Islamophobia and The Religious Right

Breivik epitomises the new Euro right, which is both fanatically pro-Israel and anti-Muslim. Breivik even approves of a Caliphate for Muslims, as long as it is in the Middle East. This is similar to Hitler’s desire to push Jews out of Europe into their own Jewish state in Palestine, as Zionist collaboration with the Nazis in the 1930–40s makes clear. But Euro neo-Nazism has the startling characteristic of being pro-Jewish, and wishes not to rid Europe of Jews, but of Muslims. If this requires terrorising and even killing a few million in the process, that is a price worth paying to make Europe pure again.

From: Behind Norway’s Kristallnacht by Eric Walberg / July 28th, 2011

Islamophobia existed well before the terror attacks of 9/11. After the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 (orchestrated by Gulf War veteran and right-wing extremist Timothy McVeigh), the media blamed Muslims, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee documented death threats against Muslims and vandalism of mosques. But for the past decade there has been a surge in Islamophobia to scapegoat populations at home and justify wars abroad. The Western countries with Islamophobic policies overlaps with those occupying Afghanistan: from the US (which incarcerated Muslims without trial in Guantanamo Bay), to Canada (which has rounded up Muslim men and pressured them to admit to terrorism, while Muslim Canadians have been abandoned abroad, and media have amplified fringe-group campaigns against prayer spaces), to France (which is banning girls who wear hijab from school, and women who wear niqab from public space), to Norway.

The Bombs in Afghanistan Have Landed in Norway by Jesse McLaren at Common Dreams.org , July 25, 2011

Norwegian Shooting Suspect Anders Breivik Echoes Extremists in U.S. 2-2 Democracy NOW!
Interview of Jeff Sharlett on Anders Beivik's 1500 page manifesto and his connections especially with American Christian Nationalists and American Islamophobes .
Christian Nationalism and Islamophobia have gone more and more mainstream in America.
The Islamophobes argue that Christianity is a religion of peace as opposed to Islam which is a violent religion.
Anders Beivik self-identified Christian and supports what he calls Crusader Christianity
Breivik is Militantly anti-Islam
Breivik's Idealization of the Medieval period and rejects the age of enlightenment

Sharlett talks about the cozy connection between The Washington based Family Christian organization or "C" Street Gang of Doug Coe and the former Norwegian government.
The Family is an exclusive club for the rich and powerfule around the globe which teaches them that the reason they are in positions of power and influence is because has chosen them to God' will on earth.
Sharlett also compares Breivik to the American born again Christian Chuck Colson.
Both believe in Christian Dominionism and that governments must govern according to God's Law though Colson does not insist on non-Christians to convert to Christianity
Beivik and Colson and others see themselves as modern day Vikings and the Crusaders that is Macho manly men who are / were willng to use violence to reform society .
Islamophobes such as Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, Horowitz Pam Geller analyse the problems of Western Civilization as being in a war against Islam in which Islam is out to destroy Christianity.
The cure they claim is squashing the rights of Muslims in the west and limiting their participation in society or in politics and so forth.

Sharlett argues Mainstream Islamophobes usually stop short of calling for committing violence against Muslims and those in the West who act as enablers of Islamic Jihadists ie politicians, media, educational system .



In the article below by Jesse McLaren who argues that authorities including police in Norway and other Western nations have refused to see or do anything much about Islamophobia. The result is the Massacre in Norway by anti-Muslim Anders Breivik.
It is possible that if the authorites had been paying attention they might have been able to stop Anders Beivik. And as the media playsdown the incident as being the work of someone who was just crazy and that the words of Islamophobes in the media even if constituting Hate Speech or inciting violence are not to blame.
Once again words have consequences. the Islamophobes are bigots and Hate Mongers.

Racism, bigotry, prejudice which in essence is irrational but such individuals often create a stereotype which defines the entire Ethnic/Racial/Religious in such a way that any perceived characterists are exaggerated and seen through a prism of Hate . These characteristics are seen therefore in a negative light. What may otherwise be considered a positive personality attribute of an individual and even praiseworthy is redefined when associated with the targetted group or community so thrift becomes cheap ,meanness and trying to make a living and being self-reliant becomes greediness and arrogance
Muslims are characterized in various ways by the Islamophobes of having a number of negative traits such as being fanatical; as being inferior ; as being violent ;having no respect for life even celebrating violence murdering innocents to achieve their hidden agenda , they deceptive, sly, tricky ,liars, sexually deviant and intolerant.-


The Bombs in Afghanistan Have Landed in Norway
by Jesse McLaren at Common Dreams.org , July 25, 2011

A decade of Islamophobia to justify the war in Afghanistan is now spreading violence to the West. Right-wing Islamophobe Anders Behring Breivik has killed 91 people in Norway, through the explosion of a bomb near the Prime Minister's building and a shooting spree in a youth camp organized by the Workers’ Youth League.

Islamophobia

Islamophobia existed well before the terror attacks of 9/11. After the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 (orchestrated by Gulf War veteran and right-wing extremist Timothy McVeigh), the media blamed Muslims, and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee documented death threats against Muslims and vandalism of mosques. But for the past decade there has been a surge in Islamophobia to scapegoat populations at home and justify wars abroad. The Western countries with Islamophobic policies overlaps with those occupying Afghanistan: from the US (which incarcerated Muslims without trial in Guantanamo Bay), to Canada (which has rounded up Muslim men and pressured them to admit to terrorism, while Muslim Canadians have been abandoned abroad, and media have amplified fringe-group campaigns against prayer spaces), to France (which is banning girls who wear hijab from school, and women who wear niqab from public space), to Norway.

The website Islamophobia-watch has documented anti-Muslim racism around the world, which in Norway includes:

2006: the Directorate for Primary and Secondary Education of Norway banned girls and women wearing niqab form school
2007: anti-immigration politicians in Bergen threatened to use pigs feet to chase praying Muslims out of a public square.
2009: the Norwegian government tried to ban female police officers from wearing the hijab
April 2011: attempts were made to set up a Norwegian Defense League -- modeled on the English Defense League--with a demonstration was called against the “Islamic occupation of Noway”. While only 10-15 Islamophobes turned up, up to 1000 people attended a counter-demonstration
May 2011: a school in Bergen had to be evacuated when a national newspaper received a message threatening “A massacre at Gimle school Bergen. Everyone that stands in the way will die, especially Muslims.”

But police have refused to see Islamophobia as a threat. “It’s surprising, because the Norwegian police have long said that the right wing extremist community was under control,” said Hegghammer, of the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment.

and so it goes,
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