The New York Times’ warning about “Islamophobia” relies on its readers’ ignorance of facts that it likely didn’t report about, or report about fully and accurately. The Times is all about constructing a narrative to support leftist political causes, not reporting the news. So it downplays and misrepresents jihad attacks, ignores Muslim declarations of imminent takeover, remains willfully ignorant about the Sharia imperative to conquer and subjugate non-Muslims, and then presents concern about Islam and Sharia as irrational racism, bigotry and “Islamophobia.” Well, sure, that’s what it is, once you’ve eliminated all the facts.
In late February, a speaker told a large Muslim crowd in New York City: “Oh, don’t scare them, brothers! Relax! They’re over here on purpose to be like, ‘Oh my God!’ Who’s seen those videos where they’re like, ‘Oh my God, the Muslims are taking over New York City!’ Seen those? You seen those? Let them know that we are taking over New York City! Takbir!” And the crowd responds with an enthusiastic “Allahu akbar.”
The Muslim Brotherhood, meanwhile, has drastically increased its influence and activities in the United States over the past two decades and is dedicated in its own words, according to a captured internal document, to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house, so that it falls, and Allah’s religion reigns supreme over other religions.”
Mustafa Akyol, the practiced deceiver the Times quotes below, never refers to such facts. He couldn’t possibly equate Sharia with Jewish and Christian religious law, and consign all suspicion about it to bigotry, while discussing Muslims boasting about taking over and actively plotting to do so.
And there is a great deal of this sort of thing. In Aug. 2024, Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), detailed a strategy for gaining political power: “If we commit to do this, four years from now, the Muslim community will have 4,000 new journalists, we will have 4,000 filmmakers, 4,000 lawyers, 4,000 students of political science, 4,000 students of history. The next year, we will have another 4,000. Fifteen years from now, the Muslim community will have 50,000, an army of these people. They will design our image, they will protect the truth and the news, most likely many of these people will run for public office and they will become lawmakers…We can have, in ten years, at least 40-50 members of Congress, in the U.S. Congress.”
Also, back in Dec. 2025, a young Somali Muslim in the U.S. made a video. Holding a large photo of Trump, the young man said, “My biggest fear in life is that this man may never witness our full takeover. Yes, he may never wi— witness that. He already witnessed our partial takeover, our little success, in America…. So. He’s old and sick, I know, he may not witness our full takeover. But I promise you that his sons will witness.”
The Times never reported any of that, and has nothing to say about it. It would interfere with the narrative.
“Trump’s Hypocrisy on Religious Freedom,” New York Times Editorial Board, March 19, 2026:
…Irrational fear of Shariah — a set of principles, based on the Quran, that guide life for Muslims, much as biblical precepts guide Christians and Jews — is another way in which anti-Muslim hate is translating into policy. Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas recently signed a law that would prevent what he called “Shariah compounds,” supposedly communities that are open only to Muslims and that subject their residents to religious law. In the House, Representative Chip Roy of Texas has introduced a bill called the Preserving a Shariah-Free America Act, while Senator John Cornyn of Texas has cosponsored another, the Defeat Shariah Law in America Act. Mr. Fine, for his part, has introduced a Protecting Puppies From Shariah Act.
These efforts are based on ludicrously false pretenses. Extreme versions of Shariah are a problem in some countries, including Afghanistan and Iran, but they are not a threat in the United States. American Muslims are not attempting to impose Shariah principles on others. As Mustafa Akyol of the Cato Institute has noted, the recent proposals mimic anti-Catholic and anti-Mormon laws enacted in previous centuries. They are based on lies and are intended to scapegoat.
The millions of Americans who practice Islam are just as American as anyone else. They pay taxes, own businesses and serve in the armed forces. Many have been here for generations. Others upended their lives to move here, in some cases because of this country’s constitutional protection of religious freedom.
The surge of anti-Muslim hate has caused many of them to feel threatened in their own country. Some feel anxious about entering a mosque or wearing obvious signs of their faith. In Texas and other places where political leaders have spread hate, the fears can be acute. “We left our roots, our home, our generational stories, to move into a country where we thought these kinds of things would not happen,” Mona Kafeel, who runs Peace in the Home Family Services, a social services organization in Plano, Texas, told us. Now, she said, “That fear is coming back to many of us.”…
Islam is bad says
Taqiyya – Saying something that isn’t true as it relates to Muslim identity (i.e whether one is a Muslim or what that means). This is a Shiite term: the Sunni counterpart is Muda’rat.
Kitman – Lying by omission. An example would be when Muslim apologists quote only a fragment of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills “it shall be as if he had killed all mankind”) while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse (and the next) mandate murder in undefined cases of “corruption” and “mischief.”
Tawriya – Intentionally creating a false impression by saying something that is technically true, when knowing that the listener will interpret it in a different way. This practice has a broader application than taqiyya.
Muruna – ‘Blending in’ by setting aside some practices of Islam or Sharia in order to advance others.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/taqiyya.aspx
gravenimage says
Thanks for that list, IIB.
Troybeam says
A Muslim is a Muslim no matter where they are and where they live, here in America they belong to a entity that seeks to destroy America, Public law 414, June 1952 states they must be removed from America,
Constitution: law of the land. No other law to operate inside of America.
Sharia law: foreign law, seeks to destroy the Constitution. Sharia is not a religious law it is a political law governed by the Imam( called religious leaders)
Islam must be removed, all mosques be destroyed, all Muslims removed as well. Islam seeks to destroy every nation where it resides therefore it must be removed, all of it.
ploome says
if only
Jim says
Agreed
Ana says
Hard to read this article. Let us get this straight: nobody hates Muslims in our tolerant western society. However, the most productive and successful society ever created by mankind is WESTERN SOCIETY. Every single industrial and technological advance came from Western Society, not you, Muslims who seek death. God gives power to those who seek enlightenment. We just don’t appreciate to be taken for fools by Islam. As my beloved late brother used to say: the “religion” of the devil. Religion?? Until you, Muslims, quit your thirst for blood, until you quit your thirst for control, until you quit your thirst for dominance (and I give a darn about your book which I read all too carefully in college, unlike idiots at the NYT) there will be war. Period. And guess who will win? Good hearted people. Simple as that. Those who seek the good in humanity will prevail.
Tim gallagher says
What a load of bullshit. Muslims, as called for in the evil Koran, New York Times moronic leftie wankers will, of course, not read any of the Koran, are always out to subjugate all non Muslims and impose Islam on all of us. That’s Muslims whole purpose in life. It is back to the life of 7th century Arabs if Muslims win. Islam needs to be banned from all civilised, non Muslim countries.
Dina Collins says
They want to team up with them then try to fade them like Communists did their useful idiots.
Rick Gordon says
The NYT – and WaPo – have long ago ceased being an objective source of information. While I hope that many, if not most of the Muslim faith came to America to become part of our society, my reading and observations tell me that is false.
Wellington says
The editorial board of the NYT is highly probably being sincere here. Frankly, I would prefer they were deceptive here because massively misplaced sincerity is much of the time even more harmful than outright malevolence.
PRCS USN (ret) says
Yes.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Why do they care? Even if every employee of the NYT became muslim – more likely by letting go of current staff and hiring only muslims – they wouldn’t bat an eyelid. Why would they?
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“The millions of Americans who practice Islam are just as American as anyone else.”
The NYT Editorial Board consists, alas,of dopes. Only dopes could write or approve of such a sentence.
PRCS USN (ret) says
Or, as others have suggested, a malevolent board.
Cynthia says
The staff of the Times are the brainwashed, young useful idiots raised in our leftist education system that demonizes Israel and America. The red/green alliance has ruined journalism.
Huh?!? says
This is absurd. Islam always seeks to bring down any civilization that is not Islam.
Ana says
History backs you.
somehistory says
Of course. They lie in order to keep the Truth concealed long enough so the takeover can be complete.
A similar lie has been told today by USA Today
“Threat of imposing religious law in America isn’t from Muslims | Opinion”
The writers say that “Christian Nationalism” is the one trying to rule America.
“the United States finds herself at a crossroads, asked to choose between two different visions of what it means to belong to the American family.
One path leads to a Christian nationalist rebranding of America based on the alluring myth of religious and national purity, where Christian and American identities are synonymous, and where Christians are tasked with holding authority over all essential aspects of American civic life. ”
And supposedly the “other path”….is back to ” America’s pluralistic roots and the endeavor to create a society in which people from diverse religious traditions can freely bring their gifts and aspirations to bear on a shared diverse democracy.”
The Truth is, muzzies are here to take over, using “religious liberty” to conquer all infidels. Lies in support of evil are nothing new. But there are many more than just one now being “deceived” into devil worship.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/threat-of-imposing-religious-law-in-america-isn-t-from-muslims-opinion/ar-AA1Z9dX4?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=69c068a3a8454428b17bb9eda7605165&ei=55
LibertyORdeath says
The Founders never wrote our Constitution with Islamists in mind. Many like to cherry pick the parts of the Constitution that agrees with their aims.
Whether they, or we, like it or not, religious freedom was meant for only one group – free white men of good character. Just like free speech or the second amendment, you cannot separate these rights from the people they were intended to protect. Picking and choosing the parts that are currently fashionable is what has lead to this mess in the first place. It’s why we need more “gun control” or “antisemitism” laws. You can’t always have your cake and eat it too.
James Lincoln says
Robert Spencer states:
“The Times is all about constructing a narrative to support leftist political causes, not reporting the news.”
100% true.
That is really all that you need to know about the New York Times.
Taffy says
“All the ‘news’ that’s fit to line your bird cage.”
abu taleb says
Muslims always demand non muslims to respect Islam and muslims (but never the other way around), so non muslims should not eat in public, wear provocative clothes or non Islamic symbols, etc. Is this not imposing shariah at the most “friendly” level? Certainly it will get much worse in the more Islamic countries up to people must hv Islam as their religion.
NYT should be charged for deception and treason.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
New York Times: ‘American Muslims are not attempting to impose Shariah principles on others’
The NYT is ignorant of Islam. All Muslims are required to work to establish Islam and the sharia in non-Muslim societies. If they claim that this is not their role then they are lying to help the propagation of Islam. Various forms of lying for this purpose are sanctioned under the sharia.
PRCS USN (ret) says
Not sure which is worse: that the editors who control what gets publaished don’t know or that they do.
Eddie says
Something about Islamopandering Derby should be mentioned here.
gravenimage says
His posts are not the problem–Islam is, and dhimmi fools appeasing and whitewashing Islam.
Winston 101 says
Yet another candidate for the Duranty Award.
Just as The NY Times reporter Walter Duranty could not find evidence of the
Holodomor in Stalin’s Ukraine. The NY Times today can’t find any evidence in Islam’s “holy” books of the command by Muhammed to engage in Jihad and to enforce Sharia on all others.
Evidence would require reading those “holy” books.
That’s a lot to expect from reporters for a newspaper. They are not there to study the evidence from source documents. They are there to report . They have their script and they report it.
Just like Walter Duranty.
Ralph says
More like Jimmy Durante.
gravenimage says
I cannot recall his whitewashing evil–although I may have missed something?
gravenimage says
+1
El says
Mohammedans successfully use taqiyya, tawriya, kitman, and muruna on Dems, and Dems (NYT) turn around and use it on everyone else.
gravenimage says
New York Times: ‘American Muslims are not attempting to impose Shariah principles on others’
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More blatant lies from tne “paper of record”–just as with NYT Soviet apologist Walter Duranty during the 1930s.