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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Britain: The "Islamophobia" Industry Strikes Again


Britain: The "Islamophobia" Industry Strikes Again

by Bruce Bawer  •  December 20, 2017 at 4:30 am
  • The Runnymede Trust report's solitary reference to the fatwa against Salman Rushdie states: "In Britain... many Muslims felt unsupported in their reaction to Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and faced a backlash from those who they felt prioritized freedom of speech above respect for minorities." Apparently, Britons who stood up for Rushdie's right not to be slaughtered for writing a novel were guilty of Islamophobia.
  • Much of Runnymede's report is devoted to the high levels of Muslim poverty and unemployment in the U.K. -- but instead of seeking reasons for this problem in Islam itself, it blames this problem primarily on "institutional racism," while avoiding the ticklish question of why Hindus, whom one would also expect to be victims of "institutional racism" in Britain, are economically more successful than any other group in that nation, including ethnic British Christians.
  • The Runnymede report points out that domestic violence and child abuse are also committed by Westerners; the difference, needless to say, is that while FGM and honor violence enjoy widespread approval in Muslim societies and communities, where they are viewed as justifiable (if not compulsory) under Islam, domestic violence and child abuse are universally condemned in Western society and are never defended on cultural or religious grounds.
In the town of Rotherham, England, in accordance with orthodox Islamic attitudes toward "uncovered" or "immodest" infidel females, over 1400 non-Muslim girls are known to have been sexually abused by so-called Muslim "grooming" gangs in recent years. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)
Founded in 1968, the Runnymede Trust describes itself as "the UK's leading independent race equality think tank." Its chair is Clive Jones CBE, a former executive at Britain's ITV; its director is Omar Khan, a Governor of the University of East London and member of a variety of advisory groups involving ethnicity and integration. Runnymede's reports are taken extremely seriously, and its recommendations heeded, at the highest levels of the British government.

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