Islamophobia critics: They just don't get it

Criticize Islam and Muslims label you an "Islamophobic."

The Organization of the Islamic Conference is meeting in Azerbaijan this week. And the herd Islamophobia was a lot a the gathering.

From the Tehran Times:

The OIC chief described a "pathological fear" of Islam caused by "cases of total ignorance of Islam and its teachings" in Western public opinion stemming from rivalries between Christians and Muslims that have existed since the Crusades.

(The Crusades just had to be brought up.)

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He urged Muslim countries to enact a "new media strategy" to highlight the "true image of Islam" and said pro-Islamic television programs should target a Western audience. Ihsanoglu (my note, the OIC chief) also blamed Western media as a "major factor in the formation of collective misperceptions about Islam and Muslims in Europe."

CAIR is doing just that in America. Scroll down a couple of posts.

And finally...

"In some countries, the media have made attempts to compare Islam with terror. We cannot accept that. We can't equate Islam with terror," Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said in remarks to the assembled officials at the start of the conference on Monday.

Several OIC members called for an agreed definition of the word "terrorist," saying that little distinction was being made between "freedom fighters" and "terrorists" by Western governments since the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.

That's right: Those beheaders are freedom fighters.

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