No, I’m not quitting blogging (the hiatus has been down to some personal matters), but I am throwing up my hands in despair.<\/p>\n
In the past, I’ve been deeply worried about the fact that resistance to Islamic imperialism was being infiltrated by worrying forces.\u00a0\u00a0I felt despair when Wilders decided to make common cause with Le Pen and Strache.\u00a0 I still share those concerns – but I find that I cannot condemn people from taking that part any longer.<\/p>\n
I’m worried about what might be found at the fringes of fringe movements – but just look at what the mainstream does right out in the open.\u00a0 Following the slaughter of Charlie Hebdo, what was the response?\u00a0 Gary Trudeau deciding the blame the murdered<\/a> for their deaths, and the rancid Glenn Greenwald\u00a0deciding that the appropriate response to a string of anti-Semitic murders is to republish the vilest anti-Semitic cartoons.<\/p>\n This is like seeing “simple Sambo” or “Jim Crow” cartoons published in response to lynching or the murder of Dr King.\u00a0 And this is the mainstream.<\/p>\n Take the recent shooting in Garland.\u00a0 Let us grant for the moment and for the sake of the argument, that Pamela Geller is the bigot and crank her attackers make out.\u00a0 The question then arises: isn’t it a shame and a disgrace that only a bigot and a crank is willing to defy violent censorship?\u00a0 That the entire “moderate, liberal” mainstream ducks the elementary responsibility of solidarity, the one that certain puffball atheists proclaim loudly and then run away from when it gets rough?<\/p>\n I’ve had a furious disagreement with Bosch Fawstin<\/a> in the past, but he has shown more courage and principle in this affair than any mainstream cartoonist or writer\u00a0I can think of.<\/p>\n If the mainstream is like this, how can I in good conscience argue against those principally under threat making whatever compromises they see fit?<\/p>\n I don’t think that for every hundred words slamming the Garland contest I have found one that condemns the would-be murderers.\u00a0 The\u00a0line\u00a0is that opinion<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0is a sign of bigotry, but murder<\/em>\u00a0is not.\u00a0 Have you ever heard any of those wailing about Islamophobia show the slightest concern for Islam’s victims?<\/p>\n There are assaults on Jews all over Europe, at the hands not of neo-Nazis, but Muslim fanatics.\u00a0 And the only response from all those boundlessly tolerant people is to explain that this is all\u00a0 justified – sorry “understandable because of Israel”.\u00a0 The most defence they can expect is\u00a0a line or two deploring it, followed by several pages of excuses.\u00a0 So how can I blame European Jews for joining PEGIDA<\/a>?\u00a0 And not just Jews – we have attacks on Germany’s Yezidi community <\/a>by Muslim jihadis, something that the mainstream studiously ignores.\u00a0 It is not hard to find calls for the deaths of Hindus and Christians, either.\u00a0 And PEGIDA is one of the few groups demanding that infidel\u00a0refugees fleeing ISIS and the rest of the Islamic world be granted refuge in Germany\/<\/p>\n In Britain there is FGM and honour killings and mass rape covered up out of fears that opposing Islamic rape is racist.\u00a0 So how can I blame Anne Marie Waters for joining UKIP?<\/p>\n How can I blame anyone from siding with Putin when, for all that he is a sinister\u00a0tyrant,\u00a0he seems the only major world leader who gives a damn about the slaughter of Middle East Christians?<\/p>\n How can I blame Wilders for his alliances when all he wants is the day when he can live freely, without twenty-four hour armed guard in his own country?<\/p>\n I know all the objections – I’ve made them all before myself – but I find a feeling of total helplessness descends.\u00a0 Take those Jews joining PEGIDA – how can I blame them, especially when their presence may counteract the influence of genuine fascists?<\/p>\n I’ll continue to argue against\u00a0many of these positions but I cannot blame, even slightly, people for taking them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No, I’m not quitting blogging (the hiatus has been down to some personal matters), but I am throwing up 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