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    EXPO AND THE ISLAMOPHOBES

    Global Politician, NY
    http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=3 971&cid=3&sid=102
    Jan 7 2008

    The Swedish far-left, anti-racist organization expo recently released
    a publication ( PDF, in Swedish) entitled "kriget mot islam," "the
    war against islam," in which they worried about an increasing trend
    towards "organized islamophobia" in the west. according to them,
    "Parallel with the growth of SIOE, a new anti-Islamic network of
    academics, bloggers and politicians is taking shape. The network has
    no formal name, but meets at so-called anti-Jihad conferences. The
    first known meeting was in Copenhagen on the 14th of April this year.

    Behind the event was the network Center for Vigilant Freedom (CVF)."

    As the publication says: "According to one of the most influential
    bloggers in the anti-Islamic blogosphere, Baron Bodissey, CVF functions
    as a 'network of networks. The idea is to gather all counter-Jihad
    groups under one umbrella to ease the gathering of information and
    experiences.'" The publication mentions the Brussels meeting in
    October, and states that "among those attending were a number of
    well-known right-wing extremists." An example of these "right-wing
    extremists" is Israeli politician Arieh Eldad. Expo also talks
    about Danish journalist Lars Hedegaard and author Robert Spencer,
    the founder of Jihad Watch.

    The text continues: "During the Cold War the extreme Right joined
    in on the anti-Communist rhetoric. In connection with the increased
    immigration to Europe it was suddenly Multiculturalism that made
    up the external threat. In the aftermath of the War on Terror and
    increasing distrust of Muslims, now suddenly it is the anti-Islamic
    rhetoric that makes up the new platform for the extreme Right. But
    there is a problem: Despite the fact that there is great acceptance for
    xenophobic parties within the anti-Islamic networks, they don't want to
    be dirtied by having too clear attachments to openly Fascist groups."

    Notice how Expo compares the criticism of the "extreme Right" regarding
    Communism, which threatened world peace for generations, to today's
    criticism of Islam. I suppose former US President Ronald Reagan,
    who called the Soviet Union the "Evil Empire" and helped bring down
    the Berlin Wall, is among these right-wing extremists?

    Expo's founder Stieg Larsson was a long-time Communist who met his
    future wife during a support meeting for the FNL, the pro-Communist
    National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. It's interesting
    that they think Multiculturalism has now taken the place which
    Communism used to occupy. Some of us have been arguing this before,
    but with a different emphasis.

    Expo again: "The anti-Islamic bloggers and activists see themselves
    as defenders of European values. Nazi, Fascist and homophobic groups
    simply do not fit into this self-image. But with a promise of respect
    for human rights and a clear pro-Israeli policy, right-wing populists
    and right-wing extremists are welcomed into the fold."

    So, these alleged "right-wing extremists" have a clear pro-Israeli
    policy. That's good to know.

    "Out of the 45 [Islamophobic] websites and blogs Expo has discovered,
    more than half have been created during the past two years. Put
    together, these websites have created a new Islamophobic universe
    where visitors are quickly drawn into a world of frightening images of
    suicide bombers and cartoons mocking women wearing veils. Texts that
    should be banned, about how Muslims cannot adjust [to our societies]
    and how politicians are doing Islam's bidding, are being published
    daily." Moreover, "Expo's investigations show that 22 of the 45
    anti-Islamic websites are run by persons who have chosen to remain
    anonymous."

    Yes, they have. And has Expo reflected on exactly why so many people in
    their "free" country now dare not use their own name? Is it possible
    that Expo and their comrades have contributed to this repressive
    political climate?

    Expo again: "Anti-Islamic blogs and websites exploit the legitimate
    debate about extreme Islamism. They use the religious fundamentalism
    as proof that all of Islam and/or all of the world's Muslims are a
    threat to democracy, to freedom of speech, to 'our' ( i.e.

    non-Muslims') very existence." They mention Swedish journalist and
    blogger Kurt Lundgren as well as the Danish blog Snaphanen as examples
    of Islamophobic websites.

    "Among the Nordic states, Denmark is the country where Islamophobia
    has gained the strongest roots. The Danish People's Party have, with
    the demagogue Pia Kjærsgaard in a leading role, [verbally] harassed
    Muslims for years. Just like in Sweden, a number of extreme Rightist
    and openly Nazi groups spreading Islamophobic propaganda exists." In
    Sweden, "it's the equivalent of the Danish People's Party, the Sweden
    Democrats, who have made Islamophobia into politics."

    Expo is worried about the international connections of these
    sites: "The Swedish bloggers gain inspiration from their foreign
    counterparts. Little Green Footballs was among the first who,
    depending upon your viewpoint, warned against extreme Islamism or
    started spreading modern Islamophobia. Lately, however, the site's
    criticism of Islam has turned into pure hatred of Muslims. The
    journalist RJ Smith of Los Angeles Magazine for instance wrote in
    an article last year that Little Green Footballs is a 'dysfunctional
    mix of beautiful photos that [blogger Charles] Johnson takes during
    his bicycling trips and constitutionally protected hate speech' which
    'assumes all Muslims to be terrorists until proven otherwise.'"

    Expo also states that Gates of Vienna is another leading and frequently
    cited English language blog, which just like LGF fronts conspiracy
    theories and prejudice against Islam.

    One of the co-founders of Expo, Tobias Hubinette, wrote in 1996 (Creol
    no 1 1996 and "Svartvitt"): "To feel and even think that the white
    race is inferior in every conceivable way is natural with regards
    to its history and current actions. Let the Western countries of the
    white race perish in blood and suffering. Long live the multicultural,
    racially mixed and classless ecological society! Long live anarchy!"

    - - - - - - - - - I found several references to this quote online and
    asked Swedish blogger Kurt Lundgren if he could get his readers to
    check out the original, written source. One of them did, and could
    confirm that the quote was authentic. He posted an image of the
    original text from 1996. According to his own CV, Tobias Hubinette
    worked for Expo until at least 1997. In other words, he continued
    doing research for this "anti-racist" organization after having
    publicly advocated the extermination of the white race and the violent
    destruction of an entire civilization. Nobody seemed to mind. During
    this time period he did research about "Nazis." He has openly defended
    the use of violence for political reasons, even against children and
    the elderly, and has also been convicted of violence.

    Meanwhile, the left-wing extremist group Antifascistisk Aktion
    has for years made numerous attacks against immigration-skeptics,
    including members of the Sweden Democrats which Expo has published
    a critical book about, with near-impunity from the authorities and
    the media. Members of AFA marched alongside senior members of the
    Swedish police, the government and the media during Gay Pride Parade
    in 2007 in Stockholm, and beat up a couple of people they deemed to
    be insufficiently tolerant.

    Hubinette has been controversial for some of his views, for instance
    comparing Western adoptions of Korean children (he is of Korean
    origin) to the transatlantic slave trade. However, in traditionally
    and still majority white Sweden, calling for the majority, indigenous
    population to perish in blood and suffering is not enough to halt your
    career. Hubinette has continued promoting "Multiculturalism," even
    received awards, and is currently working for the The Multicultural
    Centre of Botkyrka, Sweden.

    The founder and editor of Expo magazine from 1995 until his death in
    November 2004, Stieg Larsson, worked with Hubinette for years, but
    was apparently never negatively affected by this collaboration with
    a person calling for genocide against his people. Larsson has been
    cited as a credible source regarding the extreme Right, and Expo's
    material has been reprinted by leading newspapers Expressen and
    Aftonbladet. Larsson left behind three unpublished thrillers, which
    have proceeded to become major bestsellers in Sweden after his death.

    Upon writing this, I came to think of a mandatory University of
    Delaware program in the United States requiring students to acknowledge
    that "all whites are racist," offering them "treatment" for incorrect
    attitudes regarding class, gender, religion or culture.

    A civil rights group cited excerpts from the university's Office of
    Residence Life Diversity Education Training documents, including the
    statement: "A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on
    the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term
    applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living
    in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture
    or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists,
    because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power
    to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination."

    The education program also notes that "reverse racism" is "a term
    created and used by white people to deny their white privilege."

    I've been trying to understand exactly what this "white privilege"
    consists of. In Sweden, if you are a native and in the mildest
    terms possible object to uncontrolled mass immigration which
    is sure to render the natives a minority in their own country
    within a few decades, you will immediately be branded a racist and
    vilified. Most likely, your career will be over. But "anti-racist
    Multiculturalists" can collaborate closely with persons calling for
    the destruction of Western civilization and the annihilation of the
    white indigenous population, and it doesn't even register in the
    eyes of the political establishment. The situation is only slightly
    less extreme in other countries in Western Europe, where the natives
    are de facto disenfranchised and are supposed to meekly fund their
    own colonization and applaud their cultural eradication. If this is
    "privilege", then privilege is vastly overrated these days.

    It is more than a little ironic that Tobias Hubinette claims to be an
    "anti-Nazi" at the same time as he advocates the violent destruction
    of hundreds of millions of people. It is a strong indication that
    the term "Nazi" has by now become seriously distorted.

    Most of the political violence in Europe, both verbal and physical,
    comes from Muslims and their supporters on the Left. The first
    political murders in the Netherlands for centuries were either
    committed by a Muslim, in the case of Theo van Gogh, or a Leftist
    supporter of Muslims, in the case of Pim Fortuyn. Some members of
    the Western Left support the suppression of free speech, the use of
    street violence against rivals, systematic demonization not just of
    political opponents but of entire groups who are branded as evil,
    should have their assets stripped away from them, and if necessary
    be eliminated. In all of these cases, many of the left-wing comrades
    of Expo are closer to Nazism than Islamophobes like me, but they get
    away with this because they are Leftists, and left-wingers and good,
    right-wingers are evil; a powerful demonstration of the fact that
    Socialists never truly lost the Cold War. "Nazism" is reduced to
    simply having a white, European background and refusing to surrender
    your land and your culture to outsiders.

    In this text, Expo casually mentions racism, anti-Semitism,
    Islamophobia and homophobia in the same sentence, and conveniently
    forgets to point out that the recent increase in anti-Semitism in
    Europe is intimately linked to Muslim immigration and the pro-Islamic
    policies of the European Union, that most of the street violence
    targets native Europeans and that a sharp rise in violence against
    gays is caused by mass immigration of Muslims in particular.

    Expo also resorts to blatant distortions regarding the nature of
    Islamic oppression of non-Muslims: "Centuries ago, a dhimmi was the
    non-Muslim inhabitant of a state run according to sharia law, where
    non-Muslims had fewer rights than Muslims. The anti-Islamic blogs
    believe Islam's expansion in Europe needs to be halted, otherwise we
    risk ending up in the same situation once more."

    The dhimmi system is an integral part of sharia, Islamic law, which is
    timeless according to Islamic theology because it has been instituted
    by Allah. It wasn't valid only "centuries ago," it remains valid today
    and will do so for all eternity. The Armenian genocide by Turkish and
    Kurdish Muslims took place only a few generations ago. It happened
    precisely because Armenians, as did other Balkan Christians, rebelled
    against the Islamic apartheid system and the status as semi-slaves
    they have been granted according to sharia. Muslims responded by
    Jihadist massacres, as they should according to Islamic doctrines.

    This massacre is still forbidden by law to discuss in Turkey. Several
    murders of the few Christians still left in a country that was once
    predominantly Christian proves that Christianophobia is very much
    alive there. Expo talks about opposition to Turkish membership in the
    European Union as a sign of extremism. Do they agree with the current
    Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has
    stated that Islamophobia should be treated as a crime against humanity?

    In December, 2007, a university professor named Fuat Deniz was murdered
    in the town of Orebro, the first time that a lecturer has been killed
    at a university anywhere in Sweden. Deniz wrote and lectured on the
    Ottoman Turkish genocide of their Christian subjects.

    Other researchers working in the field have been threatened, according
    to David Gaunt at Sodertorn University College. "On several occasions
    at our seminars people would attend claiming to be journalists only
    to then walk around photographing delegates," Gaunt told Svenska
    Dagbladet. It is reported that researchers have been harassed, received
    death threats and been labeled terrorists. Gaunt reports having been
    followed by security police on trips to Turkey and describes being
    subjected to a smear campaign by a Turkish newspaper. "All those
    interested in Christian minorities in Turkey are considered a threat."

    A Dutch scientist who wishes to remain anonymous confirms this. "I
    felt the eyes of Turkish spies on my back during a couple of lectures
    I gave in Holland." He fears that he, too, is at risk, and therefore
    publicly speaks as little as possible about the genocide in public.

    The investigation of the murder of Fuat Deniz has been remarkably
    sloppy. It is tempting to view it as an extension of the global Jihad
    and the persecution of Christians in the Middle East, which is now
    slowly spreading to Western Europe.

    At the same time that Muslims are colonizing Western nations
    while complaining about Islamophobia, the few remaining non-Muslim
    communities in the Middle East are being systematically eradicated.

    As Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch writes in his book Religion of
    Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't , "Christian communities
    throughout the Middle East that date back to the dawn of Christianity
    are decreasing so much that they are on the verge of disappearing
    from the area altogether. In Iraq half of the nation's prewar 700,000
    Christians have fled the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

    Overall the Middle Eastern Christian population has dropped from 20
    percent in 1900 to less than 2 percent today."

    How come left-wing organizations are so concerned about "Islamophobia"
    in the West, but care so little about Muslim infidelophobia? Is it
    because the extreme Left sees this as a continuation of their struggle
    against their own civilization, of which Christianity is a part?

    As we speak, Muslims are driving Christians out of the birthplace
    of Jesus Christ, Bethlehem, but Western media choose to blame this
    on the Jewish state of Israel, a fellow victim of Jihad. Some of
    this persecution of Christians - and Jews - committed by Arabs is
    done by Hamas, the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Members
    of the MB have inspired or founded many of the most violent Islamic
    organizations in recent decades, among them Sayyid Qutb, the spiritual
    father of Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders.

    The largest party on the political Left in Sweden, the Social
    Democrats, have announced their cooperation with members of the
    Muslim Brotherhood, for the mutual benefit of both, but the left-wing
    organization Expo sees nothing wrong in this. They concentrate their
    fire on those who want limit mass immigration and thus impede Socialist
    efforts to import voters from abroad.

    The Swedish Social Democrats were pro-Fascist and pro-Nazi during
    the 1930s and 40s, and appeased the Communists during the Cold
    War. Now they forge an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, another
    organization with close ideological ties to the Fascist and Nazi
    movements. The Social Democrats agree to continue allowing Muslims
    to colonize the country in exchange for their votes. In the old
    days this would be called treason. Now it's called tolerance. Two
    Fascist-inspired movements cooperate on exploiting the native
    population of a country, force them to fund and applaud their own
    colonization and denounce them as bigots, racists and Fascists if
    they resist. The strategy is as clever as it is evil.

    Sweden has witnessed an explosion in rapes and all kinds of
    violent crime in the past decades. This is a direct result of mass
    immigration. Malmo, their third largest city, will soon become the
    first Scandinavian city with a Muslim majority. Native Swedes are
    fleeing while gangs of Muslim immigrants openly brag about waging a
    war against Swedes, and leading academics are now talking about the
    end of the Swedish nation state as a likely result of the ongoing
    immigration. The fact that Expo in this situation chooses to focus on
    "Islamophobia" speaks volumes about where their loyalty lies.

    Moreover, if the far-Left organization Expo labels somebody as
    "Islamophobes," which to many apparently is the same as racists,
    members of a more violent far-Left organization, AFA, could take this
    as a licence to harass these individuals. When Kurt Lundgren, who
    runs one of the most popular political blogs in Sweden, is labelled an
    "Islamophobe," this is thus indirectly a warning to him about possible
    future harassment.

    I once heard a blog reader point out that there is no good form of
    Socialism: While the "hard" Socialism earlier championed in Eastern
    Europe turns society homicidal, the "soft" Socialism of the West turns
    society suicidal. Sweden certainly demonstrates the truth in this: It
    has no colonial history, and its current disintegration thus cannot
    be blamed on any "post-colonial guilt complex." It is caused purely
    by ideology. Sweden, which views itself as an ideological beacon
    for mankind, happily embraced the new post-Western paradigm where
    anti-nationalism was the order of the day, and its leaders decided
    to excel at it.

    Expo is, in my view, a symbol of the forces that have turned Sweden
    into perhaps the most totalitarian and politically repressive country
    in the Western world. Let it serve as a warning to others about
    what happens when Multiculturalism, Socialism and anti-nationalism
    gain power.

    Fjordman is a noted Norwegian blogger who has written for many
    conservative web sites. He used to have his own Fjordman Blog in the
    past, but it is no longer active.

    --Boundary_(ID_ZhVZHEb3JF7yb4NaDpgQow)--
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