My latest in PJ Media:
On a party-line 219 to 212 vote, the House on Tuesday passed the Combating International Islamophobia Act, which is co-sponsored by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu). The bill calls upon the president to appoint a “special envoy” to fight “Islamophobia”; this envoy will head up a State Department that will monitor the phenomenon. Omar’s bill, however, is wrongly focused in all kinds of ways, not least of which is the fact that it will combat efforts to “promote racial hatred” against Muslims, even though Islam is not a race and there are Muslims among people of all races. Meanwhile, the raucous House debate raised other problems with the bill as well, including the likelihood that it will inhibit counterterror efforts.
“The office,” says the Washington Post, “would record instances of Islamophobia, including violence against and harassment of Muslims and vandalism of their mosques, schools and cemeteries worldwide, in reports created by the State Department.” That’s fine, although it’s striking that there is no similar call for the State Department to create reports about violence against and harassment of Christians and vandalism of their churches, schools, and cemeteries worldwide, or violence against Hindus or any other religious group. Why the special treatment for Muslims? It can’t be because Muslims are uniquely the victims of persecution around the world; Christians are by far the most persecuted religious group.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) noted this, saying: “This word appears nowhere in the federal statutes,” and that the bill “prioritizes the religious persecution of Muslims over the persecution of other religions.”
Of even greater concern, however, is that the new “Islamophobia” office would target “propaganda efforts by state and nonstate media ‘to promote racial hatred or incite acts of violence against Muslim people.’” As noted above, Islam is not a race, so “racial hatred” against Muslim people is not even possible. But if the way that the word “Islamophobia” has been used up to now is any indication, what is considered to be propaganda or incitement will be based entirely on subjective criteria, and include even reporting about jihad activity and honest analysis of its motivating ideology.
McCaul noted this as well: “It is so vague and subjective that it could be used against legitimate speech for partisan purposes. Even the term ‘phobia’ [connotes] irrational fear, not discrimination.”
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pennsylvania) also warned that the bill would be used “to silence dissent and critiques of terrorism.” He added: “By intentionally leaving the definition of ‘Islamophobia’ blank in this bill, the gentlelady and my friends on the other side of the aisle are creating an office in our State Department that will likely spew antisemitic hatred and attack Western ideas throughout the world under the farce of protecting Islam.” Indeed.
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Jim says
Muslims are attacking members of other belief communities all over the world, even with approval from the SQUAD, they spread anti-Semitism everywhere, and spread their sense of entitlement everywhere, try constantly to get privileges that other groups do not get. And now this poor me we are so innocent, we are the true victims, even when our group commits terrible atrocities. These atrocities have nothing to do with the unfair prejudices against the Muslims. We are supposed to take this from the Democrats? It ought to be abolished as soon as the Republicans control the government.
Jim J Fox says
It will. Bring it On in 2024!
susan says
Funny how the Jezebel spirit, that lives in this woman, Omar, so cunningly, now she has created a platform to complain and make up her own Islamophobia formal complaints against this country who feeds her and gives her freedoms/status she could ever dream of in her backward country. She slithers like a snake in the grass always ready to strike with her deadly poison. God bless and protect the country from these people.
Janetmarie says
Just another hater obama, michelle, holder, rice, You know the rest.
Difficult upbringing.?
gravenimage says
I had a difficult upbringing, and I don’t hate America. Just the opposite.
Chessss says
So right. The SQIUAT is so obviously working for the global caliphate. And we’re good with that here?
Violet C says
I hope Republicans make certain there’s no shenanigans with the upcoming elections. 2022 & 2024. God Bless Patriot Americans.
somehistory says
Mr.’s McCaul and Perry are both right.
Perhaps right will prevail in the future and this stinking “bill” will be put where it…and islam…belong.
Too bad Mr. Perry had to call the snake “gentlelady” because she is no lady and her sneer is never “gentle.”
Wellington says
Well, you have to be an idiot not to know by now that Islam is a mortal enemy of truth and liberty, but you also have to be an idiot to still think the Democratic Party of the USA remains on the side of truth and liberty.
Jim J Fox says
+1
Ben says
“How dreadful are the curses which Muhammadism lays on its votaries.
Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in this world.” ~ Winston Churchill, 1898
Infidel says
The Democrat Party is now our equivalent of the CPSU, or Hamas, or the ANC
Westman says
We normally rely on the Senate’s wiser heads to prevail when House legislation like this, a disguised weapon, is sent to them. I’m guessing that some Senators will insist that Christians be included on an equal footing and, since that doesn’t meet Omar’s actual intent, the bill will fail to become law.
If this passes in the Senate, the US government will have stepped into religion with a bias and the separation of Church and State will be nullified.
gravenimage says
Ilhan Omar’s ‘Islamophobia’ Bill Passes Over Objections That It Will Inhibit Opposition to Terrorism
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That it will. It will also crush freedom of speech.
Those pious Muslims like Ilhan Omar consider both of these a feature, not a bug…
Infidel says
As I noted in the linked thread below, here is the first instance of ‘islamophobia’ that the State Department can go after
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/12/us-state-department-admits-jihad-terrorism-still-a-pervasive-threat-worldwide
Joh says
So, all the Bollards around pedestrian areas protecting Humans from islamic Terror WORLD WIDE are now going to be pulled down as being Islamophobic ?
revereridesagain says
Don’t give them ideas. We need those things, increasingly.
mortimer says
Yes. Bollards protecting the people from vehicular jihad are ‘Islamophobic’.
JCA Reid says
Crazy!! completely insane. how can you ban a “phobia”? some People need Psychiatric help. The tolerance of this pervasive, insidious, perverse Ideology…. I simply cannot follow it.
Kenneth J Johnson says
If I am right, this bill still has to pass the Senate. The enate has Tee Cuxe. There is hope yet. KEN
Infidel says
There are plenty of islamophilic Republicans in the senate, like Lindsay Graham, Little Marco – in fact 19 of them who voted for money for the Afghan refugees. Don’t get your hopes up
Kenneth J Johnson says
If I am right, this bill still has to pass the Senate. The Senate has Ted Cuze. There is hope yet. KEN
Fitna says
Huge win for Islam, and a defeat for freedom in the US. If this goes further and the Dems win 2024 (by hook or crook again), then the US will be turned into an Islamic state right before our eyes. This ‘Islamophobia’ bill is just Sharia Law in disguise.
When you take away the freedom of speech, people will have no other option but to resort to violence. I suspect they’ll push to criminalize Islamophobia and they’ll start picking off the most vocal, anti-Islam people and groups first. It’ll become illegal to speak against Islam and like in Muslim countries, Muslims will make false claims to punish their enemies.
Once normal people realize the massive fraud that just occurred, you’ll get riots and possibly civil war. Decisions have consequences and it will lead to a backlash against the traitorous Dems and Leftists who made this happen.
Imagine one Muslim woman got an entire US party to vote against their own rights and freedoms. It just shows how weak, vile, corrupt and incredibly stupid Leftists/Dems are. Would anyone have imagined we’d surrender to Islam after 9/11? Muslims are rejoicing that America will become a fascist totalitarian theocratic hellhole like their countries.
revereridesagain says
The ignoramuses can’t even try to frame it as an anti-discrimination act. Instead they use the bogus “phobia” designation as if a feeling can be criminalized, even an inapplicable one. There is nothing “phobic” about opposition to the tenets of Islam. Neither is it a “race”, but that trigger word serves its purpose as well.
Stop calling them your “friends”, Perry, they are no friends of ours. And by “gentlelady” I assume he means the whore of Allah in the pink tornado hat?
Relic says
bring it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SSBJZaoGHQ
Egor says
Every time you concede something to these people, they see it as weakness, and will come back with something else. They do not like the opposition taking a firm stand BUT they respect it. While you pussy foot around they are gradually taking your country away from you.
Anjuli Pandavar says
Just one questions for citizens of the United States: what is your First Amendment worth, because you’ve just lost it.
When I argued that Black Lives Matter creates the milieu for Muslim Lives Matter, everyone thought I was off the wall. Now, in response to this latest attack, everyone seems to be arguing the toss over whether Muslims are or are not a race, as if that ridiculous distraction warrants the attention it’s commanding, while in the meantime, the abolition of the United States Constitution gets underway and nobody seems to notice.
At this moment, it still seems as if Ilhan Omar is worth more than the United States is worth.
somehistory says
the bill does not mention actions in the U.S. It focuses on foreign matters that “incite” hatred and violence”…so hopefully, it will not be applied to American citizens.
If one is arrested for speaking the Truth about islam, then it can be fought in Court as a violation of the Freedom to speak and if the person is a religious person and says that islam is against their religion, they can protest that one religion is made less free due to this bill.
But, as it is written, it applies to foreign countries.
gravenimage says
I imagine this is going to effect us domestically, as well.
somehistory says
It may. But we have grounds to fight it in court.
Chessss says
Don’t we get the Squats objective.
Dov Berrol says
Every time the Muslims of the world attempt to fight Islamophobia through legislation – anywhere in the world – we must insist it be accompanied by the word Judeophobia. The entire Quran is a document full of Jew hatred and so the law should allow us to shine a light on the contents of that hateful document every time Muslims try to ban criticism of their ideology.
Yohannes says
‘On a party-line 219 to 212 vote’
Is Ilhan Omar bringing 212 event (an event on which to put Jakarta’s former Christian governor Ahok after prior events like 411 and to kill its President and Coup D’Etat(Which failed due to stupidity of its members) to US?
Yohannes says
“On a party-line 219 to 212 vote”
Is Ilhan Omar bringing 212 event (an event on which to put Jakarta’s former Christian governor Ahok after prior events like 411 and to kill its President and Coup D’Etat(Which failed due to stupidity of its members) to US?
E T says
From the Facebook page of the Canadian leader of the terrorist organization Hibz ut-Tharir, the hatefilled Muslim from Iraq, now operating in London, Ontario.
“People don’t simply change on their own. Most people, if not all, need a push — often many pushes and shoves — in the right direction.
This is why being a da’wa carrier is intrinsic part of the character of a Muslim. The one who designed us to need to be pushed is the One who instructed us to push.”
Muslim Brotherhood hoods keep pushing and the rest of the world allows them. Will there be a point when Patriots stand up straight and mandate the top world leaders to be locked up in institutions for the insane?
OLD GUY says
Omar does not support America she represents Muslim/islamic rule. She and many other muslin/islamic leaders are christian and Jewish-phobic. And not just in words but with violence and murder daily around the world, but she doesn’t want you to hear about that. Islamophobia is nothing but a ploy to silence the criticism of the violence and criminal activities of muslims and islamic followers. The TRUTH should never be hidden behind lies.
Hank says
Why isn’t this Ilhan Omar challenged in court for entering the US fraudulently, stripped of her citizenship due to giving false information and marrying her brother, and booted out? Those DEM people who voted for her should have their heads examined.
E T says
OMG that would be soooo Islamophobic— the collaborators of the View would be up in arms.
OLD GUY says
You have to get a prosecutor willing to charge her, if a prosector won’t file charges there is nothing anyone can do to get justice.
Carol the 1st says
Robert Spencer and David Wood seem rather alarmed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rekBL80sGW0
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Carol–always great stuff, even when the subject is grim.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Notice the title of the law that Ilhan Omar has co-sponsored: the “Combating ***International*** Islamophobia Act”. What Ilhan wants to combat is ***international*** Islamophobia. What she wants to promote is ***domestic*** Islamophobia. I’m with her (as Hillary said in her 2016 campaign slogan). I join Ilhan in abjuring foreign Islamophobia and working to foster our own all-American Islamophobia.
gravenimage says
Ha ha
Norman Gardner says
Muslims are discriminating against all other religions yet cry when those Muslims who are accused of discrimination and spreading hate are confronted for their bigotry. Omar is a racist bigot who is anti American, anti Christian, and anti semitic. Her comments about the twin tower murders were flippant, her comment about the Benjamins was anti semitic, She has been protected by Pelosi and does not deserve to be in the Congress but the Somali population in Minnesota has helped project her into government. Muslims are responsible for 90% of the world`s terrorism, they are murdering Christians all over Africa and the Middle East, now they have infiltrated North America big time and carrying out terrorist acts, the twin towers twice, bombs in Times Square, the shootings in Florida, Major Hassan murdering soldiers, attacking recruit centers, San Bardino just to name a few. More Muslims, equates to more terrorism.
Walter Sieruk says
Ilan Omar can now be very happy since she got her balderdash bill passed.
The passing of that bill actually gives credence and further supports the claim that that the Islamic lobby organizations as CAIR and the ISNA do have much influence in American politics .
Omar and her other stealth jihadist friends can feel glad about the bill being passed. Of course Omar and other like her will just keep on further pushing for more fulfillment of other goals in their Islamic agenda.