{"id":12516,"date":"2009-07-27T13:54:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T13:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/27\/islamophobia-3\/"},"modified":"2009-07-27T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T13:54:31","slug":"islamophobia-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/27\/islamophobia-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Islamophobia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">This is another one of those silly PeeCee expressions liberals love to use to obfuscate issues and slander their opponents. A phobia is an irrational fear. There is nothing phobic about opposition to radical or militant Islam. To fear it is&#0160;entirely rational. Militant Islam and Islam are presumably distinct. I could be wrong, but I doubt that Islam as such is the problem. But militant or radical Islam &#8212; sometimes called Islamism &#8212; most assuredly is a threat to the West and its values.&#0160; Still, someone (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/spencer\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Robert Spencer<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\">?) who thinks that Islam as such is the problem cannot be accused of suffering from any phobia. So when I heard the liberal <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/modernlibrary\/karmstrong.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Karen Armstrong<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> use &#39;Islamophobia&#39; or a cognate during a C-Span presentation, my estimation of her dropped several notches lower.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Someone who uses such words as &#39;homophobe&#39; or &#39;Islamophobe&#39; may as well just put a sign on his back declaring: I&#39;m a dumbass PeeCee liberal!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another one of those silly PeeCee expressions liberals love to use to obfuscate issues and slander their opponents. A phobia is an irrational fear. There is nothing phobic about opposition to radical or militant Islam. To fear it is&#0160;entirely rational. Militant Islam and Islam are presumably distinct. I could be wrong, but I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/27\/islamophobia-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Islamophobia&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-language-matters","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}