The neologism “Islamophobia” did not
simply emerge ex nihilo. It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim
Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic
Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia. If that name dimly rings a
bell, it should: I’ve mentioned it before, and it’s particularly
important because it was co-founded by Anwar Ibrahim–the hero of
Moderate Islam who is now trotting around the globe comparing his plight
to that of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, a former member of the IIIT who has renounced the group in disgust, was an eyewitness to the creation of the word. “This
loathsome term,” he writes, is nothing more than a thought-terminating
cliche conceived in the bowels of Muslim think tanks for the purpose of
beating down critics.
In another article concerning the many
moderate Muslims whose voices have been drowned out by Saudi-financed
Muslim Brotherhood front groups, Muhammad describes the strategy behind
the word’s invention:
In an effort to silence critics of
political Islam, advocates needed to come up with terminology that
would enable them to portray themselves as victims. Muhammad
said he was present when his then-allies, meeting at the offices of the
International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT) in Northern Virginia
years ago, coined the term “Islamophobia.”
Muhammad said the Islamists
decided to emulate the homosexual activists who used the term
“homophobia” to silence critics. He said the group meeting at IIIT saw
“Islamophobia” as a way to “beat up their critics.”
Really imagine that scene: a bunch of
Islamists admiring how astutely the queers–people who in their ideal
world would be served with the lash or hanged–had portrayed their
critics as mentally disturbed. Brilliant. Let’s take a leaf from them
and then kill them. The association of anti-Islamism–the noblest form of
liberal anti-totalitarianism–with gay-bashing rednecks in the grip of a
psychosexual panic was not just one of those linguistic accidents of
history, in other words. These guys were sitting there in
Virginia and really thinking about the best way to exploit the
weaknesses of the Western psyche. They came up with this
word–and admit it, it’s clever; I challenge you to find a better one if
you want to yank the West’s chain–and they marketed it with
petrodollars, and now it truly does drive public discourse and policy
the world over.
The fact that the IIIT was co-founded by Anwar Ibrahim, who is now on trial for sodomy–something of a homophobic charge, that--would be almost hilarious in its just-deserts irony if Anwar hadn’t succeeded in portraying himself as the moderate darling of Muslim moderation whose plight should now trouble the liberal conscience of the West, no matter his own role in exploiting it.
…
So Anwar Ibrahim– our moderate man in
moderate Malaysia–is the moderate man behind this Orwellian effort to
render the West incapable of objecting even verbally to political Islam. The gift of “Islamophobia” is just the beginning of the story.
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