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The following is cross-posted from Max Blumenthal’s blog.
I spent last week in Amsterdam, where I participated in the “Return of Ghosts” symposium of the Nexus Institute, a discussion/debate about the resurgence of neo-fascism in Europe and anti-democratic trends in the West. Besides providing a forum for debating European politics, the symposium was the occasion for the [...]
Tags: Catholic, democracy, Geert Wilders, israel, Mario Vargas Llosa, Max Blumenthal, Netherlands, Pablo Flores D'Arcias, Robert Pape, Vlaams Belang
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Salon’s Justin Elliott has new evidence indicating who funded the Clarion Fund’s 2008 distribution of 28-million DVDs of the Islamophobic documentary, Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West.
Starting in 2008, we began writing about the films produced and distributed by the mysterious Clarion Fund, as well as questioning the money trail. A new page on their [...]
Tags: AIFD, American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Center for Security Policy, Clare M. Lopez, Daniel Pipes, Douglas Feith, EMET, Endowment for Middle East Truth, Frank Gaffney, Geert Wilders, Harold Rhode, Ilan Sharon, Iran Policy Committee, Iranium, Jason Vest, M. Zuhdi Jasser, MEK, Middle East Forum, Minnesotans Against Terrorism, Mujahedin-e Khalq, Obession, Obsession: Radical Islam's War Agains the West, PNAC, Project for the new American Century, protocols of the elders of zion, Radicalislam.org, Robert Dreyfuss, Sarah Stern, Third Jihad
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Earlier this week, I noted that Newt Gingrich and John Bolton, both of whom had been scheduled to appear at Pamela Geller’s Sept. 11 rally in Lower Manhattan against the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” now appear to be getting cold feet — Gingrich has pulled out entirely, while Bolton will deliver a videotaped message rather [...]
Tags: English Defense League, Geert Wilders, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Pamela Geller, Park 51, Robert Spencer
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One interesting nugget from Josh Nathan-Kazis’s Forward article on the various Sept. 11 events going on at Ground Zero:
In addition to Wilders, the rally [led by Pamela Geller] will feature a videotaped address by John Bolton, ambassador to the United Nations during the second Bush administration, and speeches by Republican political candidates and by a [...]
Tags: Geert Wilders, Ground Zero Mosque, Islamophobia, John Bolton, Newt Gingrich, Pamela Geller
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Continuing on the subject of Eli’s last post, it might be worthwhile to examine in more depth the burgeoning alliance between right-wing supporters of Israel and the European far right. The importance of this topic was driven home by the publication of a new Gallup poll on Americans’ attitudes towards various religions. The poll, which [...]
Tags: anti-semitism, Daniel Pipes, Geert Wilders, Islamophobia, neo-fascism, neoconservatives, Vlaams Belang
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