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.
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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.
PHOBIA: an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
Is is irrational to fear those who call for you to be killed if you do not submit?
Is it irrational to fear those who cut off the heads of those who do not renounce their Christian beliefs?
Is it irrational to fear those whose religion calls for them to lie to all who are not of their faith, in order to deceive and eventually destroy their opponents?
Is it irrational to fear those who strap bombs to their bodies and blow themselves up on buses and in crowds?
Is irrational to fear those who wish to destroy our Republic, and impose Sharia Law?
Is it irrational to fear those who are setting up camps across our border to train terrorists?
Is it irrational to fear those who lie and slander Christianity and Judaism, and seek their extinction?
Is it irrational to fear those who hide among us and teach hatred in their mosques?
Sorry we do not have a phobia. We have a clear view of those who wish to destroy us both Radical Islam and the Socialist Agitators.
This one statement ought to be enough for the USA to drop out of the UN and boot them off our soil.
The only statement worse was GWB's assertion that "islam is a religion of peace" pieces.
Is the UN referring to the Islamophobia of the Yazidis and Christians being tortured, enslaved, and murdered in the Mideast?
Moehamhead, his Satanic Koran and it’s Heinous, murderous commandments, his sidekick, allah, and of course, Islam are the root cause of worldwide terrorism.
They attack us because they know we don’t like being attacked by them.
We suffer from islamo-nausea.
The UN causes terrorism.
Reminds me of when I was a kid my folks used to ponder when they met a couple where the husband was a drunk and had a nagging wife; “Does she nag him because of his drinking or does he drink because of her nagging?”
Still, I think there would be no “Islamophobia” if there were not so many Muslim terrorists, not the other way around.
Even if true, would we rather have more terrorists - in Somalia and Yemen - or fewer terrorists but in San Bernardino, Orlando, and at the Boston Marathon?
He’s actually right. Under Islam, ANY resistance to the spread of Islam, or the increasing dominance of Muslims, is seen as justification for terrorist violence. The purpose of terrorism is to intimidate the subject population into submission.
More proof that the UN has overstayed its welcome.
“ISIS is practicing Islam exactly how Mohammed did and instructed in his” books. Fixed. The five books are the koran, Talibari, Muslim, Isaq and Bukhari. Cannot read the first without the other four.
Some day, maybe, folks will learn that the UN is a globalist construct....
The UN is now in the same place as The REST OF THE FAKE NEWS Perveyors.
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