What Lies Beneath the Murky Surface

Race hate is what lies beneath the Islamophobic rhetoric that abounds in the United States and elsewhere. But race hate can no longer be openly expressed, so it has been repackaged as an enlightened "concern for the rights of women and minorities under despotic Muslim rule."


Since careful analysis of actual case histories of the alleged effects of "despotic Muslim rule" upon the lives of particular women and the members of specific minority groups are rarely adduced to support such rhetoric, it is extremely difficult to offer any sort of cogent response to it--or even to know precisely what is being claimed.

And so it goes, on and on, in the dark echo chamber of bigoted opinion. Meanwhile, Christofascism and Zionazism are normalized--though rarely, if ever, named.