Andrew L. Urban
The Muslim community represented by the 50 signatories on the United Muslim Community Statement of Monday, February 17, 2025 is a declaration of war against Judeo-Christian Australia. No Muslim organisation has (so far) challenged or disowned it.
As Boston University Today puts it, “In War, Words Matter. A Lot.” The introduction to the article that follows says that “Language is a secondary arena for the conflict in the sense that language can be used to advance or thwart agendas in the conflict over how the various actors should be viewed.”
In the article, Elizabeth Coppock, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of linguistics, says “One distinction that can be made here is between factual disputes over whether certain events took place and disputes over how individuals are described and referred to…”
The Muslim community Statement claims the two Blacktown Hospital nurses (seen threatening death to Jewish patients on that infamous video) were victims of “manufactured political outrage”. Perhaps “manufactured political outrage”, it the Muslim community projecting. The alliance, largely run by Islamic extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, claims nurses Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, who were sacked by NSW Health, are victims of “weaponised antisemitism”.
I would have thought Hamas storming Israel to barbarically murder Jews was actual weaponised antisemitism.
The statement put together by Stand 4 Palestine says the public and political reaction has been a “co-ordinated outrage”: maybe not so much co-ordinated as instinctive and universal.
This sort of warping of words is characteristic of how radical Muslims and their supporters have succeeded in wrapping their shit sandwich in fine looking breadwords. We have all taken a bite. Look how the Prime Minister and his Labor mates have been busy talking about Islamophobia when condemning anti-Semitism.
This is an irrational inversion of truth. It is not a phobia to fear the source of real danger. Fear of radical Islamist violence is entirely rational, as we all know, but nevertheless go along with the twisting of truth to avoid being branded an Islamophobe. How ironic. The reason for that fear is the history of radical Islamic violence, from suicide bombers and other (frequent) street attacks to the violent incursion of Israel by Hamas from Gaza.
The word antisemitism sounds less deranged than Islamophobia. Yet that is the real phobia. Perhaps it should be termed Judeophobia. Jewish terrorists? Jewish suicide bombers? Where are the Jews, indeed.
We should have learnt through history that language can be weaponised; George Orwell famously warned about this back in 1948. Many others have echoed that warning.
The question now is how will Judeo-Christian Australia respond to this de facto declaration of war by the Muslim community against Australian values? This is a challenge for political and religious leaders, not to mention the community as a whole. We could start by referring more realistically to the underlying phobia driving Muslim antisemitism.