Counter-Islamophobia Toolkit - The supposedly best strategies on countering "Islamophobic" narratives

[Iwasamwillbe]

First, we introduce the conductor of this project.

In a new, pan-European research project, my colleagues and I [Amina Easat-Daas] set about to devise a toolkit that can be used to counter Islamophobia. It summarises a range of the best methods and tools we saw being used to challenge Islamophobic thought and actions in Europe.

Now for a summary.

The Toolkit
Written by Prof. Ian Law, Dr Amina Easat-Daas and Prof. S. Sayyid, the overall aim of the Toolkit is to compare the operation of counter-narratives to Islamophobia in eight European Union member states (Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Portugal and United Kingdom) in order to examine their use and
effectiveness in terms of providing alternatives to prevailing narratives of Islamophobia. This addresses the need for a deeper understanding and awareness of the range and operation of counter-narratives to Islamophobia across the EU, and the lack of a systematic categorisation and ranking of these two types of narratives across Europe.

In particular the paper examines:

• The main types and content of dominant narratives of Islamophobia
• The main types and content of counter-narratives to Islamophobia
• The main legal and policy interventions through which the European human rightslaw apparatus has attempted to conceptually analyse and legally address Islamophobia.

The results are based on fieldwork with 272 politicians and policymakers, NGOs and activists, and media, arts and academic professionals and textual data from political, policy, media and NGO discourse, and digital data from social media platforms.

Ten Dominant Narratives of Islamophobia

1. Threat to security
2. Unassimilable
3. Demographic threat and proselytization (denouncing the alleged increase of the number of Muslim individuals in European countries and the supposed consequent spread of Islamic religion at the expense of the state)
4. Theocracy (the supposed prevalence of the exclusive reference to religious norms and values made by Muslims when dealing with societal matters)
5. Threat to identity
6. Gender inequality
7. Ontological diversity (Muslims and Islam as essentially and irremediably different from non- Muslim population and the associated moral landscape)
8. Innate violence
9. Incomplete citizenship
10. Homophobia (Islam equates with bigotry and thus intolerant towards homosexuals)

Ten Dominant Counter-Narratives to Islamophobia

1. Challenging and contextualising constructions of Muslim ‘threat’
2. Building inclusive nations: challenging exclusive and discriminatory national projects
3. Cultural compatibility and conviviality: challenging the narrative separation of cultural and ethnic groups
4. Elaborating plurality: challenging narratives of Muslim singularity
5. Challenging narratives of sexism
6. Building inclusive futures
7. Deracialising the state: challenging institutional narratives
8. Emphasising humanity and Muslim normalisation: challenging narratives of division
9. Creating Muslim space(s)
10. Challenging distorted representation: verity and voice

For developments on this issue in each of the countries, read the blog posts.
Read more about the project in general here.

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The question here is whether all these "Islamophobia" and "anti-Muslim" countering programs are at all rational or even meaningful. If they aren't, then the very term "Islamophobia" looks more and more like merely the Islamic equivalent of the oft-abused term "antisemitism".

The full "toolkit" is attached to read and comment on.

 

[Oskar Dirlewanger]

Countering islamophobia is pointless. Islamophobes are homosexuals mostly and will be outbreed by muslims anyway. While incel babies whine about islam Real Men eat delicious kebab and fuck slutty hijabi babes.

 

[Pissmaster]

That's a hell of a lot of work to try and defend a group that can't answer a question like "why is it mandatory for women to wear hijabs at all times, even when it's hot as a motherfucker outside" without sounding extremely sexist or dodging the question

 

[Randall Fragg]

I like how the “toolkit” is a bunch of nonsensical word/salad.
Like, what does “Deracialising the state: challenging institutional narratives” mean? What policy goals does it involve? Why is it a pressing issue?

 

[Harnessed Carcass]

'Building inclusive futures, Creating Muslim space(s), Deracialising the state: challenging institutional narratives" this sounds like a bunch of towelheads and sadniggers were trying to 'muh safe space' into getting government funding. They should get the cry baby antics out their ass and stop sounding like political light weights.

 

[SigSauer]

 

[No Exit]

None of those counter narratives, assuming I've interpreted that gibberish properly, are counters at all. I'd say it's what a lot of "islamaphobes" are against. If you try to combat bigots with this toolkit you'll only be proving them correct.

 

[Slap47]

I like how all I have to do is pull out a Pew Poll and emphasize that the ideas of the Ahamadis and Sufis are hated by most Muslims.

 

[maalikthefakemuzzie]

Check this out! You will find a lot of european countries at the very top and guess which muslim country is at the very bottom.

Also if you want someone to refute islamophobia very effectively, I highly recommend the Andalusian Project. He makes them degenerate apostates really ass mad when they are proven factually wrong.

 

[Pomniman]

Seems like a downgrade from the old toolkit.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

Check this out! You will find a lot of european countries at the very top and guess which muslim country is at the very bottom.

You mean Nepal? Because that's not a Muslim country.

Also if you want someone to refute islamophobia very effectively, I highly recommend the Andalusian Project. He makes them degenerate apostates really ass mad when they are proven factually wrong.

So you mean some smug Muslim YouTube apologist? This is what we're supposed to take as a big-brained mujaddid?

 

[maalikthefakemuzzie]

So you mean some smug Muslim YouTube apologist? This is what we're supposed to take as a big-brained mujaddid?

You are more than welcome to factually prove him wrong. The people that attempted to do so made asses of themselves by stumbling and falling since the hard facts weren't on their side.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

You are more than welcome to factually prove him wrong. The people that attempted to do so made asses of themselves by stumbling and falling since the hard facts weren't on their side.

Since we're now appealing to authority...

WikiIslam

2,800+ critical articles on various areas of Islam based on its own sources, the Qur'an, hadith and Islamic scholars.

wikiislam.net

Have fun.

Edit: Wait, wasn't @maalikthefakemuzzie the guy who said the rape of some Middle Eastern woman wasn't all that bad because she enjoyed it or something?

 

[The Last Stand]

How many Deep Thoughts threads you made alluding to Islam? Four?

 

[Xarpho]

Creating Muslim space

It already exists. It's called North Africa and the Middle East.

 

[Shmidty Werbenmanjenson]

I want Maalik muscleman with the edgy angelsword avatar and deus vult totally not homo for brown OP poster to fight in real life. Or kiss.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

How many Deep Thoughts threads you made alluding to Islam? Four?

I don't keep count, but I don't think it was that many.

I want Maalik muscleman with the edgy angelsword avatar and deus vult totally not homo for brown OP poster to fight in real life. Or kiss.

Yeah I'd rather not.

Furthermore, I watched the video that Maalik was shilling, and I wonder why such a low-level apologist was described as some great Islamic scholar who brings apostates to tears with his truthfulness by @maalikthefakemuzzie.

For example, around 1:10, Quran 2:191 is discussed, which Asadullah Ali Al-Andalusi claims was a verse of self-defense, a typical argument of Muslim apologetics that has been long-refuted. The Andalusian also seems to have ignored the surrounding verses that give context to 2:191, and clearly show that it has nothing to do with self-defense.

Yet it's supposedly the guy the Andalusian was responding to that was taking the Quran out of context. I will respond to many more bad arguments once I look at the video again.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Check this out! You will find a lot of european countries at the very top and guess which muslim country is at the very bottom.

Literally at the top of the page

When your country is so ass backwards that there aren't police, or the police are corrupt, or the tradition for settling disputes is to go to the other guy's house and shoot him instead of letting the police handle your argument about whose fault it was that your goat died while you were having a little threesome with your neighbor, yeah no shit you're going to see a "low crime rate".

If you think anyone is buying that Iceland has a 150x higher crime rate than Albania, Yemen or Burma, you might be a Muslim.

 

[Damn Near]

A rebuttal: muslims should fuck off

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

I like how the “toolkit” is a bunch of nonsensical word/salad.
Like, what does “Deracialising the state: challenging institutional narratives” mean? What policy goals does it involve? Why is it a pressing issue?

Well what does it mean? We have 12 doctoral students and 200 government employees working on answering those questions and making 3 times your annual salary

 

[maalikthefakemuzzie]

@Iwasamwillbe
Before I start I must disclose that 22:39 is the first verse that talks about warfare.

“Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory.”

As for the verse you mentioned, read the verses before and afterwards because it reveals that it is apparent that the polytheists being ambushed are in fact hostile and armed.

“Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors.” -2:190


“But if they desist, then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.” -2:192

The reason why it doesn’t make sense to interpret this to be general attitude towards non-muslims, is because at the time there was a large war waged by polytheists because they got assmad over their idols being disparaged.