It’s easy to grow Muslim-hatred these days. The seeds are already there. All you need is a little fertilizer to allow the sprouts of slander to develop robust roots.

Not long ago, generalized anxiety about Jews made the Blood Libel credible to febrile minds. The conviction that every black man was a feral urge away from raping every white woman was so entrenched it earned Emmett Till an early grave in 1955.

Something similar is now going on with Muslims.

Not a week goes by that I don’t receive an urgent e-mail about the latest existential threat brought upon our society by Muslims. My Facebook feed is rife with them as well.

We’re not talking about the lawless head-chopping savagery of ISIS thousands of miles away — which, needless to say, truly is barbaric. No, these tales are of a more conventional and local nature; a drip, drip, drip of how Islam is hacking away at Western values and practices here at home. And the vast majority of them are simply made up.
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Consider this story featured on the website U.S. Patriot and widely circulated on social media: “MUSLIM NURSES REFUSE TO WASH HANDS” screams the headline. The article tells us Muslim medical workers in the U.K. have received dispensation not to wash their hands out of deference to religious modesty. It concludes with the inevitable invitation to express online indignation: “What do you think? Should Sharia Law overrule safety?”

The story has been kicking around the internet for seven years and has even been repeated in major newspapers. It rings two important gongs: the notion that Muslims are always demanding special privileges and that sniveling liberals are ever ready to grant them. But it’s sheer nonsense: No special hand-washing waiver has been granted to anyone.

But it seems just credible enough, doesn’t it? If university bathrooms are being retrofitted to allow Muslim students to wash their feet for prayer, it’s not hard for the more paranoid elements to imagine some medical workers would put faith before medicine and willfully spread sepsis.

The 2014 New York City Muslim Day parade was another recent rich source of material.

Photographs of two floats were widely circulated. One showed a woman hanging from the gallows. The other featured a group of women in a cage. Both were denunciations of the treatment of women in Egypt; but it was much easier to think that this was Muslim men expressing — in an unguarded moment — how they prefer their women.

And then we have Canadian agitprop enthusiast Ezra Levant’s eruption this week in print and on television at Sun Media. Levant claimed he was blowing the lid off of an Ontario school board’s weak-kneed appeasement of Canada-hating Muslims. He insisted the board had created a means by which Muslims could indulge their loathing of our country and military traditions by excusing them from Remembrance Day observances.

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He heaped scorn in a bilious paragraph worthy of the worst nativists: “Even if some old bigot from a backwoods village in Pakistan or Somalia doesn’t want to respect Canada, that’s where our schools come in and teach those bigots’ kids and grandkids what it means to be Canadian.”

As it turns out, the story is a complete fiction. Levant — who has previously been accused of promoting racial hatred — insists he was working with the information he had, which effectively is to claim that his sloppy journalism is an excuse for his sloppy journalism.

Those who propagate these bogus stories always will argue that they are fearlessly speaking unpopular truths. In fact, they are shamelessly propagating despicable lies.

That Levant so effortlessly arrived at his anti-Muslim convictions is bad enough. That he propagated the false tale and apparently refuses to fully back down is a sorry thing. But the greater problem is that with each new shameless falsehood, more manure is heaped onto the seedbeds of future slander.

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I suspect it is easy to grow because a hundred or so Australian Muslims are raping and pillaging their way across the middle east.

Meanwhile, the good Muslims are on here explaining why they cannot tolerate white people having freedom of speech, in case they mock Muhammed.

I suspect it is easy to grow because a hundred or so Australian Muslims are raping and pillaging their way across the middle east.

Meanwhile, the good Muslims are on here explaining why they cannot tolerate white people having freedom of speech, in case they mock Muhammed.

Brian Ross wrote on Nov 16^th, 2014 at 4:18pm:





You are not a Muslim and Gandalf is?

Your arguments, defenses, debating styles, accusations and even your prose are interchangeable.

If the hat fits, Brian, you may as well wear it.

Lionel, your belief is based at best on circumstantial evidence.   

However, to please you and all the other critics, I'll repeat a point I have made several times here and elsewhere - my belief in god was beaten out of me at school, thanks to the over-zealous efforts of a certain order of teaching brothers.