Those Secular Bigots who Blame Islam for the Cologne Attacks Need to Take a Long Hard Look at their Own Values It was repugnant and vile; very much characteristic of ‪Charlie Hebdo publications. In its latest edition, this odious magazine featured a cartoon suggesting that drowned 3-year-old Syrian refugee ‪‎Aylan Kurdi‬ would have grown up to be a sex attacker like those migrants accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of women in Cologne on the 31st of December. ‪‎German‬ officials have alleged that the perpetrators of the attack were mainly of North African and Arab descent. As extreme and disgusting as the cartoon was, it was representative of the flood of bigoted accusations against Islam and the nature of Muslim men which have been making their familiar rounds in the right-wing and secular media. Indeed, as soon as news of the New Year’s Eve incident broke, the claws of the die-hard secular journalists and press were out. One can imagine they were almost salivating at the prospect of getting their fangs into the so-called dangers of Islamic beliefs and Muslim immigrants. The accusations came thick and fast: that there was something inherent within Muslim men that made them prey on ‘white women’; that Islam’s misogynistic beliefs view women as temptresses or lower than men, nurturing such attacks; that Islamic laws such as women covering or the restriction of the interaction of men and women fuel sexual frustrations, causing Muslim men to express pent up sexual desires on Western ‘non-covered’ women. The liberal German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung for example published a racist image depicting a black hand assaulting the body of a white woman to illustrate an article in which a psychologist claimed that for young Muslim men, any meeting with a woman was a highly sexualised encounter. Some secular media even termed the Cologne attacks provocatively as ‘Rape Jihad’. Selengkapnya di Fanpage Facebook Far-Eastern Women's Voices for the Khilafah Follow twitter @Fika_Komara and instagram @Muslimah_Timur_Jauh #muslimah_timur_jauh #charliehebdo #aylankurdi #germany #german #refugee #immigrant

Those Secular Bigots who Blame Islam for the Cologne Attacks Need to Take a Long Hard Look at their Own Values It was repugnant and vile; very much characteristic of ‪Charlie Hebdo publications. In its latest edition, this odious magazine featured a cartoon suggesting that drowned 3-year-old Syrian refugee ‪‎Aylan Kurdi‬ would have grown up to be a sex attacker like those migrants accused of sexually assaulting hundreds of women in Cologne on the 31st of December. ‪‎German‬ officials have alleged that the perpetrators of the attack were mainly of North African and Arab descent. As extreme and disgusting as the cartoon was, it was representative of the flood of bigoted accusations against Islam and the nature of Muslim men which have been making their familiar rounds in the right-wing and secular media. Indeed, as soon as news of the New Year’s Eve incident broke, the claws of the die-hard secular journalists and press were out. One can imagine they were almost salivating at the prospect of getting their fangs into the so-called dangers of Islamic beliefs and Muslim immigrants. The accusations came thick and fast: that there was something inherent within Muslim men that made them prey on ‘white women’; that Islam’s misogynistic beliefs view women as temptresses or lower than men, nurturing such attacks; that Islamic laws such as women covering or the restriction of the interaction of men and women fuel sexual frustrations, causing Muslim men to express pent up sexual desires on Western ‘non-covered’ women. The liberal German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung for example published a racist image depicting a black hand assaulting the body of a white woman to illustrate an article in which a psychologist claimed that for young Muslim men, any meeting with a woman was a highly sexualised encounter. Some secular media even termed the Cologne attacks provocatively as ‘Rape Jihad’. Selengkapnya di Fanpage Facebook Far-Eastern Women's Voices for the Khilafah Follow twitter @Fika_Komara and instagram @Muslimah_Timur_Jauh #muslimah_timur_jauh #charliehebdo #germany #german #refugee #immigrant