On the evil of Islamophobia, in the wake of the New Zealand Islamophobic terrorist attack
Screamin’ hard on some white racist fascist fucknuts.
I thought it would make sense, in light of the commentary on the nature of Islamophobia that I offered a few days ago, to re-post this corollary, which I wrote in the aftermath of the white racist Islamophobic terrorist attack in New Zealand a few years ago. Here's what I had to say about that evil fascist fuckery.
“So. Islamophobic terrorist attacks in New Zealand by avowed white identitarians and Trumpists. Inna lilahi wa inna lilayhi raji’ún. A thousand loud and angry curses upon Islamophobia and upon white supremacy and upon Donald Trump, always. May Allah subhana wa ta’ala treasure the fallen up and grant them everlasting joy in Jannah, and may He hold the survivors close and wrap them in the warmth of His all-loving embrace.
And as a persistent and ardent critic of these indefensible and worthless assholes’ Muslim mirror image (Daesh, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, the Ikhwan, and their ilk), I take responsibility for my rhetoric now – I aim to traffic in judicious, thoughtful, humane, sensible anti-supremacist and anti-totalitarian critique, and to stand in solidarity with Muslims against Islamophobia at one and the same moment, and I’ll redouble my efforts to do all of that. Make no mistake – a terrorist attack targeting Muslims is a terrorist attack, period, no qualifiers, and to be deplored, and its perpetrators angrily denounced, excoriated, spat upon with all the rhetorical fire we can summon, that the wrath of the good and kind and loving and righteous God, Who counts every good-hearted Muslim among His cherished children, might be brought down upon them. Fie upon them for turning themselves over to evil, for wasting their souls. No Muslims ever deserve to be subjected to Islamophobic attacks, whether it be terrorism or assaults on hijabi women or simple bacon outside a mosque or something, nor are they ever *responsible* for Islamophobic terrorism, no matter how many Muslims may work evil in the world, the same way no Jew is responsible for the Tree of Life slaughter from a few months ago no matter how many white-collar criminals are Jewish and no matter how atrociously the Israeli government and military behave in Palestine. Fuck white supremacy and Islamophobia a thousand times, a hundred thousand times, forever. And fuck the numbnuts who pulled this shit in Québec, too, and at Finsbury Park. Y’all motherfuckers will always lose. White supremacy is an evil ideology, actively held to only by those who have chosen to corrupt their souls with evil (although I hasten to note that every white person, myself included, is complicit in upholding it in some or other way – it’s just that the forms thereof which thrive across Western society and culture are more insidious and less outwardly lethal, whereas only a pure ratfuck would pull this shit.) God loves Muslims and always will, and He despises, with a pure and fine contempt, the evil your hands have wrought on earth. Go fuck yourselves. Every Islamophobe everywhere.
And to my Muslim friends – please don’t lose sight of your value, your radiance, your gloriousness. Your deen, rightly understood, out of the hands of khawariji maniacs, is a beautiful deen, and Allah subhana wa ta’ala cherishes you, mourns with you, laughs with you, will be there to comfort you amid your suffering. Your Prophet, Muhammad ibn Abdullah, salallahu alaihi wasalaam, was a Messenger of joy and light, and you should never be cowed, neither by the Shaitaani khawarij such as Daesh who want to turn your deen into an evil thing, nor by little tiny pieces of rat droppings like this who dare to attack you and gun you down in the name of whiteness and wickedness. There will always be an honoured place for Islam in the family of religions and nations. Islam will always be beautiful. Allah subhana wa ta’ala will always be with you. Sunnis, Ithna’Asheri Shí’ahs, Nizari Khoja Ismailis, Ahmadis, Bohras, Alevis, every kind of Sufi from Naqshbandi to Bektashi to Mevlevi to Inayati and back, humane and nonviolent Salafis such as my dear friend Noor Dahri – all of you. No matter how much hatred darkens your skies, this world will always have a place for you. Allah subhana wa ta’ala and the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasalaam love you, and so do I.”