Christians, Jews, Hindus opposing hate and racism against Muslims

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Christians, Jews, Hindus and others speaking up against Racism, Bigotry and Hate Against Muslims

Even the harshest, most severe criticism, exposure of wrongs and corruption, can be successfully achieved and accomplished without including the element of hate.
When hate is infused and injected in criticism the purpose is no longer criticism or exposure of wrongs, but hate-incitement against those who are supposedly being criticised.

On this page non-Muslims speak up against hate against Muslims

Canada is able to call itself civilized today because enlightened, decent, caring people throughout its history, such as Barbara Hall, fought wrongs committed against minorities even when the rest of the population took those wrongs for granted. Other good people did the same in other nations.

And just as the present day conscientious human rights defenders suffer opposition, so did those in the past also invariably face opposition, resistance, and even demonization, from many among the mainstream, including some in the media and others in positions of authority and responsibility.

We now look back and laud the supporters of human rights, while the human rights abusers, the racists, and the haters are loathed by decent people both in Canada and all other civilized nations across the globe.

With respect, we disagree.
Barbara Hall
April 28, 2008
Maclean�s Magazine
....Stereotyping hurts the people and groups targeted, their families and their communities, and ultimately, all of us. In the post-9/11 world, we have seen more and more negative portrayals of Muslims and the rise of Islamophobia. Like racial profiling and other types of discrimination, ascribing the behaviour of individuals to a group damages everyone in that group...

See also Barbara Hall letter to the Canadian daily newspaper 'The Globe and Mail' which didn't publish it.

"The West Has Made Many Mistakes"
Steffen Leidel interview of Catholic theologian and church critic Hans K�ng
DEUTSCHE WELLE
February 08, 2006
Today we know that it is crucial that along with press freedom, press responsibility has to be stressed.

Nazi Atrocities, Committed by Ordinary People
By Georg B�nisch and Klaus Wiegrefe
Der Spiegel
March 18, 2008
From doctors to opera singers, teachers to truant schoolchildren, the extermination of European Jews was the work of roughly 200,000 ordinary Germans and their helpers. Years of research -- not yet complete -- reveal how sane members of a modern society committed murder for an evil regime.

Fitna's Hateful Crusade
By Aziz Huq
The Nation
April 7, 2008
Muslims across Europe engage with their governments, run for office and argue their cases vigorously in the public domain. In a 2005 study, Brandeis University political scientist Jytte Klausen showed that Muslims are deeply and seriously involved in the mucky, boring task of daily democracy... Wilders is too late: European Muslims are already part of liberal democracy.

See also the movie equivalent of what we are forced to do in HaSM:Muslim (Film) depicts 'violent' Christianity

An inability to tolerate Islam contradicts western values
Karen Armstrong
The Guardian,
July 21 2007
When 255,000 members of the so-called "Christian community" signed a petition to prevent the building of a large mosque in Abbey Mills, east London, they sent a grim message to the Muslim world: western freedom of worship did not, apparently, apply to Islam.

Other Karen Armstrong opinions

We have a free press, and how do we use it?
By Leo Burrows
April 28, 2008
Live Journal
Even after you get past the headline, this is nothing more than a story intended to stir up hate and loathing for the Muslim community. Because it could easily have said "People on line are posting...." or even "Some people on line are posting.....". Because that would be the truth. But the fact they hi-light the people's religion means they are doing it to stir up hate and loathing.

Taking a Cue from the Danish Cartoon Scandal
By Jytte Klausen
Der Spiegel
March 28, 2008
Wilders ... left out parts of the sura and neglected to say that it refers to Muhammad's war against the pagan tribes after his ejection from Mecca and recounts the prophet's injunction to treat prisoners of war with compassion. Wilders reads the Koran like the Devil reads the Bible.

See also: Wilders' Political Propaganda

Capture the Flag
By MARTIN BURCHARTH
New York Times
February 12, 2006
They tried to get Jyllands-Posten to recognize its offense. They tried to enlist the support of the government and the opposition. They asked a local prosecutor to file suit under the country's blasphemy law. And they asked ambassadors in Denmark from Muslim countries to meet with Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. They were rebuffed on all counts..

Those Danish Cartoons
"Don't Be Fooled This Isn't an Issue of Islam versus Secularism"

By ROBERT FISK
The Independent
February 6, 2006
If this cartoon had advanced the cause of those who want to debate this issue, no-one would have minded. But it was clearly intended to be provocative. It was so outrageous that it only caused reaction.

In Europe, Where's the Hate?
By Gary Younge
The Nation
January 7, 2008
...the primary threat to democracy in Europe is not "Islamofascism"--that clunking, thuggish phrase that keeps lashing out in the hope that it will one day strike a meaning--but plain old fascism. The kind whereby mostly white Europeans take to the streets to terrorize minorities in the name of racial, cultural or religious superiority.

European tolerance only a veneer
Hesham M. Sabry
Middle East Times,
February 15, 2006
When an editor in a mainstream newspaper finds it appropriate, and expects it to be acceptable to his readers, to so callously and crassly treat a minority within his nation, it is already obvious that this minority is being viewed as lesser human beings and is treated as such.
See Also Academic Reports on Racism in European nations; + + "German Racism"; ++ "European Muslims" ;Racism against veiled women

Looking at people's phobia of Muslims
By Matthai Kuruvila
The San Francisco Chronicle
April 26, 2008
...Islamophobia (is) "unfounded hostility toward Muslims and therefore fear or dislike of all or most Muslims." As a result, Muslims are painted as monolithic, unable to adapt to modernity and dissimilar to other major faiths. Islamophobes present Muslims as inferior to the West, archaic, barbaric and irrational...

Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not a Smear
Naomi Klein
The Nation
February 28, 2008
..Of course Obama must correct the record, but he doesn't have to stop there. What is disturbing about the campaign's response is that it leaves unchallenged the disgraceful and racist premise behind the entire "Muslim smear": that being Muslim is de facto a source of shame. Obama's supporters often say they are being "Swiftboated," casually accepting the idea that being accused of Muslimhood is tantamount to being accused of treason.

The Road to the Muslim Holocaust
by Ghali Hassan
Global Research
February 7, 2006
Hitler�s election paved the way for one of the greatest criminal acts in human history. Marr�s European biological racism continued during the rule of Nazism and became the vehicle for genocide. Jews, Gypsies, Czechs, Poles, the mentally and physically handicapped, homosexuals and others not belonging to the �master race� were targeted for extermination. Jews were specifically targeted

The Next Holocaust
Ziauddin Sardar
The New Statesman
5th December 2005
Throughout my journey, from Germany to the Netherlands, onwards to Belgium and finally into France - the object of much recent attention - I meet people all too ready to describe Muslims in the colours of darkness. Islamophobia is not a British disease: it is a common, if diverse, European phenomenon. It is the singular rock against which the tide of European liberalism crashes.

Missing: The 'Right' Babies
By Kathryn Joyce
The Nation
February 14, 2008
...The racial preferences behind Berlusconi's "baby bonus" came into embarrassing relief when immigrant parents were accidentally sent checks for their offspring and then asked to return the money: the Italian government hadn't meant to promote those births. ...

Violent Islamic radicals know they are heretical
Karen Armstrong
The Guardian
July 8, 2006
..Extremists are proud of their deviance, and moderate Muslims can't be held responsible ....

Christian Provocateurs and Muslim Moderation.
Christopher Dickey
Newsweek
April 7, 2008
That is, if Allam were not declaring only his personal beliefs but intentionally demeaning the faith of Muslims. Yet it is hard to read the spectacle of his conversion otherwise, because that's exactly the tone in which Allam writes. He has made his career portraying Islam as a religion that terrorizes...

The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn
By Robert Fisk
The Independent
March 19, 2008
"They drove the Brits out of Palestine and Aden, the French out of Algeria, the Russians out of Afghanistan, the Americans out of Somalia and Beirut, the Israelis out of Lebanon. We have started up the road to empire and over the next hill we will meet those who went before. The only lesson we learn from history is that we do not learn from history."

Reader's comment (January 2008): "It still applies to the letter. I wouldn't change a comma."

"King and Country", or the Promise of Paradise
Hesham M. Sabry
An edited version published in "The Record"
November 2, 2001
Since Sept. 11, we've been searching Islam for answers. Unfortunately, Islam doesn't have the answers any more than Christianity does for the violence in Northern Ireland, Spain, or Rwanda. Two billion Muslims and Christians don't go about killing innocent people, so obviously their religion doesn't instruct them to.

David Horowitz, Feminist?
By Katha Pollitt
The Nation
November 1, 2007
...The oppression of women in the Muslim world is a major theme among the Islamofascistly aware. And here the story gets a bit tricky. An awful lot of those associated with the (Islamofascit) Week are antifeminist conservatives..who've made careers out of attacking ..working mothers, birth control or even.. the right to vote! ...there is virtually no evidence of concern for the rights, liberties, opportunities or well-being of any women on earth, except for Muslims. ...it's not as if life is a picnic for women in China, India, Africa, Latin America. Why no interest in them?

See also PART TWO: Islamo-Fascism--Take Two

AND, 2007 Defending Islamofascism: It's a valid term. Here's why.
AND, 2007It's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week!
AND 2007David Horowitz �Declares� Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week for October 22-26
AND The Culture War Descends on Columbia

Attacking Muslims under the veil of free speech is wrong
Chris Shortsleeve
Issue date: 12/3/07
Section: Opinion

Moreover, a question of double standards arises. If universities across America were to host a "Blackofascism Awareness Week" or a "Jewofascism Awareness Week," would this be acceptable university speech? Would we engage it "objectively" in the spirit of civil, academic dialogue? Why, then, was Islamofascism Awareness Week hosted by universities across the country and enthusiastically attended by their "objective" student bodies? "

A lazy, simplistic analogy
Editorial
November 4, 2007
The Boston Globe

"Loose talk about Islamofascism or Islamic terrorism also carries noxious undertones. Such labels intimate that there is something inherently dangerous about all Muslims. And there is a subtext to those terms, an implication that the West faces an inevitable worldwide clash of religions and civilizations. There need not be any such apocalyptic conflict. One way to prevent it is to give things their proper names - and not to allow the threat from bin Laden and similar fringe groups to be blown out of proportion by ideologues indulging in loose talk about a third or fourth World War."

Horowitz's "Islamofascism Awareness Week": Hate Week Comes to Campus
By AARON HESS
October 5, 2007
CounterPunch

"THE CONCEPT of "Islamofascism" has been conjured up as part of the right wing's effort to sell the U.S. war to control the Middle East as a battle of "values" between a democratic, tolerant and rational West and a totalitarian, intolerant and fanatical political Islam."

Horowitz's "The Demons of David Horowitz
By Max Blumenthal
November 6, 2007
Huffington post

"Listening to Horowitz was like being trapped in a subway car with a raving derelict for an hour and a half. But unlike in the subway, where the transit police usually arrive to remove the derelict, the police came to Columbia to protect Horowitz from the non-existent security threat he had invoked in fundraising appeals for days leading up to his speech."

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