An interesting thing happened Friday. Muslim terrorists, presumably with ISIS, attacked targets in Paris in a coordinated and bloody effort that left hundreds wounded and at least 129 dead. Like so many here in the United States, I took to Internet and social media to listen to the live news feed while crawling through various Paris hashtags on Twitter. Seized by a moment of disgust over this most recent act of Muslims mass-murdering innocent people, I tweeted, "For years, the Muslims have been telling us that they want to murder us. It's time we started believing them."
And then something incredible happened.
My tweet employed the hashtags #Muslims and #IslamIsTheProblem. It was immediately picked up by other Twitter users, garnering well over a hundred retweets and "likes" on the social media site. This is the most attention one of my tweets has received organically; unless I am retweeted by someone much more famous, my few thousand followers simply don't generate that much activity on my timeline. But my phone started "blowing up" regardless. I was being tweeted at, and furiously. The notification tones occurred again and again. I picked up my phone, scrolled through these and was amazed at what I saw.
It should worry us that when Muslims slaughter innocent people in coordinated military attacks (which have been likened to an act of open war), the reaction of the Muslim community on social media is not to condemn the murders. It is not to stand in solidarity with the people of France. It is not to condemn the actions of their fundamentalist peers and call for serious examination of what they believe and support as fellow Muslims.
No, it was to tell those of us who actually notice the mass murder of innocents that we are bigots. It is to tell us that we are "Islamophobes." It is to condemn not the slaughter of the infidel Westerners Muslims hate so ardently, but the fact that some of those infidel Westerners dared to criticize their murderous little death cult for encouraging the wholesale slaughter of men, women and children who were unarmed and helpless.
The Paris attacks were significant in that Muslims killed more people in a single day than have died in one day in France since World War II. The attacks were simply the latest in a seemingly endless string of murders perpetrated by Muslim monsters who wish to subjugate all who don't share their "faith." Yet observing this phenomenon, holding this constant threat to life and liberty in the contempt it warrants, is somehow an act of "hate." Over and over again on social media, I was told by Muslims and Muslim sympathizers that it was me who was the problem, not ISIS. In fact, I was told repeatedly that I am worse than ISIS for daring to observe, to a few thousand followers on social media, that I disapprove of what Muslims are doing to innocent people in the name of Allah.
Really? Typing 140 characters of free speech on a microblogging site is worse than machine-gunning more than a hundred trapped victims?
But you see, that's the answer. To the left, to the Muslims and their sympathizers on social media, to terrorist mouthpieces like CAIR and liberal propaganda ministries like the Southern Poverty Law Center, speaking out against Muslim mass-murder is worse than mass murder. This is quite possible because the only constitutionally protected right that the left hates more than the Second Amendment is the First Amendment. They dearly want to make you helpless before all forms of aggression, but they'd like to silence you even more.
The deluge of posts to Twitter continued for most of that Friday evening, driven by Muslims whose only desire was not to condemn Muslim terror, but to condemn me for pointing it out. I was told over and over again that "terrorism has no religion" (but, as one Twitter poster pointed out, it sure does seem partial to Islam). I was told that it is intolerant and "racist" to oppose Muslim mass-murder and that Islam forbids killing innocent people. That last exhortation in the Quran will come as a surprise to most of us, because if Allah forbids killing the innocent, his followers sure do it an awful lot.
"Muslims use social media to condem [sic] ISIS, fight Islamophobia," read one recent misspelled headline on MSNBC. We are supposed to believe that Muslims took to Twitter and Facebook to speak out against the murders done by the terrorists they claim don't represent their religion. The only problem is, you'd have to hunt pretty hard to find any Muslims actually condemning Muslim mass murder. What I saw, over and over again, from profiles covered in Arabic and brandishing broken-English hashtags like "MuslimsAreNotTerrorist," was screaming at Americans and Westerners for criticizing Islam.
It tells us something profound, in fact, given the sheer and breathtaking volume of Muslim terror attacks occurring throughout the world, that the first and most vehement reaction by supposedly "moderate" Muslims is to whine that we are unfairly painting their death cult with a broad brush. Instead of standing with the West, they condemn us for "Islamophobia." Instead of looking to their own religion and asking why so many of Allah's followers murder innocent people, they lecture the West on tolerance. Instead of adding their voices to those mourning the dead, they use social media to sneer defensively at the living.
Various politicians have called for the closure of ISIS websites and for mosques that foment terror to be investigated and shut down. Islam's defenders have redefined this, wrongly, as an affront to the First Amendment. But it is the Muslims and their supporters who hate our freedoms of speech and religion ... as their bombs, their bullets and their lawsuits so often remind us.
What happened on social media following the Paris attacks was nothing short of hashtag terrorism. In their reaction to the murders in France, Islamists and their liberal sympathizers showed us their true colors. They showed us that they see us as bigots. They showed us that they view their victims as the problem – not their killer religion.
Islam has made its intentions toward us clear. No amount of online dissembling will change that.
Media wishing to interview Phil Elmore, please contact [email protected].
|