Islamic Game of Victimization
By Ali Sina
"Greeting
in the name of Allah.
We are Al-shiite Youth movement of Nigeria, founded in the 5th of
September 1993, and since then our organisation is made up of over 55, 033
members in north -south, eastern and western, zones of Nigeria. Over the
years we have tried to increase our followers, but due to lack of funds,
we are fighting a lost battle.”
The
above is the first paragraph of an email sent to me by a certain Danjuma
Mohammad signing as the “Admin Secretary” of an Islamic terrorist
organization. This email must have been mass mailed to thousands of
Muslims. I suppose I became the recipient of it because of my name.
The
email goes on to say how these terrorists are “oppressed” by the
Christians because of their missionary work in Nigeria. The writer
complains, “Since almost half of them are scholars the Christians are
soon to dominate Nigeria Politically and Socially.”
He
laments: “The level of corruption [of Muslim politicians] in Nigeria
has not favoured Islamic Youth Movements in any field, instead our
opposition are taking the centre stage and calling the shots.”
After
ranting more about the success of the Christians the writer vows: “We
are motivated by the law of Hundaibiya to fight ours opposition on a
leveled circumstance but we are haddicaped. Our objective is to make
Nigeria a state of Dar ul-Islam…We need support from Muslims all accross
the globe, be Al-Qaeda, Al-Takfir, wal-Hijra, HAMAS, AL-JIHAD”.
These
terrorists feel victimized because the Christian missionaries are more
successful in converting people through their preaching and are therefore
looking for funds to start a Jihad and fight against their opponents, kill
them and retaliate this “oppression”.
Another
Muslim sent me an angry email accusing me of "quoting the Quran out
of the context" and "misrepresenting Islam". He claimed
that indeed Muslims are the “real victims” and they are the aggrieved
ones. He asserted that all this violence perpetrated by the Muslims
throughout the world are justifiable acts of “self defense” and
legitimate retaliation.
Muslims
like to play victims. Naturally the best way to justify hate is to pretend
to be a victim. You cannot hate someone unless you feel that he or she is
oppressing and victimizing you. If you want to rally the proletariat
around you, you must instill in them the hatred of the bourgeoisie. If you
want to make whites hate the immigrants you must convince them that the
immigrants steal your job, If you want to make a nation hate other nations
you got to make them believe that they are being victimized and their
rights are being violated. Feeling victimized is essential for hating,
without it hatred will not bloom. Hitler could not have come to power if
it weren’t for the defeat of the Germany in the First World War that
bruised the ego of the Germans and made them feel victimized. The Serbian
hatred of the Muslims had a history of abuse and victimization by Turks.
The
Islamists love to portray themselves as martyrs. Remember the cry of
Yasser Arafat; a few months ago “martyrs by millions, martyrs by
millions”? Muslims all over the world are told that they are victims of
Israel, USA and the West. They blame all their miseries on the West. In
Islamic countries people cannot criticize their own corrupt leaders but
criticizing the West is free and the only wise to vent.
In
America the important task of making Muslims feel victimized is on the
able shoulders of CAIR (the Council of Islamic-American Relations). This
organization watches carefully to see if anyone says or writes anything
against Islam and when that happens, it huffs and puffs and charges that
person of hatemongering and crime against humanity portraying Muslims as
victims and that guy as the villain. For example if anyone quotes the
parts of the Quran that call the Muslims to fight the unbelievers, kill
them, maim them, crucify them, chop their hands, rape their wives, loot
them and enslave them CAIR accuses that person of encouraging hate crimes
against Muslims overlooking the fact that he is simply reading from the
Quran.
Last
Wednesday night Sean Hannity of the Fox News Channel hosted the
televangelist Pat Robertson. Robertson's comments on Muhammad were: "This
man was an absolute wild-eyed fanatic. He was a robber and a brigand. And
to say that these terrorists distort Islam [is a mistake], they're
carrying out Islam."
CAIR
is fuming over this interview. Nihad Awad, the CAIR's Executive Director
says, “Such views on Islam, Muslims or the Middle East are neither
fair nor balanced. Venomous and hate-filled remarks like those made by
Robertson, and Sean Hannity's failure to challenge those remarks, poison
the minds of ordinary viewers and can incite acts of violence against
American Muslims,"
But
CAIR's Executive Director did not say that the Quran contains much worse
inflammatory remarks against the Christians, the Jews and the infidels. He
did not say which parts of those remarks made by Robertson are false? The
fact is that everything that Pat Robertson said about Islam is true. Yet
CAIR likes to portray Islam and Muslims as victims and amazingly they get
away with it and even receive apologies.
For
example the Council managed to pressure Paramount Pictures to alter the
Tom Clancy novel "The Sum of All Fears" to exchange the Muslim
terrorists in the movie with neo-Nazis. Also the director Phil Alden
Robinson had to write an apology to CAIR, telling them he had "no
intention of promoting negative images of Muslims or Arabs, and I wish you
the best in your continuing efforts to combat discrimination."
But
when thousands of Christians including Mother Teresa complained that
"The Last Temptation of Christ" was offensive to them and
pleaded with the Universal Pictures not to film it the whole Hollywood
backed the movie company and no one listened. Note that the movie
"The Sum of All Fears" was not about Muhammad or Islam while
"The Last Temptation of Christ" was a direct insult of the main figure of Christianity.
I
am afraid; America and the rest of the civilized world play with fire by
kowtowing the Islamists and trying to appease them in every sense. Two
years ago President Clinton publicly lamented the fact that American
Muslims face "discrimination" and "intolerance" and
the Senate passed a resolution inveighing against the "discrimination
and harassment" suffered by the American Muslim community.
President Bush at the Afghanistan Embassy in Washington reiterated, "American
Muslims, are just as proud of America as I am proud of America. They love
our country as much as I love our country." But the truth is that
a Muslim's first allegiance is not to his country, (especially if that
country is a Kafir land) but to Islam and his Muslim brothers in
Palestine, Pakistan and especially in Saudi Arabia. I thought this became
clear with the John Walker Lindh's case. If Mr. Bush's loyalty
to America is as lukewarm as that of a Muslim, woe to America.
Let
us learn our lessons from the History. We have to abandon this
Chamberlainian attitude of appeasement that is infesting some of our
politically correct journalists and leftist liberals.
Remember
that Chamberlain
the Prime Minster of Britain “believed that Germany had been badly
treated by the Allies after it was defeated in the First World War. He
therefore thought that the German government had genuine grievances and
that these needed to be addressed. He also thought that by agreeing to
some of the demands being made by Adolf Hitler of Germany and Benito
Mussolini of Italy, he could avoid a European war.” Chamberlain did not
bother to listen carefully to the message that Hitler was delivering. Time
proved that that was a grave mistake that cost many lives. Today we have
to ask ourselves whether we are not committing the same mistakes about
Islam.
I
am not denying the misdeeds of the West. America and especially UK are
guilty of many wrongdoings, shortsighted and profit seeking policies that
have alienated the people in the third world countries. Their misconceived
policies are responsible for the present rise of Islamism. In many cases
they themselves instigated this rise. But Islamic terrorism has nothing to
do with UK, US or any other Western country. It has to do with the
teachings of the Quran. Yes the West is to be blamed for directly and
indirectly promoting Islamization in Islamic countries, but the Islamic
violence is not an invention of the West. They let the genie out of the
bottle and now that genie is terrorizing them. It is a mistake to assume
that by appeasing the genie it will leave them in peace.
One
would expect that intelligent people at least engage in a debate to refute
our claim when we say that Islam is not a religion of peace. But they
rather dismiss our warnings as “extremist views” and like the three
little monkeys “see no evil, hear no evil and say no evil” and pretend
that everything is okay. They believe that by hiding their heads in the
sand the evil will go away. This unwillingness to face the bitter truth
is the greatest mistake of our "politically correct" society, a mistake that if
not corrected in time could cost many lives.
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CAIR is encouraging Muslims to write to FOX and complain.