‘Enlightened’ USA: FBI warns of right wing militia attacks against Muslims [View all]

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Wednesday 19 August 2015 13:03 UTC
CJ Werleman

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So who are the “self-appointed watchdogs of Islamic extremism”?

For more than a decade anti-Muslim bigots – particularly New Atheists, the Christian Right, the Republican Party, and those pro-Israel groups loosely identified as the Islamophobic Network – have portrayed Islam as the enemy of both American values and Western civilisation itself.

Richard Dawkins has called Islam “the greatest evil in the world today”. Ayaan Hirsi Ali has urged a “military war” against Islam and more recently is tied to ACT! For America, a well-funded hate group. The Sharia conspiracy theory, which posits Muslims are secretly plotting to implement Islamic law in America, is now a component of Republican Party policy, while Sam Harris has protested against mosques and warns of a “Muslim tide” – otherwise known as the “demographic time bomb”.

These are the same memes and conspiracies used by both the anti-theistic Soviets and the anti-Semitic Nazi Party. In drawing comparisons between anti-Muslim bigotry in America today with anti-Semitism in early-mid 20th Century Germany, Doug Sanders, author of The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West, notes that although “Jews had faced hatred and distrust in Western countries for thousands of years,” it was the mass migration of millions of Jews from Eastern Europe during the period 1870 to 1945 that “set off loathing and fear on a scale that had never been seen before in the West”.

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