In FrontPage today I discuss how this Leftist journalist clings tenaciously to “Islamophobia” myth as the evidence piles up against it.
What we got here is a failure to communicate. You know, some men you just can’t reach.
Late in November I wrote an article here at FrontPage entitled, “Poster Boy for ‘Islamophobia’ Tries to Join ISIS.” It was about Saadiq Long, a Muslim from the U.S. who had become a darling of MSNBC, Leftist propagandist Glenn Greenwald and the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for being on the No-Fly List and unable to return to the U.S. He was on the No-Fly List for no reason at all, you see, and so was an illustration of how the U.S. authorities had fallen prey to “Islamophobia.”
But then, as investigative journalist Patrick Poole reported, Long was arrested in Turkey as part of an Islamic State cell. It was on the basis of his piece that I wrote my article. Greenwald, who has for years been an eager ally of the Muslim victimhood industry, and has unapologetically worked with Hamas-linked CAIR, subsequently published a lengthy piece claiming that Poole’s was a “fabrication,” that there had been no terror raid, and that Long was just in Turkey looking for work. According to Greenwald, it was just another attempt by “Islamophobes” to defame a Muslim because he was a Muslim (and black, of course).
Unfortunately for Greenwald, however, David Steinberg of PJ Media blistered him with the facts, showing that Poole’s story was entirely accurate. At that point, one might have expected Greenwald to drop the matter: I would never expect a Leftist journalist to retract or admit his error, but he might at least have gone quiet and tried to minimize the damage. Instead, he has come back yet again, claiming anew that Poole and PJ Media, both of which he smears (with a tiresome lack of originality, honest thought or imagination) as “anti-Muslim,” were making false claims. And so Steinberg has come back again as well, with a piece that definitively drives a stake into the heart of Greenwald’s false claims.
Don’t be surprised, however, if this undead thing, Greenwald’s false charges, once again stalks through the land, for Greenwald is clearly deeply invested in them, and that illustrates why this whole episode has much larger implications than just the question of whether or not Saadiq Long was arrested as part of an Islamic State cell. The Leftist media, of which Greenwald is a foremost exponent, is unshakably committed to the narrative that the jihad threat has been wildly exaggerated by “right-wing bigots,” and that white Christian men pose a far greater security threat, and that “Islamophobia” is a much bigger and more urgent problem than jihad terror. Saadiq Long was a poster child for those claims, and when it came to light that he had been arrested as part of an Islamic State cell, it didn’t just show up Greenwald and Hamas-linked CAIR for championing him as an innocent victim of “right-wing hate”: it challenged the entire false narrative they have been reinforcing in hundreds and hundreds of articles all over the mainstream media for years.
Here’s a prediction: Glenn Greenwald will keep on insisting that Saadiq Long was an innocent victim twice over, first of “Islamophobic” law enforcement officials who put him on the No-Fly List and then of “Islamophobic” journalists who claimed he had been arrested in a raid on an Islamic State cell, until the day he dies. He will do so with all the adamantine, never-break-character flintiness of the Leftists who ignored the mountains of evidence and insisted for decades that Alger Hiss had never been a Communist spy, but had been framed by Whittaker Chambers and Richard Nixon. He will do so because the alternative is this: he would have to admit not only that he was wrong about Saadiq Long, but that he has been wrong about “right-wing media Islamophobia” and the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat — and thus that a great deal more of his reporting has been wrong than just what he has said about Long, Poole, and PJ Media.
Glenn Greenwald could conceivably come in from the cold and become a journalist who was actually committed to accuracy and responsible reporting, but I’m betting he won’t.

Angemon says
*looks at photo*
Mr. Greenwald, why the long face?
Wellington says
Long ago I came to the conclusion that facts are optional for those on the Left.
JAR says
I believe the correct assessment is: “Leftists react to facts like vampires to crucifixes.”
guide inside says
I have always enjoyed the saying “If your not a liberal progressive Demoncrat when your young, you have no heart. { “Aww, how caring”}. And if your not a Republican when your older, You have no brains!
Goat Pimp says
A new term has been coined and has already seen extensive use. If someone misquotes, quote-mines or blatantly misrepresents you, he has “Greenwalded” you.
Sam says
“fabrication,” that there had been no terror raid, and that Long was just in Turkey looking for work”
A Muslim from America looking for a job in Turkey is laughable in any case but who is paying attention.
These liberal liars will not give up lying as there is no push back as long as they are on track with their agenda of socialism, multiculturalism, hate of the best country ever created yes USA and Israel.
Why? They are brainwashed and they are not interested in truth. Even if their throats are cut off by their Muslim friends they will blame that “Greedy Imperialist USA”
Westman says
I remember when the MSM would investigate the causes of the world’s dysfunctions and dig deep into political corruption; feeling an obligation to bring truth to the public. When someone was interviewed they asked the hard questions instead of hawking books.
Since the internet took the fat out of advertising revenue and the left has power in Washington, it seems things have changed.
Now the MSM and particularly NPR, PBS, and the BBC, have become a “Squatty Potty” for Western leftist governments, aiding a freer flow of rainbow BS without any improved palatibility. They aren’t selling accurate news anymore, they are selling government spin, popular left attitudes, celebrities, and little truth.
Wellington says
Very fine analysis, Westman.
John says
10/10 Spot on.
gravenimage says
Westman wrote:
I remember when the MSM would investigate the causes of the world’s dysfunctions and dig deep into political corruption; feeling an obligation to bring truth to the public.
………………………………
Yes and no, Westman. I do believe standards over all *have* slipped, but the fact is that the MSM has in the past egregiously fallen down when it came to recognizing and exposing threats to our freedoms.
Not many people are familiar with this, but much of the MSM downplayed the threat of Fascism and even lauded Mussolini and Hitler and the Nazis throughout the 1920s and ’30s.
National Geographic ran a glowing article on Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Newspapers ran puff pieces on Hitler Youth camps in the United States. Violence against Jews and political opponents was minimized and whitewashed or even denied outright.
Over all, Fascism was often lauded as being “modern”, and its principles were urged for adoption in America.
And the few brave journalists who *did* tell the truth were often smeared as hysterics and–even more grotesquely–as “warmongers”.
Much the same thing happened with a whitewash of Communism, both in the Soviet Union as later in China. Jihad Watch’s Hugh Fitzgerald sometimes refers to the New York Times as the “New Duranty Times”, for journalist Walter Duranty, who denied famine and gulags in the Soviet Union, presenting it instead as a worker’s paradise. He won a Pulitzer Prize for this sickening apologia.
Knowing this is both deeply depressing and oddly heartening. Depressing for obvious reasons–the press in aggregate has never been as committed to truth as we would hope, whether deliberately pushing propaganda or just out of laziness and sloppy reporting.
But heartening because in many cases truth *will* out, and that freedom can survive even the betrayal of many of those who lie to us instead of revealing the truth.
Lest I seem to be taking a stand against the press, nothing could be further from the truth–I’ve worked for newspapers and magazines myself, and my husband has a degree in Journalism.
A free press is enormously important to democracies–but we can never rely on every news outlet to tell us the truth.
Karen says
“A free press is enormously important to democracies-but we can never rely on every news outlet to tell us the truth.”
I would add ‘or any of them’!
Yes, thank you, and amen. We must be skeptics, not uncritical consumers of ‘news’, who trust but verify, go to multiple divergent sources (like new media JW), and never hand over our thinking to the cult of personalities in the old media/entertainment complex.
BlueRaven says
It makes no difference to Mohamedians about his suger coating Islam, they will push him down a great big building for being a gay. He need to take that fact into consideration as bases for his views about Islam and Mohamedians.
Mark Swan says
Yep…He’s a Poofter.
nacazo says
Greenwald wouldn’t call it lying. It’s a lawyer doing the best defense for the people that paid the retainer.
Matthieu Baudin says
Myopic and fiercely entrenched, this is what we are up against, in so many quarters, while we continue to sink.
Rob says
Last night on Al Jazeera, Mehdi Hasan interviewed Noam Chomsky who opined that Islamophobia was increasing at a shocking rate.
Still about 100th of the anti-Jewish hate crime rate but hey?
The real cringe was that Hasan is (or was) on you Tube spouting the most vile anti Jewish and anti Christian bile.
The clip dates from maybe 5 years ago and if anyone can find it please post.
Chomsky is the architypical self-loathing Jew.
mortimer says
Glenn Greenwald is another Western cultural Marxist who tries to understand Islam through Marxist political theory…particularly the idea of postcolonial liberation struggle. But Islam is not about Marxism…Islam is about jihad…the plot to take over the world and impose Sharia law. Greenwald is the sort of person ISIS would love to throw off a high building. He is a Gay activist and Jewish. Greenwald appears totally unaware of Islam’s political doctrines and the great danger he would face if Islamofascism came to America. Greenwald wears Marxist ideological blinkers, so he fails to see all that. Moreover, Greenwald resists learning about Islam from Islam’s foundational source texts.
Greenwald thinks of himself as a defender of defenseless Muslims, but he lacks any understanding of the theocratic and fascist nature of Islam. He is apparently almost totally ignorant of Islam and its canonical use of vigilantism to gain its goal of social apartheid, misogyny and finally complete supremacism. Under Sharia law, any Muslim may kill a critic of Islam or an apostate from Islam…is he concerned about the rights of THOSE two categories of people. Most of all, Greenwald fails to realize that Islam is the greatest source of human rights in the world…the rights of women, Gays, Jews, and all other religious adherents or sceptics or atheists.
In the long term, without a determined resistance, jihad will go forward and our rights and liberties will continuously erode under Islamic attack, that is, unless Western intellectuals put their lives on the line to defend freedom.
The latest attack from the Islamic side is its war on free speech as well as critical thought under the slogan of ‘Islamophobia’.
American philosopher, H.G. Frankfurt wrote a philosophical treatise called ‘On Bullshit’. The ‘Islamophobia’ complaint…invented by the Muslim Brotherhood, by the way…is ‘bullshit’, because it is not merely a lie. The word ‘Islamophobia’ expresses outright disdain for truth and critical thought. The purpose of the ‘Islamophobia’ propaganda campaign is to blunt all critical thought about Islam and allow the imposition of religious-based blasphemy laws upon Western countries. The ‘Islamophobia’ campaign is philosophical ‘bullshit’, because the mullahs really aren’t concerned with mental health. They want a monopoly of speech about Islam in the public domain. That means: we Westerners will be their pupils, and the mullahs will be our only authorized teachers.
In Islamic school, the goal is to memorize, rather than to think. Students who do not memorize uncritically are beaten with canes and chained to posts until they submit to the uncritical approach of Islam.
If our intellectuals are cowards like Greenwald who refuse to confront the human rights violations within Islam, it won’t help them to cosy up to Islam’s theocratic supremacists or defend them, except in the short term.
mortimer says
Most of all, Greenwald fails to realize that Islam is the greatest source of human rights VIOLATIONS in the world…the rights of women, Gays, Jews, and all other religious adherents or sceptics or atheists. Islam is against 80% of the world…all who aren’t proper Muslims according to their narrow interpretation. Islam is not liberal and tolerant, but highly codified and narrow-minded.
JIMJFOX says
History of the term[edit]
One early use cited as the term’s first use is by the painter Alphonse Étienne Dinet and Algerian intellectual Sliman ben Ibrahim in their 1918 biography of Islam’s prophet Muhammad.[59][60] Writing in French, they used the term islamophobie. Robin Richardson writes that in the English version of the book the word was not translated as “Islamophobia” but rather as “feelings inimical to Islam”. Dahou Ezzerhouni has cited several other uses in French as early as 1910, and from 1912 to 1918.[61] These early uses of the term did not, according to Christopher Allen, have the same meaning as in contemporary usage, as they described a fear of Islam by liberal Muslims and Muslim feminists, rather than a fear or dislike/hatred of Muslims by non-Muslims
The first recorded use of the term in English, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, was in 1923 in an article in The Journal of Theological Studies.[5] The term entered into common usage with the publication of the Runnymede Trust’s report in 1997.[64
So, NO, the MBH did NOT invent the term but have embraced and promoted it ad nauseam.
JIMJFOX says
“…invented by the Muslim Brotherhood, by the way…”
gravenimage says
True, Jim.
mortimer says
Will Glenn Greenwald go to Germany and Sweden to defend the jihadists who are raping the women of those countries?
How far will Glenn Greenwald go to defend the theocratic fascists of Islam? Will he continue until the day they turn on HIM and throw him from a high building because he is Jewish and Gay?
Madhavi Lsta says
Let’s call it ” zombie journalism ” The ” facts” don’t kill their lies or denials. They keep coming back , all reason abandoned – the undead .
Singh the Sikh says
Glen Greenwald is a stupid cow and an utterly dumb journalist. In fact there is nothing ‘journalistic’ about his work at all. He is totally devoid of critical thinking,let alone common sense. A naive propagandist for islamofacists. In his stupidity he is a danger to all us non-Muslims, as articulated by Mortimer. Hopefully the ‘Wald’ will read Mortimer and it will open his eyes, but It seems this is one stupid cow beyond redemption.
Richard P, Sweden says
Journalism. Covering reality about islamization. Denying covering. TV (SVT Swedish radio and TV organization) interviewing the man in the street about what they think about a political party being critical of islamization from the very start.
The answer from a young woman: ” Do not like it. ”
Question : -” Why not? ”
Answer: -” They are rasists.” A female seemingly of outside Europe origin.
Turned out that she was not “the man in the street”, but from SSU, a branch of the political party Socialdemocrats forming Government together with a 5% Miljöparty (Green Party).
Myxlplik says
If Glen Greenwald was brave like Daniel Pearl, he’d do a little traveling and go right to the source, perhaps his last words would be as brave as Mr. Pearls were?
gravenimage says
Glenn Greenwald is despicable.
Here he is, smearing the brave staff of Charlie Hebdo *right after* the Jihad massacre there:
“Glenn Greenwald Versus Charlie Hebdo: On the Wrong Side of Freedom”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/01/14/glenn_greenwald_versus_charlie_hebdo_on_the_wrong_side_of_freedom_125253.html
UNCLE VLADDI says
Liberals are racists: they always assume that ONLY White Western people (including, of course, the Jews in Israel,) are INTELLIGENT enough to be guilty of being truly evil, while all their pet “People Of Colour” (including the “swarthy palestinians”) being mentally inferior and all, just can’t help being enslaved by their instincts and emotions into acting as violent animals when frustrated, the poor oppressed little dears, so the liberals will always indulge their crimes, much as one ignores the new puppy as it pees on the rugs.
So here’s their interminably ongoing “narrative” (story):
“SO JUST STOP PICKING ON ALL THE THE POOR HELPLESS MENTALLY INFERIOR SWARTHY ANIMAL VICTIMS, YOU EVIL MENTALLY SUPERIOR WHITE BULLIES! YOU KNOW THEY’RE AT THE MERCY OF THEIR ANIMAL INSTINCTS SUCH THAT THEY JUST CAN’T HELP BEING VIOLENT WHEN CONFUSED, SO STOP BAITING AND CONFUSING THEM, YOU HATERS!”
But why (a rational man might ask) do leftards always insist islam is a “race” of poor oppressed swarthy people, in stead of the global crime-gang it so-obviously is?!
They do it because of their static immoral relativism idolatry, to excuse everyone via the argumentum tu quoque: “Since everyone is born the same/equal, therefore everyone also always stays the same!”
Liberals pretend that, since all humans of all breeds (“races”) are born equally tabula-rasa as blank slates, and they are all (initially) all the same, that therefore any and all “cultural” traditions (habits) will also always be the same, and turn out the same way!
Such backwards tautologies are the liberal criminal excuse-makers’ bread-and-butter.
That’s like saying a criminal twin isn’t a criminal, because his innocent twin isn’t one.
But when they claim all cultures are the same, (because nurture has no effect) then the only valid conclusion one can draw from different countries (like the islamic ones in Africa) being so far behind all the others, developmentally, would be due to nature (i.e: hardware; genetics; “race”)!
Since liberals are in denial of reality, the symptoms of their assertions never line up!
Liberals should ask them selves: “How much respect would I imagine I’d get from my swarthy friends if I really was one of them, and I was still a proud race-traitor, but I sold them all out to whitey instead?”!
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “how liberals always “caution us” like this:
“Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, but you’d better be nice to the muslims, or else they might turn to terrorism!”
Well, if islam has nothing to do with terrorism, then why must (only) the muslims be expected to turn to it if and when they get offended, leftards!?
;-(
There are some legal phrases which go like this: “Knew, or ought to have known,” and even more about “reasonable people.”
Leftards KNOW islam is a threat, which is why they support it. Nobody smart enough to tie their own shoes can avoid the incessant news reports of islam-driven global violence bombarding us every day.
There’s an old quote by some famous person which goes like:
“It is almost impossible to make some people see or admit to seeing an obvious fact, if and when their livelihood depends on their NOT seeing it.”
Well, the exact same truth goes double for when they think that their LIVES depend on them not seeing it!
Islam is made up mostly of swarthy people different from us. So, while that’s really only a tangential symptom of the original circumstantial development of their very obviously dangerous crime-gang, the criminally negligent leftists have latched onto it in order to avoid angering the dangerous muslims: they can simply dismiss those “dangerous” people who keep trying to get THEM to risk them selves to HELP to combat it, as “racists!”
That way, they can offload their own responsibilities to defend them selves onto their “right wing” victims, while enjoying the unearned rights to safety their treason will provide – by which they hope they can have it both ways, regardless of who ultimately wins!
This whole “right-wing radicalization” slander is typical of the communazis’ relativism – their #1 alibi to excuse their crimes is the Argumentum Tu Quoque “Two wrongs make a right!” fallacy: “We (leftists/muslims) aren’t evil because you all do it, too! Whee!” so in order to “prove” this fallacy, they need to cherry-pick evidence that others “do it too!”
Libertine “liberal” socialists (criminal gangster extortionists) are the real “islamophobes” – which is why they automatically defend the muzi crime-gang!
THEY are the ones who recognize islam is scary, but since they are literal psycho-paths (thought killers) who instantly pretend the fear of fear is the worst crime (because it hurts feelings) they mock those rational people who openly admit it as “cowards.”
But the cowardly liberals somehow miss the fact that they actually show more mental weakness by fearing the fear of pain, than in rationally fearing the cause of it.
And, honestly, people – “right wingers” don’t actually exist.
Hitler was a National SOCIALIST.
And even “Fascism” was invented by Benito Mussolini, the devoted Italian SOCIALIST.
So, what’s a “right winger?” It’s any normal person who wakes up enough to take a bit of time off from minding their own businesses to temporarily band together to vote to not be extorted any more by group-might-makes-rights-worshipping “socialist” gangsters.
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