My latest in PJ Media:
A few years back, there was published a book which purported to show that there was a sinister conspiracy to defame Islam being pursued by a cabal of racists and xenophobes. It was absurd from the beginning, as the only reason why anyone has any problem with Islam at all is not because of “racism,” but because of jihad terrorism and Sharia oppression of women and others. One trenchant review of the book observed that the author was pretending that 9/11 never happened and international Islamic terrorism did not exist and was claiming that any suspicion of Islam stemmed solely from the bad faith of its critics.
This was ridiculous enough in itself, but it got even worse. Well-funded Leftist organizations circulated far and wide the conspiracy theory that this “Islamophobia industry” was receiving massive amounts of money from sinister right-wing billionaires, solely for the purpose of continuing this gratuitous and racist campaign against Islam. Large sums of money were bandied about as the supposed war chest of these organizations, pumped up to look impressive by combining the donations received by numerous separate and distinct organizations, all smeared as “Islamophobic,” over a period of years.
Meanwhile, the total sum that was supposedly going to this “Islamophobia industry” didn’t exceed the single-year budget of the Leftist groups that were stoking fears about this well-heeled “industry” of liars, hacks, white supremacists, and fools, but the Left controlled the mainstream discourse as much then as it does now so that salient fact was little noted.
It should, however, have gotten more notice, because there really was an Islamophobia industry. It just wasn’t the cabal of right-wingers that so preoccupied the establishment media. The real “Islamophobia industry” was the coalition of Islamic and Leftist groups that were spending massive amounts of money in order to convince the American people that there was such a thing as “Islamophobia,” that is, an irrational and unjustified fear and hatred of Muslims and that it was a bigger problem than jihad terrorism itself.
That “Islamophobia industry,” which is quite real and active today, in contrast to the trumped-up threat of the cabal of “Islamophobes,” was never the subject of think-tank profiles or book-length expositions. Until now, that is. Diane Weber Bederman’s The Islamophobia Industry is the first, and as far as I know the only, book-length treatment of this manipulative phenomenon. Bederman’s book tears off the cover of the real propaganda campaign that Leftists and Islamic supremacists are waging today to shut down any speech that is remotely critical of Islam, even explorations of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror.
There is more. Read the rest here.
Mike says
the title says the Muslim plan is working. The want you to respect them thru fear. the beating will continue until the moral improves. Notice how Islam can say what every they want and do what ever they want but want laws that suppress you
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Mike.
Ade Fegan says
and the resulting official line that islam is totally benign brings untold danger to us all
GreekEmpress says
And then there’s this:
https://www.kvrr.com/2021/12/23/dilworth-police-chief-under-fire-for-alleged-tweets
Where’s all the “dialogue”? Forget that. Just get people fired and ruin their lives.
gravenimage says
All too common.
Keith O says
I didn’t know that right wing billionaires have been funding islamophobia since the 1400s?
Who’d of thunk it!
libertyORdeath says
What do Americans, the French, Israelis, Hindus and Nigerian shepherds have in common?
Apparently an “irrational” fear of the religion if peace.
raja says
Yes, LibertyORdeath,
Yes, it must be irrational fear because islam has always been peaceful under its own thuggish rules and tweaked morality (which is no morality at all)
gravenimage says
+1
raja says
Good headline: Islamophobia like islamoterror is an industry. islam wants its fascist idealogy to be imposed on the world by just shutting down on criticism of islam. period.
raja says
Its Islamophobia vs freedom of speech. So far the thuggish Left and elites of the West have had their way in throttling the freedom of speech. Right now the situation is like cat on the wall, whichever way it goes.
Our silence is their strength. Hope internet explodes more and more with criticism of islam.
gravenimage says
The ‘Islamophobia Industry’ Is Making People Afraid to Criticize Jihad Violence and Sharia Oppression
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That is, indeed, the whole point of screaming “Islamophobia”.
Pray Hard says
There’s no such thing as islamophobia, but I do have a severe case of islamonausea.
OLD GUY says
NEVER stop Islamophobia, no organization deserves the right to control criticism of its actions and beliefs through cancelling of the freedom of speech. If you don’t like to hear about the Child rape marriages, Rape gangs, honor murders, beheadings, forced dress codes, murder, violence, hate and the islamic ideology of being supported by the non-muslims, then change your actions or shut up.