Posted on 02/01/2006 2:04:27 PM PST by knighthawk
Ping
A nice gesture, but a little late. If Europeans truly care about the West's survival they'd have fewer cartoons leveled against Muslims and more bayonets.
I'm shocked. This sounds nothing like a surrender monkey.
Well at least they APPEAR to be growing a set of _alls over there.
I wholly support the call for US citizens to counter the terrorist boycott by buying Danish. But keep in mind that the Danish companies now losing business in the Middle East have almost certainly agreed to Arab demands to boycott Israel in exchange for being allowed to sell to Arab countries, or they wouldn't have the Arab business to lose. There is a beautiful irony there.
The other irony is that the Muslim cartoon brouhaha may push the jihadists to focus on European targets rather than the Great Satan. Another major terrorist attack in the heart of defeatist Europe might be the rallying point that dying culture needs. Churchill hardly wanted the US Pacific Fleet to be destroyed at Pearl Harbor, but when it happened he knew that Britain would be saved.
***Newspapers in France, Germany and Spain reprinted Danish caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on Wednesday, saying press freedom was more important than protests and boycotts the cartoons have sparked across the Muslim world.***
Quick! Somebody get over here and pick up my chin off the floor.
Anything that puts a bee in those Islamonazi's bonnet, I love it.
Interesting that the first meaningful push-back against these Muslims in Europe is coming from newspaper editors and publishers. Their own government leaders have been too timid to do or say much of anything.
Bad idea--they ain't got the cahones to deal with the fallout
I'm astonished, actually, that the newspapers didn't cave in to Islamic protests.
Well, then again, journalists are a sanctimonious bunch, and are VERY sure that Free Press is more important than the next six freedoms combined.
Wonder why they aren't published in the UK - would these be actionable under existing law or the new one?
This is incredibly important. When the young people in repressive Muslim countries start laughing at the mullahs...radical Islam is toast. They can never stand to be laughed at. A violent reaction from the islamonazis will just hasten the end of that silly, 7th century meme.
and ask why these aren't published in the US? Oh, almost all our papers are owned by a handful of multinational media companies...
Yep. I found out in the link below that the annual report of Arla, the Danish dairy products company getting the most attention in the press, makes apparently does no business in Israel, even though it's a wealthy company and American dairy farmers can sell there.
Yes it does. They love to exercise their rights. They're just reluctant to defend them.
This is why viewing the world through stereotypical lenses is not reliable.
I want to see the cartoons in English. Why isn't our MSM publishing the cartoons? Oh, that's right. They are not Christian cartoons.
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