Little Green Footballs annoys me. It’s a ‘Blog which does the useful service of accumulating various racist rantings from Islamic extremists. And it’s a ‘Blog that does itself a disservice with its own racist rants.
While dropping by today to disapprove, I picked up a link there to a letter in the Telegraph that every Brit should read. It might remind some of them of past mistakes. (You may need to register with the online version of the newspaper yada yada).
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Just had a look at little green footballs, racist rants aside, I fail to see the useful service bit. I guess you trust them to be able to quote extremists with proper translation and context.
Anyway, here’s more on the other kind of mistake we keep making:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1022065,00.html
You can keep hinting at this supposed comparison between Islamic extremism/facism/racism but it’s really lazy. You have to understand the problem D!
Wiqqi!
I don’t, and you’re right to point this danger out. It’s one of the many reasons I didn’t link to the site as I normally do.
But it also has to be said that most of the people they do quote are not exactly ambiguous or subtle in their statements—and often there’s no need to bother with a translation because the originators provide one.
all the best
Damian
p.s. Excellent alias by the way.