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| Jihad Terror Caused By Islamophobia |
| 2007-09-22 |
| by Sze Leng Chan, Christian Today Australia Correspondent The religious liberty arm of the World Evangelical Alliance has rebuffed last week's report from the UN claiming that the source of Muslim extremism is the "defamation" of Islam. “I would propose that the very heart of the issue is not ‘defamation’ of Islam or ‘baseless’ Islamophobia,” expressed Elizabeth Kendal of the WEA’s Religious Liberty Commission, “but the fact that the dictators of Islam are now as ever consumed and driven by 'apostaphobia!'” I cannot describe how much I detest use of the "I" word. “Indeed the new openness brought to the world through globalisation and developments in information and communication technologies is causing the power stakeholders and religious dictators of the non-free world to be seriously gripped by apostaphobia – a well-founded fear of loss of adherents, which is manifested primarily as uncompromising repression and denial of fundamental liberties, by violent and subversive means,” she said Monday. Kendal, who serves as the principal researcher for the WEA RLC, was writing in response to a report to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) written by Doudou Diene, the UN's special rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. According to Diene, the "defamation" of Islam generates dangerous Islamophobia, which leads to the repression of Muslim rights and in turn drives Muslims to extremism. Koran + Muslim = Terrorism He believes that Islamophobia should be defined as ”a baseless hostility and fear vis-a-vis Islam, and as a result a fear of and aversion towards all Muslims or the majority of them.” In his report, Diene recommended that the international human rights covenants be “reinterpreted and amended” to deal with Islamophobia. I worry about gas prices, Britney's kids, Chinese products and Al Gore; no time for I-fear. |
| Posted by:McZoid |
| #4 Keep it up with this "Islamophobia" bullshit and it will become "Islamoquietus". |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-22 21:13 |
| #3 Then there is no such thing as Islamophobia, since fear of these f*ckers is not baseless. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2007-09-22 16:56 |
| #2 He believes that Islamophobia should be defined as ”a baseless hostility and fear vis-a-vis Islam, and as a result a fear of and aversion towards all Muslims or the majority of them.” Nothing "baseless" about the planes, trains and automobiles going boom and insufficiently pious muslims being beheaded. Therefore not a phobia. Muslims are terrified of other muslims as well, not just the west. No phobias with this reality. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble 2007-09-22 11:28 |
| #1 It's all the fault of---you know who. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-09-22 10:12 |