I recently discovered the website ‘Fitnaphobia’ ( fitnaphobia.com ) and it has some useful and interesting content. There’s a lot of stuff on there from Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller and the Clarion Project, who are all solid and knowledgeable individuals and groups. These contributors are experts in the ideology of Islam and the threat that this ideology poses which is probably why various Islamic groups hate them.

Here’s how the management of Fitnaphobia describe their site on their ‘about‘ page:

Fitnaphobia.com: Defining the deadly social disease infecting the followers of Muhammed.

Whenever an individual who is Muslim perpetrates a violent act words like disturbed, estranged, mentally ill, psychotic and troubled are used. To date none have given a clinical name to the social disease infecting growing numbers of Muslims who act violently against others (Muslims and non-Muslims alike). Examples of disturbed individuals acting violently includes the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001 and every attack since then. A prime example of a growing global Muslim caliphate acting violently is the Islamic State.

A key to understanding why some Muslims, and the Islamic State in particular, act violently is captured in one word: Fitnaphobia.

The Mayo Clinic defines phobia as, “[An] overwhelming and unreasonable fear of an object or situation that poses little real danger but provokes anxiety and avoidance.” Fitna describes “[F]orces that cause controversy, fragmentation, scandal, chaos, or discord within the Muslim community, disturbing social peace and order.”

Fitnaphobia is defined as:

An overwhelming and unreasonable fear of forces that cause controversy, fragmentation, scandal, chaos or discord within the Muslim community, thereby disturbing social peace and order within the Ummah (the Muslim community).

Fitnaphobia is based upon Quran versus 2: 191-193, which reads:

And kill them wherever you overtake them and expel them from wherever they have expelled you, and fitnah is worse than killing. And do not fight them at al-Masjid al- Haram until they fight you there. But if they fight you, then kill them. Such is the recompense of the disbelievers.

And if they cease, then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.

Fight them until there is no [more] fitnah and [until] worship is [acknowledged to be] for Allah . But if they cease, then there is to be no aggression except against the oppressors.

Fitnaphobia requires the killing, expelling and fighting disbelievers where ever they are found. Fitna (resistance) “is worse than killing.” A Fitnaphobe will kill because disturbing the peace and order of the Muslim community is worse than the slaughter of innocents, such as the 5,000 annual honor killings by Muslims of their family members.

In the West there is a “socio-political narrative” which sees the loss of diversity and/or the risk of offending Muslims as a much greater concern than the actual threat posed by the global Islamic movement, forced imposition of shariah laws and the slaughter of people by jihadists. Those with this view are ignoring the social disease of Fitnaphobia.

The position taken by the management of Fitnaphobia is pretty clear and I like the way that they’ve turned the fake phobia of Islamophobia and turned it on its head. They’ve declared that the problems we are facing today come from the deep and longstanding hatred that Islam has for non Muslim people and religious and political paths in other words ‘Fitnaphobia’.

I’m going to stick Fitnaphobia on my resource list and others may like to examine Fitnaphobia and do the same. Great articles, knowledgeable people and solid research. Good stuff.