The Islamophobia Fear Factory

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February 17, 2015 7:37 am - NewsBehavingBadly.com

Crooks and Liars runs down the key players based on a report from the Center for American Progress.

Eight large donors are responsible for the shameless and ceaseless fearmongering around Islam in the United States. They are Donors Capital and Donors Trust, the Scaife Foundations, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, William Rosenwald Family Fund, Middle Road Foundation, & Abstraction Fund, Russell Berrie Foundation, Fairbrook Foundation, Newton D. & Rochelle F. Becker Foundation and Charitable Trust, and Alan and Hope Winters Family Foundation. [su_center_ad]

Democracy Now:

…we know that the effect of the anti-Muslim hysteria that this network generates is in an uptick in the number of hate crimes. To give you an example, for instance, in the aftermath of the hysteria that was created over the construction of the so-called Ground Zero mosque in New York City, hate crimes in New York City against Muslims in 2010 were 300 percent higher than they were in 2009. And again, we’re seeing this now, whether it was in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings or in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack and the rise in ISIS, etc. I think shedding light on this network was something that we wanted to do in 2011 in the first report, but in this second report we detailed how the policies, the discriminatory policies that this network is promoting, is in fact hurting the lives of average Americans.

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D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

34 responses to The Islamophobia Fear Factory

  1. Obewon February 17th, 2015 at 8:05 am

    Xenophobic billionaires listed omitted the Koch Oil brothers founded and funded Tea Party. Globally 2/3 of terrorists are Sovereign citizen, Patriot movementChristian identity anarchists: All terrorists are Muslims…except the 99.6% that aren’t! Via Europol 7 FBI. http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/terrorism-in-europe/

    • John Tarter February 17th, 2015 at 8:35 am

      And just where is all this worldwide violence from the “Sovereign citizen, Patriot movement, Christian identity” folks? Answer: There is none. 99.9% of all the barbaric violence in the world today comes from the Muslim Jihadist movement. Get your head out of the sand Obe and accept the reality of the situation.

      • fahvel February 17th, 2015 at 9:00 am

        your fine little image of the usa includes the country that has killed and destroyed more people and families than all the few jihadists combined. Obe may have his head in the sand (not) but your head rests where the sun don’t shine. Your comments make my vulgar stuff look like nursery rhymes.

      • Obewon February 17th, 2015 at 9:14 am

        Tarter’s ignorance and inability to remember are well proven e.g.
        Terrorism Directed At ‘Liberal’ And ‘Government’ Targets July 2008-2011. http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/violence-directed-liberal-and-govern <-Linked via FBI crime data.

        • John Tarter February 17th, 2015 at 9:48 am

          Remember Obe, you live in NYC and are a prime target for the Jihadists.

          • OldLefty February 17th, 2015 at 1:26 pm

            More of afraid of being shot by a gun nut.

            Actually, this is the same mentality, (“useful idiots”) we used to create al Qaeda and ISIS by supporting the Shah over Mossadegh, Pakistan over India, The Muslim Brotherhood over Nasser, al Qaeda over the Soviets..

            Remember Pakistani President Benazir Bhutto, telling George H. W. Bush, “You are creating a jihadi Frankenstein.”???

            It is the mentality that breeds the same mob mentality that produced and produces the ones who pile on screaming,
            “Burn the witch!!”

            Or calling for a lynching.

            Or goose stepping with the Nazis.

            Or, for those living in Gaza, calling for the shelling of Israel.

            Or be one of the first recruits to ISIS.

          • Obewon February 17th, 2015 at 7:50 pm

            Chicken little Tarter: ‘the sky is falling!’ “They are now in Libya, a mere 300 miles from Italy”-Wayout hides underneath his bed, shell shocked by Chickemhawks Rusty the racist & Hannity.

      • William February 17th, 2015 at 9:15 am

        And just where is all this worldwide violence from the “Sovereign citizen, Patriot movement, Christian identity” folks?

        • John Tarter February 17th, 2015 at 9:44 am

          Uh Willie my friend, while reprehensible, burning your own cross on your own land and not hurting anyone else hardly equates with what those followers of Mohammad are doing today. How many Jordanian pilots has the “Christian Identity” movement burned to death recently?

  2. John Tarter February 17th, 2015 at 8:30 am

    Fear mongering? Like reporting the reality that some followers of Mohammad just recently beheaded 25 Coptic Christians? Yes, I said it, Coptic Christians, described as “people of the Cross” by the lowlife Muslim scum themselves. (Unlike Obama who cannot correctly describe who exactly was killed)
    And Obama the other day said that ISIS was in a defensive mode and once again he is wrong. They are now in Libya, a mere 300 miles from Italy. The barbarians are now at the gates of Western Europe.

    • fahvel February 17th, 2015 at 8:57 am

      I get it. You are just plain crazy – a mindless blathering fool who pretends to know things that the rest of the world doesn’t.

    • William February 17th, 2015 at 9:13 am

      ” by the lowlife Muslim scum themselves”
      Labeling someone based upon their faith simply reinforces just how un-American you truly are.

      • John Tarter February 17th, 2015 at 9:50 am

        Only calling them what they call themselves. I agree, patriots come from all faith traditions.

        • jasperjava February 17th, 2015 at 11:50 am

          They call themselves “lowlife Muslim scum”? Source?

          • John Tarter February 17th, 2015 at 12:12 pm

            I never said that they said that about themselves. I am the one who called them “lowlife Muslim scum”. But they do call themselves the Islamic State, or any other number of names that contain the muslim moniker.

          • William February 17th, 2015 at 12:23 pm

            “The problem with the Muslim faith in general is they do not have a “New Testament” that did away with all the violent teachings.”
            Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha.

          • FatRat February 17th, 2015 at 1:42 pm

            http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NzM2oX8JzJY/TCOb08LU_6I/AAAAAAAACWk/_ucr6yl_1_8/s400/eldersatyourdoor.gif

            That’s even worse than having Mormons ringing the doorbell. lol

          • OldLefty February 17th, 2015 at 1:18 pm

            Funny, the were moving into a secular mode, until the early 1900’s when the west saw the religious zealots as good for western business.

          • craig7120 February 17th, 2015 at 1:57 pm

            I’m glad the New Testament prevents you from murdering people, use whatever curbs that appetite.
            Sounds dumb when put in that context, right? But that’s your argument on why this band of murderous villains commit atrocities.

          • tracey marie February 17th, 2015 at 2:59 pm

            you are filth and an embarrassment to America.

          • fancypants February 17th, 2015 at 3:10 pm

            poor john so many doors so little time

      • jasperjava February 17th, 2015 at 11:49 am

        Gravestones have no effect on John Tarter/Wayout. He proudly boasts that he’s “not all that aggrieved’ if US troops are senselessly slaughtered in wars for profit.

      • tracey marie February 17th, 2015 at 2:58 pm

        beautiful

    • jasperjava February 17th, 2015 at 11:52 am

      “a mere 300 miles from Italy”

      Sounds like the way Reagan used to fearmonger about the Sandinistas. Remember that? What a joke that guy was.

    • OldLefty February 17th, 2015 at 1:13 pm

      1) (Unlike Obama who cannot correctly describe who exactly was killed)
      “The future must not belong to those who target Coptic Christians in Egypt”

      Obama 2012

      2) Why do you want to do ISIS’s work FOR them?

      3) Too bad you didn’t heed the warnings of those who told you not to throw in with these zealots over the last 70 years.

      Too bad you didn’t heed the warnings of of those who told you not to go into Iraq…. like Obama.

      • craig7120 February 17th, 2015 at 3:24 pm

        Well stated, OL

    • tracey marie February 17th, 2015 at 2:58 pm

      rotflmao…OMG, the vatican is next!

  3. craig7120 February 17th, 2015 at 10:46 am

    When someone tells you who they are, believe them! I certainly am not going to defend this grotesque gang of criminals.

    I don’t know who or what exactly Isis represents, my news is filtered. Now, being a westerner I’m lead to believe they’re a blood thirsty group of bandits terrorizing good people in the Middle East. Their preferred method of punishment, beheading, but they have burned a captive alive. I certainly cannot grasp that type of movement, how do you win the hearts and minds of recruits with that type of behavior? They certainly do have recruits, so, who’s doing the recruiting? Well the simple answer would be the clerics or mullahs of certain sects I imagine. To me, another recruit would be the U.S. Military, *gasp* say what? Certainly our behavior or should I mention the oil companies and their beneficiaries have contributed in the recruitment of this band of war orphans. Now, back when the Arab spring was happening in Egypt, I remember saying, wait till Saudi hears a knock at the door, now I think, that’s their ceo, but that’s another matter. It’s as if we don’t mind being the villain in their eyes, I suppose it sells weapons and keeps the military churning out bombs. We cannot sustain a perpetual war, I can’t afford it, seriously.

    My opinion, of course, if a child grows up watching American bullets fly in their streets, it leaves a mark and grows a disdain for that label or government.

  4. OldLefty February 17th, 2015 at 1:29 pm

    “With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
    Steven Weinberg

  5. tracey marie February 17th, 2015 at 2:56 pm

    Jews starting their own pogram and eventual holocaust against muslims, the victims have now become the killers

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