Hanover Sun Setting on West? Charisse's Charade

What started out slowly, is increasing with disturbing speed. The leading lights of the West - those brave, beleaguered, tenacious truth warriors (Steyn, Levant, Spencer, Bostom et al) are being put upon with fascist force. This is what the leftists do. This is how thugs operate.

West does the work. She investigates and reports the story even when it's "off message" or because it's off message I suspect (it's why I do what I do when no one else will).  The zombies don't like that and notice how they never respond with intellectual debate or discourse. Never. Ad hominem attacks, name calling and smears are their MO. The objective? Kill the messenger.

My respected colleague over at The Washington Times, Diana West, is being smeared and perhaps silenced because she reports the truth, something the media has refused to do. Now it appears that wasn't enough. Now they will crush it, silence it - eliminate it. G-d save us.

Here is West's response to this::

To the Editor:

I am responding to Editor Marc Charisse’s column about my work, a column I found striking for its mud-slinging crudity. In Charisse’s words, my work, the product of  careful research and reporting, may be summed up thus: West “never met a Muslim she didn’t hate.”  There is no more apt word than “grotesque” to describe such an irresponsible and flippant mischaracterization of my weekly column, which very often grapples with the terrible, largely unspoken reality that Western liberties—freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, equality before the law, including women’s rights and the rights of non-Muslims—are increasingly threatened by a growing deference to the laws of Islam. To underscore my point, I don’t write about “Muslims.” I write about Islam, the supremacist ideology constructed on laws (sharia) that justify censorship, repression, violence, inequality, and even maiming and murder of those whom the sharia leaves voiceless and powerless: dissenters, Muslim apostates, non-Muslims and women. I write about its agents—violent jihadists as well as soft jihadists, all of whom are working to extend the rule of this law across the non-Muslim world. And I write about politically correct non-Muslims who, as a public point of what is hailed as tolerance and inclusiveness have surrendered their common sense, their courage and, increasingly, their countries to the advance of this Islamic law.

“Pull the plug” on me if you like. But do not slander me or my work as a manifestation of hatred toward individuals. If anything, it is a manifestation of fear—fear that our liberties are not just under assault but have already been diminished, and are destined for still more restriction in that “sharp new subtext” Charisse says the recent presidential election has added “to the subject of Muslims.” Whatever that means.

I’ll take Charisse’s assessment of my work as “confrontational” as a compliment, even if he didn’t mean it that way. After all, what columnist worth his space, from Paul Krugman to Pat Buchanan, isn’t confrontational? But as for branding my ideas as “inappropriate” and “out of place”—well, isn’t that less the language of an American newsroom than an old Soviet politbureau?

Diana West

Comments

[songdongnigh]

The islamists and their dhimmis can't silence the internet and the myriad of bloggers who are defending Western Civilization. It's time for the coordinated efforts of thousands of bloggers to cross post work from our best reporters. Since the MSM is in the bag for all that would destroy our way of life, an electronic samizdat is needed to respectfully and gently inform and educate our liberal friends. Reach out to your friends and associates and keep up the momentum started by folks like Diana West, Mark Steyn, Robert Spencer, Geert Wilders, Atlas et al who shine the light of truth on the jihad tsunami that will surely crush our freedom.

If you have a blog, send your posts directly to those you know. If you don't blog, send selected writings of the great conservative writers. And if it pisses off your friends, at least they have the information.

To paraphrase: Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set Us ALL Free.

[photoncourier.blogspot.com]

"an electronic samizdat is needed to respectfully and gently inform and educate our liberal friends"...the problem is that there are millions of people for whom nothing is really REAL unless it appears either on television or in a print publication. This is especially true for people over 50 or so, including many who are otherwise intelligent.

The old media is on the decline, but it still wields great power.

[Zero]

Bravo, Diana! Confident, cool, collected, measured, and fair. You are the perfect example of the intellectual wealth which is on our side.

FountainheadZero
Come to the dark side.