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| − | '''Islamic bigotry''' is a term that has been used to describe radical Islam, Islamic intolerance.
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| − | Already used, at least as early as 1895, to describe the 1453 Turkish-Islamic massacre of Christians.<ref>The Art journal, pp. 77-78, (Virtue and Co., 1895) [http://books.google.com/books?id=eDwcAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA78]</ref>.
| + | '''Islamic bigotry''' is a term that has been embraced by some conservative critics of some Islamic advocates. The purported bigotry is then used to malign Islam in toto, e.g., by [[Pamela Geller]], [[Robert Spencer]], et al. The term is also used together with similar pejorative phrases like Islamofascism or Islamofascist.<ref>A term coined and amply used by Robert Spencer.</ref> |
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| − | In 1924, an Islamic magazine defined it to differentiate it from moderate Islam.<ref>The Islamic review: Volume 12; Volume 12, Khwajah Kamal al-Din, Khwajah Kamal al-Din (1924), p. 412 [http://books.google.com/books?id=lcXRAAAAMAAJ&q=%22islamic+bigotry%22]</ref>
| + | For example, the [[Terrorism Awareness Project]] run by [[Stephen Miller]] at the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]] seeks to cast "islamic bigotry" in US political terms. "The political left has a public relations problem. It is in bed with the Islamo-Fascists who are attacking us. It runs interference for them; it tries to persuade Americans that no threat exists; and it labels anyone who says differently an "Islamo-phobe" and a "racist", it states on its website.<ref>Terrorism Awareness Project, [http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamic-bigotry "Islamic Bigotry"], undated, accessed January 2008.</ref> |
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| − | It was used (in a 1967 book) vis-a-vis Pakistani Islamic motivated bigotry against the Ahmadiya, since, at least 1953.<ref>"India and Pakistan: a political analysis," p. 120 (1967) [http://books.google.com/books?id=1M49AAAAMAAJ&q=%22islamic+bigotry%22]</ref> 1976 author, on <i>pan-Islamic bigotry that the Khilafat had generated.</i><ref>Bankey Bihari Misra, "The Indian political parties: an historical analysis of political behaviour up to 1947," p. 191, (Political Science - Oxford University Press, 1976) [http://books.google.com/books?id=JOOJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22pan-islamic+bigotry%22]</ref> In 1971 on anti-Indian Islamic bigotry.<ref>C. K. Kareem, "What happened in Indian history," p. 98 (1971) [http://books.google.com/books?id=8ChuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22islamic+bigotry%22]</ref> In a 1979 book on Iran, on anti-Bahai bigotry.<ref>Richard W. Cottam , "Nationalism in Iran: updated through 1978, " p. 357 (University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1979) [http://books.google.com/books?id=wHFXD9VV9t4C&pg=PA357]</ref> In 1981, in the (Asian) ''Tribune'' on the motive of Islamists' assassinating Egyptian President A. Sadat.<ref>Tribune, Volume 26, Issues 1-16, p. 24, (Ceylon News Service, 1981) [http://books.google.com/books?id=nUoZAAAAIAAJ&q=%22islamic+bigotry%22]</ref> In 1985, by The [[New York Times]], on Sudan's punishing of a compassionate official who aided Ethiopian Jews to be airlifed to Israel.<ref>[[New York Times]], Topics - Outcasts The Crime of Mercy - Editorial, Jun 12, 1985, <i>The new military rulers of the Sudan apparently consider compassion a crime. They have jailed and are now trying the country's former Vice President, Omar Mohammed el-Tayeb, for aiding the airlift to Israel of some 10,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudanese refugee camps. He is seemingly the scapegoat to be sacrificed to Islamic bigotry.</i> [http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/12/opinion/topics-outcasts-the-crime-of-mercy.html]</ref> In 1988 on Pakistani officers meeting with <i>Assam- based organisations of Islamic bigotry.</i><ref>Edatata Narayanan, Link;: Indian newsmagazine, Volume 30, p. 12, (United India Periodicals., 1988) [http://books.google.com/books?id=bjkTAQAAMAAJ&q=%22islamic+bigotry%22]</ref> In 1996,<ref>Gandhi marg, Volume 18, p. 413, Gandhi Peace Foundation (New Delhi, India, History, 1996) [http://books.google.com/books?id=gGQwAQAAIAAJ&q=%22islamic+bigotry%22]</ref> and 1997, on Islamic bigotry being against "progressive movement of history."<ref>Ali Mohammadi, "International communication and globalization: a critical introduction," p. 127, (SAGE, 1997) [http://books.google.com/books?id=J_wjsOy3t44C&pg=PA12]</ref>
| + | The [[Daily Telegraph]] in August 2008 published an article titled: "Islamic bigotry is still bigotry" regarding the infamous "undercover Mosque" <ref>[http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/undercover+mosque/158390]</ref> documentary on UK's TV Channel 4 that revealed in 2007 purported bigotry preached by mainstream mosques in the UK against non-Muslims.<ref> [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/08/31/dl3102.xml "Islamic bigotry is still bigotry"]</ref>. But the provenance of most of this information came from reports commissioned by [[Policy Exchange]] a neocon think tank and pressure group in the UK.<ref>The reports and documentary were exposed in a October 2007 BBC Newsnight confrontation with Dean Godson. The apparent bias in the documentary and pamphlets was explored, and Godson proved evasive as to the motivation of these documents.</ref> |
| − | In 1998 author used the term on Pakistan's intolerance.<ref>Rajeshwar Dayal, "A life of our times, " p. 321 (Orient Blackswan, 1998) [http://books.google.com/books?id=dZwwTjXT8GEC&pg=PA321]</ref> In 2002, India accused Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) of terrorism in Kashmir and expanding Islamic bigotry.<ref>The Middle East: Abstracts and index: Volume 5; Volume 5, p. 293 (Library Information and Research Service, Library Information and Research Service, 2002) [http://books.google.com/books?&id=MqxtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22islamic+bigotry%22]</ref> In 2002, on the "revival" of Islamic bigotry.<ref>Anthony Crothers Milner, "The invention of politics in colonial Malaya," p. 154 (Cambridge University Press, 2002) [http://books.google.com/books?id=SCLRcnBpGbEC&pg=PA154]</ref> In a 2002 book on Pakistan anti-Christian rampage, Afghanistan and Indonesia.<ref>Adedapo Adeniran, "Nigeria: the case for peaceful and friendly dissolution," (The Futility of the Land Use, 2002) [http://books.google.com/books?id=EKKuU_7NwNkC&pg=PT57]</ref> In a 2003 book by Ahamkaari, in general on Muslim societies and intolerance.<ref>Ahamkaari, "Will I Be Killed: For Writing the Following Contents," p. 7 (iUniverse, 2003) [http://books.google.com/books?id=XULM7GR6GKoC&pg=PA7]</ref> In a 2005 book, on various Islamic entities.<ref>Tony Axon, Sue Hewitt, "Asia and Pacific Report 2005: The Economic and Business Report," p. 38 (Knowledge Books & Software, 2005) [http://books.google.com/books?id=XmquAAAAIAAJ&q=%22islamic+bigotry%22]</ref> In a 2010 book on Iran.<ref>Hugh Hope, "Dining with al-Qaeda: three decades exploring the many worlds of the Middle East," p. 82 { Macmillan, 2010) [http://books.google.com/books?id=XHKthROL0ZwC&pg=PA82]</ref>
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| − | In 2004 Insight Magazine wrote [http://www.insightmag.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=5D3B38F8A2584DB5A77BA05660C6045C&nm=Free+Access&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=2&did=806B6F26BFB04C4889E773AA016A7865&dtxt=2%2F4%2F2002 ] on Osama Bin Laden's doctrine: "Islamic bigotry toward non-Muslims" <ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_4_18/ai_82651661 "Islamic bigotry toward non-Muslims: pundits proclaim that Osama bin Laden's fanatical followers do not practice `true' Islam. But what exactly is the difference between `moderate' and `militant'?"]. Insight on the News / Feb 4, 2002 </ref>
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| − | The [[Daily Telegraph]] in August 2008 published an article titled: "Islamic bigotry is still bigotry" regarding the famous [http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/dispatches/undercover+mosque/158390 undercover Mosque] documentary on UK's TV Channel 4 that revealed in 2007 shocking bigotry preached by mainstream mosques in the UK against non-Muslims.<ref>"Islamic bigotry is still bigotry," Telegraph, 31 Aug 2008 [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/08/31/dl3102.xml]</ref>
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| − | In addition, some conservatives have also adopted the term in recent years. For example, the [[Terrorism Awareness Project]] run by [[Stephen Miller]] at the [[David Horowitz Freedom Center]] seeks to cast "islamic bigotry" in US political terms. "The political left has a public relations problem. It is in bed with the Islamo-Fascists who are attacking us. It runs interference for them; it tries to persuade Americans that no threat exists; and it labels anyone who says differently an "Islamo-phobe" and a "racist", it states on its website.<ref>Terrorism Awareness Project, [http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamic-bigotry "Islamic Bigotry"], undated, accessed January 2008.</ref> Brigitte Gabriel: <i>Having learned lessons from World War II about the price of intolerance and apathy, "are we going to sit by idly and allow Islamic bigotry and hatred to drag the world into another war? We must strengthen our determination to unite and fight to protect our ideological heritage based on liberty, freedom, equality, and respect for one another."</i><ref>Brigitte Gabriel , "They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It," p. 191 (Macmillan, 2010) [http://books.google.com/books?id=2gArREFZ4NMC&pg=PA191]</ref> Or D. West on Ant-Christian, anti-Jewish Islamic bigotry in the 2011 Egyptian uprising.<ref>Diana West, "Islamic bigotry kept under wraps in Egyptian uprising," Feb 20, 2011 [http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/02/islamic-bigotry-kept-under-wraps-egyptian-uprising]</ref> As well as, Liberty News,<ref>'Arab Spring': The chilly cruel winter reality of Arab racism and Islamic bigotry, Liberty News, Oct. 2011 [http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_323_31180.php]</ref> on the rise of bigotry against non-Muslims and against non-Arab minorities in the Middle East, at the wake of the ''Arab Spring'' of 2011.
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| − | '''Islamic bigotry''' has also been explained by pundits as the motivation behind the [[genocide]] in [[Sudan]] and in conflicts like the [[Arab Israeli conflict]] in the [[Middle east]].
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| − | *Robert Spencer, [http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018503.php "Islamo-Fascist Bigotry: The Persecution of Fellow Believers"], ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', October 19, 2007.
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| − | * SudanTribune, [http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article21799 "Arab racism, Islamic bigotry and discriminatory practices are the most divisive issues in the Sudan because they are the major factors"], ''SudanTribune.com''.
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| − | * SouthSudanNation, Jun 7, 2011, "The transitional Constitution Will Create an Imperial Presidency," <i>...for emancipation from the Khartoum's colonialism and Islamic bigotry.</i> [http://www.southsudannation.com/transconstitwillcreat%20danaterdeng78.htm]
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| − | * [[Daily Telegraph]], Jan 12, 2011, "Sudan: A nation driven apart by Muslim bigotry," <i>The likely partition of Sudan is a result of Islam's increasing intolerance, writes Con Coughlin.</i> [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/concoughlin/8255854/Sudan-A-nation-driven-apart-by-Muslim-bigotry.html]
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| − | * [http://www.factsandlogic.org/ad_94a.html "Racism in the Islamic World How can peace prevail in the Middle East in the face of Islamic bigotry and hate? When will moderate Muslims speak out?"], ''FactsAndLogic.com'' ("FLAME").
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| − | * PeaceFaq explains [http://www.peacefaq.com/bigotry.html#whatro what role bigotry plays in the Arab Israeli conflict], ''The Peace Encyclopedia''.
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| − | * Mark Humphrys [http://markhumphrys.com/israel.conflict.html "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict The Middle East conflict is clearly not about the occupation of the West Bank ... The root cause of the conflict is, and always has been, Muslim bigotry"], ''Markhumphrys''
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| − | * [[Wall Street Journal]], "The Mufti of Berlin, Arab-Nazi collaboration is a taboo topic in the West." September, 2009, <I>Muslim Judeophobia is not as is commonly claimed a reaction to the Mideast conflict but one of its main "root causes." It has been fueling Arab rejection of a Jewish state long before Israel's creation.</I> [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400532495168894.htm]
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| − | * Free Israel blog, [http://freeisraelnow.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/the-me-conflict-is-arab-muslim-bigotry/ "'CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST' ARABS VS ISRAEL ANOTHER ARAB MUSLIM INTOLERANCE CASUALTY - Arab racism & Islamic bigotry on (mostly) non-Arab non-Muslim Israel"], January 01, 2008.
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