Why nonmuslims treat muslims so badly?

Hi, this is anan. Omar invited me to post at Brown Pundits. I am deeply honoured [Queens English spelling versus US spelling] to participate in this community, which I have read since its inception. If it is okay with all of you, I would like to write a series of articles on why nonmuslims treat muslims so badly. Please watch this video on how the UK mistreats UK muslims:

UK statistics on honor crimes are from the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service]:

  • “honour” based violence includes forced marriage and FGM reported to the police
  • However, despite the rise in reporting, the volume of cases referred to the CPS for a charging decision is the lowest it has been for five years.
  • The number of “honour” crimes reported to the police increased from 3,335 in 2014 to 5,595 in 2015 – a rise of 68%, according to data collected by the charity from every police force in the country.
  • The number of reports dropped slightly to 5,105 in 2016.
  • However, the latest figures published by the CPS show only 256 “honour” crimes were referred to the organisation by police in 2016/17 – just 5% of the cases reported over a similar period.
  • The 256 referrals resulted in 215 prosecutions and a subsequent 122 convictions.
  • a man was to be charged for FGM, following an investigation by the Metropolitan police. If the prosecution is successful it would mean the first British conviction for FGM since the practice was outlawed in 1985.
  • Insp Allen Davis who leads Project Azure, the Met’s response to FGM, said: “These are hidden crimes and police data is never going to reflect the true scale of the problem. The data is really useful for shining a light on this complex area but it needs to be taken in context.
  • “For example, with FGM, we get a lot of reports where a child may be at risk but it doesn’t necessarily mean a crime has occurred. It will be counted as a police report but the response may involve obtaining a protection order.”

From other crime reports, honour [Queens English spelling versus American spelling] crimes against young muslim females are prosecuted at a much lower rate than other types of crime in the UK. I don’t understand why this is. Is it because of widespread bigotry, sectarianism and racism in UK society? A sense that young female UK muslims “deserve it”? What am I missing?

I think society should bend over backwards to be respectful of muslim culture and religion. For example, if a patriotic UK muslim family wants to nonviolently punish their minor daughter for what they see as inappropriate conduct; they have the right to do so. Any UK muslim family can ask their relative who is 18 or older to leave their house and excommunicate her. What is illegal is to use violence. What is wrong is not to give young UK muslim females the same legal protection and help that non muslim UK females get. What is wrong is to treat muslims worse and differently than nonmuslims.

I believe that when nonmuslims fail to protect muslims from Islamists, this hurts not just muslims, but all nonmuslims too. This makes muslims afraid of Islamists and resentful of unequal treatment by nonmuslims. Which in turn ends freedom of speech for muslims and kills dialogue with Islamists, since muslims are afraid that they won’t be protected from Islamist violence. I believe that dialogue with extremists is the only way to ameliorate Islamism. For dialogue to happen, those who engage in dialogue need to be protected. And that starts by protecting vulnerable young muslim females from “honour” [Queens English spelling versus American spelling] violence. Muslim families and communities have the right to engage in “honour” social ostracization, but don’t have the legal right to engage in “honour” violence.

To be clear FGM is a complex issue. I don’t think that male circumcision should be banned, and perhaps that logic might apply to some very light forms of FGM to accommodate muslim culture. But most FGM is far more dangerous and intrusive than male circumcision. Global society needs an open and honest discussion about FGM and what to do about it; including banning very dangerous types of FGM.

The UK isn’t the only country that mistreats her muslims. The same is true for many other countries around the world, which might be the subject of future articles.

My views on this and most other things are not set in stone and I am open to changing them based on new information. Please let me know the many things I am missing or misunderstanding.

Thanks again for letting me be a part of the Brown Pundit community.

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P Shergill
P Shergill
6 years ago

I found this a confusing mishmash.
““I think society should bend over backwards to be respectful of muslim culture and religion.””–
In what way is society not respecting Muslim culture? All cultures should be respected? or only Muslim culture requires this bending over backwards?
Only example given is “” For example, if a patriotic UK muslim family wants to nonviolently punish their minor daughter for what they see as inappropriate conduct; they have the right to do so.””
Again why this restriction of patriotic Muslim family? What has patriotism got to do with this.
I think the issue is of human rights. All citizens should be treated alike by police. Does not matter if honor killing or FGM has got acceptance in some circles. If they are a crime, they should be treated as such.
“” I believe that when nonmuslims fail to protect muslims from Islamists, this hurts not just muslims, but all nonmuslims too. This makes muslims afraid of Islamists and resentful of unequal treatment by nonmuslims.””
Non-muslims are not doing a great job of protecting themselves from Islamists. It is the job of everybody (Muslim and non-muslim together). Why blame only the nonmuslims and absolve Muslims of this responsibility?
But this issue is different from other cultural issues.

Xerxes the Magian
6 years ago
Reply to  AnAn

Welcome to BP Anan

उद्ररुहैन्वीय

“I think society should bend over backwards to be respectful of muslim culture and religion.”

Haha, sure! Would they like fries with that?

There is very little that’s worth respect in *any* religion, let alone in the rants of medieval Arab cattle-herders.

Next we know Hindu fundos asking for cows to be used as currency, Christian bigots banning blasphemous speech etc. Where will the bending over backwards in front of medieval morals stop?

उद्ररुहैन्वीय
Reply to  AnAn

Thank you for the reply. There are a lot of things I disagree with what you’ve written above, but responding in the comment section is a little too cumbersome – so I may add a post with my response. Quite busy with year-end work, so may take a little while.

Vinod Dhall
6 years ago
Reply to  AnAn

In the ancient and medieval worlds life for most people was only a tad better than animals-economically socially and politically.
I suspect that the ‘wisdom’ handed out to us -now- as ancient wisdom has actually been refined glorified and romanticized by the subsequent generations. Any wisdom purported to be 5000 years old must of necessity been transmitted thru smriti ( memory) and shruti (hearing). And we know what that does.
And then most writing was organised by Kings ( most of them ran ‘protection rackets’ anyways) who of necessity had to be glorified.

S3
S3
6 years ago
Reply to  AnAn

“A living being wants above all else to release its strength; life itself is the will to power.”
So wrote Nietzsche in his Beyond Good and Evil. You claim that Muslims are somehow mysteriously deficient in this will which causes them to let the expectations of others define their desires?

उद्ररुहैन्वीय
Reply to  AnAn

// Too often nonmuslims quietly allow or condone Islamist violence against muslims. //

That is indeed true, but a result of cultural relativism (often touted as enlightened non-interference) prevalent in mainly Western societies.

It is a very post-colonial notion whereby your garden variety left-liberal thinks that social/political morals are subjective. E.g. treating women as subservient, asking them to veil themselves etc in one culture cannot be, even in principle, compared to treatment of women in another. So what’s good for Western women (equality of pay, say in whom they choose to marry or not, what they wear etc) may not necessarily be good for Arabs or Pakistanis etc.

That (otherwise well-intentioned) “racism” of low expectations, as Maajid Nawaz beautifully puts it, is the root of what you’re describing. The only way to solve is to

a) posit that Western Enlightenment values aren’t merely different but *superior*
and
b) they are universally applicable standards, i.e. objective, not subjective. Therefore the behaviour of an Arab Muslim in Palestine, a Hindu Rajput in Rajasthan, and a Christian Englishman in the UK must be judged by the same standards.

Old Blue
Old Blue
6 years ago

I didn’t think it was a “mishmash” at all. Your thoughts were coherent. It’s interesting how many readers didn’t pick up on your approach and seem to believe that you were advocating appeasing Muslims… and therefore Islamists.

What you’re describing is equal protection under the law and equal application of the law. This has three parts that I’d like to acknowledge; intramural violence, hate speech (illegal in the UK) and low expectations.

First, honor killings and FGM are domestic violence. It should be intensely investigated and prosecuted. For every external societal norm that clashes with our civilization, there is a process of bringing immigrants into compliance with law. Simply put, “That practice is incompatible with our society and will not be permitted nor tolerated here.” Regardless of who the victim or perpetrator are, violations will be thoroughly investigated and, if violence is found, prosecuted.

Second, if hate speech is illegal, it must not be allowed in either direction, even if it is cloaked in religion. If an Imam preaches hate, he gets the same treatment as a white nationalist. It must not be tolerated out of some misplaced sensitivity. That said, I do not believe that hate speech… or any speech… should be illegal. But if it’s going to be illegal, it must be illegal for all.

Lastly, young Muslim women deserve the same protections a white Protestant woman receives. If she is a victim of violence or unlawful coercion, that is against the law. Protect her. Giving less protection under the law is demonstrating both low expectations and fear of offending Islamists who complain vociferously when any enforcement is felt to interfere with what they want to do.

The only thing that stops the subtle expressions… underhanded bigotry, lowered expectations, and other manifestations… is evolution. Society evolves and subsumes. It absorbs, over time, the different. Different becomes normal, and at the same time it gives up part of its difference. Like our melting pot, or the Roman Empire. Absorption changes both components; the water and the sponge.

Ethnic or religious minorities… immigrants… often contain constituencies who resist absorption to some degree. They don’t want to forget their heritage, their language, certain religious expressions. Understandable. Futile.

This resistance will be noted by many and feel threatening to a few. Over time, the absorption happens and both sides are changed by it. Language fades in a couple of generations. Religious expression adapts and at the same time becomes more “normal.” Clothing, mannerisms, accents all normalize in one way or another. Sometimes, society adopts practices. Sometimes, the new arrivals change to the local norm. It takes time, and it is often bumpy. It takes time. Sometimes a long time (2-3 generations) in human terms. But it happens. “Hate speech” is just a part of that, the same as resistance to absorption and the corresponding “loss” of the culture of the country/society of origin. They are opposite sides of the same coin, and are nothing new.

The one thing that must not change is the law and the application of that law. No society should fail to apply the law equally, whether to avoid offending or due to some misplaced “sensitivity” to archaic practices that happen to be violent. Creating special or protected classes simply interferes with the natural evolution of absorption.

You’ve handled objections and counterarguments gracefully. Well done. Thanks for the post!

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Kabir
6 years ago
Reply to  AnAn

Assault is Assault period.

But the guy quite possibly did not understand that you can’t beat your wife in Canada. Someone did need to tell him that basic fact.

Still not justifying “Islam” here. Though you should have seen how the Haryanvi guy on the TV show “Maryada: Lekin Kab Tak” treated his wife. Not pretty. And they were very much Hindu.

Kabir
6 years ago
Reply to  AnAn

No one should ever intentionally beat anyone. Marriage has nothing to do with it.

For the record, I think this had more to do with the culture the man came from than his religion. But again domestic violence is not simply a Muslim problem. The US is not a Muslim country and there are many cases of husbands beating their wives, shooting them with guns etc.

“Maryada: Lekin Kab Tak” featured a Haryanvi Jatt Police inspector carrying on an affair with his wife’s sister right in front of his wife. Should I blame “Hinduism” for that? If not, than don’t blame “Islam” for the actions of some Syrian refugees.

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