Friday, May 2, 2014

Lies and lying liars that tell them

This blog was started as a self-defense measure, in July 2009, when a phantom site called "Palluxo.com" appeared and started spewing vicious lies and propaganda about Bosnia, Kosovo and the Serbian people. After I exposed Palluxo as a fake site, the people behind it launched an attack on me personally, creating an impostor blog and accusing me of being a "disgraced genocide denier."

Why? Because Palluxo was a project of "Srebrenica Genocide Blog" (maintained by an individual going by the name of Daniel Toljaga and a number of aliases), Marko Attila Hoare, both of whom are affiliated with the Congress of North American Bosniaks - organizations and individuals promoting the false claim that the deaths of Bosnian Muslim soldiers during their retreat from Srebrenica in July 1995 were somehow "genocide."

In pursuing that objective, they engage in Google-bombing, creating impostor blogs about the targets of their smear campaigns, and inventing sock-puppets (such as Palluxo) to support their cause. The fake blogs ensure that anyone searching for the names of the people they are attacking will find their "content." The sock-puppets make it appear as if their campaign has grassroots support.

But they also resort to open intimidation: on the spoof blog they set up they published the personal information and residential address of one Serb blogger. Neither Google - which is hosting the blog - nor the Canadian authorities (the person in question is a resident of Vancouver, British Columbia) have done anything about it. Similarly, repeated requests to Google to shut down the spoof blogs - an entirely legitimate request, since spoofing is a clear violation of their Terms of Service - have fallen on deaf ears.

In 2011, militant Muslim media in Bosnia-Herzegovina used the "content" provided by Hoare, SGB and CNAB to libel me and my family.

The methods these people use speak volumes about their character, and the lie of their cause.

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