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Therefore, this canard of my being a “close associate” (notice the suitable vagueness of the purported connection, anticipating a challenge, as if on… - Koenraad Elst
" "Therefore, this canard of my being a “close associate” (notice the suitable vagueness of the purported connection, anticipating a challenge, as if on lawyer’s advice) of a national-populist party, this literal case of “guilt by association”, is in the eye of the Leftist beholder. But if a canard is found useful, it can have a long life.... Not being a psycho-babbler like Subrahmanyam, I won’t speculate on whether he wrote his article in order to “promote himself ”, though that speculation would be hard to disprove... Unable to answer my observations, he had been smarting under this injustice against his secularist immunity from criticism, and finally found an opportunity for revenge... We would already know a lot more about its magnitude if research into it hadn’t been blocked by Subrahmanyam’s own school of historians with their dogmatic denial of unpleasant data from the record of Islam.... They’re not very good when it comes to proposing a persuasive theory, not as good as in the old days when the Comintern would have prescribed a single story for all to repeat... In the fishwife worldview, it isn’t important what you say. If a fishwife sees a strange man enter the house of the lady next door and come out only hours later, she has no need to listen in on what happens between the neighbour and her guest, since all the evidence needed for a good story is provided by the mere fact that the man was there... Being a true herald of the fishwife school of history, he clearly borrowed this canard from some rumour mill and found it so utterly convenient that he suspended his normal, professional routine of verification in primary sources. (ch 7 , Islam and Immigration in Europe)
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Koenraad Elst (born 7 August 1959) is a Flemish right wing Hindutva author, known primarily for his support of the Out of India theory and the Hindutva movement. Scholars have accused him of harboring Islamophobia.
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