Monday, January 12, 2015

Islamophobia Is a Myth

Islamophobia Is a Myth | National Review Online:
The British press has never seemed as out of touch as it is today. 
All our broadsheet papers are packed with pleas to the people of France, and other European populations, not to turn into Muslim-killing nutjobs in response to the Charlie Hebdo massacre. 
The Guardian frets over “Islamophobes seizing this atrocity to advance their hatred.” 
The Financial Times is in a spin about “Islamophobic extremists” using the massacre to “[challenge] the tolerance on which Europe has built its peace.” 
One British hack says we should all “fear the coming Islamophobic backlash.” 
And what actually happened in France as these dead-tree pieces about a possible Islamophobic backlash made their appearance? 
Jews were assaulted. 
And killed. 
“Don’t attack Muslims,” lectures the press as Jews are attacked.

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