The Arab Spring and the Islamophobic Double Standards….Democracy Doesn’t Apply for Muslims!

Some time ago I wrote an article exposing the Islamophobic hypocrisy and double standards concerning the Arab Spring, that article can be found on the following link:

http://thedebateinitiative.com/2011/10/07/the-arab-spring-islam-and-the-islamophobe-hypocrisy/

So a website called antisharia.com decided to respond to my article with the following article:

http://www.antisharia.com/2011/11/04/analysis-of-an-article-by-muslim-debater-sami-zaatari-and-why-his-defense-of-the-right-to-sharia-law-in-the-muslim-world-is-wrong/

To even call antisharia’s article a response to me would be a compliment to them as they didn’t respond to anything I actually said and simply attacked a straw man, not only did they attack a straw man, they have forsaken their own political philosophy!

For example they write:

At first reading his arguments are convincing but there is a detail he has not considered. The Majority is Not Always Right…So if the majority of Muslims in a Muslim country are in favor of an anti-human rights, discriminatory legal system called Sharia that does mean it is correct and it is proper to oppose the will of the majority because their desire is wrong,bad

RESPONSE

This argument is a straw man, but before I show why I would like to highlight how this author continues the hypocrisy, for example the author explicitly says THAT IT IS PROPER TO OPPOSE THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY, I didn’t say this, antisharia said this. Isn’t this very interesting? Muslims are always being preached to about democracy, and democracy is the will of the majority, in a democracy you have a vote, and the way the vote is won is by whoever gets the majority! But now those who always tell Muslims about democracy are willing to go AGAINST democracy when it works against them! And this is meant to be a rebuttal? In my original article I stated that we are dealing with CULTURAL IMPERIALISTS, and this just proves it, these people are WILLING to go against THEIR OWN POLITICIAL PHILOSOPHY when the results are not as they wish, basically you either conform to what they want or you get the boot.

Now as for the straw man, I never argued the majority are right, that was never my argument, my argument was very simple and it was to simply expose the double standards and hence I will summarize it in points to make it easy to understand:

1- Western Islamophobes say Muslims need to respect the laws, culture, and traditions of the host country they live in

2- Western Islamophobes say it is wrong for Muslims to oppose and disrespect the laws, culture, and traditions of the host country they live in

3- Western Islamophobes say that Muslims should not try to change or impose their ways on the host country they live in

4- Western Islamophobes say that Muslims should leave the host country they live in if they can’t accept these things

So now ladies and gents I have simply TAKEN THE ABOVE METHODOLOGY AND STANDARD AND APPLIED IT TO THE ISLAMOPHOBES! That’s all I did in my last article, I simply showed that Islamophobes are not willing to practice what they preach, because they do the exact same thing to Muslim countries for which they complain when it comes to their own countries!

So to repeat, my article has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MAJORITY BEING RIGHT, BUT HAS ALL TO DO WITH EXPOSING ISLAMOPHOBIC DOUBLE STANDARDS.

So not only has antisharia.com failed to deal with my main point, they have also forsaken and abandoned their own political philosophy of democracy, and when you have to forsake your own creed to simply try to refute someone then you know your in big trouble. The very fact that they have to forsake their own ideology simply reaffirms my main point, that Islamophobes are filled with inconsistencies and double standards, they say one thing and do another, so the irony is that in trying to respond to me, antisharia.com simply did a wonderful illustration of what my original article was talking about! I said it before and I will say it again, we are dealing with cultural imperialists, once you understand this, then the whole Islamophobic picture becomes much more clear.