Fjordman: Still Obsessing, Still Obfuscating

Sun, Dec 9, 2007 at 10:13:02 am PST

Fjordman is at it again, whining about how trivial and unimportant my posts about the Vlaams Belang are, then writing another thousand words without dealing with a single factual issue. In this one, he completely ignores the fascist symbols in that infamous image of a black rat—in other words, he ignores the entire point of Friday’s post—and instead attacks me for linking to the web site that exposed the uncropped image: Why Does LGF Lend Credibility to Eurabia Deniers?

(Notice that to Fjordman, questioning Bat Ye’or’s Eurabia theory is now labeled “denial,” akin to Holocaust denial. It’s reminiscent of the global warming crowd’s quest to label critics “deniers.” Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with the theory that there is a conspiracy at the highest levels to “Arabize” Europe, it’s a totalitarian tactic to label critics “deniers,” as if the theory were an objective proven fact, above criticism.)

I wouldn’t even bother responding to this, but once again Fjordman’s attack article is appearing at numerous web sites—so it needs to be answered. The enormous effort being put into this deceptive smear campaign is quite remarkable.

Øyvind Strømmen, the other target of Fjordman’s rant, also has a reply to this latest attempt to obfuscate the issues: Hello, Fjordman!