The term “Islamophobia” is an illegitimate conflation of two distinct phenomena: vigilante attacks against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology of jihad terror, which is always necessary. The objective of this conflation is to silence that analysis by falsely claiming that it leads to or causes those attacks.
And so now we have this initiative, under the guise of an effort to counter those vigilante attacks. But what it will lead to will be those who support Israel or criticize the jihad ideology will be liable to be considered an enemy of the state.
“Emhoff says WH will ‘soon’ release new guidance on combating Islamophobia,” by Emily Jacobs, Jewish Insider, July 19, 2024:
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff said on Thursday that the Biden administration plans to soon release new guidance on best practices for combating Islamophobia.
Emhoff revealed the news while kicking off a roundtable on “interfaith coalition building” he convened with a group of religious leaders at the White House, after noting that many of those participating in Thursday’s meeting are “part of the interagency group that the president stood up to counter antisemitism and also Islamophobia.”
“The first deliverable, in May of 2023, was the first-ever national strategy to counter antisemitism. We are now getting into year two with additional actions. There will be an Islamophobia plan coming out soon as well, and making sure we are fighting hate wherever it exists,” Emhoff said after touting the administration’s efforts to “counter hate and restore unity.”
That deliverable was a whole-of-society approach that included more than 100 policy commitments across the executive branch and a call to action for ordinary Americans to stand together with the Jewish community in fighting antisemitism. The document does not address how precisely to define the term, following pushback by progressives to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism. Opponents of the IHRA definition argued that it conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
Also at the meeting on behalf of the administration were Rashad Hussain, U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, and Stephen K. Benjamin, the director of the White House’s Office of Public Engagement.
The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism were among the organizations that participated in the roundtable, which was closed to the press after opening remarks from Emhoff, Benjamin and Hussain….
Bruce David Watt says
islamophobia is like rattlesnakeaphobia or gang crossfire phobia or lightningphobia. all will kill you if you are not afraid of them or understand what they will do to you.
PRCS says
I gave a copy of Robert Spencer’s 2005 “The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims” to a previous congressman. He didn’t seem pleased that I gave it to him at a public forum, did not thank me for doing so, and never got back to me about it.
Until ‘they’ finally understand the problem, they’ll continue to pander to a steadily increasing Muslim voting block.
We must continue to try to help them understand.
SC says
They will never understand because indoctrination and agenda are far more important than the safety of the people who they allegedly represent.
gravenimage says
Good for you, PRCS. Unlikely, but one can always hope that they actually cracked the book when by themselves. You tried, in any case.
somehistory says
It’s impossible to fight something which does not exist. But it isn’t really what these people claim, so they will *fight* with laws to make it illegal to be Truthful about islam and the goals and intentions of mozlums everywhere.
They have already made the decision that people who are pro-life and fight (not with violence) for the lives of the unborn and to help expectant moms have healthy babies are “domestic terrorists.”
If they can do this….which they have done…then making it a crime to be Truthful about islam and the goals and intentions of mozlums, will be a piece of cake. After all, ilhan elmi, aoc, bush, jayapal, jefferies, r tlaib, bowman, pressley and so many others have been pushing buttons and hollering loud and long for this kind of tyranny.
tim gallagher says
Here’s an idea, idiot, if you want to fight hate then concentrate on fighting the murderous level of hate in islam. The calls in the Koran for Muslims to kill non-Muslims when the opportunity arises make it clear how ferocious the hatred in islam is. Instead of trying to protect stinking, hate-filled islam, by fighting “islamophobia” (a nonsense term if ever there was one) these clowns should fight evil islam.
somehistory says
Yes, Tim, you are right, but they won’t do what is right. They are all about doing the wrong thing, that’s why they kept out the press. They don’t want the public to know what they plan to do to us.
tim gallagher says
No doubt what you say is correct, somehistory. I can’t believe how many people in our western societies seem to be fooled by islam and know nothing about its intrinsic evil and hatred for all non-Muslims. Once I knew about those calls in the Koran for Muslims to kill non-Muslims when they got the chance to do so, that was the end of islam for me. It is the opposite of Christianity, with its message of love and peace. islam is down in the gutter and Christianity has very high ideals for human beings to aim for. All I can say is, go islamophobia, because, a religion that calls on its members to hate non-Muslims and to kill them is surely nothing but evil filth.
gravenimage says
True, Tim and Somehistory.
tim gallagher says
Thanks, gravenimage. I hope you are going well. It certainly is annoying the way so many people seem to know almost nothing islam’s nature.
gravenimage says
Tim, this is more than annoying; 23 years–a generation–after 9/11. I tried to educate myself about Islam right after that atrocity. That so few have is not just ignorance, but *willful ignorance*.
For so many, it is not that they don’t know about Islam; it is that they don’t *want* to know.
And thanks for asking–I am doing well apart from this insanity. Hope the same is true with you.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage says,
“For so many, it is not that they don’t know about Islam; it is that they don’t *want* to know.”
Yes.
They feel that “ignorance is bliss” – until it isn’t…
tim gallagher says
Yes, it is extraordinary that so many people continue to remain staggeringly ignorant about islam’s nature, gravenimage and James. To me, it seems to be too important an issue, for all of us non-Muslims, to simply ignore reality and go on inhabiting a fantasyland where islam is considered to be quite OK and not a threat. As you say, James, ignorance is bliss until it is mugged by reality. It doesn’t get very cold out here but I am freezing and not feeling very well. I loathe the winter and probably should clear out and move to the tropical part of Australia in the way Americans go to Miami, but I won’t do so because all my family are in various parts of Sydney and we look after one another when we hit health problems and we are all getting old…
mgoldberg says
Hugh Fitzgerald wrote in an article here on Jihadwatch back in 2010:
“Rashad Hussain made comments in 2004 at a public meeting that suggested that he believed that the prosecution of domestic Muslim terrorists, in many high-profile cases, was not warranted but was, rather, “politically motivated” – a belief, or a charge, that takes as its corollary the notion that those accused of terrorism in the cases Rashad Hussain cited were innocent. But while the American judges and juries disposing of the cases he cited appeared not to have been quite so convinced of the defendants’ innocence as was Rashad Hussain, the most disturbing of all of his examples was the case of Sami al-Arian, the South Florida tenured professor who turned out to be in up to his neck in support of, and connections with others who were operatives of, Palestinian Islamic Jihad….’’ and Mr Hussain, being a hafez or one who has memorized the Qu’ran in it’s entirety, knows …”those verses which are described, accurately, in the Calcutta Qur’an Petition as the “Jihad verses” of the Qur’an: more than one hundred of them. He knows 9.5. He knows 9.29. He knows the verses about Killing the Unbeliever (2.191, 4.89, 9.5), and about Striking Terror Into the Hearts of Unbelievers (8.60). He knows what the phrase “jihad fi sabil Allah” means. He knows what the word “dhimmi” means, and the word “Jizyah” too.’ So this is where we are in 2024. The complete denial of what just took place around America and Europe and elsewhere where ‘death to Israel, death to America, etc etc etc was supported and preached across the fields of academia, across the streets of cities and areas where dissent from their views meant a beating and bigotry and hatred of others was clearly demonstrated again and again and again. There is no ‘Islamophobia’. There is only the movement by Islam to end any and all discussion of what the riotous bullying mobs taught by imams to believe is not to be confused with ‘the real Islam’. For 1360yrs.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that reference, mgoldberg.
BTeboe says
Isn’t Emhof a Jew. This is a pretty stupid statement from someone who Islamists would kill in a heartbeat.
WPM says
He married heels up Harris ,after she was over 47 years old ,who elected him to make any decisions on behave of the American voters??Just because you married an elected official should your “opinion” carry any more” weight ” then that official? Whose payroll is this simp on just because your a JIN only and you marry empty headed escort girl in the democratic California fiefdom does that any weight ?? Soros who hates America hates Israel ,who hates western cultural ,happens to have a Jewish back ground gets a free pass .Who butters his bread or put pesos , Euros ,dollars ,or gold in his off his of seas accounts is not “anti-Semitic” or against law abiding people of any background or cultural ??
somehistory says
Good points, WPM.
No one has hired him to do this, no one voted for him to have any part in making laws, rules, etc….not even “plans”… for the American people.
Ron says
+++ GOLD STAR
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Good points. The fact that he married Willie Brown’s ex-concubine after she was over the hill and beyond tells us enough about his intelligence
What annoyed me more than him was The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism being among the participants in this exercise. They really need to educate themselves about what islamic texts teach about Jews. Jewish groups being against “islamophobia” is not just “chickens for KFC” or “cows for Five Guys”: it is “Jews for Nazism”
gravenimage says
There are certainly some clueless Jewish people in denial over the threat of Islam–just as many Gentiles are.
SC says
If the left are intentionally interfering with identification and designation of threats then they themselves just became the most imminent threat.
James Lincoln says
Yes, SC.
The “left” is the biggest threat.
They allow other threats – like islam – to thrive.
mgoldberg says
How many nations across the globe have muslim minorities that attack Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, nations and demand special rules and rights and engage Jihad on a consistent basis? For that matter how many nations of muslim majority have shia vs sunni Jihad, and murders and bigotry, with special attention paid to Jihad against apostates? Now, how many of all the other religions have anything similar against Islam. If one adds it up, Islam is a seriour world leader in homicidism, in serial murdering, in institutional and cultural bigotry, in hatreds codified for others that resist not merely change, but resist any mention of their actual existance.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
Very good points.
Ron says
OK,,,,I’m kinda lost here. It’s A OK for herds of Moose Lumbs to crowd the streets and yell “Death to America”,,,, that’s OK,,, right??? But if I don’t welcome such with open arms that’s HATE?!?!
You must be huffin a weeee bit too much happy hooter there Big Guy!
somehistory says
mozlums don’t just yell in the streets, but every week in every barracks they frequent, they say how much they hate Christians and Jews and how they plan to murder all of us.
Lady of the Lake says
The best way to fight Islamaphobia is to close all the mosks and ban islam
bobby says
How many so called innocent Muslims condemned the attack on innocent Israelis on October 7 and spoke out against the HAMAS? How many Muslims are speaking out against the call from more attacks by the HAMAS, Hezbollah, Iran, the Houthi, etc.,? Almost none…..so are their really any innocent Muslims?
Tony Rice says
Very true Bobby, one has only to look at what the Muslim invaders did on Oct 7th to realise what and who motivates them. In fact one need only look into the behaviour of Muhamad to realise what sort of person he was and then query the nature of Allah who chose him?. Might explain a lot. Have Jews or followers of Jesus advocated such behaviour
gravenimage says
Kamala Harris’ husband: ‘There will be an Islamophobia plan soon, making sure we fight hate wherever it exists’
…………………………………………….
Of course, opposing Jihad terror is not “Islamophobia”.
JS says
Anyone who needs more evidence of what they plan to do to the US and her citizens on US soil?
Go to MEMRI dot org. Subscribe for their free reports and then go to : Sermons of Imans in the West. You’ll probably get pretty angry so prepare yourself!
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Islamophobia is a fake phobia invented by the Muslim Brotherhood to de-rail any discussion about the evils of Islam. On the other hand, Islamonausia is about most of us having had a guts full of Muslims pushing their one way, cry-bully, victim narrative.
MD Anthony says
Mohamed tells followers of Islam to kill to unbelievers and to kill the infidels….and they do.
So if you don’t like Muslims killing infidels and even killing you….then you are Islamophobic?
Really you can only create such regulations and laws if you have a senile President
abu taleb says
Why is there no Jewsphobia? Muslims are non rationally afraid of the Jews without any reson except for what has been said in Quran and hadiths. The lefties are doing the same, but they have no excuse for hating the Jews, so they are really Jewsphobia.
tgusa says
“Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff said on Thursday that the Biden administration plans to soon release new guidance on best practices for combating Islamophobia.”
This is the problem with electing a democrat. You dont have to suffer just the one you have to suffer the whole package, mom and dad. My parents are both dead so I no longer have anyone in this world I would look to for guidance. My parents did their job so now go do yours Doug. Shut up go home and make Kamala a sandwich.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I just hope Joe replaces Kamala on the ticket w/ AOC. That’ll give Mr & Mrs Emhoff (or should it be Mr & Mrs Harris?) all the time in the world to spend fighting islamophobia
They could start by visiting Gaza, or better yet, Sana’a. Or maybe go back to San Francisco and live in the squalor there
tgusa says
We are living in an age of inexplicable stupidly. Stupidity on a level that has never before been seen in history. So yeah, considering that, it’s a real downer.
WPM says
Joe is going to go ,the democratic mob bosses have had their sit down after the debate and Trumps reaction after the secret service failed to protect him because they where on a smoke break when some super 0007 incel 20 year old loser try to kill him. Trump ,s fist pumping ending and saying fight ,fight , ended Joes chance .Kamala and Soros agent Emhoff will be at the top of the ticket like batman and robin both running the government as President .
Goofy says
If you take hatred and self-righteousness out of Islam, will there be anything left?
gravenimage says
Nothing substantive.
Abu ibn Abu says
Fear of Muslims exists worldwide, Islamophobia does not exist because it means an irrational fear of Muslims. Fear of Muslims is very rational. Now there are among the millions of Jihadis, Muslims who are not a dangerous threat but fear of Islam in general is very rational.
Issie says
No such thing as Islamofobia. Just another made up word to silence the truth about a false religion and a false prophet
Troybeam says
Its a word used to destroy non Muslims rights to free speech so that Islam can expand into every area in politics, banking and whatever else Islam wants. When you understand Islam your not phobic your educated and know the evil that it is. Fight back against this tyranny that is Islam.
Ian says
Given that “phobia” also means intense dislike, I always thank those who call me “Islamophobic”! If you get killed for joining or get killed for leaving, it’s not a religion…it’s a mindless death cult! It makes perfect sense to be phobic about death cults infesting your country!
WPM says
Yes I fear and hate people who only purpose in life is to either kill me ,or enslave me ! I keep away from dangerous things ,that have no use for me ,I try to avoid and not interact with insane violent people ,it is called self preservation .I would not try to pet a 12 foot alligator or befriend a 700 pound polar bear ,I would not share my home with them or trust my love ones to interact with them.
Ralph says
“Islamonausea” is a more correct term.
Donna says
Islamonausia! Ha ! Love it! It really sums it up! Great job!
R_not says
He should crack open the islamic texts and sharia – lots of hate in those things. Current and past history also shows how many follow the hateful ‘god’ and their ‘perfect prophet’ who made that ‘god’ that hates!!
WPM says
He is on the one world elite payroll him and his family are protected he could careless if all us common people ,Jews ,Christians ,athirst ,Buddhist ,Hindus are thrown into the cremators and our ashes are used to grow their organic fruit and vegetables .What makes you think these MF elites give a rats ass what you think ,or if you live or die! They think they can control or delete the Moslems after they use them as tools to destroy us non-Moslems.
Nabil Bissada says
Islamophobia … hahahahahaha..so funny word. Of course, I have Islamophobia.
99% of the Muslims have Islamophobia, especial who are living in the Muslims countries.
ISIS, BOCOHARAM, AL QADA, HAMAS, ETC. are using the Koran and the sharia law as evidence for their crimes against humanity
After Taliban replaced USA, hundreds of thousands of Muslims had islamophobia and escaped from Afghanistan.
The Muslims in the middle east who study by Arabic language the Koran and the sharia law are thinking that the western citizens who are using Islamophobia are morons.
Islamophobia=Covid phobia=Aids phobia=Crocodile phobia=Gang phobia= Mafia phobia, etc.