The Right's Islamophobia Has Nothing to Do With National Security

The Right's Islamophobia Has Nothing to Do With National Security

Conservatives are finding new justifications for anti-Muslim sentiments—and embedding them more deeply in America’s political terrain.

>When asked by reporters on Wednesday about President Trump’s retweets of anti-Muslim videos, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanderssaid, “what the President is talking about is the need for national security, the need for military spending.”

>Her talking points are out of date. The videos are not about “national security” at all. The first supposedly depicts a Muslim migrant beating up a Dutch boy on crutches. (The assailant may have been neither a migrant nor Muslim). The second supposedly shows a Muslim man destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary. It appears to have been filmed in Syria. The third apparently shows an “Islamist mob” pushing “a teenage boy off a roof.” It comes from Egypt. None involves terrorism against the United States or even Europe. None could have been prevented by more “military spending.”

>Sanders is behind the times. Trump’s tweets show that, increasingly, America’s purveyors of anti-Muslim bigotry no longer need terrorism as a rationalization. Islamophobia is finding new justifications, which don’t rely on ISIS or Al Qaeda detonating bombs in London or Chicago. And in that way, it’s embedding itself more deeply in America’s political terrain.

>It’s no surprise that Trump may havelearned about the videos from Ann Coulter, who has been at the forefront of this Islamophobia 2.0. Her 2016 book,Adios America,which Trump called “a great read,” is filled with descriptions of Muslim depravity. It declares that in Lewiston, Maine, “Somali boys roam the streets physically assaulting the locals.” It includes a section on “Muslim Rape Culture.” And it mocks “Muslim refugees from tribal societies” who are “thunderstruck by indoor plumbing.” It’s only peripherally about terrorism. For Coulter, the problem with letting Muslims enter the United States is not that they commit terrorism. Terrorism is merely a symptom of their deeper hostility to American values, a hostility that expresses itself in a wide variety of ways: from beating up white kids to raping white women to ripping off the welfare state to generally being unsanitary.

The (probably Jewish) author of this article takes the interesting position that Islamophobia should not be the default view, given day-to-day occurrences in Islamic countries. One wonders what the cause of all the violence in Islamic countries that creates all these fleeing Muslims is...

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Progressives don't take no for an answer

islam has no place in the west

So?

>None could have been prevented by more “military spending.”
Yeah it could but the plutocrats that abuse the military not to assist but to destroy probably won't use it like that.

>anti-terrorism
>new
What? Do these people have no long-term memory at all?

>Publish this November 30
>December 11 a muslim attempts to blow up the subway in New York
NOTHING TO DO WITH TERRORISME GUIZE

The Singapore Shill has really been on a tear today doing damage control.

First threads about Rohingya on today specifically for some reason (hmmmmmm), now tacitly blaming Trump and the right for the terrorist attack.

And they can't refute anything about the last two videos (arguing small details on the first) then say since it's not specifically terrorism against Europe then Muslims aren't a national security threat and we should let hordes of them settle. Something like that Charlie Chan?

The pedophile has never ask his follower to kill every infidel that refuse to convert ,

Actually...

All this islamophobia talk makes me fear a possible backlash against us Nazis.

Consent is a female privilege #draftourdaughters

Yep. Look at my flag. Everything you wrote is true. Not because they are muslims but because they are from third world shitholes with a whole different culture which also happen to be muslim. It is easier for the general public to understand. Nevertheless it doesnt change the fact that importing so many uneducated, culturally foreign people was a big mistake by our overlords. You can call it Islamophobia but it is just semantics.

First: Explicitly pertinent (worst case scenario, he's a native born muslim, who still shouldn't be here)
Second: Good example of why not to import them
Third: Good example of why not to import them

Conclusion: The right's Islam realist stance is all about national security.

The Title is correct. Terror attacks are not the only or main reason that we hate Muslims. We have everything about Islam and Muslims

It's really annoying for people living in the 21st century to be forced to live alongside genetic throwbacks and cultures from 1600 years ago and be forced to pretend like this is normal

The onyl thing more insane would be if they were doing the same thing with apes

Islam would be banned in America if every American read the Koran and Sunnah of Muhammad.

Islam is an antiquated, evil, barbaric ideology that must be eradicated.

"what are niggers, Alex"?

>first and second barbary wars
We have a military because we hate Muslims. Killing Muslims is the oldest American tradition.

If you want to vote, you should be registered for the draft. If women don't want to be drafted, don't vote.