As we witness U.S. authorities and the establishment media trying to de-Islamize the Jihad in Boulder and to obscure the fact that the Jihadist perpetrator, Ahmad Al Issa, is a Muslim migrant ISIS sympathizer, some vital questions confront us: why does the Left consistently engage in Jihad Denial? Why is it so invested in denying the Islamic roots of Islamic Jihad?
This is, without doubt, one of the most pertinent questions of our time, especially now with the Boulder Jihad — and its tragic victims — hovering right before our very eyes. Jihad Watch has therefore deemed it vital to run, below, an excerpt from Jamie Glazov’s book, Jihadist Psychopath: How He is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us.
The excerpt, which is Chapter 4 of the book (‘Jihad Denial’), explains why the Left must push Jihad into invisibility — and why it is so callous towards the victims of Jihad and Sharia.
This documentation equips us with the understanding of why Jihadists like Ahmad Al Issa are able to sow the destruction that they do today — and so easily. It also sets the foundation for our insight into why exactly the Left practices Jihad Denial — and what all the specious ingredients of that denial entail. These facts will all be unveiled in several published segments of Jihadist Psychopath in our forthcoming issues.
Don’t miss this essay below.
[To read the chapter on what the Left actually is — and why it aids and abets Jihad — read Utopian Virus: HERE. The Virus in Power, meanwhile, explores how the Left took power in America — and why it had such an easy time doing so. Read it: HERE. The introduction crystallizes the general nature of Jihad Denial: HERE — while Chapter 1 details the Obama administration’s horrific record of trying to hide and camouflage the true sources of Islamic terror: HERE.]
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Jihad Denial
The Left’s war on its own host democratic society is greatly enabled by its consistent and focused empowerment of that society’s enemies. As explained earlier, this is precisely why the Left sided with communism during the Cold War and why, today, it works collaboratively with Islamic supremacism within the Unholy Alliance in the terror war.1 Islamic supremacism has simply replaced communism as the Left’s ally against America and the West over the course of the past quarter-century.
The Left well understands that in order to facilitate Islamic supremacism’s assault on our society, it must suppress the ugly, discomfiting truth about this fascistic ideology and movement. Doing so is completely natural for the Left, which has routinely turned a blind eye to evil and to undesirable elements within adversary cultures, ideologies and religions for decades. When Western citizens recognize an ugly truth about an enemy society, it poses a tremendous danger to the Left because (1) the conclusion can be reached that Western society is better and, therefore, worth protecting and defending; (2) the nature of the actual threat the enemy poses and a way to counter that threat can be discerned; and (3) the importance of preventing adherents of the enemy ideology from coming to live on the host society’s terrain becomes plainly evident.
All of the above realizations are anathema to progressives, whose entire mission falls into ruins if citizens of their host society understand the evil of an adversarial system. The Left’s goal of destroying its own society, and of constructing upon its ruins a utopia of perfect integration, equality and sameness, simply crumbles if people take concrete steps to defend their own society from the enemy — which includes recognizing the destructiveness of immigration and refugee policies designed to import hostile populations.
Thus, we begin to understand why the Left is so unsympathetic to the victims of Jihad and Sharia — and why it consistently pushes them into invisibility. Their reality and suffering is bad news for the Left. When people witness the horrific ordeal of human beings tortured and murdered by the adherents of Islamic supremacism, they begin to see Islam for what it is. The Left is determined to stop this from happening, since its agenda cannot succeed if people understand the truth about the threat that they face. This is exactly why the Left engaged in Gulag Denial throughout the Cold War; denying the monstrous evils of communism was crucial for the Left’s war on its own host society, and for its effort to help communists conquer that society.2
And so we have Jihad Denial — the Left’s vehement effort to silence those who dare to tell the truth about Islamic supremacism. The Left has to keep Jihad Denial alive and healthy, so that its plan of building its Tower of Babel on the ashes of its host society can move forward.3 Most important for the Left is the tactic of disconnecting Islam from Islamic terrorism. As has been shown in Chapter 1, and as will be documented further in the ensuing chapters, the Left has succeeded brilliantly in this effort. Indeed, while controlling the culture and framing the national discourse on this issue, the Left has arrogated the moral high-ground to itself when engaging in Jihad Denial, posturing as though it is working toward a society of social justice and fairness, while it paints all Muslims as victims of Western transgressions — even during the height of an age that is replete with Islamic terrorism.
Any person, meanwhile, who dares to whisper any sobering truth about Islam is now immediately shamed and dehumanized. Labelled a racist, bigot and “Islamophobe” who supposedly hates all Muslim people and thinks that all Muslims are terrorists, this individual is caricatured as a mouthpiece of “hate speech” and an inciter of violence against Muslims. He is regarded as someone who needs to be silenced and, ideally, criminalized.4
One transparent example of this atrocious distortion that comes with Jihad Denial is the case of leading counter-jihadist Pamela Geller and the slanders leveled against her. Geller is perpetually cast by the Unholy Alliance as an “Islamophobe” and a “Muslim hater,”5 when in fact she is a noble humanitarian who is motivated not just by the desire to defend Western freedom, but also by an impulse to protect Muslim people themselves — especially Muslim women and young girls who suffer under the vicious barbarities of Islamic gender apartheid. Geller has, for instance, done more on behalf of Muslim women than have any of her slanderers. Emblematic of her efforts was her fight on behalf of Aqsa Parvez, a 16-year-old Muslim girl who was murdered by her Muslim father and brother in an honor killing in Toronto, in 2007. Geller brought attention to Aqsa’s case and had a memorial grove successfully built in the girl’s memory in Israel — after Aqsa’s family and other Unholy Alliance forces had made it impossible for Geller to do so in Ontario.6
Geller’s valiant efforts to bring attention to Aqsa’s fate were part of her overall campaign to shine a light on the shameful practice of honor killings and on the suffering of all Muslim women under Islam in general. Such efforts are symbolized by the page on Geller’s website titled “Honor Killings Grow in the West: Islam’s Gruesome Gallery,” which documents horrific cases in which Muslim women were subjected to honor killings and acid attacks.7 It is worth noting that the members of the Unholy Alliance who smear Geller are the ones who are actually engaged in the hatred of Muslim people, since their assault on this counter-jihadist inevitably exonerates the Islamic ideology that inspires and sanctions the oppression of Muslims themselves — and leaves millions of them helplessly ensnared by the shackles of Sharia. When the Unholy Alliance demonizes Geller, it actually exacerbates the suffering of Muslim people and depicts them as inferior, since it lowers expectations of how Muslims should treat each other and non-Muslims. This way of thinking holds Western societies to a higher standard of moral accountability, which confers an implied civilizational superiority on these societies and civilizational inferiority on Muslim societies. This is a dark form of leftist bigotry that is, with a few exceptions, never discussed in our media and culture.8
The Left used all of these same dirty tactics during the Cold War as well, labelling any conservative who tried to oppose communist aggression and infiltration as a “fascist,” “McCarthyite” and “Red-Baiter” (among other terms) — while making victims and martyrs out of many traitors who were in league with the communist enemy (i.e. the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss etc.).9
Jihad Denial, therefore, is a powerful mechanism through which the Left advances its malicious goals. It assists the Left, for instance, in bringing Islamic supremacist populations to Western shores through Hijrah — the process of Jihad-by-immigration.10 By importing masses of people who hate America and seek to destroy its way of life, the Left succeeds in severely damaging the United States and making it more vulnerable to attack. This explains why President Obama worked so hard to flood the U.S. with Muslim refugees11 and why the Left is now so ferociously fighting Trump’s efforts to protect America from refugees who hail from terror-infested nations.12
By denying the true character and roots of Jihad and Sharia through Jihad Denial, the Left prevents an evil enemy from being exposed and, in turn, enables that enemy. And the Left has been extremely successful in this feat, having imposed Jihad Denial on Western culture to such an extent that we are now seeing the virtual surrender of our civilization in the face of Islamic supremacism. Indeed, the West is now perpetually bending over backwards in its effort to silence any truth-telling about Islam and, of course, to disconnect Islam from every Islamic terror attack. Anyone who tries to point out unpleasant truths about Islam is either demonized or silenced. Many people are simply too scared to say what they see and think about Islam, because they are terrified of being called racists and suffering the consequences of being tarred with that word — consequences that may include stigmatization, marginalization, getting fired from one’s job, being held back in one’s career, being criminally charged, and much more.13
All in all, what Jihad Denial has achieved is to make the real perpetrators the victims, and the victims the perpetrators. Patriotism is now considered hatred — while self-defense is regarded as an incitement to violence against innocents. As a result, the effort to defend Western civilization from Islamic supremacism has been largely paralyzed.
Our next step in evaluating this disaster is to explore how Jihad Denial works as a machine. It is vital to lay bare the main arguments utilized by Jihad Denial, since they are extremely calculating, deceptive, and destructive. In the next chapter, we outline and discredit the specious facades of Jihad Denial.
Jamie Glazov holds a Ph.D. in History with a specialty in Russian, U.S. and Canadian foreign policy. He is the editor of Frontpagemag.com, the author of the critically-acclaimed, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror, and the host of the web-tv show, The Glazov Gang. His new book is Jihadist Psychopath: How He is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us. Visit his site at JamieGlazov.com, follow him on Twitter: @JamieGlazov, and reach him at jamieglazov11@gmail.com.
Notes:
[1] Unholy Alliance is the term this work uses to label the Left-Islamic Supremacist alliance, a phenomenon documented by David Horowitz in Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2006) and on his website/database, DiscovertheNetworks.org. See the description of the alliance in our Introduction. For more discussion and analysis on how the Left aided and abetted communism during the Cold War, and how the Left’s romance with Islamic supremacism as an extension of its alliance with communism, see Jamie Glazov, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance With Tyranny and Terror (Los Angeles: WND, 2009).[2] To see how the Left rooted for the Soviet Union in the Cold War and how it denied the Soviet regime’s barbarities, see Haynes, John Earl and Harvey Klehr, In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005). See also Horowitz, Unholy Alliance; Glazov, United in Hate; and Horowitz, The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America’s Future (New York: Free Press, 2000).
[3] For the Left’s plan to build the Tower of Babel, see Ch. 2.
[4] The efforts to demonize and criminalize truth-telling about Islam in the United States and worldwide are well under way and are discussed in Chapter 1.
[5] For a typical leftist attack on Pamela Geller, see the Southern Poverty Law Center’s slanderous profile of her: “Pamela Geller: Pamela Geller is the anti-Muslim movement’s most visible and flamboyant figurehead,” https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/pamela-geller
[6] Pamela Geller, “Aqsa in Israel,” PamelaGeller.com, August 25, 2011. http://pamelageller.com/2011/08/it-was-a-glorious-day-and-the-dedication-to-aqsa-parvez-and-all-of-the-brave-and-courageous-young-honor-killing-victims-who.html/. See also: Robert Spencer, “The Lonesome Death of Aqsa Parvez,” JihadWatch.org, June 21, 2010. https://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/spencer-the-lonesome-death-of-aqsa-parvez
[7] Pamela Geller, “Honor Killings Grow in the West: Islam’s Gruesome Gallery,” PamelaGeller.com, March 31, 2009.
http://pamelageller.com/2009/03/honor-killing-islams-gruesome-gallery.html/#sthash.lm9vStk6.dpuf
[8] For a powerful discussion of how leftists inferiorize Muslims by holding them to lesser moral standards, see The Glazov Gang, “Christine Williams Moment: The Heart-Wrenching Screams of Dina Ali Lasloom,” JamieGlazov.com, April 23, 2017. http://jamieglazov.com/2017/04/23/christine-williams-moment-the-heart-wrenching-screams-of-dina-ali-lasloom/. For the masterpiece that delineates why and how leftists in the West hold their own societies up to a higher moral accountability than the totalitarian regimes they worship, see Paul Hollander, Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981).
[9] For an authoritative account of how the Left worshipped and made victims and martyrs out of communists, communist spies and sympathizers who were damaging America during the Cold War, see Haynes and Klehr.
10] See Chapter 1 and Robert Spencer, “The Hijrah Into Europe,” Frontpagemag.com, September 4, 2015. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260019/hijrah-europe-robert-spencer
[11] Leo Hohmann, “Refugees secretly flooding into these states,” WorldNetDaily.com, July 19, 2016. http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/refugees-secretly-flooding-into-these-states/
[12] Joseph Klein, “Judicial Overreach on National Security,” Frontpagemag.com, February 6, 2017. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265711/judicial-overreach-national-security-joseph-klein
[13] For a clear example of how people are now not only shunned, but also criminalized, for the crime of telling the truth about Islam, see the ordeal experienced by Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders, who was charged and then found guilty by a Dutch court for his truthful comments about the inordinate number of crimes committed by Muslim migrants. See Gordon Darroch in The Hague, “Geert Wilders found guilty of inciting discrimination,” TheGuardian.com, December 9, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/09/geert-wilders-found-guilty-in-hate-speech-trial-but-no-sentence-imposed. For a solid background on the case see: Hugh Fitzgerald, “Geert Wilders, Or, A Daniel Come to Judgment ‘More In Sorrow,’” JihadWatch.org, November 6, 2016. https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/11/hugh-fitzgerald-geert-wilders-or-a-daniel-come-to-judgment-more-in-sorrow
Walter Sieruk says
The FBI as well as other American homeland security agencies desperately need to lead for the very recent jihadist mass murder shooting That horrendous Islamic evil will , in time. sadly become history.
Nevertheless , as it has been wisely said “If we can’t learn from history then we are condemned to repeated that it.”
There no rational ,sensible reason not to lean for that tragic event . America and Americans don’t need or want another murderous affront committed by a Muslim terrorist or Muslim group of Muslim terrorists.
So that boulder jihad massacre should in any way be overlooked or or forgotten By the officials of US government security organizations but that Islamic disaster should cause those US security agencies to become “more with it”regarding the dangers and disasters posed by the problems of Islamic terrorism.
As Thomas Jefferson had written “Overcoming difficulties is half of what is needed in correcting wrong.”
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jule says
I lost faith in FBI, CIA, National Security during the Obama era built on Clintons NAFTA and Soros, both causing us such danger I am truly scared to death.
A big problem confronting it is that our economic system, which has become Vulture Capitalism rather than Private balanced by Public. does need change and the huge Inequality between a few richest, many rich, and millions struggling and at the mercy of landlords (because we do not own homes) Real Estate has to be tackled. Unless we get some balance back, the left will win with their jihad and the fools will be in for a big surprise at the Real Supremacy of Islam and like what we see in France. Denmark is finally seeing and setting more rules and closing some Mosques. They know it not about Religion but about the Government which Islam is.
The young left is so angry at the income gap and the rule of Vulture Capitalism (and I do not blame them for this. I am one of the struggling though I have worked very hard as a single woman with a disability, and blocked at every attempt to own or find affordable housing in a decent neighborhood such as where I grew up in the 60’s. Its all gone), but how they are trying to change it is so Shortsighted, ignorant, and desperate. .
The border disaster fills me with doom for the country as America (and not because of Race but Economics and more inequality) I wish it were not true, but I see Doom. .
Ade Fegan says
The left hold all the aces
They get to cover up for islam and nobody who really counts can call the left or islam out
We can only hope their house of cards comes crashing down soon
seabird says
3,000 hours of investigation and 156 interviews later, the Police Chief still doesn’t have a clue to why this happened.
It reminds me of a documentary I once saw about 2 young Jewish concentration camp inmates who actually escaped.
When they first went to the authorities their claims to what was really going on in the camp weren’t believed.
Even Jewish people couldn’t believe it.
There are things so evil and horrible people do to each other that others simply don’t want to believe that it’s true.
I think he did it to avenge the Christchurch mosque killings with full “religious” approval snd encouragement.
By Einstein’s definition of insanity, he (and most jihadists) can’t be insane because they do the same thing over and over again expecting the SAME results—and they usually get them.
There’s no mystery here, just the vacant, cold-blooded stare of another satisfied killer.
Pray Hard says
Exactly.
gravenimage says
seabird, Muslims have been waging violent Jihad for 1400 years before the attack in Christchurch, and the shooter there was not even an American.
seabird says
True but he ranted about Christchurch on his website and used the same m.o. (single shooter, mass-casualties).
I don’t think his knowledge of Islam extended beyond 9-11 and believe he decided to kill shortly after the Christchurch massacre-but it’s only a guess-which is more than you’ll ever hear about it from the Govt.
gravenimage says
seabird, your belief that Muslims going on shooting rampages are inspired by the Christchurch shooter is mistaken–Jihadists have used this tactic many times, long before Christchurch.
And as I noted no American was involved in Christchurch.
If anything, this massacre at a supermarket with a sale on Kosher products for Passover had more in common with the attack on the Kosher market in France:
“Paris: Jihadi who killed policewoman takes hostages in Jewish bakery”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/01/paris-jihadi-who-killed-policewoman-takes-hostages-in-jewish-bakery
This happened four years before Christchurch.
Hugh Higgins says
I lived in Boulder Colorado for decades, and shopped many hours at that King Soopers store. Most of my friends there were and are leftists, who no doubt have easily pushed out of their mind the fact that the man who killed their fellow Boulderites did it because he was Muslim and had been indoctrinated by that religion’s hostile attitude toward all Kaffirs or non-Muslims. They just can’t see it and won’t believe that the Scriptures of Islam and its history are violent, and they would not read a book by Robert Spencer no matter how I recommended it. The one who is different from that, awakened, lives in the mountains above Boulder, lucky for him.
gravenimage says
Awful, Hugh.
Walter Sieruk says
” Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
Thomas Jefferson
Pray Hard says
I talk with people all the time about not falling for the cover up, not trusting in Teddy bears, candles, flowers, denials, lies and vigils to solve the problem. I tell them that we need to feel the pain, we need to feel the rage because they are the only things that will motivate us to action. But, even seemingly conservative people simply get enraged and attack me instead. It seems as if it must get literally personal before people awake or begin to awake and I don’t even trust that any longer.
gravenimage says
Sadly not uncommon denial.
PRCS says
Very true.
And so long as our “leaders” and so-called journalists perpetuate the “tiny minority of extremists” line, some of those personally affected by violent jihad simply will not be able to shake that mindset.
And they vote, too.
Grace says
People fear the truth because it could force them into action instead of remaining in the blissful ignorance enjoyed by the worlds lotus eaters. Perhaps to impress them that action against totalitarian rule or constant fear of terrorism would benefit their future and the future of their children
jule says
I think people need to understand that Islam is not a religion so much as a world Government. France sees it now. Denmark sees it now. But if we keep our Economy as the Vulture Capitalist system it has become with such huge inequality, unless we find a balance between private and Public and close the income gap, the let will win and then have to fight Islam and I see nothing but doom. If one hard working person makes $7something an hour, while someone else no better no a person makes $500.00 and up per hour , its hopeless to confront ‘the left’ (of which their are at least 2 factions–greedy globalists delighted with NAFTA vs the young progressives who don’t know how to fight it except for jihad Riot and the illusion socialism gives) Yet the young left are so ignorant of and unwilling to see what Islam is as an ‘ally’ and believe all the propaganda of the ‘Freedom fighter rubbish. They see Islam as successful in making progress with jihad
I USA could make progress in closing the income gap, and striving for real Equality, we could have a chance to stop this. Otherwise, the Ignorant and the greedy side of the ‘Left’ with the same greediness of globalist Right, will destroy us.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Grace.
Hugh Higgins says
Yes, exactly my experience. “All religions are the same, we all want the same thing, Muslims are nice except for a few extremists, I would be a bigot if I thought otherwise..” Etc. etc.
gravenimage says
Pushing the Boulder Jihad Into Invisibility
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Grim truth from Jamie Glazov.
tgusa says
If we pretend it doesn’t exist maybe it will just go away. That is a helluva plan you have there lefties. Stay strong non leftists as the left are literally destroying everything they pretend to support.
gravenimage says
This is indeed a big part of this, tgusa. The willful denial runs deep.
tgusa says
Denying truth and reality leads to bad outcomes and that goes across the board no matter what it might be.
gravenimage says
+1
Hugh Higgins says
Why has this comment not been posted? I posted it about 6 hours ago or more. It was never posted. I just tried to post gain and you say “You already said that.” Not if it wasn’t posted!!!!! I lived in Boulder Colorado for decades, and shopped many hours at that King Soopers store. Most of my friends there were and are leftists, who no doubt have easily pushed out of their mind the fact that the man who killed their fellow Boulderites did it because he was Muslim and had been indoctrinated by that religion’s hostile attitude toward all Kaffirs or non-Muslims. They just can’t see it and won’t believe that the Scriptures of Islam and its history are violent, and they would not read a book by Robert Spencer no matter how I recommended it. The one who is different from that, awakened, lives in the mountains above Boulder, lucky for him.
gravenimage says
Hugh, your comments of 7:15 pm have indeed been posted–see above. The first comment anyone makes on this site goes automatically to moderation regardless of content. You have to wait until a moderator has time to read and approve it–and they may not even be in your time zone, so it can take a while.
After this most of your comments will probably post immediately.
Hugh Higgins says
Thank you much for the explanation. I think I posted here a long time, more than a year, ago. Sorry I was impatient, didn’t mean to post twice.
Clifford Fodor says
The answer is probably because we are dependent on Saudi Arabian oil money to prop up our government. We have Joe Biden installing Muslims in every federal agency. Plus, you also have Muslims in Facebook and Google. You have the fear of Muslims coming after you if you dare to speak out against them.
zeprin says
Why?
Because “The Enemy of America & the Right. is my Friend”. Add that to “If we’re nice to them maybe they’ll like us…”
Aastra says
“Islamic supremacism has simply replaced communism as the Left’s ally”
that’s partially true. In fact, we could see how leftists support commie countries.
basically left is in alliance with both commies and Islamists.
Susan says
The argument is being made about bullying, mental illness and guns.
They have selected a target and the perp will be portrayed as a victim of our islamophobic culture.
OLD GUY says
There is evil in the world, and Islam is a major part of that evil. Until people recognize the danger that islam present many more will DIE.
Howard S. says
I’m confused. How is the “left” defined? I’d appreciate it if someone would define it and concomitantly, “leftist.” Can that be done without using the word “Islam (or muslim)?”
I abhor islamic ideology, but my concern is that many readers and potential allies in the struggle to demonstrate its horrific tenets are needlessly alienated by a false tautology equating left with pro-muslim or soft on islamic terror/jihad.
gravenimage says
The Left sadly often is soft on Islam, ignoring the threat of Jihad terror. This is a genuine concern, and not something that should be ignored.
Anton Savarese says
Yep.. That’s what they are doing..