Fear Of Muslims Is Rational; “Islamophobia”
Is A Myth
American Thinker,
by
Jonathan Gault
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
12/21/2023 2:56:39 PM
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary describes the word “phobia” as “an exaggerated, usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation.” In the wake of recent events, is fear of Muslims, labeled “Islamophobia,” really exaggerated, inexplicable, and/or illogical?
I’ve concluded that not only is fear of Muslims logical and explicable, but it is by no means exaggerated and, most probably, understated. The deliberately misleading term “Islamophobia” itself amounts to a cudgel used to silence critics of what Dutch Parliamentarian (and possible new Dutch Prime Minister) Geert Wilders has at times characterized as a totalitarian political ideology masquerading as a religion.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 12/21/2023 3:21:15 PM (No. 1621856)
Actually, I'm surprised at anyone being horrified at what happened in Israel on Oct.10th. It's what muslims have been doing for 1500 years.
Islam is a satanic death cult.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mythman 12/21/2023 3:38:03 PM (No. 1621872)
I'm not Islamophobic, just terror-phobic and death-a-phobic.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 12/21/2023 3:38:08 PM (No. 1621873)
Islam is an Arab-centric "political cult." Pretty soon the muslim world will begin to realize it's the Saudi's who run the "movement."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hershey 12/21/2023 3:53:56 PM (No. 1621886)
One of my favorite T shirts says 'How can you co-exist with someone who wants to cut off your head?"
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/21/2023 4:20:51 PM (No. 1621904)
Everyday, members of "the religion of peace" give us a reason to fear and loathe them. Blow up a building, shoot up an office, murder and rape women at a music festival, chop off heads because you believe differently than they do, insult the prophet (which is apparently easy to do) there are riots, something terrible happens to a Jew or America celebrations break out. No matter what you do, they will never be happy unless you are dead. Even if you support them, they will stab you in the back first opportunity they get. This cult of death is untrustworthy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 12/21/2023 4:25:14 PM (No. 1621907)
And "Jonathan Gault" quoting Jeff Cooper is just cool. And they admit at the bottom that the name is a pseudonym....which I instantly expected when I noted the author's name.
Cooper is right....watch your cat when outside the house. Not freaked out but alert for threats and paying attention to surroundings. Too many folks are walking (and driving, even worse) around with their brains firmly embedded in their phones. We laugh at the videos of them walking into fountains and such, but they become obvious victims of crimes. Robbers and attackers can be literally "on you" before these folks even are aware of anything happening.
Outside your home is NOT an absolutely safe environment. In the 1950s it was much safer,but people still were attacked, or just disappeared. Pay attention, head up, eyes out, brain engaged. The life you save may be your own, or a family member's.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
spacer 12/21/2023 4:29:47 PM (No. 1621915)
Amen.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/21/2023 4:46:51 PM (No. 1621926)
I don't fear Muslims, but anyone with a brain should fear what their object in coming to this country is.
They come here to destroy America as a republic and turn us into an Islamic Mullah run Empire.
Do not by any means feel that those Islamics who pretend to be peace loving citizens want anything else.
If they believe in their religion and it's teachings and attend their mosques and were their slave clothing they want what their religion, their cult demands. Don't let them BS you.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
learner 12/21/2023 4:59:14 PM (No. 1621934)
We need to change this to islamorealist or islamorational to be accurate.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 12/21/2023 6:32:44 PM (No. 1621974)
Charges of Islamophobia in the US are made by CAIR as an excuse for Muslims of today doing what they have been doing since their beginning 1700 years ago.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/21/2023 10:56:48 PM (No. 1622055)
"Fear?"
No. Not by a long shot.
Resolve.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 12/22/2023 12:29:41 AM (No. 1622070)
Let's pause a moment and take the following test. It will prove once and for all that focusing attention on one group of people will not deal with terrorism.:
1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
(a) Olga Korbutt
(b) Sitting Bull
(c) Arnold Schwartzenegger
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
2. In 1979,the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) Lost Norwegians
(b) Elvis
(c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
3. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
(a) John Dillinger
(b) The King of Sweden
(c) The Boy Scouts
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
4. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy
(b) Pee Wee Herman
(c) Dan Rather making up for a slow news day
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70 year old American passenger in a wheelchair was murdered and thrown overboard by:
(a) The Smurfs
(b) Davy Jones
(c) The Little Mermaid
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
6. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver was murdered by:
(a) Captain Kidd
(b) Charles Lindberg
(c) Mother Teresa
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
7. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) Scooby Doo
(b) The Tooth Fairy
(c) Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
(a) Richard Simmons
(b) Grandma Moses
(c) Martha Stewart
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
9. In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) Mr. Rogers
(b) Chelsea Clinton
(c) The World Wrestling Federation
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed and thousands of people were killed by:
(a) Bugs Bunny
(b) Wile E. Coyote
(c) Mr Bean
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
11. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
(a) Enron
(b) The Lutheran Church
(c) The NFL
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
(a) Bonnie and Clyde
(b) Captain Kangaroo
(c) Billy Graham
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
13. In 2023 Israel was attacked, over 1200 people were killed and over 250 people were kidnapped by:
(a) Right wing extremists
(b) Swifties
(c) TikTok followers
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
As any fool can see, the people who perpetrated these atrocities have nothing in common with each other.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
5 handicap 12/22/2023 6:10:09 AM (No. 1622116)
Mohammedanism is the single most EVIL force on the planet earth and as such is in dire need of abolishment. Anything dreamed up as a life path, by a paedophile, surely cannot be a force for "Good". Mohammed, the profit, took his wife Fatima when she was six years old... look it up!
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Yes, a fear and therefore distrust of the violent 7th century barbarians is very rational. It is not a phobia. And the author correctly identifies the efforts to assimilate large numbers of Muslims into the west as "delusional". Yes, exactly so.