Ayaan Hirsi Ali modtager pris fra Jylland-Posten

Den verdenskendte forfatter og debattør Ayaan Hirsi Ali modtog i dag Jyllands-Postens Ytringsfrihedspris for sin kamp for det frie ord.

Det skriver Jyllands-Posten, der også oplyser, at der følger 50.000 danske kroner med. Tillykke med det! Ingen tvivl om, at prisen er velfortjent.

Andre kilder: Jyllands-Posten,

“South Park” and the Informal Fatwa

‘The veiled threats against the Comedy Central show’s creators should be taken very seriously.

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“South Park” is hilarious, right? Not any more.

Last week, Zachary Adam Chesser—a 20-year-old Muslim convert who now goes by the name Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee—posted a warning on the Web site RevolutionMuslim.com following the 200th episode of the show on Comedy Central. The episode, which trotted out many celebrities the show has previously satirized, also “featured” the Prophet Muhammad: He was heard once from within a U-Haul truck and a second time from inside a bear costume.

For this apparent blasphemy, Mr. Amrikee warned that co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone “will probably end up” like Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh, readers will remember, was the Dutch filmmaker who was brutally murdered in 2004 on the streets of Amsterdam. He was killed for producing “Submission,” a film that criticized the subordinate role of women in Islam, with me.

There has been some debate about whether Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker should view the Web posting as a direct threat. Here’s Mr. Amrikee’s perspective: “It’s not a threat, but it really is a likely outcome,” he told Foxnews.com. “They’re going to be basically on a list in the back of the minds of a large number of Muslims. It’s just the reality.” He’s also published the home and office addresses of Messrs. Stone and Parker, as well as images of Van Gogh’s body.

Læs det hele HER i Wall Street Journal. AEI har den her.

Video: Bernard Lewis i timevis

Lagt på nettet for 5 dage siden. Fra en ASMEA-konference optaget 22. – 24 oktober 2009, The Iranian Difference:

Desuden videoen “Reflections on the Middle East and Africa”, som ligeledes først er blevet uploadet nu. Den må være produceret cirka samtidig med videoen ovenfor. På YouTube har man kunnet finde korte smagsprøver fra denne film i nogle måneder, men her er hele den flere timer lange udsendelse.

Bernard Lewis i samtale med Fouad Ajami om de enkelte lande i Mellemøsten, deres historie, fremtid, muslimer i Europa, den danske muhammedkrise og meget mere:

Ibn Warraq har sin egen blog

Og han har lige skrevet en ny artikel, som findes på Ibn Warraqs blog, – Dino from the Sands:

What is Islamophobia?

What is Islamophobia? The need for a continuous critical scrutiny of Islam.

A phobia is fear, aversion or hatred, especially morbid or irrational of something, from spiders to wide open spaces. Islamophobia is fear of Islam. Yes I do fear it, but it is not irrational; my life and the life of my family is at stake. As an apostate from Islam I am at risk of being assassinated- all the Islamic schools of law whether Sunni or Shia prescribe the death penalty for apostasy. As a public speaker critical of many aspects of Islam I am also risking my life since I am on the death list of many Islamists. But, again, I repeat I am not irrational: I give reasons, arguments and evidence for my views. Criticisms of Islam are not just some empty parlour game but matters of life and death. It is irrational for liberal journals and newspapers to lament the lack of an Islamic Enlightenment and then refuse space to dissidents that criticise Islam as a dangerous ideology. How do these liberals think an Enlightenment will come about without criticism? Islamophobia is a vague term of abuse used to silence criticism of Islam. Islamic nations have also taken up the term Islamophobia to silence any criticism not just of Islam but any discussion of the human rights abuses in Islamic countries. Just to quote the Koran is now considered Islamophobic, and forbidden in the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Resten HER - samme link som ovenfor.

Trykkefrihedsselskabet har for nylig meddelt, at Ibn Warraq nu er medarbejder på tidsskriftet Sappho. Man kan læse en ganske interessant artikel på dansk, “Saudisk-finansierede skoler prædiker had og krig”  HER.

Video: Brigitte Gabriel, Walid Phares, Robert Spencer, Guy Rodgers

Fra en konference, der sluttede for en time siden. Arrangeret af American Congress for Truth.

• A Basic History of Islam, taught by American Congress for Truth and ACT! for America Founder and President and best-selling author, Brigitte Gabriel.
• The ideology and strategies of global jihad, taught by renowned terrorism expert Walid Phares, author of several books including Future Jihad.
• Shariah Islamic law, taught by Andrew Bostom, historian and author of The Legacy of Jihad.
• The Muslim Brotherhood’s plan to subvert America, taught by John Guandolo, former FBI agent and creator of the FBI’s first Counterterrorism Training/Education Course focusing on the Muslim Brotherhood.
• “Stealth Jihad” in America, taught by Robert Spencer, lecturer and best-selling author of several books, including Stealth Jihad and Religion of Peace?
• Strategies and tactics for resisting the advance of radical Islam, taught by American Congress for Truth and ACT! for America Executive Director Guy Rodgers.

Efter 1 time og 50 minutter sker der ikke mere i den første video, der fortsætter med at vise et skilt.

OBS: Videoen med Andrew Bostom og John Guandolo er tilsyneladende ikke uploadet endnu. Jeg sætter den ind her, når eller hvis den dukker op.

Video: Nonie Darwish

Den er fra 20. februar 2009, men jeg har ikke set den tidligere. Tror faktisk ikke, den har været online før nu. Om sharia , islams sammenstød med demokratiet og ikke mindst koranens anvisninger på islamisk statsdannelse med sharialov.

Desuden er der en ældre video, som jeg har forsømt. Den er ligeledes fra Heritage Foundation. Fra 15. november 2006:

Why are so many Muslims embracing jihad and cheering for al-Qaeda and Hamas? Why are even the modern, secularized Arab states such as Egypt producing a generation of angry young extremists? Author Nonie Darwish seeks to answer these and other questions so puzzling to Western civilization.

When she was eight, her father died while leading Fedayeen raids into Israel. Her family moved back to Cairo from Gaza, where they were honored as survivors of a “shahid” – a martyr for jihad. She grew up learning the same lessons as millions of Muslim children: to hate Jews, destroy Israel, oppose America, and submit to dictatorship. Darwish became increasingly appalled, however, by the anger and hatred in her culture, and in 1978 she emigrated to America. Since 9/11 she has been lecturing and writing on behalf of moderate Arabs and Arab-Americans. Extremists now denounce her as an infidel.

In her book, Darwish speaks out against the dark side of her native culture – women abused by Islamic traditions; the poor and uneducated mistreated by the elites; bribery and corruption as a way of life. She rejects a culture of bigotry and argues that the only hope for the future is for America to continue waging the War on Terror, seeding the Middle East with the values of democracy, respect for women, and tolerance for all religions.

Videoen startes HER. Varighed 1 time og 13 minutter.

Video: Ayaan Hirsi Ali om South Park

South Park, den amerikanske tegnefilmsserie, er ramt af trusler fra muslimsk side. Det sker efter at en episode i sidste uge viste Muhammed i forklædning.

Truslerne blev fremsat i denne uge på det New York-baserede websted www. revolutionmuslim. com. Man advarer de to forfattere bag serien, Trey Parker og Matt Stone, om, at de risikerer voldelig gengældelse efter det pågældende afsnit, som var nummer 200 i den voldsomt populære serie.

Det skriver Jyllands-Posten. De to forfattere kan se frem til samme skæbne som Theo van Gogh. Hjemmesiden har lagt deres adresser ud. Også Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Theo van Gogh, Hirsi Ali, Salman Rushdie, Geert Wilders, Kurt Westergaard og Lars Vilks modtager de obligatoriske dødstrusler.

Man må ikke gøre grin med deres komiske “profet”. Nedenfor en video fra CNN, hvor Ayaan Hirsi Ali kommenterer på situationen. Den mellemste er fra samme program, Anderson Cooper 360° og er baggrund om udviklingen. Begge er fra i aftes. Nederst den episode af South Park, som har udløst balladen.

Andre kilder: B.T., EkstraBladet,

Radio: Roger Scruton

Denne forelæsning er en del af et 3 uger langt seminar, der kører endnu. Roger Scruton forelæser om tro, Gud, islam, kristendom, filosoffer, ateister og en hel del mere. Varighed en god time. 

Klik HER for at lytte – åbner på ny side.

The 2010 Gifford Lectures will be given by Roger Scruton on the theme “The Face of God”.

Listen to Roger Scruton’s first lecture of the 2010 series, recorded on 20th April 2010 at St Salvator’s Quad, University of St Andrews.

The view from nowhere.

Opdatering 25. april 2010: Nu er den næste forelæsning til rådighed. Fra 22. april, – Scrutons emne:

The view from somewhere

Man skal være decideret Scruton-fan for at kaste sig ud i den. Forelæsningen har intet med bloggens emner at gøre. Samme link som den første udsendelse.

Video: Michael A. Ledeen

Jeg synes, det vælter ind med videoer for tiden. Her gælder det Iran og opstanden. Jeg så den 2 gange, – han er ret så god, ham her. Fra 2. marts 2010. Der går 6½ minut før han starter:

Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West

Acknowledging the existence and actions of evil enemies means accepting that we are at war, and then designing and conducting a strategy to win.  In Accomplice to Evil, Dr. Michael Ledeen takes a comprehensive look at the errors we have made in the past when dealing with a mounting enemy force, why we’ve refused to acknowledge the implications of a rising evil, and how we can defeat the forces that threaten us today.

Michael A. Ledeen is the Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.  He is also a contributing editor at National Review Online as well as a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal.  He has authored more than 20 books including Machiavelli on Modern Leadership, The Iranian Time Bomb, and Tocqueville on American Character.  Previously, he served as a consultant to the National Security Council, the State Department, and the Defense Department and also as a special adviser to the Secretary of State.  He holds a Ph.D. in modern European history and philosophy from the University of Wisconsin and has taught at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Rome.

Kasper Støvring, Kai Sørlander, Ole Hyltoft med flere

Igen i dag er Kasper Støvring aktiv i avisspalterne:

Kronik: Sammenhæng skabes i civilsamfundet

Kasper Støvring: Der hersker en udbredt forestilling om, at den høje grad af sammenhængskraft – tillid og samhørighed – der findes i Danmark, er skabt af velfærdsstaten. Men opfattelsen er forkert. Sammenhængskraften er snarere skabt i det civile samfund, hvor især de frivillige foreninger har stor betydning.

Af Hjalte Tobias Haugstrup Kragesteen, Kasper Støvring, forfatter til bogen »Sammenhængskraft«, som netop er udkommet på Gyldendal

Danskerne er et folk, der er dybt forankret i en national kultur. Det vil sige, at de i generationer har levet sammen på bestemte måder på et bestemt territorium. Den fælles historie har præget borgerne med nogle samlende moralske værdier, sociale erfaringer og indforståede kommunikationsformer, og denne fælles kultur har fremmet en loyalitet, der er grundlaget for det liberale medborgerskab.

Resten HER i Berlingske Tidende. Og et interview fra samme avis:

Samfundsdebat: Kulturen binder danskerne sammen

Kasper Støvring er en af de yngre kulturkonservative værdikæmpere. Hans veloplagte debatbog er skarp, generaliserende og reaktionær på den skægge måde. Ifølge ham er kulturen nationens lim og klister.

Af Bent Blüdnikow

Kasper Støvring er en af de yngre, intellektuelle debattører, der i aviser og bøger gerne står frem med nationalkonservative holdninger. Han mener, at sammenhængskraften er afgørende for en nations succes. Og at denne sammenhængskraft er baseret på kultur, der er udviklet gennem århundreder af danskerne.

Det hele HER. Den bedste er næsten denne fra Jyllands-Posten:

Assimilation er vejen frem

Kasper Støvring, forfatter og kulturforsker, Sorø

Vi bør understøtte en national kernekultur og kræve, at fremmede tilpasser sig den. Samtidig bør vi afvise multikulturalismen, for den skaber blot polarisering, had og fjendtlighed grupper imellem, skriver Kasper Støvring.
Danmarks Statistik har i sin seneste årlige indvandrerstatistik kraftigt opjusteret forventningerne til antallet af borgere med ikke-vestlig baggrund i Danmark i 2050. I forhold til sidste år har man sat antallet op med knap 180.000. Det er rigtig mange, og det skyldes bl.a., at ikke-vestlige indvandrere og efterkommere ikke gifter sig med etniske danskere.

Få det hele med HER. Kai Sørlander skriver også i Jyllands-Posten:

En tankeløs tænketank

Kai Sørlander, forfatter og filosof, Brønshøj

Forstår vi ikke de helt grundlæggende kulturelle sammenhænge, så kører vi galt. Som Cepos, der tror, at liberale frihedsrettigheder trues mere af en progressiv skatteskala end af en religiøs lovgivning, skriver Kai Sørlander.

I Danmark findes der flere politiske tænketanke, som har forskellige ideologiske profiler. De har til formål at berige den demokratiske debat, men de er ikke alle lige effektive, og nogle fungerer måske mere af navn end af gavn.

Klik HER og læs mere. Og igen fra Jyllands-Posten – Nogen om Francis Fukuyama:

Den historiske rute til retsstaten

Jørgen Møller, adjunkt, ph.d., Aarhus Universitet  

Mens demokratiet har vundet indpas i snart sagt alle hjørner af verden, har retsstaten været langt vanskeligere at sprede.

Historisk set har udviklingen af retsstaten fulgt sin egen logik, løsrevet fra – eller i hvert fald uafhængigt af – økonomisk udvikling og demokratisering. Det er derfor naivt at forvente, at retsstatstankegangen i vor tids udviklingslande vil komme ridende på frakkeskøderne af økonomisk og politisk modernisering.

Fortsætter HER. Og Ole Hyltoft i JP:

Hvem er højreekstremister?

Ole Hyltoft, forfatter og næstformand i DR-bestyrelsen

DR skal huske, at det er folket, der ejer DR. Hverken medarbejderne eller intelligentsiaen.

For nylig havde DR 2′s Deadline besøg af den svenske journalist Kurdo Bakti. Han har lige skrevet en bog om sin ven, krimiforfatteren og kommunisten Stieg Larsson.

Danmarks Radios interviewer lagde op til samtalen ved at fastslå, at Sverige nu var ved at blive et lige så uanstændigt land som Danmark.

Jyllands-Posten HER. Og til sidst endnu et læserbrev fra Berlingske Tidende:

Kommentar: Dansk medansvar for fup-studerende

Henny Døssing Paudel: Danske politikere, uddannelsessteder og interesse-grupper har et medansvar for, at store grupper af unge mennesker fra tredjeverdens-lande kommer til Danmark på falske løfter om studier og arbejde. Hvorfor har Eyvind Vesselbo først opdaget problemet nu?

Link HER.

Kronik af Lars Hedegaard

Væk med krænkelsesparagrafferne

Lars Hedegaard: Krænkelsesparagrafferne er blevet en trussel mod demokratiet og friheden. Derfor skal de væk. Trykkefrihedsselskabet og Fri Debat går sammen i kampen for at få afskaffet straffelovens paragraf 140 og 266b. Paragrafferne åbner nemlig for magtfulde og pengestærke kræfter, der vil beskære vores frihed.

Af Lars Hedegaard, formand i Trykkefrihedsselskabet

I foråret 2008 kunne man i en række danske aviser læse en annonce indrykket af en saudisk organisation med det indviklede navn »Det globale program til at gøre barmhjertighedens profet kendt«. Den omtalte profet var dog ikke just ukendt, idet der var tale ingen ringere end Muhammed. Til gengæld havde danskerne tydeligvis ikke helt forstået, hvor barmhjertig han var.

Mere her i Berlingske Tidende.

S og SF svigter integrationen

Formålet med aftalen er, at velintegrerede indvandrere hurtigere kan få permanent opholdstilladelse i Danmark.

Af Naser Khader, Integrationsordfører, MF (K)

Derfor vil regeringen indføre et helt nyt pointsystem, der giver udlændinge mulighed for at opnå permanent opholdstilladelse i Danmark allerede efter fire år mod i dag syv år, såfremt de lever op til en række konkrete krav.

 Resten her i Berlingske Tidende.

Fed klumme af Mark Steyn

Who Needs Apartheid? 

By Mark Steyn

Moshe Ya’alon, a former Israel Defense Forces general who now serves as Benjamin Netanyahu’s strategic affairs minister, posed the following query in an interview published in the Jerusalem Post: “If we are talking about coexistence and peace, why the [Palestinian] insistence that the territory they receive be ethnically cleansed of Jews? Why do those areas have to be Judenrein? Don’t Arabs live here, in the Negev and the Galilee? Why isn’t that part of our public discussion? Why doesn’t that scream to the heavens?”

National Review Online har resten HER.

Video: Tariq Ramadan i USA

Paneldiskussion i Amerikansk PEN. Dalia Mogahed, George Packer, Tariq Ramadan, Joan Wallach Scott & Jacob Weisberg. Fra 8. april 2010 – Great Hall, Cooper Union. Man kan springe de første 10 minutter over:

In his first public appearance in the United States since he was barred from entering the country in 2004, Tariq Ramadan discusses the relationship between Islam and the West with Dalia Mogahed, George Packer, Joan Wallach Scott, and Jacob Weisberg at the 2010 event Secularism, Islam, and Democracy: Muslims in Europe and the West.

En strid omgang taqiyya at høre på. Jøsses…

Dansk doodle i dag

Google fejrer Karen Blixens fødselsdag. Karen Blixen 17. april 1885 – 7. september 1962:

Christopher Hitchens udlægger bogen, Kammerat Napoleon

Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm

Still outlawed by regimes around the world, Animal Farm has always been political dynamite – so much so, it was nearly never published. Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell’s timeless, transcendent ‘fairy story’

By Christopher Hitchens

Animal Farm, as its author later wrote, “was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole”. And indeed, its pages contain a synthesis of many of the themes that we have come to think of as “Orwellian”. Among these are a hatred of tyranny, a love for animals and the English countryside, and a deep admiration for the satirical fables of Jonathan Swift. To this one might add Orwell’s keen desire to see things from the viewpoint of childhood and innocence: he had long wished for fatherhood and, fearing that he was sterile, had adopted a small boy not long before the death of his first wife. The partly ironic subtitle of the novel is “A Fairy Story”, and Orwell was pleased when he heard from friends such as Malcolm Muggeridge and Sir Herbert Read that their own offspring had enjoyed reading the book.

Like much of his later work – most conspicuously the much grimmer Nineteen Eighty-Four – Animal Farm was the product of Orwell’s engagement in the Spanish civil war. During the course of that conflict, in which he had fought on the anti-fascist side and been wounded and then chased out of Spain by supporters of Joseph Stalin, his experiences had persuaded him that the majority of “left” opinion was wrong, and that the Soviet Union was a new form of hell and not an emerging utopia. He described the genesis of the idea in one of his two introductions to the book:

Få det hele med, – fortsætter HER i The Guardian.

OBS: Det ser ud til, at The Guardian har slettet artiklen. Men bloggen, Readings From A Political Duo-ble, har hele artiklen her.

Opdatering 24. marts 2011. Jeg fandt endnu en artikel, hvori Hitchens skriver om Orwell:

George Orwell’s Legacy

In the age of Ashcroft, the author of 1984 is as important as ever

By Christopher Hitchens – November / December 2002

NO ONE WHO HAS endured the agony of self-employment as a scribbler can afford not to read George Orwell’s essay “Confessions of a Book Reviewer,” first published in 1946.

In a cold but stuffy bed-sitting room littered with cigarette ends and half-empty cups of tea, a man in a moth-eaten dressing gown sits at a rickety table, trying to find room for his typewriter among the piles of dusty papers that surround it. He cannot throw the papers away because the wastepaper basket is already overflowing, and besides, somewhere among the unanswered letters and unpaid bills it is possible that there is a cheque for two guineas which he is nearly certain he forgot to pay into the bank. There are also letters with addresses which ought to be entered into his address book. He has lost his address book, and the thought of looking for it, or indeed of looking for anything, afflicts him with acute suicidal impulses.

Mere HER i UDNE Reader.

Video: Alan Dershowitz om Israels sikkerhed

Uploadet på YouTube 2. marts 2010. Forelæsningen fandt 14. februar, 2010 -  handler bla. om Goldstone-rapporten:

Alan Dershowitz Keynote Presentation, 8th National Jewish Law Students Association Conference

Professor Alan Dershowitz presents the keynote at the 8th National Convention of the Jewish Law Students Association, hosted by Pepperdine University School of Law and the Diane and Guilford Glazer Institute for Jewish Studies.

Tillykke Dronning Margrethe 70 år

Melodie Danoise – Percy Grainer - Andreas Brantelid – Bengt Forsberg

When Freedom Isn’t Free

In Britain, compulsory virtue stifles individual liberty.

By Theodore Dalrymple

Liberal reformers, who might once have wished to extend the realm of liberty, now wish to restrict it in the name of compulsory political virtue.

There was a perfect recent illustration of this in Britain. An evangelical Christian couple, the Wilkinsons, ran a bed-and-breakfast business in a place called Cookham. They refused a middle-aged homosexual couple, Michael Black and John Morgan, accommodation because they believed that homosexuality was wrong; it is condemned in the Bible.

The spurned couple said that they felt like lepers; moreover, they felt that their legal rights, enshrined in the Equality Act of 2006, which makes it illegal to discriminate in the provision of services on the grounds of “sexual orientation,” had been infringed, and they complained to the police. As yet, no prosecution has followed. But shortly afterward a senior politician, Christopher Grayling, who might be a minister in the next government if David Cameron wins the forthcoming election, said that he thought that the owners of bed-and-breakfasts ought to be allowed to refuse homosexual couples if they so wished.

Det  bør nu være ulovligt at diskriminere på denne måde efter min ringe mning. Mere HER i City Journal.

Nonie Darwish – A Letter to Gaza

I recently received an email accusing me of hating Arabs and my father. This email is typical of Arab media accusations of my views regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. Since most Arabs have no chance to read my book, Now They Call Me Infidel, Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror, which explains in detail my position, I will answer the email in this article. First, below is the translation of the Arabic language email which I received without a signature:

Salam to you,

With all of our pride in your father we pray that Allah will bless him with entering paradise, which is the wish of every person after this short prideful meaningless life. I want to ask you, has your father become your enemy after his death? We in the city of Gaza take pride in your father and I live on a street by the name of Shahid Moustafa Hafez which also has a school by the name of Shahid Moustafa Hafez. We never forgot his sacrifice, so how could you become an enemy to the tortured Palestinian people who are still suffering at the hands of Arab Zionists? I ask Allah to give you health and strength.

Awaiting your response and thank you in advance.

Here is my response:

Læs hvad Nonie Darwish svarede hos FrontpageMagazine HER.

Ny artikel af Fjordman

EU bør nedlægges! Nemlig:

The European Union and “Beautiful” Minarets

by Fjordman

Inspired by Bat Ye’or’s groundbreaking work Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, I wrote my own book Defeating Eurabia in 2008. My conclusion back then, which still stands today, was that the European Union constitutes a threat to the entire European continent and needs to be dismantled:

“The EU has accepted that the Union should be enlarged to include the Muslim Middle East and North Africa. The EU has accepted that tens of millions of immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries in northern Africa should be allowed to settle in Europe in the years ahead. This is supposedly ‘good for the economy.’ It is planning to implement sharia laws for the millions of Muslims it is inviting to settle in Europe. It has passed stronger anti-racism laws while making it clear that ‘Islamophobia’ constitutes a form of racism, and is cooperating with Islamic countries on rewriting school textbooks to provide a ‘positive’ image of Islam to European children. Finally, the EU is developing an Arrest Warrant which stipulates that those charged with serious crimes, for instance racism, can be arrested without undue interference of the nation state they happen to live in. In essence, the EU is formally surrendering an entire continent to Islam while destroying established national cultures, and is prepared to harass those who disagree with this policy. This constitutes the greatest organized betrayal in Western history, yet is hailed as a victory for ‘tolerance.’”

Læs resten HER hos Jihad Watch.