ext_89920 ([identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] realthog 2008-07-07 11:31 pm (UTC)

It's very easy to sensationalise, much harder to point out the truth. Right now Muslims are being demonised in the English-speaking world,for no better reason than to ensure that a few right-wing kooks get elected and that the Dirty Digger sells some papers and gets some advertising revenue. If you look at web sites like Atlas Shrugs or Little Green Footballs the hatred is palpable, and it is based on circulating falsehoods like these. Or worse: Pamela Geller, the blogger at Atlas Shrugs, was willing to make common cause with the Vlaamse Belang, some of whose older members worked with Leon Degrelle in the 1940s. When this was pointed out to her she dismissed this saying 'Who in Europe didn't collaborate with the Nazis?' (I have a little list.) From a pro-Zionist Jew, who seems to think that every Palestinian is out to exterminate the Jewish people, that's a bit much.

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