U.N. Secretary-General: Islamophobia Causes Terrorism

“Islamophobic” feelings, policies, and hate speeches “fuel terrorism” across the globe, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Sunday during a visit to Saudi Arabia.

Guterres made the comments while speaking with reporters following a joint news conference with Saudi Arabian officials.

“One of the things that fuel[s] terrorism is the expression in some parts of the world of Islamophobic feelings and Islamophobic policies and Islamophobic hate speeches.”

“One of the things that fuel[s] terrorism is the expression in some parts of the world of Islamophobic feelings and Islamophobic policies and Islamophobic hate speeches,” Guterres told reporters, according to The Times of Israel.

“This is sometimes the best support that [ISIS] can have to make its own propaganda,” Guterres added.

Guterres’ words come amid the liberal outcry surrounding President Donald Trump’s refugee program suspension and temporary travel ban — a ban which activists and pundits have dubbed a “Muslim ban.” Although this is a misnomer — Trump only included seven Muslim-majority nations compromised by terrorism in the ban and left out over 40 others — the Left has used the ban as an opportunity to cry “Islamophobia.”

The U.N. secretary-general also seemed to rebuke the wave of concerns spreading throughout Europe as mass Muslim migration has brought with it increased incidents of Islamic terrorism and sexual assaults.

If Europeans want to solve the Syrian refugee crisis and the spread of radical Islamic terrorism, Guterres recommends that they concoct an “inclusive political solution” to appease potential and avowed terrorists.

Guterres’ tone-deaf claim is reminiscent of comments made by other liberal political figures seeking justification for rising incidents of terror that fit into a politically convenient narrative.

In November 2015, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) raised eyebrows when he made the curious claim that global warming is responsible for acts of terrorism.

“The reason is pretty obvious: If we are going to see an increase in drought and flood and extreme weather disturbances as a result of climate change, what that means is that peoples all over the world are going to be fighting over limited natural resources,” Sanders said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

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“If there is not enough water, if there is not enough land to grow your crops, then you’re going to see migrants of people fighting over land that will sustain them, and that will lead to international conflict,” Sanders explained.

During the second Democratic primary debate, Sanders expanded even further and more explicitly on his theory.

“Well what happens in, say, Syria … is that when you have drought, when people can’t grow their crops, they’re going to migrate into cities,” Sanders said. “And when people migrate into cities and they don’t have jobs, there’s going to be a lot more instability, a lot more unemployment, and people will be subject to the types of propaganda that al-Qaida and ISIS are using right now.”

“So where you have discontent, where you have instability, that’s where problems arise, and certainly, without a doubt, climate change will lead to that,” Sanders concluded.