An Anti-Idiotarian no longer.
by Baron Bodissey
It’s a sad day here at Gates of Vienna. Charles Johnson removed us from his blogroll — his list of “anti-idiotarians” — at Little Green Footballs.
I’ve written quite a bit over the last few months about the tendency within the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2209 the common enemy.
I’m not going to address the specific content of the controversy over http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1810. We (CVF, that is) have spent the last week or so compiling substantive information, some of which has already been posted at the CVF blog, and other materials from the Brussels conference are available at Counterjihad Europa. Everyone will be free to look at the available information and make his or her own judgment, as I did when I was in Antwerp and Brussels.
Image: Vlaams Belang heretic Filip http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1751 is attacked by cops. He’s too “extreme” for the neocons and their cynical agenda.One of the unavoidable aspects of building an action coalition is that — assuming you want to be successful, and not simply doctrinally pure — you must form operational alliances with groups or people that you don’t agree with on everything. Any successful politician, academic, or group leader has to do the same.
There is a thousand times more evidence suggesting that U.S. Senator Robert Byrd is a neo-Nazi than there is for Filip Dewinter. But I would ally myself in a heartbeat with Sen. Byrd were he — fat chance — to resolutely oppose the Great Jihad.
Robert Spencer got the largest burst of applause when concluded his after-dinner speech at the Counterjihad Summit in Brussels with these words:
“One thing I would ask in appeal, in conclusion, is that we avoid what has been called the narcissism of small differences. There are many different ways, different strategies, that we may have, and I find altogether too often that we have this tiny group of people who are aware of the problem, and yet we’re sniping at one another — I’m not speaking of the people in this room — but sniping at one another, and tearing one another down because we don’t have exactly the same program as the other guy.”
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2007/10/narcissism-of-small-differences.html#readfurther
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2209
This is how Western Voices sees the attempt to censor the anti-jihad debate, and we’re speaking for ourselves, not for Gates of Vienna or anyone else (unlike LGF and their neocon allies we don’t dismiss everyone out of hand because we may happen to disagree on some issues): The reason why the neocons fear and hate the nationalist opposition to Islamism is because the nationalists are genuine about their concerns, while the neocons are cynically working a separate agenda. What motivates the neocons is Israel, not the immediate demographic threat Europe faces from Islam. Indeed, the neocons largely support the very multiculturalism that has made the Islamic problem so acute. Unlike the neocons, nationalist opposition to Islam is rooted in the need to defend the West from a predatory religion that has repeatedly attacked our homelands ever since the Muslim hordes burst out of the Arabian peninsula, beginning with the Patriarchal Caliphate in 632 AD and continuing today as immigration. Israel is a latecomer to this struggle, and if Israel ceased to exist tomorrow Europe would still have to contend with an enormous, fecund Islamic population within her own heartlands. For the Zionist neocons to seek to police the anti-Islamist movement and dictate who may and may not speak out against the Islamic threat is the sign both of their hubris and of their awareness that a European resurgence based at least in part on a crusade against Islam in Europe will re-ignite European self-awareness and endanger the multicult edifice, something those operating as neocons fear much more than Islam itself.
In this latest smear campaign, the neocons have fallen back on the old ADL tactic of making ad hominem attacks on people, instead of deigning to grapple with ideas. The use of buzzwords and paranoid conspiracy thinking is more than merely distasteful or dishonest. It is an admission of moral and ideological bankruptcy.