Lefty Rag Says ‘Islamophobia’ Is Worse Than Ever, So Why Is It So Hard to Find Any?

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“Islamophobia is worse than ever,” Salon proclaimed on Monday, and while the Leftist rag predictably claims that much of it is Trump’s fault, it adds that (oddly enough!) “the Biden administration has not led to any significant reduction in Islamophobia.” Yet if you scan through the Salon article looking for examples of Muslims in America being subjected to widespread discrimination and harassment, you’ll come up empty; all that Salon’s Sophia A. McClennen offers is a rude t-shirt, some old claims of American military atrocities in Afghanistan, and some highly dubious “findings” of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the like. So where is all this horrible American “Islamophobia”?

The New York Post was ready with the goods: on Friday, it ran a story from an Australian news outlet that featured an actual example of an “anti-Muslim bigot” in the act of committing “Islamophobia”: he was berating a Muslim woman on a Sydney train. That’s it? This past week, a Muslim in New York City pleaded guilty to scouting out targets for large-scale jihad massacres and another in New Mexico was charged with trying to set up an ISIS training camp. But all we get from the “Islamophobia” industry, which keeps telling us “Islamophobia” is such a huge problem, is some moron yelling on a train? It’s telling.

The Post story, from News.com.au, tells us about “a tense video” that “captured a man exploding into an expletive-ridden rant and threatening to ‘smash’ a female passenger on a packed train during rush hour.” It was, says the story, a “chilling confrontation.” The video shows a man “swearing and pointing at two female passengers, prompting a brave commuter to step in and tell him: ‘Don’t talk to her like that.’” The irate fellow responds: “I swear I’ll smash you.” He says to one of the women: “Get f–ked or I’ll smack your f–king neck.” Soon he adds: “F–k Islam. F–k your god. F–k your mosque. Get off my d–k. I’ll shoot you in the head. I’ll also shoot you in the head.”

As unpleasant to watch as this video is, contrary to the Australian report’s claim, there is nothing chilling about it. It’s a sad video of a man who is drunk or stoned or mentally ill or some combination of the three, berating and threatening a Muslim woman for unknown reasons; we don’t know what happened before this video began. There is no doubt that this guy is behaving abominably, but back when I lived in New York City, I’d see incidents of this kind practically every day on the subway, and they never made the national news, much less the international news.

Yet this story was in the New York Post, picked up from Australia’s News.com.au. Why? Because it features a Muslim as a victim, and even though she is only the victim of a tongue-lashing from a lout, the “Islamophobia” narrative needs shoring up.

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