What follows is an essay by Fjordman on what I consider to be the dangerous, almost lethal hypocrisy of bloggers, pundits and their followers on the right who have taken up against brave men and women fighting the spread of Islamic supremacism taking over their respective countries . What began as an assault on the transatlantic Counter Jihad movement in October of last year, has metastasized. Just this past weekend, a small group of peaceful protesters were set upon and Jews were beaten while being called "Nazis" and "fascists"
during what was to be a peaceful protest against the islamification of
Europe.This is pure evil at its most base. I believe this polemic had a hand in
empowering these thugs. Who are the Nazis, the fascists? It certainly infected the already poisonous leftist/Islamic narrative.
Then, as now, I am confounded by the irrational position of those in the blogosphere that point fingers at those fighting the scourge of Islamic imperialism in Europe and America (myself included). In covering the spread of the global jihad, I am steeped in the evil of the hegemony of Islam, sharia law and the stealth jihad. One does not not have to go far to find hatred of the West, anti-semitism,and the careful dismantling of our freedoms everyday. Evil is all around us so it is nonsensical to me to spend unlimited energy trying to find an incriminating "gotcha" moment or smoking gun on folks like Filip Dewinter who have put themselves and their families at great risk to fight the leftist/Islamic alliance and align themselves with Israel.
In late 2007 and early 2008, I was involved
in a heated argument with the American blog Little Green Footballs and its owner
Charles Johnson. I haven't been thinking much about it since then because it
consumed too much energy and I found it to be a waste of time. However, recent
events have caused me to look at these issues once more. In the city of
Cologne (Köln), Germany, a scheduled anti-Islamization
demonstration was disrupted by an unholy alliance of Eurabian Multicultural
elites and extreme Leftist "anti-Fascists." As Thomas
Landen puts it in The Brussels
Journal:
"Last weekend's events in Cologne demonstrate what European
conservatives are up against. A conference protesting the building of a mega
mosque run by Turkish radicals was violently disrupted by thugs who gained the
approval of the local German authorities and the German media. The international
media, including the so-called 'conservative' media, have either not written
about the Cologne incidents or done so by branding the conservatives as
'Neo-Nazis' and the thugs as ordinary citizens bravely fighting back 'Nazism.'
An example of the latter can be found in
The Times of London."
According to magazine Der
Spiegel, "an estimated 40,000 protesters turned up in Cologne's downtown Heumarkt area, many
wearing clown suits, to disrupt the rally. They blocked urban trains to keep
delegates away and raided a tourist boat shaped like a whale - called the 'Moby
Dick' - where the far-right gathering had been hoping to hold a press
conference. A Pro Cologne spokesman said, 'Stones, bricks and paint bombs were
thrown and the panoramic windows of the Moby Dick were shattered.' Police
cancelled the rally after 45 minutes. Pro Cologne organizers had to dismantle
microphones and other equipment in Heumarkt while the overwhelmed riot cops
tried to hold back the crowd of protesters."
According to Der Spiegel,
Police had prepared for about 1,500 far-right
activists, organized by the local 'Pro Cologne' movement, to make a public show
of discussing what
they called the 'Islamization' of Europe."
As the esteemed American writer and columnist Diana
West commented: "The suggestion here is that no non-'far-right activist'
could possibly be so 'far right' as to imagine Europe is being Islamized….The point of the anti-Islamization rally was rational discussion.
But Cologne proved it values neither reason nor discussion.
'The city was ready.' For mob rule."
The supposedly
conservative newspaper Die Welt put up an online poll
asking their readers whether they thought it was OK to ban the anti-Islamization
demonstration. According to the major blog Politically
Incorrect, as of midnight
86% disagreed with this policy. Suddenly, in the middle of the night, thousands
of votes miraculously came in and the poll ended with exactly 50% in favor of
the ban. Die Welt deleted the comment section because many comments
criticized the decision to ban the Pro Cologne meeting.
Several eyewitnesses who
were present this weekend were shocked by the
behavior of the police, who in their eyes seemed to be acting as a surrogate of
the left-wing "antifa" groups (supposedly anti-Fascists, although they tend to
behave pretty much exactly like Fascists).
Aviel,
a Jewish man who was beaten up in Cologne on 20 September, explains:
"My [Jewish] friend, Michael Kucherov was the first casualty
here on Friday. He got beaten up for trying to enter the first of our [=Pro
Cologne] meetings on Friday. I sorely resent myself for not being there at that
time for him. It rips me apart to hear about a Jew being beaten up in the
streets of Germany. Well he
wouldn't be the only Jew. The next day as I was trying to enter Heumarkt, I was
beaten up by Antifa thugs on Eibahnstrasse. In both incidents, as we were being
beaten up, they were yelling and screaming 'Nazi' which was quite odd. Michael
dressed in a suit but I was wearing my kippa and quite easily identified as a
Jew so you can understand how odd it seems to be beaten by Germans in the street
and called Nazi when you are Jewish. Anyway, I am going home with a broken rib
but my pride still intact. I could have tried to escape or run but no way no how
and I going to run or get on my knees for these people. Not this Jew. And one
more thing, just let them all know that we (Jews) aren't all soft. Living here
in Europe, we battle thugs and
islamists all the time and still ask for more. That's why I traveled from
France to Germany to make this conference. We are on
the frontline of a battle which grows darker by the minute."
A Norwegian man blogging under the name maalmannen experienced something similar and
posted many photos
from the event:
"On several occasions, I observed people trying to join the
demonstration being attacked and chased away by the leftist
counter-demonstration. In one case, an old woman carrying a lot of
anti-Islamization posters was attacked by a gang of Antifa activists. The rest
of the crowd shouted 'Nazis raus' [Nazis out] when these criminals attacked the
old frau and took all her posters away from her, and then ordered her to
leave or risk more attacks."
Spanish writer AMDG from the blog La
Yijad en Eurabia adds his observations:
"It was obviously not possible to enter the
Heumarkt. I tried one of the narrow streets of the old city; there was a line of
antifas with black clothing and sun glasses. They have even dared to place one
of those plastic red-white stripes in front of them. I told one of them that I
wanted to cross, they say no way. One of them spoke Spanish, and I ask her
whether she was any authority, she confirmed it 'we are the authority'. A line
of anti-riot police agents was only two meters behind them. I can not find a
better image of the creeping Eurabian fascism: The police not only do not
confront them, they cover their backs. Alternatively, we may think that the
antifa-lefty militants are just the stormtroopers (Sturmabteilung?) of the
formal police."
A number of those demonstrating for
"democracy" and against "extremism" were Communists. I guess a hundred million
dead victims of Communism in a few generations isn't a sign of extremism. Some
also carried anti-Israeli slogans and merchandise using the icon of Marxist mass
murderer and torturer Che Guevara. It is well-known that hardline Marxist
organizations are still strong and influential
in Germany, as in many other
countries.
Many of those present noticed the
militant-looking black outfits of some of the extreme Leftist demonstrators,
which seemed to match closely with their attitudes. Since the term "Fascist"
these days appears to be reserved for anti-Islamists and "racist" critics of
mass immigration in general and Muslim immigration in particular, it is
challenging to find a proper term for the militant antifa crowd. "Red Nazis"
could be useful, but perhaps "blackshirts" is most appropriate, alluding to
their black clothing and uniforms.
According to AMDG, "I think that we should
repeat this rally every year. We need to show the Europeans that the Nazis and
the fascists are the lefties. We can only make it by insisting. We need to join
also the counterdemo with banners showing verses of the Koran."
The decision to silence the
demonstration against Islamization was supported by local authorities as well as
national and probably supranational ones. Thomas Steg, spokesman for German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, stated that Berlin favored
"inter-cultural dialogue." The German Interior
Ministry, too, criticized the rally, stating that "Such a gathering of populists
and extremists harms the co-existence that the city and Muslim citizens have
striven for."
Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma, from the same "conservative"
Christian Democratic Party (CDU) as Chancellor Merkel,
said on public radio
that "We don't want their conference and along with a great majority of
Cologne people we'll be
obstructing them."
In my view, Cologne Mayor Fritz Schramma is a dhimmi
collaborator. His actions betray his city, his country and his civilization.
This was a shameful act of cowardice and appeasement of the Nazis of our time.
The true heirs of the Nazis and the Communists, both in totalitarian mentality
and in methods, were the blackshirt left-wingers who were present this day, not
those who demonstrated against the Islamization of their continent. Schramma
should resign immediately. It is nothing less than an international disgrace
that after Germany has been
freed from the Nazis and the Communists, the authorities in a major city in the
largest country in Europe kneel
to totalitarian thugs and allow them to rule the streets.
The blackshirts were deliberately allowed by the authorities
to harass those who are critical of the official pro-Islamic policies. This
confirms my long-held suspicion that the extreme Leftist thugs who assault
immigration-critics in certain countries are a prolonged arm of the state. The
"anti-Fascists" AFA in Sweden,
for instance, openly brag about regular physical attacks against people they
don't like. They have been doing this for years. The media and the authorities
know about it and do nothing. They like it, plain and simple.
The state-sponsored organization Expo in Sweden co-published a book with AFA on
critics of mass immigration. Expo has now provided
their material to the largest political party in the country, the Social
Democrats, for use against their political rivals. The
"respectable," state-funded organization Antirasistisk Senter, the Antiracist
Center in Norway, at their home page link to AFA Stockholm, which they call "militant Swedish
anti-Fascists." So they do know they are "militant," but not so much that they
won't link to them. They also link to Antifaschistische Aktion (AFA) in
Berlin,
some of whose members were probably among the brave "anti-Fascists" who
assaulted "racist" old ladies and Jewish "Nazis" in Cologne.
The other organizations mentioned indicate that these are recommended links, not
just "relevant links." This is met with silence from the mass media and the
political class.
Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv has earlier
exposed the fact that the largest "anti-racist" organization in the country,
SOS Rasisme, was heavily infiltrated by Communists in the late 1980s and early
90s, in other words, during the downfall of Communism in Eastern
Europe.
They went directly from Communism to Multiculturalism, which indicates that some
of them view Multiculturalism as the continuation of Communism by other
means.
The state-funded Islamic Council of Norway admit that they receive
"guidance" from the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader Yusuf al-Qaradawi and
his Fatwa Council, who are debating whether or not gays should be killed, among
other things. He has also supported suicide bombings and marriage to girls aged
nine years old. Meanwhile, a Socialist named Lars Gule, who was once arrested
traveling to the Jewish state of Israel with dynamite in his backpack with the
intention of blowing up stuff, suggested on a major blog that the security
services should have me under surveillance because I am a dangerous "right-wing
extremist."
One of the foreign visitors, the Flemish
politician Filip Dewinter, criticized Cologne Mayor
Schramma and compared him to Freddy Thielemans, the Socialist Mayor of Brussels,
Belgium, who in 2007 and 2008 banned demonstrations commemorating the 2001 9/11
terror victims in the USA because he didn't want to upset the local Muslims.
"Brussels and Cologne have mayors who kneel and submit to
Islamization," Dewinter said.
I checked the front page of the major American "anti-Jihad"
website Little Green Footballs (LGF) from Friday 19 to Tuesday September 23 2008 to check what
blogger Charles Johnson wrote about the demonstration. As far as I could see, he
remained completely silent on the subject, yet there is no doubt that he was
aware of the event. On Sep 8 he wrote about "Fascists Hijacking Anti-Jihadism in Cologne" and stated that "Here we go
again, as an all-star cast of European fascists hijacks the anti-jihad movement
for their own sick political purposes."
One of these "Fascist bastards" (Johnson's words) was
Dewinter, with his "Cities against islamisation" project. Mr. Johnson himself
noted that the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, hardly a beacon of
tolerance and enlightenment, urged the European Union (not Germany, interestingly enough) to intervene
and stop this planned "anti-Islamic" meeting, and Johnson concluded that "The
Iranian mullahs couldn't have asked for better propaganda."
The Iranians put
pressure on the EU several times and summoned the French ambassador
- France held the rotating
presidency of the EU - to expressed deep concern over the EU's lenient behavior
toward anti-Islamic sentiments in Europe and suggested that European authorities prohibited the conference.
Shouldn't the "anti-Jihadist" Johnson and his followers be concerned over the
fact that they end up on the same side as a repressive and terrorist-sponsoring
Islamic state against Westerners fighting for their freedom? Apparently
not.
Just a few days before this, the "Fascist
bastard" Filip
Dewinter received the "Oriana Fallaci Prize" in Florence for his work with
"Cities Against Islamisation," among other things. The
prize is named after the courageous Italian Islam-critical
journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci. The irony is that Mr. Johnson kept a photo
of Fallaci on his frontpage for several years, but at the time of writing, this
photo has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. I guess Fallaci was a Fascist,
too, just like Dewinter, myself and everybody else who doesn't believe in the
myth of a moderate Islam. Dutch politician Geert Wilders does not appear to
believe in the existence of a moderate Islam, either. When will LGF declare him
a Fascist?
The LGF-crowd thinks that Europeans must
prove that we are 100% "ideologically pure" before we should be granted the
right to fight for our continued existence. Imagine if a house is on fire. The
fire brigade has just arrived to put out the fire, but the neighbor won't allow
them to use the local water because he fears it may be impure. He will only
accept that they use holy water - distilled holy water - and only if it has been
blessed by a lesbian priest who supports voting rights for illegal immigrants.
Since the firefighters don't have this available, the house burns down, but the
neighbor takes comforting in knowing that at least the remaining ash is
ideologically pure. This is Little Green Football's attitude to the threat faced
by the Western world. In fact, their attitude is to say that the water is more
dangerous than the fire itself, and to beat the firefighters with their
umbrellas while screaming "Fascist bastards!"
The thinking seems to be that if you scratch any random
European there is usually a Nazi lurking underneath, just waiting to get out.
There are only two possible versions of Europeans: the surrender-monkeys and the
Nazis. If we are not the former, then it follows by logic that we have to be the
latter. This attitude betrays an all-pervasive hatred that demonizes absolutely
anything Europeans do to protect their dignity and heritage. It closely mirrors
Multiculturalism, which is an anti-Western, but especially anti-European, hate
ideology
One of the reasons why hardcore anti-Semites (David Duke would be
a case in point) are unreliable allies is that they hate Jews so much that it
shuts down the rational parts of their brain and they end up making common cause
with Muslims, based on mutual hatred. The same logic applies to hardcore
anti-Europeans, of which there are many even at "conservative" websites such as
LGF. They have an irrational hatred, a dark cloud in their minds which prevents
them from seeing the world clearly. In a way, some LGF-ers thus have more in
common with David Duke than they'd like to admit. If mindless anti-Semitism and
anti-Americanism should be considered a problem then so should mindless
anti-Europeanism.
This weekend, we witnessed how violent thugs threatened,
assaulted and in some cases beat up people they disagreed with, several of them
Jews. These "anti-Fascist" blackshirts are closely related to the violent
totalitarian movements of past generations, in their dress code, mentality and
willingness to silence freedom of speech by brute force. In short, they resemble
Fascists and Communists (some of them were Communists). What has Little Green
Footballs, which never misses an opportunity to denounce "Fascists," written
about this? So far, absolutely nothing. There are indeed people who behave like
Fascists in Europe, and they
receive tacit support from LGF while their victims are denounced as
"Fascists."
I have watched, for the better part of a year, a number of
decent human beings including, but not limited to, Pamela Geller, Paul Belien,
Diana West, the Baron and Dymphna from the Gates of Vienna blog and many others,
being at the receiving end of a vicious smear campaign from Charles Johnson and
Little Green Footballs which is unlike anything I have seen in my life. After
engaging in an insane witch-hunt on imaginary Fascists, whose ranks seem to grow
every month, Mr. Johnson now suddenly chooses to look the other way in silence
when very real Fascists use violence to silence their critics in a major Western
city. I admit that makes me angry, and I think I have the right to be
so.
The time has now come for Mr. Johnson to apologize in public
to the numerous people he has smeared since the fall of 2007, starting with the
ones I have mentioned above. It's not their credibility that's on the line here.
It's his. If he continues to undermine those confronting Islamic infiltration,
it will become increasingly difficult for LGF to present itself as an anti-Jihad
website at all. At some point, the rapidly shrinking number of people in the
northern hemisphere who haven't been banned from the site yet will be forced to
ask themselves whether the website and its owner have simply switched teams and
joined the Dark Side.
Other parties can ignore wild-eyed accusations
from the fringe. But let someone allege a VB Nazi salute or a VB neo-Nazi book
fair, and Vlaams Belang is presumed guilty until it proves itself innocent —
which it never really can.
The hard Left has orchestrated this little game, and we are
suckers for falling into their trap. They have us right where they want us —
chasing all these Nazi spectres down dark alleys to try to make them disappear.
Every day the leftists release another one from their patented Nazi Spectre
Generator™, and off we go a-haring after it.
