Ibrahim: The Ugly Truth about Muslim Grievances

Do you know the difference between a supremacist grievance and an egalitarian grievance? This is the key to understanding the widely held claim that Muslim grievances are the source of Muslim violence.

Take the latest Muslim attack on U.S. soil. Last week, Abdul Razak Ali Artan -- an 18-year-old Muslim refugee from Somalia, who was receiving aid from Catholic charities -- rammed his car into a building at Ohio State University. He then got out and stabbed people with a butcher knife. He was eventually shot and killed by a guard; 13 people were hospitalized.

According to the "experts," Artan -- like so many other violent Muslim refugees before him -- had grievances. CNN, NBC, the Washington Post, and many others cited a Facebook post by Artan: "I am sick and tired of seeing my fellow Muslim Brothers and Sisters being killed and tortured EVERYWHERE."

Yet despite this claim of ubiquity, he only cited one nation: "Seeing my fellow Muslims being tortured, raped and killed in Burma led to a boiling point. I can't take it anymore."

The question before us is simple: Was Artan provoked to go on a murderous rampage in America because of grievances concerning the treatment of Muslims in Burma?

For about a decade now, I've argued that the "Muslim grievance" narrative is a myth meant to shield Islamic teachings from scrutiny. Its logic goes like this: if Islam is a religion of peace yet Muslims everywhere are behaving violently, then the explanation we must all cling to is that they are really, really "pissed off" about something being done to them.

Most recently in a message to the West, the Islamic State, instead of disseminating and taking advantage of the "grievance" claim, could not have been clearer: no matter what the West does, the true reason ISIS hates and terrorizes it is because we are infidels.

That said, millions of Muslims -- including Artan -- do harbor strong grievances against the West and others. The problem is that they define "grievance" in a manner incompatible with liberty.

When most Westerners think of the word "grievance," they think in egalitarian terms: X has a grievance against Y because Y doesn't treat X with equality. For example, your boss or your teacher treats you worse -- without equality -- than other employees or students. You then have a grievance which most in the West would say is legitimate: that's because the people of the West were raised on the unique idea of treating others as they would be treated.

This is not the sort of grievance that animates many Muslims - and certainly not those who resort to terrorism.

Rather, they are animated by a supremacist-based grievance: they get angry seeing infidels on an equal footing with Muslims. And they get murderous seeing infidels actually lording over Muslims.

Islamic doctrine, which persuades Muslims into believing they are superior to non-Muslims -- who are even likened to dogs and cattle -- imbues Muslims with this sense of entitlement.

For example, in Pakistan, as Christian children were singing carols inside a church, Muslim men from a nearby mosque barged into the church with an axe, destroyed the furniture and altar, and beat the children. "You are disturbing our prayers. ... How dare you use the mike and speakers?" explained the enraged Muslims. When a Muslim slapped a Christian and the latter reciprocated, the Muslim exclaimed: "How dare a Christian slap me!" Anti-Christian violence immediately ensued.

Islamic grievances are based on what I call Islam's "How Dare You?" phenomenon. Remember it the next time media, politicians, and other talking heads tell you that Muslim mayhem and outbursts of violence are products of grievances. Missing from their rationale is the supremacist basis of these grievances.

Consider the Conditions of Omar, a foundational medieval Muslim text dealing with how "infidels" living under Muslim authority must behave, attributed to the second caliph and close friend of Muhammad, Omar.

Among other stipulations, it commands conquered Christians not to raise their "voices during prayer or readings in churches anywhere near Muslims" (hence the axe attack in Pakistan). It also commands them not to display any signs of Christianity -- specifically listing Bibles and crosses -- and not to build churches. (See Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians, for my translation of "The Conditions of Omar.")

If the supremacist nature of Islamic law is still not clear enough, the Conditions literally commands Christians to give up their seats to Muslims as a show of respect. By way of analogy, consider when Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her bus seat to white passengers in America. Any white supremacist at the time had sincere grievances: how dare she think herself equal?

But were such grievances legitimate? Should they have been accommodated? Similarly, are the endless supremacist-based "grievances" of Muslims legitimate and should they be accommodated

These are the questions missing from the debate about easily bruised Muslim sensitivities.

In Turkey, a Bible publishing house was stormed and three of its Christian employees tortured, disemboweled, and finally murdered. One suspect later said: "We didn't do this for ourselves, but for our religion [Islam] ... Our religion is being destroyed."

In Egypt, after a 17-year-old Christian student refused to obey his Muslim teacher's orders to cover up his cross, the teacher and some Muslim students attacked, beat, and ultimately murdered the youth.

These Turkish and Egyptian Muslims were truly aggrieved: As seen, Islam's Conditions makes clear that Christians must not "produce a cross or Bible" around Muslims. How dare the Egyptian student and Turkish Bible publishers refuse to comply -- thus grieving Muslims into murdering them?

In parts of Indonesia, because it is becoming next to impossible for Christians to build churches, they often congregate outside to celebrate Christmas -- only to be attacked by Muslims hurling cow dung and bags of urine at them as the Christians pray.

In Egypt, the mere rumor that Christians are trying to build, or even renovate, an existing church sets off mass riots and savage attacks on Christians. The Muslims of Indonesia and Egypt are also sincerely aggrieved: how dare these Christians think they can build or renovate a church when the Conditions forbid it?

In short, anytime non-Muslims dare to overstep their Sharia-designated "inferior" status, supremacist Muslims become violently aggrieved.

For if "infidel" Christian minorities are deemed inferior and attacked by aggrieved Muslims for exercising their basic human rights, like freedom of worship, how must Muslims feel about Jews -- the descendants of pigs and apes, according to the Koran -- exercising power and authority over fellow Muslims in what is perceived to be Muslim land?

Of course, if grievances against Israel were really about universal justice and displaced Palestinians, Muslims would be aggrieved at the fact that millions of Christians are currently being displaced in the name of jihad.

Which brings us back to Artan's "grievances." Recall his Facebook lament: "I am sick and tired of seeing my fellow Muslim Brothers and Sisters being killed and tortured EVERYWHERE. Seeing my fellow Muslims being tortured, raped and killed in Burma led to a boiling point. I can't take it anymore."

Note, he was aggrieved because his "Muslim Brothers and Sisters" are being abused. Key word: Muslim. He didn't care about universal justice.

Otherwise, he would have been expressing his anger at the brutal persecution experienced by a tiny minority in his own home country of Somalia. There, any Somali discovered practicing Christianity is ruthlessly persecuted and sometimes butchered, especially by the popular Islamic organization Al-Shabaab -- "The Youth."

Somali Christians share the same looks, nationality, ethnicity, language, and culture as Artan. They are most literally his true "brothers." Yet their unjust persecution didn't matter to him; his sympathies belonged instead with a people in distant Burma who have nothing in common with him other than being Muslim.

And it was that fact -- that "subhuman infidels" dared to mistreat "superior Muslims" -- that so irked the young Somali. Hence why he concluded his Facebook rant with the following sentence -- often omitted by the same media that cited his post as evidence of "grievances": "By Allah, I am willing to kill a billion infidels in retribution for a single disabled Muslim/Musliman."

Incidentally, like Muslim minorities in other nations, Muslims in Burma have long antagonized their Buddhist hosts -- through the usual Muslim-on-infidel attacks, murders, rapes, temple burnings, etc. -- and their current unenviable lot is in great part due to this fact.

In the words of Wirathu, the leading anti-Muslim Buddhist monk in Burma: "If we are weak, our land will become Muslim." The theme song of his party speaks of people who "live in our land, drink our water, and are ungrateful to us," a reference to Muslims. And that "we will build a fence with our bones if necessary" to keep them out. His pamphlets say "Myanmar [Burma] is currently facing a most dangerous and fearful poison that is severe enough to eradicate all civilization."

In other words, the next time you hear that Muslim rage and terrorism are products of grievances -- from cartoons to territorial disputes to the treatment of Muslims in distant nations -- remember that this is absolutely true. But these "grievances" are not predicated on any rational standards of equality or justice, but on a supremacist worldview.

AFAIK, this laissez-faire and non committal by the very ranks of the fourth estate, supposedly bound to us as the arbiter of truth and justice, actually now avidly and joyously seek out division, strife and discontent to destroy those among us who actually see them or what they are.

All for that betterment of their allegiant party of Democrats.

Democrats will never leave their proponents with any resolution or satisfaction beyond that needed to get THAT vote! And once done, they can go f@ck themselves far is their party is concerned.

We’ll know that pro-Islam PC is over when the Trump Justice Department & others announce the dismantling of all Federal programs that are Muslim-specific. The NASA Muslim outreach initiative, for one.

The DOJ will then inform the states that they are on their own when it comes to so-called `anti-Muslim backlash’ against the incoming migrant invasion, and that local communities have the right to enforce standards of conduct.

Then the White House will proclaim the sanctity of the 2nd Amendment & that every citizen has the right to self defense including the use of deadly force.

Just for starters. Muslims and their supremacist ideology will cease to be protected entities.

Christians must not "produce a cross or Bible" around Muslims.

I was thinking about this this morning.

On the one hand as a good Christian I should be praying for their souls and hope they find the truth and grace of Jesus Christ. On the other hand its bad enough having to suffer these people in this life I would not want to run into them in haven.

So I have determined that while I am a Christian I'm just not a very good one, so I will not be "producing a cross or Bible" around any of them. Best they live and die in ignorance so I can be rid of them for eternity.

Yes I am a sinner, I will leave the preaching to the rest of you.

So do I understand? The article is telling me that all these unwashed, goat shagging Muslim imports are under the impression that they are in charge and I and my fellow westerners are their servants. If that is so, they better get ready for some more feeling bad; real bad.

Let me sum up their ‘grievances’. They are unevolved, prehistoric human types who CANNOT cope with, or adapt to, civilization or progress. Therefore they must destroy it. In truth- deep in their subconscious- they KNOW they should have been extinct centuries ago. That is the basis of their hatred- of each other, and everything they cannot control.

NASA Muslim

Yeah maybe outter space is a good place to send the muzzies!

Oh my!

Thanks elcid1970

Target-rich environment.

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Yeah. I'll take the steel tips, thanks.

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