That’s how Jon Randal describes the bloggers who exposed the “death” of Muhammad al-Dura as a sham. Anne-Elisabeth Moutet asks how Charles Enderlin and French 2 TV perpetrated a fraud, and finds a culture of unaccountability and closing ranks that has little interest in the truth.
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“Vindictive pressure groups interfering with news organizations”
Posted in Europe, Politics, Truth, tagged al-Dura, blogs, Enderlin, Middle East on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Multicultural Paradox
Posted in Europe, tagged immigration, multiculturalism on April 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Fjordman points out a paradox in multicultural orthodoxy: Indigenous peoples’ resistance to the arrival of people from other parts of the world, with other cultures, was noble in the past, but it’s racist today. The Sioux were justified in trying to defend their homeland—but the Danes and Serbs aren’t.
War by Other Means
Posted in Europe, Politics, national security, war, tagged Europe, immigration, Kosovo, self-determination, war on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
David Warren:
My rule of thumb, on wars, is to fight them with your enemies, when absolutely necessary; but never with your friends, and in particular, never in order to create new enemies.
It is worth thinking carefully about the Clinton-Bush policy in the Balkans, which so far has led to the alienation of Russia, the creation [...]
Homeschooling: Nein!
Posted in Education, Europe, tagged Germany, Homeschooling on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s illegal to homeschool children in Germany. Parents who attempt it risk having their assets seized and their children taken away and placed in foster care. Hitler sponsored this law in 1938 to see to it that no one could escape Nazi indoctrination. Now, German and EU bureaucrats defend it to see [...]
Kosovo Independence
Posted in Europe, foreign policy, tagged Europe, Kosovo, Serbia on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Joshua Trevino describes the impending Kosovo declaration of independence.
In the two-and-a-half months of war in 1999, Serbian authorities did terrible things to Kosovar Albanians. The war precipitated the very crisis that the West imagined, but had not actually come to pass: the “ethnic cleansing,” via mass expulsions, of Kosovo of its Muslims. But in the [...]
European Multiculturalism in Practice
Posted in Europe, tagged Europe, immigration, multiculturalism on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Consider this juxtaposition. Fjordmann reports:
The EU’s Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini states that Europe must relax its immigration controls and open the door to an extra 20 million “Africans and Asians” during the next two decades. Most of these “Africans and Asians” come from the predominantly Muslim countries of North Africa and the [...]
