We Are All Danes Now (Jeff Jacoby editorial)

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

[finnman69]

HINDUS CONSIDER it sacrilegious to eat meat from cows, so when a Danish supermarket ran a sale on beef and veal last fall, Hindus everywhere reacted with outrage. India recalled its ambassador to Copenhagen, and Danish flags were burned in Calcutta, Bombay, and Delhi. A Hindu mob in Sri Lanka severely beat two employees of a Danish-owned firm, and demonstrators in Nepal chanted: ''War on Denmark! Death to Denmark!"In many places, shops selling Dansk china or Lego toys were attacked by rioters, and two Danish embassies were firebombed.

It didn't happen, of course. Hindus may consider it odious to use cows as food, but they do not resort to boycotts, threats, and violence when non-Hindus eat hamburger or steak. They do not demand that everyone abide by the strictures of Hinduism and avoid words and deeds that Hindus might find upsetting. The same is true of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Mormons: They don't lash out in violence when their religious sensibilities are offended. They certainly don't expect their beliefs to be immune from criticism, mockery, or dissent.

But radical Muslims do.

[SuzyQue]

Yes, it is very encouraging. They're finally getting it.

[RadioCirca1970]

Agreed.
Most have fallen asleep.
Sad.
I was in NYC on 911, I went home to my apartment in Northern NJ, My bedroom window was open, I could literally SMELL the fire and smell the death.

I will never forget it.

[MarMema]

Now when will we get it, as in US press? We're supposed to be leading the way to freedom in the world, but I guess that's only if we don't have too many sleeper cells.

[RadioCirca1970]

Sorry I missed out on their support of OIF.
Let the record reflect that I offer apologies to the Danes, the GOVT is neither Gutless or Wimpy.

I guess just haven't been as high profile as the UK.

[SuzyQue]

Well, my guess is that the US press has other priorities. I don't think they will get it. I can't say for sure what their priorities are, just what they aren't for - protection of the American way of life, freedom, that kind of stuff.

[jordan8]

The problem is not Islam, the problem is leftism, multiculturalism, multi-racialism, one-worldism, immigration, etc., the problem is that there are Muslims living in the West. The great belief of the modern leftist in colonizing his own country is that by, in effect, introducing one-worldism in one country he will induce other countries to follow suit and then we'll all live under a world government utopia. The reality is that this is never going to happen, what will happen is that countries that believe in this fairy tale will be destroyed and that healthier countries still practicing nationalism (like China) will take over. Isms work because the organized will always defeat the unorganized. In the meantime, the multiculti internal empires (for that is what they are) will by necessity become police states and the quality of life for the average native will take a nosedive, as has already happened.

The explanation given above on the motives of the new imperialists is putting the best face on it. In reality modern leftism has long since degenerated into a murderous, genocidal racist movement mad with fury to eliminate white people who stand in the way of their egalitarian utopia, and willing to use any weapon available to eliminate their hated foe. Thus the bizarre spectacle of Western leftists inviting medieval Muslims to colonize their nations.

[From many - one.]

???

[Verginius Rufus]

...Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Mormons...

I suspect Mr. Jacoby will get some angry e-mails from Mormons for implying that they are not Christians, but I doubt any of them will threaten to behead him.

[Windsong]

So Danes speak German? How close is the translation? (i.e. Ich bin vs. Ich ben)

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

If nothing else, these actions display the underlying goals of not only the Islamofascists, but of a growing inclusion of "mainstream" Muslims.

But this is nothing new. History is full of groups of people who tried to impose their will on others, usually through force. And history so far is equally full of those groups who stood up against them and put them down, usually through force.

This is going to get a lot uglier than we have seen.

Let's get it over with.

[jordan8]

Or to put all the above another way, sharia has arrived in the West on the back of political correctness. It isn't going away, it will only get worse, the censors will win because there is no movement to remove or even slow its source: the colonization of the West by Muslims. I posted this to another thread: In the conflict between multiculturalism and traditional Western freedoms, the establishment will rape freedom. They don't get power from freedom. They get power from divide and conquer multiculturalism and the nanny state needed to administer it. Islamic censorship in the West is just an offshoot of the last several decades of politically correct censorship, and could only happen because that earlier censorship paved the way for it and legitimized it.

[steveyp]

I did today. Two lego sets for the boy and a 6 of Carlsberg for the game.

The Danes are stalwart allies.

[GOP_Proud]

< Fox Sunday showed one of the cartoons this morning and Juan Williams took a pretty bold stand not only against the violence, but against Islam as well (paraphrasing: "...a weak religion if it can't handle some cartoons..."). >

Yes. We beat up on Wrong Wuan a lot, but we should take note of the strength of his statement this morning.

[rellimpank]

"--b--" is my bandwidth-saving abbreviation for "bump for later reading"--

[Buffettfan]

Mohammeds Monsters are proving our point tot he whole world. They are intolerant, murdering terrorist thugs. Islam will have to be declared incompatible with western society.

[finnman69]

[infowarrior]

One savvy poster on another thread correlated the start of these riots with the recent Palestinian elections results.

It is also barely a month away from what is believed to be Iran's nuclear weapons test (on or around 20th of March...) Coincidences? I don't think so...

the infowarrior

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Thank you both for the correction...sometimes you get the right idea and wrong follow through!

[MarMema]

Bump your post!!!