Category Archives: Anti Fascism

This is a guest post by Hugo Schmidt

Following the Breivik atrocity, the ‘counterjihad’ blogosphere had a certain amount of shuffled feet and shifty glances. One common refrain is that there is a fire of condemnation heard about the grisly acts from groups who were in the process of excusing it when it appeared to be a Jihad atrocity. That’s true, but it’s a truth that cuts both ways. Another line is that Breivik can’t be inspired by a given person because he also cites a large list of other figures including Churchill, Ghandi etc. Well, I know bad faith and casuistry when I see it. One cannot insist that various jihadist should be taken at face value when they say their religion is their inspiration and then demand that Brevik be taken at something other than his face value.

Men in blouses behaving badly? Who would have thought such a thing? Take a look at these wankers.

A debate on Islam in Amsterdam with the Canadian Irshad Manji, author of the book ‘The Islamic Dilemma’, and the parliamentarians of the Green Left Party Tofik Dibi, was disrupted on Wednesday evening by a group of radical Muslims.

The Islamists threatened and spat at Manji. Tofik Dibi accompanied Ms Manji to the police station where she filled a report. He said that “the failure of the debate shows that it is necessary also in the Netherlands to continue the debate on a free and moderate Islam.”

Finally, the police were called to remove the protesters. A police spokesman said later that two of the 22 men involved were arrested, one for threats and another for insulting the police.

This is a guest post by Hugo Schmidt

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On reading of the events in Norway, my first thoughts were, as I am sure they were of many of my readers, what has Norway done to inflame such hatred against itself? What are the root causes? How should the Labour party adjust its policies to prevent such a thing happening again? We must, of course, hope that tolerance prevails and not prefer vengeance to justice.

Okay, that was slightly harder to type than I expected. Lest anyone think I am being flippant about this disgusting atrocity (I refuse to use the word tragedy, which carries connotations of either self caused or non caused), let me point out that the above drivel has been mobilized following every atrocity by the Islamic ultra right for the last ten years. It was heard last weekend too, when Islamic fascists initially claimed responsibility for the horrifying events on that Norwegian island and in Oslo.