Don't have nightmares

Some days we just don't feel like blogging, Craig and I. On other days, we feel like it, but can’t. Fortunately for this blog, when Craig can’t or won’t, I can and do. More often than not it’s the other way round. We are to blogging what Mr and Mrs Jack Spratt are to dining.

I most admire bloggers and writers who have the ability and talent to set out a case with as much consideration for an audience with a good grasp of the facts of whatever the matter may be, as for an audience with next to none. Some writers can embrace both without patronising the novice while not dumbing down enough to lose the interest of the aficionado.

Writing critically about Islam is especially tricky. How can you avoid instantly branding yourself as an Islamophobe at one end of the spectrum or an appeaser at the other? The readership will want to know if you’re speaking from ignorance or experience, knowledge or bigotry, and even if they think they’ve got the measure of you, they’ll probably still take away a predetermined message. Especially so, since the current excuse that ‘everything means what you want it to mean’ has been handed to them on a plate along with the handy bitesize epithets ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative truth’.

Immersing oneself in certain internet sites leads to a kind of ‘Reds under the bed’ type of paranoia. It works for radical Islam as well as radical anti-Islam. And yet, and yet. 

Take the films of documentary maker Zvi Yehezkeli, and Arabic-speaking Israeli Jew who has gone ‘undecover’ to make several alarming films about the Islamic infiltration of European countries; Malmo in Sweden, Marseilles and Paris, Molenbeek in Belgium and more. Some of the documentaries were filmed several years ago, and they feature footage of Theo Van Gogh before he was murdered and Anjem Choudary before he was imprisoned. Sadly, Channel 4’s “Undercover Mosque” seems to have been a one-off. These documentaries may give a one-sided view of the subject, but one should bear in mind that the mainstream media is presenting us with  the ‘other side’ almost as an assault.

It is alarming that the western media is deliberately ignoring or playing it down this threat. Just as it took years before the media and the establishment  admitted what was happening to local ‘white’ girls in the Muslim-heavy parts of cities here in the UK, the mainstream media is persistently campaigning to normalise abnormal cultural practices and excuse inexcusable, imported, antithetical values. They believe they’re doing this in the name of cohesion, terrified of all-out civil war, but their tacit encouragement can only exacerbate the inevitable in-house intifada.

Richard Landes studied of the al Durah affair in forensic detail, exposing one of the most an egregious examples of Pallywood. Here is his critique of the BBC and CNN. You’ll see Yolande Knell and Stephen Sackur.
(Sorry for crashing the sidebar but I don't want to fiddle with the video.) Big H/T to Elder of Ziyon

 Don’t have nightmares.