Kesher Talk

Best of the Web backs lgf, and so do we. Not only is lgf the first blog I read as soon as I fire up my browser, I have frequently gotten great leads on URLs via the always lively comment section. And I keep a blunt object handy to bop the comments section on the nose whenever it gets out of line.

I'd still like to coin a term for us folks who regularly turn down the flames on the comments section when it threatens to boil over. (I know I mixed a metaphor, but you know what I mean and I have to go get my clothes out of the laundry now.)

UPDATE: Oh dear. Where's that blunt object? Bad commenters, bad, bad! Yes, you. You bitch and moan "Where are moderate Muslims condemning the latest Islamist atrocity?", but when an actual moderate Muslim shows up you spray dirt on him from sources which smell bad from the gitgo ("HOW A ONE-TIME “LIBERTARIAN SOCIALIST” CROSSED OVER TO THE ZIONIST DARK-SIDE" is a pretty suspect headline, and why would a rah-rah lgf warblogger suddenly take Justin Raimondo seriously?), and then you piss all over yourselves telling him he doesn't know what he's talking about.

So what if he's a seasoned journalist who spent years in the Balkans and belongs to the most humanistic Muslim sect there is? So what if he's the author of the article Charles linked to, and here's a chance to participate in a free meet-the-author session which you could use to ask questions that would actually illuminate the subject? You don't need to do any of that, because you read lgf! And Mark Steyn and Victor David Hanson! So you already know. what you think about fanatic fundamentalism, dhimmies, Albanian Muslims, the Quran, Jews under Islam, and everything else, and lgf is just the place to let it all hang out. You know, some of us wade through your crap because lgf attracts enough interesting people with independent minds, big hearts, and useful knowledge that it's worth it. Sometimes.

I don't know enough to critique Schwartz'arguments, although I have a good bullshit detector and anybody who can piss off the same people who feel betrayed by Christopher Hitchens deserves the benefit of the doubt, as far as I'm concerned, so I'm going to take him at face value until proven otherwise. But that's not the point. As I said here, "Thanks guys, you just provided a shining example of neanderthal behavior for Anil & Co. to crow over. Way to go."

Okay. I'm going to put the stick away now. Behave.

Everybody else - go read Stephen Schwartz' new book The Two Faces of Islam.

posted by Judith @ 10/27/2002 06:33:27 PM