In The Coming of the Third Reich, historian Richard J. Evans explains how, in the early days of National Socialist Germany, Stormtroopers (Brownshirts) “organized campaigns against unwanted professors in the local newspapers [and] staged mass disruptions of their lectures.” To express dissent from Nazi positions became a matter of taking one’s life into one’s hands. The idea of people of opposing viewpoints airing their disagreements in a civil and mutually respectful manner was gone. One was a Nazi, or one was silent (and fearful).
Today’s fascists, such as “journalist” Alex Kotch call themselves “anti-fascists” and claim that they’re against “hate.” But like the Nazis, they are totalitarian: they are determined not to allow their opponents to murmur the slightest whisper of dissent. Forcibly suppressing the speech of someone with whom one disagrees is a quintessentially fascist act. These fascists will target you for destruction if you oppose jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women and others.
And so it is that Kotch is going after various charitable foundations, trying to intimidate them into stopping donations to groups that the Southern Poverty Law Center deems to be “hate groups.” Never mind that the SPLC is incurably biased and viciously inaccurate, lumping in legitimate organizations whose only crime is to dissent from the Leftist agenda with the likes of the KKK and neo-Nazis. What the SPLC’s Heidi Beirich says in this article is revealing: “Beirich said the SPLC has a high bar for listing organizations as hate groups. SPLC looks for ‘organizations that demean or debase an entire other group of people based on their inherent characteristics.’ Hate groups are those that issue ‘serious slurs’—for example, claims that Jews are evil or gay men are pedophiles.”
Well, in that case Jihad Watch (and AFDI, the DHFC, and the CSP, and many others) are not actually “hate groups” by the SPLC’s own criterion. I challenge Heidi Beirich and Alex Kotch to come up with a single time that I or any other Jihad Watch writer has demeaned or debased an entire group of people based on their inherent characteristics. And I’m continuing to look into legal options against the SPLC; now that they’ve defined how they decide what a “hate group,” it ought to be readily provable that they have defamed me and my organization, and done so willfully and repeatedly.
Anyway, Alex Kotch and his colleagues may succeed in drying up all the funding that I and others who oppose jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women, gays, and others receive. America is entering a very dark period, with half the electorate believing that the other half has no right to express its views, and must be silenced. It’s coming down fast. But Alex Kotch will never be able to make up down, or red blue, or the truth falsehood. It will, however, probably only dawn on him that it isn’t “hate” to oppose jihad terror and Sharia oppression when it is far too late. If ever.
“America’s Biggest Charities Are Funneling Millions to Hate Groups From Anonymous Donors,” by Alex Kotch, Sludge, February 19, 2019:
Anti-Muslim nonprofits including the David Horowitz Freedom Center ($3 million) and Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy ($1.6 million), anti-LGBT organizations such as Alliance Defending Freedom ($2.7 million) and the Family Research Council ($548,000), and the white nationalist organization the VDARE Foundation ($46,000) have all received funds from one or more of the donor-advised funds investigated by Sludge….
Abbas Barzegar, director of research at Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told Sludge…
Kotch unironically goes to Hamas-linked CAIR as an authority. He doesn’t bother to tell his hapless readers that CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements about how Islamic law should be imposed in the U.S. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) CAIR chapters frequently distribute pamphlets telling Muslims not to cooperate with law enforcement. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates. CAIR’s Hussam Ayloush in 2017 called for the overthrow of the U.S. government. CAIR’s national outreach manager is an open supporter of Hamas.
The donor-advised funds contributed to other prominent anti-Muslim groups including the David Horowitz Freedom Center (over $3 million over three years from all four groups and Donors Trust’s sister group, Donors Capital Fund) and Pamela Gellar’s American Freedom Defense Initiative ($385,000 over three years from all four groups). Fidelity Charitable also gave $1,725 to Jihad Watch, a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center run by noted Islamophobe Robert Spencer….
livingengine says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G9G79oImG4&vl=en
CRUSADER says
There will always be Angels who support Truth.
Truth will let out, as the daughter of time….
mortimer says
And all the Leftards believe that they have a license to HATE EVERYONE who disagrees with the Leftards.
Apparently, it isn’t HATE, when THEY do it.
mortimer says
Alex Kotch is a PRO-FASCIST who PROMOTES SHARIA SUPREMACISM.
Sharia law is totalitarian, unelected and must be imposed on kafirs by force. Is that not religious ‘fascism’?
gravenimage says
Fascist “journalist” Alex Kotch tries to get charitable organizations to shut off donations to Jihad Watch
……………………
How does opposing the horrors of Jihad and Shari’ah make you a “hate group”?
Note that he also supports vicious antisemite Ilhan Omar in her aim to destroy democratic Israel:
“Ilhan Omar is right about the influence of the Israel lobby”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/13/ilhan-omar-is-right-about-the-influence-of-the-israel-lobby
Unsurprisingly, one of the main outlets he writes for is “Sludge”.
And here is more of his targeting those who oppose the horrors of Islam:
“Top GOP Lawmakers Bankroll Candidate Who Said Islam Was the Work of Satan”
https://readsludge.com/2018/11/05/mark-harris-gop-lawmakers-bankroll-islam-work-of-satan/
mortimer says
The Leftards dislike Islam, but it is useful for their agenda of eradicating Christian culture and ethics in the West. Christianity emphasizes personal honesty at all times. Islamic opportunistic ethics are compatible with those of Leftarded neo-Marxism which has virtually no moral restraint … it is purely opportunistic.
Leftards agree with Muslims on amorality if it serves their supremacist agenda.
The question in the unholy Red-Green Axis of Evil is ‘WHICH SIDE WILL BETRAY THE OTHER SIDE FIRST???’
gravenimage says
A lot of leftists think that Islam is a “religion of peace”.
b.a. freeman says
GI, most leftists were educated in public primary, secondary, and university schools; all of these have been dominated by hard-core leftists for decades. it would be *amazing* if most leftists did NOT think that islam is a religion of peace, because they are taught nothing about it. instead, they are taught – by example, if not explicitly – that islam is just another religion, and that all religions are equally stupid and pablum for the masses. since most westerners have familiarity with christianity (and most indians have familiarity with hinduism), virtually everybody believes that islam is just like the religion with which they (think they) are most familiar. furthermore, because the left suppresses the teaching of critical thinking, except where a technical discipline (the “STEM” fields) is concerned (which cannot be taught without it), leftists do what all uneducated people do when they encounter something new: they look to the smartest people they know – who happen to be leftist thought leaders – for what to think and do.
actually, doing exactly that is one way to get a leg up on the universe, and is the way that formal education is *supposed* to work. unfortunately, when one does look to others, one must trust them, and they must not violate that trust. it used to be that teachers challenged their students and made them think (and some no doubt still do; the left is not yet in total control), but if the sources of “wisdom” whom one trusts are LYING, or actively hiding the truth, one will have a very hard time educating oneself. in true “workers’ paradises” like the USSR, people soon learned that the Party line is bulls**t, but the revolution against freedom is still in its early stages, and the truth is still being actively hidden.
thus, most, if not all, of those leftists who think that islam is peaceful, and who consequently NEVER look at it for themselves, are actually victims of their hard-core thought leaders. we kuffar are going like lambs to the slaughter; the first to mass-murder us will be hard-core leftists, and the next (and almost certainly the last) will be the pious muslims.
Dave says
Graven, these leftists are closet muslims.
gravenimage says
Dave, not all leftists are closet Muslims. Do you really believe there are hundreds of millions of closet Muslims in the US?
There are more clueless leftists than there are closet Muslims. I have a lot of neighbors like this here in my very blue state.
gravenimage says
True, b.a. freeman.
James Lincoln says
Mortimer,
You stated:
“The Leftards dislike Islam, but it is useful for their agenda of eradicating Christian culture and ethics in the West.”
I agree that Islam is very useful to left to promote their agenda of eradicating Christian culture and ethics in the West.
I’m not totally convinced, however, that they necessarily dislike Islam.
If they understood it, at least to the level of Jihad Watch Islam 101, they should dislike Islam.
I’m just not convinced that the vast majority of the people on the left seek to obtain that level of knowledge or understanding.
In other words, I guess I see no significant indication of their dislike of Islam in their words or actions.
But I could be wrong.
mortimer says
James, of course, the Leftards DO NOT ADMIT in public that they dislike Islam. So here’s what you do … lead the conversation to the subject of CONSERVATIVE Saudi Arabia.
… Leftards will admit they dislike SHARIA in private when you CORNER THEM about the misogyny, beheadings and hand-choppings in SAUDI ARABIA … then, when you have cornered them, they will sheepishly admit that they dislike Saudi Arabia because it is ‘TOO CONSERVATIVE’. Then, you’ve got them!
Saudi Arabia is ‘too conservatively’ enforcing strict Sharia. But all of Sharia law has NOTHING ‘liberal’ in it. Islam as a religion is nothing but the practice of SHARIA LAW.
James Lincoln says
Thanks for your reply mort, I guess it’s starting to make more sense.
patriotliz says
Mortimer,
We are at war with Islam, a religious variant of Nazism/Fascism.
Democrats are allies with Islam…aka, the Leftist-Islamic axis of evil. I don’t particularly like the “red-green” axis of evil…it can be confused with another alliance of Western commies (RED) with “New GREEN Deal” and the latter is their religion of carbonism–the core belief that carbon will destroy the planet. That’s the newer version of the previous Leftist-Environmentalism alliance called the watermelon theory—GREEN on the outside, RED on the inside.
As to the question, who will dominate the world? Hard core Communist countries like China and North Korea will deal w/ religious Muslims using their usual methods of effective totalitarianism e.g., like China is doing w/ the Uighurs. However, will Western Leftist Globalists or Muslims take over the West? Muslims have been at war against Western Civilization for 1400 years…they have far more expertise as a killing machine compared to anything from the Western Leftist/Fascists. The Muslims will have their caliphate. Here’s what the Western Leftists are in for and they refuse to see it because they are wearing their “multicultural” blindfold (hoisted on their own petard):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_GYLxe3Vuk
gravenimage says
Actually, China has been engaged in quite a bit of appeasing Muslims, as well–such as exempting them from the One Child Policy and allowing them but not Han Chinese to carry knives.
eduardo odraude says
Definitely fascistic types on the left these days.
Lydia Church says
Yes, they are coming after anyone who happens to be RIGHT.
They forget that to hate evil is…. GOOD!
I am not ashamed to say that I do.
mortimer says
Agree with LC. They are 1) demonizing 2) oversimplifying 3) demonetizing 4) deplatforming 5) promoting genocidal ideation against conservatives.
Leftards like Alex Kotch are hysterical, agenda-driven fanatics.
dan christensen says
From Alex Kotch’s own homepage:
“I earned a Bachelor’s in music from Brown University and Master’s and PhD degrees in music composition from Duke University, where I fused contemporary classical with electronic dance music. I wrote my dissertation on this marriage of genres after research fellowships in Berlin and London.”
Every man to his own trade. The gap between music composition and journalism can be too big. In my opinion artistic people inevitably look ridiculous when they dabble in politics.
mortimer says
Somewhat agree with DC.
However, the lack of formal training in a subject does not automatically stop a person from having a moment of insight.
As with all insights, they must be supported with SOLID FACTS to become credible.
Alex Koch has no such facts … he is fantasizing about what he ASSUMES, GUESSES and PRESUMES Islam to be.
Alex Koch cannot SPONTANEOUSLY understand Islam. It takes a DECADE of reading the PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS of Islam, before you can say ‘I UNDERSTAND ISLAM’.
You must understand Islam as SHARIA LAW BASED WITHIN THE PRIMARY SOURCE TEXTS.
Islam is HIGHLY CODIFIED and the codification is derived in a very COMPLEX MANNER.
Alex Koch obviously has NO IDEA who complicated the subject of Islam is … hence, his naive, Pollyannish oversimplification of the matter.
Alex Koch’s approach is bull****.
Giacomo Latta says
If ”ordinary” muslims are so worried about retaliation by non-muslims when ”fanatical” muslims kill and rape then why aren’t they the first to speak up against these fanatics who are giving them a bad name? Apparently, they aren’t too bothered.
Ole Pederson says
Why do Lefties, Green Party members and Islamists like to share a laugh?
Each of them considers the others to be useful idiots. Look at the leftist and green lads, and the muscles of the jihadis, and you know who is going to bleed.