The term “Islamophobia” is an illegitimate conflation of two distinct phenomena: crimes against innocent Muslims, which are never justified, and honest analysis of the motivating ideology of jihad terror, which is always necessary. Saudi Arabia and others will not stop until they have compelled the West to discard the freedom of speech and adopt Sharia blasphemy restrictions. With the U.S. abandoning the freedom of speech in favor of restrictions on “disinformation,” this longtime endeavor could finally come to fruition.
“Saudi Arabia: UN counter-terrorism structure is incapable of preventing Islamophobia, racism,” Saudi Gazette, June 19, 2022:
NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia said that the current structure of the United Nations and its international counter-terrorism structure has proved incapable of stemming the phenomenon of stereotyping of Muslims and has been instrumental in triggering a wave of terrorist attacks against Muslims based on Islamophobia, racism and xenophobia.
Addressing the meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Group to the UN here, Advisor Muhammad Al-Ateeq, chargé d’affairs at the Kingdom’s permanent delegation at the UN, said that it has become clear that the current UN counter-terrorism structure and tools to counter it are no longer keeping pace with changing threats.
He identified the void in tackling these threats, especially those linked to new threats arising from racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance, carried out by nationalist extremists, the far right and other groups and ideologies.
These new threats pose a major challenge to the international community at present, he said.
“The OIC group reaffirms that terrorism should not be linked to any religion, race, belief, values, culture or society, as the experience of the past two decades showed that the current structure of the UN and the international counter-terrorism structure has led to the stereotyping of Muslims.
“The agenda of preventing and countering violent extremism and terrorism over the past two decades has largely focused on the so-called violent Islamic extremism,” he said.
Al-Ateeq noted that such an approach is not only compromising the basic rights of Muslim communities and Muslims in many parts of the world, but has instigated a wave of terrorist attacks against Muslims based on Islamophobia, racism and xenophobia.
