Dear Muslim Public Affairs Council of the UK:
I am shocked and insulted to not have been included on your list of American Islamophobes. There is no doubt in my mind that I should appear in Category 1, “The Seed Planters”, along with those such as Bernard Lewis, Daniel Pipes, and Steven Emerson, to whom you attribute what you believe to be the most evil possible motivation: Zionism, which even precedes religious bigotry, greed, and racism on your list of evil motivations.
My suggestion for you, is that first you read “Zionism — what it is and isn’t” so that you can use the word correctly and stop appearing to be antisemitic fools (I don’t think you can actually stop being such, but appearances are important).
Next, if you want to reduce “Islamophobia”, you can do something about UK Muslims like these:
UK Muslims protest cartoons
Finally, you can learn that “Islamophobia” (which properly should mean ‘fear of Islam’ and not ‘prejudice against or hatred of Muslims’ as you use it), is almost entirely a reaction to the violent and often murderous behavior of some Muslims — and to the approval granted that behavior by most Muslims.
You can’t have it both ways — you can’t reject Western values of free expression and tolerance, and then accuse those who point this out of racism or bigotry.
If you can’t do any of this, then please put me on your list, along with Lewis, Pipes, and Emerson. I’d be in good company.
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I am not sure it is possible to expect too much in the way of reasonableness, fairness , ability to relate to evidence- to Muslim groups like this.
What I find more alarming in regards to the U.K. is the intellectual anti- Semitism or they would say, anti-Zionism so prevalent there. Violating all norms of academic life a British higher education trade- union demands Israeli researchers state a political position in opposition to the ‘occupation’ before they can be worked with. What insanity stupidity, ugliness. Radical Islamofasicism and Leftist Fascism have found their home in what once purported to be England’s ‘green and pleasant land.’
Oh what fools and jerks ye mortals be.