little green footballs

My vote of support for Charles Johnson.

Best of the Web yesterday gave a report on the assault on the character and content of Charles Johnson's weblog little green footballs:

Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs is a delightful Web log. Johnson, a Los Angeles-based Web designer, has one of the nicest-looking blogs around, and it's packed with interesting information, mostly on the war and the barbarity of radical Islam.

MSNBC.com has a feature called Weblog Central, apparently written by someone named Will Femia. On Friday Femia cited LGF in his "Best of Blogs" feature. But then on Sunday, Femia posted an update, saying he'd heard from LGF critics who object, in Femia's words, to "the fact that LGF has, over time, increased its focus on militant Islam and terrorism." Femia updated his original description of LGF to say the following:

"This site is the focus of considerable controversy for its focus (and particularly the focus of the constituents in its comments section) on Islamic culture and dogma as the source of Islamic terror. As a popular, active, and well presented site, it is worth checking out, but some may find its content hateful or even racist."

This is an outrageous smear. The accusation of "racism" doesn't even make sense; is anyone stupid enough to think Islam is a race? And while there's plenty of hate on LGF, Charles Johnson isn't the source of it. He is simply documenting the murderously hateful ideology of radical Islam. It makes no more sense to call Johnson "hateful" than it would make to call the Anti-Defamation League anti-Semitic....

Yes. Though it's not a weblog at which I spend much time, let alone much time reading the comments, the only hate and "racism" I have noticed at little green footballs has been that expressed towards Jews by Muslims writing in the comment boxes.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Wed. 10/23/02 08:13:19 AM
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