Kudos to GOV
Congratulations to the venerable blog Gates of Vienna, which has just celebrated its sixth blogiversary. Though based in the US, its admins and contributors have great familiarity with the UK and European political scenes as well as that of the US. With their wealth of European correspondents, GOV has accurately been called the voice of the European counterjihad. If you haven’t been reading it every day, you’ve been missing a great deal.
The left-wing UK newspaper The Guardian, f/k/a The Manchester Guardian, a/k/a The Grauniad, is desperately trying to spin away the awareness of the dangers of Islam that has been taking hold among the public in the US and the UK.
The cat is out of the bag with regard to the true nature of Islam, and the Grauniad doesn’t like it one bit. In their article, the Grauniad blames the growth of anti-Islamism on everything except the recent actions of Muslim activists and Islamic doctrine itself. The paper is particularly upset about the English Defence League (EDL) and its participation, along with Pam Geller, Stop Islamisation of America, and members of the Tea Party movement, in the protests against the proposed Ground Zero Mosque in New York City. In their attempts to use guilt by association to cover up the truth by libeling conservatives and counterjihadists alike, the Guarniad has come to resemble nothing so much as the Chucklehead at LGF.
Gates of Vienna does a great job of calling them out on it.
GOV: The Grauniad on the EDL and the Tea Parties
I’m not going to examine the latest from The Guardian in any detail, since it’s really just more of the same. I’m just posting this article to point out the extent to which the leftist press are using the websites of ICLA and 4Freedoms — not to mention American Counterjihad sites — as sources for their reporting.
As you read through this, see if you come to the same conclusion I did: The Gnudaria doesn’t have a clue about what’s going on. They read our blogs and our forums, and they quote our words, but it’s like a deaf person reading a musical score — they have no real sense of what it all means. This is especially true of their account of what is going on here in the USA, for which they have a thoroughly tin ear:
English Defence League forges links with America’s Tea Party
As the far-right group marches in Leicester, details are emerging of growing contacts with extremist US groups in a ‘war on Islamification”
The English Defence League, a far-right grouping aimed at combating the “Islamification” of British cities, has developed strong links with the American Tea Party movement.
An Observer investigation has established that the EDL has made contact with anti-jihad groups within the Tea Party organisation and has invited a senior US rabbi and Tea Party activist to London this month. Rabbi Nachum Shifren, a regular speaker at Tea Party conventions, will speak about Sharia law and also discuss funding issues.
The league has also developed links with Pamela Geller, who was influential in the protests against plans to build an Islamic cultural centre near Ground Zero. Geller, darling of the Tea Party’s growing anti-Islamic wing, is advocating an alliance with the EDL. The executive director of the Stop Islamisation of America organisation, she recently met EDL leaders in New York and has defended the group’s actions, despite a recent violent march in Bradford…
The conclusion that I reach is that the Grauniad (and the rest of the leftist press) not only has no clue about what is going on, but also that they actively avoid getting a clue. They are afraid of the truth because they would have to abandon their entire world view, start over from scratch, and learn to identify, and be ready to fight for, everything that is truly worthwhile. As everyone can see from my own nom de guerre, the year of the Battle of Kosovo, such a prospect holds no terrors for me, but it sure does scare the leftists who put their faith only in the futile strategy of appeasement.
