The Proverbial "Backlash" - International Business Times: “Muslims Fear Backlash After Brussels Attack”

This is a typical “backlash” story, of the kind that invariably appears after a jihad attack or foiled jihad plot.

It attempts to deflect attention away from the jihad terror and onto Muslims as victims, their religion unfairly demonized. One bad apple shouldn’t be taken as spoiling the bunch, we’re told. The real problem is not the jihad mass murders, but the imagined response from the “far right”:

“It’s starting again, prepare yourselves, Arab Muslims.” Nothing ever really does start, but that doesn’t keep the mainstream media from turning out these stories. Sidestepped here, as is always the case in these weepy creepy “backlash” stories, is the fact that Islamic jihadis can and do point to Islamic texts and teachings to justify their actions and make recruits among peaceful Muslims.

No mention is made of the fact that Muslim clerics have been involved in jihad terror activity and have exhorted Muslims from the pulpit to commit acts of violence. If Muslims really fear “backlash” and the “demonization of Islam,” they should be the first to act against such clerics, and would be working publicly and honestly to reform those teachings.

Mosques and Islamic schools would be implementing programs to teach against the understanding of Islam that justifies hatred and violence. But “backlash” articles never deal with any of that — they’re all always just about how Muslims fear reprisal attacks. Meanwhile, FBI statistics show that anti-Semitic attacks are far more common than attacks against innocent Muslims. Yet you never see articles about that.

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