Mamdani apologists play the fake Islamophobia card.

JNS ^ | Jul 1, 2025 | Jonathan S. Tobin

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Mamdani apologists play the fake Islamophobia card. The liberal media and others spin attempts to call out the Democratic mayoral nominee’s hatred for Israel as hatred for Muslims.

It didn’t take long for the Democratic Party’s media cheering section to demonstrate how far the Overton Window had moved among liberals with respect to antisemitism. Centrist Democrats and the liberal Jewish establishment were genuinely shocked by Zohran Mamdani’s victory in last week’s Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City. Within days, however, it was clear that legacy outlets reflecting mainstream opinion on the political left weren’t going to tolerate much in the way of criticism of his extremist views about Israel and the Jews.

Within days, it was clear that anyone who claimed that Mamdani should be rejected out of hand as a possible mayor of New York on the grounds of stands that were, at best, antisemitism-adjacent or, at worst, open endorsements of Jewish genocide, rather than the candidate himself, were going to be the ones under fire. Within 48 hours of Mamdani’s win, The New York Times was already using the word “Islamophobic” in headlines to describe his critics.

Legitimizing antisemitism

It is fear among Democrats about being labeled as Islamophobic that explains why so few prominent members of the party and officeholders are refusing to condemn Mamdani now that the 33-year-old New York state representative has become their party’s nominee. That’s not just smoothing his path to victory for a fellow Democrat, despite the horror that many New Yorkers feel about him. It’s also achieving something the political left has been assiduously working toward, especially since the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab attacks on southern Israeli communities on Oct. 7, 2023: the legitimization of antisemitism in the American public square.

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Greer, S. (2023). Falsely Accused of Islamophobia: My Struggle Against Academic Cancellation. United States: Academica Press.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Falsely_Accused_of_Islamophobia/yBqVzwEACAAJ?hl=en

In 2020, Steven Greer, an internationally-renowned human rights scholar, was falsely and publicly accused of Islamophobia by the University of Bristol Islamic Society (BRISOC). In July 2021, he was officially exonerated without equivocation or reservation from all BRISOC's allegations. Nevertheless, the University of Bristol, cancelled the Islam, China and the Far East module of his human rights course just as BRISOC demanded.

In an almost unbelievable twist of fate, in January 2022 Professor Greer was appointed the first Visiting Research Fellow, and later Research Director, at the Oxford Institute for British Islam, a newly established progressive Muslim think tank and research academy. In this book, Greer documents his struggle to avoid physical harm, resist dismissal, salvage his reputation and career, maintain his livelihood, regain the trust and respect of his colleagues, and counter betrayal by the very institutions he had every right to expect would leap to his defense. His inspirational story will encourage many others to take a similar stand for free inquiry and debate in an age of cruel, shameless, unaccountable, and groundless censorship, vilification, and victimization.

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Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences.

The sociological concepts and theories examined in the book include those associated with social closure, social movements, nationalism, risk, fear and ‘de-civilising’. These are applied within three main themes; characteristics of militant Islam, multi-layered causes and the consequences of militancy, in particular Western reactions within the ‘war on terror’. Interrelationships between religious and secular behaviour, ‘terrorism’ and ‘counter-terrorism’, popular support and opposition are explored. Through the examination of examples from across Muslim societies and communities, the analysis challenges the popular tendency to concentrate upon ‘al-Qa’ida’ and the Middle East.

This book will be of interest to students of Sociology, Political Science and International Relations, in particular those taking courses on Islam, religion, terrorism, political violence and related regional studies.

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Rose, F. (2014). The Tyranny of Silence. United States: Cato Institute.

Journalists face constant intimidation. Whether it takes the extreme form of beheadings, death threats, government censorship or simply political correctness-it casts a shadow over their ability to tell a story.
When the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad nine years ago, Denmark found itself at the center of a global battle about the freedom of speech.
The paper's culture editor, Flemming Rose, defended the decision to print the 12 drawings, and he quickly came to play a central part in the debate about the limitations to freedom of speech in the 21st century. In The Tyranny of Silence, Flemming Rose writes about the people and experiences that have influenced his understanding of the crisis, including meetings with dissidents from the former.

[brownsfan]

It’s a play that works in urban America. Those chanting “free Palestine” will rush to the polls to vote for this guy.

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It works on campus too.

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Islamophobia created by..



Fear



911

[bgill]

They need to rush over to throw themselves at Hamas’ feet. Especially the women. Yeah, I said it. Have them hold their phones to document for their cohorts back in the US what happens to them. Stop the insanity.

[antidemoncrat]

Taqiyya is the practice of hiding or concealing one’s religious beliefs and practices when faced with persecution or danger.

A speciality of Islam

[albie]

I’m “islamaphobic” and damn proud of it!!

[Socon-Econ]

Fear of Islam is not a phobia. The radicals cannot get along with other religions. The non-radicals will do nothing to help the victims of the radicals or to oppose the radicals.

[Ex-Con777]

It’s not that he is a Muslim. It’s that he is a radical communist.

Someone needs to remind me why Joseph McCarthy was wrong.

EC

[Kudsman]

Guess ‘racist’ has lost it’s zing for good then? Islamophobia, the new clarion call of scoundrels.

[airborne]

A "phobia" is, by definition, an irrational fear" of something.

There is nothing irrational about fearing the evils of Islam!

[DownInFlames]

Piloted by Muslim hijackers.

[albie]

It’s was more than 3000 people by the way

[bk1000]

Islam is evil, plain and simple. There is no “phobia”.

[FlingWingFlyer]

New Yawkers are lining up to apologize to Zoltar Madmani for blaming 9/11 on the Muzzie Terrorists.

[Freeleesy]

Indeed

[JimRed]

Islamophobia

PHOBIA: Excessive, extreme, irrational, fear or panic reaction about a situation, living creature, place or object.

Simplified, an unreasonable or unwarranted fear. Since it is neither unwarranted nor unreasonable to fear a socio-political system masquerading as a religion which demands that you be subjugated, enslaved or killed if you reject it, Islamophobia does not exist.

[BFW]

There is no such thing as Islamophobia. When free people do the math, do the reading, see the truth for them selves. They come to the only conclusion possible that islam, moslems are a clear and present danger to any and all free intelligent thinking people of the world. I have been literately saying this for years and I will keep saying it. Google knife attacks, (vehicle, truck, car attacks),* google bombings, google rape gangs, google hostages, google mass homicides, google fire bombing** and the overwhelming majority will have a moslem, or a palestinian involved as the perpetrator. We all know that islam is a death cult and criminal mafia like organization. ...do the searches and then you decide what a moslem is. *Added May 26, 2025 ** Added June 1, 2025

[Cronos]

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[Freeleesy]

Tits and women’s breasts and paradise. How sick and twisted they are. Some idea of “holiness..”