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Hvem opfandt Muhammed?

01. maj 2012 – klumme af Robert Spencer

Har muslimernes profet overhovedet levet, spørger Robert Spencer, der er aktuel med bogen, Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry into Islam’s Obscure Origins.

Mere HER i Sappho. Originalen kan læses på engelsk her i The American Thinker.

Racismeanmeldelser som politisk instrument

05. maj 2012 – artikel af Sapphos medarbejder

Dette kommenterede foto på Facebook fik et medlem af  Enhedslisten til at anmelde en DF-politiker til politiet.

Se det famøse foto HER i Sappho.

De kristnes svaghed

05. maj 2012 – artikel af Lars Hedegaard

Der blev talt højt og tydeligt om kristendom og islam, da de to teologer Massoud Fouroozandeh og Marianne Søndergaard lørdag den 28. april præsenterede deres netop udkomne bog, Global Jihad: Islams sjette søjle, ved en reception i Odd Fellow-logen i Odense.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Kristne asylansøgeres mareridt

07. maj 2012 – klumme af Helle Frimann Hansen

Kristne konvertitter her i landet chikaneres og overfaldes, fortæller sognepræst Helle Frimann Hansen, der har oplevelserne tæt på livet.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Og et arrangement den 15. maj 2012 kl. 19:30 på Vartov, Grundtvigstuen, Farvergade 27, 1463 København K:

Den amerikanske forfatter Norman Berdichevsky besøger København

Hans netop udkomne bog, “An Introduction to Danish Culture”, bevidner ikke bare hans dybe indsigt i dansk kultur og historie, men først og fremmest hans kærlighed til og beundring for Danmarks bidrag til de værdier, der er grundlaget for den vestlige civilisation.

Læs mere HER i Sappho. Desuden link til:

• Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels
• Udkigsposten af Dan Ritto
• Ved Profetens Skæg af Niels Thomsen
• Sappho i medierne

Video: Yaakov Kirschen om Dry Bones

Lille interview – fra februar 2012:

“Dry Bones”: 40 Years of Zionist Cartooning

Dry Bones: 40 Years of Zionist Cartooning

Long-running political cartoon Dry Bones to receive award from the Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics.

By Elad Benari and Yoni Kempinski – 2/6/2012

The political cartoon Dry Bones and its creator, Yaakov Kirschen, will receive the Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics’ “Golden Pencil” award next week. The prize is awarded annually as a lifetime achievement award and a prize designed to encourage creative young artists and students.

Dry Bones has appeared for almost 40 years in newspapers around the world, in The Jerusalem Post and on a successful internet blog.

Mere HER hos Arutz Sheva.

Foreign Policy om forholdet mellem Israel og Kina – fra 13. marts 2012:

• Shalom, Beijing

Video: Wulffmorgenthaler

Vitser:

Islamotoons

Sappho om hemmelig satire og en lille kommentar af Raymond Ibrahim

Dette interview handler om satireserien, ”Ved Profetens Skæg”. Den serie er der næsten ingen, der kender, hvilket skyldes det evindelige ©. Det initiativ, der burde være Trykkefrihedsselskabets, Sapphos og ikke mindst ytringsfrihedens omrejsende ambassadør, er ikke så lidt af en hemmelighed. De mange blogge og hjemmesider, der burde bringe Niels Thomsens tegninger, er forhindret i det:

Manden bag profetskægget

02. december 2011 – interview af Katrine Winkel Holm

I 2005 var han en pæn, velafrettet Politiken-læser, men så skete der noget. Læs interviewet med Sapphos tegner, Niels Thomsen, der er bogaktuel.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Egypten på randen af barbari

02. december 2011 – klumme af Raymond Ibrahim

Egypten forbereder sig på at springe hovedkulds ned i en ny primitiv tidsalders mørke, skriver Raymond Ibrahim i anledning af det egyptiske valg.

Mere HER i Sappho. Desuden link her til Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels:

• Sharia-toppen

Det var Al Awlaki, der satte Molly Norris på Al Qaedas dødsliste

Det synes jeg li-i-i-g’, man sku’ tage at tænke lidt på:

Molly Norris: Awlaki, killed in drone attack, issued 2010 death threat against ‘Draw Muhammad’ cartoonist

By Michael Cavna – October 3, 2011

It stands out as one of the more memorable e-mails I’ve ever received. The Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki had just placed a Seattle cartoonist on an execution hit list. Federal authorities were talking with the artist about her safety. And the artist was still trying to distance herself from having rendered, months earlier, the “Everybody Draw Muhammad Day” cartoon that sparked international controversy. Her e-mail began with two simple words:

“Fatwas suck.”

Talk about your intentional understatement.

Mere HER i The Washington Post.

Andre kilder: The Daily Caller,

Video: Multikulturen fungerer ikke i England

John Cleese har igen udtalt kritik af multikulturen, – denne gang i et australsk interview hos ABC. John Cleese siger blandt andet – fra The Daily Mail:

The comic was asked what he thought about British culture and the recent London riots during an interview on 7.30, a television show in Australia, where he is currently on a stand-up tour.

He replied: ‘I’m not sure what’s going on in Britain. Or, let me say this – I don’t know what’s going on in London, because London is no longer an English city.

‘That’s how we got the Olympics.

‘They said we were the  most cosmopolitan city on Earth. But it doesn’t feel English.

‘I had a Californian friend come over two months ago, walk down the King’s Road and say, “Where are all the English people?”

‘I mean, I love having different cultures around. But when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you’re left thinking, “Well, what’s going on?”‘

Man kan se hele interviewet i denne video:

John Cleese Interview

John Cleese is interviewed on ABC TV August 2011

Jødehadet i England er skræmmende. Man må håbe, at englændere med jødisk tro forstår alvoren og forlader landet meget hurtigt. Nu går den ikke længere. Endnu en video:

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra concert disrupted by protest

Thursday’s BBC Proms performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall was interrupted by protests by the pro-Palestinian group BDS London. A live broadcast of the concert on BBC Radio 3 was taken off air because of ‘sustained audience disturbance’. The performance continued after the demonstrators left the venue

Stephen Pollard fra The Telegraph har forstået, hvad det drejer sig om:

A Proms protest with a whiff of Weimar about it

The demonstration at the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra BBC Proms concert was against Jews, not the Israeli state

By Stephen Pollard – 02 Sep 2011

Until Thursday night, nothing in the history of Proms broadcasts had forced a concert off air. Certainly not the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. On the very night the tanks moved into Prague, the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was at the Proms with the USSR Symphony Orchestra. And he was performing, with intense poignancy, the Czech composer Dvorak’s cello concerto. I have a cherished recording of the concert. The audience was rapt and not a word was uttered.

When Chinese performers grace the Proms with their presence, there is not a word of protest about their government’s abuses of human rights. Nor should there be. They are musicians, not politicians.

Mere HER i The Telegraph.

Andre kilder: Uriasposten, Snaphanen, Digital Spy, Power Line, Verum Serum, News Track India, The Jerusalem Post, BBC, Slipped Disc,

Christopher Hitchens om Gaddafi og tidsskriftet, Private Eye

To ret forskellige artikler:

The Crimes of Col. Qaddafi

In the euphoria of the current celebrations, we must not lose sight of the former leader’s foul deeds.

By Christopher Hitchens – Aug. 25, 2011

In George Orwell’s 1939 novel, Coming Up for Air, his narrator, George Bowling, broods on the special horrors of the new totalitarianism and notices “the colored shirts, the barbed wire, the rubber truncheons,” but also, less obviously perhaps, “the processions and the posters with enormous faces, and the crowds of a million people all cheering for the Leader till they deafen themselves into thinking that they really worship him, and all the time, underneath, they hate him so that they want to puke.”

It was particularly satisfying to see, in the filling of Green Square in Tripoli and the over-running of the vulgar Xanadu of Muammar Qaddafi’s so-called private “compound,” the use as real space of areas that had hitherto been reserved for that special kind of degradation and humiliation—the rally for The Leader. Picture four decades in which compulsory attendance at such a ritual—kissing your owner’s feet and shouting his praises in unison—was a major cultural activity. So addicted was Qaddafi to this sadomasochistic enactment that he, and his ghastly sons, continued it until the very last minutes. So, of course, did Saddam Hussein. So, as we speak, does Bashar Assad. In the nightmare state so cherished by such fantasy rulers, mere acquiescence or subjection is not enough. You must become a full participant in your own oppression, and find it in yourself to adore the collectivization of compulsory enthusiasm.

Mere HER i Slate. Og om det engelske satire-blad, Private Eye:

The Accidental Institution

This fall, Private Eye marks its 50th anniversary with an exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum—which suggests that a proudly scurrilous scandal rag has found a place in the British establishment. Score one for the dogged practitioners of muckraking and satire.

By Christopher Hitchens – September 2011

At whose expense comes the mild irony when, this fall, the cheaply produced scandal sheet Private Eye will have an exhibition of its cartoons and pictorial covers at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a building consecrated to taste and restraint? Perhaps the show’s modest title furnishes a clue: “ Private Eye: The First 50 Years.” Keep in mind that, a half-century ago, the British establishment was almost as near in time to its Victorian forebears as we are to the half-forgotten names—like Harold Macmillan (who even in his own day was described as an Edwardian)—who were so pitilessly lampooned in Private Eye’ s first issues. [...]

Mere HER i Vanity Fair.

Audio: Victor Davis Hanson om Victor Davis Hanson

En svensker er en dansker uden hjerne? Det bliver der sagt i denne audio fra R. J. Moeller Show, der mest af alt handler om Davis Hanson selv:

Victor Davis Hanson

A professor of the classics for more than two decades in the California State University system, Dr. Hanson is a columnist at National Review, a senior fellow of military history at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and the author of more than a dozen books.

VDH, as he’s affectionately known in conservative circles, graciously lent us a 1/2 hour of his time and we covered everything from his monthly lunches with Dr. Thomas Sowell to his Swedish ancestry to the current state of American higher education.

Startes HER – åbner Windows Media Player. Varer 34 minutter.

Andre kilder: A Voice in the Wilderness,

Video: Pat Condell om engelsk sharia-kampagne

Vi skal også lige have den seneste Pat Condell-video med på Veritas Universalis, – den er cirka 5 dage gammel:

Sharia poster boy

Dry Bones 24. juni 2011 – Pulling Out of Afghanistan

Video: Dry Bones’ Yaakov Kirschen i USA

Her handler det om humor – amerikansk humor især, men også jødisk-israelsk. Desuden en del om antisemitisme i satiretegninger. Det såkaldte “arabiske forår” producerede en hel del racistiske tegninger. Netop uploadet på YouTube – optaget 26. maj 2011:

Yaakov Kirschen (“Dry Bones”)

Famed cartoonist for The Jerusalem Post

Dry Bones 1. juni 2011

Dry Bones den 23. maj 2011

Om balladen i Mellemøsten:

Glem ikke Molly Norris

Everybody Remember Molly Norris Day

by David J. Rusin  •  May 20, 2011

May 20 is the first anniversary of Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, which was conceived by Seattle illustrator Molly Norris to champion free speech but became yet another symbol of its curtailment. Professor and commentator Karen Lugo has urged Americans to remember Norris as “inspiration in our cause to never accommodate threats of retaliation for exercising our fundamental liberties.” Islamist Watch does its small part by revisiting the Norris affair below.

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day serves as a critical case study of the forces that imperil Americans’ ability to speak openly about Islam. Indeed, examination of its full context reveals almost all of the elements that contribute to this anti-freedom trend. In order of their appearance:

Mere HER hos Islamist Watch.

Video: Lars Vilks – brænd koranen!

Fra SVT 7. april 2011:

Debatt 2011-04-07

Lars Vilks tror att fler koranbränningar gynnar yttrandefriheten. I alla fall så kommer det ju gång på gång erfaras att yttrandefriheten vi har i Sverige, bara är en bluff.

Lars Vilks möter motstånd såklart. Men Lars har aldrig imponerat så mycket verbalt som i den här debatten.

Lars Vilks’ artikel er her:

• Bænd flere koraner!

Dry Bones 11. marts 2011

Dry Bones 7. marts 2011

Dry Bones 23. februar 2011 – Muammar al-Gaddafi

Dry Bones om Egypten

Video: Skøn radio med Mark Steyn

Mark Steyn har afleveret en fantastisk serie af programmer på Rush Limbaugh Show. Den ene video er bedre end den anden. Programerne er lavet fra midten af november 2010 til starten af januar 2011. Først en genudsendelse – en venlig sjæl har youtubet denne, som Veritas Universalis tidligere har bragt som audio. Fra 30. december 2010:

Mark Steyn on CFL’s

Commonsensical and quick-witted Canadian columnist/commentator Mark Steyn talking about CFLs (compact fluorescent light bulbs); or, as he calls them, Curly-Fry Light Bulbs.

 

Uploadet 30. december 2010:

Mark Steyn – Federal Government Regulating The American Citizen to Death

Uploadet 3. januar 2011:

Mark Steyn – Big Government Happy Juice

Uploadet 18. november 2010:

Mark Steyn – You can Have your bankrupt State or Bankrupt Federal government tell you what to do

Scott Brown, Ron Wyden offering health-care revision

Uploadet 22. december 2010:

Mark Steyn – There’s no End To This

“CYCLIST only” traffic lights and 30km/h CBD speed limits are among new road proposals.

Uploadet 29. december 2010:

Mark Steyn – The More Government Tries to Do the Less it does of What it Should be Doing

Uploadet 19. november 2010:

Mark Steyn – IPCC official admits Global Warming is a Lie

Uploadet 19. november 2010:

Mark Steyn – Caller – The #1 Greenhouse Gas Is Water Vapor