[Wikipedia-l] Helga and other Internet kooks

[daniwo59 at aol.com]

Last year on September 11, a group of radical Muslims declared war on the 
United States. It hijacked four planes and rammed three of them in the WTC 
and the Pentagon. About 3,000 people died. This would then justify the 
American government declaring a boycott of all Arab-American businesses and 
even attempting to exterminate all Muslims in America.

Ridiculous? Of course. Offensive? Certainly. Yet this is exactly the position 
that Helga is expressing here and in the Talk section of the Neturei Karta 
article. 

In 1933 a small group of Jews declared war on Germany (in response to the 
government's official policies of anti-Semitism). Germany responded with an 
official boycott of all Jewish shops and eventually launched an all-out 
campaign to murder all the Jews of Europe. 

Her position is ridiculous and offensive. It certainly is not acceptable by 
any standards. Yet here we are bending over backwards to find ways to include 
her inane views in our articles. We have some lovely prolix on the importance 
of including all POVs, no matter how minor, no matter how illogical or 
unacceptable, in order to attain the ellusive NPOV. 

The Internet is full of kooks. Do they all deserve equal time? Do they all 
deserve legitimacy?

Danny