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.
I could enumerate just some in the endless litany of recent (and even not-so-recent) violent attacks that radical Muslims have perpetrated in (delusional) Western societies that welcomed and unsuccessfully attempted to absorb and assimilate large numbers of Muslims. However, Raymond Ibrahim has already done so, writing extensively (and magnificently) about historical events that provide countless examples (here and here) of aggressive Muslim behaviors resulting in widespread slaughter. His writings elucidate numerous historical episodes consuming people of all ethnicities and religions, including their fellow Muslims, with particular cruelty reserved for Africans, Armenians, and, of course, Jews.
Their ‘bible’ tells them to kill us!
The fear is real folks!
Look at what they are doing in Gaza!
Israel is right to completely eliminate them!
The Gaza thing seems to be making the case for Israel to just take it back completely. The establishment of the state of Israel seems to be the dividing line of keeping what you fought for. There isn’t a square inch of earth that wasn’t someone else’s previous.y. there never was a Palestine previously. Everyone else gets to keep their nation. Except Israel?
No fear here, bring them on. There are more guns and people that know how to use them in the United States than the muslins can even imagine.
Yes this is a totalitarian governing system pretending to be a religion . Existing immigration laws prohibit persons from such systems from entering the U.S. Radical Muslims are in fact devout Muslims. About a third of them seem to cranked up over the west. Another third is OK with that. Imagine a free people without music, literature or art. Hhhmmmm doesn’t seem free or tolerant .