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Of course he knows this, but remember that the pro-Muslim rhetoric is both slogan and ideology.

Not long ago I observed that there is an extraordinary amount of what C.S.Lewis termed “Bulverism” at work on the Left, which is the tactic to defeat an opponent rhetorically by assigning their positions to anything but reasons, to things like their psychology, sex, or color of their skin instead is the cause of their belief, and to statements like “you only say that because...”. If a view is merely the result of some trait then, paradoxically, it is inherently invalid if it in any way against the zeitgeist of the age ... just as it would be unquestionably valid if an approved of consequence of X or Y trait ... this is what Bulverism has become.

So Islamophobia, like homophobia before it (by design I might add), is a charged leveled at people asserting that some fact about them is the cause for their views on Islam or refugees/migrants and not 14 centuries of Muslim aggression or the current crime statistics of England. The unapproved, and therefore invalid, proposition is one comfortable to the Mayor, who does not in fact have to face an uphill battle to dismiss any criticism of migrants and Muslims in particular. The British government, right down to law enforcement it turns out, is stocked to the gills with people who are at a minimum deathly afraid of being considered Islamophobes.

And, since Bulverism has moved on to be even more pernicious than Lewis first described, this doesn’t work both ways for it would doubtlessly be considered Islamophobic to ascribe attitudes of militant Muslims to their Islam simply because they’re Muslim or to describe the surrender monkeys as defending Islam because they are Leftist. Which is to say that the seriousness of the charges only goes one way.

s Big surprise there when dealing with Leftist! /s

So it is right out to observe the history of Islam, or the facts of the crime statistics, or that (as Stephen Coughlin might try) we can demonstrate that they not only say they are doing it FOR Islam and all we have to prove is that these texts that they use define why they fight ... for all of those REASONS are dismissed as Islamophobic because of some mere fact asserted about us and of course we can’t express a competing Bulverism to dismiss their out of hand defense of Muslims because that falls on the wrong side of the approved of narrative.