“Prejudice” and “dating back” is a contradiction in terms.
Well, if they don’t like the west, they can always move east.
Replace "Islamophobia" with "antisemitism" and "Muslim" with "Jew" and you have a perfect description of Islam (and "media" being the muslim media). So are the Muslims guilty of Semitephobia or are they just filled with hate?
What seems to have caused you to excerpt your own blog?
Sorry, but this seems to me to be muddled writing about muddled thinking.
If the author’s point is that Muslims have wierd ideas about the source of Western “islamophobia,” that seems to me a fact so obvious and so well documented as to be not really worth any further effort.
They go out of their way to threaten, belittle, and attack us - killing us by the thousands for reasons that make no sense under the Western concept of the Creator - and then try to make the case that Westerners don’t like them because we are “prejudiced.”
One man’s prejudice is another man’s generalization is another man’s knowledge.
“Islamophobia” came from the same liberal word-factory that brought us “gay marriage” and “assault rifle”. Does an exterminator have arachnophobia?
A quote from an 1899 book by Winston Churchill, "The River War", in which he describes Muslims he apparently observed during Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome. “
Everything I needed to know, and fear, about islam happened on 9/11. They can all go pound sand up their butts as far as I’m concerned.
Karen Armstrong is a former nun. She is also a leftist tool.