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I guess my disenchantment with blogging is obvious for some time now. During the last weeks I went through an intense thought process. It started with a campaign in the mainstream media here in Germany against Islam-critical blogs and specifically against the most-read political blog in Germany, Politically Incorrect.
A lot of what a reader from abroad needs to know about the German blogger scene, including my stance on Politically Incorrect, I wrote here already.
After Stefan Herre, the owner of PI received threats following an article in the MSM he considered serious enough to leave the country for a while, I found that enough was enough. I think my blogging efforts are more needed at home than abroad.
The demented "war" between Islam-critical bloggers has strengthened that decision. If an original and unique thinker like Fjordman is vilified by other Islam-critics among the major bloggers, something stinks. But then, and as far as the German scene is concerned, maybe it was naive to assume that bloggers who range from those who have been moved into action because of the imminent threat to Israel and somewhat grudgingly concede that Germany will have to be saved in the process as well, and those who are acting out of exactly the opposite reasons and equally grudgingly concede that Israel will have to be saved together with Germany and the rest of the West, between the "anti-German" Israel-friendly Left at one end and those just stopping short of hating Jews to a self-destructive extent at the other, will ever feel that they have a common cause.
I will by no means delete Roncesvalles and go on publishing the odd brief snippet of information, and if it is of interest to an international readership, I will come back and post it here.
I am not quite sure what I will do yet. What I will certainly not do is going on blogging as The Editrix at a new German blog, because most of my friends of various degrees know my real identity anyway, as The Editrix had always been a gimmick and not an attempt at anonymity. Maybe I will start a new German blog of my own, maybe I will go on as co-blogger somewhere, should somebody want me.
However, thanks to all the -- considering -- amazingly many who read my blog over the years, most (I hope) sympathetically, some less so. But thanks anyway.
- I've Got A New Blog
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- Innocents Abroad Or Fool's Paradise
There is a major brouhaha going on among "Islam critics" because Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have announced that they may attend the Anti-Islamization Congress of the German Pro-Köln movement in May. Invectives are bandied about liberally and there...
- The German "rathergate"
The following was reported by the Transatlantic Conservative blog today. The German blog Politically Incorrect (PI) has published a video and an audio tape of a political chat show broadcast by the public (state owned) ARD TV station. Here, the German...
- A Rare German Gem
I have often quoted the German blog Lizas Welt ("Views on Politics and Football") as my all-time favourite. The blog has become a smash hit since its launch one year ago. Its owner, a member of the "anti-German" Left, this small splinter group, who staunchly...
- Fjordman Signs Off
Sad day for the blogosphere. Fjordman, the intrepid Norwegian blogger and fierce anti-jihad figure, has posted to his blog for the final time. He is retiring from blogging for other pursuits. We all knew this was coming for some time but nevertheless...
Green Energy
Exit The Editrix
I guess my disenchantment with blogging is obvious for some time now. During the last weeks I went through an intense thought process. It started with a campaign in the mainstream media here in Germany against Islam-critical blogs and specifically against the most-read political blog in Germany, Politically Incorrect.
A lot of what a reader from abroad needs to know about the German blogger scene, including my stance on Politically Incorrect, I wrote here already.
After Stefan Herre, the owner of PI received threats following an article in the MSM he considered serious enough to leave the country for a while, I found that enough was enough. I think my blogging efforts are more needed at home than abroad.
The demented "war" between Islam-critical bloggers has strengthened that decision. If an original and unique thinker like Fjordman is vilified by other Islam-critics among the major bloggers, something stinks. But then, and as far as the German scene is concerned, maybe it was naive to assume that bloggers who range from those who have been moved into action because of the imminent threat to Israel and somewhat grudgingly concede that Germany will have to be saved in the process as well, and those who are acting out of exactly the opposite reasons and equally grudgingly concede that Israel will have to be saved together with Germany and the rest of the West, between the "anti-German" Israel-friendly Left at one end and those just stopping short of hating Jews to a self-destructive extent at the other, will ever feel that they have a common cause.
I will by no means delete Roncesvalles and go on publishing the odd brief snippet of information, and if it is of interest to an international readership, I will come back and post it here.
I am not quite sure what I will do yet. What I will certainly not do is going on blogging as The Editrix at a new German blog, because most of my friends of various degrees know my real identity anyway, as The Editrix had always been a gimmick and not an attempt at anonymity. Maybe I will start a new German blog of my own, maybe I will go on as co-blogger somewhere, should somebody want me.
However, thanks to all the -- considering -- amazingly many who read my blog over the years, most (I hope) sympathetically, some less so. But thanks anyway.
- I've Got A New Blog
I've headed it The Most Destructive Single Cause and it's about (now who would have thought so regarding the title?) feminism and a spawn of my two other blogs The Editrix' Roncesvalles and The Evil Style Queen. I am not a Renaissance polymath...
- Innocents Abroad Or Fool's Paradise
There is a major brouhaha going on among "Islam critics" because Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have announced that they may attend the Anti-Islamization Congress of the German Pro-Köln movement in May. Invectives are bandied about liberally and there...
- The German "rathergate"
The following was reported by the Transatlantic Conservative blog today. The German blog Politically Incorrect (PI) has published a video and an audio tape of a political chat show broadcast by the public (state owned) ARD TV station. Here, the German...
- A Rare German Gem
I have often quoted the German blog Lizas Welt ("Views on Politics and Football") as my all-time favourite. The blog has become a smash hit since its launch one year ago. Its owner, a member of the "anti-German" Left, this small splinter group, who staunchly...
- Fjordman Signs Off
Sad day for the blogosphere. Fjordman, the intrepid Norwegian blogger and fierce anti-jihad figure, has posted to his blog for the final time. He is retiring from blogging for other pursuits. We all knew this was coming for some time but nevertheless...