It is most unfortunate when a group of Islamic thugs get inspiration from LGF. I never thought I would see the day that CAIR and Charles over at Little Green Footballs would be aligned against a counter jihad movement, but perhaps pigs do fly.
CAIR released this statement regarding the Brussels Counter Jihad summit, which sounds
like it took its talking points from Charles' post here.
I previously wrote that it was utterly wrong to dismiss this incredible effort, an enormous undertaking by so many brave fighters and truth tellers , so casually and so out of hand. I attended that summit. As did many other global bloggers, activists, and freedom fighters, in an attempt to formulate strategy to fight the scourge of the Islamization of Europe. Many came at great personal risk to themselves and their families.
I have enormous respect for Charles and came to blogging because of LGF. His news site gave me and thousands like me hope after 9/11. He is a crusader against radical Islam. An invaluable resource for news on the global jihad.
I assure you there was no neo nothing going on there. Charles painted this herculean effort with one ugly brush and took everyone and everything down with it. The irony is the one thing that we came away with, the thing we must do and do now, in order to affect any change, is EDUCATE. And look at the education we are getting. Political correctness run amok.
This conference deserved international coverage. I am not surprised that the mainstream media wouldn't touch it; they are deathly afraid of anything remotely tinged with Islam. They won't even call terror terror. But the alternative media? WTF?
And as far as the racist label (which anyone who dares to question Islam is called) - I don't consider this racism. The EU elites, maybe, but not me.
Robert Spencer is main speaker for upcoming Islamophobic campus tour
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) revealed today that the main speaker for an upcoming series of "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" lectures at university campuses nationwide recently offered a keynote address at a European gathering that included representatives of racist or "neo-Nazi" political parties.Author Robert Spencer, who is scheduled to appear beginning next week at universities such as Brown, DePaul and Dartmouth, is regarded by American Muslims as one of the nation's worst Islamophobes. His virulently anti-Islam website promotes the idea that life for Muslims in the West should be made so difficult that they will leave.
Spencer recently spoke at a so-called "Counterjihad Brussels 2007" conference in Belgiumattended by those with links to far-right parties such as Filip Dewinter of Vlaams Belang (Belgium) and Ted Ekeroth of Sverigedemokraterna (Sweden). Both parties have been accused of either having a racist platform, a neo-Nazi past or having links to neo-Nazis and other racists.
Vlaams Belang is the successor to the Vlaams Blok party, which was banned in 2004 for being an illegal racist political faction. (Vlaams Belang's founders were Nazi collaborators in World War II.)
Who the hell wasn't a nazi collaborator in Europe? Puhleeeeeze.
UPDATE: Conservative Swede weighs in:
..... we should focus on our mortal enemy, but it's also important to know who are with us and who are not. CAIR's core message is no different from that of Charles of LGF, it's just got the volume turned up.
I'm not surprised at this development at all, these are the mechanisms of political correctness. LGF is no different from Sweden here. As is illustrated by my concept "The Finish of the West", the reason why Western people end up on the same side as CAIR (etc.) like this, is not their wish to destroy the West. On the contrary, it's driven by: i) their wish to perfecting goodness, ii) fear of ghosts. Liberals do not went to destroy the West, their aim is in perfecting goodness. Same with the leftists, only a few avant-gardists actually want to destroy the West, the big majority are just working hard in perfecting goodness. The only difference between the left-wing and the right-wing, is that the right-wing has realized that goodness cannot be just that perfected. For the right-wing the fear-of-ghosts component is therefore more active, but both components are active in both camps.
Sweden, which I know well, is a perfect case study of political correctness. As Edmund Burke said "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." And there are a lot of good people in Sweden, many in Moderaterna, the party of Reinfeldt, who see the problems but are completely paralysed by their fear of ghosts. The PC system is a maze, full of smoke an mirrors, which got most people caught in it. Few people see through the smoke and mirrors, and manage to find their way to the exit. But for these few who find an exit, each exit is guarded by a Nazi troll, fake or real. This is enough for decent people to back off and stay paralysed, while joining in the ostracism of anyone fulfilling his dream, escaping through the exit.
There's no difference between these decent and good people of Sweden, and Charles of LGF. And both cases illustrate how the PC tyranny is ultimately held up by fear. People will say that Charles is a good guy and fight Islamism, but so does George Bush, doesn't he? I'm sure Charles does good things for America, but when it comes to Europe he's effectively opposing resistance to Islamization. He's decided that the PC mazes of European countries, such as Belgium and Sweden, are best kept as perfectly sealed systems, and thereby effectively support the PC tyranny. So as Fjordman put in in the LGF comments section, either we are surrender monkeys or we are neo-Nazis. If we would take our cues from Charles and LGF the only option is to lie down and die.
As the commenter at Atlasshrugs wrote: "i think charles and little green footballs at least owe the rest of us some sort of explanation why they do not feel this conference in brussels worthy of a more extended coverage and comment."
Charles did not only avoid covering our conference, he struck a decivive blow against it. Of course all out of goodness and decency... and fear of ghosts. And these ripples have now reached CAIR. All unintentionally by Charles of course, this is not in his control, he's just a pawn in the all-encompassing PC system.
We who were at the conference know that THIS IS IT. Charles will have to decide if he's going to be with us, or stay on the wrong side.
UPDATE: Paul Belien of the Brussels Journal sent Spencer this information:
It is simply not true that "Vlaams Belang's founders were Nazi collaborators in WW II."
Vlaams Belang founder Filip Dewinter was born in 1962 in a family that cannot be accused of Nazi sympathies. His father and uncle were members of the anti-German Resistance. Vlaams Belang was founded in 2004, sixty years after the end of WW II.
The Vlaams Blok, predecessor to the Vlaams Belang, was founded in 1977 by Karel Dillen (1925-2007). Mr Dillen came from a non-political background. His father, an Antwerp labourer, abandoned his wife and their two sons when when Dillen was still a baby. He was raised by his mother. Neither he, nor his brother nor his mother were involved in any political activities at all during the war, let alone that they belonged to pro-Nazi and collaborationist groups.
UPDATE: Robert Spencer responds to CAIR. Please go and read it all.
CAIR hits a new low of defamation
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has never cared much for the truth when speaking about me. The organization's spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper, has defamed me on national television, and the organization's website even featured a link, for a time, to a tissue of lies penned by a pathetic convicted felon.
But now CAIR has reached a new low, in a press release entitled, "'Islamo-Fascism' Week Speaker Meets With European 'Neo-Nazis.'"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) revealed today that the main speaker for an upcoming series of "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" lectures at university campuses nationwide recently offered a keynote address at a European gathering that included representatives of racist or "neo-Nazi" political parties.
The gathering was organized by American bloggers. It was about the Islamization of Europe. I had no hand in the selection of attendees, and was meeting most of them for the first time. No racist or neo-Nazi themes were discussed. If any of the people there are actually racists or neo-Nazis, I completely disavow them and all racist and neo-Nazi ideas. Now: will CAIR do the same thing regarding Hamas?
What's more, the real neo-Nazis of the Aryan Nations have said: "Islam is our ally, and the 1500 cults all claiming to be 'Christian' are our opposition."
Author Robert Spencer, who is scheduled to appear beginning next week at universities such as Brown, DePaul and Dartmouth, is regarded by American Muslims as one of the nation's worst Islamophobes. His virulently anti-Islam website promotes the idea that life for Muslims in the West should be made so difficult that they will leave.
Here again, there would be no "Islamophobes" if there were no Islamic jihad terrorism. The whole concept of "Islamophobia" is designed to divert attention away from Islamic terrorism and onto those who resist it. And we do not actually promote the idea that life will be made so difficult for Muslims that they will leave. In reality, I have consistently asked that American Muslim advocacy groups like CAIR help implement comprehensive programs in American mosques and Islamic schools to teach against the jihad ideology and Islamic supremacism, and that they renounce now and for the future, in deed as well as word, any intention to impose Sharia here. Why is that too much to ask? Why does that make me an "Islamophobe"?
Spencer recently spoke at a so-called "Counterjihad Brussels 2007" conference in Belgium attended by those with links to far-right parties such as Filip Dewinter of Vlaams Belang (Belgium) and Ted Ekeroth of Sverigedemokraterna (Sweden). Both parties have been accused of either having a racist platform, a neo-Nazi past or having links to neo-Nazis and other racists....
I know very little about Dewinter and virtually nothing about Ekeroth, and I am not going to be held responsible for all the ideas and associations of people with whom I shared a platform, any more than they should be held responsible for mine. It is noteworthy that the New York Times, in a profile of Dewinter, found no grounds to call him a neo-Nazi, which they surely would have if they could have. It is also perhaps worth noting that his father was in the anti-Nazi resistance. But ultimately, I said it all above: if there were any actual neo-Nazis there, I disavow them, and ask CAIR likewise to disavow the terrorists of Hamas.
Later on they quote Hugh Fitzgerald (why the quotation marks around his name?):
Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch Board Vice President "Hugh Fitzgerald" wrote on that hate site: "Only one group, only one belief-system, distinguishes itself by appearing incapable of fitting in. And that is Muslims, and Islam ... if one really knew what Islam contained ... then how could any decent person remain a Muslim?"
"Only one group, only one belief-system, distinguishes itself by appearing incapable of fitting in." Right. That's why there was a "Muslim Accommodations Task Force" (that was an MSA initiative; they're doing their best to erase all traces of it, but it's still mentioned on this Google Cached page).
UPDATE: It takes on a life of its own.
UPDATE: LGF and Vlaams Belang Conservative Swede. More light on Vlaams Belang.
