The term “Islamophobia” is an illegitimate conflation of two distinct phenomena: crimes against innocent Muslims, or discrimination against them, neither of which is ever justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology of jihad terror, which is always necessary.
Islamic advocacy groups and their Leftist allies have been insisting for years that such analysis, too, constituted “Islamophobia.” And they mean to silence it and force the West to adopt what are in essence Sharia blasphemy restrictions.
You can see that in the report below: it starts out by speaking about “hate crimes against Muslims,” which are always wrong, and ends up implying that a restriction of “anti-Muslim rhetoric” is needed. The problem with that is that truthful and honest speech about jihad violence has been smeared for two decades now as “anti-Muslim rhetoric.”
“Islamophobia in Europe is at a ‘tipping point’, new report warns,” TRT World, December 30, 2021:
According to a new study, the pandemic, far from reducing anti-Muslim hate crimes has accelerated some of the worst narratives against Islam and Muslims.
A new report on Islamophobia in Europe has warned that hate crimes against Muslims in the continent have “worsened, if not reached a tipping point,” over the last two years.
The pandemic resulted in relatively fewer physical attacks on Muslims and their places of worship, but that didn’t result in less hate speech. Instead, according to the authors, there was an increase in online hate speech, which has longer-term implications for how Islamophobia is tackled across the continent.
According to this year’s report on Islamophobia, France’s systemic pressure on Muslims has resulted in unprecedented “increasing number of police searches, threats of eviction, as well as mosques and school closures, including the dissolution of a humanitarian NGO and a human rights organisation defending Muslims in France against racism and discrimination.”
When put together these actions, the report warned, “threatened the fundamental freedoms of Muslims.”