He Tolls for Thee..
If Thee believe that Islam is just like any other religion, that Christianity is just as violent (or not) as Islam, that the Bible is just as bad (or good) as the Koran, that violent Jihadis have hijacked the "religion of peace", or any other such pabulum.
For this is a wowie-zowie moment!
In a left-of-centre website, The Daily Kos, the left-of-centre columnist, Eric Allen Bell writes some truth about Islam and its apologist website Loonwatch.com.
Bell's article is here.
I've had my own run ins with Loonwatch here. They really do censor their site, allowing comments only if they are supportive of their line, or critical ones only if they then have the last word and allow no refutation.
Bell is even more coruscating in his criticism than I have been. EG:
If Thee believe that Islam is just like any other religion, that Christianity is just as violent (or not) as Islam, that the Bible is just as bad (or good) as the Koran, that violent Jihadis have hijacked the "religion of peace", or any other such pabulum.
For this is a wowie-zowie moment!
In a left-of-centre website, The Daily Kos, the left-of-centre columnist, Eric Allen Bell writes some truth about Islam and its apologist website Loonwatch.com.
Bell's article is here.
I've had my own run ins with Loonwatch here. They really do censor their site, allowing comments only if they are supportive of their line, or critical ones only if they then have the last word and allow no refutation.
Bell is even more coruscating in his criticism than I have been. EG:
After over a year of communication with Loonwatch.com in the making of "Not Welcome" I have come to the realization that this organization is fundamentally a radical Islamic front, covering up for terrorism, spreading distorted information about the reality of rapidly spreading Islamic fundamentalism - through lies of omission. To tell a half truth is to tell a lie and the lie that Loonwatch.com tells everyday is to cover up the atrocities within Islam and only focus on attacking its critics. [source]And he makes a remarkable mea culpa:
I have only recently come around to a hopefully more expansive point of view. When I finally read one of your [Robert Spencer] books for the first time, I kept waiting for the part where you would prove yourself to be a "Loon" so that I could stop reading, but that never happened :)
I watched the documentary, "Islam: What the West Needs to Know" and wanted so badly to prove wrong what I had seen and heard - but I could not. This was not only humbling but it has caused me to really rethink and rethink the possibility that perhaps the truth is not politically correct. [source]The JihadWatch post on Bell has interesting comments and discussion on whether the anti-jihad movement is, or should be, a Left vs Right thing. See the discussion here, especially the posts of "Tolerance Lives", et. seq. I agree with the line that it should not be a left/right thing, as what it's about is freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, equal rights for women and minorities. In other words, it's all about basic human rights that have been hard-won over centuries in the West. These are Rights that -- by rights -- should be the concern of the Left, but the "rights" of a fundamentally intolerant religion to oppress its women and minorities, have trumped the greater human rights, in the minds of too many on the Left. The more that open their eyes to the reality of a fundamentally intolerant ideology, the better.
