You might have heard the claim
that Muslims are up to something.
"Creeping sharia!"
"Creeping sharia?"
"Stealth jihad."
"Civilization jihad."
"The mainstreaming of the sharia."
Today anti-Muslim groups claim that Muslims are working together
to impose sharia law on America.
"To impose sharia as the rules."
We at the Bridge Initiative are here to debunk this narrative.
Here's what those who work with anti-Muslim groups want you to think:
that Muslim religious leaders,
refugees, and politicians
are all working together toward the same goal as militants
to destroy Western civilization.
"The Muslim Brotherhood plan for the destruction of the United States."
What do these voices have in common?
They want us all to believe three things:
Number One:
That Islam is actually a totalitarian, political ideology that hates our values and freedoms;
"It is a political system that mandates that the non-Muslims have to
live in a state of subordination."
Number Two:
That Muslims want to subvert and infiltrate the West
either through violent or nonviolent, more stealthy means;
"Where appropriate through violent means and where that's not the most
effective way to do it through more stealthy, as they call, 'civilization' means."
And three: That Muslims' end goal is to impose sharia — which is portrayed as a
barbaric, monolithic legal structure — on America and the world.
"And their fixation on the advancement of sharia law."
Talking about minorities as an existential threat to America isn't anything new.
We used to hear the same things said about
Catholics, Jews, and Japanese-Americans.
Nowadays, Muslims are increasingly talked about this way:
"They have managed to infiltrate our elites,
"...they've managed to infiltrate our universities,
they've managed to infiltrate our State Department."
"Because their ultimate goal is to achieve sharia law..."
as the law of the land."
"There is the mainstreaming of the sharia."
"The building of triumphal mosques."
"Muslim colonization."
"Basically indoctrinating our children."
"Destroying Western civilization from within."
"Destroying Western civilization from within."
"Doing sabotage to America from within."
"Often this Islamophobic narrative hinges
on the Muslim Brotherhood, which anti-Muslim groups want to be designated
a terrorist organization.
They then claim that American Muslim organizations have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood
and thus have the same goals as terrorist groups.
"Virtually any Muslim American organization in this country of
any prominence is a Muslim Brotherhood front, seeking to promote sharia in America."
"These groups are Brotherhood groups that are working in the United
States to subvert the US Constitution and ultimately to replace it with
Islamic law."
These commentators even claim that Muslims are trying to
influence social studies textbooks, and take over frozen foods and nail-polish.
If you don't realize what these commentators are doing,
what they're saying can sound pretty convincing,
especially given that violence committed by Muslims is depicted so much
and so disproportionally in the media.
On top of that, these commentators often cite studies
and misuse ominous-sounding Arabic words
to make Muslims seem foreign and fearsome.
Anti-Muslim groups do this over and over again
using different words and different justifications
but, in the end, they're all making the same point:
they're claiming that Muslims are a threat to Western civilization.
So why should you care that there's this narrative out there about Muslims?
It's because this narrative treats all Muslims as potential threats
as enemies worthy of our constant suspicion.
Portraying Muslims this way provides justification
for discriminating against innocent people, who end up getting hurt
whether it takes the shape of harassment,
violence,
promises on the campaign trail,
or government policies.
So next time you hear people talking about Muslims like this
think twice.
It may just be another version
of this same, dehumanizing story.
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