The Blog Wars: More Sowing The Wind
Atlas and Gates are fighting for the right of European Nationalism. Little Green Footbals (and us, to a lesser extent) believes that when you scratch the surface of almost any Euopean Nationalist party, you will find an Ethnic Nationalism crawling out from underneath the shiny, modern facade.
From Vanishing America (with thanks to Always on Watch):
I suspect rather too much attention and bandwidth has been devoted to the
individual who instigated the 'blog wars' and this ongoing vendetta against
'fascists' among the Western right. But there are still some valid issues to be
considered, which go beyond personalities. So, here are two more good responses.
First, James Fulford's piece at VDare, in which he makes several good
points.Fulford mentions the fact that Bruce Bawer, the writer who exiled himself
to Europe for fear of the Christian right in this country, also denounced the
Brussels Journal and Vlaams Belang:
Another critic of the Vlaams Belang and Brussels Journal is Bruce
Bawer. Bruce Bawer left the US in 1998, apparently out of fear of Christian
homophobia. He's now noticed that that Muslims, who are taking over Europe, are
much more homophobic than Christians, and has written a book called While Europe
Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within.
But he's still afraid of the Christian Right. He has condemned Belien
and the Brussels Journal as a "bunch of little Euro-fascists" because Belien
came out in favor of "traditional Judeo-Christian morality"—which is, of course,
anathema to Bawer, as it is to professional gay publicist Andrew
Sullivan.''
Exactly; when many conservatives hailed Bawer's book as a brave expose of
Islamo'fascism' and the conquest of Europe by Islam, my feeling was that he was
at best only a partial ally. True to form, it seems he views conservatives in
our country and the West as just as bad as Islam.Many of these sometime allies who oppose Islam for their own personal reasons (such as their 'lifestyle') are really not friends to conservatives, but merely the enemy of our enemy -- up to a point. When forced to choose, can we be sure that they will prefer our side over the Moslems? Or do they view us as morally equivalent to, or worse than, the Moslems?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is another such individual, who is the object of adulation by many liberals (right and left) in the counterjihad camp. But it should be remembered that Hirsi Ali is not a conservative, not a Westerner (except in that she prefers the social libertinism the West offers) and opposes Islam for reasons of her own, not because she cares about the West per se. We might remember that she opposed a Christian political party in the Netherlands, and wanted to ban all religious schools there.
So at best she is an uneasy ally, merely being the enemy of our enemy.
That's a very good point.
Go read the whole thing.
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