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  Andrew Sullivan

Little Green Footballs


Blogs I used to read

Blogs are now so established that we have been able to watch blog authors change over time.

There are a few major blogs I used to read, but no longer.



Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan was probably the original political blogger I discovered after 9/11. I used to read him all the time in 2001-04, until he turned against the war.




Sullivan and LGF, Sept 2009.
I didn't leave them. They left me.
See also LGF and the Daily Dish: a short history.




Little Green Footballs (LGF)

For years I liked LGF and Charles Johnson. He was secular, pro-science, classically liberal, and hostile to Islamism because he believes in the Enlightenment.

I always liked him, at least until his blog war with Robert Spencer and others. LGF was a great counter-jihad blog from 2001 to 2008. But after 2008, it started getting progressively more boring. First came the tedious blog war and linking war. Then there is the obsession with creationism. (I agree with him on creationism, but it's not what I want LGF for. Professionals like Richard Dawkins or PZ Myers do that stuff a million times better than LGF.) Then, after Obama won, LGF started to get obsessed with right-wing extremists and other uninteresting people. If I ever visit now, I usually leave quickly because every entry is boring. And it used to be one of the most lively sites on the Internet. I finally dropped LGF from my RSS feeds in 2009.




The LGF blog war

The LGF blog war started as an argument between LGF and the following anti-jihad blogs. But it escalated to become LGF v. just about all counter-jihad blogs.



The argument began in 2007, mainly over the nature of Vlaams Belang. LGF was pointing out their anti-semitic and neo-Nazi past (and perhaps present). Some other counter-jihad blogs were defending them as now reformed allies against the jihad. This, though, rather reminds me of the claim that the BNP has "reformed". I find the sceptical view of these kind of Euro-nationalist groups the most convincing.


Charles Johnson escalates the dispute:


Charles Johnson has few allies in this:


LGF bans its most loyal readers:


Everyone starts de-linking LGF:


Readers are voting with their feet (so to speak):




Current LGF ranking on Wikio.




Image from Tundra Tabloids mocks the number of counter-jihad people that Charles Johnson has "thrown under the bus".
The quote is from Gates of Vienna, Nov 2008: "As the arbiter of membership in the Counterjihad, Charles Johnson has finally made it official: he's a Counterjihad of One."



Further image from Tundra Tabloids.



OK, this is funny.


 

Rifqa Bary (and here), high-profile teenage apostate from Islam, is terrified she will be killed if she is sent back to her family.
On YouTube alone she is getting new death threats every day.
As part of its strange mutation into a left-wing blog, LGF is confident there is no danger to her.
She is currently in foster care. She turns 18 on 10 Aug 2010, and would then be free of her family. However she faces possible deportation to Sri Lanka where as an apostate her life would be in danger. She is also seriously ill.
More death threats here and here.





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