The Danes have had a glorious record defending free speech for centuries, so it was no surprise that they closed ranks and got behind Jyllands-Posten, the distinguished Danish newspaper, when, in 2005, it published 12 caricatures of the world’s best known pedophile after Roman Polanski. Everybody knows what happened then: partisans of the religion of peace got busy torching Danish embassies, threatening the cartoonists, and killing as many infidels as they could get their hands on, including a Somali nun. At the end of the day, they stacked up a body count of some 200. For publishing some caricatures of the medieval founder of a primitive, modernity-hating religion.
In 2008, about 20 Danish papers reproduced the cartoons. More wailing and gnashing of teeth by adherents of the religion of peace. And this time there was legal action, too. Last year, a Saudi lawyer called Faisal Ahmed Zaki Yamani demanded an apology. Yesterday, the editor of one Danish paper, Politiken, took his tail, placed it firmly between his legs, and caved in to the forces of darkness. His name, by the way, is Toeger Seindenfaden. Not the sort of chap you want in a fox hole with you. The decision has been roundly condemned. Joern Mikkelsen , the editor of Jyllands-Posten, correctly noted that “It’s a sad day for Danish media, it’s sad for freedom of expression and it’s sad for Politiken.”
Andrew Brietbart has the whole story here. And Diana West has her usual percipient commentary here.
“…the world’s best known pedophile …. founder of a primitive. modernity-hating religion.”
Wow. You gotta hand it to RK; he does have the ability to surprise and even shock. I mean, you expect this kind of garbage from some fringe PJM readers, but for it to come from the erudite Mr. Kimball, well, let me repeat … Wow.
“this kind of garbage”? Excuse me. What part of the truth is it that you have a problem with, Joseph? Mr. Kimball is simply calling a spade a spade… Is anything he said not true?
Well said, Leland.
Moreover, it seems certain that with the demographics of European countries, Islam will overrun western civilization there by about midcentury. Art, literature, and music of our culture is despised by Islamists and will be suppressed. As Roger’s article demonstrates, liberties once dear to western civilization are already being lost.
Not only our culture. Just consider what happened to the buddhas of Bamyan, courtesy the religion of peace.
Islam is an opportunistic infection.
It has taken root in Europe precisely because the cultures of Europe have been weakened and made sickly by the predations of the left. Once upon a time the British were proud to be British. They believed in themselves and in the nation of which they were a part. Today belief in oneself and one’s culture are cast as evil. This is what schoolchildren in the UK have been spoon fed for at least two generations. The predictable and inevitable result is that their nation is being overrun by a foreign culture that does believe in itself.
The same thing is happening in the rest of Europe.
It is easy to cast the misogynistic inbred raghead as the villain. But he is not the true enemy. The real villains in this story are the Gramscian Marxists who have worked so hard to convince the peoples of Europe to feel guilt and shame for the “crime” of being European.