In response to Norway attacks, right-wing bloggers suddenly demand nuance

[Scurrilous]

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"American anti-Islam bloggers aren’t to blame for the Norway Massacre. But their response to the attacks is nonetheless revealing, in that they are now demanding the kind of nuanced analysis of the Norway shootings that they’ve always failed to offer when implicating jihadism or all Muslims for terror attacks."

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"The most telling reaction was from the anti-Muslim bloggers Breivik cited by name in his manifesto.

Pamela Geller, who along with Professional Islamophobe Robert Spencer has been active in opposing the construction of mosques in the U.S., wrote: “This is just a sinister attempt to tar all anti-jihadists with responsibility for this man’s heinous actions.” Spencer, for his part, wrote: “as if killing a lot of children aids the defense against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism, or has anything remotely to do with anything we have ever advocated.”

Most of Geller and Spencer’s blogging consists of attempts to tar all Muslims with the responsibility for terrorism. At CPAC last year, Geller and Spencer drew a large crowd for their documentary referring to the proposed community center near Ground Zero as “the second wave of the 9/11 attacks.” Yet they’re now pleading for the world not to do what they’ve spent their careers doing — assigning collective blame for an act of terror through guilt-by-association. What’s clear is that they understand that the principle of collective responsibility is a monstrous wrong in the abstract, or at least when it’s applied to them. They are now begging for the kind of tolerance and understanding they cheerfully refuse to grant to American Muslims.

These bloggers are not directly responsible for the actions of Anders Behring Breivik. But make no mistake: Their school of analysis, which puts the blame on all Muslims for acts of terrorism perpetrated by Islamic extremists, has been fully discredited — by their own reaction to the Oslo attacks. While it’s obvious that few if any of them will take this lesson to heart, the rest of us should — terrorist acts are committed by individuals, and it is those individuals who should be held responsible."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/in-response-to-norway-attacks-right-wing-bloggers-suddenly-demand-nuance/2011/03/04/gIQAndgfYI_blog.html

[Skip_In_Boulder]

1. ..

http://macleodcartoons.blogspot.com/2011/07/norway-attacks.html

[Dawson Leery]

2. +1

[sinkingfeeling]

3. +2

[MineralMan]

4. The Proverbial Chickens Have Come Home to Roost.

The right-wing bloggers are reaping their rewards for their incessant anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant diatribes. They got what they called for and are now trying to back away from their own role. Fuck 'em all.

[Adsos Letter]

5. I looked at some of the articles and comments at Geller's site.

It's a real sewer over there. :puke:

[66 dmhlt]

6. His "Manifesto" quoted Spencer & Geller over 64 times!

His manifesto, which denounced Norwegian politicians as failing to defend the country from Islamic influence, quoted Robert Spencer, who operates the Jihad Watch Web site, 64 times, and ... frequently cited another blog, Atlas Shrugs (Note: Pamela Geller runs "Atlas Shrugs")

Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html

[Jefferson23]

7. Hatred fueled by ignorance, they'll likely keep it up. K&R n/t