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Islamophobia Is a Myth
nationalreview.com ^ | Jan. 9, 2015 | Brendan O'Neill

Posted on 01/10/2015 7:57:11 AM PST by PROCON

Why do liberals fear the working class and ignore anti-Semitic murder? Because they are bigots.

The British press has never seemed as out of touch as it is today. All our broadsheet papers are packed with pleas to the people of France, and other European populations, not to turn into Muslim-killing nutjobs in response to the Charlie Hebdo massacre. The Guardian frets over “Islamophobes seizing this atrocity to advance their hatred.” The Financial Times is in a spin about “Islamophobic extremists” using the massacre to “[challenge] the tolerance on which Europe has built its peace.” One British hack says we should all “fear the coming Islamophobic backlash.” And what actually happened in France as these dead-tree pieces about a possible Islamophobic backlash made their appearance? Jews were assaulted. And killed. “Don’t attack Muslims,” lectures the press as Jews are attacked.

Across Europe, among the right-thinking sections of society, among the political classes, the response to the massacre of the cartoonists and satirists has been the same: to panic about how Them, the native masses, especially the more right-wing sections of the French population, might respond to it. The blood on the floor of the Charlie Hebdo offices was still wet when brow-furrowed observers started saying: “Oh no, the Muslims! Will they be attacked?” It’s the same after every terrorist attack: from 9/11 to 7/7 in London to last year’s Sydney siege to Paris today: Liberals’ instant, almost Pavlovian response to Islamist terror attacks in the West is to worry about a violent uprising of the ill-educated against Muslims. The uprising never comes, but that doesn’t halt their fantasy fears. What’s it all about?

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One FReeper had an apt tagline that said:

Islamophobia - the irrational fear of being beheaded.

1 posted on 01/10/2015 7:57:11 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

If you are not Islamophobic, then you are doomed to be one of their victims.

There is a lot to fear from Islam.


2 posted on 01/10/2015 8:01:12 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: PROCON

Islamophobia translates into a fear of Islam. What’s the word for not fearing Islam, but despising Islam? Not everyone who speaks against murderous Islam is afraid of Islamists.


3 posted on 01/10/2015 8:01:12 AM PST by abclily
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To: PROCON

I’ve been carrying two more extra magazines for self defense purposes.
Don’t want to have to go to a neighbor’s house to ask if I can borrow a cup of bullets.


4 posted on 01/10/2015 8:02:35 AM PST by Sasparilla
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To: abclily

The word would be ‘’anti-Islamic’’.


5 posted on 01/10/2015 8:03:51 AM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: abclily
What’s the word for not fearing Islam, but despising Islam?

Commonsense.

6 posted on 01/10/2015 8:04:01 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: PROCON
I'm thinking Steve Allen here, on the Tonight Show, a quadrillion years ago.

Guest: I don't believe in psychiatrists.

Allen: Oh, but I've seen them.

7 posted on 01/10/2015 8:04:09 AM PST by GreensKeeperWillie (There are things so foolish that only intellectuals can believe them. - George Orwell)
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To: PROCON

The media is doing precisely their mission as part of the Marxist Agenda: keep the masses tranquilized.

We saw the textbook case four months after 9-11. We saw it after Benghazi. We’re seeing it again now.


8 posted on 01/10/2015 8:06:12 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Old Sarge
Thomaspainaphobe!!
9 posted on 01/10/2015 8:06:58 AM PST by GreensKeeperWillie (There are things so foolish that only intellectuals can believe them. - George Orwell)
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To: GreensKeeperWillie

Okay, I saw what you did there...


10 posted on 01/10/2015 8:10:30 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Old Sarge

Perhaps “Crusader”?


11 posted on 01/10/2015 8:10:55 AM PST by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: PROCON

It won’t be long before the MSM will be too afraid to print anything bad about Islam - no more atrocity stories.


12 posted on 01/10/2015 8:16:08 AM PST by SkyDancer
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To: GreensKeeperWillie

I made a similar joke at a party when one woman told me that she “didn’t believe in credit cards”. She didn’t get it.


13 posted on 01/10/2015 8:16:17 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: PROCON

I see nothing good with Islam or what good there is— certainly is overwhelmed by the evil connected to it.

The scale is weighted to the negative side, so it is not irrational to view Islam negatively.


14 posted on 01/10/2015 8:17:24 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: SkyDancer

That is why the internet more then ever will be very, very important in the passing along of info.


15 posted on 01/10/2015 8:19:00 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: PROCON
A "phobia" is an "IRRATIONAL FEAR".

Fearing a para-military cult disguised as a religion is NOT irrational.

It is COMPLETELY RATIONAL!!!

16 posted on 01/10/2015 8:20:29 AM PST by airborne (My heroes don't wear capes - My heroes wear dog tags!)
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To: Old Sarge

So...if “phobias” are so bad, why don’t straight people shout “hetero-phobia” when they are criticized. Or..Christians shout “Christo-phobia”?
Afterall, the level of anger, even foaming at the mouth rage, directed toward those who are not gay or Islamic fits the definition of a phobia quite well!


17 posted on 01/10/2015 8:20:47 AM PST by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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To: PROCON

In the early 80s, I remember taking my kids to the neighborhood park and seeing my first muslim-garbed woman with her kids playing on the swing. I thought to myself, “Never seen this before.” And that was essentially the extent of my thought after wondering if she was hot, seeing as how it was nearly 95 degrees in the shade. I didn’t think to be afraid.


18 posted on 01/10/2015 8:22:22 AM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: PROCON
Islamophobia:

If one believes that one is in danger because something bad is about to happen, then it is rational and appropriate to be afraid.One then uses that fear to avoid certain situations.

If one feels that he is being treated unfairly or being hurt or taken advantage of, then it is rational and appropriate to feel anger.The anger becomes motivation to change the situation.

19 posted on 01/10/2015 8:23:50 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: sportutegrl
She didn’t get it

Frugal AND clueless.

Do you have her number?

20 posted on 01/10/2015 8:25:01 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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