You Can’t Defend Israel Unless You Talk About Islam

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

What do the stabbings in Israel, the assaults on Hindus in Bangladesh, the Muslim mobs roaming English cities and the massacres of Christians in Nigeria all have in common?

The politically correct answer is nothing.

And that’s why the politically correct answer condones, justifies or ignores the violence.

Islamic attacks on non-Muslim majorities in India, Europe, America or Israel are justified as resistance by the oppressed, but violence by Muslim majorities against non-Muslim minorities in Indonesia, Nigeria and Bangladesh were justified by claims that the Muslim majority was economically disenfranchised. Muslim violence is always excused by false claims of victimhood.

Within Islam, Jihads are billed as a campaign to unify the world under the Islamic ‘Ummah’, to impose Sharia law on all mankind, and eventually usher in a global caliphate. Externally however they are tethered to local and political causes of groups that happen to be Muslim.

Muslims see them as Islamic wars, non-Muslims are told that they’re everything else but.

Patterns define how we react to things. The question is what is the pattern?

Is the pattern that disparate groups of violent men shouting “Allahu Akbar” are killing people around the world for socioeconomic and political reasons having nothing to do with Islam?

Or is this a religious war?

Hamas launched Oct 7 on the final days of the Jewish High Holy Days after originally scheduling them for the first day of Passover. What the world knows as Oct 7, Hamas and its supporters called ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ after the mosque that the Muslim conquerors planted on the Jewish Temple Mount. Anti-Israel rallies use the ‘flood’ term such as ‘Flood Brooklyn for Gaza’.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was recently assassinated, told the International Union of Muslim Scholars in Qatar and the “sons of our Islamic nation” that “this is the battle for Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and not the battle of the Palestinian people, or Gaza.”

This runs completely counter to the official narrative that the entire war is about Gaza.

The reams of media and expert commentary discuss Oct 7 in terms of everything except Islam.

To do that they had to ignore what Hamas was saying just as they had to previously ignore what Al Qaeda and ISIS were saying. To Hamas, Oct 7 was a religious war. The failure to recognize that is a catastrophic setback to Israel’s strategy and cause as it was to America’s after 9/11.

After Oct 7, Israel, like the Bush administration, called on a liberal consensus that no longer existed, and tried to rally public opinion against “barbarism” and “savagery”. But neither of those are motives. Rather than acknowledging what the enemy was and trying to build a coalition with other countries struggling against Islamic terrorism, Israel tried to appeal to liberals. And lost.

Israel had failed to define the enemy. Terrorist supporters stepped into that vacuum. Their narrative, easily familiar from even the briefest exposure to media and social media, is that Israel was oppressing a minority that had struck back as an act of resistance and liberation.

This is the same excuse used to justify religious violence by Islamic groups around the world against not only Jews, but Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and numerous cultures and religions.

The big lie that Islamic violence is socioeconomic and not religious, local not global, only works when no one talks about Islam or recognizes the larger pattern of Islamic violence for a thousand years that is being perpetrated on nearly every continent and against every culture.

Are Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists all the problem? Or is Islam the issue?

When we fail to ask this fundamental question, we lose the argument.

The enemy had once again defined Israel following the familiar pattern of two centuries of class warfare rhetoric and a century of orientalist third world liberation theory. The Israelis were the English in Africa, the Spanish in South America and the French in Algiers. They were imperialists and colonialists being driven out by the heroic native resistance fighters.

Israel could have told another story. A tale of Islamic imperialist armies roaring out of the desert, exterminating entire civilizations, wiping out their cultures and religions, and selling their children as slaves. It could have connected the dots to the oil-rich Muslim states like Qatar that traffic in slaves and fund Jihadist conquests around the world. It should have told the story that the Jews were the last indigenous people in the Middle East standing in the way of a new Islamic empire.

But that story was too dangerous and controversial. It would risk alienating Israel’s last liberal supporters. The Biden administration and the EU would completely turn on it. The Abraham Accords would fall apart. Instead, Israel tried to once again tell a story of a multicultural liberal society, a place where gay men can hold hands even if one of them is Muslim, standing up to “barbarism”. It’s the same story that America, Europe and every liberal western society have been telling themselves and each other after every Islamic terrorist attack.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle,” Sun Tzu had said.

Western nations choose not to know themselves or the enemy and so we continue to lose.

How could Israel fail to predict Oct 7? How could we fail to predict 9/11? How can so many nations fail to predict each new Islamic terrorist attack? Because they do not know the enemy.

When civilized people meet with soft-spoken terrorist emissaries who wear fine suits, they assume that they can be dealt with because they’re not “barbaric” or “savage”. They negotiate peace accords and ceasefires with them. They assume that their word can be trusted.

For two years, Hamas kept the deal it had negotiated until it was ready to attack and carry out barbaric and savage atrocities mandated by its religion. No amount of economic benefits from the ceasefire dissuaded it from the attack. Predicting the attack was impossible for those who understood Hamas as a political and social movement rather than a religious movement.

Islamic terrorism is always unpredictable if you ignore the Islamic part of the equation. It’s also inexplicable, impossible to defeat and impossible to even win an argument against.

Calling Muslim forces “barbaric” or “savages” is unconvincing rhetoric that explains nothing.

A tiny minority of criminals might break with society to commit crimes, but millions of people, whether in Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, the USSR or the Muslim world will not engage in deviant behavior: they will commit atrocities only because they believe they are right.

Israel lost the argument long ago because it allowed the conflict to be defined as a local issue. And it’s not a local issue but as Hamas and many terrorist leaders have asserted, a global one.

Why is what happens in a tiny strip of land in a relative backwater a global issue?

Because it’s not about Gaza and it’s not about Israel; it’s about Islam.

No one would care about Gaza if it were really a local territorial conflict, but every conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims is a religious war that draws in Muslims worldwide.

That is why Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh could call on the religious support of the International Union of Muslim Scholars in Qatar. That’s why Muslim mobs rallying in support of Hamas vandalized Washington D.C. and are assaulting random British people in the UK.

It’s not a local conflict. It’s not a ‘Palestinian’ conflict. It’s an Islamic religious war.

The Islamic invasion, colonization and subjugation of non-Muslim nations and peoples is the foundational mission of Islam. It was the means by which Mohammed brought Islam into being. But for political palatability, the Muslim colonists are disguised as a ‘native’ population.

In Israel’s West Bank and Gaza, the Arab Muslim colonists who had invaded and ethnically cleansed the Jewish population were rebranded as Palestinians. The Muslims who had brutally purged the Hindu population of Kashmir became the ‘Kashmiris’. And the campaigns were reduced to somehow irresolvable territorial disputes between a majority and a Muslim minority.

But why are these territorial disputes irresolvable? Because they’re not about territory. Land can be negotiated, but a religious dispute in which one side’s religion tells it to kill the other cannot.

That’s why no matter how much territory Israel has given up, the fighting only gets worse.

Diplomats and the media blame Israel for not giving up enough territory, but where has a conflict between non-Muslims and Muslim terrorists ever been resolved except by force? Democratic elections, foreign aid, territorial concessions have been tried with no success.

The failures are never blamed on the Islamic terrorists only on those who resisted them. The terrorists were the oppressed and the onus was always on the oppressors to change that.

Locked into the same spiral of failure, civilized nations continue trying to appease their way out of a clash of civilizations. The pattern is right in front of them, but they refuse to see it.

After 9/11, those in the government and the defense community who knew it was a religious war told the rest of us that we had to keep quiet about it to avoid escalating the conflict. But lying about the War on Terror being a religious war did not fool them: it fooled us. Western nations committed to the lie until they could no longer see the pattern that was killing them.

There’s a good deal at stake in the question of pattern recognition for Israel.

Israel cannot win the argument by contending that it has been trying and failing to compromise with the so-called ‘Palestinian’ people who for some unaccountable reason won’t negotiate. A minimalist argument cannot defeat a maximalist position. Agreeing to peace negotiations did not give Israel the moral high ground: it was an admission of guilt that destroyed it. The Islamic refusal to compromise in the decades since validated their position and their terrorism.

The complete failure of the liberal establishment to see that has brought us to this point.

Appeasing and negotiating with Islamic terrorists does not discredit them when they in turn refuse to negotiate, make concessions or keep their word. It only discredits the appeasers and locks them into a disastrous cycle of concessions that empowers the terrorists, but never addresses the fundamental issue which is not territorial, national or socioeconomic.The core issue is religious. And a religious issue can’t be solved with land swaps.

To win the argument, Israel must reject the false claim that it is involved in a territorial and national dispute with a local ‘Palestinian’ minority and instead correctly define this as one of the flashpoints in a global religious war between Islam and the rest of the world. These flashpoints have already touched every single major power, America, Europe, Russia and China, and every continent, Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, and every major and many minor religions.

Israel does not have to be alone in this fight. None of us do. We have to see the pattern.

Treating Islamic terrorism as a local problem doesn’t actually isolate it: it isolates us.

When we recognize that we are all in this together, that our problems are not local, but global, then we have some hope of standing together against the greatest conflict of this century.

The decision to tell the truth about the war we are in is both difficult and necessary. Israel is the canary in the coal mine in more ways than one. No major country has told the truth plainly and clearly. Decades of mumbling about “moderates”, “democracy”, “misunderstanding Islam”, “root causes” and “extremism” led us to one defeat after another in the War on Terror.

Time is running out. Telling the truth doesn’t guarantee victory, but living in a fantasy world ensures defeat.

There is no way to defend the cause of Israel (or any free nation) against Islamic terrorism without talking about Islam. Without seeing the larger pattern, every conflict will be local, Israel will be depicted as a bully beating up on a weaker Muslim minority, and no amount of photos of Israeli beaches and gay bars, Bedouin IDF soldiers and Hebrew U students in hijabs will change that. That brand of liberal ‘hasbara’ has been tried and failed because it is not the solution.

The liberal reading of the world is the problem. That is why liberal nations have fallen. No liberal nation has been willing to stand for its own people against the Islamic invasion. Why would it stand up for Israel? Tolerance, multiculturalism and integration, foundational to Israeli ‘hasbara’, are exactly why Western nations will not defend themselves and similarly reject Israel’s defense.

Israeli resistance to Islamic terrorism is not the subject of admiration in Europe, but humiliation. It serves as a bad example. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s insistence on total victory turns back the clock to before Obama eliminated the entire idea of victory from our cultural vocabulary. The more Israel wins, the more it loses Western liberals who believe that victory is reactionary.

To win, Israel must reframe the conflict. Some half century ago, the Islamist-Marxist alliance reframed the conflict between Israel and its Arab Muslim neighbors from a struggle between one lone country standing up to a regional evil empire to a rogue state oppressing a minority group.

Israel must uncompromisingly reframe the conflict back to where it began. And there is more at stake than just its own existence. The future of civilization rests on whether we will all see the pattern, the great bloody wave rising above us, or whether we will go on pretending it’s a drop.

Oct 7 is not just in Israel, it’s in India, America, Russia, Africa and in Europe. Our governments have lied to us for too long and fooled us into not seeing the pattern that is killing us.

Unless we see the pattern, Islam will drown civilization in its own blood.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

 

 

Islam: Theory vs Experience

February 7, 2024 By Raymond Ibrahim

The gulf between understanding Islam in theory and in practice is wide and telling. Based on the findings of a recent study, what western peoples think of Islam when relying on secondhand information from the powers-that-be (the media, the political “elite,” etc.) is vastly different from what they think of Islam after personally experiencing it. According to the report:

In 2009, Public Issue investigated, for the first time in Greece, the attitudes of Greeks towards Islam, the social perceptions of the concepts and symbols associated with the Islamic religion, the degree of knowledge and familiarity of citizens with the Islamic tradition, as well as the existing social beliefs regarding Islam-West and Islam-Greece relations.

The study found a dramatic shift of opinion among Greeks between 2009, when Muslims in Greece were few and far between -- meaning Greek opinion on Islam was theoretical and largely shaped by the media, etc. -- and 2023, seven years after large Muslim migrant populations first began landing in or passing through Greece in 2016.

Now, after experiencing Islam firsthand, “Greek public opinion… treats the Muslim world clearly more negatively or even hostilely,” the report found..............Little wonder. Since 2016, Greeks have had a major taste of Islam, leading to a “Crime explosion in Greece -- 55% of prisoners are migrants,” to quote from another recent report............. One report found “a correlation between the increase in illegal migration and the incidents of attacks on Greek Orthodox religious churches and religious spaces during the five-year period which occurred during the peak of the migration crisis.”.............In short, although public opinion towards Islam is negatively shifting, these changes are not as pronounced as might be expected -- underscoring the power of generations’ worth of indoctrination. In other words, abstract theory -- enshrined by the notion that Islam is the otherwise forever “misunderstood” religion of “peace,” etc. -- is still having an influence..............To Read More....

All Things Great and Small are Islamophobic

 By Rich Kozlovich

Today, Feb 07, 2024 Brent Bozell and Tim Graham published this article, It's Bigoted to Locate America's 'Jihad Capital'? saying:

The Wall Street Journal opinion section drew a pile of angry tweets when it ran an article by Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute. They fixated on the headline and didn't seem to read the article below.  The headline was "Welcome to Dearborn, America's Jihad Capital: Imams and politicians in the Michigan city side with Hamas against Israel and Iran against the U.S." The subhead here merely described the article's contents, that the city's Muslim leaders and political leaders sided against Israel and America. The angry response has to be the words "jihad capital." Somehow, you can't equate Hamas and jihad? You can't equate the slaughter on Oct. 7 with jihad?

On Oct. 10, Imam Imran Salha of Dearborn's Islamic Center of Detroit told a rally crowd that Israel's past actions have put "fire in our hearts that will burn that state" -- Israel -- "until its demise."

On Oct. 14, Imam Usama Abdulghani called Oct. 7 "one of the days of God" and a "miracle come true." He described the attackers as "honorable" and called them "lions" defending "the entire nation of Muhammad the messenger."

The Islamic Center of America, a leading Dearborn mosque, held a memorial service on Dec. 30 for a Hezbollah operative killed in an Israeli airstrike, where Imam Abdulghani expressed his "warmest congratulations" to "our very special leader, Imam Khamenei," the leader of Iran, the backer of Hamas and Hezbollah.

But don't call Dearborn a "jihad capital."............ President Biden tweeted indirectly: "Americans know that blaming a group of people based on the words of a small few is wrong. That's exactly what can lead to Islamophobia and anti-Arab hate, and it shouldn't happen to the residents of Dearborn -- or any American town. We must continue to condemn hate in all forms." This from the guy who called the Republicans "Jim Crow 2.0.".........

This is all mind boggling, but we shouldn't be surprised how these jihadist's who live under the protection of American law, and are doing everything they can to subvert and undermine it, because they're are doing exactly the same thing race hustlers have been doing and getting away with for decades.   Just as All Things Great and Small are Racist, that's that same pattern Jihadist's are now using, and have been using, in order to make, all things great and small Islamophobic.  

Just as Daniel Greenfield points out in his article, The Burlington, VT 'Anti-Palestinian' Shooting Story Makes No Sense, they've twisted the law so that every random act of violence is now a "hate crime" irrespective of evidence to the contrary.  

The Department of Education Is Investigating Harvard because now there are claims of Islamophobia that Harvard hasn't addressed.  Never mind all the ranting, raging, and violence on these university campuses were being perpetrated by Islamists against Jews and anyone who supported Israel, and Harvard did nothing...... nothing.... now Muslims are claiming it's been they who've been oppressed, and this clabber is going to increase making all things great and small Islamophobic.

The biggest problem to all this is defining phobias.  A phobia as an unnatural fear, an irrational mental disorder.  Fear of Islam isn't unnatural or a mental disorder.  There's every reason in the world to be afraid of Islam, and those who practice it. We have almost 1500 years of history to prove it, so if there's mountains of evidence to show there's reason to fear Islam, and there is, then there can be no such thing as Islamophobia.   Make no mistake, Islam is the greatest enemy of western civilization in the world.  Not Russia, not China, Islam! And the biggest reason is Islam can't be reformed and still exist! 

I'm sick of those who attempt to equate actions by "Christians" and westerners against poor abused Muslims living in western nations with a foundational Judaic/Christian moral foundation as being equivalent to all the violence and criminal activity of Muslims world wide.  I see TV shows and movies where some Muslim will be outraged at "what they have to go through daily" in America for being Muslim.  

Try this.  

Muslim Family in Nashville Assaults Son for Converting to Christianity - By Daniel Greenfield • December 13, 2023 - “His family demanded he take back his Christianity belief and say he was a Muslim”.  Don’t worry, they’re moderates. If they were extremists, he wouldn’t have lived long enough for the police to save him............

That's what Islam really is!  That's what Islam has always been!  That's what Islam will always be.  And that's just one of many, many, many examples of why Islam should be feared, and that fear isn't irrational.  Civilization is at a crossroad, and anything else is is misdirection to confuse and fool the misinformed, the uninformed, and the gullible.  

Islam: Theory vs Experience - February 7, 2024 By Raymond Ibrahim - The gulf between understanding Islam in theory and in practice is wide and telling. Based on the findings of a recent study, what western peoples think of Islam when relying on secondhand information from the powers-that-be (the media, the political “elite,” etc.) is vastly different from what they think of Islam after personally experiencing it...............

This is the "religion" George Bush called the "religion of peace".  He really was as dumb as the Democrats said he was, and he's not alone among western "leaders", who with their insane policies on immigration, globalization, the embrace of leftist insanity, the corruption of science, the moral and intellectual degradation of academia, the total destruction of public education these misfits are dragging western civilization down the road to cultural suicide.  

That's no irrational fear, a phobia!  That's reality, the nation and western civilization is in an existential crisis!

 

The Burlington, VT 'Anti-Palestinian' Shooting Story Makes No Sense

“And when he saw us, it was like — he just connected the dots,” one of the men said.

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

In early January, FrontPage Magazine’s story, ‘The Greatest Islamophobia Hoax in America Exposed’ about the “anti-Palestinian” hate crime in Burlington, VT that never was, went viral. It was picked up by Townhall, Newsbusters, Real Clear Investigations, Instapundit, HotAir, Legal Insurrection, as well as Larry Elder, and a twitter thread on it went viral.

NBC News, which I had specifically called out in my coverage, returned with a defensive interview with the three Muslim men who had been shot in a confrontation with a mentally unstable local organic farmer who, contrary to their narrative, hated America and was pro-Islam.

The Muslim activists at the center of this case once again tried to tie Israel’s campaign against Hamas terrorists to the incident. In reality, as a local news outlet already documented, James J. Eaton, the man who shot them, was an anti-American leftist who expressed support for Hamas.

After weeks and weeks of non-stop media coverage and claims by the Muslim men that the attack was a “hate crime” and had something to do with Israel and hatred of Muslims and ‘Palestinians’, not a single piece of supporting evidence turned up. Opposing evidence did.

Eaton, a Bernie Sanders supporter, had actually tweeted that “the notion that Hamas is ‘evil’ for defending their state from occupation is absurd. They are owed a state. Pay up” and “What if someone occupied your country? Wouldn’t you fight them?”

He commented on a video of a Muslim man, saying, “people of faith constantly impress me.”

Local accounts describe him as violent, unstable, “progressive” and a “hippie guy”. His LinkedIn bio stated that his causes included, “civil rights and social action” and he argued that, “we can build the world we want. First we need to redistribute wealth and income.”

Biden, Kamala, Bernie Sanders and various state officials were rushed into making statements denouncing “islamophobia” even though there’s zero evidence of any “hateful” motive.

“Anybody who steps out from a porch and attacks three random passerby, for whatever reason, is expressing a form of hate,” Police Chief Jon Murad argued.

That makes every random act of violence into a hate crime.

Murad however admits that the attack was random. And, bowing to pressure from Islamist groups like CAIR and local politicians, he’s redefining all crime as an act of hate. Or, as he told CNN, the difference between “a hateful act and a hate crime”. And the difference is evidence.

“Although we do not yet have evidence to support a hate crime enhancement, I do want to be clear that there is no question that this was a hateful act,” Susan George, a Soros DA, argued.

How can there be “no question” of something and also no evidence for that same thing?

While local authorities are backing away from the idea that Eaton, a leftist who supported Hamas, was motivated by hatred of Islam or the Hamas-Israel war, the media is doubling down.

NBC News had the men suggest that James J. Eaton, the man who shot them, “may have seen them before and was possibly waiting for them that day.”

How would Eaton have known when they would be coming home from a family birthday party?

Was he waiting on a porch with a gun for hours a day in the hopes that, in a 97% white city, three Muslim men would come walking down the street so he could go over and shoot them? Wouldn’t it have been easier to just go to a mosque if he wanted to shoot some Muslims?

Hisham Awartani, one of the Muslim men, told NBC News that “systemic dehumanization” of the Arab Muslims settlers in Israel who claim to be ‘Palestinians’ caused Eaton to shoot them.

“It’s something that, you know, has always been the case, like, in, Western discourse through the media. Like, the Palestinian is assumed by default to be terrorist,” Awartani argued. “And when he saw us, it was like — he just connected the dots.”

How would Eaton have even “connected the dots” that they were ‘Palestinians’?

The shooting took place at night on a small residential street with no streetlights. The Muslim men were walking on the other side of the street.

The NBC News story once again repeats the claims by the men that two of them “were wearing keffiyehs when they were shot and all three of them were speaking Arabic with occasional English words woven in.” Keffiyehs are worn by every other hipster and if Eaton were shooting anyone in Burlington wearing one of the terror scarves, he would have run out of bullets.

Eaton would have needed the night vision of an owl to spot their scarves from his porch across a dark street. He would have also needed excellent hearing to make out what language they were speaking from that same distance. And psychic powers to decide they were ‘Palestinians’.

In their account, as retold by NBC News, “as they walked they saw a man standing across the road come down the porch of a home, pull out a pistol and shoot them.” And all of this happened as he somehow managed to make out their scarves and recognize their Arabic.

Kinnan Abdalhamid, one of the Muslim men, told CNN, “We see this man on his porch essentially looking away from us. He turns around, looks at us, and without saying a word — it was almost surreal — he went down the steps, pulled out a pistol and shot my friend.”

So in reality, Eaton wasn’t watching for them or even facing in their direction.

The admission that Eaton did not say anything to them is important because the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee had falsely claimed that “a man shouted and harassed the victims, then proceeded to shoot them. We have reason to believe this shooting occurred because the victims are Arab.” In reality there were no words exchanged between them.

Despite this absurdity, Sen. Bernie Sanders (of whom the shooter was a fan) furiously fulminated that, “the idea that three young men walking down the street get shot, perhaps because of no other reason than they are Palestinian, is unspeakable. But I gotta tell you, this is not just a local phenomenon, this is happening all over the country.”

He did not list any cases where ‘Palestinians’ were being shot while walking down the street. Or explain how long Eaton intended to hang out on a porch with a gun until a ‘Palestinian’ came by.

“I don’t know why he’d have a loaded pistol and stand on the porch,” one of the Muslim men admitted.

The obvious answer is that it had nothing to do with them.

Eaton was the subject of 37 police reports in New York State. An ex-girlfriend had asked police to take his guns because she was afraid of what he might do. He had a history of mental illness, paranoid delusions and previously had guns taken away from him. None of this was political.

The gun he allegedly shot the Muslim men with was bought in April and long before the war.

The local police chief and Soros DA were eager to find some basis for calling it a hate crime. After getting access to everything Eaton ever wrote, they still have nothing. No hate crime enhancements were filed. And the authorities have been warning that the evidentiary requirements are too high to expect them to be filed since they do require actual evidence.

“Even as we speak, the ATF and FBI are investigating the tragic shooting of three men of Palestinian descent in Vermont. That investigation, including whether this is a hate crime, is ongoing,” Attorney General Merrick Garland promised back in November.

And, even as we speak, with the ATF and FBI on the case all this time, there’s still nothing.

The three Muslim men and the media keep pushing the claim that Eaton was motivated by hatred of Muslims or ‘Palestinians’, not because they care about holding him accountable, but because they want to use the incident to attack Israel and Jews.

“I don’t think too much about if there’s gonna be hate crime charges,” Hisham Artwani, one of the Muslim men, admitted to NBC News.

Kinnan Abdalhamid, another of the men, told NBC News that he didn’t just want to pin it on Eaton. “I think there’s been a lot of attempts for us to fully only demonize the guy, but we realize this is part of a larger systematic issue.”

Why this disinterest in holding the actual guy who shot them accountable?

Normal crime victims would care more about whether there are hate crime charges than creating the perception of a hate crime. And they would want to demonize the shooter.

Eaton was just a crazy guy with no politically convenient motive. No one wants to talk about him, instead the media and anti-Israel activists, including the men at the heart of the confrontation, want to talk about how evil Israel is. The NBC News interview, like all their previous ones, is littered with smears and false attacks over Israel’s war against terrorists.

Artawni rambles to NBC News that “what’s going on in Palestine, it’s still going on. And, like, that’s more on my mind right now.”

That much is true. The Muslim men would much rather exploit their encounter with a crazy guy, who loved Muslims and supported Hamas, to smear Israel, than talk about the actual shooter.

And the media would rather push the lies, myths and smears than finally tell the truth.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

The Greatest Islamophobia Hoax in America Exposed

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

When three Arab Muslim students were shot and wounded in Burlington, Vermont, politicians and the media immediately hyped it as the ‘Islamophobic Crime of the Century’.

President Biden issued a statement declaring that “there is absolutely no place for violence or hate in America.” Vice President Kamala Harris’ statement bemoaned that “far too many people live with the fear that they could be targeted and attacked based on their beliefs or who they are”. The three Muslim men identified as ‘Palestinian’, two of them were wearing keffiyehs and Kamala, like many other leftists, was implying that the shooter was ‘anti-Palestinian’.

“The idea that three young men walking down the street get shot, perhaps because of no other reason than they are Palestinian, is unspeakable,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said. ”But I gotta tell you, this is not just a local phenomenon, this is happening all over the country.”

Then he blasted Israel.

“I’m heartbroken by yesterday’s senseless shooting of three Palestinian-American students visiting Burlington. We do not tolerate hate or Islamophobia in Vermont,” Sen Peter Welch tweeted.

“I do want to be clear that there is no question this was a hateful act,” Sarah George, a the local Soros DA, claimed without evidence.

“In this charged moment, no one can look at this incident and not suspect that it may have been a hate-motivated crime,” Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad argued.

Anti-Israel groups convened a rally calling for the destruction of Israel.

“I stand here to stand with oppressed people who now fear for their lives just walking down the street here in Burlington,” Vermont Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman told the hateful mob.

A speaker at the hate rally with the antisemitic University of Vermont affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine blamed the shootings on Jews, calling them the “shameless monsters who enabled this” and denouncing “a crime of unspeakable racist hatred, a crime borne out of white supremacy, out of fascist, genocidal malice, a crime borne out of Zionism.”

All of these claims, along with many others around the shootings, were based on lies.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee falsely claimed that “a man shouted and harassed the victims, then proceeded to shoot them. We have reason to believe this shooting occurred because the victims are Arab.”

In reality, they had been shot by a local resident outside his house who did not say a word.

The three Muslim men were returning home from a party on Saturday night when James J. Eaton, a local resident with a history of mental instability, stumbled out of a white clapboard house on the residential street and without a word fired four shots at the three men.

Eaton had been described as “that hippie guy” and “progressive”, an organic farmer who had posted a meme with a definition of “Amerika” that called it “the worst sense of the United States, ie imperialism, corruption and the global exportation of American culture.”

He appeared to be a Biden supporter

Media outlets, anti-Israel activists and politicians attributed the shootings to the Hamas war. Everyone from Biden and Kamala on down emphasized the “Palestinian” identities of those shot and implied that Eaton had attacked them because he was opposed to the ‘Palestinian’ cause.

In reality, Eaton supported Hamas.

On December 6, Seven Days, a local news outlet known for breaking stories about local politics, revealed that Eaton had tweeted, “the notion that Hamas is ‘evil’ for defending their state from occupation is absurd. They are owed a state. Pay up.”

Responding to an article about a proposed ceasefire, he wrote, “What if someone occupied your country? Wouldn’t you fight them?”

Local politicians were aware of this which is why in December a Burlington City Council resolution from Councilman Ali Dieng, an African Muslim immigrant currently running for mayor, trying to tie the shootings to an attack on Israel failed, and so did a resolution pushing the false claim that the students had been targeted because of their identity.

The latest Islamophobia hoax had fallen apart in Vermont, but still lingered nationally.

Media outlets which had rushed to spread the false claims never retracted or modified them. After a month of pushing the lie that the shootings were a response to Israel’s campaign against Hamas or to the ‘Muslim’ or ‘Palestinian’ identities of the three men, the new information was not reported, acknowledged or in any way addressed by politicians and media reporters.

NBC News, which had run an entire ‘live blog’ about the shootings, pushing anti-Israel and Islamophobia narratives, did not provide an update that would have contradicted its narrative.

Even in December, NBC News still continued running articles falsely linking the shootings to the Hamas war and attacking Israel. A Dec 5 article quoted one of the men shot as spreading anti-Israel propaganda and claiming that “this is happening to Palestinians across the country and, more importantly, in Gaza. We’re mad at the system that’s allowing not three of us to be injured but thousands and thousands and millions of us to be displaced and injured and killed.”

PBS ran a similar article in December quoting an uncle of one of the men as contending that “even in this country, even in this town — that many of the risks that exist for my nephew and his friends in Palestine exist for them here.”

This torrent of anti-Israel and pro-terrorist propaganda was based on absolutely nothing.

There was never a single shred of evidence that the men had been targeted. And the only basis for this claim that was ever cited was that two of the men were wearing ‘keffiyehs’ and speaking English and Arabic when they were shot. This entirely circumstantial information was amplified with feverish claims and rushed statements by elected officials, prosecutors and police.

The reality that has emerged is that Eaton was mentally unstable, left-leaning, opposed to America and supportive of Islamic terrorists. He was neither Jewish nor pro-Israel.

He had actually publicly stated his support for Hamas.

Eaton could not have known that the three Muslim men were going to walk past the house where he was living and it’s implausible that he would have had the time to plan such an attack.

The Muslim men were walking down the middle of a small narrow residential street with no street lights at night and Eaton would not have had enough time to realize the men passing by were Muslims, grab a gun, run out and shoot them. That’s even assuming that he had spent the whole evening by the window watching for incoming Muslims in an 87% white Vermont city.

Most likely, Eaton, suffering from an episode, stumbled out and opened fire.

Shooting four rounds at three men suggests this was not a planned mass shooting. He might have just as easily shot at anybody on the street or at nobody except the voices in his head. According to his mother and an ex-girlfriend, he had a history of violence and mental illness.

All of this was well known, yet the media instead chose to push a false anti-Israel narrative.

The Burlington shootings were far from the first Islamophobia hoax to gain a national platform.

The killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque were initially billed as Islamophobia. Biden even issued a statement declaring that “my administration stands strongly with the Muslim community” and warned that “these hateful attacks have no place in America.” The attacks were Islamophobic, but the perpetrator was a Sunni Muslim Afghan refugee who hated Shiites.

Hasan Minhaj, the Netflix Muslim comedian, was recently exposed as having made up the stories of discrimination that he had built his high-profile career around. During the campaign against Hamas, CAIR promoted a false claim that a Muslim man had been hit by a Jewish driver shouting “Kill all Palestinians,”and “Long live Israel”. Before Biden and other elected officials could issue statements, the actual perpetrator turned out to be the victim’s own brother.

And then there was the rash of Hijab snatching hate crime hoaxes across the country which included Yasmin Seweid, an 18-year-old college student in NYC, falsely claiming that three Trump supporters had tried to tear off her hijab while shouting, “take that rag off your head”.

The Burlington shootings were similar to a different category of hate crime hoaxes in which a crime did occur, but the motive was misattributed to ‘Islamophobia’. One was the rape and murder of Nabra Hassanen: a 17-year-old Muslim girl in Virginia by a low-IQ illegal alien MS-13 member from El Salvador after a fight with her friends. Another was a parking dispute in Chapel Hill that had nothing to do with Islam and where the shooter was a Rachel Maddow fan.

(As in Burlington, leftists and Muslims seem to shoot far more Muslims than conservatives do.)

Despite the facts of the cases, sustained pressure by Islamist groups led the authorities to brand these crimes as being ‘Islamophobic’ which then allowed groups, many of them with terror ties, to claim that any criticism of Islam or Islamic terrorism would get Muslims killed.

The Burlington shootings were blatantly exploited to attack Israel and promote terrorism.

Vigils in front of City Hall and at Brown University called for the destruction of the Jewish State.

One of the men, Hisham Awartani, told the hateful mob at Brown that his shooting “did not happen in a vacuum” but that he was only “one casualty in a much wider conflict” and “had I been shot in the West Bank” and “the medical services which saved my life here would have likely been withheld by the Israeli army.”

While the Burlington story has fallen apart, like the previous ‘Islamophobic’ hoaxes the damage was already done. The larger purpose of Islamophobia hoaxes, like that of Islamic terrorism, is to reframe the perpetrators as the victims and to justify Islamic violence against non-Muslims.

That is why the truth matters. Islamophobia lies kill, the truth exposes the killers.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

My Gazette: Islam and Western Cultural Suicide, Italy

By Rich Kozlovich

Major Scandal Rocks the Italian Catholic Church: Bishops Accused of Funding Illegal Immigration -  Amy Mek December 30, 2023 -  The Catholic Church, akin to George Soros, is now under scrutiny for its involvement in financing the illegal invasion of Europe. A significant scandal has recently emerged within the Italian Catholic Church, implicating high-ranking church officials, including cardinals and archbishops, in a scheme of organizing and financing illegal migration from Africa to Europe. Investigations led by the prosecutor’s office in Ragusa, Sicily, have uncovered troubling connections between several Italian dioceses and the George Soros-tied NGO “SOS Mediterranea,” accused of aiding and abetting human trafficking under the guise of refugee aid...............

My Gazette: Islam and Western Cultural Suicide, Netherlands

By Rich Kozlovich

The Netherlands has a demographic problem.  Ethnic Europeans aren't breeding enough to replenish their population, and Muslim immigrants are breeding too much.  It's been claimed they're demographic is already passed the point of no return.   It will be interesting to see how Greet Wilders as Prime Minister deals with this.  Make no mistake, all of Europe is in trouble. 

Netherlands: Islamic Schools Ban Muslim Children From Befriending Jews and Christians, Teach Non-Believers Should Be Killed  - Amy Mek January 2, 2024 - The impact of these violent and dangerous Islamic teachings is not confined to the walls of these schools. It spills over into society, contributing to a troubling rise in Islamic-driven antisemitic and anti-Christian incidents and threats against public figures critical of Islam. In a concerning report from 2019, primarily overlooked by Western media, investigations by Nieuwsuur and NRC Handelsblad have brought to light a disturbing trend in Islamic “schools” across the Netherlands. This report unveils a scenario where young Muslim minds are being steeped in Islamic doctrines of violence, hate, and intolerance, deceptively presented to Westerners under the guise of “peaceful” religious education. A World Apart: The Rise of Salafism in Dutch Education

My Gazette: Islam and Western Cultural Suicide, Spain

By Rich Kozlovich

All over Europe this insanity is playing out.  Here's the only piece I've seen on Spain, which is rich since when the Spanish reconquered Spain from the Muslims, after hundreds of years of conflict, they realized there was no way Muslims were ever going to accept Christian rule, and had to kick them out.  

And here we are, 500 hundred years later, with almost 1500 years of history to show that Islam hasn't changed one iota, and they clearly refuse to acknowledge the world facing a religious war, with one side doing battle and the other side trying to please their conquers.  Guess which is which.  

Minarets In, Bell Towers Out: VOX Deputy Rocío de Meer Sounds Alarm on Spain's Islamization in the Shadow of  New Maga Mosque - Amy Mek December 31, 2023 - “Over the past thirty years, the Muslim population in our country has multiplied tenfold. The demographic and cultural changes that we are witnessing in our country are very serious, and they are a topic of debate that has been completely hidden from the Spanish people.” – Rocío de Meer In a bold and unapologetic move, VOX Deputy Rocío de Meer has cast a stark light on the growing Islamization of Spain, using a newly constructed Mega Mosque as her backdrop. In a compelling video posted on social media, De Meer delivered a no-nonsense message that demands attention and action.  “We are in San Isidro, a town in Almería, in the municipality of Níjar,” she begins, her words carrying the weight of undeniable truth. “What you see behind us is one of the largest mosques in Europe, recently constructed here in San Isidro.”................

My Gazette: Islam and Western Cultural Suicide, Canada

By Ric Kozlovich

These two pieces are the only two I've seen, but I'm sure I missed a lot of them, but today I'm posting the Islam and Western Cultural Suicide series by country.  Canada's government must be insane, how else can you explain why they do what they do, and how they're attacking their own citizens for speaking out. 

Palestinian Protests in Ottawa Unmask Intersectional Agenda Against Israel and the West -January 2, 2024 - Across the Western World, a combination of leftists and Muslims are demanding Israel be destroyed. The pretense is Israel’s fighting back against Hamas—the Muslim Brotherhood entity (Islamic terrorist group)that attacked Israel on October 7th. However, when it comes to the Left, the point is never the point, and the issue is never the issue. The revolution, however, is always the point and the issue. Put another way, when it comes to the Left, their stated point or problem is often not the real issue but a concealed agenda; what you can be sure of is that the leftist revolution is always the objective.  Observing the various and numerous anti-Israel protests in Ottawa,  it becomes increasingly clear that there are multiple agendas at work. Or, just as likely, another one altogether from the ones we have all seen on countless Twitter videos, where chants about the victim status of Gaza and the need to destroy Israel are chanted endlessly using military-like rhyme schemes and tattoos on snare and bass drums.......

Canada: Muslim cleric calls on Muslims to wage jihad and be killed in the process so they’ll get 72 virgins - Jan 3, 2024  By Robert Spencer - How many people will be killed because of this exhortation from Sheikh Younus Kathrada? While he is calling upon young Muslims to seek martyrdom, which involves killing and being killed, the Canadian government is busy clamping down on “Islamophobia.” The Qur’an guarantees paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). It makes […]

My Gazette: Islam and Western Cultural Suicide, France

By Rich Kozlovich

Are these articles inflammatory promoting Islamophobia?  Since a phobia is a delusional mental disorder, none of these articles are promoting Islamophobia, because fearing Islam is totally rational, and we have almost 1500 years of history to prove it.  As for inflammatory.......well.... the truth may be inflammatory, but if it's the truth, then it's still just the truth, and perhaps that's what it takes to wake people up.

Unless someone is totally brain dead, you have to conclude immigration from these crap hole Islamic nations has been totally disastrous for western civilization, which was as predictable as night follows day, and many said so.  Which of course justified leftist attacks against them as racist, xenophobic, and Islamophobic.  There's only one problem with leftist rhetoric, and that is it's always inflammatory, and it's always wrong. 

One of the commenters in one of the articles, someone who titles himself Big Dude, snarkily says:

Nothing here that is new. Stop with these inflammatory stories You will awaken the sleeping tiger. The man is clearly misunderstood. He was asking for directions, and the woman clearly dissed him. What is he supposed to do? You have to understand, Europe. This is your FUTURE. You made your bed, and now you should sleep in it. But look at it positively. You will be dead, and you will miss the worst. It is your children who will suffer most.  By the way, blame Israel for this too. It will make you feel better. Your kids will die, but right now it’s important that you be politically correct, like all good Europeans.  

"Vive la France nouvelle. Part of the Ummah. Praise to Snackbar."

Okay, I think perhaps a little translation is in order.  

"Long live the New France, now part of Islam.  All praise to murderous Muslim lunatics."

"Snackbar is a "derogatory nickname" for these murderous Muslim lunatics screaming "Allahu Ackbar,  just before murdering innocent defenseless people, which was then bastardized into Aloha Snackbar."  As I said, snarky!  But accurate.  

Let's face it, when France is so happy that "only" 745 vehicles set on fire over News Eve, we have to wonder just how many screws these "leaders" have loose in their brains.   I wonder how may rapes occurred then, and if it was only_________fill in the blank, and if that number wasn't as high as they feared, perhaps they'd be happy about that also.

De-Islamizing France: Rising Conservative Star Marion Maréchal Fights for National Identity and Security  - Amy Mek January 3, 2024 - Known formerly as Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, she is the niece of Marine Le Pen, leader of the Rassemblement National, and granddaughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen.  In a high-profile debate on BFMTV, Marion Maréchal, the conservative candidate for the Reconquest Party in the European Union elections, engaged in a heated exchange with leftist Mathilde Panot, President of the La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly. Maréchal’s remarks focused on her concerns about illegal immigration, lack of integration, and national security, highlighting her perspective on these critical issues facing France..............To Read More....

 France: Illegal African Migrant Rapes 75-Year-Old Woman at Home on New Year's Morning - January 4, 2024 - In the early hours of January 1, a horrifying attack took place in Ozoir-la-Ferrière, Seine-et-Marne, France, that sent shockwaves through the community and ignited a debate about media reporting and immigration. A 75-year-old woman was brutally raped in her own home while her bedridden and disabled husband was unable to intervene. What makes this case even more contentious is the reluctance of the majority of French media outlets to report that the suspect is an African migrant........The horrifying incident unfolded at around 7 a.m. on New Year’s Day when the African man entered the elderly couple’s home through a poorly secured window. He first entered the husband’s room, causing the bedridden and disabled man to scream in terror. Tragically, his condition prevented him from intervening................

'Death or Rape': French Woman Recounts Harrowing Sexual Assualt By African Migrant Who the State Failed to Deport... Amy Mek -December 30, 2023 - “And the problem is that today, many women are raped in France, with three out of four of them being victims of this kind of individual [illegal migrants] every minute.”  In recent video interviews with former French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour and on French TV CNews, a young woman named Claire shared her harrowing experience. She recounted a sexual assault by a 25-year-old illegal African migrant and passionately called for stronger immigration enforcement to protect women in the country. Claire’s powerful testimony shines a spotlight on the urgent need for stricter immigration laws and more significant measures to ensure the safety of French citizens.............

Open Borders France: Muslim Migrant Explains How To Bilk the System, 'You Work, You Pay the Taxes For Me' -January 3, 2024 - In a revealing statement, a Muslim migrant residing in Paris openly shared how they exploit the French social welfare system. The individual, whose identity remains undisclosed, described in detail how he and other “migrants” (illegals) benefit from various forms of state aid without engaging in employment. “I live in France, I live in Paris. I sought out French state aid,” stated the Muslim migrant. He described a lifestyle funded by the hard work of French citizens: “The French work for me..... While I sleep in. I get up at noon, and at the end of the month.... he receives, including €600 monthly from RSA (Revenu de Solidarité Active, a form of universal basic income in France) and an additional €300 from a local mission. This totals €900 monthly, of which only €100 goes towards rent. “I get €350 euros from RSA. So basically, I pay €150 for the rent. And at the end of the month, I managed to save €600,"........

Former French Rapper Threatens Zionist Media 'Accomplices': 'By Allah Fear What You Are Doing, We Will Be Looking For You; We Will Punish You, I Will Support Gaza to the Death' - January 2, 2024 - A word to the wise: I will support Gaza to the death. Until my death, be aware of it. I will support Gaza to the death. I will support Palestine to the death. And those are my brethren. And I will remain faithful to the death; be aware of that.” “And I just wanted to tell you something that comes from my heart. And I am sincere because I owe it to myself to be sincere, as they are sincere on TV, I am sincere. So one day, when there are so many of us, we will all punish you. We will all punish you, I tell you.”  “I see that justice is not able to do justice itself. Justice cannot do justice itself. On TV, they invite people who are accomplices. It doesn’t really matter. By Allah, we will take care of every one of them. By Allah, when we have become so many. By Allah, when I have brothers who are as brave as me. By Allah, we will all be looking for you; we will punish you.”..............

This last nitwit is priceless.  He will support GAZA to the death.  Yeah, yeah, all big talk!  In reality, all this crap about loving death while we love life is a load of horsepucky.  True a few willingly commit suicide killing innocent defenseless people, but if all this loving death crap was true, a total violation of all human biological imperatives, then Israel would have been destroyed decades ago.  But when push came to shove, these "brave" Arabs who style themselves as Palestinians who murdered babies, raped and tortured women, surrendered to the IDF en masse.   

As as for this crap Hamas isn't the people of Gaza, that's a load of horsepucky.  The fact of the matter his they love what Hamas did, The Oct. 7 Atrocities Have Made Hamas More Popular Among Palestinian:

Many Gazans who grumbled about Hamas’ corruption and mismanagement have now chosen to overlook all that and instead to rally round those who raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered 1200 innocent Israelis. Those atrocities have made Hamas much more popular among Palestinians both in Gaza and in the West Bank. More can be found here:.....

Let's try and get this once and for all.  They're all Muslims, and no matter what they dislike about Hamas, they're all on board with the mission, and that's to kill all Jews, Christians, and dominate the world.  It really is that simple.  So, why is that so hard to understand?  What I find hard to understand is the insanity of western leaders who ignore all this and even enable it. 

 

A Christmas Muslim Genocide in Nigeria

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

Muslims celebrated Christmas in Nigeria by massacring around 100 Christians across a dozen communities. The Jihadis hacked Christians to death with machetes and burned down churches as part of a genocidal campaign that has killed 52,000 Christians in over a decade and forced millions to leave their home and become refugees in the African nation.

In America, not a single person marched, rallied or protested over this actual genocide.

The rampaging mobs crying that Hamas is suffering genocide remained silent. Black Lives Matter had nothing to say about it and neither did any of the politicians and social media influencers who spend all of their time pushing fake casualty numbers out of Gaza.

According to the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), a local NGO, over 4,500 Christians were killed this year in Nigeria. Unlike Israel’s defensive war against Hamas, this latest year of the ongoing Muslim genocide has resulted in no UN Security Council sessions or UN General Assembly votes. And the media has kept the killing off its front pages.

Every human rights organization that shouts “genocide” whenever a Hamas terrorist dies has yet to declare genocide over the killing of over 50,000 civilians by Muslim gangs aided and abetted by the Muslim rulers who have taken over Nigeria and waged war on Christians.

Earlier this year, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the ‘Godfather of Lagos’ educated in Chicago and once accused of ties to heroin trafficking, named “leader of warriors” by the Emir of Borgu, took power earlier this year, replacing the brutal regime of President Muhammadu Buhari, a former dictator backed by the Obama administration to usurp former Christian President Jonathan Goodluck.

Intersociety described the massacre of 700 Christians earlier this year as a “farewell gift” to outgoing President Muhamadu Buhari warning that 100 churches had been destroyed by Islamic Jihadists in just 60 days. Every time a terror mosque is bombed in Gaza, it’s in the headlines, but how is it possible that 100 churches being destroyed in mere months isn’t news?

Intersociety began its count of the over 50,000 murdered Christians in 2009. That’s no coincidence. As part of the ‘Arab Spring’, the Obama administration had set out to ‘flip’ Middle Eastern countries from secular to Islamic rule, but in a less well known move, had also begun flipping African countries from non-Muslim to Muslim rule, resulting in the massacre of Christians. There is more Christian blood on Obama’s hands than anyone in a long time.

The Obama administration staged a Muslim coup in Côte d’Ivoire leading to a civil war in which it indirectly intervened in favor of Alassane Ouattara who has remained in power since 2010. In Kenya, Obama backed efforts by his cousin, Raila Odinga, who like Obama claimed to be Christian, but had developed close ties to the country’s Islamic population and ran as their champion, to take power. And in Nigeria, Obama had pressured the government to stop fighting Islamic terrorism. The end result of these efforts was a horrifying wave of Boko Haram terror.

Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist group dedicated to enforcing Islamic law, amped up the violence while the Obama administration insisted that the Nigerian military should avoid going after the terrorists and instead pumped a fortune in foreign aid to deal with “social inequities”.

The money instead helped finance a genocidal wave of Islamic violence, much as it had in Gaza and Iran, but the Obama administration and its leftist allies went on lying about the genocide. The official position was that Muslims were killing Christians in response to oppression. If only they had better economic prospects and more political power, the violence would stop.

The Obama administration refused to add Boko Haram to the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations which allowed the Jihadists to benefit from money coming out of the United States until mounting political pressure from Republicans forced it to do the right thing. But not until thousands had been killed while Obama officials falsely claimed that Boko Haram was not an Islamic terrorist group and that FTO designation would only alienate Nigerian Muslims.

In 2021, the New York Times published an op-ed claiming that, “there is no proof that a well-organized, ideologically coherent terrorist group called Boko Haram even exists today.” But by 2014, Boko Haram’s mass kidnapping of hundreds of Christian girls led to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign. The efforts to deny that an Islamic terrorist group inspired, trained and financed by Al Qaeda, which had killed thousands, even existed, ended.

But the motives behind the lies that enabled the Christian genocide remained the same.

Obama got what he wanted with Muhammadu Buhari, but after two terms of the former Muslim dictator, the killing goes on. Boko Haram, an Al Qaeda ally, has gotten bogged down in fighting a local splinter group affiliated with ISIS, for the bragging rights to Christian genocide. And ordinary Fulani Muslim tribesmen and gangs have taken over campaigns of butchery like those that occurred over Christmas. And some Nigerian Christians say that the atrocities of these ordinary Fulani Muslims are even worse than those practiced by Boko Haram.

“The disembowelling of pregnant women and the butchering of the fetus is a specialty of theirs,” the rector of a Nigerian seminary described.

Obama officials claimed that the real issue wasn’t Muslim terrorism but Muslim oppression. A decade later as Fulani Muslims have gone on massacring Christians, the story hasn’t changed even as the massacres continued under the regime of Buhari: a fellow Fulani Muslim.

Instead of addressing the Fulani Muslim genocide of Christians, human rights organizations and the media have claimed that members of the Fulani ethnic group are the ones facing “persecution” in Nigeria and elsewhere in the region for their Jihadist tendencies.

The massacre of Christians in Nigeria, like Oct 7 and Islamic terrorism around the world from India to America is part of a thousand year Islamic genocide of non-Muslims commanded by the Koran. Every time their victims fight back, the Islamists and their allies cry “genocide”, but the true genocide is the one that has claimed countless millions across every religious group in every part of the world. It is a thousand year genocide that the world must fight back against.

Muslim terrorists are not the victims of genocide, they are its perpetrators.

We must stand with the Christian victims of Islamic genocide in Nigeria, with the Jewish victims of genocide in Israel, the Hindu victims of genocide in Kashmir, the Buddhist victims of genocide in Myanmar and with the atheists being murdered in Bangladesh.

If we do not, the final genocide will be our own.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

As Europe Falls into a Woke Dark Ages, One Nation Shines

by Dr. Miklos Szantho

You hear a lot about Hungary these days. To be fair, Prime Minister Viktor Orban does upset the delicate sensibilities of the progressive liberals. It is only natural then for Americans to wonder about this distant land that has become a prickling thorn in the side of the globalist Left.

An “age of discovery in reverse” has started, as intellectuals from Tucker Carlson through Jordan Peterson to Micheal Knowles explore for themselves the Hungarian conservative landscape in search of lessons to learn about politics and winning at the polls.

Most recently Dr. Shea Bradley Farrell published her brilliant book Last Warning to the West – Hungary’s Triumph over Communism and the Woke Agenda which takes a deep dive into Hungary’s history and samples our recipe for conservative success.

Hungary’s past is indeed fascinating. Many have dug our graves, but fell into theirs long before us. Our nation was always surrounded – and invaded often enough – by empires, from Byzantium through the Mongol horde to the Soviets.   Each of these great powers sought to assimilate us, either by conquest or cultural domination, but all failed............We have always taken our borders seriously and controlled them effectively; respected our religious roots and guarded our state sovereignty and constitutional traditions. The family is the cornerstone of our society. We have also recognized that demographics is not just a matter of sovereignty, but a geopolitical challenge as well............... To Read More...

My Gazette: Islam and Western Cultural Suicide

By Rich Kozlovich

I save an inordinate number of articles dealing with every issue facing humanity.  I save them with the intention to use them in my own commentaries as source material.  But, after a while my draft files get really big and while I still want to have that materiel for reference, I have to purge those files.  So, I've decided to start a weekly series of Gazettes.  I will be publishing a "Gazette" dealing with each issue regularly, and I will insert "My Take " along the way.  Draft file purged, material saved. 

Warming: Some of these draft articles go aways back, and while that may be tiresome, it will also lay out a historical pattern.  

Let's start here:

Hamas in Their Own Words: Islam Will Rule the World, Annihilate the U.S., Conquer Europe (Video) December 24, 2023 - Hamas, recognized as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, the U.K., the European Union, Paraguay, and Israel, executed an Islamic attack in Israel on October 7, 2023. This attack resulted in over 1,200 fatalities and more than 240 captives. The Islamic group professes to be striving for the liberation of Palestine, extending “from the river to the sea,” and has publicly called for the elimination of all Jews. However, Hamas’s ambitions extend beyond the Israel-Palestine conflict. Key figures in Hamas have openly discussed the organization’s goals of overtaking Europe and the West, destroying the United States, and ultimately achieving global domination.............

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Block LAX Access: ‘Ceasefire is Not Enough’ - Joel B. Pollak - Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked access to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Wednesday morning, disrupting travel during the busy holiday season. Local Fox affiliate KTTV-11 reported:.....

Sharia Australia: Al Madina Dawah Centre's Calls for Death of Non-Muslims Ignored While Covid Mandate Violators Imprisoned (Video) The Al Madina Dawah Centre’s relentless Islamic sermons advocating violent jihad unmask a deep societal denial, exposing Islam not as a religion of peace, but a cunningly disguised political ideology aggressively pushing its extremist agenda under the cloak of religious freedom.

Islamized UK: Jew-Hating Imam Incites Murder in Recent Sermon, 'Kill Them in Numbers. And Do Not Leave Any of Them'  -  Amy Mek November 25, 2023 -  In leveraging the ongoing conflict, the Jami Mosque & Islamic Centre in Birmingham calls on the UK government to grant asylum to displaced Palestinians, a move critics assert is part of a broader strategy to exploit the situation, increase the Muslim population, and further Islamize the country.  Birmingham, UK: In a recent sermon delivered on November 3, 2023, by Shaykh Habibul Gaffar Azhari, the head Imam of the Jami Mosque & Islamic Centre in Birmingham, UK, allegations of incitement to murder have surfaced. The sermon, which took place at the Jami Mosque & Islamic Centre, included inflammatory and threatening remarks targeting Israelis and Jews.  In front of his congregation, the controversial Imam was quoted as saying, “And the victory of the believers is our right. O Allah, hasten with Your victory, O Allah. O Merciful of the merciful. O Avenger, take revenge from the oppressors of the Zionists, the oppressors, the occupiers. O Allah, take revenge from them. O Allah, shake the earth from under their feet. O Allah, count them in numbers and kill them in numbers. And do not leave any of them.” The translated excerpt of the sermon was made available by the RAIR Foundation USA. Additionally, the Imam made various other controversial statements expressing support for Hamas and the Palestinian fight:...........

More anti-Semitism from Columbia U. - By Civis Americanus November 21, 2023 - Columbia University Apartheid Divest has issued a statement that reads:

• "Columbia University Apartheid Divest is a coalition of student organizations that see Palestine as the vanguard for our collective liberation." Good, please have your female and LGBT members go over to Gaza and see just how "liberated" they are in that environment.
• "Israel is bombing hospitals, schools, and homes while cutting off food, water, medicine, and electricity to the more than two million Palestinians in Gaza, half of whom are children." Hospitals, schools, and homes lose their protected status under the Geneva and Hague Conventions when used for military purposes. This means that Apartheid Divest is intentionally trying to obfuscate Hamas' war crimes.
• "We have previously refused to focus on concerns pertaining to free speech, academic freedom, and student safety on campus, as they distract from Israel’s actively committing genocide and ethnic cleansing." This is an application of Joseph Goebbels' advice to accuse the other side of that which your own side is guilty, as the only genocide was the one attempted by Hamas on October 7.

Here is the list of student organizations that signed this material. Although the names of the student officers are not available, those of the faculty advisors are. If those advisors are not comfortable with the content of this letter, they are free to distance themselves from the organizations in question........

Pro-Palestinian antisemitism was carefully inculcated in the American psyche - November 20, 2023 By Andrea Widburg - I just received an email from a one-time acquaintance, a hardcore non-Jewish leftist married to an equally hardcore Jewish leftist. She assured me that Israel is engaged in an ongoing genocide against Palestinians and faked a massacre to gain sympathy for the latest iteration of this genocidal plan. This person is not a crazy person on a street corner. She is a biologist with a job—and millions across America share this person’s beliefs. How in the world did this happen? Gary Wexler writes that it was part of a deliberate plan sparked by money flowing from the promised peace of the Oslo Accords.......

Pro-Palestinian fanatics try, fail to ruin the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade  - November 24, 2023 By Ethel C. Fenig - Doing what only the “Palestinians” (sic) and their equally hate-filled fellow travelers such as the ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War, End Racism [sic!]) Coalition can do — enjoy destroying others’ enjoyment — these marginal people attempted to shut down the all-American, wholesome Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in New York.  One of their sympathetic, non-objective mouthpieces, Al Jazeera, disingenuously described their nefarious activities this way:.....

• Here's What Happened When Pro-Hamas Agitators Tried to Shut Down the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
•  On Thanksgiving Leftist pro-Hamas protestors disrupt the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade in New York November 23, 2023 The leftist jackasses glued their hands to the road to prevent the parade from passing. More

Hamas does Philadelphia - November 24, 2023 By Lynne Lechter - Founded in 1891, the Philadelphia Free Library is run by a Board of Trustees that does not operate under any mayoral control, but is allocated funds from the mayor’s budget.  Also, the library has a fundraising arm, which is handled by a stand-alone 501(c)(3) Foundation, with its own board — dedicated to raising money for the library.  There is a small crossover of the two boards.  ..........Here we see the Muslim misappropriation of a classic American rags-to-riches odyssey in favor of a death cult celebrating rapes, beheadings, torture and burning of babies, and kidnapping. And this deceit and alignment with butchers and murderers comes on the heels of the University of Pennsylvania’s Palestine Writes weekend, held in late October.  Billed as a cultural weekend of authors and poets, it quickly devolved into a Palestinian hate fest toward Israel.  Coincidentally, this hate fest occurred a mere two weeks prior to the October 7 atrocities in Israel...........

Taking Pride in Murder Michael Widlanski Most Palestinian Arabs get that warm and fuzzy feeling from the brutally successful terror attack of October 7, 2023.  More

 

Tlaib and the Turncoats Ken Reid Rahida Tlaib praises a pro-Palestine Jewish group that participated in violent assault on her colleagues at DNC headquarters. More

 

Rabid Antisemitic Students Forced a Jewish Teacher to Hole Up in Her Office in NYC, Matt Vespa November 26, 2023 - Back in October, we discussed how pro-terrorist students were taking over high schools. The Bay Area is not a shock. It’s a far-left bastion, and these folks have become the most virulent anti-Israel voices in the country. What has some people unnerved is how New York has become a haven for antisemitism and pro-Hamas advocacy. I would expect swastikas from this pro-terrorist crowd in California, not New York. And these antisemites have become more aggressive in recent weeks.

Canada: Tunisian National Employed at Restaurant Attacks Colleagues in Mass Knife Attack - December 25, 2023 - A knife attack at the La Belle et la Bœuf restaurant in Chicoutimi, which left several people injured, has led to the arrest and charging of jihadi Ahmed May, an employee and chef at the restaurant. May, a 30-year-old Tunisian national and permanent resident of Canada, is now facing serious legal consequences, including three counts of attempted murder..........

Hollywood’s anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian, anti-constitutional brainwashing December 24, 2023 By Andrea Widburg  With my kids in town for the holidays, I’ve been catching up on my Hollywood viewing, whether I want to or not. What I’ve been seeing has absolutely shocked me. Norman Lear’s Hollywood, which humorously promoted leftist values as positive goods, has been replaced by open racial hatred, aggressive man-bashing, powerful anti-Christian imagery, and disdain for the Constitution. I’ll just list a few examples. Let’s start with something that Libs of TikTok posted a couple of days ago.....

 

Canada: Tunisian National Employed at Restaurant Attacks Colleagues in Mass Knife Attack - December 25, 2023 - A knife attack at the La Belle et la Bœuf restaurant in Chicoutimi, which left several people injured, has led to the arrest and charging of jihadi Ahmed May, an employee and chef at the restaurant. May, a 30-year-old Tunisian national and permanent resident of Canada, is now facing serious legal consequences, including three counts of attempted murder......