Islam and Pattern Recognition

Even as Islamic terror attacks in America are becoming as routine as days of the week ending in “y,” Democrats are hurling the word “Islamophobia” as indiscriminately as Iran lobbing missiles in every direction to create chaos.

In that vein, Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand got herself all atwitter over an X post by Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville containing juxtaposed pictures, one of the burning twin towers on 9/11 and the other of Zohran Mamdani sitting on the floor at a Ramadan iftar dinner purportedly inside city hall. Since a picture (or two) is worth a thousand words, Tuberville’s tweet was linguistically parsimonious: “The enemy is inside the gates.”

This is to say that after a mere quarter-century, the same religion/ideology that took down the towers now inhabits the seat of government in our largest and most important American city. Tuberville's short and sweet tweet suggests that's not a good thing. Democrat sensibilities, however, are easily rubbed raw over such matters. Gillibrand's response was: “This type of Islamophobia is disgraceful and unbecoming of a senator. Delete it immediately and apologize.”

Despite her command, as of this writing, no deletion or apology has been shared.

Mamdani’s own response to Tuberville’s tweet, instead of being angry, was just passive-aggressively silly: “Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.”

Ah yes, breaking bread with New Yorkers! What could be more New York than sitting on the floor cross-legged, eating fattoush, tabbouleh, samosas, pakoras, bamya, biryani, kabsa/machboos, mandi and Arabic biryani with chicken or lamb? And as for the hungry kids, were any invited to the iftar dinner?

The best response to Gillibrand’s post was this tweet from @davemarkowitz: “It’s not Islamaphobia [sic], it’s pattern recognition.”

Exactly! One of the greatest attributes of human beings is the ability to discern patterns. Without that ability, you’re just a kind of stumbling imbecile, unable to learn anything from what you’ve seen before. So, luckily, sentient beings can recognize patterns, like, for instance, endless terror attacks from one specific religion. Or the pattern of the slow-motion Islamization of much of Europe. Or the pattern of daycare fraud committed by Somalians. And if those sentient beings aren’t brainwashed by the ideology of diversity and multiculturalism, but rather can still comprehend stark reality, then they quite naturally say something to the effect of, “We recognize that pattern and don’t want that here.”

That’s basically what Tuberville was saying. But what is it about pattern recognition that befuddles Democrats? Like, for instance, cities that won’t keep criminals locked up have higher crime rates. That’s an obvious pattern. Or, when children are bombarded with rainbow propaganda, they’re far more likely to go LGBTQ. Or, when mass Islamic immigration occurs, host countries are unalterably transformed for the worse, despite multicultural claptrap that insists on the inherent good of diversity. It’s as if the prefrontal cortex of the Democrat brain can’t process or discern such patterns.

There are a few exceptions, however, such as Bill Maher, who said the following during a conversation with Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro: “Just this past week, bombings at synagogues in Toronto, Belgium, Michigan — the guy drove a truck with explosives into the largest synagogue in West Bloomfield — Norway — they arrested someone [for] suspicious behavior outside a synagogue — Rotterdam in the Netherlands — synagogue. I see a pattern here.”

Yes, you do, Bill. Your brain is functioning as it should. But if most any other Democrat were on Wheel of Fortune and had an opportunity to solve the puzzle, ISL_MIC TERR_RISM, they’d either be stumped or simply refuse to buy the appropriate vowels.

Senator Tuberville owes no one an apology, and contrary to the insistence of Senator Gillibrand and most leftists, there’s no such thing as “Islamophobia.” A phobia, by definition, is an irrational fear, whereas the fear of Islam is as coldly rational as the Second Law of Thermodynamics or the quadratic equation.

And the attempt to make Islam a racial issue, to more easily condemn its critics, is pathetically transparent. While most Muslims happen to be something other than of white European descent, Islam is not a race. And if most Muslims were white, the Democrats would be calling them “Nazis,” like they already call white conservatives.

If iftar dinners at city hall are now mundanely described as “breaking bread with New Yorkers,” then New York is finis, kaput, toast. In what universe does an Islamic New York make any sense? New York is the epitome of big, bawdy, capitalist hubbub, not to mention sin, sensation and hedonism. Or as the Rolling Stones rather grittily put it:

Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes that town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams
Are still surviving on the streets

Such things clash rather mightily with Islam, and as time goes on and more and more hijabbed women fill the streets, nobody’s gonna be singing about sex and dirty dreams in the Big Apple. And that would actually be a good thing if it came about because of the adoption of Judeo-Christian morality. But if it occurs because of Islamization—well, there’s going to be a rather harsh price to pay. What is that price? C’mon now, use your God-given pattern recognition and figure it out.