We Are All Danes Now (Jeff Jacoby editorial)

Boston Globe ^ | 2/5/06 | Jeff Jacoby

[Mercat]

scared to ping but doing it anyway.

[F16Fighter]

We Are All Danes Now

Lol, try reminding the U.S. State Dept. who are still cowering under their bed.

[RadioCirca1970]

Amen, these Mohammedens are about as unevolved as any group I have ever seen. The only thing these rioters understand is the barrel of a gun or the butt of a rifle. They prove by their actions that they are NO different than the Barbary Pirates of yore. Can you imagine how President Thomas Jefferson or James Knox Polk, or Andy Jackson would have reacted to thuggish mobs threatening us??

The Danes are gutless and wimpy, hopefully this wakes them up, the way 911 woke us up--finally.

[RadioCirca1970]

Hey easy there, if you are gonna resort to putting a Koran in the toilet, please have the decency to 'steam a divot' right on it before taking the picture...

[nina0113]

...when Mappelthorpe put an image of Jesus (a crucifix) in a jar of urine.

Andres Serrano. But your point stands.

[Fruitbat]

Make no mistake: This story is not going away, and neither is the Islamofascist threat. The freedom of speech we take for granted is under attack, and it will vanish if it is not bravely defended. Today the censors may be coming for some unfunny Mohammed cartoons, but tomorrow it is your words and ideas they will silence. Like it or not, we are all Danes now.

Absolutely perfect!

[quiche]

[Royal Wulff]

Yes, and now is the time. If we wait any longer, they will have (more) nuclear weapons. Radical Islam must be provoked into a confrontation now.

The longer this festers, the greater their demographic strength becomes.

[Bubba M. Aurelius]

It is too dry!

[lemura]

We've finally discovered the technique to get the left on board. Whether or not they believe that the WOT creates more terrorism, in their mind it still doesn't justify impairments to free speech. Since the left appears to prefer the 1st, 5th & 14th ammendments (but for some reason not the 2nd - but then again, maybe that will change as well), they're finally waking up and realizing the muzzies represent a direct threat to their way of life.

[GOPJ]

The current uproar over cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper illustrates yet again the fascist intolerance that is at the heart of radical Islam.

Today, publishing a cartoon is worthy of death -- tomorrow it'll be our right to worship freely. Thin skinned, chip on the shoulder control freak Muslims are showing their fascist underbelly. Today, I am a Dane.

[PrinctonPunjabi]

Get real man. The crap-element exists in every society. In a country of 1 billion if a few morons go about trashing a MickyD what the hell does that mean.

Go to any corner in India today and you can still get MickyD.

A MickyD got trashed in London a couple of years back during protests - does that tell you something about Protestants? Hey, is the rest of the world supposed to judge Americans by the actions of a few idiots in New Oreleans?

Reality: In a recent survey India as a country was the most pro-USA in the entire world.

[purpleland]

NOTE THE DATE!!! Excerpt, retrospective http://www.danielpipes.com

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Something Rotten in Denmark?
by Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard
New York Post
August 27, 2002
Muslim group in Denmark announced a few days ago that a $30,000 bounty would be paid for the murder of several prominent Danish Jews, a threat that garnered wide international notice. Less well known is that this is just one problem associated with Denmark's approximately 200,000 Muslim immigrants. The key issue is that many of them show little desire to fit into their adopted country.

For years, Danes lauded multiculturalism and insisted they had no problem with the Muslim customs - until one day they found that they did. Some major issues:

Living on the dole: Third-world immigrants - most of them Muslims from countries such as Turkey, Somalia, Pakistan, Lebanon and Iraq - constitute 5 percent of the population but consume upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending.
Engaging in crime: Muslims are only 4 percent of Denmark's 5.4 million people but make up a majority of the country's convicted rapists, an especially combustible issue given that practically all the female victims are non-Muslim. Similar, if lesser, disproportions are found in other crimes.
Self-imposed isolation: Over time, as Muslim immigrants increase in numbers, they wish less to mix with the indigenous population. A recent survey finds that only 5 percent of young Muslim immigrants would readily marry a Dane.
Importing unacceptable customs: Forced marriages - promising a newborn daughter in Denmark to a male cousin in the home country, then compelling her to marry him, sometimes on pain of death - are one problem. Another is threats to kill Muslims who convert out of Islam. One Kurdish convert to Christianity, who went public to explain why she had changed religion, felt the need to hide her face and conceal her identity, fearing for her life.
Fomenting anti-Semitism: Muslim violence threatens Denmark's approximately 6,000 Jews, who increasingly depend on police protection. Jewish parents were told by one school principal that she could not guarantee their children's safety and were advised to attend another institution. Anti-Israel marches have turned into anti-Jewish riots. One organization, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, openly calls on Muslims to "kill all Jews . . . wherever you find them."
Seeking Islamic law: Muslim leaders openly declare their goal of introducing Islamic law once Denmark's Muslim population grows large enough - a not-that-remote prospect. If present trends persist, one sociologist estimates, every third inhabitant of Denmark in 40 years will be Muslim.
Other Europeans (such as the late Pim Fortuyn in Holland) have also grown alarmed about these issues, but Danes were the first to make them the basis for a change in government.

In a momentous election last November, a center-right coalition came to power that - for the first time since 1929 - excluded the socialists. The right broke its 72-year losing streak and won a solid parliamentary majority by promising to handle immigration issues, the electorate's first concern, differently from the socialists.

The next nine months did witness some fine-tuning of procedures: Immigrants now must live seven years in Denmark (rather than three) to become permanent residents. Most non-refugees no longer can collect welfare checks immediately on entering the country. No one can bring into the country an intended spouse under the age of 24. And the state prosecutor is considering a ban on Hizb-ut-Tahrir for its death threats against Jews.

These minor adjustments prompted howls internationally - with European and U.N. reports condemning Denmark for racism and "Islamophobia," the Washington Post reporting that Muslim immigrants "face habitual discrimination," and a London Guardian headline announcing that "Copenhagen Flirts with Fascism."

In reality, however, the new government barely addressed the existing problems. Nor did it prevent new ones, such as the death threats against Jews or a recent Islamic edict calling on Muslims to drive Danes out of the Norrebro quarter of Copenhagen.

The authorities remain indulgent. The military mulls permitting Muslim soldiers in Denmark's volunteer International Brigade to opt out of actions they don't agree with - a privilege granted to members of no other faith. Mohammed Omar Bakri, the self-proclaimed London-based "eyes, ears and mouth" of Osama bin Laden, won permission to set up a branch of his organization, Al-Muhajiroun.

Contrary to media reports, the real news from Denmark is not flirting with fascism but getting mired in inertia. A government elected specifically to deal with a set of problems has made minimal headway. Its reluctance has potentially profound implications for the West as a whole.

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[Lion in Winter]

Thanks for the info. islamics lie... they did it in the civil war against Christian Serbs and they do now in regard to the cartoons.... the islamics ADDED worse cartoons and pretended that they were the original ones from the Sept. publications.

Does anybody now fully believe there was a Marksdale Market bombing by the Serbs in Sarajevo when all NON-PARTISAN ballistic experts said the mortar came from Bosnian muslim held areas.

islamics WANT war and victory . And, further, they WILL and DO, kill their own to get SYMPATHTY form the world.

Worked in Bosnia and it worked in Kosovo... and it sure works for them in Israel. The euro-weenies cry big old tears for Palestinian murder bombers and then go on to call the Israelis nazis....

[Zechariah11]

Nice summary and background information.

[Rocko]

That wasn't Mappelthorpe, it was Andres Serrano. Your point is well taken, though.

[dennisw]

bttt

[Atlantic Friend]

"The Danes are gutless and wimpy, hopefully this wakes them up, the way 911 woke us up--finally."

The "wimpy and gutless" Danes suppoprted the Iraqi freedom operation. Nice to know you respect them so much, Rad.

[CaptRon]

Granted I didn't understand the caption, but geez, what have they got against Chuck Norris?!

[Andy from Beaverton]