The racism of radical Islam’s useful idiots

01Oct08

Note: Anti-German Translation does not support the “anti-Islamisation” conference in Cologne. We see it as complicit with the racist propoganda of the populist far right which is on the rise in Europe. The populist far right presents a much more clear and present danger to Europe than Islam does. The conference blurs the distinction between radical Islamism and Islam in general, and demonises the presence of Muslims in Europe, regardless of whether they support radical Islamism. (See more from Robert Spencer of JihadWatch and Little Green Footballs.

Anti-German Translation also rejects the depiction of “antifa” presented in some of the posts we link to below. The antifa movement is broad-based, and includes supporters of Israel and opponents of Islamo-fascism, as many posts on this blog show.

However, we present the posts below because they show – and help analyse – the ugliest face of European pro-Islamofascist leftism, a tradition in the antifa movement which needs to be crushed.

Diana West on the Nazi tactics of radical Islam’s useful idiots in Cologne:

In many ways, this is the most sharply revealing photograph to emerge from the debacle in Cologne last weekend when leftists, much to the shameful approval of the local authorities including the mayor, seized control of the streets and prevented a political demonstration against Islamization from taking place. The photo was taken by “Aviel,” whose eyewitness account is posted at Gates of Vienna. He says it “shows a band of some sort of humans preventing the police from moving about. I find it odd that even they were powerless to deal with that lot. However, I think that they were probably just unwilling.”

These policemen, mere instruments of a corrupted state, were not just “unwilling” to “deal with that lot.” I think they were also unable. They, like their state, are bereft of the core beliefs that, under unfortunately outmoded moral corcumstances, would have guided them in their duty to preserve civic space for freedom of assembly and speech. Bedazzled by the rainbows, they failed to see the totalitarian heart underneath–or, worse, they recognized it as their own.

Here is an excerpt of Aviel’s account:

I myself came upon one of these barricades on Eibahnstrasse that morning on my way to attend the conference on Heumarkt. I approached the Antifa thugs and demanded that they let me pass. I was wearing my Kippah and readily identifiable as a Jew; however, they screamed at me “Nazis Raus”.

This is the paradigm: rainbow dictators eliminating dissent and the freedom necessary for dissent by, first, smearing dissenters as Nazi dictators. This glorifies themselves–very important–and rationalizes their own Nazi tactics. [READ THE REST]

More by Diana West on the rally. More at: Atlas Shrugged.

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