Democrat’s real fear isn’t Islamophobia.
Democrats excel at warping the English language, making it say things it was never intended to say. There is “American gun culture,” which amounts to our unalienable, express Second Amendment rights. There are “assault weapons,” a term that exists nowhere in firearm nomenclature, but which in Virginia includes break action, single shot .410 shotguns. And there is “Ultra MAGA,” which is Normal Americans who apparently really want America to be great, prosperous and secure—the horror.
And most of all, there are the phobias. Dictionary.com defines phobia thus:
1. an intense, persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, situation, or person that manifests in physical symptoms such as sweating, trembling, rapid heartbeat, or shortness of breath, and that motivates avoidance behavior.
In other words, not a reasonable concern, but an irrational fear amounting to mental illness. According to Democrats, Normal Americans spend most of their time sweating, trembling and worse at the mere thought of trans, gays, and the most currently trendy phobia: Islamophobia.
The point of this particular warping is to paint sane, rational people reasonably concerned about the very nature of Islam and the murderous acts of its adherents as dangerously mentally ill. They’re irrational, sweaty and trembling haters of innocent, mostly peaceful Muslims.
It’s also meant to quash any criticism of Islam and Islamists, you know–the whole First Amendment thing.
Sure, Islamists throw gays off high buildings or hang them from cranes, they beat, rape, torture and murder women, burn babies alive in ovens, torture, mutilate, rape and murder Jews and other infidels and are currently firing missiles, rockets and drones at other Muslims but recognition by sane people of Jihadist’s blood thirsty mania and the determination of Islamist’s victims not to be killed is the problem.
Then there’s that whole “Islam mandates genocide of the Jews” thing. For Jihadists, the problem is Jews, for the most part, don’t want to be killed and they’re getting really good—particularly in Israel—at first killing the demons who want to kill them. Islam also mandates conquering the world for Islam, which of necessity mandates killing or enslaving all infidels, which is pretty much the world and every non-Muslim, as well as a great many insufficiently deranged Muslims.
One of the great contradictions of the entire matter is Muslims who do not want to slaughter anyone are not living the text and intention of their faith. One wag noted there are two kinds of Muslims: those who want to slaughter all infidels, and those who want other Muslims to slaughter all infidels.
Cosmic irony reared its head recently when Sunday, March 15 rolled around. That’s ironic, because it was The International Day to Combat Islamophobia. As one might expect, the UN got in on the fun:
UN Secretary-General António Guterres wrote late on Saturday evening, “Islamophobia” Day Eve: “Muslims worldwide often face institutional discrimination, socio-economic exclusion, biased immigration policies & unwarranted surveillance & profiling. This International Day to Combat Islamophobia, let’s re-commit to the equality, human rights & dignity of every person, no matter their faith.”
It’s doubly ironic because of the March 1 Islamist attack on an Austin bar that killed three and injured 13. That was followed by the March 7 Islamist homemade fragmentation bomb attack in New York City. Fortunately, those bombs didn’t go off, but the attack gave the media the opportunity to obfuscate what happened to their heart’s content. On March 12 there was a Jihadist double header with the failed attack on a Michigan synagogue and the murder of a ROTC professor at Old Dominion University. That one ended badly for the Jihadist but well for America when a ROTC cadet stabbed him to death.
So of course, New York’s dimwitted, anti-American Governor had to spout off:
“On this International Day to Combat Islamophobia, and at a time when fear and division are rising in many places, New York stands firm: Hate has no home here. Muslim New Yorkers strengthen our communities every day, and we will always stand together against Islamophobia.”
One wonders if the equally dimwitted immigration cracktivist with a bullhorn hectoring the crowd about the wonders of illegal immigration at that NYC attack, who had a Jihadist leap on his back while throwing a bomb, is having second thoughts about immigration, or at least about his dumb luck in not being shredded by Islamist shrapnel?
Fortunately, we have a President who isn’t afraid of being called an Islamophobe and who is inducing Americaphobia in the world’s worst Islamists. He’s supported by hundreds of millions of Americans who don’t give a damn what Democrats have to say.
I suspect that’s what they really fear.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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