Islamophobia?

The new buzzword that seems to be in combat with a concern for Islamofacism is "Islamophobia." Apparently, that would indicate "a fear of Islam." Supposedly, this fear is unfounded.

Now, why would anyone have a concern about Muslims? Couldn't have anything to do with the volatility of the "Arab street." Print cartoons depicting Mohammed and people riot, burn buildings, threaten to kill not just the cartoonists or the publishers, but infidels (you and I) in general. Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the only people who seem ready to strap explosives on themselves and detonate themselves in a crowd are Muslims. Couldn't be all the beheadings and kidnappings and car bombs unleashed by Muslims. Couldn't be the election of a terrorist organization that has vowed to destroy Israel to run the fledgling Palestine. Certainly has nothing to do with the Mullahocracy in Iran and their deranged president pursuing nuclear weapons while deceiving and manipulating the rest of the world, and also threatening Israel and any other infidel nation. Couldn't be about al Queda and all the support they get in the Muslim world.

Are ALL Muslims insane beheading, bombing, infidel hating, Islamofacists? No. No way, no how. However, are there one hell of a lot of Muslims who are? Sure seems so. And it seems they're extremely vocal.

Until "moderate", or even 21st century enlightened, Muslims get to be as loud as those calling for our death and burning our flag all the time (despite the fact that we've fought for and liberated tens of millions of Muslims in the last dozen years), it would seem to me that it is perfectly legitimate to be uneasy about Muslims. If those calling for a new Caliphate and subjugation (or death) of infidels are the loudest voices, and the only other voices we hear are those telling us WE have a problem (CAIR, et al), rather than denouncing the radical Muslims, wouldn't it be foolish not to listen to the threat?

The cry of Islamophobia is meant to tell us that WE need to be more tolerant. We see Muslims burning embassies and threatening people over cartoons and WE need to be more tolerant. Doesn't the accusation itself tell us the rough equivalent of: "You are ALWAYS wrong." They make threats because they think we're wrong and bad in some way. If we acknowledge that it is Muslim who are threatening us, we're wrong again. THEY bear no responsibility. Everything falls on the infidels' shoulders.

When MLK Jr. was combating racism, he spoke of judging people "not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." Implicit in that statement is that not only do those holding wrongly based judgements need to re-evaluate their judgements, but that those being wrongly judged need to SHOW CHARACTER that proves the predjudice wrong. It is a responsible statement. He's saying, set aside your predjudice and we will prove that we are people of character.

Right now, the only thing we see from Muslims is what appears to be a vast number of them (it LOOKS like a majority, based on the volume of their voices) threatening us for who we are and how we live. When we comment, the only other voices are telling us we're Islamophobic. Muslims who want us to believe that Islam is not a threat to us need to show some character. They need to start backing down their own and to do it as loudly as the Islamofacists. If they don't, it's either because they agree that we should all be subjugated to Islamists, or they are afraid of their own. If they're afraid of their own, is that not Islamophobia? And if THEY are afraid to speak out, doesn't it mean that any fear (or mistrust) WE have is well founded?