An Islamic terrorist named Sayfullo Saipov hopped in a truck yesterday and ran into a crowd of people, killing eight people and injuring a dozen more. He yelled “Allahu Akbar” during the course of the attack, and apparently pledged loyalty to ISIS before carrying it out.

Literally minutes after news of the slaughter broke, the Left and the media set to work focusing the discussion on the most important thing: Islamophobia. An author and professor at Rice University tweeted that the attack was “unfortunate” because of the effect it will have on Muslims in the city. Many others shared this concern. CNN refused initially to describe the killer, and reported that he yelled “God is great” so as to subtly de-Islamize him. MSNBC jumped in to insist that this is “not Islam whatsoever” and had nothing at all to do with Islam. The New Yorker immediately interviewed a local middle school teacher to find out how the attack might emotionally impact her Muslim students. NBC News published an article informing us that the poor Muslims are “again bracing for backlash.”

Again? When did the first backlash happen? When has there been any serious backlash against Muslims in the United States? The really incredible thing is that Muslims have faced basically no backlash at all. If members of a minority religious group in pretty much any non-western country killed thousands of innocent civilians over the course of only two decades, you can bet there would be a sustained and violent campaign of reprisals against them. Most likely, there would be a full-on purge and banishment of the offending party. That’s how Muslim groups are treated in Muslim countries by the dominant sect. But nothing of that sort has happened here or will ever happen here. Muslim Americans ought to show some gratitude for our enduring tolerance, rather than standing over our dead to inform us that they, the Muslims, are the real victims here.

Next to transgenderism, “Islamophobia” is truly the Left’s most ludicrous fable.

But even if there were some malignant strand of “Islamophobia” spreading rapidly throughout the land, you would only feed it, and, in the minds of the “Islamophobic,” vindicate it, by making anti-Muslim bigotry the first and most pressing issue after a brutal terrorist attack. Nobody does this with any other group, as Ben Shapiro points out. The media didn’t track down southern Americans to ask them about the effects of anti-south prejudices after the Charlottesville attack. Nobody was fretting about fears of anti-white backlash after Charleston. I don’t recall NBC doing any “not all pro-lifers” puff pieces after a nutcase shot up a Planned Parenthood a few years ago.

In fact, the reaction is quite the opposite. There was, rather, a frantic rush to connect Charlottesville with southern culture, Charleston with deep-seated white bigotries, and the Planned Parenthood shooting with the pro-life movement at large. Even though Muslims have killed far, far more people in this country and worldwide than any of these other groups, still only they get this kind of warm and fuzzy treatment from the media and our culture in general. It’s gross. Truly gross. Gross with a strong whiff of suicidal.

However you feel about Islam — if you think the religion is inherently peaceful in spite of terrorism, or if you think it is violent and hateful by its very nature — there are still certain facts you cannot avoid or deny. The terrorist in New York yesterday was Muslim. The terrorist in Orlando was Muslim. As were the terrorists in San Bernardino, and Chattanooga, and Boston, and Ft. Hood, and on 9-11, and in dozens of other cases in the United States, and thousands of other cases across the world. It is not “Islamophobia” to notice this fact. It is not bigotry to be disturbed by it. And the headline, the main point, of these blood events is certainly not that Muslims might get their feelings hurt. You are a fool, or something much worse, if that’s your primary concern.

But that IS all they’re worried about…which begs the question, Why? Why do liberals care more about Islamophobia than the deaths of Americans at the hands of terrorists? Answer: they’re nuts.

— The Liberator