The establishment media will use the anniversary to step up its propaganda.
In the run-up to the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 jihad attacks, and on the day itself, the establishment media is going to inundate us with feature stories about “Islamophobia.” Here’s one: NPR on Tuesday ran an interview with Rozina Ali, who writes for the New York Times and has just published a new book of victimhood propaganda, Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America. Hawking the book and Ali’s appearance, NPR tells us:
After the Sept. 11 attacks, assaults against Muslims in the U.S. surged. At the same time the U.S. government launched a sweeping War on Terror that brought arrests, deportations and surveillance into Muslim communities. Journalist Rozina Ali was a teenager at the time and remembers her father warning her, “Don’t tell anyone you’re Muslim.” In her new book, “Seasons of Fury,” Ali traces the rise and persistence of Islamophobia through the lives of four Muslim American families. We talk to her about how the War on Terror reshaped Muslim life in America and what it will take to counter Islamophobia now….
This brief blurb is typical of what we’re going to see: the term itself is never defined. We’re told that “assaults” on Muslims surged after 9/11, but that term isn’t defined, either. Were large numbers of Muslims in the U.S. physically attacked? Or do rude encounters involving verbal assaults also count as “assaults” for NPR?
Also, Rozina Ali and NPR suggest that after 9/11, innocent Muslims were unjustly suspected and inconvenienced. That’s unfortunate, if true, but was anyone guilty? Did the “sweeping War on Terror” that “brought arrests, deportations and surveillance into Muslim communities” ever arrest or deport or place under surveillance anyone who was guilty, or were all of the Muslims who experienced one or more of those three things all innocent? If any were guilty, could it not be argued that these law enforcement procedures were justified?
NPR and Ali also discuss “what it will take to counter Islamophobia now.” Yet both are proceeding from the assumption that the Islamic identity of the 9/11 hijackers was incidental, and had nothing really to do with why they carried out these attacks. Others who are more realistic and more honest, and/or better informed, will be aware that Islam in virtually all of its various forms does indeed, contrary to the still-prevailing myth, teach warfare against and the subjugation of unbelievers. Will Rozina Ali and NPR discuss that fact as a contributing factor to suspicion of Islam, or what they call “Islamophobia”? They most certainly will not. It is integral to the left’s entire myth of Islamophobia that Islam be seen as entirely nonviolent, non-supremacist, non-misogynistic, non-antisemitic, and wholly benign, with jihad terrorists proceeding upon a misinterpretation and misunderstanding of the religion that only bigoted “Islamophobes” conflate with the real thing.
This is a fantasy, totally detached from reality, but NPR is all in on the fantasy game. And so is Rozina Ali. The advertising copy touting her book at Amazon says: “Ultimately, the U.S. government’s Islamophobic policies disillusioned generations of Muslims who sought the promise of the American dream only to find their communities torn apart, their relatives imprisoned, and their religion villainized by politicians and media. Ali’s story of how we got to our terrifying present is a magisterial accomplishment and a damning indictment of the United States’ abandonment of its core principles in the face of fear.”
Wow, that’s some heavy stuff. And yet in the years since 9/11, while all of this villainization and tearing apart of communities was going on, Muslims were streaming into the U.S. in large numbers, so that the U.S. Muslim population soared from 1.8 million in 2001 to 4.5 million now. Didn’t all these new arrivals realize that the U.S. had abandoned its core principles in the face of fear? Didn’t they know that when they got to the land of the free and the home of the brave, full of excitement and hope for the future, they would find their religion villainized by politicians and media, and that they would be living in a terrifying present?
It just doesn’t add up. If Rozina Ali’s victimhood pornography were remotely true, Muslims would be streaming out of the United States, not streaming in. And there is still more than a week until the anniversary: Expect the establishment media to churn out more and more of this drivel — so much that by the time they’re finished, this NPR piece will look balanced.
somehistory says
There was a movie, “Stuff” It was quite sickening…and dangerous. So is this fake ‘phobia’ which will be at fever pitch
Frankly, I’m really sick of reading that people are expressing ….supposedly….the fake phobia.
And I don’t give a fig if my feelings and words offend muzzies. They are free to leave the land of my forefathers and go home to the land of their slime.
Huh?!? says
This is a fantasy. Islam must be removed from the U.S. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. Vote! Vote! Vote! May the heroes and victims of 9/11 RIP.
Gamzu says
I see this as similar to the way American Communists and their useful idiot allies who were “blacklisted” in the “Red Scare” of the 40’s and 50’s are portrayed today as heroes and victims, while those who exposed their subversive activities, often carried out at Moscow’s behest, are cast as villains.
Wellington says
America and all of the West remain in deep trouble because way too many non-Muslims in the West (e.g., Bush 43, the last two Popes and Tony Blair) have demonstrated a willful ignorance about Islam that those from a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, in the West certainly did not demonstrate—quite the opposite in fact.
So much for progress, eh? What a moronic age we live in. And the Islamic world, which produces virtually nothing of value on its own, is absolutely delighted by all this, being the ultimate parasite which it is.
tgusa says
Bush 43 and an a willful (and idiotic) ignorance about Islam.
Hoes that working out for us?
They came from Texas. Lets not forget the others that came out of Texas.
LBJ and the great society.
The Great Society was an initiative involving a series of domestic programs enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States between 1964 and 1968, aimed at eliminating poverty, reducing racial injustice, and expanding social welfare in the country.
Hows that working out for us?
Bush 41 and his 1990 immigration reform.
In 1989, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced what became the Immigration Act of 1990. It provided for family-based immigration visas, created five employment-based visas, categorized by occupation, and added a diversity visa program that created a lottery to admit a small number of immigrants from “low admittance” countries or countries where their citizens were historically underrepresented in the United States. Bush 41 signed it.
Hows that working out for us?
I think we have had enough of Presidents coming out of Texas. We can’t take it anymore.
Taffy says
Maybe there wouldn’t be any “Islamophobia” if the Muzzies didn’t bomb things, fly airplanes into buildings, knife attack people on the streets, rape teen girls, perform vehicle jihad, kill or disfigure their daughters with acid as an “honor killing,” lift their asses to Allah and block traffic in Times Square and Washington Square, have Imams that incite their congregations to violence against Jews, Christians and other nonMuslims, destroy churches and vandalize their sacred statues, finance domestic and international terror through their Muzzie “charities,” etc..
rubiconcrest says
… and that’s just the obivious stuff. You’d think people would notice but no. If they cannot even see the obvious and demand change how will they every understand the real problem is elsewhere.
Babies being born, mosques being built, communties growing, muslims elected to public office and school boards and intalled in the halls of government, lawsuits against vocal islamic critics etc… No one appreciates the slow islamization of our country.
They are distracted. They think it a policing problem, something that the FBI is protecting us from. No, not at all.
Walter Sieruk says
All those murderous actions that those Muslim terrorists of a Qaeda committed on September 11th 2001 did those horrendously evil mass murderers not because they were following a “hijacked” or “warped” form of Islam, They engaging in straight from the Qur’ an , non – watered down Islam.
For example , in Surah 47:4. the Qur’ an instructs “Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” The terrible reality is that using jet passenger planes as missiles will make a greater “slaughter among them” than a sword can.