Is It Racist, Xenophobic, and Imperialist to Criticize Islam? You may not criticize Islam. You do not speak Arabic. You don't come from a Muslim society. You are a white supremacist, imperialist xenophobe and you don't like foreign, brown people." So Islam's apologists insist. Brooklyn activist Linda Sarsour epitomizes this strategy for suppressing critique of Islam. My hijab is my hoodie," she insisted, in a 2.

CNN op- ed. With the "hoodie" reference, Sarsour explicitly linked herself with Trayvon Martin, a young black male who scuffled with, and was shot by George Zimmerman in February, 2. Sarsour's implication is that white supremacy motivated Zimmerman's shooting of Martin. By extension, Sarsour insists that white supremacists want to hurt her because she wears hijab. Sarsour also linked herself to Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi- American who was beaten to death in her own home in March, 2.

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Sarsour insisted that Alawadi's murder was a hate crime committed by white supremacists who don't like foreign, brown people. Sarsour knows that Americans feel guilty and sad about slavery and Jim Crow, and that they tiptoe to avoid any racist comment.

She knows that Americans fear being called "racist." A parasite of unearned pity, Sarsour lifts the mantle of protection cast over speech about African Americans, and worms her way beneath it. Rachel Dolezal can only weep with envy at this Caucasian woman's success at positioning herself as a victim of white racism. That Sarsour parades as the same kind of victim as the descendants of slaves is an extraordinary coup, given the outsize historical role of Arab Muslims in the enslavement of not just of Africans, but of Europeans and Americans as well, and given Arab racism against blacks, whom they label "abid," or slave. Sarsour's rebranding of her hijab as a feminist symbol is also a fabulous marketing coup, one that really should be taught in business schools.

In many Muslim- majority countries, women can be harassed, tortured, raped or murdered for not wearing hijab. UC Riverside creative writing professor Reza Aslan agreed with Sarsour. In a March, 2. 01. Aslan blamed "Islamophobic f - - - s" for Shaima Alawadi's death. Other activists mounted "A Million Hijabs for Shaima" and "Hoodies and Hijabs for Justice" demonstrations and Facebook pages.

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Investigation revealed that Shaimi Alawadi had been bludgeoned to death by her husband. Kassim Alhimidi faked an Islamophobic hate crime to cover his own, misogynist, tracks. One can find compilations of such faked hate crimes here, here and here. It is impossible not to conclude that concentrated effort has been exerted to demonize any honest critic of Islam as a white supremacist xenophobe who is likely to commit a hate crime against Muslims.

There are several problems with Islam- apologist dogma that any criticism of Islam is motivated by white supremacy and xenophobic hatred of foreign, brown people, and their insistence that criticism of Islam is linked to hate crimes against Muslims. The most obvious problem: America and the West host millions of foreign, brown Hindus, Buddhists, and Confucians. There is no real threat of "Hindu- phobia," "Buddhist- phobia," or "Confucian- phobia." Rather, Hindu guru Deepak Chopra, Buddhist reincarnate Dalai Lama, and Confucius- inspired Tiger Moms are beloved. Mahatma Gandhi has achieved virtual saint status – indeed Gandhi's image graces the cover of Robert Ellsberg's All Saints, a Catholic publication. Clearly, Islam is different from Hindusim, Confucianism, and Buddhism. Clearly, the problem is not the foreign- ness or brown- ness of Muslims. There is a villain, an antagonist, a bad guy here, and that bad guy is not a white supremacist.

Former and current Muslims, many of them foreign and brown, have produced a library of critiques of Islam that agree in every respect with non- Muslim critiques of Islam. There is a significant enough body of literature by those raised in Muslim cultures thoroughly to indict Islam on every count raised by non- Muslim critics. Both Muslim- raised critics of Islam and non- Muslim critics of Islam speak as one voice. Both groups agree that jihad and gender apartheid are problematical aspects of Islam. Both Muslim- born and non- Muslim critics point to the exact same Koran verses, hadiths, history and cultural trends.

These facts are not racist, nor are these facts dependent on the culture of the speaker for their truth value. Ibn Warraq was born in India; his Muslim family joined the mass exodus to Pakistan after its founding in 1. Local educational options were limited to madrassas, so Warraq's father sent him to the UK for schooling. He studied Islam at the graduate level with the influential scholar William Montgomery Watt. The 1. 98. 9 fatwa ordering the death of author Salman Rushdie was a turning point for Warraq. Even nice Muslims insisted to him that Rushdie must be killed, and even Westerners who were quick to criticize Christianity refused to critique Islam or defend Rushdie. Warraq, who had been a shy child, and an apolitical teacher and businessman, began to publish Islam- critical articles.

In the three decades since; his activity has been wide- ranging, and it includes publishing Why I Am Not a Muslim in 1. Ali Sina was "raised in Iran, educated in Pakistan and Italy and now lives in Canada." He has run Faith Freedom since October, 2. This website is an exhaustive, fully documented indictment of jihad and gender apartheid. He describes himself as "probably the biggest anti- Islam person alive." He challenges anyone to debunk a single one of his claims.

If his detractors can prove him wrong on any point, including that Mohammed was "a narcissist, a misogynist, a rapist, a pedophile, a lecher, a torturer, a mass murderer, a cult leader, an assassin, a terrorist, a mad man and a looter," he will pay them $5. His website remains up, and his prize remains in the bank, because no one can refute Ali Sina on the facts. Rather, they attack him as a person. People have to dismiss me some way, they have to put me down in one way or another. I'm a Jew, I'm a Christian, I'm a Hindu. I'm whatever people want to say in order to discredit me. But they can't ignore my questions." Wafa Sultan is a Syrian- American psychiatrist.

As a child, she witnessed the heartbreaking mistreatment of her formidable grandmother, mistreatment that was sanctioned by Islamic gender apartheid. As a doctor, Sultan had a front- row seat to horrors, including encountering a female patient who had been raped by men who used a drinking glass as a prophylactic. Sultan's niece killed herself after she, at age 1. Sultan cites Koran verses and hadiths that support gender apartheid in her 2. A God Who Hates. Nonie Darwish is the loving, salty, no- nonsense, Egyptian grandmother we all might wish we had.

She lived her first thirty years as a Muslim in Egypt, the daughter of Colonel Mustafa Hafez. Hafez founded and oversaw the fedayeen group who killed Israeli civilians between 1. When Darwish was eight years old, her father was assassinated by Israel. She grew up hating and blaming Israel. No one can escape the overwhelming anti- Semitic propaganda and the venomous hatred that my culture of origin advocated against Jews," she says. How did a girl who grew up hearing lurid folklore of how Israelis would entertain themselves by killing pregnant Arab women become a critic of Islam?

The seeds of change were sown in her childhood. She got used to mosque sermons that called for death to Christians and Jews. One day, over a loudspeaker, she heard such a sermon in the presence of a Christian friend. May God destroy the infidels and the Jews, the enemies of God. We are not to befriend them or make treaties with them," the amplified imam raged.

My friend looked scared, and I was ashamed," Darwish reports. Watch The Secret Village Putlocker more. She immigrated to the US.

I owe my change to America." 9- 1. Darwish. "When I pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States I took this pledge to heart and I decided to speak out of respect for the 3,0.