Museum shooter a Christian-hating socialist

It's true. Though not that you'd think so from the media generated narrative about James Wenneker Von Brunn being "right-wing" and "conservative." Lefty media types have been quick to put Von Brunn into a box labelled "right-wing conservative" and then use this as ammunition against conservatives. No doubt one of them has already found a way of blaming George Bush for the shooting at Washington's Holocaust Museum. Pity they didn't bother to take the time to read what he had written himself about his beliefs. (For one thing, they'd have discovered that he's a 9/11 Truther who thinks Bush was behind it all.) And as an ex-journalism major, he wrote quite a lot. Things like: "One [capitalism] is past history; the other, WESTERN SOCIALISM, represents the future of the West, and the end of JEWRY on Western soil." The Federal Reserve (ie the US's central bank) was "designed by bankers for bankers." As Ben Johnson writing in frontpagemag.com observes, Von Brunn "despised the freedom and potential decadence capitalism affords, insisting Jews were “exacerbating natural disputes between the Western States and influencing the results in favor of Liberalism as opposed to Authority; that is, materialism, free trade and usury [the charging of interest on borrowed money], as opposed to Western Socialism; Internationalism as opposed to Western unity. MONEY was their sword and buckler. Hate and revenge their motif.”" Now, I suspect that "western" socialism is another way of saying national socialism, ie NAZI, but we forget that nazism and fascism were genuineley radical working class movements. They didn't just appropriate the term socialist to piss off the "genuine" socialists. Franco, who was probably a conservative monarchist at heart was prepared to use the radical fascists, with their anti-capitalist rhetoric, so long as it suited him. Then he shafted them. These points are taken from the “Platform for the Aryan National State” of Aryan Nations: Promote and preserve the industry and livelihood of the citizens. [E]liminate the current practice of damaging and poisoning life and environment. Provide honest aid to farmers and other business people, and shall restore to all citizens rightful land ownership. Make the necessary provisions for the aged, who have been impoverished by fraud (inflation). Confiscate all unearned wealth, stolen by fraud or usury and that which is gain from war. Nationalize all monopolies and multi-national interest[s]. Immediately bring about land reform…. I'd reckon most anti-globalisation protesters at a meeting of the G20 would be quite happy to sign up to these. He has this to say about Christianity: These dangerous, imbecilic, concepts, tenets, and teachings, often treasonous, DESTROYED the Roman Empire and drenched the soil of Europe with Aryan blood for almost 2000 years! The Big Lie technique, employed by Paul to create the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, also was used to create the HOLOCAUST RELIGION ... CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLOCAUST are HOAXES. He worked for a time at a white supremacist bookshop that had at least in the past stocked books by Noam Chomsky, who is something of a hero amongst Jew haters. Again, this should surprise nobody. The extreme Right and the extreme Left are not the polar opposites that people imagine. They end up strangely resembling each other in quite a lot of ways.

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Moderate Muslims Drive Out Al-Muhajiroun Supporters in Luton

In the British town of Luton today, members of the Muslim community confronted extremists and drove them from the streets.

Muslim extremists behind a protest against soldiers on a homecoming parade have been driven off the streets today by members of their own community.

 

Fights broke out and traffic ground to a halt when moderate Muslims confronted a group of about 12 men who regularly preach from a stall in Bury Park - the heart of Luton’s Muslim community. After Friday prayers, more than 200 members of local mosques turned on the group who sparked outrage in March when they disrupted a parade by the Royal Anglian Regiment through the town centre.

 

The extremists shouted ‘baby killers’ and ‘butchers of Basra’ at the returning soldiers as well as brandishing placards against the Iraq war. But today they were surrounded by a crowd as they began to set up their stall, shouting ‘We don’t want you here’ and ‘move on, move on’.

 

Angry words were exchanged and scuffles broke out between members of both groups, with the extremists shouting ‘Shame on you’ and ‘Get back to your synagogue’.

 

One police officer and two community support officers struggled to hold them apart until more officers arrived. Buses and cars were unable to move as the crowd spilled into the road.

 

Farasat Latif, of the Islamic Centre in Luton, which was firebombed after the protest against the soldiers, said moderate members of his community took action because police had failed to move the group on.

 

He said the extremists, who follow the militant group led by Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammed, had fuelled feelings against the Muslim community which led to a march last Sunday in Luton which was disrupted by white, right-wing extremists.

 

Mr Latif said: ‘We have been fighting these Muslim extremists for you. They represent nobody but themselves. The community decided to move them on because the police won’t. We have asked them, but they did nothing.’

 

‘I don’t know if they will be back. We have been the victims twice over - from the stupidity of Muslim extremists who metaphorically pour petrol and fan the flames of the right wing extremists.’

 

‘This was a peaceful demonstration and we hope they get the message that the law-abiding community is sick and tired of them.’

It's funny I suppose that Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs (where this report was taken from) was regularly attacked as some kind of far-Right extremist when Mr Bush was president, especially because he was highly critical of Islamist extemism, (and quite properly so in my view), but is now taking flak from the Right because he doesn't want Mr Obama to fail, arguing (again quite properly) that it isn't in America's interests for Obama to fail, and calling attention to how some on the Right, in their rush to oppose Islamism, have jumped into bed with the racist neofascist far-Right in Europe, such as Vlaams Belang.

 

 

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Geert Wilders' 'Fascist Tendencies'

From Little Green Footballs

I see that Robert Spencer is spewing some more insults at me today. Oh well, what are you gonna do?

Meanwhile, there’s at least one “anti-jihad” blogger who isn’t being taken in by Geert Wilders’ call to strip Muslims of their right to freedom of religion: The Jawa Report: Cheers for Geert Wilders’ Bravery at Standing Against the Islamist Tide, Jeers for his Fascist Tendencies.

Kudos to Rusty Shackleford. He correctly points out that it’s “inconsistent” for Wilders to claim to be standing up for freedom of expression at the same time as he calls for banning books and taking away basic rights from people; but I’ll go further. It’s deeply hypocritical, and deeply un-American to call for these things. These are fascist opinions. And American citizens who applaud this kind of rabble-rousing populist garbage should be ashamed of themselves.