Posted on 06/06/2003 12:33:44 PM PDT by Eurotwit
Social Democrats takes on Islam.
The social democrats is now challenging the arab world, and concludes that western values are superior to the religious and undemocratic values that are prevalent in many middle eastern and northern African countries.
In their new foreign policy initiative which is published next week.
Western Values shall be rewarded.
The middle east in pinpointed as the most important area where foreign aid shall be purposefully used to reward countries and governments that encourages and develops westen values such as democracy, human rights, and good governance. Mellemøsten udpeges som det vigtigste område, hvor bistandshjælp målrettet skal bruges til at belønne lande og regeringer, der udvikler vestlige værdier som demokrati, menneskerettigheder og god regeringsførelse.
Mogens Lykketoft has together with pary collegues challenged Islam. "There can exist no doubt that any religous deviations from these standards are not acceptable, and will not be tolerated by the social democrats. ...
Jeppe Kofod admits that the Social democrats are challenging many taboos relating to Islam and the arab world. The new initiative underlines the political earthquake that has occured within the Social Democrats. - "This is a challenge to some of the taboos which have been traditionally held on the left that one shouldn't actively be imperialistic about western values. But, we should be. The development problems in the arab world are largely of their own making, and that a fundamentalistic interpretation of Islam is worsening the problems. Therefore, Denmark shall have strict conditions on its interaction with countries such as Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran.
The new social democratic position is in line with the conservative governments plans. "We must have the courage to "exort" our democratic values to the countries of the middle east", said prime minister Anders F. Rasmussed thursday in his constitution speech.
Funny thing is that this sort of policy is just what they are critizing Bush for.
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Sounds like these Danish Social Democrats go way further than Bush. I can't hear them repeating "religion of peace".
"A 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."
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