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September 1, 2006

US: Muslims Still Exploiting Their Fictitious "Victimhood"

Whenever something goes wrong in the presentation of their religion, or when members of their religion commit another ghastly atrocity against humanity, Muslims love to blame others. Even when caught in the act, it is the fault of others. A terror plot in Britain is exposed, and more than 100 Muslim groups sign an open letter blaming the British government for their religion's terrorism. With no evidence to substantiate their claim, Muslims in Cardiff, Wales, were openly proclaiming that the plot was fabricated by the UK government.

George W. Bush used the term "Islamic fascism" to describe acts of Islamic atrocity which would make the most ardent fascist blanche, and like a bullet from a gun barrel, the Council on American Islamic Relations rushed to complain that the comments contributed to "to a rising level of hostility to Islam and the American-Muslim community". There was no condemnation of the terror plot that initiated those comments, of course. And Nihad Awad of CAIR stated on Fox News that "there is no link between Islam as a religion and fascists."

Yesterday, on Thursday, August 31 at Salt Lake City, President Bush specifically compared the battle against fundamentalist Islam with the battle against Nazis and communists. With ten days to go until the 5th anniversary of the attacks upon the US on September 11, 2001, which killed more than 3,000 innocent people, President Bush spoke of the motivations of those who planned 9/11.

He said to the the American Legion convention: "As veterans you have seen this kind of enemy before. They are successors to fascists, to Nazis, to communists and other totalitarians of the 20th century. And history shows what the outcome will be. This war will be difficult. This war will be long. And this war will end in the defeat of the terrorists."

But if one is to listen to Islamic fundamentalists themselves, the same sort of fundamentalists who rejoiced when the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed, their revisionist take on the scenario is that Muslims never committed the attacks. According to Salafists like Melbourne-based Sheikh Mohammed Omran, the 9/11 attacks were carried out by the US government themselves, not 22 hate-filled Muslims. Other 9/11 conspiracy theories, such as the one first peddled by Hezbollah's Al-Manar television network blame the Muslims' perennial bugbears, the Jews and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.

The Indonesian preacher of hate, Abu Bakar Bashir, jailed for his role in the Bali bombings of October 2002, which killed 202 people, not only denies that he and his co-religionists are to blame, but claims the killings were carried out by the CIA, using a "micro-nuclear bomb". And the US intelligence agency did this, claims Bashir, to "discredit Islam".

On 25 August, the Islamic Society of North America, ISNA, announced that in the years since it was established in 1963, it had voted its first woman to be its head. Dr Ingrid Mattson (pictured top left) is Professor of Islamic Studies and Director of Islamic Chaplaincy at the Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford.

She claims that Muslims in the US are oppressed by the news media, and states that Hollywood and popular culture have portrayed a more human face on Muslims than news organisations. The evil Zionist-controlled Hollywood establishment presenting Muslims as humans? Now there's a news scoop.....

Reuters via Yahoo and Monsters & Critics report that Abdul Malik Mujahid, chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago states: "During the last five years the Muslim community has been scrutinised by almost all branches of the government and the media to the extent that more than half a million Muslims have been directly touched by this process. They continue to face dehumanisation and a great trend of Islamophobia."

Mujahid was talking at ISNA's 43rd annual meeting today. Like Mattson, he blames the media and the government for rising levels of Islamophobia. Associated Press via Illinois Wire reported on the event, held at Rosemont, Illinois, and quoted Mattson, who claimed President Bush's comments about the "war on Islamic fascism" were inaccurate and not helpful to Muslims. She also said that it was not right to attach the term "Islamic" to acts of Islamic terrorism. She said: "The products that are coming from the Muslim world are not being called 'Islamic products' or 'Islamic oil'."

She continued: "But I think that when we then bestow that term upon them (Islamic terrorists) we only make the situation worse and somehow give validity to their claims which we need to deny and reject."

This weak argument has been spun out before in Europe, when the European Union tried to impose its Orwellian newspeak upon its subjects. Idiots like Franco Frattini had said in September last year: "You cannot use the term Islamic terrorism. Islam is being misused." And in April, the EU again tried to outlaw the term "Islamic terrorism" in its documents and forms. EU chief of counter-terrorism, Gijs de Vries argued that there was nothing inherent in any religion that connected it with terrorism. Perhaps it is because of PC idiots like de Vries heading the EU's counter-terrorism policies that Europe is awash with Islamic terrorism.

The culture of denial about Islamic fascism and Islamic terrorism has infected many individuals who are not even Muslim. They would prefer to project their bunny-hugging notions of a cozy and compassionate religion upon Islam, whose founder glorified in murdering, theft, acts of warfare and rape, an ideology whose intentions are to dominate and enslave the world under its ethos of "Submission".

And it is so easy for Muslims, even when found guilty of committing heinous acts, to pull out their supposed "trump card" - Islamophobia. On June 30, a Saudi living in Colorado was convicted of sexual abuse against his Indonesian maid. 37-year old Homaidan al-Turki (pictured, right) was studying for a linguistics doctorate at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was found guilty of 12 felony counts of unlawful sexual contact with use of force and two misdemeanors, false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit false imprisonment. He had never paid the maid the paltry $150 per month that he had promised her when her "employment" had commenced.

For four years, he kept the 24-year old maid as a virtual slave in his home, confiscated her passport, and subjected to her to sexual assaults which culminated in her rape in late 2004. His attorney, John Richilano, had argued in court that there had been misunderstood cultural differences, which he described as "cynical Islamophobia". His wife, Sarah Khonaizan, who had obviously colluded with the maltreatment of the maid, who cooked and looked after their five children, has agreed to be deported.

Al-Turki's followers and family caused havoc in the courtroom when the verdict was announced. He was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in jail. Additionally, he was given a further eight years' jail for theft, where he withheld the maid's wages. Even while being sentenced, Al-Turki, who had lived in the US for 14 years, still protested that he was "framed" by the prosecutors' Islamophobia. He said to District Judge Mark Hannen: "Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution."

Nihad Awad, executive director of CAIR, said: " I have spoken to many people from Saudi Arabia who believe he's in jail because he's Muslim and getting a harsh sentence because he's Muslim. The kind of charge and crime he's found guilty of, coupled with the reality that he's Muslim and Saudi in America, make it hard to make sense of whether his supporters are right or the prosecutor is right."

Al-Turki's family and supporters made a website to protest his "innocence". It contains emotive stuff, such as a testimony from his daughter Norah: "i am the daughter of homaidan al-turki and i make dua for the best dada in the world..... i feel bad whaen my dad is not around. i miss him so much.WHY just tell me WHY are they blaming my dad. it is realy bad with out a dad. my life is bad first they took my dad then freed him the n took my mom and my dad then freed my mom on tuesday. theres nothing fun with out parents they took my familys passports they took evrey thing that we had and left us some money,food,and drinks thats allwhat rood people are they very meanmy life is round by them. i hate them. WHY my familyjust tell me WHY. who ever wants to come her dont they will do the same to your family and make up some problems about your family. WHY WHY WHY WHY MY FAMILY."

It should also be noted that Al-Turki worked at Al-Basheer Publications and Translation in Denver, which publishes Islamist books. These include books by Sheikh Jamaal al-Din Zarabozo, a radical anti-Christian. Militant Islam Monitor states: Zarabozo has accused Muslim modernists of breaking Islamic principles by opposing the stoning of adulterers and the killing of "apostates." In another fatwa, he warned against visiting a Christian church to "watch people commit the greatest sin.... You have no way of knowing what evil Satan may put into your heart by attending the gatherings wherein shirk (idolatry) is being committed."

In today's UK Times, Gerard Baker discusses the feelings of victimhood which Muslims so constantly moan about. He wrotes:

This victim mentality reaches its apotheosis in the minds of a few in the hideous distortion of martyrdom. The image of the suicide bomber captures the ultimate catharsis of victimhood and at the same time the ultimate escape and liberation from it - the violent immolation of the victim on the altar of a sacred ideology. Of course this is a perversion of the very idea of sacrifice. Martyrdom is a willingness to die for one's faith, not a willingness to take hundreds of innocents with you in the process.

Pierre Rehov, an Algerian-born French filmmaker, who produced a documentary, Suicide Killers, was asked in a TV interview this year how the world could end the madness of suicide bombings and terrorism. "Stop being politically correct and stop believing that this culture is a victim of ours," he said.

Baker also quotes from Ghazi Hamad, the spokesman of the terrorist group Hamas, a group which not only mounts terrorist attacks against Israelis, but also whines constantly about how Israelis are the cause of all Palestinian suffering. Hamad said last week, in uncharacteristic honesty: "We're always afraid to talk about our mistakes. We're used to blaming our mistakes on others. What is the relationship between the chaos, anarchy, lawlessness, indiscriminate murders, theft of land, family rivalries, transgression on public lands and unorganised traffic and the occupation? We are still trapped by the mentality of conspiracy theories, one that has limited our capability to think."

Those words stand out as they express concepts that are so rarely heard within Islamist polemic. For CAIR, it is an issue of "words", a war against Islam that is being mounted even in the classrooms of America against Muslim children. CAIR was set up with money from Saudi Arabia, a country where no Bibles or symbols of other faiths are allowed within its borders, yet it proselytizes for Islam in numerous Western countries. For ISNA, again the hurtful words are blamed, along with an evil anti-Muslim government and an Islamophobic media. For the Muslim Council for Britain and the Muslim Association of Britain, whose luminaries support the terrorists of Hamas who in turn blame the "evil Zionists", terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. It is caused by government policy.

Islam is the archetypal bully on the world's playing field. It will attack and savage to get its foothold in the West, but like a bully, as soon as it is held to account for its bad deeds, it whines about its victimhood. The cry of victimhood is tiresome, trite and morally threadbare. Until non-Muslims in Muslim countries are allowed the equal political and religious rights which are accorded to Muslims in non-Muslim countries, Islamic spokespeople argue from a position of dishonesty. They do not want the truth of Islamic terrorism to be reported, because it is an aspect of an unpleasant reality at the inherently violent heart of Islam. And the truth always hurts.

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