Washington Post uses Muslim convicted on terror-related charges to smear evangelicals

This is the Washington Post’s idea of a “moderate Muslim”: Ismail Royer, who was stopped by police in September 2001 with an AK-47 and 219 rounds of ammunition. He fired at Indian positions in Kashmir for Lashkar-e-Taiba, a group declared a foreign terrorist organization in 2001 by the United States government. In 2004, he was convicted of weapons and explosives charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He served 13 years. Before that, he worked for Hamas-CAIR.

But the WaPo now sanitizes his background and presents him as a Muslim who opposes “extremist ideologies.” Did he use this magnificent platform to speak out against Hamas-CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hizb’Allah? Of course not. He uses it to smear evangelicals and play the victim. Once again the enemedia portrays Muslims as the victim — the perennial victim whose ideology is the savage wholesale slaughter of “islamophobes.”

“Muslims like me don’t have theological beef with evangelicals. It’s the prejudice against us that’s the problem.,” by Ismail Royer, Washington Post, February 12, 2018:

Last month, my wife and I joined a small group of Muslims and thousands of Christians at the annual March for Life in Washington to call for an end to what we believe is the unjust murder of unborn children in America. My wife’s hijab attracted interest, but we didn’t feel out of place among marchers, many of whom were white evangelicals.

Despite our deep theological differences on other issues, we were at home in the company of fellow believers.

Yet, the Muslim presence at the March is perennially small, even insignificant. In fact, Muslims also decline to join forces with conservative Christians on other traditional social causes such as opposing same-sex marriage.

While research suggests that American Muslims overall are significantly more liberal than white evangelical Protestants, there remains a significant pool of conservative Muslims who in a parallel universe would consider evangelicals their natural allies.

That parallel universe could have existed if the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, hadn’t unleashed a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment. Without that, many Muslims would make common cause with evangelicals, something I hope is beginning to happen in America.

[How the National Prayer Breakfast sparked an unusual meeting between Muslims and evangelicals]

The absence of American Muslims from the social conservative space is a result in large part not of theology but of mistrust and even animosity between them and evangelical Christians. When I told a Muslim friend I was meeting with evangelical leaders to get ideas for greater Muslim participation in the March for Life, he asked incredulously, “Why would you talk to Islamophobes?”

His reaction was understandable. There is a widespread sense in the American Muslim community that American foreign policy is influenced by evangelical antipathy toward Islam, as in the decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. A 2017 poll from the Pew Research Center found that two-thirds of white Evangelicals believe that Islam is not part of mainstream American society. Such views manifest in diverse ways, as in opposition to mosque-building in local communities, anti-Muslim screeds on social media and bans on travel from Muslim countries….

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Bobdole10

6 years ago

Beware of a Christian who doesn’t follow his religions teachings. Beware of a mooslim who does.

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Suresh

6 years ago

Reply to  Bobdole10

Agree. Here’s some great news from fast turning Jihadi hellhole Australia . Judge bans Muslima from court for wearing the Burkha and Left/Liberal pro-jihadis howl in protest http://bit.ly/2nRdtgd

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Liatris Spicata

6 years ago

Muslims like me don’t have theological beef with evangelicals. It’s the prejudice against us that’s the problem.

It’s always about us, our victim hood, isn’t it, Ismail. Good thing Jews, Irish, Chinese, immigrants to these shores never encountered any prejudice or discrimination. Otherwise widespread terror would have been endemic in the US for generations. And this doesn’t begin to touch descendants of slaves or American Indians, who, with their distinct Navajo language, fought with distinction during WW II.

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Achmed Mohammedan

6 years ago

“Why would you talk to Islamophobes?” I’m making book, and offering ten to one odds that what was really said was, “Why would you talk to infidels”?

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bargogx1

6 years ago

Right, it’s only 9/11 that caused the “anti-Muslim sentiment”. Nothing at all to do with all the other terrorist attacks, constant attacks on freedom of speech, constant demands for accomodation and appeasement, the totalitarian aspect of Islam, the testimony of numerous ex-Muslims, the fate of Molly Norris, Theo Van Gogh, and numerous others, the attempt on Pamela’s life, etc.

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Yankee '42

6 years ago

Thank the Lord for making the internet so we can understand the evil and the many forms of the great whore, that church that’s run by the enemy of all righteousness.

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Thorsten

6 years ago

… “moderate” monster worshipper, “amputate hands” https://quran.com/5/38-40

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Thorsten

6 years ago

Fascist#1, https://quran.com//quran.com/3/141 https://quran.com/9/30 “… may Allah destroy them” (‘disbelievers’, Jews & Christians) through Muslim hands as mafia godfather’s ‘test’ https://quran.com/8/17

… the ‘worst of creatures’ https://quran.com/98/6-7

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Thomas Faddis

6 years ago

If there were an Olympic even in contorted illogical mental gymnastics, the mozlems would dominate the gold medals, lol!

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

There is never going to be any peace until people start looking at what they have in common, then working on it, rather than pissing and moaning about differences. muslims are the worst of the worst as they have very low intelligence to begin with, then islam itself teaches then that they are the “best of all people” the qur’an validated every hedonistic crime imaginable by saying that things like rape and murder bring a muslim closer to alla.

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John Forbes

6 years ago

STILL the Americans refuse to examine the Teachings of ISLAM & REFUSE to differentiate between Political Islam & the Faith,
C.A.I.R with IBRAHIM HOOPER & others along with Linda Sarsour trash Trump & AMERICA & are allowed to do so under the auspices of Free speech.
BUT should anyone else expose the duplicity & lying by C.A.I.R as being Taquiya ( MUSLIM SANCTIONED LYING) out comes the Islamophobia Card & racist & Bigot cards!
WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jane Dowe

6 years ago

Typical WaPo. Make the enemy look like the victim.

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R. Arandas

6 years ago

Reply to  Jane Dowe

Almost all liberals use that tactic.

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R. Arandas

6 years ago

Washington Post has long been a stronghold attracting those who hate conservatism and love Islam, just look at their comments. Try Washington Times instead, it is staunchly conservative and realizes the true nature of Islam.

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