Hate Blogs Under Scrutiny

by David VIckrey
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(Via BIg Bertha) Heribert Seifert has a nice piece – Die Kampf-Blogger – in NZZ-Online on the phenomenon of the Islamophobic blogs in Germany. Seifert rounds up the usual suspects:

Die ganze Welt erscheint hier, im weltweiten Netz, als Schauplatz einer säkularen Auseinandersetzung. Überall finden «Akte Islam», «Politically Incorrect», «Fakten & Fiktionen», «Jihad Watch», «Daniel Pipes», «Gudrun Eussner», «Roncevalles», «Dhimideutsch» und ihre Kampfgenossen Belege für ihren Verdacht, dass «der» Islam und «die» Muslime offen und verdeckt an der Machtübernahme arbeiten.

I have written about Politically Incorrect, which tries to present itself as pro-American (it even has the American flag in its banner), as it propagates a message of hate and intolerance. But Seifert makes a good point: while in the US the hate sites are published by well known and well-paid individuals such as Daniel Pipes and Robert Spencer (he should have also mentioned the millionaire racist commentator Michelle Malkin), in Germany the bloggers are for the most part relatively unknown ("publizistisch Unbekannte"), even though the blogs generate a huge amount of traffic.

Seifert points out the technique used by these blogs of smearing an entire people and religion based on the actions of some extremists:

In rabiater Übernahme eines Denunziationsmusters der «antifaschistischen» Aktivisten gilt hier auch, dass nicht der verrückte Rand eines Milieus das Problem ist, sondern das gesamte Milieu. Nicht die Islamisten und die sich mit Versatzstücken des Islam kostümierenden Terroristen sind die eigentliche Gefahr, sondern die ganze Umma. Jeder Muslim wird so auf eine Identität reduziert, die ihn zur Bedrohung werden lässt. Entsprechend schrill ist der Ton. Da werden bei «Politically Incorrect» (PI) die Muslime zu «Anhängern eines pädophilen Massenmörders» erklärt oder als «Handabhacker und Steiniger» bezeichnet. Die Leserkommentare nehmen den Stil dieses Blogs gern auf. Eine Zeitlang wurden sogar offene Mordwünsche publiziert: Dies scheint jetzt eingestellt zu sein. Unter den politischen Blogs rangiert «PI» ganz oben in der Popularität.

These blogs don’t do any original reporting or analysis; rather they search through the international press for news that they can highlight, frequently taking words or actions out of context.  Politically Incorrect reports on an "incident" in Maine, very close to where I live: a student was charged with a "hate crime" for putting a ham sandwich on the table next to a Somalia classmate. Only problem is, the incident never happened; it was fabricated by a humor Web site.  That didn’t stop PI and its commenters from using it to propagate hate.

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bigberta May 12, 2007 - 8:27 pm

But we must not forget that this scene is active in writing letters to the editor too:
http://bigberta.twoday.net/stories/3722130/

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name May 13, 2007 - 12:38 pm

The ham sandwich thing is pretty funny though! However, even the news report you quote carries this utter nonsense:
“Pork is considered offensive to Muslims”
It’s not “offensive”, it has the same status as it has for Jews.
But the little souls of the Kampfbloggers have been there all the time. It’s that the Bush gang kicked this whole circus off. I wonder why we even bother with these nitwits when roughly a million Iraqis are already dead. I just overheard a BBC radio show on the Iraqi refugee problem and it’s disgusting.

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bigberta May 13, 2007 - 6:53 pm

“The little souls of the Kampfbloggers”…grrreat. Do you request the copyright for this? Why bother with these nitwits? Because they are the sentinels and testing grounds for some in the mainstream media…

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David May 13, 2007 - 7:51 pm

Just ignore our resident Leninist.
Berta, I have added your interesting blog to my blog roll.

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name May 14, 2007 - 6:22 am

Yeah, thats David for you. On the surface he pretends to be against, but like most Americans he really enjoys fascism. He’s so afraid! Just imagine “Pork is offensive to Jews”, now that would be an anti-semitic scandal right.

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