We Don't Need Another Lecture on Islamophobia
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262251/we-dont-need-another-lecture-islamophobia-daniel-greenfieldMarch 22, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
Every Muslim terror attack plays out the same way.
1. Shocked reporting from the scene
2. Politicians issuing statements of sympathy while claiming that Islamic "terrorism has no religion"
3. Lectures on "marginalized youth", lack of hope, Islamophobia, our foreign policy and other efforts to explain why the victims had it coming and the terrorists are the real victims.
It doesn't matter where it happens. America. Europe. Canada. Israel. Australia. India. Mars. The same pattern remorselessly plays out.
The three act structure of the left ends with a final act in which the victims become the real perpetrators and the perpetrators become the real victims. We are told to feel guilty because somewhere a Muslim experienced "dirty looks" while riding a bus. Never mind the dozens of corpses.
Senator Ted Cruz said, “We don’t need another lecture about Islamophobia.” And he's right.
But we'll get one anyway, because the blame has to be shifted. If you blame Islamic terrorism on Muslims, you're also blaming all the politicians who brought them here. And the ideology that those politicians follow.
And we can't have that. So we'll get lectures on how the people who are opposed to this sort of thing are the bad guys. How being worried about the consequences of bringing millions of followers of a xenophobic, violently bigoted ideology into Europe, America and Canada is a "phobia", rather than a rational and reasoned response.
Islamophobia is a convenient form of projection and denial. It shifts the guilt from the perpetrators and their enablers... to the victims. All of whom were no doubt quite afraid in their final moments.
