DC Comics Mainstreaming ‘Islamophobia’
That’s why Islamic supremacist pressure groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) do all they can to portray Muslims as victims in the U.S., despite the fact that they enjoy more rights and freedoms here than they do in Muslim countries. They know the political clout that comes from victim status, and they want it desperately.
In reality, however, the Islamophobia from which Simon Baz so relentlessly suffers has about as much connection to reality as The War of the Worlds. Contrary to media emphases and preoccupations, and to the mythology retailed in the Simon Baz comic, Muslims are rarely the victims of religion-based “hate crimes.” FBI statistics show that there actually is no “Islamophobia.” Although anti-Semitism is much less of a media preoccupation than “Islamophobia,” Jews are actually eight times more likely than Muslims to be the victims of hate attacks.
Nonetheless, CAIR and other Islamic supremacist groups trumpets “hate crimes” against Muslims, real and imagined, and even uses hate crimes against other groups as evidence of those crimes – such as the recent murder of Sikhs in Wisconsin. Hamas-linked CAIR and other Muslims have not even hesitated to fabricate “hate crimes” against Muslims.
It appears that CAIR and other groups like it want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they can use them for political points and as weapons to intimidate people into remaining silent about the jihad threat. The ultimate goal of claiming victim status is to deflect attention away from jihad activity and Islamic supremacism, and shame non-Muslims away from investigating or even being suspicious of such activity in the U.S.
And that will be the result also of Simon Baz’s superhero comics, if “Islamophobia” continues to be central to his adventures. Thus for those who support the human rights that are denied by Islamic law, including the freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, equality of rights of all people before the law, and don’t want to see them advance in the West whether by violent or non-violent means, Simon Baz may turn out to be less a superhero than a super-villain.
“…and the ability to leap tall embassy walls in a single bound.”
So long as we can still call Bob Cardinal Spencer any name not actually trademarked or patented, why, cheer up: FREEDUMB hath not perished altogether.
Well, I guess if head choppers are considered superheroes by the PC/DC set, then Islamic jihadists are also the ‘victims’ (of made out of whole cloth)of ‘Islamophobia’.
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DC Comics , you are now officially DHIMMIFIED!
Therefore, from henceforth, you shall be known as – DHIMMI Comics!
Well, I have confidence in kids who read comics, and they will just say ” THIS COMIC SUCKS!”
I don’t know about that Mike. I have given up on DC Comics a couple of years ago, when DC decided to have Superman denounce his American citizenship. It’s been down-hill ever since. Talk about Gramsci-esk… Haven’t bought any DC since. Had a sneakin’ suspicion that Supes turning on the US was just a harbinger of things to come… seems I had it right.
They just “revealed” Green Lantern Alan Scott to be gay, so now they are making an Islamist Green Lantern? I wonder if Baz will insist on Sharia Law be followed by the Green Lantern Corp. I think it would have been more appropriate to make Baz a member of Sinestro’s yellow lanterns.
Nah, make Simon the best man at Green Lantern’s wedding.
Just imagine the stag party the night before……
Hey, here’s a great idea for one of Simon’s adventures!
He leads an assault against an American embassy, burns it to the ground, then rapes and murders the American ambassador! Get some big name artist to draw it, then peddle it at Comic-con, or some big convention.
I tell ya, D.C., the kids are gonna love it!If they dont’, it’s just cuz they’re brainwashed Judeo/Christian Islamophobes.
Your Moslem backers, who are paying you the big bucks to peddle this garbage, will also love it!
So, whattaya say, D.C.! Go for it! The Islamic world will love you for it!
Just like they loved Ambassador Stevens.
/Yes, the above was sarc.
WTF has happened to DC Comics?
The same thing that’s happened to America – liberals.
…And whence he discovers he has superpowers, he is told not to use them for anything but the advancement of islam, such is the will of allah, as told to him by the mullahs. Otherwise, the religion of peace will find another use for him and will, most likely, seek ways to destroy him as an infidel, thus being a man divided between two worlds. The islamaphobic world of the white, Christian haters which he shares no common thread, and the world of islam, free from all forms of persecution and ridicule.
Gee, what a pickle.
DC now just seems to stand for Dumb Chit.
They have gone off the rails from the altruistic ideology of “Truth, Justice and the American Way” and now seem to want to harp the politically correct, though monumentally flawed notion of “fair” and “equal”.
What was he doing stealing a van anyhow? Seems to me he deserves a branding for that alone though somehow, being a car-thief is somehow now “acceptable” in the new normal? Since he most likely stole the van from a white person, let’s call it a hate-crime and then stigmatize the little s—.
According to comic-book logic, Simon Baz would be a super villain not a hero.
At best, he would be an anti-hero that followed his own twisted code of morals like Venom from Spider-Man.
I think the truth is that comic books are dying just like Newspapers, and they are trying to attract niche markets, and to heck with the logic of it all.
I love Simon Baz. He’s one of my favorite superheroes and almost as cool as Superman. The only difference is that while Superman can leap over tall buildings, Simon Baz can crash planes into them.
Let me teach you all something. Characters such as Simon Baz are NOT new to comics. Every once in a while, comics take an existing character and reinvent him/her as a minority. For example, Black Nick Fury, Hispanic Atom, Lesbian Batwoman, Gay Green Lantern, Muslim Green Lantern, and the prize-winner, Gay/ Hispanic/ Black Ultimate Spider-Man. A three-fer!
All these characters were invented to get publicity and (theoretically) please a demographic. All of them fail. Usually, they fail so bad they are killed without fanfare, replaced, and forgotten. But the comic companies never learn, so they keep doing this sort of thing again and again.
Simon Baz is, of course, a totally idiotic character who will also fail. No character of this type has EVER succeeded. They get publicity, such as this article, but they never last.
At their height, comic books routinely sold millions of copies an issue. Now, even Superman sells only a shockingly low 60,000 copies per issue. Comic books now exist as source material for other media. Absent that, there would not BE any comic books.
Bottom line: in one year, Baz will be long-forgotten, and replaced with an Eskimo Green Lantern, or whatever is considered to be the “hot,” “in” minority at that time. It’s beyond idiotic, but it’s hardly new.
P.S. By the way, there are a few (a very few) conservative characters, for example Kid Flash and Nexus. The rest are raging militant liberals who never heard of any other viewpoint. Kinda like the media.
Icon from the now defunct Milestone Comic brand was a black Republican. He is an alien who came to earth and was found by a slave. He took on her race of the first person he saw in the form of a baby and was raised to adulthood. He doesn’t age and so he has been around since the 1860′s and never changed his party affiliationin that time. In the 90′s he is convinced into becoming a hero by a teenager from the ghetto. Like Superman, Icon has other worldly powers. She thinks he can inspire Blacks to strive by fighting crime in the black community. He make the girl his sidekick, Rocket. So Icon the first conservative, Black, equilalent of Superman.
Thought you might find this interesting.
One more reason I am so glad that I never read comic books and that my kids don’t either(one less bit of leftist drivel I have to counteract). Pathetic, is the one word that describes the thinking that goes on at DC Comics.
Maybe his superpower is sodomizing the corpses of dead ambassadors.
Does Islam Man pretend not to notice honor killings and acts of terrorism? Does he quietly fund terrorist groups while denying he supports terrorism? I bet he he’ll beat the hell out of anyone who disparages Islam by saying accurate stuff about Mohammed (pedophile, rapist, mass murderer).
Small wonder I gave up DC ages ago. Insanity seems to be contagious…
A perpetual victim does not an enduring hero make. Batman was victimized as a child, but it’s his backlash against that which makes him such an interesting character–his intensity, driving obsession, his determination that nobody else should suffer what he did. Batman’s bete noir is also dead, so he can’t hunt the man down and exact vengeance on him. Simon Baz, on the other hand, sounds like he’s being set up as a–dare I say it?–martyr. The only way he can be a compelling character is if he grows as a character, and I don’t see any way he can do that.
In other words . . . “if you want to send a message, use Western Union.” Politics makes for lousy fiction.
Hehe….my kid seems to have a preference for vintage 70′s and early 80′s Conan.
Hey, it’s not islamophobia if they rape/kill your abassadors, burn your flags and yell “Death to America!”
I read the first issue of the book and it is not as black and white as this story makes the comic seem. The lantern ring chose him because he is able to confront great fear. If you know the story, the lanterns are supposed to be unhindered by fear and the ring feed off the power of will. In theory, the ring could chose a person who is we Qmerican would consider a villain if the person had the characteristic of great bravery in the face of fear.
This report on DC Comic’s newest character to bear the name and powers of the Green Lantern in, on the surface, correct… but you jump to some odd conclusions and make a lot of assumptions based on scant evidence. You get many ofyour facts wrong, and fail to mention several important bits of information. I’ve posted a detailed response at my blog:
http://mininerd.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/pj-media-versus-green-lantern/
Kids don’t read comic’s anymore!
They use Ipods and other game playing devices or talk on cell phones. I have not seen a kid reading a comic in years.
The only people I do see with comics are scruffy and obese man children who can barely grow a five o’clock shadow. The most common are comic collectors and they collect Old comics.
DC comics is like the dinosaur Main Stream media desperately seeking relevance and make a buck in a modern society that does not see their product as worth while to spend hard earned money on.
DC comics your propaganda is not being read, not by anyone.
So take the gay lantern and the islamo batman and fade away you’ve out lived your time in America.
Combined, DC Comics and Marvel Comics generate around $250-300 million in revenue each year, with a little more than half of that coming from publicaton of comic books, collected trade paperbacks and hardcover editions, or the like. The average age of the readership is between 20 and 40. It isn’t a huge industry, but it never really was, but its rather unfair to say no one is reading it. Some of the highest grossing films of the past few years have all been taken from comics: Batman, Spider-Man, Watchmen, 300, Iron Man, Avengers, etcetera. You might not like the medium, but you’re letting your dislike of the form color your perception of it. Comics sell, people read them, and you’re being incredibly ignorant of those facts just because YOU don’t like them.
Plus, get your sterotypes right, the “man children” that read comic books are known in nerd circles as “neckbeards,” and as the slang term should imply they are capable of not only growing a five o’clock shadow, but a full and scruffy beard.
What you said is true, but look at it in perspective. Yes, comics sell — BUT they sell a very tiny fraction of what they sold years ago, in the iPad-less days. Superman, the supposed king of the industry, sells just around 60,000 per issue. But he’s old hat you say, the Avengers are hot now, right? OK, but the Avengers don’t sell much more, nor does Spider-Man.
As I said above, comics now exist to provide material for other media, such as movies and TV. The fact that kids no longer read comics means that in a decade no one will. Personally I could care less if both companies go out of business. The comics they make now are totally disgusting blood-drenched gore-fests designed to extract as much money as possible through endless “big events” and crossovers. The best-selling comic of modern times is WALKING DEAD, an indy book published by neither DC nor Marvel. That says it all.
DC really must hate Hal Jordan. This marks the 4th time he’s been replaced in his own series, he’s had to share top billing with that lefty fruit Green Arrow, has been turned into a super villan & been killed off. Wake me when the bring Jordan back.
Maybe they can take the characters Apache Chief, Wonder Woman, Black Vulcan, Gay Green Lantern, Simon Baz, and a new anti-American superman (didn’t he give up his American citizenship recently?) and make them band together to form the Social Justice League, fighting for free contraception, gay marriage, an end to Islamophobia and the re-election of Obama.
Simon Baz: faster than a speeding scud, more powerful than an Arab mob, able to destroy tall buildings with a single plane! Able to kill infidels and blame the outcry on Islamophobia!
DC is only conerned about one thing – Their bottom line. The response to the “New 52″ has been mixed at best and Muslims are a growing demographic with disposable income. However wha tis really tiresome about this is that they are going to base this new superhero in the same old tired nexus of victimhood cliches and allusions to Bush foreign policy.
However this does lead me to believe that something more sinister is going on. Radical Islam may be a lot of things but it isn’t stupid. What kind of influence, monetary or otherwise, is at work to encourage DC in this direction? Control of different levels of popular culture, even bad comic books, is now recognized as an effective propaganda tool. I can see where well-heeled Middle Eastern interests would welcome the chance to fund comic book propaganda for their cause.
However, I’m probalby just being paranoid however. I think we can trust that the editors and writers at DC are fully capable of turning out an anti-U.S. comic rag on their own.
I grew up in the fifties and every kid had comic books on their minds Yet these days I don’t see any kids with those comics, and the ones I see are the OWS types still living in their Mom’s house. I ask the grand kids, the nephews and nieces and they don’t even know what a comic book is. Kids don’t want to read about some introverted individual or individuals that have more psychological problems and angst than most soap opera characters who dress in funny clothes and go off and fight crime.
As my oldest Grand kid said about Spider man, “Paw Paw when spider man isn’t spider man he sure is a wuss.” Now you expect them to follow some dip whose hung up on his religion and bangs his super hero head on the ground five times a day and instead of “UP, UP, AND AWAY” he shouts ally ackembar.
Neck beards, Nope scruffy man child growth like an adolescent boy in 11th grade.
Shona Tova Robert. Tell Pam Geller the same please.
Y’know, I’ve been a comics follower for a LOT of my life, and while years ago I discovered that most superhero mags are crap, the few gems that are out there can be worth wading through the crap for. But DC’s recent moves with it’s Green Lantern franchise are the first time I can say that I’ve been absolutely disgusted by a comic company’s attempts to “change up” a character in order to try to seem “edgy” or whatever. I even own a Green Lantern t-shirt and a GL visor cap too. Will I ever wear either again? Wouldn’t bet on it.
Geoff Johns, the man behind the Green Lantern saga and the writer of this new Arabic Muslim “superhero”, is from Detroit, Michigan and is a Lebanese of Arabic origins. He grew up in a community of Muslims and Arabic Christians from Lebanon. And DC Comics is backing this nonsense.
Hi Spencer, I once took part in a bloggers conference with you 6 years ago. I’d like to thank you for focusing on the subject here of DC supporting Islamic victimology with this disturbing story they published in Green Lantern #0, but there’s some things you missed: when Baz stole the van, there was a bomb in it, and to make matters worse, it’s implied that Amanda Waller, a government agent, may have had something to do with putting it there. Which sure smells like 9-11 trutherism, doesn’t it?
A decade ago, I read some of writer Geoff Johns’ works, and I want to make clear here that even if he hadn’t turned to this kind of politicized storytelling, his obsession with violent storytelling in the pages of the Flash, among other series he scripted, was bad enough. The story he wrote in the Flash called “Blood Will Run” was repellantly violent and a real downer since the plot was about a cult that was murdering people close to the Flash – get this – so that the leader could use their energy for resurrecting his dead wife, whom he apparently abused(!). Thinking back on that one, it was really disgusting, and I’m glad to say that since that time, I’ve gotten rid of a lot of the material I once had that Johns wrote. I’ll say in fairness that some of whatever he did with a co-writer at his side (David Goyer, James Robinson) was readable, but the majority of his solo work was increasingly unbearable, or just plain dull and brainless. Even in what he’s written of Green Lantern recently, there’ve been some disturbingly violent images turning up that are just as bad as 1994′s storyline that saw the girlfriend of then-GL Kyle Rayner get choked to death and dismembered by a supervillain named Major Force. It’s horrors like those that drove me away from the Green Lantern franchise years ago.
I’d sure like to see PJ Media do some essays that focus on comic books, but on MORE than just the stuff that’s political per se. Even the quality of scriptwriting in both major and minor comics has to count as something to focus on, and I’d really appreciate if you could find someone who could research just about anything and everything pertaining to the comic book medium.
THIS is why I refuse to read a DC comic book after 1985 (‘crisis’ story event).
Its stupid what they have done to the great comic book company. I’m strictly old school. FU DC