Ændringer i navneskikken viser bl.a., hvilken social position forældrene mener, der tilkommer barnet. Det bliver især tydeligt for pigerne, som knapt havde navne i det gamle Rom, skriver Geoffrey Cain.
When I was asked to write a foreword to Geert Wilders’ new book, my first reaction, to be honest, was to pass. Mr. Wilders lives under 24/7 armed guard because significant numbers of motivated people wish to kill him, and it seemed to me, as someone who’s attracted more than enough homicidal attention over the years, that sharing space in these pages was likely to lead to an uptick in my own death threats. Who needs it? Why not just plead too crowded a schedule and suggest the author try elsewhere? I would imagine Geert Wilders gets quite a lot of this.
And then I took a stroll in the woods, and felt vaguely ashamed at the ease with which I was willing to hand a small victory to his enemies. After I saw off the Islamic enforcers in my own country, their frontman crowed to The Canadian Arab News that, even though the Canadian Islamic Congress had struck out in three different jurisdictions in their attempt to criminalize my writing about Islam, the lawsuits had cost my magazine (he boasted) two million bucks, and thereby “attained our strategic objective — to increase the cost of publishing anti-Islamic material.” In the Netherlands, Mr. Wilders’ foes, whether murderous jihadists or the multicultural establishment, share the same “strategic objective” — to increase the cost of associating with him beyond that which most people are willing to bear. It is not easy to be Geert Wilders. He has spent almost a decade in a strange, claustrophobic, transient, and tenuous existence little different from kidnap victims or, in his words, a political prisoner. He is under round-the-clock guard because of explicit threats to murder him by Muslim extremists.
To videoer om samme emne – en kort og en lang. Fra 7. maj 2012:
Ezra Levant: Ethical Oil or Conflict Oil
Ezra challenges the West-hating NGOs to spend a small fraction of their efforts criticizing the scumbags who supply most of the world’s oil, not Canada.
Om de to audioer herunder: lidt snik-snak, noget om venstrefløjen, konservative kvinder, præsident Obama og mere:
Paul Speaks With Mark Steyn And John O’Sullivan
May 01, 2012
Paul sat down with John O’Sullivan, former Special Adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, will discuss the political destiny of women, including how Lady Thatcher paved the way for women in contemporary politics.
And Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist AND fill in for Rush Limbaugh!
Man skal ind til The Paul Westcott Show for at lytte – link HER. Varer 9½ minut.
Fra The Michael Graham Show fra radio 96.9 Boston Talks den 30. april 2012:
Mark Steyn
The brilliant Mr Steyn is back.
Startes HER - åbner windows Media Player. Varighed 17 minutter.
Mark Steyn’s Australian Freedom of Speech Tour 2012
Watch Mark Steyn stand up for free speech in Australia in this speech to more than 500 people at the Institute of Public Affairs-Spectator Australia event in Sydney on Wednesday 29 February.
Sun TV angriber regelmæssigt venstrefløjen. Og det skal vi da ikke gå glip af, så jeg har samlet lidt her. I den første video får tåben Said en over snuden - fra 5. marts 2012:
Our best & brightest are our worst & dimmest
Michael Widlanski, author of “Battle For Our Minds: Western Elites and The Terror Threat” joins Michael Coren to discuss the islamophilia of self-appointed Western elites. Feel free to smack one in the head when you see ‘em.
Fra 13. marts 2012:
Michael Coren with Nick Cohen: Freedom of speech under attack
Nick Cohen, author of “You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom” joins Michael Coren to discuss the alliance between the Left and islamofascism.
Fra 6. marts 2012:
Michael Coren & Laura Rosen Cohen: The Tolerant Left
Laura Rosen Cohen joins Michael Coren after a long absence to discuss the robocall non-controversy and the tolerance of the tolerant Left.
Laura repeats Kate McMillan’s famous line: “What’s the opposite of diversity? University!”
Vært David Menzies og gæst Gary McHale om elementer fra den canadiske venstrefløj, der vil indhente råd om, hvordan canadierne skal behandle landets oprindelige folk. Rådgiveren skal være Iran! Fra 14. mars 2012:
Tim Hudak lame on Caledonia too
This guy never fails to disappoint. He has all the opportunity to walk right through an open door and yet he’d rather be McGuinty-lite.
There is something inherently wrong with the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, having served up a decade plus of this guy and John Tory before him. The party needs to be blown up and reconstituted without the red tories who currently infect it.
Opdatering 4. maj 2012 – Coren og McHale med mere om forholdene i Ontario:
Caledonia OPP piss off Michael Coren
OPP officer Rick Zupancic (2010 Ontario Sunshine list: $140,277.43 per annum) , cool with illegal Indian activity, arrests a member of Canace for daring to ask for the badge numbers of his useless fellow OPP officers.
Dette australske tv-program hedder Q&A og er fra ABC 5. marts 2012. I panelet: Paul Grabowsky, Amanda Vanstone, Natasha Stott Despoja, Mark Steyn, Jianying Zha. Udsendelsen handler mest om australske forhold og en lille smule om indvandring. Man kan følge med i en udskrift her:
Startes HER - åbner Windows Media Player. Varighed 1 time og 3 minutter. Artikler:
The Church of Big Government
By Mark Steyn – March 6th 2012
Discussing the constitutionality of Obamacare’s “preventive health” measures on MSNBC, Melinda Henneberger of the Washington Post told Chris Matthews that she reasons thus with her liberal friends: “Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment, but they did.”
Maybe. A lot of other constitutional types in the Western world have grown increasingly comfortable with circumscribing religious liberty. In 2002, the Swedish constitution was amended to criminalize criticism of homosexuality. “Disrespect” of the differently orientated became punishable by up to two years in jail, and “especially offensive” disrespect by up to four years. Shortly thereafter, Pastor Ake Green preached a sermon referencing the more robust verses of scripture, and was convicted of “hate crimes” for doing so.
Why should we have to fund a middle-aged schoolgirl’s sex life?
By Mark Steyn – March 10, 2012
I’m writing this from Australia, so, if I’m not quite up to speed on recent events in the United States, bear with me — the telegraph updates are a bit slow here in the bush. As I understand it, Sandra Fluke is a young coed who attends Georgetown Law, and recently testified before Congress.
Oh, wait, no. Update: It wasn’t a congressional hearing; the Democrats just got it up to look like one, like summer stock, with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid doing the show right here in the barn, and providing a cardboard set for the world premiere of Miss Fluke Goes to Washington, with full supporting cast led by Chuck Schumer strolling in through the French windows in tennis whites and drawling, “Anyone for bull****?”
Mere HER i National Review Online. Orange County Register her. Investor’s Business Daily her.
Michael Coren & Bruce Bawer: Persecution Of Conservatives In Norway
Og lidt håndpluk fra Bawers seneste:
Love and Hate in Norway
by Bruce Bawer on Mar 2nd, 2012
“If you hate Norway so much,” read the email in my inbox the other day, “why don’t you go back to America? Why don’t you go back to the Midwest or the Southern states where you can live with your beloved Tea Party friends?”
The email was in Norwegian, and the sender had a Norwegian name. This is far from the first such e-mail I have received in my thirteen years in Norway. A few years back, in a piece for the New York Times about the Norwegian economy, I made what I thought was a harmless remark in passing about the matpakke, the wrapped-up homemade sandwich that many workers in Norway, including high-ranking executives, chow down at their desks at lunchtime because it’s just too expensive here (Oslo is the world’s priciest city) for most people to go out for even a modest lunch. After that article, I got several hundred outraged text messages, e-mails, and phone calls asking me why I was living in Norway if I hated its beloved traditions so much and ordering me to go back to America. I even got a couple of death threats.
It’s always refreshing when mainstream-media bigwigs are actually honest about the prejudices that guide their institutions. So one could only applaud when Mark Thompson, director-general of the BBC, admitted the other day something that is already obvious to anyone who watches or listens to the Beeb – namely, that the folks who run the shop are as quick to broadcast works that mock Christianity as they are to forbid the mockery of, shall we say, certain other faiths, and that the main reason is, quite simply, fear.
Thompson actually gave three reasons for the BBC’s all-religions-are-not-created-equal policy. First, he said that the BBC treats Christianity differently from other faiths because, as “an established part of our cultural-built landscape,” it is “pretty broad shouldered” – whatever that means. Second, certain other religions have a “very close identity with ethnic minorities” who may feel that an attack on their beliefs is “racism by other means” – whatever that means. Third, and obviously most decisive in determining the Corporation’s policy, Christians and adherents of at least one of those “other” religions have, shall we say, rather divergent ways of reacting to insults to their religion. “Without question,” Thompson said, “’I complain in the strongest possible terms’ is different from ‘I complain in the strongest possible terms and I am loading my AK47 as I write.’”
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos AINA.
The Vicious Cycle of Western Apologies and Muslim Violence
by Bruce Bawer on Feb 28th, 2012
A newspaper in a small European country publishes a few cartoons of Muhammed, and millions of Muslims erupt in outrage – or in what we have become accustomed to seeing described as outrage. An obscure pastor of a tiny church in Florida threatens to destroy a Koran, and millions of Muslims erupt in that selfsame outrage. Some NATO soldiers inadvertently burn a few copies of the Koran, and millions of Muslims erupt, yet again, in outrage.
And the next thing you know, large numbers of people have been killed, Western embassies have been vandalized, mischief and mayhem of every imaginable kind has taken place. And meanwhile, the air is thick with apologies.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos Ruthfully Yours.
Party Like It’s A.D. 632
by Bruce Bawer on Feb 10th, 2012
Recently the Partij voor Moslim Nederland (Party for Muslim Netherlands), which already enjoys a significant presence in various municipal governments in that country, announced that it intended to run candidates for the Dutch Parliament. An article in Forbes listed the party’s major principles, which included limits on “offensive” speech about religion; the criminalization of blasphemy and of the destruction of religious texts; immediate admission of Turkey to the EU; an end to support for Israel; and the free and unimpeded importation of Muslim brides from abroad.
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Free Republic her. Norge er ved at gå tabt. Sverige om igen:
Lessons from North Korea
by Bruce Bawer on Feb 21st, 2012
One of the many interesting aspects of living in Norway is that one is frequently exposed to pro-Cuban propaganda. As I wrote in my book While Europe Slept, the Norwegian media routinely depict Cubans as “an unusually happy people who, in a world of bland, cookie-cutter materialism, have taken a different path, retaining their magnificent, vibrant uniqueness and staving off the influences of the vapid ‘McDonald’s culture’ that reigns only sixty miles from their shores.”
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Desuden denne artikel i FrontPageMagazine om et stort, naivt fæhovede:
The Tundra Tabloids publishes the following review at Fjordman’s request.
Book Review: The New Quislings
The American author Bruce Bawer, who has lived in Norway for over a decade, in early 2012 published the ebook The New Quislings: How the International Left Used the Oslo Massacre to Silence Debate About Islam. It deals with the aftermath of the terror attacks in the Oslo region on July 22, 2011 where Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in cold blood, first with a bomb in central Oslo and then with a shooting spree at the island of Utøya outside of the city. Relative to its population size, Norway lost more of its citizens in these attacks than the USA did during the Islamic Jihadist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Douglas Murray – Does Iran have nuclear weapons? Does god exist?
Douglas Murray on BBC’s The Big Questions
HJS Associate Director Douglas Murray discusses British Identity and Iran on Nicky Campbell’s The Big Questions, Sunday 4 March 2012.
Og flere glimrende artikler fra The Spectator – først om Murray’s nye bog:
The forgotten victims of the Troubles
Douglas Murray – 22nd February 2012
The 30th January this year was the 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day when members of the British Parachute regiment shot dead fourteen civilians on the streets of a British city. The constant commemoration of that day by families of the dead and injured was one of the things that kept its memory alive and eventually led to the British government setting up the Saville Inquiry. That inquiry – the longest and costliest in legal history, and the subject of my recent book – exonerated the dead and accused some people still living.
Just one of Christopher Hitchens’ talents would have been enough for most people. In him those talents — like his passions — all melded into each other: as speaker, writer and thinker. Yet he was more than the sum even of these considerable parts, for he possessed another talent that was even rarer — a talent for making us, his readers, want to be better people. He used his abilities not to close down questions and ideas, but to open them up. In the process he made you, the reader, aware that you needed to do more, engage more, think more and know more. Writers often feel a need to impress their readers. Christopher made his readers want to impress the writer.
Push off now, Press TV, and take your conspiracy theories with you
Douglas Murray – 20th January 2012
A week that began with an insane decision from the European Court of Human Rights has come to an end with a sensible decision from Ofcom. The Iranian government’s propaganda channel in London, Press TV, has just had its license to broadcast revoked.
William Hague has an article in the Times today arguing against what he refers to as the ‘pessimism’ of those who have expressed concerns about the direction of the ‘Arab Spring’. As somebody who cannot see the virtue of either optimism or pessimism as policy, and preferring facts to moods, I think the Foreign Secretary’s central points should be answered. Particularly as he chose so injudicious a day to publish his piece.
Livingstone will get away with it, of course — because he’s on the ‘left’
Douglas Murray – 9th February 2012
Ken Livingstone has just reminded us of a prevailing rule in British politics. His comment that the Conservative party is ‘riddled’ with homosexuals ‘like everywhere else’ would have earned him a sacking if the parties had been reversed and a Conservative politician had talked of the Labour party in this fashion. [...]
In America a new generation of Republicans is challenging the traditional consensus of their party on gay marriage. They — as well as some of the GOP old guard like Dick Cheney — are coming out in favour. In Britain the subject is also back on the agenda with the coalition government, at the insistence of the Prime Minister apparently, planning a ‘public consultation’ on the matter.
Mere HER i The Spectator. Douglas Murray blogger om løst og fast i Standpoint Magazine:
Leveson Levity
Douglas Murray – March 2012
Should there be an inquiry into the Leveson inquiry? The phone-hacking which prompted the setting-up of the inquiry faded almost immediately as a procession of celebrities complained about what they disliked most in the press.
Now everybody has settled in, his lordship most of all. A nadir was reached when three editors of those infinitely depressing celebrity magazines gave insights into their trade. Counsel to the inquiry was a nice young woman. The matter arose of a picture of Heston Blumenthal dressed up as an egg. Counsel giggled with the three witnesses as his lordship tried to locate the page in the relevant magazine. Much hair was flicked. “Not my normal journal,” Lord Leveson joked in that way older men do when they are not yet beyond flirting and engage in it with studied senility. Everyone laughed. Some of the lawyers stretched back while laughing so they could be more in camera-shot. Oh how jolly. And oh how much money evaporating every second.
The inquiry needs to discover only one thing: how did the law come to be broken, repeatedly and publicly, with impunity?
Når man siger, at alt er lige meget værd, siger man, at intet er noget værd. Hvilket kort sagt er definitionen på nihilismen. Læs Robert Redekers kommentar til den franske debat om hvilken civilisation, der er mest værd.
Den nye ægteskabslov, der er på vej, påtvinger borgerne en politisk korrekt sprogbrug, mener teolog og præst Magnus N. Sørensen.
Mere HER i Sappho. Og et nyt iinitiativ fra Sappho:
Set fra Udkigsposten
15. februar 2012 – klumme af Dan Ritto
De to største trusler mod det frie ord kommer fra islam og fra ønskerne om netcencur, skriver Dan Ritto, der holder opsyn med presset på det frie ord på Udkigsposten.
Muslimer omdanner tomme europæiske kirker til moskeer
16. februar 2012 – artikel af Soeren Kern
Islam er nu den hurtigst voksende religion i Europa. Mange steder på kontinentet er der således flere praktiserende muslimer end praktiserende kristne. En af følgerne er, at stadig flere kirker omdannes til moskeer.
Eleanor Roosevelt var blandt dem, der i 1960erne advarede mod den FN-konvention, der ligger til grund for vestlige hate speech-paragraffer, skriver Katrine Winkel Holm.
Mere HER i Sappho. Og det sædvanlige link til Nicolai Sennels klumme:
Ibn Warraq: ‘Arab Spring should be renamed The Muslim Brotherhood Spring’
By Jamie Weinstein | December 13, 2011
Ibn Warraq says the West has become gun shy in defending the values of Western civilization.
This is a shame according to Warraq, who uses a pen name for safety reasons. In his new book ”Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy,” the author of “Why I am not a Muslim” and other books lays out the achievements of the West and makes the case for its superior values, especially in comparison to its rivals. In a recent interview with The Daily Caller, Warraq discussed his new book and his pessimistic outlook on the so-called Arab Spring.
“I am not at all optimistic about the future of democracy in the Middle East — the Arab Spring should be renamed The ‘Muslim Brotherhood Spring,’” Warraq told TheDC.
Posten her er en slags “siden sidst”. Veritas Universalis følger jo gerne med i, hvad Bawer skriver:
The Poison of Multiculturalism
by Bruce Bawer on Dec 5th, 2011
If you want a pretty good example of just why multiculturalism is so poisonous, here’s one for you.
I live in Norway. Here, as elsewhere in Europe, there reside innumerable immigrants from the Muslim world who despise Western values, reject sexual equality, and affirm primitive patriarchal codes and concepts of “honor” that condemn people (mostly females) to death for infractions that neither you nor I would even recognize as infractions. Nonetheless these individuals enjoy Norwegian residency, and in some cases Norwegian citizenship, which some of them were granted because they claimed asylum (most likely on specious grounds, as demonstrated by the fact that many, if not most, of them return regularly to the countries from which they supposedly “fled”), and which others were granted because they married Norwegian residents (usually their own cousins, whom they married for no other reason than to acquire Western residency).
Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos AINA.
Eternal Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty
by Bruce Bawer on Dec 8th, 2011
I am about to say something that will strike you as blindingly obvious. Here it is:
You can’t believe everything the news media tell you.
Now, you know that, and I know it. Still, knowing it is one thing and living it is another. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” said a famous abolitionist. Eternal vigilance is also the price of truth. Which is to say that you can’t ever afford to let down your guard when you’re reading or watching or listening to the news. You may think you’re taking it all in with a proper degree of cynicism, but are you? Or are you capable of being suckered into believing a lie if it’s repeated often enough?
NRC Handelsblad is arguably the most respected newspaper in the Netherlands. Hans Moll was an editor there for twenty years. He is now retired, and has a few things to say about what he experienced there.
In his new book, Verzwijgen als of het gedrunkt staat, of Hoe de nuance verdween: NRC Handelsblad over Israël, de Islam en het integratiedebat (How the Nuance Vanished: NRC Handelsblad on Israel, Islam, and the Integration Debate), Moll provides a very valuable document of our time: an insider look at the kind of day-to-day reportorial and editorial decision-making, in matters big and small, that leads a newspaper to convey a less than objective view of the world. NRC Handelsblad is arguably the most respected newspaper in the Netherlands. Hans Moll was an editor there for twenty years. He is now retired, and has a few things to say about what he experienced there.
I Sleep in Hitler’s Room: An American Jew Visits Germany
“Subconsciously, the Germans think, if they occupy themselves with the Palestinians, they will erase the memories of Buchenwald—and look beautiful in the eyes of the world.”
by Bruce Bawer – December 8, 2011
I Sleep in Hitler’s Room: An American Jew Visits Germany. That’s the book’s title, and the text itself is every bit as compelling as the title leads one to expect.
So, for that matter, is the book’s back story, as the author, Tuvia Tenenbom, relates it in his preface. Tenenbom spent several months traveling around Germany and recording his observations, and had a contract with the major German publisher Rowohlt, which accepted the completed manuscript and planned to bring the book out in April 2011. But then the head of Rowohlt demanded certain cuts and changes–mainly in Tenenbom’s no-holds-barred references to German anti-Semitism. Tenenbom flatly refused.
Topics: intolerant bigoted fascist Michael Erickson – Iran attacking the British embassy – honour killings – islam in the West – the “hate crime” charges – “human right” commissions – the death of America – Mark’s Christmas CD – show tunes
Og solid fascisme her i næste video. Hele Vesten er snart uegnet til menneskebolig:
Michael Coren with Mark Harding & Damian Goddard
Mark Harding was sentenced to two years probation and 340 hours of community service under the direction of Mohammad Ashraf, general secretary of the Islamic Society of North America in Mississauga, Ont for speaking ill against islam.
Damien Goddard was fired from his job at Rogers Sportsnet for tweeting his support of traditional one man, one woman marriage.
Anti-Semitism in Norway, where I have lived for twelve years, is over the top. I have never quite gotten used to it. Every now and then I hear or read something that reminds me that I am living in Europe, in a country that was occupied by the Nazis, and where a lot of people were perfectly okay with that. I think it is fair to say that anti-Semitism in Norway is most virulent among the cultural elite – the academics, intellectuals, writers, journalists, politicians, and technocrats – although thanks to the media and schools, it has trickled down to many ordinary Norwegians, some of whom may never even have met a Jewish person.
Mere HER i Hudson New York. Amerikanerne er ikke spor bedre:
Denying Asylum to a Gay Saudi Diplomat
by Bruce Bawer on Nov 15th, 2011
Benjamin Weinthal, citing a Saudi-American blogger, Rasheed Abvou-Alsamh, reports in The Jerusalem Post that the U.S. Government last week denied asylum to a gay Saudi diplomat “to avoid disrupting US-Saudi relations.” The diplomat in question, Ali Ahmad Asseri, who has worked at the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, faces the death penalty for same-sex conduct if returned to the radically fundamentalist Islamic kingdom.
Et klart mønster tegner sig. Konservative medier får etiketten ‘højreorienteret’, hvorimod venstreorienterede får ‘uafhængig’, ‘velanset’ eller ‘troværdig’.
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