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Pharaohphobia? Pro-Terrorist Islamic Group Says Exodus is Islamophobic
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On February 14, 2015 @ 10:22 am In The Point | 4 Comments
Pharaohphobia
Last year, the Islamic Human Rights Commission nominated me for Islamophobe of the Year alongside Barack Obama, Dick Cheney and Robert Spencer. Along with Al Sisi and the rulers of Bahrain (the IHRC is Shi’ite)
This year I didn’t make the cut (though Obama, Merkel and Bill Maher did), but so did movies like Dracula, Exodus and 300: Rise of an Empire whose evils will be denounced at an event a Holiday Inn hosted by “acclaimed comedian” Aamer Rahman.
Two of those movies however take place before the existence of Islam. Is Pharaohphobia a thing now?
Consider, for instance, the inclusion of 300: Rise of an Empire. It’s worth noting that this film is set in 480 BC, roughly one millennium before Islam was founded. It’s a movie about ridiculously attractive, washboard-abbed Greeks fighting off the Persian empire’s navy which is, by the way, being led by another ridiculously attractive female Greek. Nary an adherent of Islam to be found!
Then there’s Exodus: Gods and Kings. This movie is set even earlier than 300: Rise of an Empire, so there is, once again, nary an adherent of Islam to be found. There are, however, lots of Jews. Lots and lots of Jews. Jews behaving heroically in defense of themselves. And creating a new homeland. A new homeland that would, some time later, infuriate adherents of Islam. As a result, I can’t help but wonder if the IHRC chose Exodus: Gods and Kings not because it is anti-Islam—again, there’s not a Muslim anywhere in the film—but because it is pro-Jew. That strikes me as terribly, what’s the word, ah yes: problematic.
Also inevitable considering what the IHRC is.
The IHRC is a Khomeinist group. It campaigns for imprisoned extremists such as the “Blind Sheikh”, Omar Abdel Rahman, currently serving a life sentence in the US for his part in the first blowing-up of the World Trade Centre in 1993.
The IHRC’s chairman, Massoud Shadjareh criticised the prosecution of Abu Hamza in 2006, claiming that the conviction created “an environment that can only further alienate the Muslim community”.
Also it’s fond of Hezbollah, as the great Melanie Philips pointed out.
It was the IHRC which sponsored the Hezbollah placards in Trafalgar Square. It is the IHRC which runs the annual ‘al Quds’ day in Britain, instituted by Khomeini as an event to be held around the world on the last Friday of Ramadan. Demonstrators at this annual hate-fest on the streets of London call for the ‘liberation’ of Jerusalem, carry Hizbollah flags, demand the destruction of Israel, and portray its leaders as demons.
In a briefing on the Lebanon crisis, the IHRC has said that British Muslims can provide Hezbollah with ‘financial, logistical and informational support’ to attack Israeli installations, and calls for the ‘temporary’ occupation of Israel and ‘regime change’ by Hezbollah on ‘self-defence’ grounds.
Islamophobia or Hezbollaphobia?
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