‘Islamophobia’ or common sense?
The Greek-language Protothema reported that last Friday, a Sudanese Muslim in Athens was overcome with the sheer joy of Islam began to scream “Allahu akbar,” and the police were duly summoned to the scene. When, oh when, will the West learn to stop being so terribly “Islamophobic”?
Protothema reported that “the alarm was raised on the afternoon of Friday, July 24, at the Authorities, when a man of Sudanese origin got off the Metro tracks at Agia Paraskevi,” a station in Athens, “and began to move on foot in the tunnel towards the Chalandri station.” Athens authorities are apparently so “Islamophobic” that “his presence on the railway tracks caused immediate mobilization, as in addition to the risk to his life, an uncontrolled movement in the tunnel could lead to a serious incident for the safe operation of the line.”
Protothema says that it all started around 3:25 p.m., “when the Emergency Response Center reported a foreign man who had gotten off the platforms of Agia Paraskevi station and was walking on foot along the railway lines towards Chalandri.”
The grateful refugee’s peaceful stroll along the railroad tracks, however, was soon interrupted: “The police officers of the Northeast Attica Zeus team, who were on a scheduled vehicle patrol duty in the wider Chalandri area that day, between 13:00 and 19:00, immediately headed to the scene.”
Once there, they had to replicate the migrant’s dangerous stunt: “The situation they now had to face was extremely dangerous. The police officers went down to the platforms and moved towards the interior of the tunnel at the risk of their lives.” As not many people decide to take leisurely walks through Metro tunnels, they quickly found their man: “About 200 meters from the station they spotted the man inside the tunnel. The police officers made their presence known to him and called him to get off the tracks.”
Understandably, the asylum seeker was a trifle peeved at the interruption of his daily constitutional, and “did not comply with their exhortations and orders.” When the cops “moved towards him in order to immobilize him,” he “began to resist vigorously, push them and attempt to escape.” He also began to scream “Allahu akbar” and other Islamic declarations. “At the same time, he kicked them hard, spat at them and attempted to hit them with fists, elbows and even with his head.”
Finally he was arrested, and that was that. But what he had in mind is still not known. He may have been planning a jihad terror attack, or he may simply have wanted to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60). Either way, here yet again we see “Allahu akbar” used in a context that is clearly meant to be menacing to non-Muslims. Recently the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was enraged at Fox News for noticing that Islamic jihad terrorists so often invoke their god while in the midst of acts of murder and mayhem.
CAIR boasted that it wrote to Fox, asking that the network correct its description of the phrase “Allahu akbar” as a “terror chant.” CAIR wrote: “‘Allahu Akbar’ simply means ‘God is Greatest’ or ‘God is Great’ in Arabic. It is one of the most common expressions used by some two billion Muslims worldwide in daily prayers, celebrations, times of grief, and ordinary conversation.”
Fox caved in immediately, of course, and changed its definition of the term. And sure, Muslims scream this phrase in a variety of contexts, but CAIR did not explain (and no one asked it to) why jihad terrorists so frequently scream it in settings where it is clearly meant to terrorize unbelievers. They do not just happen to be making a declaration of the greatness of Allah while stabbing or beheading someone. Their shout of “Allahu akbar” is meant to indicate that Allah is showing himself to be greater precisely in and through the act of violence at hand.
The idea is that when the Muslims attack unbelievers, they are acting as the instruments of Allah’s wrath, and so they screamhis name. Their attack itself shows that Allah is greater, greater than the god of the unbelievers for if the infidels’ god were greater than Allah, he would be able to protect his people and prevent the slaves of Allah from attacking them. The fact that the attack takes place at all indicates that Allah is more powerful than the unbelievers’ deity, and hence greater.
And now that has been duly screamed in Athens, as it is being screamed all over the Western world. CAIR insists it’s nothing to be concerned about. And CAIR wouldn’t lie to us, would it?
mark c says
They lie & deceive with the curling split tongue of a viper!