Posted on 02/13/2017 1:10:07 PM PST by PROCON
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres thinks he's got terror figured out: apparently, any rule that can be perceived as taking issue with Islam will "fuel terrorism." While not a direct quote, Guterres does say regulations like President Trump's travel ban will create more terrorists:
“One of the things that fuel terrorism is the expression in some parts of the world of Islamophobic feelings and Islamophobic policies and Islamophobic hate speeches,” Guterres said at a joint news conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir.
“This is sometimes the best support that Daesh can have to make its own propaganda,” Guterres said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS. “So, we need to have a comprehensive approach to fight terrorism, including creating the conditions for societies that are multiethnic, multi-religious, multicultural, to be inclusive, to be cohesive, investing in the conditions to make diversity a richness, not a threat,” he concluded.
...
Guterres’ comments regarding Islamophobia follow his criticism of the U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration restrictions that many political observers characterized as Trump’s gift to ISIS and other terrorist outfits.
First, Guterres needs to understand that most Americans who aren't raging progressives don't really care what he thinks of most things. In particular, the idea of a ban against certain people is hardly new, as many of his member states do just that to Jews. Further, Trump issued a moratorium rather than a ban, since it was only for 90 days, and the moratorium only covered seven countries, but whatever.
The thing Guterres needs to understand more than anything, however, is how backwards he has this.
"Islamophobia" would be defined as irrational distrust and fear of Muslims, when what we are seeing is a common-sense response to terror committed by Muslims and praised by Muslims. Very, very few people are responding in a bigoted manner.
Discussions about Islam simply weren't a thing pre-9/11 as a general rule, despite terrorism's long assault on the West. Not in the United States, at least. Sure, there are exceptions to that, but as a rule, none of us really cared one way or another. Today, many people feel differently.
However, remarkably few of those people who feel differently did so as anything other than a reaction to watching thousands of people die live on their televisions back in 2001, or during any number of other attacks since then. We've been targeted, so we need to respond.
Whether "Islamophobia" creates terrorists or not, it's perfectly clear that Islamic terror forced people to discuss how to stop, you know, Islamic terror.
And the fork made me fat.
Nobody wear a short dress to the UN.
3000 deaths on a sunny day in NYC is the cause of our wariness. Islamaphobia is a made up word.
And HIV causes, predominantly, unprotected anal sex between men.
And there would have been no holocaust if not for all those Jews.
Yet another reason to get out of the Useless Nothings.
Good thing our president doesn’t give a flying #### what this A@@hole or soros or anyone else on the left thinks.
Get that ####ing building out of my city. Like yesterday.
Islamophobia is a made up term to squelch any discussion of what Islam is and teaches.
Islam has been waging jihad on the rest of humanity since 622 A.D.
ISIS is practicing Islam exactly how Mohammed did and instructed in his book.
This is what the “religion” really looks like.
We need to spread the truth of Islam far and wide and make it as unacceptable as Nazism is today.
It is not irrational to fear evil
Islam is evil.
BS terrorism is caused by Islam and deranged mad men who just happen to be Muslim. Unfortunately just about every terrorist fits this description. Hell of a coincidence, eh?
No.
Following islam causes terrorism.
Very much like rattlesnake bites.
So Christianphobia is gonna cause Christian Terrorism......
Quick someone tell Hollywood before it is blown to bits!!!!
Well said, Grace.
Yep and analogous to the liberal mind set: American men should be getting vasectomies because the illegal aliens in this country keep having too many babies.
“UN Secretary General Claims ‘Islamophobia’ Causes Terrorism”
I do believe this to be fact. And actually there is much evidence to support this.
For example, Holocaust victims suffering from ‘Naziphobia’ were more apt to be terrorized before being gassed. Those loving the Nazi’s simply went to the gas chamber.
“UN Secretary General Claims ‘Islamophobia’ Causes Terrorism”
No, Secretary General. Islam, not Islamophobia, causes terrorism. If you really believe your own bull next time you fly volunteer to sit next to the guy with a beard and a tablecloth on his head hunched over the suitcase on his lap.
So 9/11 happened because the US is full of Islamophobes? I wish they had told us that 15 years ago. We could have been nice and no more terrorism. /s
A talking point meant to set the stage-God forbid there is an attack on our soil. Before the smoke clears and the bodies go cold they will blame Trump and his policy of hate.
|
What I have is not a phobia. It’s a fear and loathing that my grandchildren will have to live in a world as F’cked up as any Islamic country on earth, or worse, a country the Islamics are in the process of overthrowing when they reach the critical mass number of 51%. That’s not a phobia. It’s not a phobia of heights when your car crashes through a guardrail and you are plummetting to your death.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
