The counter-jihadists are often as bad as the jihadists

From HOPE not hate by Nick Lowles: 

Pam Geller and Robert Spencer for former EDL leaders Stephen Lennon and Kevin Carroll

Jacob Mchangama has written a great piece on the Daily Beast on how the so-called 'counter-jihad' movement are as bigoted as the people they claim to oppose.

He opens the piece by saying:

One of the supposed core values of the so-called “counter-jihad movement,” a loosely organized collection of vocal activists battling what they believe is the immediate threat of an Islamic takeover of the West, is an unflinching defense of free speech. Because dominant parts of the political elite in many Western states have been hesitant to oppose the real threat that certain Islamic states and Islamist groups pose to free speech, as seen by, for example, their handwringing during the Danish “cartoon crisis,” the counterjihadis have had some success in posing as the true defenders of free speech. The counterjihadis appear willing to defend this enlightenment principle, whereas feckless politicians and intellectuals fear appearing as bigoted or insensitive to minorities. 

Yet one need only scratch the surface to realize how dominant members of the counterjihad movement are more than happy to compromise on free speech as long as the ends justify the means and those denied their rights are Muslim.

Read the rest here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/07/the-opponents-of-militant-islamism-are-often-as-bigoted-as-their-targets.html