The Price of Their Silence: How Islamophobia Became an Industry

The Price of Their Silence: How Islamophobia Became an Industry—and Muslims Its Global Collateral

🖋️ By Malik Mukhtar
📍 ainnbeen.blogspot.com | 🗓️ June 28, 2025

They bombed Iraq for democracy.
Tortured Afghans in the name of security.
Waterboarded bodies at Guantanamo and called it “enhanced interrogation.”
And now in Gaza—they bury children under rubble and whisper, self-defense.

This isn’t a war on terror. It’s a war on memory, on names, on brown bodies that pray in Arabic. And Islamophobia has been its golden engine—powerful, profitable, and protected.

🧠 Islamophobia: Not Just Prejudice—A $Billions Industry

Islamophobia is not just a bias—it’s a well-funded psychological operation. According to the Center for American Progress, over $42 million was channeled (2001–2011) into think tanks and media fronts to craft and normalize anti-Muslim sentiment. This isn’t random—it’s strategic.

The goal: keep the public afraid—of Muslims, of mosques, of immigrants, of something called Sharia Law.

📘 Sharia Law: The Manufactured Threat That Never Was

Let’s be clear: Sharia Law is not creeping into America. No U.S. court has ever enforced it, and no Muslim group is lobbying to replace the Constitution. Yet the myth of Sharia as a threat has become one of the most repeated—and weaponized—lies in Western politics.

Between 2010 and 2020, over 200 anti-Sharia bills were introduced in U.S. state legislatures—none based on any actual case of Sharia being imposed.

What’s more, this myth has created an entire sub-industry:

Books with titles like Shariah: The Threat to America.
Reports by well-funded organizations like:
- The Center for Security Policy
- ACT for America
- Middle East Forum

These organizations, often led by former military or intelligence officials, push the absurd claim that Muslims are secretly plotting to replace democracy with Islamic law. This fearmongering has poisoned local town hall meetings, political campaigns, school boards, and police departments.

✍️ It’s not about law—it’s about control through fear. Sharia is just a stand-in for “Muslim threat.”

Meanwhile, those who actually live under siege—like Palestinians in Gaza or Iraqis who lost entire cities to war—are told they are a danger to the Western world.

💸 Donors: The Hidden Architects of Hatred

Behind these campaigns are elite donors who finance hate through back channels of philanthropy:

Donors Capital Fund
Richard Mellon Scaife Foundation
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

They fund research, political ads, lobbying, and books that make Islamophobia sound intellectual. And the kicker? These same donors get tax benefits for “supporting education.”

They built an empire that profits from paranoia—and Muslims pay the price.

📸 From Abu Ghraib to Gaza: The Continuum of Dehumanization

Whether it was naked prisoners in Abu Ghraib, innocents at Bagram, or civilians in Fallujah, Muslim bodies have long been targets of Western impunity. And today in Gaza, we witness the horrific continuation:

Over 60,000 killed (2023–2025), the majority women and children.
Hospitals bombed. Aid workers assassinated. Journalists targeted.
Entire families vaporized—and yet, the world’s moral institutions blink slowly, if at all.

Why? Because Islamophobia numbs the global conscience. Palestinians are cast as a security threat before they are even seen as human.

🔍 Case Study: Christchurch and the “Lone Wolf” Myth

When Brenton Tarrant massacred 51 Muslims in Christchurch mosques in 2019, he was portrayed as an isolated extremist. Despite referencing international white supremacist networks, the media called him a “lone wolf.” There was no global investigation. No coalition war on white extremism.

Meanwhile, Muslims suspected of far less are subject to drone assassinations, black sites, and indefinite detention.

The war on terror wasn’t about terrorism. It was about who gets to be afraid—and who gets to be destroyed.

❗ Conclusion: This Isn’t Just Silence—It’s a Mass Grave

From the halls of Congress to corporate newsrooms, from courtroom benches to college campuses, Islamophobia operates like software—running silently in the background, managing every narrative, killing every outcry.

This silence justifies:

$3.8 billion/year in U.S. military aid to Israel.
Drone strikes across Muslim-majority countries.
The starvation of Gaza.
The erasure of history, accountability, and truth.

And while Muslims pray for justice, the world changes the channel.

🖋️ “History will ask: What did you do when Gaza screamed?”
And too many will answer: “We feared Sharia.”

Written by Malik Mukhtar
📌 ainnbeen.blogspot.com

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