Soros Funded "Islamophobia" Report Debunked

Another fisking of the Soros funded fake report which smears critics of jihad.

Via Israpundit:

Smear, Inc.: Silencing the Critics of Islamic Supremacism Assyrian International News Agency 15 September 2011

The recently released report “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America,” from the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP), purports to expose a sinister network of American “Islamophobes” funded by a “flood of cash” who manufacture conspiracy theories about Islam, spread hate and bigotry against all Muslim-Americans, and inspire violence toward them, all for financial and political gain. But in fact, the very concept of Islamophobia is manufactured propaganda used by the subversive Muslim Brotherhood and their leftist support network to demonize and silence critics of Islamic fundamentalism.

The authors of “Fear, Inc.” are counting on its impressive length (138 pages), cascades of footnotes, a few three-color graphics, and professionally glossy cover to convince readers that it is thoroughly sourced, unbiased and undeniable proof of their thesis. Stephen Walt at Foreign Policy, to name one, seems to have been convinced, calling it “a remarkable piece of investigative work” and then parroting its ludicrous accusation that, instead of the threat of radical Islam, “what we are really facing is a well-funded right-wing collaboration to scare the American people with a bogeyman of their own creation.” A bogeyman of their own creation? It takes an impressive degree of ideological self-delusion to convince oneself that Islamic extremism is a mere chimera of the right.

Although there are dozens and dozens of serious, qualified critics of Muslim fundamentalism, the report hones in on five figures it deems to be the central nervous system of this Islamophobic”network:

• Frank Gaffney at the Center for Security Policy.

• David Yerushalmi at the Society of Americans for National Existence.

• Daniel Pipes at the Middle East Forum.

• Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch and Stop Islamization of America.

• Steven Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

The report also targets other perpetrators whom they label “the validators” and “the activists,” as well as miscellaneous “misinformation experts,” “political players,” “right-wing media,” and “grassroots organizations and the religious right.” The focus of this response will remain on the principal players that the report targets for their “Islamophobia.”

The authors of the report claim that “due in part to the relentless efforts of this small group of individuals and organizations, Islam is now the most negatively viewed religion in America.” Some of that negativity may indeed stem from these individuals and organizations educating people about unsettling aspects of Islam that they were unaware of before, aspects that contradict the Left’s (and many on the Right’s) mantra that Islam is a Religion of Peace.

It couldn’t be possible that the more than 17,000 islamic terrorist attacks around the world, the beheadings, “honor” murders, persecution and murder of non-muslims in muslim majority countries etc. all contribute to the negative view of islam. According to this joke of a report, it is all as a result of the efforts of the above men.

to demonize these falsely labeled “Islamophobes” as a “small band of radical ideologues” and “misinformation experts” who are intentionally “mischaracterizing Islam,”

I guess most of the world’s muslims, who support the implementation of sharia law, are also mischaracterizing islam.

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