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By: Kathleen Brush Ph.D.
December 20, 2021
Excerpted from her upcoming book
R********ns for All for None

Co-sponsored by Ilhan Oman, on December 14, the House passed the Combating International Islamophobia Act. The bill calls on the United States to tackle the “global problem of anti-Muslim bigotry.”

During the 2015 European Migrant Crisis hundreds of thousands of Muslim asylees and refugees from the Middle East and North Africa came to Europe. Thousands of Europeans rallied against Islamophobia. It caused many to wonder if their fear was irrational, but it was hard to reconcile. At least 104 Islamist extremists entered the European Union (EU) as refugees between 2014 and 2018. This coincided with 28 successful terrorist attacks in the EU, including the 2016 Christmas market massacre in Germany. In all attacks combined, 170 people were k**led and 878 wounded. Another 37 Muslim militants were arrested or k**led plotting attacks, and 39 others were arrested for illegal participation in a foreign terrorist organization. Most of the terrorists had applied for asylum, refuge, or other form of international protection. Processing their applications allowed them to live in Europe on average for 11 months before being arrested. The Center for Immigration Studies noted that the asylum process permits time for asylees to plot and execute terrorist activities.

Unprecedented terrorism in Europe was accompanied by a 50% increase in h**e crimes against Christians between 2015 and 2020. Christians are now the number one victim of h**e crimes in Europe.

Americans rally against Islamophobia too. The American media portrays Muslim’s inflicting terror on Christians as isolated incidents. Even these incidents are attributed to “grievances, poverty, territorial disputes…The type that does not represent “true” Islam.” These wayward Muslims, they reason, are another group oppressed by white Christians. But incidents are not isolated and not limited to terror. “The phenomenon of Muslim persecution of Christians is real: it’s unwavering, constant, systematic and systemic, and it conforms to sharia-approved patterns — meaning its root source is Islam.” For decades and continuing into the present “Christians have experienced less “spectacular” forms of persecution at the hands of Muslims who are not “professional” terrorists, including Muslim individuals, mobs, clerics, and of course Muslim authorities at every level of state (police, local governors, judges, etc.).”

Escalating h**e crimes against Christians makes sense. Europe has found that radicalized Muslims in Europe are the children and grandchildren of Muslim immigrants that feel out of place in western nations. America may already be experiencing the same. Somali refugees were being welcomed in the early 2000s. Since 2007, there have been 23 and 17 documented cases of Somali Americans joining or trying to join Al Shabaab and ISIS respectively. When the terrorists were sentenced, Somali Americans called the verdict r****t. Somali American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar pleaded for compassion with the sentencing judge. She pitched that Americans incarcerating Somali collaborators trivialize their value and encourage them to be martyrs for the cause, and she asked Americans to demonstrate their enlightenment by treating Muslim-American terrorists with the same compassion given to drug addicts.

Shortly after Afghan refugees began arriving in the United States it was reported that some refugees were traveling with child brides. In almost all states in the United States a girl must be 18 to marry. In Afghanistan a marriage can be consummated at age nine. Then several refugees were charged with crimes. At two different military bases male refugees were charged with forced sex with girls under 16, choking and suffocating a disobedient wife, and a gang assault on a female service member. Later a woman in Montana was allegedly raped by an Afghan parolee. In Afghanistan all of these are legal, even forced sex if not accompanied by four willing witnesses.

Should Americans be asked to support a global movement to end the fear of Muslims? Or is this something that Muslims that desire living in the majority-Christian west need to address? In the early to mid-20th century Muslim-majority nations in the Middle East and Africa were being pressured to treat Christians equally. Instead, they strongly encouraged them to emigrate. America is different; we welcome all. Different ethnoreligious groups have been immigrating to America since the 17th century. All of them knew that securing American freedoms and opportunities required them to embrace American values and to identify as Americans. Until they did, they would be feared because they were different. Why should Muslims be different?

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