I clicked your link. And then I clicked your link's link.And that assessment is possible without even clicking the link.
You seriously need to learn who not to trust.
In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center listed Horowitz and Spencer as "anti-Muslim extremists". Spencer called the article a "hit list".
The website has been described as "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrontPage_Magazine
In October 2016, the SPLC published a list of "anti-Muslim extremists", including British activist Maajid Nawaz and ex-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
I clicked your link. And then I clicked your link's link.And that assessment is possible without even clicking the link.
You seriously need to learn who not to trust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrontPage_Magazine
In October 2016, the SPLC published a list of "anti-Muslim extremists", including British activist Maajid Nawaz and ex-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
The SPLC appears to be unable to tell the difference between (anti-Muslim) extremists and anti-(Muslim extremists). I'm not claiming Horowitz isn't an extremist, but do you have any particular reason we should trust the SPLC to make that assessment for us?
It's almost impossible to make one see what he/she doesn't even want to acknowledge are simple facts.I clicked your link. And then I clicked your link's link.
In October 2016, the SPLC published a list of "anti-Muslim extremists", including British activist Maajid Nawaz and ex-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
The SPLC appears to be unable to tell the difference between (anti-Muslim) extremists and anti-(Muslim extremists). I'm not claiming Horowitz isn't an extremist, but do you have any particular reason we should trust the SPLC to make that assessment for us?
My point on Horowitz is he's very shrewd even if narrow-minded. He would generalise but uses carefully checked information to verify this.
The SPLC appears to be unable to tell the difference between (anti-Muslim) extremists and anti-(Muslim extremists). I'm not claiming Horowitz isn't an extremist, but do you have any particular reason we should trust the SPLC to make that assessment for us?
I clicked your link. And then I clicked your link's link.And that assessment is possible without even clicking the link.
You seriously need to learn who not to trust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrontPage_Magazine
In October 2016, the SPLC published a list of "anti-Muslim extremists", including British activist Maajid Nawaz and ex-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
The SPLC appears to be unable to tell the difference between (anti-Muslim) extremists and anti-(Muslim extremists). I'm not claiming Horowitz isn't an extremist, but do you have any particular reason we should trust the SPLC to make that assessment for us?
But Wikipedia doesn't do its own research. It's a quick and dirty source for determining what other sources are saying about other sources; and even Donald Trump can tell you what he's heard other people saying. Seeing as how lots of leftists describe people like Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali as "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam" too, if finding out that leftists have called somebody those things is all it takes to convince you he isn't worth a click, then you're allowing one extreme point of view to put a limit on your reading. Now, given that Wikipedia is trustworthy, if Wikipedia had told you that a selection of mostly factual moderate articles had called Horowitz "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam", that would make a better case for not clicking; but Wikipedia isn't really in the business of passing judgment on which of its sources are moderate. They'll just tell you who said it, and leave it up to you to have learned whether that's someone not to trust.I clicked your link. And then I clicked your link's link.
In October 2016, the SPLC published a list of "anti-Muslim extremists", including British activist Maajid Nawaz and ex-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
The SPLC appears to be unable to tell the difference between (anti-Muslim) extremists and anti-(Muslim extremists). I'm not claiming Horowitz isn't an extremist, but do you have any particular reason we should trust the SPLC to make that assessment for us?
Meh. I don't know much about the SPLC; I quoted Wikipedia, which is a 'quick and dirty' source for determining what other sources are both safe and worthy of clicks.
My quote from Wiki consists of two lines - one quotes both SPLC and Horowitz's pal Spencer; The other (from a wiki editor whose identity I can't be bothered to pursue) simply says 'The website has been described as "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam"' FrontPage Magazine doesn't appear to be worthy of a click; particularly in the light of angelo's previous choices of 'sources', such as JihadWatch.
Quite so. So can you tell whether somebody is trying to have his own facts by checking whether a leftist called him an "anti-Muslim extremist"?People are entitled to their own opinions; But they are not entitled to their own facts.
The opposing point of view are the mainstream media which mainly lean left.
Also, the term Islamophobia was invented by apologists of the religion of peace to attack it's critics.
But Wikipedia doesn't do its own research. It's a quick and dirty source for determining what other sources are saying about other sources; and even Donald Trump can tell you what he's heard other people saying. Seeing as how lots of leftists describe people like Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali as "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam" too, if finding out that leftists have called somebody those things is all it takes to convince you he isn't worth a click, then you're allowing one extreme point of view to put a limit on your reading. Now, given that Wikipedia is trustworthy, if Wikipedia had told you that a selection of mostly factual moderate articles had called Horowitz "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam", that would make a better case for not clicking; but Wikipedia isn't really in the business of passing judgment on which of its sources are moderate. They'll just tell you who said it, and leave it up to you to have learned whether that's someone not to trust.I clicked your link. And then I clicked your link's link.
In October 2016, the SPLC published a list of "anti-Muslim extremists", including British activist Maajid Nawaz and ex-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
The SPLC appears to be unable to tell the difference between (anti-Muslim) extremists and anti-(Muslim extremists). I'm not claiming Horowitz isn't an extremist, but do you have any particular reason we should trust the SPLC to make that assessment for us?
Meh. I don't know much about the SPLC; I quoted Wikipedia, which is a 'quick and dirty' source for determining what other sources are both safe and worthy of clicks.
My quote from Wiki consists of two lines - one quotes both SPLC and Horowitz's pal Spencer; The other (from a wiki editor whose identity I can't be bothered to pursue) simply says 'The website has been described as "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam"' FrontPage Magazine doesn't appear to be worthy of a click; particularly in the light of angelo's previous choices of 'sources', such as JihadWatch.
Quite so. So can you tell whether somebody is trying to have his own facts by checking whether a leftist called him an "anti-Muslim extremist"?People are entitled to their own opinions; But they are not entitled to their own facts.
In the 'good old days', governments simply told the press what they could or couldn't publish, and all you got was the government approved point of view. Then the idea of the 'free press' came about, and we got the views of anyone who had the resources and intelligence to establish, produce, print and market a newspaper. This was a significant improvement; a single biased source was replaced by a diverse range of sources, most of which couldn't be too biased for fear of losing readers and going broke.
But now we have the Internet - no matter how marginal, counter-factual, or unpopular your ideas are, you can publish them to the world at almost no cost. And the revenue stream from this is not from sales, but from an advertising model that rewards clicks.
By simply going to look at a website, one is funding its publisher. So as a citizen, you have the duty to be wary about what sites you visit - quite aside from the fact that there are so many news (and 'news') sites that some kind of filter is required.
The Internet encourages extremists (on all sides), and this is not a good thing. Reading two opposing but equally counter-factual and extreme points of view is not equivalent to reading a selection of mostly factual moderate articles; Such reading actually makes people less well informed than they were before they started. The only thing worse is to limit your reading to only one extreme point of view - as it would appear angelo does on this topic.
Deliberately driving a truck through crowded street and killing 5 people in the process doesn't qualify as an execution in your book?Both groups have done zero beheadings in Sweden. But Swedish Nazis have executed people. This is in rececent years. Swedish Islamists have yet to execute anybody.
Is that so! This is bullshit?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265873/refugee-rape-gangs-sweden-dawn-perlmutter
Its a fake news site.
Of course it is, it must be, it's not from leftard sources!
Sweden is the rape capital of the Western world.
The general public is unaware of the epidemic of Swedish rapes because there has been an orchestrated effort by mainstream media and the Swedish government to deliberately mischaracterize offenders and downplay the number of incidents.
The significant increase in rapes are the direct result of Sweden's open door refugee policy and denial of Muslim culture.
Muslim immigrant rapists believe that all non-Muslim and uncovered women can be lawfully taken for sexual use; hence rape and sexual assaults are justified.
Gang rapes of individual Swedish women have been particularly brutal
But Wikipedia doesn't do its own research. It's a quick and dirty source for determining what other sources are saying about other sources; and even Donald Trump can tell you what he's heard other people saying. Seeing as how lots of leftists describe people like Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali as "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam" too, if finding out that leftists have called somebody those things is all it takes to convince you he isn't worth a click, then you're allowing one extreme point of view to put a limit on your reading. Now, given that Wikipedia is trustworthy, if Wikipedia had told you that a selection of mostly factual moderate articles had called Horowitz "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam", that would make a better case for not clicking; but Wikipedia isn't really in the business of passing judgment on which of its sources are moderate. They'll just tell you who said it, and leave it up to you to have learned whether that's someone not to trust.I clicked your link. And then I clicked your link's link.
In October 2016, the SPLC published a list of "anti-Muslim extremists", including British activist Maajid Nawaz and ex-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
The SPLC appears to be unable to tell the difference between (anti-Muslim) extremists and anti-(Muslim extremists). I'm not claiming Horowitz isn't an extremist, but do you have any particular reason we should trust the SPLC to make that assessment for us?
Meh. I don't know much about the SPLC; I quoted Wikipedia, which is a 'quick and dirty' source for determining what other sources are both safe and worthy of clicks.
My quote from Wiki consists of two lines - one quotes both SPLC and Horowitz's pal Spencer; The other (from a wiki editor whose identity I can't be bothered to pursue) simply says 'The website has been described as "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam"' FrontPage Magazine doesn't appear to be worthy of a click; particularly in the light of angelo's previous choices of 'sources', such as JihadWatch.
Quite so. So can you tell whether somebody is trying to have his own facts by checking whether a leftist called him an "anti-Muslim extremist"?People are entitled to their own opinions; But they are not entitled to their own facts.
No, I can't; Which might be why I said:
In the 'good old days', governments simply told the press what they could or couldn't publish, and all you got was the government approved point of view. Then the idea of the 'free press' came about, and we got the views of anyone who had the resources and intelligence to establish, produce, print and market a newspaper. This was a significant improvement; a single biased source was replaced by a diverse range of sources, most of which couldn't be too biased for fear of losing readers and going broke.
But now we have the Internet - no matter how marginal, counter-factual, or unpopular your ideas are, you can publish them to the world at almost no cost. And the revenue stream from this is not from sales, but from an advertising model that rewards clicks.
By simply going to look at a website, one is funding its publisher. So as a citizen, you have the duty to be wary about what sites you visit - quite aside from the fact that there are so many news (and 'news') sites that some kind of filter is required.
The Internet encourages extremists (on all sides), and this is not a good thing. Reading two opposing but equally counter-factual and extreme points of view is not equivalent to reading a selection of mostly factual moderate articles; Such reading actually makes people less well informed than they were before they started. The only thing worse is to limit your reading to only one extreme point of view - as it would appear angelo does on this topic.
The sum of all the things that make me disinclined to click that link is far too large to explicitly provide here. Hence my resorting to a quick and dirty heuristic. I am not surprised that that doesn't satisfy everybody - that's pretty solidly implied by 'quick and dirty'; I make no pretense of rigor, and it seems rather odd that you feel the need to criticize it's lack.
Unless you (or angelo, or anyone) presents a good reason why I should donate my click to angelo's choice of website, I shall continue not to do so. Because (and forgive my lack of rigor in this further explanation) it looks as dodgy as fuck.
But Wikipedia doesn't do its own research. It's a quick and dirty source for determining what other sources are saying about other sources; and even Donald Trump can tell you what he's heard other people saying. Seeing as how lots of leftists describe people like Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali as "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam" too, if finding out that leftists have called somebody those things is all it takes to convince you he isn't worth a click, then you're allowing one extreme point of view to put a limit on your reading. Now, given that Wikipedia is trustworthy, if Wikipedia had told you that a selection of mostly factual moderate articles had called Horowitz "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam", that would make a better case for not clicking; but Wikipedia isn't really in the business of passing judgment on which of its sources are moderate. They'll just tell you who said it, and leave it up to you to have learned whether that's someone not to trust.I clicked your link. And then I clicked your link's link.
In October 2016, the SPLC published a list of "anti-Muslim extremists", including British activist Maajid Nawaz and ex-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
The SPLC appears to be unable to tell the difference between (anti-Muslim) extremists and anti-(Muslim extremists). I'm not claiming Horowitz isn't an extremist, but do you have any particular reason we should trust the SPLC to make that assessment for us?
Meh. I don't know much about the SPLC; I quoted Wikipedia, which is a 'quick and dirty' source for determining what other sources are both safe and worthy of clicks.
My quote from Wiki consists of two lines - one quotes both SPLC and Horowitz's pal Spencer; The other (from a wiki editor whose identity I can't be bothered to pursue) simply says 'The website has been described as "right-wing", "far-right", "Islamophobic" and "anti-Islam"' FrontPage Magazine doesn't appear to be worthy of a click; particularly in the light of angelo's previous choices of 'sources', such as JihadWatch.
Quite so. So can you tell whether somebody is trying to have his own facts by checking whether a leftist called him an "anti-Muslim extremist"?People are entitled to their own opinions; But they are not entitled to their own facts.
No, I can't; Which might be why I said:
In the 'good old days', governments simply told the press what they could or couldn't publish, and all you got was the government approved point of view. Then the idea of the 'free press' came about, and we got the views of anyone who had the resources and intelligence to establish, produce, print and market a newspaper. This was a significant improvement; a single biased source was replaced by a diverse range of sources, most of which couldn't be too biased for fear of losing readers and going broke.
But now we have the Internet - no matter how marginal, counter-factual, or unpopular your ideas are, you can publish them to the world at almost no cost. And the revenue stream from this is not from sales, but from an advertising model that rewards clicks.
By simply going to look at a website, one is funding its publisher. So as a citizen, you have the duty to be wary about what sites you visit - quite aside from the fact that there are so many news (and 'news') sites that some kind of filter is required.
The Internet encourages extremists (on all sides), and this is not a good thing. Reading two opposing but equally counter-factual and extreme points of view is not equivalent to reading a selection of mostly factual moderate articles; Such reading actually makes people less well informed than they were before they started. The only thing worse is to limit your reading to only one extreme point of view - as it would appear angelo does on this topic.
The sum of all the things that make me disinclined to click that link is far too large to explicitly provide here. Hence my resorting to a quick and dirty heuristic. I am not surprised that that doesn't satisfy everybody - that's pretty solidly implied by 'quick and dirty'; I make no pretense of rigor, and it seems rather odd that you feel the need to criticize it's lack.
Unless you (or angelo, or anyone) presents a good reason why I should donate my click to angelo's choice of website, I shall continue not to do so. Because (and forgive my lack of rigor in this further explanation) it looks as dodgy as fuck.
Which limits your knowledge of the subject. I'm glad that's sorted!
That makes the neo-nazi executions sound preferable to the islamist violence.Deliberately driving a truck through crowded street and killing 5 people in the process doesn't qualify as an execution in your book?
Executions aren't indiscriminate.
That makes the neo-nazi executions sound preferable to the islamist violence.Executions aren't indiscriminate.
Raoof and Leyla Ataei personally targeted Abbas Rezai for execution.Deliberately driving a truck through crowded street and killing 5 people in the process doesn't qualify as an execution in your book?DrZoidberg said:Both groups have done zero beheadings in Sweden. But Swedish Nazis have executed people. This is in rececent years. Swedish Islamists have yet to execute anybody.
Executions aren't indiscriminate.
I don't give a rat's ass whether you donate a click. Sorry if you aren't picking up the subtext here. I'm not criticizing your lack of rigor. I'm criticizing your writing "You seriously need to learn who not to trust." and then quoting the Southern Poverty Law Center as evidence that somebody's an anti-Muslim extremist. Made my irony meter spike.I make no pretense of rigor, and it seems rather odd that you feel the need to criticize it's lack.
Unless you (or angelo, or anyone) presents a good reason why I should donate my click to angelo's choice of website, I shall continue not to do so.
Raoof and Leyla Ataei personally targeted Abbas Rezai for execution.Deliberately driving a truck through crowded street and killing 5 people in the process doesn't qualify as an execution in your book?DrZoidberg said:Both groups have done zero beheadings in Sweden. But Swedish Nazis have executed people. This is in rececent years. Swedish Islamists have yet to execute anybody.
Executions aren't indiscriminate.
Subhi Othman personally targeted his daughter Jian Subhi Aref for execution.