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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Let's strike three blows for the forces of good.
1. Daniel Pipes gets fact-checked by Danish politicians:
As Danish politicians, we are offended by the way integration problems in Denmark were portrayed by Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard and we wish to set the record straight (Muslim Extremism: Denmark's had Enough, Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard, Aug. 27).
2. In the same publication, Mark Steyn gets fact-checked by Eric Tam from Yale University. His much quoted fear-mongering piece on Muslim crime statistics in Denmark prompts this scathing response:
When I examined Danish crime statistics (available in Danish at www.dst.dk/pukora/epub/Nyt/2002/NR191.PDF, but easily translatable), I concluded that Mr. Skaarup's assertion is absolutely wrong.
3. Janet Albrechtsen, a right wing Australian commentator has a daisy cutter dropped on her by the ABC's Media Watch. Albrechtsen has been writing a series of columns claiming that rape is some sort of rite-of-passage for Muslim youths and that multiculturalism somehow enabled September 11. Complete nonsense. No wonder then that according to leftist blogger Rob Corr, the Australian warblogosphere "hangs on her every word".
How many of the words in her articles are actually her words is open to some scrutiny as is the veracity of any claim she makes about Muslims or Islam. This transcript of the program raises some important issues. After the producers simply asked some obvious questions, she decides its time to let her solicitors do the talking. posted by Anonymous4:01 AM
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