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It is often claimed that Islamophobia is a form of racism. When people like me retort that Islam is not a race, we are told that Muslims are treated like a race through a process called racialization, so although they are not actually a race, they are deemed to be one, so that hostility toward them is equivalent to racism. Regardless of whether this is true or not, this reasoning distracts attention from an important point, namely that Muslims are not only defined by how they areContinue reading “Is Islamophobia racism?”

Europeans seem united in their contempt for Islam. The liberal German Die Zeit [pronounce: Dee Tsite] published a podcast in which three of its journalists – a German in Germany, an Austrian in Austria and a Swiss in Switzerland – discussed a recent statement about Islam by the new German Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer. Seehofer had saidContinue reading “Islamophobic European liberals”

Patrik Hermansson is a researcher for Hope not Hate, an organization that bills itself as “anti-Fascist” but seems to devote most of its time to protecting Islam from criticism.[1] Hermansson once published an article in The Guardian called “I spent a year undercover with the far right. We must not let their hatred spread”[2] It describes hisContinue reading “Hope not Hate and the fake news debate”

Notes on the Dialectic of Sameness and Otherness There is an infinite number of gradations between sameness and otherness. Sameness and otherness, far from being a uniquely western concept, are the maximum and minimum extremes of a parameter of human existence that defines all social experience. Since sameness and otherness invariably present themselves in theContinue reading “What Edward Said said”

“In June, I was with a film crew filming for Arte about writers in the places where they grew up. We were in Châteauroux, my first home, which has now become a ZUP [priority development area] on the outskirts, and when we arrived at the ZUP with our camera, boom, director, writer who grew upContinue reading “Muslims in Europe persecute Jews and nudists”

Interfaith struggles Palestinians and defenders of their cause do well to restrict political and historical discussions to the narrow confines of Palestine itself, since comparisons of the Palestinian situation with other conflicts involving Muslims that occur or occurred elsewhere invariably puts their cause in an unfavorable light.   If discussion is restricted to Palestine, then theContinue reading “Interfaith struggles”

Part 1. Supporters of the Rohingya are often detractors of the Zionists and vice versa.[i]  Nonetheless they can both be considered colonial settlers in the broad sense oif the term. Zionists are ethnic Jews. Rohingya are ethnic Bengalis. For the sake of clarity I shall here call them simply “Jews” (of Palestine) and “Bengalis” (of Burma).[ii] There are some curious parallels between RohingyaContinue reading “Colonial Settlers — Rohingya and Zionists”

I don’t find it at all ridiculous to mistake those bus seats for women wearing burqas. I’ve been seeing bus seats all my life and I have NEVER seen a bus seat so ingeniously designed so as to resemble a woman wearing a burqa. This story is presented in order to ridicule those who recognizeContinue reading “Bus seats mistaken for burqas”

Preliminary findings On the  basis of an article in the Unz Review[1], I prepared these tables that purport to show crime rates for  citizens of various countries residing in Germany. The article is worth reading. I have highlighted in green the names of countries whose Mohammedan population exceeds 45% of the country’s total population. Mohammedan countries have theContinue reading “Immigrant Crime Trends in Germany”

Not long ago I published a note about Ahmed Abdelbasit, a Muslim Brotherhood activist who was being threatneed with deportation from the US to Egypt. http://islamophiliawatch.blogspot.com/2018/04/muslim-brotherhood-activist-to-be.html It was inspired by a mendacious little note[1] in the Huffpost  about a “New Jersey Teacher Who’d Face A Death Sentence In Egypt”. The sketchy bio provided sufficed to pigeonhole Ahmed Abdelbasit  asContinue reading “Muslim Brotherhood involvement in persecution of Egyptian Christians”