“The goal is to really underscore how the war on terror is so rooted in Islamophobia and to really lift up the story of the ways that Muslims have been impacted.”
The irony here is that for the most part, the “war on terror” scrupulously avoided even the appearance of “Islamophobia” by dissembling about and deflecting from the motivating ideology that underlay the 9/11 jihad attacks. The Obama administration’s entire counterterror program, for example, was called Countering Violent Extremism, and never mention Islam or jihad in the context of terrorism at all. Bush, Obama and numerous other American officials repeatedly denied that Islam was anything but peaceful. But now Maha Hilal is here to tell us that the war on terror was “rooted in Islamophobia.” Pull my other leg.
“We hope this visual representation will help people understand the war on terror has almost exclusively targeted Muslims.”
We hope there are some sane people somewhere who will remember that 9/11 and the 35,000 jihad attacks worldwide since then almost exclusively targeted non-Muslims and Muslims who were considered to belong to the wrong sect.
“Every single time I read one of the event’s descriptions, I would just be horrified….it was so grim … it was difficult to read about these things that were happening to my people…”
For a second I thought she was referring to the 9/11 attacks.
“Visual timeline project traces ‘underlying Islamophobia’ in war on terror,” by Aysha Khan, Religion News Service, September 11, 2019:
On the 18-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that set off the ongoing global war on terror, a new visual timeline seeks to document the U.S. policies and programs that Muslim and civil rights activists say have resulted in major encroachments on human rights.
“The goal is to really underscore how the war on terror is so rooted in Islamophobia and to really lift up the story of the ways that Muslims have been impacted,” said Maha Hilal, a researcher on the war on terror and co-director of the Justice for Muslims Collective who directed the yearlong effort to produce the timeline.
“We don’t have the resources to create a whole museum, but we hope this visual representation will help people understand the war on terror has almost exclusively targeted Muslims,” Hilal said, noting that the timeline highlights the “underlying Islamophobia” linking nearly two decades of torture, immigration crackdowns, surveillance overreaches and more.
Illustrator Zaynub Siddiqui and graphic designer Maura Dwyer from The Sanctuaries DC, a community space for artists and activists that includes several Muslim members, illustrated and designed the 19 panels that comprise the timeline.
The resulting exhibition, “Shattering Justice & Re-Making the Muslim Threat: A Visual Timeline,” will open in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 11. Attendees will also hear a talk from Hilal on dismantling “the expanding apparatus of state violence,” a workshop by The Sanctuaries on cultural organizing, as well as parts of speeches by Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush related to the U.S.-led global campaign against terrorism.
“This is not about Trump,” Hilal added. “Trump is just building off the infrastructure that was perpetuated by Obama and pushed through by Bush.”
Events on the timeline include the campaign against Afghanistan and authorization for use of military force in 2001; the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and the signing of the so-called Torture Memos in 2002; the 2004 release of photographs showing abuse and torture of Abu Ghraib prison inmates; the murder of journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi last year; the Supreme Court’s controversial February ruling against a Muslim death row inmate seeking to have an imam at his execution; and Trump’s July veto of congressional resolutions that sought to block his administration from selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates without Congress’ approval.
As she illustrated the 100-plus events on the timeline with just a pencil, a black marker and white paper, Siddiqui said she was struck by just how “emotionally straining” the process was.
“Every single time I read one of the event’s descriptions, I would just be horrified,” she said. “I could have finished it earlier but it was so grim … it was difficult to read about these things that were happening to my people, to our ummah (community), and realize that this was planned.”…
Jaladhi says
Hey, news for you Ms. Truthteller – 19 Muslims from Saudi Arabia and Egypt were the terrorits who attacked USA. Got it – its not Islamophobia, its the truth and nothing but the truth, now live with it! Lear the truth about your religion of peace and come out of your delusion about it!
mortimer says
Here we go again … conflating criticism of a political IDEOLOGY with discrimination against people.
We are allowed to criticize socialism, communism, fascism and Hitlerism and Pol-Potism, so why may we not criticize ISLAMISM?
Islamism is the ideology of Islamic supremacism and the methodology of imposing Sharia law on the nations without their consent. Islamism is a totalitarian ideology sharing anti-freedom tendencies shared by other totalitarian ideologies … such as censorship.
Aysha Khan wants to impose Sharia censorship by using modern, secular human rights language, even though Islamism is THEOCRATIC and non-secular, because, in Islamism, there is no separation between the mosque and the Islamic state.
Nice try, you taqiyya-artist. You insult our intelligence.
Khan, you are actually drawing attention to the fact that your Death Cult and Misogyny Cult and Censorship Cult is INCOMPATIBLE with liberal, pluralistic democracy.
Khan, we have free speech. In your censorship cult, you don’t.
Kay says
She made a timeline about Islamophobia? It’s a great set-up for someone to overlay a timeline of Muslim attacks on the world.
Veracious_one says
1400 years of attacks
mortimer says
Muslims like Aysha Khan realize that Islam is so backward that it cannot compete in the free market of ideas, so it must have ‘special’ rules to protect its absurdities from criticism.
In fact, Aysha Khan knows that Islam cannot be defended historically (Islam is ahistorical), morally (Islam is amoral and opportunistic) or logically (Islam is self-referentially incoherent).
For those reasons, Islam always loses whenever the issues of Islam are debated with a knowledgeable critic like Robert Spencer.
Aysha Khan hasn’t the guts to debate with Robert Spencer. She’s a name-calling coward.
mortimer says
Bill Maher: “Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas.”
James Lincoln says
I’m not trying to be picky, but I think that this was Sam Harris…
Angemon says
It was Harris on Maher’s show, featuring dhimmi extraordinaire, Ben “that’s disgusting, that’s racist” Affleck. Then, after facing pushback, spineless Harris backtracked and said he “misspoke” for saying “the” instead of “a”.
somehistory says
Such stupid sleaze.
moslim-think (group think by moslims) The rancid meat, rotten to the core, makes everyone who eats it ill. When this happens, throw out the fresh vegetables and everyone who eats the rancid meat will get well.
moslims commit terror. molsims ‘research….for a year, yet…and find that the efforts to stop terror focuses on those who commit terror” and then complain that it is a “phobia’ about islam-o that causes the authorities to focus on those committing the terror…moslims.
Everything must be blamed on this contrived “phobia” of islam-o. This is the scheme to get everyone to stop reporting on the evil that moslims do, to stop talking about the evil that moslims plan on doing, and the evil that is based in the religion itself…without which evil, it would not exist. And to make the authorities stop holding moslims accountable for the terror they commit.
They demand that if anyone sees them committing an act of terror, hears about an act being planned or that it has been carried out, this must not be presented to anyone, but they’ll take money for their “research” and “outreach” to their community.
islam…the rancid religion from satan that makes me sick.
mortimer says
Bottom line: Islam is incompatible with secular pluralism. No amount of name-calling will change that.
The propaganda term ‘Islamophobia’ is an attempt to distract people from seeing the backwardness of Islam.
elee says
+1. Make that last phrase read aggressive supremacist backwardness of Islam.
gravenimage says
Islam is incompatible with everything that is not Islam.
FYI says
The war ON Terror is the infidel response to
……The islamic War OF terror which is coming from…
1) following the sunnah of muhammed
“I have been made victorious through Terror”
Bukhari 4:52:220
2)following the violent teachings of the koran
“We shall cast TERROR into the hearts of those who disbelieve because they ascribe unto allah partners”
koran 3:151
One of many koranic commands to terrorize and kill non-muslims;it is directed at Christians.
Note that is theologically wrong:The Christian concept of the Trinity is MONOTHEISTIC,not polytheistic and does not involve ascribing partners to God:that’s not it!
muslims will laugh and say “..haha look at these christians with their 3 gods..”
{how can 1+1+1=1?they say…..but It’s really more 1x1x1=1..never mind..}
3}following the example of 1,400 years of islamic war,jihadism,jizya taxing infidels..and getting away with it a lot of the time{especially today by playing that “islamophobia” card”
Kilauea says
Winston Churchill nailed exactly what Islam is: “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”
gravenimage says
+1
Angemon says
We all know who (the vast majority of) the terrorists are…
End PC says
Don’t tolerate the stupid word “Islamophobia.” If someone uses it in front of you demand that they prove that fear of Islam is irrational, a phobia.
Use the word “Islamononsense.”
Emmie says
I call it Islamorealism.
JHL says
Muhammad said, “Slay them where you may find them; slay and be slain.” On his deathbed Muhammad said,” I have conquered through terror.” Islamaphobia becomes reasonable when one peruses the qur’an and the writings of Islamic scholars.
Walter Sieruk says
First,it needs to be made clear that since 9/11 what is called the “War on Terror” any genuine ,intelligent opposition to Islam and Islam’s violent and deadly jihad is not based on “Islamophobia” but peaceful well researched study on Islam and Islamic terrorism which should have the outcome of valid reasoned and rational criticisms of Islam and even more so a exposé on the ideology of the Islamic terrorism which is based on much of the theology of Islam. Therefore it’s not “Islamophobia ” but Islamorealism.
Second, it’s very important that peaceful ,non- violent Muslims should in not be “targeted,” in any way. For many reasons , one of which is the fact that Muslims are not Islam. Therefore Islam may and should be criticized and exposed for the many errors and falsehood that it has ,such a man will be a critic to Islam may dislike Islam but he may still like the Muslims themselves .He will like them as people but despises the religion that has total mind control over them.
Speaking only for myself , I like Muslims as people but pity them as mind programmed victims of Islam.
J Quinn says
Have to wonder if the vast majority of followers of Islam were Caucasian would the left be so vigilant in defending the religion. Well, I suspect the answer is no considering how everything nowadays is “racialized”
gravenimage says
Interesting point.
Angemon says
Plenty of non-Caucasian, non-muslims murdered by islamic terrorists are ignored by the left… And Tamerlan Tsarnaev had plenty of positive press – a real media darling…
gravenimage says
True, Angemon–this is not all about race.
elee says
Oh and arent Muslims forbidden to portray or depict any living creature? Muslim artist is an oxymoron, one can be either but not both.
James Lincoln says
Since Islam is non-defensible and cannot withstand the scrutiny of factual, evidence-based logic, Muslim apologists, Imams, etc., have to resort to different tactics including:
-Deflecting questions about Islam.
-Attacking the person who asks tough questions about Islam.
-Accusing any person questioning Islam with being an “Islamophobe” – in order to shut down conversation.
I could go on and on, but most Jihad Watch readers get the idea.
Infuriating for truth seekers…
elee says
He who is not an Islamophobe is not paying attention.
Relic says
DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJweLdwtDLY
Battle says
EndPC: “Islamononsense.” Good.
gravenimage says
DC: Muslim researcher complains that war on terror was “rooted in Islamophobia” and “exclusively targeted Muslims”
……………….
How *dare* you ‘filthy Infidels’ object to Jihad terror?
And yes–many Muslims act as though 9/11 was some sort of victimization of Muslims–instead of being an act of savage Jihad.
Battle says
gravenimage hits nail on head. Good.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Battle.
Battle says
There is no god but Mohammad, and Allah is his messenger.
Battle says
There is no god but Mohammad, and Allah is his messanger. –Anjili Pandavar
Battle says
messenger
UNCLE VLADDI says
“Islamophobia” (instilling in its infidel enemies a fear of islam and muslims) is the most officially-desired end-goal of islam itself!
Giacomo Latta says
” the war on terror has almost exclusive targeted muslims”
yes, the same war that has almost exclusively been waged by muslims (and their useful idiots) and has targeted almost exclusively non-muslims. And we are supposed to be thankful,genius?
gravenimage says
Yep.
This would be like saying the war on Nazism has almost exclusively targeted Fascists.