Opposition to “Islamophobia” is now “Islamophobic”!
A total surrender to jihad violence and unqualified acceptance of Sharia oppression of women and others seems to be the only thing that will satisfy Azeezah Kanji.
“The coloniality of Canadian Islamophobia – and anti-Islamophobia,” by Azeezah Kanji, Al Jazeera, July 2, 2021:
In the wake of the latest fatal targeted assault on Muslims in Canada – the third in four years – “anti-Islamophobia” is being used as yet another tool to consolidate the Islamophobic status quo.
Political leaders have shed tears for the Afzaal family mown down in London, Ontario on a public street, while maintaining policies that brutalise Muslims largely out of sight: increasing military spending; selling arms to states that slaughter Muslims; attempting to deport Muslim refugees to the risk of torture; and spending millions of dollars to fight the compensation claims of “War on Terror” torture survivors in court.
Politicians across the political spectrum have embraced the use of counterterrorism to combat “right-wing extremism,” further entrenching legal weapons wielded overwhelmingly against Muslims in the name of protecting Muslims. For example, when the Proud Boys were listed as a “terrorist entity” earlier this year, nine other Islamist-identified groups were also quietly added to the list – exacerbating the list’s Muslim-centrism under the cover of anti-racism.
Criminally charging the London perpetrator as a terrorist does not rectify the counterterrorism “colour line”; it masks it. Nathaniel Veltman, the man who mowed down the Afzaal family in London, is being prosecuted for an act of killing already committed, while Muslims are criminalised pre-emptively for acts distant from any death or injury at all. This has produced a situation in which Muslims, responsible for less than 10 percent of casualties from public political violence in Canada since 9/11, have been subjected to 98 percent of completed terrorism prosecutions.
If Veltman were to have been treated “equally” to a Muslim, he and members of his entire family and community would have been harassed regularly at their school and work by security agencies, denied security clearances for playing paintball, surveilled in their places of worship, targeted for entrapment while struggling with mental illness, placed preventively under suffocating “peace bond” conditions without trial, and put on no-fly lists on the basis of name coincidences and racist stereotypes: draconian state powers that should not be “equalised” but dismantled.
In the days following the attack, Canadian media aired an almost constant stream of Muslims being interviewed about their trauma, grief, and fear – ostensibly “humanising” Muslims, without questioning why and how the humanity of Muslims became something that needed to be proved.
Previous mosque massacres – Quebec in 2017, Christchurch in 2019 – barely garnered a few minutes on the CBC nightly newscast and a marginal mention on the front page of the national Globe and Mail. Now, while the quantity of coverage has drastically changed, the qualitative framing remains mostly the same. Islamophobia is distorted as an issue of interpersonal “extremism” and “hate,” largely dissociated from everyday state practices premised on and profiting off the devaluation, demonisation and disposability of Muslim life.
Indeed, some of the very same “national security experts” responsible for legitimising the demonising discourse of “Muslim extremism” are now being treated as authorities on how to fight anti-Muslim extremism….
somehistory says
Tsk, tsk. This is the same line that the racists endorsing crt are spewing and spouting.
If one is “anti-racist” it really means they are racist. Now, if one is “anti-the fake phobia” moslums whine about constantly, that makes one a dreaded “phobic” regarding the filth of islam.
According to this “lawyer” and mozlum, the only way to “fight” this dreadful “phobia” is to completely look the other way when mozlums are doing their things: the terror stuff, the lies, the hoaxes, the terror stuff, more terror; don’t put their names on any watch lists, or investigate their orgs, or anything that even might, somehow, maybe, perhaps, be viewed as mozlums can’t be totally trusted with whatever one might wish to question.
If a White guy pulls a knife, and a mozlum pulls a bigger knife, just ignore the mozlum and chase the White guy till he drops the knife and his half-full jar of Jif. Or Peter Pan.
If a White guy says he “hates”…no matter what comes after, be it mosquito bites or flat tires…arrest him, and when the mozlum says he hates Jews and wants them all dead, just ignore him, because to do otherwise is just too dreadfully “phobic.”
Sometimes, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Sometimes, when the greasing job doesn’t work, the wheel is tossed onto the garbage. Time to toss.
gravenimage says
Somehistory wrote:
Tsk, tsk. This is the same line that the racists endorsing crt are spewing and spouting.
If one is “anti-racist” it really means they are racist. Now, if one is “anti-the fake phobia” moslums whine about constantly, that makes one a dreaded “phobic” regarding the filth of islam.
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Grimly true, Somehistory.
Waldman says
I believe that the recent death ( deliberant run-down by vehicle) of Policeman in Toronto was committed by a muslim. Very little MSM or political reaction about this aspect – except for normal reaction to death of any on-duty policeman, was there any other motive except to escape??
Del says
Any mention of the Muslim driver has been dropped as of Monday morning. It is obvious that the Media are terrified of the usual violent reaction by Muslims.
Wellington says
Many past tragic eras in man’s history, but this is the first ridiculous one, and highly tragic in its own way as well.
I sometimes think we are in a high-tech version of the darkest ages in Western history—from around the 5th century AD (it’s arguable to take it back to the age of the Barrack Emperors of the 3rd century AD) to as late as the 11th century AD (with the Northumbrian, Carolingian and Ottonian Renaissances duly noted as exceptions as well as something like the reign of Alfred the Great). I mean look at the plethora of idiots now running the West, examples being Biden (and his handlers like Rice, Klain, Obama himself and Biden’s execrable own wife), Trudeau, Johnson, Pope Francis and Merkel, for partial confirmation of this hypothesis.
But it’s far worse than this. The West right now is in high self-destructive and high self-loathing mode—and for no good reason. What? For Islam? For the idiocy which is Western Leftism (which is just warmed over Marxism in sundry ways)? For Antifa? For BLM? My God, what a waste. How effing stupid can you get? Meanwhile, the Western MSM along with academics en masse in the West are getting more foolishly tendentious and obliterating by the year, though they of course are oblivious of this.
Conclude mankind is so very often a collective idiot and “matters” will become clearer in any accurate explanation of our time. Holy Hell, why hasn’t mankind, all of it, figured out by now that 1) democracy, 2) freedom accompanied by responsibility, knowledge and moral intelligence (this will exclude people like Madonna and LeBron James, wealthy parasites both, and increasingly, I am inclined to believe, the entire Democratic Party of the USA and RINOs aplenty), 3) capitalism—the only economic system that has ever produced wealth for society at large, and 4) a true Golden Rule for all (can definitely rule out Islam here) is the optimal way for the Homo sapiens species to proceed?
Ain’t there yet. How stupid. What a waste—and leading the way into continued idiocy in our time are Islam, Western Leftism and your standard authoritarianism as evidenced by that Russian control-freak, Putin, and the thugs under Xi running China. Oh yeah, what a waste. Mankind can’t do any better than this? Really?
Infidel says
Let’s de-construct this term. It means someone opposed to the irrational fear of islam. Putting aside for a moment that there is nothing remotely irrational about fearing (or better yet, opposing) islam, someone opposed to being anti-islamic would be muslims or their leftist/PCMC allies themselves. Yet, Azeezah Kanji sees them as being the problem? As usual, logic eludes her, just like it does most muslims
Greg Gutfeld came out w/ a term ‘islamophobiaphobia’, which means an irrational fear of being perceived as islamophobic. Now, that makes sense – where people suppress any details of a perp being muslims b’cos they’re afraid of being accused of being islamiphobic. Unfortunately, even on the right, I see few people willing to call islam out for what it is. Tom Tancredo was the exception, and he’s history. Maybe I can hope from MTG or Lauren Boebert?
somehistory says
yes, she should see herself as a big part of the problem. In fact, she should see all mozlums as being the source of the problem of being “anti-islamophobic.”
Like a snake eating its own tail, she is.
somehistory says
terrorism is a weapon designed to make people fear, so why not embrace the fear they say people exhibit?
gravenimage says
Because some people might fight back–or even just criticize Islam for being so violent. Neither is allowed under Shari’ah.
Peter says
Muslim/Quranic I N F I D E L O P H O B I A is the real problem.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
“A total surrender to jihad violence and unqualified acceptance of Sharia oppression of women and others seems to be the only thing that will satisfy Azeezah Kanji.”
And also the only thing that will “satisfy” Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Trudeau, Jack Dorsey, Joe Biden and everybody at CNN.
mike says
yep rule thru fear creates Islamophobia
and now Muslims are becoming more brazen
gravenimage says
Canada: Muslim lawyer says ‘anti-Islamophobia’ is ‘yet another tool to consolidate the Islamophobic status quo’
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More proof that no amount of pandering is *ever* enough for Muslims.
mortimer says
KAFIR-O-PHOBIA (the canonical hatred Muslims are commanded to direct against dirty kafirs) is called AL WALAA WAL BARAA.
Islamic APARTHEID imposed on Canadians would be OK.
By giving Islam a SPECIAL STATUS above criticism, the Lib-JIhadist Party of Jihadi Justin Trudeau will make Islam the DE FACTO leading religion in Canada … Islam will then become the DE FACTO OFFICIAL RELIGION of Canada … above criticism.
No criticism of JIHAD AGAINST CANADIANS will be tolerated. The JIHAD in Canada will go forward without any opposition thanks to the Lib-Jihadist Anti-Kafir Party.
mortimer says
What’s that ??? “The coloniality of Canadian Islamophobia” ???
No … it’s the coloniality of colonizing force of Islamic supremacist KAFIR-O-PHOBIA.
mortimer says
No religion should ever be ABOVE CRITICISM, because people do evil things that deserve criticism in the name of their religion or behind the cover of their religion.
When anyone commits evil deeds using religion as a pretext, we NEED THE FREEDOM TO CRITICIZE THE RELIGION THAT CAUSED THE DEEDS.
Evil-doers deserve to be criticized or their abuses will be repeated.
Jack Cade says
Islam is evil. The Koran makes sense if you understand that Allah is another name for Satan.
Giacomo Latta says
”while Muslims are criminalised pre-emptively for acts distant from any death or injury at all”
Islamophobia-speak meaning caught in the act of planning an act of terrorism before the objective of killing as many people as possible was attained. So far this is Canada’s only success story.
*The ”Toronto 18”, a bunch of illiterate and near brain-dead muslims caught due to the work of local police forces (a rarity) and retailers of explosive fertilizer wondering why a bunch of teenaged non-farming halfwits need so much fertilizer.
*Two muslims planning to blow up a passenger train passing between the US and Canada who decided to include the FBI on their plans.
Yes, pure discrimination (or is it racism) against poor muslims. You go to a new country and you can’t even do a thing to make it seem more like home. Stay close to your phone. Any second you may get a call from Trudeau detailing how much he is sorry to hear how your dreams of crushed. Here’s $300,000 and remember to vote Liberal.
OLD GUY says
Really tired of hearing about islamophobia from people who support beheading, child rape and honor killing if your offended by your wife or daughters.
Criticism or Islam goes way short of what should be done to protect the non-islamic people of the world from them. Islam is not just a cult type religion it is a political ideology of world dominance.
Terry Gain says
Any ideology that demands that it cannot be criticized should, on that account alone, be criticized. Dislike of Islam is not a phobia. It is based on a knowledge of the fact that Islam has both a doctrine and history of conquest.
If Muslims want Canadians to have a more kindly attitude toward Islam they need to examine the Koran and remove the antisemitism and the exhortations to violence and the justifications of violence. If nothing remains, except that which has been borrowed from Judaism and Christianity, then so be it.
Canadians are woke to Islam
gravenimage says
Agreed, Terry.
Jack Cade says
Typical Muslim belief: A and not-A can be true at the same time. The inbred hatred of non-Muslims transcends any amount of Western education in the vast majority of Muslims.