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“The far right thrives on global networks. They must be fought online and off,” writes Julia Ebner in the Guardian. By “far right” she means, of course, Pamela Geller and me.
Julia Ebner is a senior researcher at the Quilliam Foundation, which is supposedly dedicated to countering “extremism” and defending human rights. Quilliam is supposed to be an exponent of moderate Islam, but there are some anomalies. It is named for Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932), who rather than being “moderate” himself, called for a worldwide caliphate under the rule of Sharia. And it is headed by Maajid Nawaz, a self-proclaimed “former extremist” who has said many accurate things about Islam’s jihad doctrine, but has also endorsed Muslim Brotherhood-linked Congressman Keith Ellison, an odd thing for a “moderate” to do. Nawaz also seems bent on exaggerating or fabricating outright a threat of “right-wing extremists” as the non-Muslim equivalent of Islamic jihadists, despite the manifest absurdity of likening a few political activists and analysts with those who have perpetrated 30,000 lethal attacks worldwide since 9/11. This libelous hit piece in Britain’s execrable Guardian is an example of Nawaz’s smear tactic.
Ebner’s astonishingly dishonest piece begins with some sly guilt by association:
“Muslims are like cockroaches. An infestation that needs to be eradicated. Immediately. Permanently”, reads the tweet by one of thousands of anonymous far-right Twitter accounts that spread hate against ethnic and religious minorities each day.
Farther down, several of my colleagues and I are brought into this piece. Although none of us has ever spoken in this way, Ebner is attempting to use comments such as this one to discredit us by association, even though the association is entirely spurious. Ebner continues:
Meanwhile, National Action calls for a “White Jihad”, right next to a tweet about their Miss Hitler 2016 competition. After National Action became Britain’s first far-right group to be banned, its web page was taken down. Yet, until a few days ago its official Twitter profile has been operative and hosts an arsenal of dangerous propaganda.
Once again, Ebner is deliberately conflating actual neo-Nazis with foes of jihad terror. This is an oft-used tactic, chiefly employed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, but it is no less defamatory for being common. Even though there is no connection between our work and the Nazis, and real Nazis actually oppose us and often support the jihad, particularly against Israel, Ebner hopes that her readers will take us all as neo-Nazis and shun us accordingly. The end result of this would be the silencing of all critics of Islam and jihad. Here again, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to escape the conclusion that she and Quilliam want to smear and marginalize foes of jihad terror so that jihad terror can advance unimpeded. Is that what a “moderate Muslim” organization should really be doing?
Ebner then comes out against the freedom of speech:
The home affairs committee’s new report released today, called Hate Crime: Abuse, Hate and Extremism Online harshly condemns social media companies for their failure to identify and remove illegal content. They are “shamefully far from taking sufficient action” to safeguard online users from harassment, abuse and promotion of violence, it warns. The report comes at a crucial time. Our research at Quilliam into far-right extremism and hate crimes, which contributed to the report’s findings, shows that the far right has gained influence on all levels: from far-right populism to white supremacist terrorism, from alt-right movements to neo-Nazi groups.
See? She continues talking about white supremacists and neo-Nazis. She will drag us in later, having rhetorically completed the association, as spurious as it is. And note the thuggery behind it all: she starts speaking about social media companies not acting against online abuse. What she wants is that we be censored, shut down, not allowed to speak. Her agenda is ultimately authoritarian.
Not content to endorse fascist speech controls, Ebner then falsely claims that the “far-right” is as dangerous as the global jihad:
The British far-right landscape is increasingly splintered and leaderless. But low membership numbers of street protest movements such as the EDL and Pegida UK are hardly comforting. Some of their former cohort have joined smaller, more militant groups while others have focused their efforts on spreading hate online. Increasingly, far-right movements show signs of collective learning and create powerful multiplier effects for their messages. As early adopters of new technology, they have been exceptionally good at using social media to widen their echo chambers and foster ties with like-minded groups abroad.
British “counter-jihadis” have stepped up their cooperation with American alt-righters, French and Austrian “identitarians” and even German and Polish neo-Nazis. This is the paradox of modern-day nationalists: they capitalise on the opportunities of globalisation to spread their anti-globalist views globally.
It is within this context that EDL founder turned Pegida UK leader Tommy Robinson features prominently on Alex Jones’s conspiracy theory show, Infowars, and receives support from American alt-right leaders Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller. Platforms such as Gates of Vienna, the FrontPage Mag and Jihad Watch provide outlets for all of them.
After all this talk of white supremacists and neo-Nazis, we get dragged in. The defamatory intent is patently obvious. And Pamela Geller and I are “alt-right leaders”? I never even heard the term “alt-right” until it began to be used during the presidential campaign. Generally it is used to denote racist, neo-fascist xenophobes. Here again, the defamatory intent is clear.
Ebner drones on and on in this vein, but you get the idea. If she, Maajid Nawaz, and Quilliam have an ounce of integrity, they will retract the claims that Pamela Geller and I are “alt-right leaders,” and apologize for associating us with white supremacists and neo-Nazis. But they won’t. Ebner and Nawaz have ignored my repeated requests for a retraction and apology. And that in itself is telling.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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Obviously she hasn’t had to rub elbows with the ‘welcome “refugees”‘ crowd. She should be broken in.
It is quite reprehensible how Ms. Ebner calumniates people by association with “anonymous tweets.” Don’t bother to quote anything they say or to come to terms with ideas they express, just insinuate that listed people and sites are somehow “hate” sites. That’s the kind of shitty leftist propaganda the Guardian specializes in.
“Scurrilous comments”? Would that be kinda like hate speech? I’m sure muslums would agree with you.
Buzz off, fopdoodle.
It certainly seems like you want “scurrilous” commenters to be banned. Kinda like muslums want this entire website banned.
What is a sure fire way to determine what is a “scurrilous comment” and what isn’t it? If it offends you Sultan of Schwang?
Being alt-right is not an insult. There is nothing wrong with alt-right. If we get offended by the term – Alt-right, they win.
I would not want to be lumped in with the likes of Richard Spencer.
Of course you would not. You would besmirch him.
You are are jackass- right there on a par with Julia Ebner.
You are a retard, and that which comes out of your behind, is the totality of your worth as a so-called human being.
Now go polish some muslim’s shoes, fkwit. Shoo dog.
More of your mindless invective. Never saw you say anything that showed the slightest intelligence.
Say, was your mother a jackass too, or did you just happen to come out rotten?
Nah, your mother, being the jackass that she is, works on my field, when she is not busy licking my bum clean.
And your father the jackass, takes pleasure in watching it.
Say, how your does daddy’s goo taste when you consume it?
What a disgusting, mindless POS you are!
Giving you a taste of your medicine, piece of sht. If you can’t handle it, quit trolling people.
Why? Because he tells the truth about the Death Cult of Islam? Oops, sorry my mind read, Robert Spencer.
That I could understand because Mr. Spencer is intellectually more on a higher lever than you ever will be.
It’s the shared hatred of the rest of us that unites Islamists and the Left.
I’d rather be right than wrong and islum is nothing but wrong.
That is not the way . No need to be defensive.
Call them out as Islamonazis/Islamofascists who support islamic criminals who kill gays, abuse women’s Rights and support anti-semitism , support killing of all non-muslims and replacing constitutional law with 7 th century sharia Law.
This is a supremacist terror and murder cult pretending to be “religion” .
Did you know Like facebook , twitter now even Google has joined Islamofascist gang http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
To censure conservative and Anti-jihadi news to push the islamisation agenda of the Left/Liberal/jihadis funded by saudi/qataris.
Erdogan has said-there is no moderate Islam.Islam is Islam.Now who is her foundation kidding?Second,any westerner espousing the cause of suspicious organizations,look for any romantic involvement,especially if one is a woman.
Alt-right is not white supremacism. Do you not know how leftist manipulation works?
eye roll
Funny we never hear the left being slammed as ” I know what you are..you are a ..Communist”!!!! do we? It is acceptable! Even though the commies they support and supported were guilty of the most tortures and murders in the last century than any other ideology!
Most far-right people aren’t bigots at all! Ebner’s one-size-fits-all ideas don’t help the situation in any way.
Yes, there are a few alt-right criminals, but they’re not carrying out attacks and killings anywhere near the extent jihadists are. Ebner needs to step back, take a good look at what’s going on, and admit that jihadism is a bigger problem right now.
People have to admit that jihad is a worldwide genocide in its own way….and we can’t confront it by ignoring it. As Malala Yousafzai’s father–a moderate Muslim who advocates free speech said– “If you lie and tell your doctor you have a headache instead of a stomach ache, how can he possibly help you?”
In this case, people need to be aware of jihad and how dangerous it is, and stop demonizing people who point it out. Julia Ebner’s heart may be in the right place, but she needs to speak against a different kind of extremism than she is now…IMHO, anyway.
Julia Ebner’s heart may be in the right place,
How can you say, given her vile besmirching of people’s reputation by implying an association they do not have and beliefs they do not have, that her heart may be in the right place? In my book, she is intellectually and morally corrupt.
By ‘in the right place’ I meant that she doesn’t seem to support extremism….I don’t think she’s a model when it comes to character, though. As I said, if she hates extremism, she needs to focus on defeating jihad…that’s as extreme as it gets.
I do agree she’s corrupt in how she badmouths people’s reputations with false implications. I just meant that she doesn’t seem to support extremists, and I wish she’d use that against jihadists instead of others.
David Duke–the ex-KKK leader who denies the Holocaust happened, hates Jewish people, and calls for white separatism? Yes, I would definitely consider him far-far-far-right.
Having said that, I know most conservatives aren’t as extreme as he is.
I have great respect for the conservatives who support our constitution and freedom of speech….I just personally don’t think David Duke is good for anyone to rally behind. There are better leaders.
Have you heard of Nonie Darwish? She’s an ex-Muslim who grew up in Egypt, but she moved to America and converted to Christianity 30 years ago and now speaks regularly for free speech, defying jihadists, and providing equal rights for women and groups like Coptic Christians.
She’s Republican and supported Trump’s travel-ban.
Darwish has written a few books….one is called “Now They Call Me Infidel”, and was a huge eye-opener for me, and I strongly recommend it.
Darwish is logical, to the point, and unafraid to say that the way Islam is being taught needs to be reformed. At the same time, she shows that there is hope to get moderates of all parties and religions to stand united against jihad.
I agree, I wouldn’t ally with Duke either. That’s why I said he was far-far-far right….as in extremist rightist, on the other end of the spectrum from ultra-leftists. Too extreme. Thankfully most conservatives aren’t like him.
We need to support more conservatives like Darwish–she’s not antisemitic at all.
Muslums are a minority? Gee who woulda thunk it? Strange thing is, muslums are becoming more and more of a majority wherever they gain political power.
The dishonest hypocrisy of anyone defending pislum by accusing its critics of being nazis is palpable. Pislum is allah about fascism and Jew hate.
I’d like to see proof that Le Pen is an antisemite.
Who are you discussing?
Understand this point from an observer who doesn’t know either of you.
What you just did is what’s called in debate tactics as : “moving the goal post”.
The discussion isn’t about LePen’s father, it’s about her
When you changed it, you just lost the argument to the outside observer.
I need to fool no one. However, you need to fool everyone for your invective to work. And you’re coming up short.
So Marine LePen was born when?
I don’t think she’s old enough to have been around during the Vichy period.
You need to stop, and you’re not even ahead.
You just used another discredited debate tactic called “ad hominem” which means you attack the person, not the message in the attempt to divert attention from a losing argument.
And you’re still losing the argument. If you’re going to try to use debate tactics, you first should practice them. Right now, your attempts are those of an amateur, and a poorly trained one at that.
I’m makin g the point that your use of discredited debate tactics is making your argument appear that of a crackpot.
You’re playing to an audience in trying to make a point and doing a poor job of it.
Miles, I don’t recognize your nic. There are quite a few shall we say, marginal intellects, who all-to-frequently post here. You sound like a discerning sort, so welcome to a slightly looney web site.
I visit from time to time.
I became more interested when the moslems tried (and failed in a most spectacularly incompetent fashion) to attack the art exhibit in Texas.
She was instrumental in removing him from a position of influence in the party, so yes, I would say she has “distanced herself” from him.
I did not like it at all, and I disagreed with her. I do not think it makes her an anti-Semite. She may have been mindless defending France’s “honor”, possibly currying to public favor.
Probably because she agreed with the point being made.
That’s not the point I’m making. The point is, you’re losing the argument on ‘unforced errors’ which means use of debate tactics that highschool students are taught not to use because they undermine your credibility simply by using them.
And you’re not understanding that that doesn’t matter one way or the other now. Your use of ad hominem and moving the goal post debate tactics lost you the argument the instant you used them.
“The discussion isn’t about LePen’s father, it’s about her
When you changed it, you just lost the argument to the outside observer”. Focus is important in debate. If you lose focus, you lose points.
Focus on the discussion, use a rifle not a shot gun if you want to hit a target.
france is so screwed up at this point it will make absolutely no difference who pretends to be sultan of the french. The government is weak, the citizens do not care who herds them, they will settle for whatever lie socialism is promoting, which included physically giving france to muslims in return for nothing, as the violence is now at the point where it cannot be stopped.
Nonie Darwish’s father, as an Egyptian military officer, directed murderous attacks against Jews. David Horowitz’s parents were communists who supported Stalin. In neither case did the motivations of the fathers “rub off” on their children.
I think it against all Jewish tradition, at least for the past few thousand years, to hold choldren accountable for the sins of their parents.
And why wouldn’t a daughter embrace, publicly, or privately her father? Is a public display of affection that “icky” to you?
A bit of advice, stop digging.
Has Marine Le Pen distanced herself from her beloved father for his anti-Semitism? No like Rand Paul …
For strategic purposes, Marine has distanced herself from her father’s anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial …
Well which is it, ‘jew? Seems to me you have a little trouble keeping your story straight. But nice to know you have such keen insight into Marine’s motives.
I don’t think either of you could be confused with the alt right, far right, or any other right. Moderates of the Bill O’Reilly stripe is more accurate. A couple of harmless fuzzballs really.
Ebner is a member of the Alt Left.
If you really are a Guatemalan housekeeper, my hat’s off to you. Welcome to the USA if that’s where you live!
What makes these people turn Leftists?Is it hatred for the rich or just self loathing.
Well, the only rich I come across are leftists , so can’t be that!
They are narcissist, research, they all veer to totalitarianism. Leftists share the same spirit/mentality as Muslims.Why they slam, censor and lie.
Thanks,kitteek for your reply.Very true.They always attend functions of the glitterati and claim that it’s a necessity while uplifting the masses and bringing about social equality.Completely morbid statements but they dub us reactionaries if we question them how hobnobbng with the rich brings about social equality?
They are hypocrites of the first order, unbelievably so, yet deny this. They live in their own little worlds where reality is far far away. Very scary !
Most need prolonged psychiatric treatment.
And yet they ‘ project’ and declare that WE do!
Yes.
Golly, Nate, even I think Pamela is “right” about some things ~:).
Islam, other religions already taught at San Diego Unified
We go deep in how important freedom of religion is and how the only way we’re going to keep that freedom is respecting each other and listening to each other”
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/sd-me-religious-studies-20170503-story.html
If muslims think religious freedom is of utmost importance and want children to unquestioningly accept this and support this…………what is the conclusion to be drawn?
The conclusion is that our religious freedom is helping islam win.
Hitler would have tossed me in the oven as fast as anyone else.
Don’t flatter yourself: no he would not have. You might have been killed because of something you said or did, but you would not have been considered, as a result of you ancestry, vermin to be exterminated.
Typical of your self-inflated lack of insight.
Is Julia Ebner a self-hating Jew. And what exactly is “Alt-right?” Sounds like a term used to describe some sort of traffic situation. Stupid, no matter how you use it.
Tommy Robinson also went to her office to ask her why she lied and Defamed him.
She would not answer.
Troll Watch 3: Tommy Robinson vs. Quilliam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6eUV76nxCc
Wait, so you two are the same as George Soros according to this woman?
Yea, ok, another well-read “research” intern.
She has done EXACTLY the same with Tommy Robinson and neither he nor PG are white supremacists.
She has no clue who the Nazis were or the white surpemacists….both leftist democrat groups.
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Ad Hominem attacks.
It occurred to me that the real issue isn’t left vs. right, but what is strategically rational. Control of the borders is strategically rational, open borders is strategically insane.
Deporting troublemakers is another strategically rational practice, used for millennia.
Julia Ebner, sweetie, you are losing the campaign on multiple fronts. Like the failure hillary, you are attacking with negativity, appealing to similar to yourself small minded individuals who are already balls of hatred, often alcohol soaked, that slowly degenerating into raging, slobbering partisans who stumble over their own stupidity. Really, that is the image many of you progressive cloned sheep portray.
No rational citizen supports these maniacal Leftist institutions which have the singular function of disseminating deceit and fallacies. And the Guardian is an agent of the Left.
I have never trusted Nawaz, he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He doesn’t even talk a good game, it’s obvious he’s a Muslim and supports what Islam is doing, he has never fooled me for an instant. He is an “SOS” (Sack Of Sh-t), he tries coming off as some good guy, who wants to reform Islam but spends most of his time defending the atrocities of Islam and its Depraved, Evil Ideology. Not to be trusted.
“Fake news” is a very specific offense and I did not find any of it within the content. Perhaps, I should state that it ought to be the thing that it was when the term became currency: Fabricated, manufactured people, places, things or events. Sleazy, obscene insinuations and implications are the thing we had for decades before the term “fake news” became meaningful–though there were examples prior to the 2016 election.
All Leftists are bigots – One must believe in their Ideology or hit the road. … Their own ‘White’ Supremacists are excluded only b/c they changed the meme back in the 50’s to smear and besmirch America – by associating America with the Demokkkratic Party’s crimes …
The “Right’s” tent on the other hand is so big – it’s non-existent – it actually includes anyone who will show up to fight.
Well – of course she has to smear Spencer and Geller – two individual citizens whose only weapons are the truth.
The Left controls most of the West’s governments, universities, schools, public corps, large foundations, NGO’s, all of Islam, all of Communism, and a river of CASH that makes the Mississippi look like a street gutter – but they can’t handle – TWO – COUNT ‘EM – ONE, TWO – two individuals with the TRUTH?
Two witnesses v. the World (all the power, money, status, and physical strength)
… It’s Biblical in proportion…
No, it’s not “odd” for a moderate to endorse a democrat. Also, right wing extremists control all branches of the US government: no exaggeration required, there.
Failure to recognize the common reality we all share marks you out as irrational at best, and is fatal for your credibility, Mr. Spencer. Same old, same old…
“Right wing extremists control all branches of the US government”. Now there is the dumbest statement of the day. Deflection will not erase the fact that it is otherwise. My God, you are either confused or an unmitigated liar.
it’s all about money
Izzzzlamists are the 21st Century fascists . . . Ebner a propaganda specialist who learned from an expert . . .
“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly . . . it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” – Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda
Did the Metropolitan Police ever issue any such warning claiming “… that the threat from far-right groups is as severe as the jihadist threat.” ? If they didn’t, then Ebner is a conscienceless liar (which we already know…), and if they did, then whoever put that statement out at the Met’, is a conscienceless liar together with being a Left-wing political activist who should be sacked for refusing to do their actual job of protecting the public, and instead attempting to mislead them.
Actually, Ebner isn’t worth this fuss as one glance at the spindly nit-wit tells you all you need to know about her (lack of) abilities and integrity.
The best way to deal with this situation is to take legal action.
The Quilliam-foundation gives no credit to the Geller-report for reporting censored Islam-caused crimes censored by Islamic censorship-warfare.
The Quilliam-foundation defames anti-Nazis as Nazis & fails to identify real Nazis: Arafat’s personal “hero” & uncle Grandmufti of Jerusalem Amin Al-Husseini who participated in the Armenian genocide, in which not just Armenian non-Muslims were mass-murdered, as General in Smyrna (today Izmir, Turkey) was a Nazi leader who might have been the main-cause of the Shoah-holocaust, he formed the biggest Nazi-SS division, the Islamic Handzschar division, 26.000 soldiers, I’ve read.
The Quilliam-foundation also claims to oppose white supremacism, while Muhammad was white & invented enslavement of Africans with his racist mythologies like that one saying his deity turned Africans black so their descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks.
Don’t get fooled by the Quilliam-foundation.
The good thing about Islam is that people got it wrong & the bad thing about the good thing about Islam is that people having Islam wrong are fooled about Islam.
# Ban Islam, save lives worldwide & free the Leavenworth 10, the Biafra-leader, the African slaves from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania, Israeli soldier Azaria & so on.
Thanks,Fred,DanKnight,Sam and DCW left coast for up voting me.
Quilliam Foundation seemed too good to be true. I unsubscribed when they seemed to contradict themselves. Perhaps they were hoodwinking us with Taqiyya?
Sue her and her stupid foundation for libel. Make her defend her calumnies.