“But Ms Wood was unrepentant, insisting that ISIS ‘is far right.'”
For years I have noted that the establishment media refers to both Islamic hardliners who enforce Sharia provisions calling for stonings and amputations, and non-Muslims who oppose the implementation of such provisions, as “conservatives.” And here we see the utility of their tactic: Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood claims that the Islamic State is “far-right,” and she and her ilk can thereby use the Barcelona jihad massacre as a pretext for further harassment and censorship of those who oppose the Islamic State. It’s clever, albeit diabolically clever.
“Plaid Cymru leader faces backlash after branding deadly Barcelona atrocity the work of ‘far right’ terrorists,” by James Tapsfield, Mailonline, August 19, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood is facing a backlash for branding the Barcelona terror attack ‘far right’.
The Welsh assembly member sparked anger by tweeting about the apparent ISIS-inspired atrocity last night.
Posting a report of the deadly attack, Ms Wood asked: ‘Terrible. Is this more far right terrorism?’
The comments drew claims that Ms Wood was politicising the episode, while others complained that she was unwilling to condemn Islamist terrorism explicitly – arguing that ISIS ideology was in fact far left.
But Ms Wood was unrepentant, insisting that ISIS ‘is far right’….
epistemology says
In a certain way she’s right. It was the work of Nazis, as Islam and Nazism share the same totalitarian ideology.
tests says
The problem is, Nazism is NOT far right, unlike what the same MSM who calls Islamists ‘conservatives’ likes to say…
tests says
…But I get what you mean.
pat mott says
I agree ,The left goes so round in a circle it meets the far right!
PRCS says
Correct.
DrSique says
Yup, the line between far left and far right is not linear, it is more of a horse shoe. On the far right, you have libertarians who want many of the same things that the left does, albeit for different reasons. As for this british bureaucrat, not identifying your enemy is bad, completely misidentifying those who want to cut off your head is stupid.
Dan Williams says
Of course she’s right. ISIS is FAR FAR right. It’s weird that the western left makes excuses for them. But the ridiculous idea that she is probably trying to make is western white right wing idiots were behind it. We all know how white right wing idiots always say ‘Allahu akbar’.
WorkingClassPost says
Ironic coming from a Welsh Nationalist.
Especially given the influence of the terrorist group, Sons of Glendwr, who set fire to mainly English owned homes in the last decades of 20th century, which also sparked the current success of Plaid.
Again we see the left profiting from violence, but they are mistaken to believe that muslims will quietly move aside and leave them to reap the fruits of islamic destruction.
jewdog says
I agree that ISIS is an Islamo-fascist organization, i.e. far right, but yes, this is probably a clever tactic to conflate ISIS with Western conservatives. As S.I. Hayakawa would say, let’s hear more specifics and fewer generalizations, like how Sharia Law and Jihad resemble conservative thinking. Otherwise, it’s just empty sloganeering from another air-head politician.
Joe says
The problem is labeling everything. If you have a snake in your house who is hissing at you, do you try to label it as a “guest”? Is the snake “left” or “right”?
Islamic jihad is change (therefore “left”) for those who haven’t been traditionally exposed to it, and it is the same (therefore “right”) for those who have been traditionally victims of it. So what? In either case it is a hissing snake.
Laura says
If you really wanted to get a better idea about exactly how the Left has changed the meaning of words, Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, The Big Lie, lays it all out. National Socialism (NAZI), Fascism, and Islamic totalitarianism all are LEFT.
Santa Voorhees says
So, people are getting killed over and over again worldwide by jihadists, and all she cares about is whether is this far right or not?
Why doesn’t she ask herself why this keeps happening instead?!?
STEVE says
It is the screeching voices and opinions of a ‘type’ this windbag represents that have permeated and overwhelmed the BBC air channels for years. Now we are ‘liberalised’ and ‘Merkled’, police run from protesters and stand idly by as trash destroy property in the London riots. Girls are mass raped for decades and FGM is allowed by weak Govenments. Soon we will have the wolfish wail of the Muslim Muezzin echoing across this spineless nation and we will accept our fate. Mohammed has conquered where Hitler could not by simply ordering his followers 1400 years ago…”TO TAKE POWER FROM INFIDELS YOU MUST ACT LIKE THE WOLF……….
overman says
Well said steve.
Halal Bacon says
and bananas and 2 x 4 lumber are in the same food group /sarc
overman says
All Plaid Cymru really cares about is ramming the welsh language down everyone’s throat, in a country where hardly anyone speaks welsh anymore – it costs a fortune to make everything bilingual in wales. Arabic won’t be far behind.
Leanne Wood is a moron when it comes to the muslim refugee crisis. She goes on about all the children being washed up on beaches – which we now know were fake or staged. She never mentions that very few are genuine refugees or that 99% are fighting-age young men.
Here she is spouting crap about bringing more refugees into Britain – totally naive and misguided:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJVi3Sqo2cs
PRCS says
Well, yes, Islam is a very conservative ideology. It has not changed in 1400 years.
But, as Spencer notes, it’s a tactic.
Her use of the term far right is a pejorative jab at conservatives that too many of our friends and neighbors fall for, over and over again.
Use it against her. Throw It back in her face.
Agree with her. Tell her that Islam is NOT a warm and fuzzy far left ideology. That it is definitely not a liberal ideology.
Put her on the spot.
**CONSERVATIVE**
ADJECTIVE
holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics OR religion.
synonyms: traditionalist • traditional • conventional • orthodox • old-fashioned • dyed-in-the-wool • hidebound • unadventurous • set in one’s ways • moderate • middle-of-the-road • buttoned-down • stick-in-the-mud
NOUN
a person who is averse to change and holds to traditional values and attitudes, typically in relation to politics.
synonyms: right-winger • reactionary • rightist • diehard • Republican •Tory
mortimer says
Leanne Wood is CRACKERS !! She is a prime example of the dishonest perspective of the RED-GREEN AXIS OF EVIL.
Leanne Wood is a true, unrepentant communist, like Lenin who extended more religious autonomy and privileges to Muslims than to the Russian Orthodox Church. Sharia and oppression of women proceeded under Lenin, but that changed under Stalin. Stalin used the battle cry of women’s rights to close mosques, madrassahs and forcibly remove the Islamic veil.
Leanne Wood is no different than earlier communists who all realized that their alliance with Muslims was merely strategic and would require a major betrayal at a later and more convenient moment after they had consolidated their censorship and power over everything and could no longer be challenged.
Leanne Wood is a blatant communist opportunist.
mortimer says
Leave refugees where they are in safe-havens overseas and send aid to them until they may return to their re-stabilized countries.
The migrants will not integrate. They will bring their dysfunctional culture and impose it in Western countries starting with no-go zones.
Jews who came from Germany were VERY WELL INTEGRATED into Europe and patriotic towards their country. The comparison to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany is BONKERS.
John A. Marre says
The left is intimately allied with Islam, an ideology that has as its goal the establishment of a totalitarian theocracy as the government over the entire world. The left promotes this goal, hoping that they will come to power through it.
They are wrong. The Jihadis hate the left more than they hate normal people, and will chop their heads off first.
somehistory says
When the day comes (soon) that Jesus said would, and “He sits down on His glorious throne” and “He gathers all the people of earth before Him as a shepherd gathers sheep and goats…..”
Jesus will put those of whom He approves on His “right.” Those who “go off into destruction” are on “His *left.”
So people are facing The KING….those on His “left” will be standing, facing Him, to the “right” and those on “His right” will be facing Him, on His right, with their left.
How much do the terms *left* and *right* or as this loon says “far right” really mean?
When she and her ilk label people in this manner, it is for the purpose of making them feel ill at ease, at a disadvantage, insulted, wrong, stupid, etc. And, to confuse those who are uncertain as to whom to believe.
Jesus’ use is the only one that means anything.
Irene Brekelmans says
How come lately, I can look at people and can almost see, that they are leftists, they all want to be movie stars I think, with statements that we have all heard before.Stay away and use your brains for a change!
bushwhacker says
what a stupid lying bint. No one who’s been paying attention should beleive anything she says.
Georg says
If ISIS is “far-right” then Islamists, who are plentiful in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, would surely be right-of-center (by her logic). Yet, they vote hard-left. Ipso facto she is full of &^(@.
Rest my case.
Andy says
DEADLY CULT of Diversity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4nnS7AiVtU
Andy says
EUROPE IS LOST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvR-9xjzoPg
rosemary hopkin says
Wood IS holding back stuff. The Welsh Assembly EMPLOYEE AND HER little Party (PLAID CYMRU) CONDONES the HARASSMENT of a 70 year old NHS WHISTLEBLOWER who lives in Taffs Well Cardiff CF15 .This woman is TRYING to make the BRITISH PEOPLE aware of MUSLIM KILLINGS in the NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE on WHITE PEOPLE for their Organs for Muslim recipients . ( HARVESTING HUMAN ORGANS FROM FIT WHITE PEOPLE ) This IS a well-oiled operation that has been gong on for MANY MANY MANY years. Wood s little party has an MP who IS related by marriage to this POTENTIAL Whistleblower WHO is subject to SEVERE GANGSTALKING and INVASION of PRIVACY in her personal life.. Even though she is 70, this woman HAS GOT to leave this country to get ANY SEMBLANCE of normality in her life. (She has been assaulted 3 times since 2014 )The WELSH are NOT CALLED SHEEP for nothing.
Shari says
Our Founders saw the political spectrum as a straight line, with the Left being Total Control/Ruler’s Law/Tyranny and the Right being No Law/Anarchy, with they strove to place the Constitution (Self-Government) to the right of center, allowing for as much freedom as possible, while still retaining enough law and order to protect individual rights. Enough law to maintain security, justice and good order, but not enough government to abuse the people. That puts communism, fascism, nazism, islamofascism all relative to one another on the far left of that spectrum, seeking extreme political power and control. I agree that it is dangerous to be equating totalitarian groups such as fascists or jihadis with Constituional conservatives. I do see this being used to shut down the free political speech of liberty loving/law-abiding citizens.
Noel says
This woman is the leader of a UK party with four MPs. I am Welsh, and I find her to be an embarrassment. Why does anyone want to know what she thinks?
Left and Right are redundant political terms. They have no meaning any more. I continually meet people who don’t know their Fascist from their Nazi from their Communist.
If you are British and have the time please read The Triumph Of The Political Class by Peter Oborne. He explains why the terms Establishment, Left and Right no longer have a function in any discussion.
rosemary hopkin says
I like your way of thinking Noel…
Voytek Gagalka says
So isn’t proper to equate Mohammedans with Nazis of whom many, many aspects they share? Yeah, I know, that would be “Islamophobic” but still facts are facts…