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The recent controversy concerning Canada's ban on allowing Serbian-American academic Srdja Trifkovic to enter the country should highlight the need to address the question of whom self-described "anti-jihadists" should regard as their allies.
This issue needs to be raised because Trifkovic, author of the book Sword of the Prophet, is often upheld as a serious scholar with a genuine interest in promoting the cause of human rights in the face of jihadist ideology. For instance, he was interviewed in the documentary Islam: What the West Needs to Know and is described by Robert Spencer as having run "afoul" of the "busy propaganda arm" that forms part of the "jihad in the Balkans."
Unfortunately, however, such adulation fails to take into account many of Trifkovic's despicable views. Most notably, his fans often remain unaware of his anti-Semitic views, as articulated in an "Alternative Right" symposium asking, "Is the Alt Right Anti-Semitic?" In this discussion, Trifkovic shared a platform with Taki Theodoracopulos, who asked rhetorically, "Why shouldn't we be anti-Jewish, especially now, with 1.2 million dead following the Iraq disaster that was hatched up by people like Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, and cheer-led by the men I just mentioned?"