The chickens (victims) and the eggs (the killers):
Which came first?
Señor Antonio Guterres, the recently minted
Secretary-General of the United Nations during his recent visit to Saudi
Arabia, declared: “One of the things that fuel terrorism is the expression in
some parts of the world of Islamophobic feelings and Islamophobic policies and
Islamophobic hate speeches” (by AFO, February 13,2017 www.timesofisrael.com).
Needless to say, he did not take
the trouble to define the term “Islamophobic”.
This is a rather queer statement
that seems to put the primary responsibility for the occurrence of terrorism on
the impugned feelings, policies and hate speeches. In other words, the victims
of terrorism have no one but themselves, their fellow citizens and their
government to blame for their fatal misfortune. This sounds like the poor chickens
coming before the eggs.
Then again, historically
speaking, surely terrorism set foot in United States, Europe not to mention in
other countries, before the term “Islamophobia” joined the western vocabulary. And
if nowadays, Islamophobia acquired common currency, surely this is not
surprising having regard to the impunity with which the “so-called” refugees,
in Europe, have engaged in massive criminal activity perpetrated on both the
people of the countries that welcomed them as well as on the helpless refugees.
Surely then, this must be the case of the eggs coming before the poor chickens.
Ah but then again, the Secretary-
General hedged his statement by pointing out that this Islamophobic stuff is
but “one of the things that fuel terrorism”.
I wonder what the he thinks the
other things are. Then again, surely Saudi Arabia, the native land of al-Qaeda,
is not quite the right place to disclose them, is it?
Hence, until we know what the
other things are and do a factor analysis of all the things that fuel terrorism;
we still will not be able to tell whether it was the chickens or the eggs that
came first.
An alternative hypothesis
I wonder if anyone has thought
of testing the working hypothesis that, the “so-called” Islamophobic feelings”
of Islamophobes are aggravated by the number of numbskull
motions passed to condemn “all forms of Islamophobia” and other motions which
contain the term “Islamophobia”?
To put it in other words, is there
a direct relationship between the increase in the number of such motions and in
the increased aggravation of Islamophobic feelings?
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