On June 1, 2009, a Muslim named Abdulhakim Muhammad shot a soldier to death at a Little Rock military recruiting office, explicitly in the name of Allah.
On November 5, 2009 in Fort Hood, Major Nidal Malik Hasan murdered thirteen unarmed soldiers while screaming “Allahu akbar.”
On April 15, 2013, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev exploded two bombs at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring many more in the name of Islam.
On September 25, 2014, Alton Nolen, a convert to Islam, beheaded a coworker at Vaughan Foods in Moore, Oklahoma, and had publicly supported jihad violence.
On July 16, 2015 in Chattanooga, a Muslim named Mohammad Abdulazeez went on a shooting spree at a naval base, murdering five soldiers.
On November 4, 2015 at the University of California, Merced, Faisal Mohammad stabbed four people “in the name of Allah.”
On December 2, 2015 in San Bernardino, a Muslim couple, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, opened fire at a Christmas party, murdering fourteen people.
On January 7, 2016, a convert to Islam named Edward Archer shot Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett because “police bend laws that are contrary to the teachings of the Qur’an.”
On February 11, 2016, a Muslim named Mohammad Barry entered the Nazareth Restaurant & Deli in Columbus,Ohio and began stabbing patrons because the owner of the restaurant was an Israeli.
On June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida, a Muslim named Omar Mateen murdered 49 people and injures 58 at a gay bar. He insisted that he was doing this out of loyalty to the Islamic State.
On November 28, 2016 at Ohio State University, a Muslim student, Abdul Artan, intentionally rammed a car into pedestrians and then began stabbing people with a butcher knife, injuring 11 people.
On October 31, 2017, a Muslim named Sayfullo Habibullaevich Saipov rented a Home Depot pickup truck and intentionally drove it down a bicycle path, killing eight people and injuring twelve.
On December 6, 2019 at the Naval Air Station Pensacola, a second lieutenant of the Saudi Royal Air Force, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, murdered three U.S. sailors.
On May 21, 2020 at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, a Muslim named Adam Alsahi crashed through a gate, got out and opened fire, shooting a Navy police officer.
On August 29, 2021 in Plano, Texas, a Muslim named Imran Ali Rasheed murdered a Lyft driver, stole her car, and drove to Plano police headquarters, where he shot two people. He left a note explaining his Islamic motivations.
Longtime Jihad Watch readers know that this is only a partial list of jihad terror acts in the U.S. since 9/11. Then there are all the foiled plots.
Meanwhile, how many people were killed or injured in the U.S. in “Islamophobic” attacks? None. None at all.
“Islam wasn’t the threat — Islamophobia was,” says the bought-and-paid-for pseudo-academic Juan Cole.
“Islam Wasn’t the Threat — Islamophobia Was,” by Juan Cole, Foreign Policy In Focus, February 3, 2022:
Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson excused one of the leaders of the extremist Oath Keepers organization implicated in the January 6th insurrection by describing him as “a devout Christian.” It’s safe to surmise that he wouldn’t have offered a similar defense for a Muslim American.
Since September 11th, and even before that ominous date, Muslim Americans have suffered bitterly from discrimination and hate crimes in this country, while their religion has been demonized. During the first year of the Trump administration, about half of Muslim Americans polled said that they had personally experienced some type of discrimination.
No matter that this group resides comfortably in the American mainstream, it remains under intensive, often unconstitutional, surveillance. In contrast, during the past two decades, the Department of Justice for the most part gave a pass to violent white supremacists. No matter that they generated more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil than any other group. The benign insouciance of the white American elite toward such dangerous fanatics also allowed them to organize freely for the January 6th assault on the Capitol and the potential violent overthrow of the government.
Donell Harvin was the chief of homeland security and intelligence for the government of the District of Columbia in the period leading up to January 6th. He assured NBC News’s Ken Dilanian that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security seemed completely oblivious about the plans of white supremacist hate groups to violently halt the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory, despite plentiful evidence on social media that they were preparing to bring weaponry to the Capitol.
Consider now the treatment that the very same agencies offered distinctly inoffensive Muslim Americans.
Rutgers law professor Sahar Aziz has argued that many white Americans see Muslims not merely as a religious group but as a racial one and have placed them on the nethermost rung of this country’s ethnic hierarchy. Muslim Americans are regularly, for instance, profiled at airports and subjected to long interrogations. Over many years, the New York City Police Department gathered intelligence on more than 250 mosques and student groups.
The FBI even put field officers in mosques not only to spy on, but also to entrap worshipers who, alarmed by their wild talk, sometimes reported them to… the FBI.
Aziz notes that Donald Trump campaigned in 2016 to register all Muslim Americans in a database, institute widespread surveillance of mosques, and possibly exclude Muslims from the country. Even non-governmental far-right groups like discredited ex-journalist Steve Emerson’s “Investigative Project on Terrorism” have spied on Muslim Americans.
And as with everything else in the contemporary United States, a partisan divide has emerged regarding them, with 72 percent of Republicans holding the self-evidently false belief that Muslims are more likely to commit violence than adherents of other faiths, while only 32 percent of Democrats say this.
Apparently, though, our concern over the potential commission of violence in this country should actually focus on Republicans. A recent Washington Post-University of Maryland poll found that 34 percent of Americans now believe that violence against the government is sometimes justified, a statistic that rises to an alarming 40 percent among Republicans….
BTeboe says
One question – how do morons like this manage to get doctoral degrees?
tim gallagher says
I agree, BTeboe. How dumb would you have to be, after all the terrorist attacks by Muslims, all around the world, to say that islam is no threat. Then again, in the case of this character, Juan Cole, he may not believe the bullshit that he is coming out with, but has been paid by Muslims to lie.
Clifford Fodor says
Money is the most important thing in the world, said my ECC math teacher. Not love, not truth, not Christian values, but money. That’s what they teach in our higher institutes of learning today.
tim gallagher says
What an appalling view of life from that maths teacher, Clifford. Was he joking or trying to say something outrageous just to get a reaction? I feel sorry for anyone who thinks that way although I will say that if you are broke and starving to death, if it is that desperate then, yes, I guess money is what you need at that moment. Otherwise that maths teacher’s opinion is pathetic and totally wrong headed.
James Lincoln says
Clifford Fodor,
Your ECC math teacher is sadly misinformed.
Once one reaches a solid middle class income level, “more and more money” leads to diminishing returns.
A balanced financial plan, along with personal bio / psycho / social / spiritual attributes that are favorable is worth far more than “more and more money”.
tim gallagher says
Yes, James, unless a person is almost starving to death, what this teacher said is nonsense, which is why i thought that he might have been merely trying to be outrageous by spouting such crap. If you read this comment, James, and I don’t know if you do listen to and watch music on youtube, but, since you must be a fan of Vince Gill to take your son to one of his concerts, google this “Amy Grant Vince Gill House of Love youtube” and check out the youtube clip uploaded by DOZHAN (whatever that is). I think it is a great video of two people looking very much in love and having a great time together. Vince Gill and Amy Grant always seem like very pleasant people. I like the song too. I watch it from time to time and always enjoy it.
gravenimage says
Good exchange, Tim, Clifford, and James. But I have heard this claptrap from those who should know better.
James Lincoln says
tim,
Thanks for the YouTube link – great performance!
tim gallagher says
Glad you enjoyed it, James. I watch it from time to time and always enjoy it. I enjoy the song and their singing but, above all, they look about as happy and in love as any human beings can be. Of course, they were young and in their prime when they did that video. Whenever I see youtube clips of them, as older people as well, they always seem to be joking around and enjoying life which is a good and fortunate way to be.
born saturday says
how much did he take from the islamic organisations???
how much was it for him???
traitors!!!
Doomer says
Wordgames, wordgames. The word Islamophobia.
I have watched Apostate Prophet’s latest debate: vs Ali Dawah ( Feb 4,2022)
in youtube “ALI DAWAH VS APUSSS – FULL “DEBATE” ”
The word Islamophobia was used by Ali Dawah in the first minutes,against AP ( Muslims call him Apuss, presumably meaning “A pusillanimous/ A fearful one” ).
1. AP lost a great opportunity: he didn’t say,”The word to use is MUSLIMOPHOBIA ( irrational fear of muslims), not Islamophobia.
It is LEGITIMATE to have a fear of Islam for intellectual, historical reasons.
Since it is rational to fear Islam for legitimate intellectual reasons, you can’t use the word Islamophobia/ irrational fear of Islam.”
As long as non-Muslims continue to NOT challenge the use of the word Islamophobia, Leftists and Muslims ( who Leftists see as USEFUL IDIOTS) will continue to “win”.
2. I can’t believe Christians,atheists,Classical Liberals,anti-Islam Westerners continue to be so DENSE regarding this.
In 2018 a self-described Muslim reformer,UK’s MAAJID NAWAZ, showed 100% more common sense.
He said:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/maajid-nawaz/maajid-nawaz-wants-the-word-islamophobia-scrapped/
“Maajid added: “Therefore let’s change the word, let’s STOP using the word ISLAMOPHOBIA
which lends itself to accusations of blasphemy when in fact everyone should have the right to blaspheme.
“Let’s use instead the word MUSLIMPHOBIA which is more accurate, because it’s wrong to hate Muslims as a people or individual Muslims
as persons but it’s perfectly legitimate to scrutinise Islam as a doctrine.””
3. Nawaz has written ” Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism”(2012) and with Sam Harris ” Islam and the Future of Tolerance”(2015)
Doomer says
One good news is the Freedom Convoy that is heading towards Quebec City,the capital of Quebec province,
has received the support of JORDAN PETERSON ( Canadian) and MAXIME BERNIER,
the leader of the PPC ( People’s Party of Canada),which is anti-Islamism and LIBERTARIAN.
But the other parties have been cowards and said nothing,even the Conservative Party and the GREEN Party.
mortimer says
Good distinction from Doomer: ‘Islamophobia’ versus ‘Muslim-o-phobia’.
We should ask the Muslims if they practice KAFIR-O-PHOBIA which is known in Islam under the name “AL WALAA WAL BARAA” (meaning: comradeship with Muslims versus apartheid from non-Muslims).
Muslims are canonically OBLIGATED to practice AL WALAA WAL BARAA.
If they do not hate kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’, then ask them ‘WHY NOT?”
Doomer says
Yes, religious Muslims and even many non-practicing Muslims, will be DEFENSIVE if you criticize Islam or Islamic history.
1. Why? Islamic culture is an HONOR and SHAME one. You can’t lose face, maintain the facade. Even if it goes against historical truth.
2. While in the West,I assume due to Judeo-Christian influence, we are NOT ashamed of Confessing our Errors.
Peacelover says
‘Leftists and Muslims ( who Leftists see as USEFUL IDIOTS)’..Isn’t it the other way around? 🙂 if you get my point 🙂
Doomer says
I agree, Muslims are far more capable in manipulating Leftists than vice-versa. How many Leftists are willing to DIE for their beliefs? Hardly any.
Once Muslims start killing them,the rest shut up and submit.
Leftists are only brave against peaceful Conservatives.
James Lincoln says
+1
gravenimage says
Agreed–just look at how the Mullahs in Iran savagely liquidated the Communist Tudeh Party as soon as they had consolidated power there.
abad says
The word Islamophobia was invented by the Ivory Tower Elites in America(TM)
cf. homophobia, transphobia, ad nauseum
mortimer says
No, Abad, the term was invented by the Muslim Brotherhood’s think tank and the proof is the following quote:
:The very word “Islamophobia” is a fictional construct, as journalist Claire Berlinski explains, “The neologism ‘Islamophobia’ did not simply emerge ex nihilo. It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia….Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, a former member of the IIIT who has renounced the group in disgust, was an eyewitness to the creation of the word. ‘This loathsome term,’ he writes, ‘is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliché conceived in the bowels of Muslim think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics.’”
https://1389blog.com/2011/09/24/information-warfare-%E2%80%9Cislamophobia%E2%80%9D-an-invention-of-the-muslim-brotherhood/
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link, Mortimer.
Fred Alan Medforth says
“It took more than 300 dead victims of terrorism” for the French elites to open their eyes: A former intelligence chief warns against Salafism
https://medforth.biz/it-took-more-than-300-dead-victims-of-terrorism-for-the-french-elites-to-open-their-eyes-a-former-intelligence-chief-warns-against-salafism/
mortimer says
Thanks for the linked article. The retired head of intelligence brings us little comfort. He seems to understand the situation well … the problem is SALAFISM.
I independently identified SALAFISM as the problem over 15 years ago and explained it to anyone who would hear me. Most of them answered with a blank stare. The Germans also figured out SALAFISM many years ago. WHAT TOOK THE FRENCH INTEL SO LONG?
SALAFISM and WAHHABISM are one. The ideology comes from Saudi Arabia and has been financed from there.
‘ISLAMISM’ means pretty much the same as ‘SALAFISM’. The ideology calls for a Muslim establishment to rule the world and impose strict Sharia law on all countries.
Opinion surveys show that over half of Muslims share many of the ideals of SALAFISM.
The French intel should concentrate on finding ways to take SALAFISTS RIGHT OUT OF ISLAM, because they will not become ‘moderate’ Muslims once they have become SALAFISTS. It’s SALAFISM or nothing.
gravenimage says
With respect, the problem is Islam. This goes way beyond Salafism and Wahabbism. For instance, by these lights the vicious Mullahs in Iran are not a threat at all.
mortimer says
GI … which variety of Islam? There are several sects and not all are as intolerant as SALAFISM. The other sects are called ‘DEVIATIONISTS’ by the Salafists.
The Ismaili Muslims of Aga Khan are truly ‘moderate’ and they are aligned with the West. The Aga Khan is the ‘living Koran’ and his moderate decrees supersede the Koran.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, of course each sect of Islam considers itself to be the only one–and maost will often enforce that violently. Certainly, as I noted, mainstream Shia Islam is not peaceful–unless you consider the vicious Mullahs to be peaceful.
And all Islam comes from Islam–this is where the savagery of Islam is taught.
As for the Ismailis, there are only about 15 million of them in the whole world–about .008% of the global Muslim population. This is not even mainstream Shi’ite Islam, let alone orthodox Islam in general. Some Ismailis even believe in reincarnation, which is *anything* but orthodox Islam.
But the real question for us, I believe, is whether they practice violence or not. The Dawoodi Bohra–an Ismaili sect–have been in the news here for practicing FGM. The Ismaili assassins certainly practiced violent Jihad. As for today, they seldom practice Jihad, but still believe that their Imam can declare Jihad.
But mostly this is, as I’ve noted, a tiny, unorthodox sect–learning that well under one percent of Muslims may decide not to attack us is not actually all that reassuring.
GreekEmpress says
So Muslims can attack Jews, protest for BDS, and attack non-Muslims, and THEY are the victims of racism?
Spare me the pathological altruism—
gravenimage says
Yep…
mortimer says
Reply: Islam is an HONOR culture. Therefore, the ‘honor’ of kafirs must be reduced and the ‘honor’ of Islam must be increased.
Calumniating the kafir is NORMATIVE ISLAM, as is the TAQIYYA that is used to promote the nonsense of a ‘moderate’ version of Islam.
The racism of ARABS against non-Arab Muslims is notorious and ACKNOWLEDGED among non-Arab Muslims.
Ask Pakistani Muslims if they find the Arabs to be ‘racist’. They will give examples.
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
– from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
– K. 28:86 says: “Lend not thou support in any way to those who reject Allah’s Message.”
-Sheikh Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahhab said: (The profession of …) “Islam of a man can never be accepted, even if he abandons polytheism, unless he shows enmity towards the disbelievers and polytheists, as Allah says in Surat al-Muja’dila 58:02”
–Tabari II:11 “Shem, the son of Noah was the father of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Greeks; Ham was the father of the Black Africans; and Japheth was the father of the Turks and of Gog and Magog who were cousins of the Turks. Noah prayed that the prophets and apostles would be descended from Shem and kings would be from Japheth. He prayed that the African’s color would change so that their descendants would be slaves to the Arabs and Turks.”
-“We have seen that Negroes are in general characterized by levity, excitability and great emotionalism. They are found eager to dance whenever they hear a melody. They are everywhere described as stupid.”
– Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), “The Muqaddimah,” trans. Franz Rosenthal, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967), 63
–
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
University of Michigan Prof Juan Cole: ‘Islam Wasn’t the Threat — Islamophobia Was’
……………….
Utterly grotesque.
More:
Since September 11th, and even before that ominous date, Muslim Americans have suffered bitterly from discrimination and hate crimes…
……………….
We’ve seen *this* before–the claim that 9/11 was not a Jihad terror attack but instead an attack by “Islsmophobes” on Muslims. Just sickening–but few protest this.
mortimer says
I have read Juan Cole’s stuff and find it to be lacking in scholarly rigor. His examples are far-fetched and his conclusions are all wrong. He is of the school of propagandists who start with a pet theory or ideology and then set out to prove the theory. Far-fetched ‘evidence’ is interpreted wrongly and contradictory evidence is grandly SWEPT OFF THE TABLE by Cole.
Real scholars don’t care to attack his nonsense because their community already rejects it … so why say what all the experts know? Juan Cole is a shill who’s being employed to whitewash Islamism and jihadism.
Cole’s fraud is obvious if you have put lots of time into studying Islam’s primary sources.
James Lincoln says
mortimer says,
“Real scholars don’t care to attack his nonsense because their community already rejects it”
Maybe, maybe not – depending upon their “community”.
An alternate explanation is that the “Real scholars” do not want to be labeled as islamophobes.
gravenimage says
Maybe so–but if one is using their university position as a base from which to spout claptrap then it *does* need to be addressed, no matter how silly.
But sadly I hear this sort of idiocy from a lot of other academics as well–sadly not sure this is as uncommon as it should be.
Terry Gain says
Sure. Fear of a conquest ideology is very threatening. There seems to be an endless supply of moronic Leftists professors.
libertyORdeath says
I love how one or two muslims on a ship that spent a few days in the Caribbean, some POSSIBLE muslim African slaves, and a handful who came during the 19th century can make them a “mainstream” part of America. Check the records…there were basically ZERO muslims in the US for hundreds of years, yet we’re supposed to act like their part of the family, ignore jihad, terrorism and Shariah, and just accept the millions of muslim migrants showing up here.
I’ve never had a problem with peaceful muslims. They are welcome to come at the same rate as any other country under our LEGAL immigration system, but dont try to tell me that unlimited muslim immigration is a great thing for our country because of our long history together.
Michael Copeland says
“Muslims have a long shared history with Britain,” says an imam in UK.
Yes, a long track record of piracy, coastal raids, and captive-taking for slavery and ransom demands.
See “Jihadis Taking British and American Kafirs for Profit”:
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/03/jihadis-taking-british-and-american-kafirs-for-profit/
gravenimage says
libertyORdeath, determining which Muslims are apt to be–and remain–peaceful is basically impossible, since Islam itself teaches this violence.
Wellington says
Islamophobia is a mendacious and malicious fiction.
Over 40,000 documented Islamic terrorist attacks just since 9/11 is a truthful and non-malicious reality.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
He opens his mouth…or sits at his keyboard…and allows everyone to see what a huge fool he is. A liar. An idiot. A liar. This is not his first lie.
And they always cite “polls” to tell us how many mozlums in the U.S. have faced or suffered discrimination.
mozlums lie. And so who can trust what any of them say? They are given everything on a silver platter as everyone who is anyone, makes an attempt to “welcome” them…but they are never satisfied. It’s *gimmie, gimmie* and then whine because they had to ask and the average person takes no special consideration of their mozlumness…we don’t bend over and walk in the gutter as they approach us.
The hoaxes they pull every so often are proof that they are not being discriminated against. If they were treated badly, they wouldn’t need to pull the hoaxes because *half* of all mozlums in the U.S. is a large number.
This cole idiot is a large liar…no matter his position or the stance he takes looking off into the distance…as though he’s some sort of statesman, deserving of respect. Puke. Liars have a special time coming soon.
Ade Fegan says
The worthlessness of modern professorship
Ade Fegan says
The worthlessness of modern professorship
James Lincoln says
I remember when, in junior high and high school, I held all college professors in very high esteem.
No more.
Some are still excellent but they tend to be clustered in the STEM departments.
somehistory says
Like, you, James, I once that that they must be really intelligent.
No more. I believe most here, would outshine guys like this cole fool.
My parents didn’t finish elementary school, but both would outshine this idiot and others like him.
My father’s favorite books were history books and encyclopedias. He could have taught this cole fool quite a lot….if cole had the ability to learn, that is.
somehistory says
that that should be thought that.
gravenimage says
Same here, James.
OLD GUY says
I wonder how he explains the EIGHTEEN THOUSAND plus Christians murdered by ISLAMIC follower on an average per year around the world, most in muslim dominate countries.
PHD = Piled Higher and Deeper. And I’ll bet you can find a large amount of money from Saudi Arabia and other muslim countries in University of Michigans endowment fund.
Rooster says
Professor? Cole is an idiot like most academics in our Universities these days. He certainly is ignorant of the Koran and what it professes. Muslims are the number one threat to America as well as politicians who profess Marxism. Keep your powder dry Patriots! We may have to repeat 1776 to clean up DC and all Demoncratic held cities. Pray for peace but be prepared for war!
Conservative Hawk says
It is so easy to defend the “peaceful religion of Islam” when one is blind to the fact that Islam is a THEOCRACY and not a religion. The laws of the demented pedophile, Muhammad represent cave-man mentality and are observed in very strict fashion by idiots who are threatened with death penalties for not doing so.
They are ordered to kill “infidels”…those being non-believers and mockers of the intolerable, insane, murderous “religion”.
It is no wonder that many people fear Islam. Even Islamic worshipers fear Islam.
There is no real irony in the fact that Islamic leaders do not strap on the suicide vests like they encourage and demand their useful idiots to do.