[ April 24, 2024 ]
Dalia Mogahed, ISPU’s director of research, blames this on “internalized Islamophobia.” According to her, “Muslims have themselves internalized negative stereotypes about their own community” based on the media.
In reality, Muslims, like everyone else, can see the behavior of Islamic jihadis, Muslim rapists, etc. They, like everyone else, don’t see the same kind of behavior coming from Jews or Christians or Hindus or Buddhists. So now Mogahed is hitting members of her own community for having their eyes open to reality. This is madness, and yet large numbers of people on the left will believe every word she says.
“American Muslims Accused of Islamophobia,” by Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Magazine, May 11, 2018:
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Muslims have a serious Islamophobia problem.
That’s the claim being made by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding which found that 30% of Muslims believe that Muslims are “more prone to negative behavior.”
That’s far higher than Jews at 13%, Catholics at 12% and Protestants at 11%.
18% of Muslims, the poll found, believe that Muslims are “more prone to violence”. Only 15% of Jews, 12% of Catholics and 13% of Protestants believe that about Muslims. The only group more likely to believe that Muslims more violent than Muslims are white evangelicals at 23%.
Dalia Mogahed, ISPU’s director of research, blames this on “internalized Islamophobia.” According to her, “Muslims have themselves internalized negative stereotypes about their own community” based on the media. Even though the media covers Muslims far more positively than any other religious group.
Mogahed was picked by Obama for his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. She’s collaborated with Muslim Brotherhood front groups and has been accused of mainstreaming them.
And her claim of internalized Islamophobia makes no sense.
Muslims are far less likely than any other religious group to believe that they discriminate against women. Only 12% of Muslims think that’s a problem compared to 23% of Jews, 29% of Catholics and 36% of white evangelicals. If Muslims have “internalized” Islamophobic ideas, it’s odd that they haven’t internalized the most popular criticism of their religion, the one that a quarter of the general public agrees with, but that they instead do admit that Islam has a serious problem with violence.
Either Muslim internalized Islamophobia is an extremely selective thing. Or Muslims don’t think sharia discrimination is a problem, but are unable to ignore the pervasive violence around them.
The ISPU statistics rank Muslims in America as being at 17 on the Islamophobia Index. Jews and Catholics clock in at 22. The general public at 24. And white evangelicals break the bank at 40.
Non-affiliated respondents score a 14 on ISPU’s Islamophobia index. That would make Muslims more Islamophobic than Americans with no religious affiliation.
Can one be more Catholic than the Pope? Or less Islamophobic than a Muslim?
It’s natural to question the validity of any statistical measurement of Islamophobia which finds that Muslims are almost as Islamophobic as Jews and Catholics, not to mention the general public.
Either there’s something wrong with Muslims in America. Or with the idea of Islamophobia.
Faced with two unappetizing possibilities, Mogahed and her allies decided that Muslims in America suffer from Islamophobia (and it’s America’s fault) rather than that the idea of Islamophobia is a hoax.
The ISPU report attempts to blame the media for some Muslims recognizing their violence problem.
“Since there are several million American Muslims, the probability that a member of the community actually knows someone personally involved in violence is next to zero. Instead like everyone else, American Muslims are getting their perception of Muslims and violence from the media, not personal experience,” the report claims.
That Muslims get their perception of Muslims from the media, is a rather strange claim. The media is also heavily biased toward Islam, not against it. It always strives to portray Islam as an unambiguously positive phenomenon while insisting that Islamic violence has nothing to do with the religion.
That’s why the non-Muslims in the poll reject the linkage between Islam and violence. They’re the ones who are being influenced by the media. And their views reflect the messaging of the media.
Whether or not the average Muslim knows someone involved in violence, the odds are fairly good that he or she originates in the first or second generation from a country with a serious terrorism problem. Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Turkey, Somalia, Chechnya, Jordan and Lebanon account for much of the Muslim population of the United States. All of these countries either sponsor terrorists or experience terrorist attacks. Political and religious violence is either ongoing or just under the surface.
Dalia Mogahed is Egyptian. And so she ought to know how that works.
Most Muslims come from countries torn apart by political and religious violence. Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Iraq and Libya, to name five countries that many Muslims immigrated from, are in a permanent civil war.
Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are a bad week away from getting there.
Does ISPU really think that Muslims get the idea that their culture has a violence problem from the media rather than from the fact that their home countries are in the midst or on the verge of genocide?
These are the absurdities that the Brotherhood’s Islamophobia industry expects us to swallow.
Islamophobia is a Muslim Brotherhood invention. And the Brotherhood has a history of using it to call other Muslims Islamophobes, from the Egyptian government to American Muslims like M. Zuhdi Jasser, and others, who like the 18% of Muslims in the poll, admit that there’s a problem. Given a choice between Muslims and Islamophobia, the Islamist establishment unsurprisingly picks Islamophobia.
The poll results and the response to it highlight a very real problem. And that’s the inability to deal with criticism of Islam even when that criticism comes from within. Islamic blasphemy laws police criticism in Islamic countries such as Iran and Pakistan. And accusations of Islamophobia police criticism abroad from non-Muslims and even from Muslims. Islamophobia has become a Takfiri term used to call out other Muslims for their willingness to speak out when they see something wrong within Islam.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s goal is to first consolidate control over Muslims and then non-Muslims.
Islamophobia accusations are not just a tool of external repression, but also of internal repression. Its method of linking any criticism of Islam to Islamophobia, to racism and colonialism, enlists the left in the Muslim Brotherhood’s project to silence Muslim critics by accusing them of bigotry and prejudice.
The ISPU report gets at that directly by claiming that “Islamophobic Muslims” may be “portrayed as more ‘anti-terrorism,’ ‘pro-democracy’ or passionately ‘patriotic,'” but actually support “discriminatory policies toward Muslims.” The obvious targets here are the Muslim critics of Brotherhood groups.
Can Muslims really be Islamophobic or discriminate against Muslims? What the ISPU report is really getting at is that Islamophobia exists apart from Muslims because it’s not really fear of people, but of Islamic doctrines. Islamophobia isn’t meant to protect Muslims, but to protect the doctrine of Sharia.
If Muslims can be Islamophobes, then Islam isn’t a population, it’s a doctrine. And Muslims who question the doctrine can be accused of Islamophobia, not for discrimination, but blasphemy.
The left claims that accusations of Islamophobia protect Muslims from discrimination. But as the ISPU report shows, accusations of Islamophobia can actually be used to discriminate against Muslims.
Islamophobia is a manufactured term that suppresses criticism of Islam by non-Muslims and Muslims.
If Muslims have an Islamophobia problem, it’s a very good problem to have. Societies don’t grow by killing their critics with machetes (Bangladesh), stabbing them (Iran) or hanging them (Pakistan).
They grow by learning from them.
When 30% of Muslims are willing to admit that their culture has a problem, that’s healthy. And when the Muslim Brotherhood and the left silences them by calling them Islamophobes, that’s the phobia.
Not a phobia of Islam. But a phobia of criticism, of change and of truth.
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22 Comments
5 years ago
You cannot have an irrational fear of people who actually want to kill you.
5 years ago
Reply to
ZbOROVAN Painter
how does this not sink in to people’s heads?……..they scream bloody murder on worldwide TV!…it is not like this crap just started happening
5 years ago
Reply to
ZbOROVAN Painter
muslims are so totally stupid as to think non muslims are stupid as they are, believing the garbage of islam. The only reason many muslims say they believe, is that if they say they don’t, they become apostates, which is frequently punished by death in islam.
5 years ago
A always, Ms Geller sums it up far better than me.
ALL Muslims have to get on board as they consolidate.
Either you are a Muslim for TERRORISM or you are an apostate Muslim for not endorsing Muslim terrorism.
5 years ago
Great news!
– some Muslims now regard the anti-social behavior of Islamists
– as being ‘ego alien’
– https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/ego-dystonic
– these Muslims now reject Islamist anti-social behavior
– as being outside their own selves
– and being against their own personality, values, and goals
– in contrast Islamists think of anti-social behavior as ‘ego-syntonic.’
– meaning, part of themselves, and part of their own personality, values, and goals
– when people give up a negative behavior
– they usually see the negative behavior as ego-alien [aka ego-dystonic]
– and they don’t want to do that behavior anymore
– so it is good to see some Muslims thinking that way
5 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
I’d like to believe that…..but the Qu’ran says different…if they say they are Muslim, worship Allah and Mohammed and they are called on to kill infidels….and they do not….then they themselves are targeted to be killed.
They even kill their own…especially the women, for stepping outside of Islam in any category….
I’d like to know who wrote that entry in the “medical-dictionary” and what their goals were in writing that…..
5 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
We all have things that are ‘ego-alien’
– an alcoholic hits bottom, and says
– “that’s not me, I can do better”
– a woman drinks too much
– and wakes up in a stranger’s bed
– and she says, “that’s not me, I will never do that again”
– and a US Muslim teenager looks at her headscarf
– and says, “that’s not me, I won’t wear that”
5 years ago
Look you particularly stupid muslims, read your own toilet paper called the “qur’an” For your information as most muslims have not read the qur’an nor have the first clue as to what’s in it. To begin with your serial rapist and murderous mutgonad, police beat upon him, states 109 hate statements. Violence, rape, theft, all forms of sexual perversion and inhumanity practices are mentioned. If all the hate and threats plus promises of divine retribution are eliminated, there is a rather thin pamphlet of insipid dishwater philosophy. Then there is the media, it reports on a frequent basis that the way islam is followed by todays muslims is criminally insane violence especially against, but nor limited to, non muslims. There is nothing irrational about the fear leading to hatred of muslims,, they have earned it.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Read Michael Youssef’s book: JESUS, JIHAD, AND PEACE.
He is a former Muslim from the ME…became a Christian, came to America, and founded the Church of the Apostles in Georgia. He often appears on Fox News and Fox Business News…
He says that of the billions of Muslims only about 15% of them are literate and can read. According to the Qu’ran it is required to be read in Arabic…..so the 85% of illiterate Muslims have to depend on Imans to tell them what the Qu’ran says…that gives the Imans immense power over masses of illiterates…..
I say start taking out the Imams…
Amazon has inexpensive Yousseff books that are easy to read. I learned so much from them. He also says there is no such thing as a “moderate muslim”…any Muslim who is called to kill an infidel must do so or face being killed themselves.
My favorite one is “The Prayer That God Answers”.
5 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
The really stupid part of reading the qur’an in its original arabic, is many of the words have different meanings, there is no rational way to tell from the text what meaning is meant. The few muslims that do pretend to understand the qur’an will perpetuate the myth as it is part of their business plan to tax the stupid.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Lots of words in the English language can have different meanings but the context makes it pretty clear what meaning is meant in any given situation, similarly, the sum total of the vile garbage found throughout the holey texts of islum makes it crystal clear it is evil.
5 years ago
A phobia is an irrational fear.
A critical reading of the Quran can (will) elicit a rational fear of Islam.
“Know your enemy.” The Art of War by Sun Tzu
5 years ago
If we worry about words like Islamophobia, then our democracy is already compromised.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
The same thing with the word “racist”…..People who hated Obama for his policies and his Muslim Marxist Globalist goals….were called racists and they cringed and shut up…it’s a Saul Alinsky 101 trick to shut down descent….it wouldn’t have mattered what race or color Obummer was…..if someone called me that I’d say “prove it”….and as they stood there looking stupid….I’d laugh.
D
5 years ago
Even paranoids have enemies 🙂
5 years ago
American muslims must only be in the first few chapters of the Koran. Later, they will change their tune because the Koran says they will.
D
5 years ago
Reply to
Sunshine Kid
There was a study done as to the behavior of muslems as they in-habit an area – – village – town – city – state – country. I comes down to the percentage (%) of muslems in the area. The higher the %, the more the Christianaphobes act out against the general public and begin to FORCE their IDOL worship upon others.
5 years ago
“Islamophobia is a word created by fascists, used by cowards to manipulate morons.”
If this study were true….then all those muslims in the “study” would be tagged as apostates and scheduled for execution by other muslims…..another FAKE NEWS study….
5 years ago
That’s not saying too much for the IQ of 87% of Jews, 88% of Catholics, and 89% of Protestants when 30% of muslims think muslims are prone to violence. I’ts not saying very much for the 30% of muslims that are aware of the violent tendencies of muslims but just sit on their hands instead of saying something. I also prefer to use the term “awareness” as opposed to having a “phobia”
