Gates of Vienna
far-right blog, one of the leading websites of the Counterjihad movement
Gates of Vienna is a far-right blog established in 2004 by Edward S. May and his wife. The website has featured the writings of international hardline anti-Muslim writers such as Fjordman and Paul Weston, and "is a central player in the counter-jihad movement within the United States and across Europe".
History and activities
The first blog entry was published on Blogspot in January 2003 by Baron Bodissey, a pseudonym used by May, along with his wife who wrote as Dymphna, and was run from Virginia, United States. The name of the blog comes from the 1683 battle of Vienna, in which the alliance of Polish and Austrian armies defeated the invading Turkish Ottomans, framed by the blog as part of a centuries-long war between Christianity and Islam. The blog considers this the beginning of the end of the "second wave" of the "Great Islamic Jihad", while considering the September 11 attacks in 2001 a significant part of the beginning of the "third wave". The website itself was founded in October 2004.
May also writes as Ned May, and describes himself as a "computer programmer with some outlandish right-wing political ideas". May has later participated in several "counter-jihad" conferences, has been on the board of directors of the International Free Press Society, and was the director of the International Civil Liberties Alliance (formerly the 910 Group and the Center for Vigilant Freedom). He wrote articles for Breitbart News around 2011, and was "the principal organizer of the international counter-jihad movement from 2006-2011" according to Hope not Hate. The blog was investigated by the FBI after the 2011 Norway attacks as it was revealed that it was one of the most cited websites in the manifesto of Anders Behring Breivik, a neo-Nazi who exploited counter-jihad writings.
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