Our Council members should earn their annual, taxpayer-funded salaries of $148,500 — and numerous perks — with better work than cooking up nonsensical declarations like the one in support for Muslim Americans due to imagined Islamophobia.
Far more Jews than Muslims are victims of hate crimes every year in America, but history’s chosen stooges don’t sweat the small stuff while chronically miffed Muslims seek affirmation of the religious pluralism that already thrives in the U.S.
The dilemma of the day is why Muslims feel more persecuted in free societies than in their oppressive ancestral nations where Muslim-on-Muslim malarkey and murderousness are entrenched and habitual.
Islamic society is rife with passions and laws that undermine universally recognized human rights, resulting in false accusations, mob violence, and harsh sentences for blasphemy and apostasy, while severely curtailing the religious freedoms that American Muslims have the cheek to say are being denied them here.
The State Department’s 2015 International Religious Freedom Report exposes the Muslim-on-Muslim aggression in Islamic countries, and shares sickening examples of the under-reported story of the century:
• Farkhunda Malikzada, 27, died in torment and pain in Afghanistan last year after her neighbors falsely accused her burning the Koran; they beat her with sticks and boards, kicked her, ran her over with a car, and dragged her into a dry river bed where they stoned her and set her ablaze as bystanders and cops watched every barbarity.
• Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh received eight years in prison and 800 lashes for apostasy in Saudi Arabia, overturning his death sentence in an act of supposed Islamo-clemency.
• Pakistan’s blasphemy laws — prescribing severe punishments for crimes such as insulting the Koran or the Prophet Mohammad — are often used as justification for mob justice.
Muslims are some of the most egregious abusers of freedom in the world, and our Council members should keep that in mind before stroking a self-absorbed community’s cultural need for victimhood, and preaching religious tolerance in the nation that invented it.
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