Islam versus Europe: If a Counterjihad Activist Came Up With a Cure for Cancer, Would MSM Journalists Let Themselves Die Rather Than Use It?

This is the question that needs to be asked in light of recent events. My exposé of Johann Hari’s systematic fraud in his “interview” with Malalai Joya was surely definitive. Although some half-way plausible defence could have been offered of his conduct before - when it seemed limited to just borrowing the odd quotation – that strategy surely becomes unfeasible when large parts of an interview, including all of the ‘money quotes’, are shown to have been fabricated with the aid of a book. This is relentless, artful and systematic fraud. It is indefensible. No sane conception of journalistic ethics could accommodate this conduct.

But where is the journalistic coverage of it? Almost every publication in the country has featured at least one news story or blog about the Johann Hari scandal every day this week, including today. Yet no news outlet is picking up on these revelations. I know for a fact that many journalists are aware of the Joya fraud exposé for the simple reason that I emailed them and told them about it, including some who are known to have a particular bee in their bonnet about Hari. Not one response. The only reply came from Guido Fawkes who congratulated me, linked to the web page and tweeted about it. Brian Whelan, the blogger whose call for help in crowd-checking Hari’s quotes originally inspired me to make the comparison, declined even to allow my comment to appear on his blog post. Wouldn’t want to be associated, even in the most tangential way, with an ‘extremist’, would we Brian? An extremist: someone crazy enough to think that an ideology that has blighted every part of the earth it has touched for 1400 years might not be having a wholly propitious effect on Britain. How could anyone think a thought so utterly mad? After all, it’s blindingly obvious that an ideology that has produced nothing but epic failure for a thousand years will suddenly start to churn out roaring success as soon as it arrives under the cloud-wracked skies of Albion, isn’t it?

Google Analytics tells me that thousands of people read the post about Johann Hari yesterday, no doubt many prominent journalists and bloggers among them. Yet not one dares to pick up on it. Why? Obviously because this is an anti-Islam blog and, in this multi-cult age, that constitutes heresy. These people fear being tainted by association with heresy. It is like we are living in the Soviet Union where journalists cower in fear of being accused of having reactionary tendencies or pro-western proclivities. Death or banishment awaits dissenters. The fact that the story has nothing directly to do with Islam apparently makes no difference.

In some cases, when approaching these journalists, I even said that they need not mention me or the blog if it made them uncomfortable; they should just run with the story. But even that isn’t good enough. If they did that, you see, it might later come to light that the evidence had originated on an anti-Islam blog and they would then have a career-killing association with a thought criminal.

Probably no more than a few hundred people, a few thousand at most, define the limits of what we are allowed to read, see or hear about in this country. Step outside those limits and you’re in the abyss, anathematised for life. Even the most marginal association with a ‘thought criminal’ can ruin you. Perhaps the mere mention that there is such a thing as an ‘anti-Islam’ blog is too much truth to be acknowledged.

This episode has been useful as a powerful illustration of how tightly regimented the media establishment in this country is, and that’s been the best thing about it. Because the truth is that I couldn’t care less about this Johann Hari nonsense one way or the other. It is a triviality. The fact that journalists and government officials are systematically covering up the truth about the corrosive effect Islamic immigration is having on Europe, and that they scurry like rabbits for cover when even a hint of that truth appears, is a far more important story than the one about a single journalist systematically defrauding his readers. You are all systematically defrauding your readers. Shame on you.

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Johnny Rottenborough said...: You are all systematically defrauding your readers.

There are some chinks of light here and there—the Telegraph has a couple of bloggers who draw attention to the shortcomings of Islam, although one of them seems to believe that Islam can be persuaded to reform itself and the other supports one of the political parties that has flooded Britain with Muslims—but most journalists follow the line advocated by the former Tory MP George Walden in his book, Time to Emigrate?: ‘The last thing [politicians] can say is that we face a threat to which we can see no end because it’s based on a fundamental clash of cultures. On the IRA we told the truth; on the Islamic problem, we lie.’

I don’t blame journalists or politicians for tiptoeing around the Religion of Peace—the effect that criticizing Islam has had on the lives of Salman Rushdie and Geert Wilders is enough to deter anyone—but their unwillingness to confront Islam means that it will be many more years before the inevitable confrontation arises, by which time Muslims will be far more numerous and Islam will be far stronger. In order to secure an easy life for themselves, today’s politicians, journalists and broadcasters are preparing a disastrous inheritance for their children and grandchildren.; 1 July 2011 12:24
Cheradenine Zakalwe said...: "There are some chinks of light here and there—the Telegraph has a couple of bloggers who draw attention to the shortcomings of Islam..."

In some ways that makes it even worse. I'm fairly confident that one or two of the journalists I contacted hold views on Islam that are not a world away from my own, even if they won't say that publicly. Ironically, it brings to mind the Bertolt Brecht quote Johann Hari stole from Malalai Joya's book then inserted into the interview:

'He who does not know the truth is only a fool. He who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a criminal.'; 1 July 2011 12:37
Johnny Rottenborough said...: Talking of even worse, there’s the possibility that the Establishment is purposely smoothing the way for Islam in order to fracture the country beyond repair. When British governments have for decades implemented the destabilizing tactics of Frankfurt School Marxism—downgrading marriage and the traditional family, and encouraging mass immigration to destroy social cohesion and sense of nationhood—one is left wondering whether our mainstream politicians are paid-up Marxists or whether they are just Marxism’s useful idiots. He who betrays his country while pretending to serve it...; 1 July 2011 13:52
Ralph Lynn said...: Dear Cheza and Johnny,

I'm no subscriber to conspiracy theory, but in 6 months of earnest study, EVERYTHING I have learned about our Submitter problems, the EU, the former conservatives, labour etc points to a PLAN.

The permenant bureaucracy of the EU is ideological. It is The Party. Lib/lab/con merely represent different aspects of The Party's domination of a very narrow political landscape. The political consensus barely addresses any of the real problems the West faces.

I intend to expand on this view, but for now, consider this : on 1st November 2014, when the Lisbon Treaty is fully in force, all nations of the EU will have the death penalty! It won't be for murderers.; 1 July 2011 16:21
Johnny Rottenborough said...: @ Ralph—This list is a good illustration of the effects of Lisbon: areas of competence that will become subject to qualified majority voting from 2014. As Klein Verzet notes, ‘There is no more sovereignty after 2014, November 1st.’; 1 July 2011 17:34
Alasdair said...: This blog was just linked by the Guardian here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/01/johann-hari-plagiarism-allegations) which is how I found it. Clearly they're happy to link to you. Being a Guardian reader, as you might guess I broadly disagree with you on the Islam issue, but I have to congratulate you on the impressive work you've done exposing Johann Hari's journalistic fraud. That's something that people of all political positions should join together to oppose.; 1 July 2011 22:39
Cheradenine Zakalwe said...: Thank you. I'm an estranged Guardian reader myself. It was the excessive moderation on certain sensitive subjects on CiF that originally inspired my evolution in a new direction.; 1 July 2011 23:10

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