The word Islamophobia first came into being in French literature in the late 20th Century which since then have been used by the worst of the Islamists and their apologists to whitewash the worst of the deeds. Islamophobia is derived from two words ie. ‘Islam’ and ‘Phobia’ which is a Greek term meaning ‘irrational fear of.’ And therefore the term ‘Islamophobia’ has been defined as an irrational fear of Islam and Muslims.
The term is argued by reddish-green circles as significant to combat the hatred against the Muslim community, many experts have argued that the term does no good but acts as a shield for the Islamic extremists to get their worst of the deeds covered up by bringing forth the heavy term. The rise of the use of Islamophobia can be traced to the 26/11 attack, the United States saw. Interestingly, one of the deadliest terrorist attacks, which claimed nearly 3000 lives, did not pave a way for the scrutiny of the religious motivation behind the attack but helped the terrorism shielding term ‘Islamophobia’ get into the mainstream discourse around the globe.
The late renowned Author and Journalist Christopher Hitchens many a years ago marked the popping up of the term Islamophobia as dangerous for the society as it will work to curtail dissent and freedom of speech. He remarked that the term will be used to dodge any genuine criticism of the religion Islam and its radical followers.
He said, “Islamophobia is a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons. It is a word created to silence people who criticize Islam as an ideology, not its followers.”
Christopher Hitchens in his book ‘God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything’ which got published in 2007 argued the same points.
“Resist it while you still can… the barbarian never take the city until someone holds the gates open for them and it’s your own preachers and multicultural authorities who’ll do it for you…”
Christopher Hitchens, born 13th April 1949 pic.twitter.com/UtTu2bbXul
— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) April 13, 2024
The recent developments surrounding the Pakistani Muslim Grooming Gangs (sugar coated word for Rape gangs) is proving every mole of Christopher Hitchens speculations. Since a few days, the debate upon the Pakistani gang of sexual perverts has gained every limelight be it on social media or UK’s parliament. The debate ignited with the push of prominent figures like Elon Musk who expressed his concerns for the young children who are being groomed and poured with the worst of the sexual atrocities by the gang comprising Pakistani Muslim men. The concerns held the internet following the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) sentencing of seven Pakistani-origin Muslim men for child sex abuse offenses in Rotherham.
But what came as a reaction to these concerns are shocking to human society. Instead of every citizen be it of any gender, religion or ethnicity battling the concerning issue and condemning the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs commiting the worst of the acts against children, the Islamo-Leftist ecosystem resorted to muddle up everything and to brush the happenings under the carpet. Those who highlighted the concerning subject, were portrayed as Islamophobic, racist and xenophobic. Allegations were charged upon the ‘far-right’ of spreading hatred, racism and Islamophobia since they cared about the little girls who suffered at the hands of the worst of the creatures. Moreover, Islamophobia was also used as a weapon to undermine the actions against the grooming gangs.
A motion by the UK’s opposition Conservative Party on the 8th of January, to initiate a national inquiry into grooming gangs was decisively rejected by the government led by the Labour Party at the House of Commons as the party ‘feared’ that it might surge notions against the Muslims.
The Labour government of the UK had also rejected a plea by Oldham Council for a national inquiry into grooming gangs even though The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) revealed an 82% rise in online grooming offences over the past five years. Back in 2017 Labour MP Sarah Champion was termed Islamophobic and racist and was forced to resign from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet after she revealed the Pakistani Muslim identity of the perpetrators of Grooming Jihad.
Strikingly, even notorious figure like Andrew Tate, who converted to Islam, succinctly noted that the facade of Islamophobia is put up only to make one ignore the truth and scare them with ostracisation to force silence.
Racist, Islamaphobic, Anti Semetic, Misogynistic, Homophobic, Transphobic etc
These are the words they use to make you IGNORE THE TRUTH.
To IGNORE your God given pattern recognition.
They scare you with ostracisation to force silence.
They write subjective definitions into…
— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) January 8, 2025
The endless self victimisation of crying “Islamaphobia” everytime valid concerns are made is ridiculous.
You would struggle to find a more accommodating nation than the UK.
Its disingenious.
It is self destructive and garners resentment.
Everybody, of every religion and… https://t.co/yKoJJpOxT9
— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) January 8, 2025
In a plethora of cases, it becomes glaringly visible even to naked eyes that Islamophobia is used as a weapon to cover up the worst Islamist crimes and therefore people have started surging to fight the ‘shielding term’. Not only did ordinary netizens but important personalities too have come up to expose the facade put up in the name of Islamophobia.
Elon Musk reacted to one of the tweets that questioned the credibility of Islamophobia. The tweet said, “Ever heard of Christianphobia? Sikhphobia? Hinduphobia? Me neither. Interesting isn’t it”. The co-founder of Tesla endorsed the tweet and questioned why we don’t hear the use of the term ‘phobia’ for other religions but Islam.
Good point. Why is that? https://t.co/QAM5y16d3Z
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2025
Researcher and activist Khaled Hassan in his tweet lashed out at Journalist Piers Morgan for calling Tommy Robinson an Islamophobe and highlighted that everyone has got the right to dislike any religion and their voice can’t be curtailed.
Piers Morgan tells us that “Islamophobic means having, or showing, a dislike of, or prejudice against Islam”.
So, if you don’t like Islam, you are a racist Islamophobe.
This is the most dangerous moment in Western civilisation. This is precisely what the majority of us fear,… https://t.co/AAzVnYZVnH
— Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah) January 7, 2025
Journalist and activist Tommy Robinson who was among the first to uncover the grooming gangs instances in Great Britain too has called ‘Islamophobia’ a bogus term as the term translates to irrational fear of Islam and people don’t fear Islamists, who adhere to scriprutual overlook of the religion, and by extension Islam out of nothing. According to Tommy Robinson the people have got every right to fear Islam given the violence it comes out with.
Journalist Tom Harwood came up to highlight how the Islamo-Leftist ecosystem has been using the term Islamophobia to undermine the intensity of the Pakistani Muslim Grooming Gangs. Tom Harwood showed how the 2018 definition of Islamophobia co-chaired by Anna Soubry and Wes Streeting places the words grooming gangs in inverted commas, and suggests these gangs are far right conspiracies.
The 2018 definition of Islamophobia co-chaired by Anna Soubry and Wes Streeting (and adopted by the Labour Party), places the words grooming gangs in inverted commas, and suggests these gangs are far right conspiracies.
It suggests highlighting these gangs is anti-Muslim racism. pic.twitter.com/di5ZA5FyVc
— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) January 8, 2025
As the matter of Pakistani Muslim rape Gangs is becoming a hot potato for a relatively nascent Keir Starmer government, let us look at what the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom say about Islam as a religion.
The former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who led the nation to its World War 2 victory, Winston Churchill portrayed Islam as a religion that is full of intolerance. His views on Islam are prominently reflected in his writings from the late 19th century. In ‘The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898)’, he described the Muslim faith as one that “increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance.” He argued that Islam was originally propagated by the sword and suggested that its followers were often consumed by religious zeal, abandoning rational considerations.
In The River War (1899), Churchill wrote that “the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries” include “fanatical frenzy” and “fatalistic apathy,” which he believed led to improvidence, insecurity, and social stagnation. He criticized the treatment of women in Islamic societies, where he viewed them as absolute property, and noted that this dynamic delayed the progress of civilization.
