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Anti-jihadists vs. Anti-jihadists: Something Else at Work
By Julia Gorin – Reprinted with permission.
When the scholar and author Srdja Trifkovic was turned back at the Vancouver airport on Feb. 24 — after a Bosnian-Muslim organization called The Institute for Research of Genocide in Canada alerted authorities that a “genocide denier” was within their borders — Greater Islam and its useful idiots saw an opportunity, and pounced.
The name “Trifkovic” rang a bell in the head of a young writer named Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, who quickly recalled that anti-jihadist Robert Spencer had written supportively of him and his work in the past. Hearing that Trifkovic didn’t buy into the Srebrenica Genocide, al-Tamimi saw a path to killing two birds with one stone. And went digging for dirt.
Soon enough, he found something, or as close to something as one can find on Dr. Trifkovic. What he found was a symposium that Trifkovic, a paleoconservative, had participated in last year on a radical Right website called Alt Right, responding to the question: Is the traditionalist, paleoconservative Right anti-Semitic, as is popularly perceived? The moderator of the panel was a Jewish paleocon named Eugene Girin. Joining Trifkovic was Paul Gottfried, also a Jewish paleocon, and the third panelist was well-known anti-Semitic paleocon Taki Theodoracopulos.
Reading the following paragraphs in the Trifkovic essay, al-Tamimi thought he’d caught the man red-handed in the act of Jew-hating…
The ensuing brouhaha was very reminiscent of the infamous “Vlaams Belang” episode at the fever swamp. Julia Gorin, who is Jewish, does an excellent job of showing why none of Dr. Trifkovic’s comments can be construed as anti-Semitic.
Ironically, Emir Ramic, the Bosnian Muslim libelist who played the biggest role in stopping Dr. Trifkovic from speaking in Canada, is both a jihadi and an anti-Semite.
I am posting this because it appears that our enemies have found a way to drive wedges into the counterjihad movement and to set us against one another, so as to render us ineffective. It is high time we stop allowing ourselves to be jerked around in this way.
Yes, I know that many people on this blog are put off by the term “paleoconservative,” and not without cause. The “paleoconservative” designation was adopted some time ago by a mixed bag of conservatives who wished to distinguish themselves both from the “neocons” associated with PNAC (Project for a New American Century) and from libertarians. Unfortunately, the term “paleoconservative” became tainted because some (though certainly not all) of that group were anti-Semitic or anti-Israel. In the case of Dr. Trifkovic, who supports Israel and the Jews, the term “conservative traditionalist” would perhaps be more accurate.
I have met Dr. Srdja Trifkovic in person more than once. I have heard him speak. I have read two books and many articles that he has written. It is clear to me that Dr. Trifkovic is no anti-Semite, but rather, a gentleman, a respected scholar, and a hero of free speech, of the counterjihad, and of the Serbian people.
It is time for all of us who are part of the counterjihad to stop allowing our enemies to set us against one another. Instead, it is time for us to cooperate, to stand together, and, above all, to avoid repeating any unfounded accusations.
Update: This is an open thread. Because of the breaking news having to do with Libya, the nuclear reactors in Japan, and other matters, feel free to discuss whatever you like.
