Antisemitism and Islamophobia: Terror Twins of Inequity

It is the ability of Muslim leaders to spout anti-Zionist conspiracy theories which only leads to a gentle mocking of them that disturbs me about the New Antisemitism.

They must be desperate for votes from hardliners who would rather that a Caliphate arise than have to be humiliated by the reminder Israel always presents them as losers of a nation in founding due to the acts of America, the UK and France.

Rather than attract their brightest, all the Muslim world is doing is attracting the same kind of mindset that lost Hispania to the Catholics and increases Islamophobia in the West.

Antisemitism and Islamophobia are the twins of inequity in the world. If one cannot remain independent of both kinds of injustice, then their claim to fight for anti-globalism is tainted by their hypocrisy, especially if they only condemn far right antisemitism and Islamophobia.

The kind of Islamophobia we need to be aware of is when Muslim leaders are demonized and their people misrepresented as innocent victims.

Syria is a good case, as it is a proxy terrorism, and Assad is not the enemy, but rather it is actually al Qaeda. That America even thinks its support of the Free Syria Army is a good political move may be doubted in Congress.

I condemn any party that espouses violence. For that is the root of all terrorism, be it a revolution or police killing a mother with depression.

After all, state terrorism is the mother of all terrorism.

Is it one tiny state that practices state terrorism through what is purported to be Islamophobia while they call it a nation fighting for its existence? Is it Islam that breeds militant terrorism?

I say no to both questions, as the state terrorism practiced in the Middle East is predominantly by Muslim nations against its own people as well as the fact that militant terrorism among the Muslims still is punctuated by the silence of strict adherence to prayer at least five times a day.

I cannot see how the jihadis are allowed exemption from their duty as a Muslim to prayer, if they are. Yet how much time does that give devout Muslim militants to pray?

As for antisemitism, it is for naive anti-Zionists to pander among the far right militants. New Left antisemitism should be condemned to be just as vile as the far right rhetoric. Otherwise, it all becomes another Animal Farm confusion where outside observers cannot tell the difference between the left and the right.

Even though I self identify as a Buddhist anarchist, I refuse to ally with the Left or the Right. For my heart belongs to the People, not the State that dictates who is Left and who is Right.

If the People believes themselves to be Left but subscribe to the conspiracy theories of the Right, then they are sheep.

If they instead transcend the political spectrum, then as the People they truly are the voice of public opinion.

Can a Good Muslim Help Me to See?

In this blog entry I will be writing about the Muslim world based on what I have read. If the reader is a Muslim, and wishes to correct any errors I have made, then I would be happy to accommodate you. Any misunderstanding about Muslim culture as seen by an unbeliever is all mine.

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There are Maghreb Muslims, mostly Berbers and some Nigerians. Overall, the North Africans tend to be willing to moderate.

Yet much of the fanaticism arises after the men make that fatal trip to Mecca.

Then Qutbian heresy beguiles them, and they may lean towards right-wing fanaticism with anti-Semitic rhetoric.

The irony that both Arabs and Jews are Semitic is lost among them, and so too are the common roots of the Middle East.

The Saudis range between secularism and fanaticism, and the Qutbian fanaticism has led one prince to make money off European drug addicts by importing coke illegally on his private jet from Latin Americas.

If he is caught, all he has to do is pay a hefty fine and the EU condones it, who instead use the bribes to continue the US war on drugs.

In the Muslim Diaspora, the Muslim who actually outshine these criminals tend to be victimized by the fanatics, who pretend to be good Muslim, but are bringing shame to Islam.

A good example of this is what is happening in the suburbs of Europe. Most of the poverty there is not just due to racism but also by a well-moneyed elite which oppresses its own people, and abuses the traditional culture underlying the Muslim world.

It is hard to see how Sharia would work to prevent the excesses of Muslim culture (oppression of women and religious hypocrisy) when the way it is practised now allows men to escape responsibility for their actions (using the cover of a holy war to do violence men, women and child) by calling it God's will.

I find it frustrating that the West sometimes condones the excesses, and the perpetrators are allowed to escape justice.

Though it is commendable that Western justice does not cave in to misuse of anti-racist legislation by Muslims to help their brothers, fathers, uncles and other wretched men escape responsibility for their crimes.

In conclusion, I will like to point out that overall Muslims are an honourable people, and do respect Western law when living in the West.

I thoroughly condemn any Western court which refuses to carry out justice because of "religious sensitivity". We never see such a court condone crime by Christians and Jews alike who may resort to "God's will" to excuse their brutal behavior on their fellow man.

However, I may not be seeing the whole picture here. So my view of Islam is myopic.

Please, could anyone from the Muslim community enlighten me?