Islamophiles, Where Are You?

Ever since 9/11, and maybe even before, the left in the West has been swooning over Muslims and bashing anyone who it deems is an Islamophobe. But now that Muslims are under siege in various non-Western regions, where are these concerned citizens of the world? They are silent. In China, for example, Muslims are being thrown into “re-education” camps, yet leftists here in West are silent. Why? A column in today’s Wall Street Journal by a Muslim man named Abdul Malik Mujahid – whose name, by the way, means “servant of a king of a warrior – wonders why the Democrats are saying and doing nothing about all the human rights violations in the rest of the world, though everything he mentions is about Muslims (China, the Rohingyas, Kashmir). Still, he’s got a point. The Democrats’ last presidential candidate, who nearly won the election, complained about Islamophobia, so why isn’t she out there leading lots of protests?

Naturally, one suspects that the complaints about the deplorables who are Islamophobes was more about hating them than liking Muslims.

Meanwhile, the elites may finally be waking up to the stupidity of their open-borders policy. See here and here regarding what’s happening in southern Sweden.

It’s not like they weren’t warned, because a lot of us gave warnings, but their basic reaction was that those of us issuing warnings were just racists. They never wanted to look at the evidence at all.

Comments

[Harland]

Actually lots of people are arguing in favor of the Uighurs. It's a convenient weapon to bash China with.

This leads to the bizarre situation of hard leftists advocating neo-con regime change in China, up to and including military conflict. I always like to point this out to them, even though it never makes an impact on their beliefs.

[John Pepple]

I'm actually waiting for demonstrations. But I'll settle for links to these leftists. Do you have any, Harland? And thanks for the comment.

[Charles N. Steele]

I’ve never heard leftists calling for confrontation with a China. Unless Harland provides examples, I think it’s completely false.

Leftists don’t love muslims, they love islamists. Islamists condemn Western Civilization, so the left (including mainstream progressives) sees them as allies. The Uighurs aren’t attacking Western Civilization so the left doesn’t care about them.