racism but only to innocence and love for truth.

I think that ex-muslims (or refugees from muslim countries) could be that voice: you should unite, shout about the dangers of islam, break the link “islamofobia=racism” and create a new link “fighting islam = purity”.

The final message should be:

"Awake the innocent child inside of you, do not be afraid to shout out The king is naked!, do not be afraid to shout out Islam is a horror!"

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Lindsay's avatar

Insightful and Exceptionally well said!

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Lucy_Tamb's avatar

Thank you. I wish the ex-muslims will unite one day (sooner than later) and write a warning for humanity.

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BAuteur's avatar

Simply try asking Chat GPT to tell you a joke about Jesus, Buddha or Jews (some of which turn up quite antisemitic) and then ask it to tell you a joke about Muhammed…

Hilarity ensues.

And this can show you how ingrained this fear of criticizing Islam is in today’s society

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Gamma002's avatar

Well done. The greatest threat to the West is Islam. Yes, the Woke turncoats are busy destroying us from within; but when those monsters are done weakening us, the Muslims will roll in and impose a tyranny undreamed of by idiot Marxists who fail to understand that their ideology is worse than cancer.

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קרן ויצמן's avatar

Islam is not a race, therefore islamophobia can't be racist.

A phobia is a non-logical fear of something. I think the fear for islam is proven to be very much logical based on multiple terror events. So also this "phobia" is false.

Islamophobia is a case of utter emptyness.

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Nurit Steinfeld's avatar

Yeah the genocide in Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan are not well documented. Such documentation would perhaps make people hate Islam since they were and are all committed by moslems

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Random Musings and History's avatar

Excellent article!

Frankly, my own concern is that Muslim fundamentalists want to impose Muslim religious law upon non-Muslims, such as by preventing them from engaging in "Islamophobic" speech, if necessary, by force and even murder, even when these non-Muslims themselves don't see anything religiously objectionable from their own perspective about such speech. Maybe such an approach could work in a heavily Muslim country that wants a heavy dose of theocracy, but why exactly should Westerners tolerate this?

And Yes, the Left seems all too willing to defend the motives of Muslims who commit evil, even when it comes to victimless crimes.

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Ani's avatar

This is a really excellent, punchy article. I struggle to understand why and how this particular agenda of Muslims as a protected vulnerable minority came about and how it's taken such permanent root across many parts of society, despite the mountains of historical and current evidence to the contrary (that they victimize rather than are victims, for the most part) and continued stream of heinous acts done on behalf of the faith. I simply think about how life is for minorities in Muslim countries (say Hindus and Buddhists in Bangladesh currently) and compare that to, as you note, the treatment of Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries - the difference is black and white, and makes complete sense given the lack of respect and tolerance offered to other faiths by Muslim ideology (It is a religion that has expanded through conquest and violent suppression of any other faith or ideology). In addition is the constant push (fringe elements perhaps, but its a thick fringe at least) to, in the nations and societies they enter, to expand their presence and attempt to reshape society to suit it - as you say, pushing Sharia and such as broadly as they can - and it is very worrying, moreso that a large portion of society seems to willfully blind themselves to recognizing the issue. I don't see the same issues with other religious groups, at least in my nation - they exist and practice their faith, but do so within themselves and hardly make demands, let alone demands antithetical to a nation's values backed up by the threat of depraved violence. Thanks again for this piece.

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JD Free's avatar

Now do "homophobia".

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XxYwise's avatar

Antisemitism.

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Elizabeth Hamilton's avatar

That cartoon isn’t Charlie Hebdo style in drawing but it is the kind of imaginary scene the magazine regularly depicted. I don’t like it, doesn’t make me laugh or learn anything, but we should all fight to the death to protect the right of people to publish such things.

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Michael's avatar

“Islamaphobia” is like all the other attempts to turn political disagreement into a mental health disorder that the people shouting the word want everyone to believe is a real thing. There is no Islamaphobia or Homophobia or any of the other “phobias” rooted to political ideology. This is indeed a tactic applied by ideologists to make people believe disagreeing with them is a “sickness” that needs “curing” by forced mental restructuring…

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