ISLAMOPHOBIA: BEHIND ENEMY LINES WITH THE CONFLICT MONGERS

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ISLAMOPHOBIA: BEHIND ENEMY LINES WITH THE CONFLICT MONGERS

"Islamophobia," they call it. According to the dictionary a "phobia" is: "a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it." (dictionary.com).

"Islamophobia, then, is a persistent, irrational fear of Islam that leads you to a compelling desire to avoid it." Very convenient, don't you think? Those that accuse you of being Islamophobic want you to believe that they think you are frightened by Islam, and frightened by it so much that you irationally desire to avoid it. And of course, because you think they think this, or because this positions you to think they are erroneously labelling you, you tend to want to convince them that you are not afraid of Islam: Which positions you as being afraid of Islam.

It's the same propaganda tool that is used when you are accused of being a racist. First there's the accusation that you are a racist. You are then put in the position of having to defend an absurd accusation. But it isn't just an accusation. Psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors have long known that if you saddle someone with an incorrect "diagnosis," that is, if you tell someone that what is wrong with him is that he hates his father, for example, the "client" or "counselee," if the diagnosis is incorrect, can then incorrectly assign that quality to himself and then work to try to correct somethng that does not exist. And if you were to ask that "client" why he was acting in an inappropriate manner, as his demeanor might reveal, he would say, "because I hate my father." The counselee tries to fix a non-existent condition, and then, because the condition does not exist, fails at fixing it, and so goes into a decline.

Propagandists use the psychological "black-ops" to do exactly that same thing to their target audiences. Thus we have the NAACP accusing the Tea Party of racism, and although most Tea Party people do not accept this, there is an inordinate amount of defending against the accusation. It is the same with the label: HOMOPHOBIA. You may not be the least bit afraid of homosexuals, but if you disapprove of homosexuality, you most certainly will be labelled homophobic. You are positioned to DEFEND. The term and the "condition" of being homophobic is advanced by the media or the PR or propaganda people, and so those that are against gay marriage or gay issues get an uneasiness about it, because they are at least to an extent resisting a non-existing condition.

Positioning is a tool of marketing, but it is also a tool of propaganda.

In the case of ISLAMOPHOBIA, you are being positioned to defend against a non-existent condition, an irrational fear of ISLAM.

You will notice that those that accuse you of being ISLAMOPHOBIC do not accuse you of having a phobia of RADICAL MUSLIM EXTREMISTS, even though they continually say that the radicals do not speak for ISLAM. It is curious that In accusing you of having irrational thoughts or feelings about ISLAM the accusers position themselves with RADICAL EXTREMISTS. Although the "ISLAMAPHOBIA" trick is somewhat working, instead it is getting more of a backlash from this, because there IS actual terrorism, and because the terrorists that are perpetrating that terror are Islamic.

There is a bit of sub-conscious or sub-liminal, or sub-awareness "conflict," which causes one to hesitate a bit, for the mind always attempts to reconcile illogics, and tends to fill in the gaps, where there logic is missing.

But seen in the light of understanding, one can counter psy-ops, or propaganda meant to confuse and to position so that one feels defensive.

The antidote, of course is the truth. With ISLAMOPHOBIA, as with HOMOPHOBIA, as with RACISM, the aim is to position you so that you defend. And with a "phobia," the aim is to position you to be afraid, whether you are afraid or not. The accusers want you to withdraw, to be careful of, or to be cautious of, or withhold a counter-attack against the accuser. And from the evidence at hand, to a greater or lesser degree, it appears to work. There is an additional bonus to accusing people of Islamophobia, because Islamophobia is packaged to imply that it is a kind of racism.

It is a very clever use of a very ancient tool.

Their methods can be turned on them (the accusers, the propagandists), however. For example, you can ask them, Why are YOU Ameriphobic? OR: Why are you Tea Party-phobic? Or what about, "Why are Liberals so Conserva-phobic?" "You obviously have a phobia of the Tea Party, don't you?" When you turn it around, you see how ridiculous the accusation, the labelling and the positioning is.

I have yet to see anyone on any of the talk shows use this as a defense, but it would be amusing to watch, don't you think? Can you think of any other ways to turn this around, like, for example: Christiano-phobia?

In fact, it would be even more amusing to position Socialists as anti-Freedom. Imagine a good chunk of the NAACP waking up one day, realizing they were defending against Freedom-phobia.

Please note that I am not advocating that you do this. I merely point this out in the hopes that it will free-up enough minds, so that they do not needlessly get entangled in a web of having to defend a non-existent condition, and get on with the business of creating an American Conservative Cultural Revolution. It's way overdue.

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