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TweetIt’s funny that a lot of times when I meet someone new and begin to tell them a little about myself, a lot of times it will come up that I’m a blogger and they’ll say “oh, what’s your blog?“. It got me thinking because what I normally do is say “It’s an anti-Jihad, anti-terrorism blog called Infidels Are Cool”.
But what if I didn’t approach it this way and were to say instead, “It’s an anti-Islam site”.
Of course, one could perfectly make that argument since we seek to reveal the honest truth about Islamic doctrine, the life of Mohammed and the political agenda of Islamic Law that seeks to spread itself throughout the world, many times using Islam in the news to reveal itself. We bring the news stories to you, and you decide. A lot of times it will be words from a Muslim Cleric or Imam himself, or text from Islamic documents like the Hadith or Koran.
But what does the average individual think about when they first hear “It’s an anti-Islam site“. Of course, before they read anything on the site, the knee jerk reaction is to think, “Well I’m sure there’s a lot of Muslim hatred there“, or “I’m sure it’s full of Muslim hate”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
When someone tries to come forward with information about a particular subject, in this case the religion of Islam, why is that person presumed to “hate all Muslims” which so many people accuse me and others on this site of being? In many cases, it is teachings from Muslims themselves or words and actions from Muslims themselves who make it easy for us. All we do is bring their words, actions and teachings to our audience. Trust me, if the content weren’t in such abundance, this blog wouldn’t exist.
Why are we called religious bigots or racists? What’s the point? The reality is that people cannot handle criticism of ones religious or political beliefs. They must discredit, defame or insult rather than addressing the true issues at hand. This even goes for soft-Christians or liberal Jews who’ve never touched the controversial subject of Islam due to their indoctrination of multiculturalism. This is also why so many so-called “moderate Muslims” who come on this site criticize us for exposing what they are saying, teaching and doing around the world, rather thank joining us in the fight.
It doesn’t mean that we think ALL Muslims are like this. Of course there are good Muslims around the world. No one is disputing that. And of course we do not “hate all Muslims”. Anyone looking honestly at what we do would understand this. I can’t tell you how refreshing it would be to have a good Muslim, who cares about the issues of radical and political Islam, to come on this site and join us instead of hate us.
Robert Spencer at JihadWatch also experiences this on a daily basis. He is in even deeper than any of us on this subject, and I’m sure he gets it all the time. Just today he addresses the issue again:
If you speak honestly and accurately about the Islamic jihad doctrine and the Islamic supremacist agenda, and even confine your case entirely to quotes from authoritative Islamic sources and spokesmen, you will still be accused of “hating Muslims.” This is the constant refrain of apologists for jihad and their useful idiots in the West — and they constantly have recourse to it because they know that it is effective: it turns the Left and much of the squishy Right away from the message of the “hater,” regardless of how outlandish and unjust the charge is.
Myself, I don’t hate Muslims. I love Muslims. Telling the truth is not an act of hate. I am not “Islamophobic,” I am Islamorealistic. I tell the truth about Islam and work to defend Western civilization and society from the encroachments of a legal and societal system that oppresses Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
Here at IAC, we never receive support from a “moderate Muslim” thanking us for helping THEM root out the evil within their own. It’s always attacks and vitriolic hatred towards us saying that we are “misrepresenting” Islam and that we are ignorant for reporting actions, words and teachings from within their own. The reality is that ALL moderate Muslims should be THANKING us for doing the job THEY should be doing.
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