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Home Front: WoT
LGF hops into bed with CAIR
2009-07-10
Posted by:tipper

#7  Prnews prints anything people pay them to print. They are primarily a PR outlet for business news. In this case the entire article was written by CAIR. See:
SOURCE Council on American-Islamic Relations
Posted by: ed   2009-07-10 19:52  

#6  Just provided for the sake of comparison... during the "Republicans need to have a sense of humor" post about a month back, he banned about two or three people, and seems oblivious to the irony involved.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2009-07-10 19:00  

#5  A couple years back, DMFD, it was perhaps at that level. Now it involves invoking levels of guilt-by-association that are truly bizarre. IMHO.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2009-07-10 18:59  

#4  Charles has some concerns about the wisdom (or lack thereof) of an alliance of convenience with Euro-fascists. Any political movement or ideology attracts it's share of parasites, losers, con-men, and extremists. The choice is to ignore them (and risk being delegitimised) or to "take out your own garbage". For counter-example, please see the Democrats + ACORN.
Posted by: DMFD   2009-07-10 17:26  

#3  Cherles' "problem" is mostly concerned with Spencer's involvement with European anti-islamist movements - most noteably Brussels Journal and his long running feud with Fjordman. Seems to be an extended case of guilt by association. It's now beyond tediouis, even to the point of him accusing Pamela Geller of being in bed with neonazis. Yawn.

That said - I highly douibt Charles is having anything to do with CAIR. He may have thin skin, but I can't see him ever going over to the Darkside.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2009-07-10 14:48  

#2  Doesn't sound as if LGF is directly collaborating, but rather that some wire service I've never heard of was collating a bunch of unrelated links on the subject of Spencer & his alleged islamophobia. Dunno whether it's true or not - I've never followed Jihadwatch - but this seems to be a teapot-contained weather system.

Note that the wire service text calls Johnson another "islamophobe", thus playing up the "testimony against interest" card.

Have I mentioned recently how much I dislike the slur "Islamophobe"? It's an ugly neologism on an aesthetic level, and it's an encapsulation of an ideological stance on an memetic level. Better to just call someone a bigot instead, if you have to throw around insults.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2009-07-10 13:54  

#1  Charles has had some long-standing concerns about Robert Spencer.
Posted by: Steve White   2009-07-10 13:40  

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