Wajahat Ali is a Daily Beast columnist whose writings have appeared in the New York Times and the Qatari government-funded Al Jazeera. He is now exploiting the “Islamophobia” subterfuge in the aftermath of the jihad terror hostage-taking incident at the Texas synagogue, as Jihad Watch noted here. Brett Taylor also wrote on Twitchy:
Daily Beast columnist Wahajat Ali is already prepping people for the ugly and vicious Islamophobic they’re about to hear from elected officials, commentators, and even mainstream media pundits this weekend. Actually, we’re betting the story is out of the media by Monday.
Ali made the hostage-taking incident at the Colleyville synagogue in Texas all about “Islamophobia.” Taylor presents screenshots of Wajahat Ali’s obsession with “Islamophobia,” with no concern for those who were taken hostage in Texas:
But there is more. Ali has called for the freeing of convicted jihad terrorist Aafia Siddiqui. Malik Faisal Akram took hostages in a Texas synagogue in order to demand that Siddiqui be freed. Twitchy’s headline: “Well, THIS is interesting: Wajahat Ali TRIPS over old ‘Justice for Aafia’ tweet while screeching about Islamophobia after TX synagogue hostage situation.”
Gosh, it’s almost as if Wajahat Ali himself sympathized with the anti-Semitic terrorist in jail.
Whoda thunk?
Back in 2013, Ali tweeted:
Ali is just one of many who are focusing on “Islamophobia” while ignoring and subtly undermining the antisemitism of the attack itself. Wajahat Ali has a counterpart in Canada: Mohammed Hashim, Executive Director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF), who slammed Israel in a tweet as he rambled about the antisemitic attack on the Texas synagogue. (Thanks to Meir).
Consider the ramifications of Hashim’s statement that “if Jewish orgs were less supportive of Israel then it would be easier to work with them.” Which Jewish orgs might those be? He does not say.
Mohammed Hashim was described in the Toronto Sun as the “spin doctor” behind the infamous Toronto Danforth shooter, Faisal Hussain, and a “driving force behind the National Council of Canadian Muslims,” an offshoot of CAIR. According to the Toronto Sun:
The man who has presented himself as the point of contact for the family of Faisal Hussain is a professional activist who has reportedly committed himself to “framing a new narrative of Muslims in Canada” and creating a “national political movement.”
Hashim went on to become Executive Director of the CRRF. This was the same foundation that the Trudeau government fired me from for writing for Jihad Watch and exposing the jihad ideology, which has nothing to do with race. Now, in the wake of the Texas synagogue jihad terror incident, Hashim takes a cheap shot at the state of Israel, while clumsily claiming that the incident made him feel as if his heart had stopped. He also added, not so subtly, that he’s “seen bloody carpets and bullet holes in a place you pray in.” Any guesses what he might be referencing? Talk about “spin.”
Back in 2009, Hashim was involved in pushing a national conference: “Students Against Israeli Apartheid“:
In the words of the “Twitchy” article: “whoda thunk?”
Everyone wonders why antisemitism is on the rise, while the central focus remains on “Islamophobia.”
Let’s not forget the broad definition of “Islamophobia” that was pushed by the Toronto District School Board (which has an antisemitism problem within it), with help from the National Council of Canadian Muslims. The definition labeled “fear, prejudice, hatred or dislike directed against Islam or Muslims, or towards Islamic politics or culture” as “Islamophobia.” Yes, “Islamic politics.”
Shame on Mohammed Hashim and Wajahat Ali. Their bizarre statement escape scrutiny because those who might criticize them are afraid of being called “Islamophobic.”
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Always the victim never the victimizer.
Ouda Thunkitt says
A dislike for Islam is enough, according to the definition above, to be the fake “Islamophobia”.
What if you dislike Wajahat Ali?
Guy Jones says
It’s morally despicable that each and every time a Muslim supremacist/terrorist attacks Jews, the vile Dhimmi-crats, Muslim supremacists/terrorist sympathizers/rationalizers/whitewashers and the mainstream media pay little if any attention to the real victims (Jews) and always play up the contrived and fallacious angle of alleged Muslim victimhood and a phony “backlash” that never happens.
somehistory says
Yes. It always makes me think of an abusive husband or father who beats his wife/kids and then says “Look what you made me do” as he begins anew the beating and threats.
Disgusting in its deceit.
Keith O says
Very accurate analogy. Unfortunately!
somehistory says
Thank you. It is unfortunate.
gravenimage says
That’s what I thought of right after 9/11 when so many Americans were wringing their hands and wondering why they hate us. All I could think of was the behavior of many battered women.
somehistory says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/don-t-let-cair-off-the-hook-for-its-role-in-the-colleyville-hostage-crisis-opinion/ar-
“Don’t Let CAIR off the Hook for Its Role in the Colleyville Hostage Crisis |” Opinion
Opinion by Hen Mazzig –
Only one thing about this writing: he uses the “phobia” word as though it actually might exist as mozlums claim.
Infidel says
So Wajahat Ali is just gonna indulge in more gaslighting?
The muslim spokesman’s obsession w/ ‘islamophobia’ and Israel pretty much mirrors the actions of Faisal Malik Akram. To paraphrase Jason Johnson, Wajahat Ali is to Faisal Akram what Taliban is to IS-K
gravenimage says
After synagogue incident, Muslim spokesmen ignore Islamic antisemitism, focus on ‘Islamophobia’ and criticize Israel
…………….
Always the same–here a Muslim takes Jews hostage and threatens to murder them but somehow “Islamophobia” is the real problem.
And note the implication from other Tweets that Jews *deserve* to be victimized because they oppose being victimized in Israel. Just appalling–but no surprise.
somehistory says
And, he was making this claim during the time the four were being held hostage and threatened at gunpoint. Absolutely disgusting.
And no other group would be able to get away with this….no Christian preacher, no normal…as in, not blm, antifa, etc….could get by with claiming to be the victim while the real victims were being held against their will and threatened with death if anyone approached to help them.
gravenimage says
Good point, Somehistory–this was *before* it was clear that the victims would be safe.