Rising racist Islamophobia in West - II

-Dr. Abdul Ruff

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Muslims - the prime target of Islamophobia

Today entire world stinks with anti-Islam strategies by enemies of Islam. Economically and militarily strong Western powers lead the anti-Muslim trends.

Islamophobia, though is targeted mainly against Muslims, the phenomenon is also exploited to terrorize even non-Muslims and keep them under complete police/military control.

When it comes to Islamophobia USA does not in fact differ from Europe.  Both pursue same or similar anti-Muslim policies, where their joint military block NATO attacks oil rich Muslim nations for controlling their wealth along with oil routes and slaving the people.

European Islamophobia

Many European countries have stepped up anti-Islam tirade by restricting Islamic practices like veil, beard, minarets, call for prayers, building  of new mosques, and many governments have fined women for wearing veil and even judges refused to listen to them in courts  for that reasons because they see veil as an insult to open societies.

There has been a 300% spike in Islamophobic hate crimes in Britain since horrific Paris attacks with most victims being Muslim women wearing traditional Islamic dress. A report to the British government's working group on anti-Muslim hatred shows a spike in Islamophobic hate crime of more than 300 %, to 115, in the week following the killings on November 13 in France, The Independent reported.

Apparently, enemies of Islam and Muslims, in order to terrorize Muslims  and others,  attack Muslims  in terror carnages and yet blame the Muslims for the terror attacks.  Media guys perpetrate anti-Islamic tirades to make non-Muslims hate and hit Muslims the worst possible manners. As hapless minority community Muslims  suffer and face continuous threats from majority  populations. .

Most victims of the UK hate crimes were Muslim girls and women aged from 14 to 45 in traditional Islamic dress. Muslims living in Britain have suffered more than 100 racial attacks since the terrorist atrocities in Paris.  The perpetrators were mainly white males aged from 15 to 35. The figures were compiled by the Tell Mama helpline, which records incidents of verbal and physical attacks on Muslims and mosques in the UK.

They are likely to be a significant underestimate of the total, as many victims are too frightened to contact police or community groups. The Independent  report said a large number of the reported attacks were in public places, including on buses and trains. Thirty-four victims were women wearing the hijab, while eight involved young children.  Many of the victims have suggested that no one came to their assistance or even consoled them, meaning that they felt victimized, embarrassed, alone and angry about what had taken place against them. Sixteen of the victims even mentioned that they would be fearful of going out in the future and that the experiences had affected their confidence," the report to the government's working group states.

Out of these cases on public transport, eight involved young children who had heard the comments against their mothers, and their mothers said their children had seen them being fearful as perpetrators took aggressive physical postures against them.

In one recent case in London a young girl wearing a hijab was abused on a Tube train. A man described how the girl, sitting opposite him, was subjected to a racist rant from another man. In another case, a mother pulled her young daughter out of school in Edinburgh, claiming anti-Islamic bullying had intensified in the wake of the Paris attacks.

The bullying has got worse since the Paris attacks. Nobody deserves to be treated like Muslims have has been, a mother of two children was quoted as saying. 

American Islamophobia

Political parties worldwide, especially in the USA and Europe, employ Islamophobia   to coerce the vulnerable majority sections to vote for the major capitalist parties.  

The Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has shamelessly used Islamophobia as a prime toll to outsmart the ruling democratic party and to woo the highly educated and even “cultured” US voters. Donald Trump, a Zionist supporter and a powerful arms agent,  has proposed to deny  Muslims entry into USA.

Trump’s call for the United States to ban Muslims from entering the country disqualified him from becoming president and called on Republicans to reject him immediately.

The White House on December 08 2015 denounced  Donald Trump’s poll mischief. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Trump's campaign had a "dustbin of history" quality to it and said his comments were offensive and toxic. Earnest said other Republican presidential candidates, who have pledged to support the person who eventually wins their party's nomination, should disavow Trump "right now."

What Donald Trump has said amount s to instigate the Americans to fight Muslims in the streets and goes against the US constitution and America’s core values. The first thing that a US president does when he or she takes the oath of office is swear an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

Earnest said that the fact is that what Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from being president. For Republican candidates to stand by their pledge to support Trump is wrong and anti-American, that in and of itself is disqualifying.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump defended his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, comparing his plan to the World War Two detainment of Japanese-Americans and others in dismissing growing outrage from around the world.

Many American leaders from both political parties, the prime ministers of France and the United Kingdom, the UN, and Muslim residents of Asian countries all denounced the nasty comments by Trump, the Republican front-runner for the November 2016 presidential election.

But the real-estate mogul Trump said with pretentious emotional appeal that his ideas were no worse than those of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who oversaw the detention of more than 110,000 people in US government camps after Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.  Trump claimed: "What I'm doing is no different than FDR," Trump said on ABC's "Good Morning America" program. "We have no choice but to do this," he said. "We have people that want to blow up our buildings, our cities. We have to figure out what's going on." 

Making Muslims as enemies of USA, Trump called for blocking Muslims, including would-be immigrants, students, tourists and other visitors, from entering the country following last week's California shooting spree  supposedly by two Muslims.

It was the most dramatic response by a presidential candidate following the San Bernardino, California, rampage, even as other Republicans have called for a suspension of President Barack Obama's plan to allow in some refugees from Syria.

Backlash quickly came from all corners. In the social media reaction, hashtags such as #racism, #fascism and #bigot trended heavily after Trump's proposal on Monday. The Philadelphia Daily News put a photo of Trump with his right arm extended on its cover with the headline "The New Furor," a play on Adolf Hitler's title - fuhrer - in Nazi Germany. Critics said Trump's plan would likely be unconstitutional for singling out people based on their religion.

Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson told MSNBC the US Constitution does not apply to Muslims and non-citizens.

Many top Republicans warned that if Trump is the party's nominee, his stance could hurt in a general election against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. "Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton's Christmas gift wrapped up under a tree," another Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said on Twitter. US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, a Republican, told reporters the plan was "not conservatism." But he said he would support the party's presidential nominee.

Democrats, meanwhile, blamed Republicans for Trump's fanaticism and extreme language and warned it could help him with primary voters. "Donald Trump is standing on the platform of hate, and, I'm sorry to say, hate that the Republican Party has built for him," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat. Huma Abedin, a top aide to Clinton, sent a fundraising email declaring her own Muslim faith. "Unfortunately, Trump is leaning into the kind of fear of progress that very well could help him win the nomination," Abedin wrote. That is indeed American shame.

Polls have shown a stark divide between Republicans and Democrats in how they view Muslims. Outrage also came from abroad. In France, where shootings and suicide bombings on Nov. 13 in Paris killed 130 people, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Twitter, "Trump, like others, is feeding hatred and misinformation."

A spokeswoman for British Prime Minister David Cameron called Trump's comments "divisive, unhelpful and quite simply wrong." A group started a petition to revoke Trump's honorary degree from Robert Gordon University in Scotland.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rejected Trump's comments, and Muslims in Pakistan and Indonesia also denounced him.

Trump warned repeatedly that an attack on the scale of Sept-11, 2001hoax, could happen again if officials do not act first. He said that he did not know how long a ban would remain in place and that Muslim Americans would be allowed into the country after overseas trips. Trump told MSNBC that people would be asked about their religion at US borders and that the ban would extend to Muslim leaders of other nations. He said he would not support internment camps. He wants to stop foreign Muslim dignitaries also to visit USA for any reason. He prefers to make USA an exclusively Christian nation to make a perfect ally of Jewish criminal Israel. 

Some observers poked fun at Trump. British author J.K. Rowling wrote that Voldemort, the archvillain of her popular Harry Potter series, "was nowhere near as bad" as Trump. The Democratic mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, Rick Kriseman, said in a tongue-in-cheek tweet that he was barring Trump from visiting the city. "I am hereby barring Donald Trump from entering St. Petersburg until we fully understand the dangerous threat posed by all Trumps," Kriseman wrote. 

Notwithstanding the protests from important people against Trump outrage against Muslims, Islam and modern civilization, the damage has been done by him to US image by his insane statements meant for votes. 

Hate politics by western politicians and Islamophobia mischief by their media lords, aided by Jews enjoying life in USA and Europe, who want to reap all benefits from Christian-Muslim conflicts, have badly vitiated the societal atmosphere in terms of peace and real friendship among Christians and Muslims. Pope has called for genuine dialogue between these major communities for a better communication in future.

By trying to slash Muslim populations through fascist militarism by state- cum media onslaughts, the western imperialist powers are not going to gain anything.  After all, religions should help people serve the God almighty.