“Islamophobia” is a propaganda term that is used for two unrelated phenomena: vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women and others. The goal of this conflation is to inhibit such analysis and intimidate people into thinking it’s wrong to oppose jihad terror. If the UN really wants to cure “Islamophobia,” here is an easy way. It can call upon Muslims worldwide to:
1. Focus their indignation on Muslims committing violent acts in the name of Islam, not on non-Muslims reporting on those acts.
2. Renounce definitively, sincerely, honestly, and in deeds, not just in comforting words, not just “terrorism,” but any intention to replace the U.S. Constitution (or the constitutions of any non-Muslim state) with Sharia even by peaceful means. In line with this, clarify what is meant by their condemnations of the killing of innocent people by stating unequivocally that American and Israeli civilians are innocent people, teaching accordingly in mosques and Islamic schools, and behaving in accord with these new teachings.
3. Teach, again sincerely and honestly, in transparent and inspectable ways in mosques and Islamic schools, the imperative of Muslims coexisting peacefully as equals with non-Muslims on an indefinite basis, and act accordingly.
4. Begin comprehensive international programs in mosques all over the world to teach sincerely and with total transparency against the ideas of violent jihad and Islamic supremacism.
5. Actively and honestly work with Western law enforcement officials to identify and apprehend jihadists within Western Muslim communities.
If Muslims do those five things, voila! “Islamophobia” will disappear!
Meanwhile, where is the UN report on Islamic anti-Semitism? On Muslim persecution of Christians? On the persecution of Hindus in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh? Why is one group and one group only singled out for especial solicitude?
“Islamophobia on the rise, according to United Nations report,” by Joseph Hammond, Religion News Service, March 11, 2021:
(RNS) — A new report from the United Nations highlights growing Islamophobia and excessive surveillance of Muslims in countries around the world. The United Nations Human Rights Council report, which was released last week, is unsparing in its critique that governments around the world, including in the United States and China, should do more to combat Islamophobia.
The U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, announced the report’s release at a news conference last week. The report, officially titled “Countering Islamophobia/Anti-Muslim Hatred to Eliminate Discrimination and Intolerance Based on Religion or Belief,” notes an overall rise in Islamophobic incidents around the globe. The U.N. report used the terms “Islamophobia” and “anti-Muslim hate” interchangeably to avoid “condemning all critiques of Islam,” which it said could endanger academic freedom.
Opinion polling shows Muslims are increasingly seen in an unfavorable light. Citing data from other sources, the report notes that almost 4 in 10 Europeans held unfavorable views of Muslims in surveys conducted between 2018 and 2019. A survey of Americans conducted in 2017 found 30% held Muslims “in a negative light.” Yet, the report compiled at least one piece of potentially good news, according to a study conducted by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe: Anti-Islamic attacks peaked in 2017 and have somewhat declined since then, though it was unclear if the sampling size was similar year to year.
The rise of Islamophobia has been driven in part by local conditions in individual countries and regions in which underlying issues such as class and ethnicity often also played a role. The rise of far-right groups is another factor driving an increase in hate toward Muslims. “We welcome the recent report by the United Nations describing Islamophobia as reaching epidemic proportions,” said Erum Ikramullah, a research project manager at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. “These new U.N. findings are in line with ISPU data, which consistently find that American Muslims are the most likely faith group to report facing religious discrimination, at about 60% over the past five years.”
Around the globe, negative and one-sided portrayals of Muslims in the media have contributed to the rise of Islamophobia, according to the report. The U.N. report noted a European Commission against Racism and Intolerance study which found that of 600,000 Dutch news items in 2016 and 2017, the adjectives most used to describe Muslims were “radical,” “extremist” and “terrorist”; in contrast, Dutch people are often described as “known,” “average” and “beautiful.”
The U.N. report’s sharpest critiques were for the policies of particular member states, including United Nations Security Council member states. The report noted that many states around the world sought to “restrict the right to freedom of religion or belief of Muslims; curtail the enjoyment of freedom of religion or belief by limiting Muslims’ other fundamental rights; and securitize Muslim communities and/or their organizations.”
Around the world, Muslim women are more likely to be victims of Islamophobic attacks than men. The report offered strong rebukes to the United Nations Security Council permanent members such as China and the United States. “In China, allegations have emerged that Uighur women are systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured in so-called ‘re-education’ camps in Xinjiang Province.”
Nearly half a million children, most of them Uyghurs, have been forcibly placed in boarding schools and many Islamic scholars have been imprisoned, according to the report.
In the U.S., the government’s Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program was applied to immigrants from “Arab, Middle-Eastern and South-Asian countries” in a manner that discriminated against Muslims, said the report. It also criticized the program for allegedly using Muslim immigrants as de facto spies against their communities.
The document calls for governments around the world to fight discriminatory practices against Muslims across all settings — from police enforcement to the filtering of Islamophobic content on social media. Further interfaith dialogue between communities and outreach programs at various levels are strongly encouraged. The paper also calls for more intergovernmental efforts to combat Islamophobia through partnerships across various U.N. organizations.
Anti-Muslim hate “has inspired harmful policies like the Muslim ban and discriminatory surveillance on American Muslim communities,” said Madihha Ahussain, Muslim Advocates’ special counsel for anti-Muslim bigotry. “This hate has led to threats, violence and worse. That’s why it’s so important that everyone heed this report’s conclusion that all necessary steps must be taken to stamp out anti-Muslim discrimination and bigotry.”…
terry sullivan says
un needs to be shut down–its the enemy
mortimer says
The UN has the potential for great good. It should not be ‘shut down’, since the world would have no general forum for airing grievances.
Wellington says
Respectfully disagree, mortimer, and here’s why: Beyond a certain point, and the UN reached such a point long past, there is no redemption. Recovery is no longer an option. Simply speaking, the UN needs to go—certainly from NYC and better, if it is to exist at all, being located in Tehran, P’yong Yang, Riyadh, Beijing, et al. just to illustrate what a farce the UN has become.
What is needed (possibly, since I am skeptical to begin with of virtually all international organizations) is a third attempt at an international organization, after the failed attempts which have been the League of Nations and the United Nations. AND only full and free polities can join—no totalitarian states, which would of course excuse at least 50, if not 100 or more, of the some 193 nations on earth.
Let’s do it right this time. For a change.
P.S. Since the modern Democratic Party of the USA has been morphing inexorably into a totalitarian party, even the USA is a problematical polity in any new and third attempt at a sane, and decent, and informed, and tough, and free, and knowledgeable international organization which is collectively possessed of moral intelligence and common sense all the while with the might to put teeth into sanctions aplenty against the bad operators in this world. Sadly, I see no such “prospect” on the horizon.
Do you? Does anyone?
gravenimage says
Mortimer, since the majority of nations in the world are unfree, this means that most of the grievances that get aired at the UN are against civilized countries like Israel and the US:
“As of 2013, Israel had been condemned in 45 resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Since the creation of the Council in 2006, it has resolved almost more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel
This would make no sense even if Israel were not a democracy.
David says
I doubt one could air one’s genuine grievances against Islam at the United Nations. Okay to criticise Israel, of course, and accuse it of ‘war crimes’.
toomanyhobbies says
Islamophobia is a certifiable fallacy; a phobia is an Irrational fear.
The fear of Islam which has been murdering its way through history for the last 1400 years (numbers as high as 270 million) is neither irrational or unrealistic but just common sense!
Richard says
Running from terror in north-east Mozambique
An Islamist insurgency in north-east Mozambique has driven more than half a million people from their homes in the past year.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-56365847
While Islamic terrorists are killing, raping, kidnapping, driving millions from their homes, the United Nations is silent on the genocides being carried out by muslims, and instead rushes to defend the murderous ideology that is driving these atrocities.
mortimer says
The situation in Mozambique is REAL religious persecution on a massive scale.
Rob Porter says
mortimer – yes, and concerning this the Muslim-nations dominated U.N. does nothing. Like Islam itself, the U.N. does nothing to promote civilized behaviour, instead promotes injustice such as that of the I.C.C. against Israel. This renders the U.N. a fairly useless organization in respect of promoting peace in the world, and as long as it remains this way it serves little useful purpose.
Regarding “vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims”, these might be “never be justified”, but are entirely understandable as long as ‘unjustified’ Muslim attacks on innocent non-Muslims continue unabated. And as long as Western authorities treat Muslim rapists and jihadists with considerable leniency, if vigilantes were to track down and kill Muslim rapists after police had failed to arrest them (for fear of being accused of ‘Islamophobia’), I would be inclined to applaud the vigilante’s actions.
Ray Jarman says
Why does the UN not mention the thousands of Christians killed around the world by Muslims? (Rhetorical) In this “WOKE” world, I guess that survival is improper and immoral. I have tried to remain silent but this article went beyond all reasonableness. I still have not forgotten how the adhan at 0500 in the morning was almost always followed by mortar and rocket fire from these poor oppressed degenerates from hell in Baghdad and Basrah while I was posted to the US Embassy in Baghdad. In the west, Muslims may be frowned upon by some but they are not slaughtered on their farms, in their beds or in their places of indoctrination of hatred for all non-Muslim as in Nigeria and the Philippines to Christians.
Hoi Polloi says
You’re right. The pope, of all people, won’t condemn them either. Nor do muslim countries condemn the slaughter of their own. It’s almost as if they know their own religion and understand that it commands neverending slaughter and barbarity. Imagine that.
Hadrian says
You know damn good and well that academic freedom will still be breached on grounds of iSlAmOpHoBiA.
The degree of virtue signalling and nannying these people engage in with that bullshit religion is fucking intolerable.
mortimer says
Islam doesn’t permit freedom of expression.
THX 1138 says
Fear of Islam is on the rise? What wonderful good news! People are waking up!
mortimer says
THX may have a point that more people are discovering jihadic terrorism and Islamic supremacism almost 20 years after 9-11. About time. The Islamic countries are also discovering that a huge percentage of their young people are now leaving or have left Islam. The number of apostates from Islam will only continue to rise, since the apostates are leading many others away.
David says
Could the UN investigate why and if there is a justified fear of Islam (Islamophobia)? Maybe take a look at this website, or thereligionofpeace.com for source material, instead of turning a blind eye, and a deaf ear?
tgusa says
Phobia; an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
The establishment types have an extreme fear of islam and jihad terror. That is why they refuse to do anything but deflect regarding jihad terror in their midst. That is also why they label the perpetrators of these incidents mentally ill. The establishment believes that the mentally ill designation is the safest way to do something while avoiding offending islam primarily because the establishment has an extreme fear of islam and jihad terror. They have an extreme fear but they don’t want anyone else to know that. I will admit that I have an extreme aversion to the establishments handling of islam and jihad terror.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Once again, Islam wins the U.N.’s most coveted title of top victimhood status.
In the Land of Make Believe the U.N. is Ground Zero.
mortimer says
Many people woke up to the threat of real Islam when they realized that ISIS is real Islam.
The UN report is thus misleading, because it doesn’t declare WHY people are increasingly skeptical about Islam … because of the JIHAD DOCTRINE, the TAQIYYA DOCTRINE and because of Islam’s inherent MISOGYNY and ANTI-GAY AGENDAS.
Even Leftists now see that Islam is politically incorrect.
Hoi Polloi says
United Nations = some nations united in a funded propaganda campaign designed to further the interests of Islam + some nations that should have pulled out long ago but have politicians who work to both subvert the will and damage the interests of their own citizens.
americanpatriot says
UN should complain, instead of Islamophobia, the rising waves of Islamic terrorist activities all over the world: abduction of girls in Nigeria, killing of non-Muslims in all parts of Africa and the rest of the world, persecution, rape, forced conversion of non-Muslim women and girls in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and many parts of the world, rising migrant crime committed by so-called Muslim migrants in EU, ever-on-going problems of Muslim invaders invading into non-Muslim lands for the only purpose of Islamization of those non-Muslim lands in the world.
UN, ICC, ICJ and its affiliated organizations are now becoming more and more corrupt and being manipulated by OIC and Muslim lobby groups. It is losing its relevance slowly today for an analytical intellectual observer. What a shame and a big joke!
Michael Copeland says
“Muslims are increasingly seen in an unfavorable light”.
This is the consequence of their track record.
Wellington says
UN = Useless Nations. Take it from here.
Vetmike says
‘…islamaphobia is on the rise..’ Maybe because Islamic terror is on the rise.
Del says
Exactly, but the Media and some pandering cowardly Governments and countries make pathetic excuses, likely because they are afraid of the violent reaction they would get from Muslims.
Islamophobia – a valid and genuine fear of being run over by a truck or being stabbed.
Jay says
Is the world finally cluing in?
b.a. freeman says
“The United Nations Human Rights Council…”
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… as indicated by the arabic names of the rapporteur and other involved, is dominated by racist, supremacist, hateful muslims, which means that they are probably pious muslims. statements by a**holes like this should *never* be reported except to be held up for ridicule. the author of the article is unable to even reach its end without repeating lies (more *jews* are attacked than muslims in almost every country in which both are present). and as far as the PRC goes, they are the least likely to be beset by islamic attacks in the future, since they apparently actually recognize the danger of this pirate cult (i judge lying leftists by their actions more than their words, *especially* when they are in control). don’t make the mistake of thinking that i like their mass-murder approach to the cult; i most *emphatically* do not. i do, however, recognize that if there are fewer muslims in a nation because the fascist government, not giving a s**t what anybody outside the country says or thinks, is using mass murder to control the situation, it follows that there will be fewer muslims tormenting them in the future, and therefore a lot less torment. the PRC is simply using the standard hard-core leftist tool of mass murder, and nobody should be surprised.
and finally, it seems strange that the plight of non-muslims in muslim-majority nations has never considered by the UNHRC since the arabs began their chairmanship of it. there are a *lot* more examples of kuffar being murdered around the world than muslim women getting their hijabs yanked off.
gravenimage says
Yes–that the United Nations Human Rights Council has members like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Qatar is just grotesque.
Chrissie01 says
hijab yanked off….you know: I cannot think of any incident in the West where a Hindu woman was attacked because of her Saree, which sometimes also covers the head. These eastern garments are admired for their bright colors and beauty. Never has a Hindu woman declare anyone else a villain for not dressing like her.
But if you constantly yank into my head how virtuous a women allegedly is for wearing a specific garment, and how un-virtuous the one is who doesn’t, despising her origin, traditions and values and trying to implement your own imbecile set of morale, do not be too surprised if I yank that off your head.
Mike says
that’s what they call it
It’s not Islamophobia is the Islam promotes hate and violence
I don’t trust them and neither does a great deal of others
So you call it Islamophobia I call it
I hate these people and do not trust them
Jim says
The Islamic religion hates Christians and Jews. It is not Islamophobia but rather fear of Islam that motivates members of the Christian and Jewish religions.
gravenimage says
New United Nations report claims ‘Islamophobia’ is on the rise
……….
Ah…right. How dare anyone fear or oppose Jihad terror?
Jayell says
One wonders what substances these UN people are smoking in their lunch hour, because they’re clearly confusing the prospect of their Friends from the Holy Shrine of Mecca being quite legitimately advised to take a running jump with strange hallucinations of horrendous imaginary things ‘rising up’ before them. They clearly need professional help including a course in civility and respecting other peoples’ opinions; meanwhile perhaps the UN could be quietly closed down whilst they receive their treatment, assuming they’re capable of benefitting from it?
Stuart A Richards says
Maybe it is on the rise for a good reason?
Gart says
All brought to you by a man named Shaheed, which means witness or martyr in Islam. You can’t make this stuff up.
James Lincoln says
Someone please notify the U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed regarding the following:
There is a direct correlation between the number of worldwide jihad attacks and the rise of “islamophobia” in non-muslim majority countries…
OLD GUY says
Let’s see could Islamophobia be on the rise because non-Muslim/Islamic people are getting tired of the hate and violence Islam promotes. Its about time.
Chrissie01 says
it is a weird thing that Islam is always the victim, isn’t it?
Rohingya, Muslim Indians from the Rakhine state, have been mistreating Hindus and Buddhist for the longest time. In Burma, obviously, just as much as in India. But what do you hear in the media? Poor Rohingya – persecuted.
Here’s the story:
https://hindugenocide.com/political-crimes/massacre-of-myanmar-hindus/