Give 'Um Hell, Joe

Joe Malchow, blog-host at Joe's Dartblog, has been all over the story of Dilpazier Aslam, the reporter the Guardian (UK) refused to sack "despite confirming that he is a member of one of Britain's most extreme Islamist groups," one supporting the murder of Jews.¹ Joe warned that "[t]he western left, with its inapt calls for tolerance and diversity, and with the everlasting anti-war streak, represents a grand opportunity for these terrorists."

The Guardian later relented and fired Aslam, but not without whining about the pressure:

Rightwing bloggers from the US, where the Guardian has a large online following, were behind the targeting last week of a trainee Guardian journalist who wrote a comment piece which they did not care for about the London bombings. . .

The story is a demonstration of the way the 'blogosphere' can be used to mount obsessively personalised attacks at high speed.

Apparently, it's neither "targeting" nor a "personal attack" when terrorists support Palestinian suicide bombers. And the paper called Joe crazy:

New Jersey undergraduate Joe Malchow [aka Joe's Dartblog] was writing on his own blog: "Guardian employs known member of terrorist organization."

Fantasies like this zoomed round the world and soon seeped into the paper's mainstream rivals.

Of course, the Guardian didn't deny -- nor could it -- that it did "employ" a reporter "known" to be a "member" of a group that promoted "terror." Perhaps the Guardian merely disputed the spelling of "organization"--would fantasy have turned to truth if spelled "organisation?"

In any event, congrats Joe; keep up the fight against the political correctness that shelters and thus supports Islamic terrorism.

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¹ The Hizb Ut Tahrir organization, an Islamic splinter group, which is "banned in many countries around the world [but] operates freely in Britain. [I]ts website promotes racism and anti-Semitic hatred, calls suicide bombers martyrs, and urges Muslims to kill Jewish people."