Last week, Jihad Watch reported about “Saudi Arabia calls for ‘final solutions’ to stamp out ‘Islamophobia,’ including prison and fines”:
For years now, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and other Islamic groups have condemned any and all honest discussion of how jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and oppression as “Islamophobic.” If the UN heeds Saudi Arabia’s words, which it will do sooner or later, all criticism of Islam will be criminalized — which is exactly the situation of criticism of Islam in Islamic law.
Canada has already adopted anti-Islamophobia motion M-103, which was passed deceptively with the claim that it was not legislation. They knew full well that in Canada, motions guide future legislation. M-103 was followed up by a 23-million-dollar plan to “take action” against Islamophobia, “monitor citizens for compliance,” and “train law enforcement” to recognize online and offline hate. MP Iqra Khalid (who tabled the motion) also subsequently announced in a press conference that two questionable groups would help implement the followup action: the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM, formerly CAIR-CAN), and the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy (IRFAN), which was listed as a “terrorist entity” by the former Harper Conservative Government of Canada. The NCCM originally defined “Islamophobia” as “fear, prejudice, hatred or dislike directed against Islam or Muslims, or towards Islamic politics or culture.”
While Saudi Arabia fools the world about reforming, and while Muslim lobbies do the bidding of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation worldwide, gullible Western leaders continue to be manipulated through political correctness to betray their democracies, all in the name of “diversity.” Normative Islam is antithetical at its roots to genuine tolerance and diversity. “Reforming” Saudi Arabia has also condemned Israel’s plans to reassert its sovereignty over part of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and “reiterated its ‘steadfast stance toward the brotherly Palestinian people.'”
“In 2019, Yahya Cholil Staquf, general secretary of the world’s biggest Muslim organisation, Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama movement, asserted that Islamophobia is not rooted in racism and that the distrust of Muslims in many countries is a result of Islamist extremism and terrorism throughout the world.” Other Islamic apologists still absurdly insist that violence and conquest have nothing to do with Islam, despite all the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
“Saudi Arabia’s call on UN to embrace Islamophobia as racism raises alarm for global religious freedom,” Barnabas Fund, July 31, 2020:
Saudi Arabia’s call to the UN to focus on “eliminating Islamophobia” as an outcome of tackling online racism and xenophobia sets a potentially dangerous precedent – at a level of global policy – by attempting to define as a fait accompli that “Islamophobia” is a type of racial discrimination.
While undoubtedly racism and prejudice are to be found on the internet, this seems a disingenuous call from the closed sharia kingdom, which promotes its own strict Wahhabi interpretation of Islam worldwide, where Christians and Jews are presented as enemies in school textbooks and jihad is encouraged as a means of spreading Islam. It remains a capital offence for a Muslim to convert to Christianity in Saudi Arabia.
Meshaal Bin Ali Al Balawi, Saudi’s Head of Human Rights at the United Nations Mission in Geneva, addressed the Human Rights Council, flagging the internet as a “space for practicing racism” as he called for the UN to work towards finding a “solution”.
Al Balawi explained that, in Saudi Arabia, “spreading ideas based on racial discrimination and inciting racism and hatred using information technology … is a crime, whose perpetrator is punished according to the laws of the kingdom”. Penalties include imprisonment, substantial fines up to $133,000 (£102,900; €113,360) or both.
The concept of conflating any criticism of Islamist orthodoxy with racism could potentially lead to serious and repressive consequences worldwide, especially for Christian converts from Islam, should the UN be found willing to take up the Saudi stated cause to “prohibit racial discrimination in all its forms”, as promoted under the kingdom’s “Vision2030” framework.
Islamophobia definition factually incorrect according to senior Muslim cleric
In 2019, Yahya Cholil Staquf, general secretary of the world’s biggest Muslim organisation, Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama movement, asserted that Islamophobia is not rooted in racism and that the distrust of Muslims in many countries is a result of Islamist extremism and terrorism throughout the world…..