Video: Bruce Bawer & Michael Coren

Blandt andet om Fjordman – fra 5. marts 2012:

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.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Will There Always Be an England?

by Bruce Bawer on Mar 7th, 2012

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:

• Oliver Stone’s Son: the Jewish Christian Muslim

Opdatering 11. marts 2012:

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.

Mere HER hos The Tundra Tabloids.

Andre kilder: FrontPageMagazine, FrontPageMagazine, FrontPageMagazine,

Video: Ezra Levant om flere trusler imod ytringsfrihed

Om David Letterman, South Park, Adam Turner fra The Legal Project og mere – fra The Source den 7. oktober 2011:

Ezra Levant on muslims making death threats

Ezra Levant revisits the threats against David Letterman and the South Park guys.

Og artikler om ytringsfrihed i Vesten:

David Letterman gets it exactly right

by Adam Turner – October 3, 2011

Kudos to American television comedian David Letterman! On June 5, 2011, Letterman smiled and drew his finger across his own throat on his CBS program “Late Show with David Letterman” to celebrate the U.S. military’s reported killing of Ilyas Kashmiri, an Islamist terrorist who apparently was the head of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami and a senior al-Qaeda leader. Kashmiri reportedly was one of the leading organizers of the deadly November 2008 Mumbai attacks in India, which killed 164 innocent people and wounded at least 308. He was also recently indicted in U.S. federal court for conspiring with other terrorists to plan a Mumbai-style attack in Denmark, directed at the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that had published the infamous Mohammed cartoons. For good measure, Letterman also insulted Osama bin Laden during the same broadcast.

Mere HER hos The Legal Project. Kan også læses her hos The Daily Caller.

Geert Wilders’ Acquittal: An Important First Step for Free Speech in the Netherlands

by Debra L. Feuer  •  Sep 24, 2011

On June 23rd, the Amsterdam District Court acquitted Dutch MP Geert Wilders, bringing to a close a nearly two-year ordeal. The decision was a clear victory for Wilders who had faced both fines and imprisonment for charges of “group defamation” and “incitement to hatred and to discrimination” on the basis of religion and race under article 137c and 137d of the Dutch Penal Code (DPC).

“I am delighted with this ruling,” said Wilders. “It is a victory, not only for me, but for all the Dutch people. Today is a victory for freedom of speech.”

Mere HER hos The Legal Project.

Threats to Free Speech: A Tale of Two Terry Joneses

by David J. Rusin  •  Oct 14, 2011

Within the span of several days, two news items concerning two Terry Joneses helped illuminate the different paths by which speech critical of Islam can be gradually extinguished.

The pastor. Lawyers for one Terry Jones, the Florida-based minister who oversaw a Koran burning in March and handed global jihadists an excuse to rampage, were in a Detroit courtroom on October 6, trying to reverse a half-year-old decision curbing his right to speak and protest.

Mere HER hos Islamist Watch.

Why the Government should not block our move to protect free speech

By Edward Leigh MP – October 08, 2011

For centuries, men and women in Britain have fought for the right to express in words what is in their hearts. Freedom of speech is, perhaps, our most precious civil liberty after the right to life itself.

But there is a widely held concern that civil liberties such as freedom of speech are being eroded. Many blame the last government for this. Even the current Leader of the Opposition admitted that the Labour government was “draconian” on civil liberties.

Mere HER i The Conservative Home.

Andre kilder: Ezra Levant,

Bruce Bawer skriver i FrontPageMagazine

Man må da håbe, at Bawer fortsætter med at skrive der:

A Blow to Freedom in Norway

by Bruce Bawer on Oct 12th, 2011

On July 22, a crazed loner named Anders Behring Breivik set off a massive explosion that rocked central Oslo, taking eight lives, and then, in an action which proved the explosion to be a mere diversionary tactic, gunned down sixty-nine people, mostly teenagers, in cold blood, on an isolated island, Utøya, an hour or so west of that city.  It was the darkest day in Norwegian history since World War II, and it set off a wave of nationwide mourning like nothing the country, or most Western countries in modern times, had ever seen.

It also had profound political repercussions.  For while the explosion in Oslo had initially been assumed by all and sundry to be the work of Islamic terrorists, it turned out that the perpetrator was a young man fiercely opposed to the Islamization of Europe.  It was clear why he singled out that particular island for attack.  It is owned by the Workers’ Youth League, the junior division of the Norwegian Labor Party​, which at the time of the massacre was holding its annual summer youth camp.  Amid more ordinary camp-like activities, the aspiring Labor Party politicians were spending their days on the island delivering political speeches to one another, listening to speeches by Labor Party leaders, being propagandized by Labor Party functionaries about the glories of socialism, and, generally, being groomed for power in the Norwegian government in years to come.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. AINA her.

Tony Bennett’s 9/11 Comments

by Bruce Bawer on Oct 13th, 2011

A couple of weeks back I was listening to Howard Stern​’s morning radio show and enjoying his conversation with an improbable guest – not a stripper or porn star, but the great octogenarian singer Tony Bennett.  They talked about Bennett’s colorful career, his friendships with people like Frank Sinatra​ (who called him the best singer of all), his secrets of longevity, his memories of childhood.  Then, in inimitable Stern fashion, the host began asking Bennett about things hardly anybody has ever thought to ask him about.  And the next thing you knew, a few million radio listeners were learning that the beloved crooner wasn’t sure who the bad guys were on 9/11.  “Who are the terrorists,” he asked in that famous smoky voice, “us or them?”  He described the attack on the Twin Towers as revenge – which he seemed to suggest was justifiable – for actions which the United States, in the past, had taken against “them.”  To be sure, Bennett was vague about who “they” were.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Frankrig: Nedturen fortsætter

Soeren Kern skriver igen om de franske ghettoer. Muslimsk seperatisme. No-go-zones. Sharia. Det sædvanlige i Europas byer:

French Suburbs Becoming ‘Separate Islamic Societies’

by Soeren Kern – October 10, 2011

France’s decrepit city suburbs are becoming ‘separate Islamic societies’ cut off from the state, according to a major new study that examines the spread of Islam in France.

Muslim immigrants are increasingly rejecting French values and identity and instead are immersing themselves in Islam, according to the report, which also warns that Islamic Sharia law is rapidly displacing French civil law in many parts of suburban Paris.

The 2,200-page report, “Banlieue de la République” (Suburbs of the Republic), is the result of a one-year research effort into the four “i’s” that comprise the heart of the debate over French national identity: Islam, immigration, identity and insecurity.

Mere HER hos Hudson New York. Kan også læses her hos Pundicity.

The alleged persecution of French Muslims is an extravagant fantasy

22 September 2011 – Richard Waghorne

France still looks like and feels like France in the centre of Paris. You do not have to travel very far from the usual tourist sites, however, to start to understand the French ban on the full Islamic face-veil, which saw the first token conviction this week.

One tourist site that has quietly slipped off the traditional itineraries, for very good reasons, is the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Resting place of French kings and queens for more than a thousand years, the cathedral will see the interment next year of recently rediscovered remains of Henry IV. Ask Parisians if they have ever been to visit and they will say, almost uniformly, that they have not.

France’s equivalent to Westminster Abbey sits is today a forsaken Christian island in a surrounding Islamic sea. The population is 70% Muslim. French police publicly list much of the district as a no-go area. Walking through the area, one wonders not only whether one is really in France but whether one is even in Europe.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail.

Om en skimlet sekt af klamme kældermennesker

Jeg ser islam som en holdning, man kan have. En synsmåde eller verdensanskuelse. En ideologi. Akkurat ligesom kristendom, buddhisme, socialisme, konservatisme, liberalisme og så videre. Hvad man kan tillade sig at sige om politikere, kan man også tillade sig at sige om muslimer. Sharialoven står trods alt ikke over Grundloven og Folketinget, vel? Reglerne skal være ens for alle. Vi er alle dhimmier for loven. Så altså: Carsten Jensen bør ikke have noget at indvende, hvis nogen kaldte muslimer en skimlet sekt af klamme kældermennesker?

Hyltoft: Carsten Jensen er grebet af et mereværdssyndrom

Carsten Jensen har et goebbelsk had til anderledes tænkende, skriver Ole Hyltoft

Af Ole Hyltoft – 28. sep. 2011

Det er ikke uden bæven, jeg sætter pen til papiret. For jeg har lige fået at vide i Politiken, at jeg tilhører »en skimlet sekt af klamme kældermennesker«.

Mere HER i Politiken.

Video: Wafa Sultan, Zudhi Jasser, John Bolton, Jon Voight, Jason Kenney

Nu kommer videoerne fra de mange FN-, Durban III- og protest-arrangementer dryssende. Her er resten af dem, der ikke allerede er blogget, men jagten går naturligvis videre. Først Wafa Sultan – fra CBN News 23. september 2011:

P.A. Submits Statehood Application to the UN

While dozens of Muslim nations support a Palestinian state, some Arabs are opposed to the idea. Syrian-born Wafa Sultan is a human rights activist and political commentator.

CBN News asked Sultan what he believes is the underlying reason and motivation behind the P.A.’s effort.

“To create another Islamic country,” Sultan replied without hesitation. “We have enough of those dictatorships. We don’t need any more dictator countries in our region.”

CQBlogger fra Hot Air interviewer – 22. september 2011:

Zudhi Jasser at Durban Watch

I spoke with Jasser for a few minutes about the obstacles to American action in the Arab Spring.

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser discusses his objections to Durban III

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser joined a list of prominent speakers at the Hudson Institute’s critique of the Durban III Conference. Dr. Jasser discusses how the UN is losing faith by continuing to allow Despots to run the Human RIghts efforts of the UN. He also discussed the opportunity that exists with the Arab Spring.

John Bolton on the legitimacy of the UN

Also on the Palestinian proposal being essentially meaningless, at least legally.

Jon Voight TV appeal: ‘Defend Israel, the Jewish State, against global anti-Semitism’

Jon Voight speaks-out for Jewish Israel on US TV telethon, Sept 25, 2011

Den canadiske integrationsminister, Jason Kenney, har fået meget ros for denne tale:

Minister Kenney Speaks at Durban Watch Conference

Fra 23. september 2011 – her spørges der en smule ind til talen ovenfor:

Brian Lilley Interviews Jason Kenney On Durban III

Canada’s Jason Kenney, Current Minister of Citizenship, Promises Canada WILL Stand by Israel

Rally at Canada Christian College to protest the unilateral declaration of Palestinian Statehood.

Kursskifte i Holland

Det er nyttesløst. Holland vil fremover forsøge sig med en integrationspolitik, der allerede er slået fejl i utallige andre vestlige lande. Det er med multikultur som med integration: det kan kun lade sig gøre, så længe islam ikke er en del af ligningen:

The Netherlands to Abandon Multiculturalism

by Soeren Kern – June 23, 2011

The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the Netherlands.

A new integration bill (covering letter and 15-page action plan), which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads: “The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people. In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role. With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society.”

The letter continues: “A more obligatory integration is justified because the government also demands that from its own citizens. It is necessary because otherwise the society gradually grows apart and eventually no one feels at home anymore in the Netherlands. The integration will not be tailored to different groups.”

Mere HER hos Hudson New York.

Björn Ulvaeus om blasfemiforbud i Sverige

Kulturhuset i Stockholm har taget feministisk streetdance af plakaten. Der skulle danses til koranvers og så klagede “nogen” på Facebook:

Sverige har infört inofficiellt hädelseförbud när det gäller islam

Björn Ulvaeus – 2011-04-11

Vi kan nu konstatera att det finns ett inofficiellt hädelseförbud när det gäller islam, i praktiken agerar ju många kulturinstitutioner som om det funnes, skriver Björn Ulvaeus apropå debatten kring censuren Kulturhuset i Stockholm.

Blir inte svenska kyrkans företrädare förbannade när de gång på gång får se att deras heliga skrift inte tillnärmelsevis tillmäts samma betydelse som deras muslimska motsvarigheters koran. Om man tonsätter en sura (vers i Koranen), vilket jag kan föreställa mig inte kan vara lätt, med avsikt att dansa till musiken så blir stycket vips censurerat för att det hela skulle kunna vara kränkande för muslimer. Tonsätt en bibelvers och se vad som händer. Absolut ingenting. Inte sen Monty Pythons “Life of Brian” har det höjts ett ögonbryn.

Mere HER i Newsmill.

Andre kilder: Sveriges Radio, Nyhetspressen, Teatermagasinet, Teatermagasinet,

Video: FrontPage Close-Up med Evan Sayet & Jamie Glazov

Jamie Glazov er klar med endnu et interview - offentliggjort den 18. april 2011. Amerikansk humor. Evan Sayet kritiserer venstrefløjen:

Andre kilder: FrontPageMagazine,

Don Feder om jødehad

Og lidt om den jødiske påske:

“In Every Generation” – Passover And The World’s Most Enduring Hatred

By Don Feder – April 12, 2011

“In every generation they rise against us to destroy us; and the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hands.” The Passover Haggadah

A few of those who have risen against us – recently:

“Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon them (Jews) people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler … Allah willing, the next time will be at the hands of believers (Muslims),” Yusuf al-Qaradawi, chief theologian of the Muslim Brotherhood, newly returned to Egypt.

Mere HER hos GrassTopsUSA.

Sappho om Asmaa Abdol Hamid

Fra de meget prisværdige folk i Trykkefrihedsselskabet:

Asmaas holocaust-porno på Facebook

11. april 2011 – klumme af Poul Osmundsen

Hvorfor er Asmaa Abdol Hamids 5000 Facebook-venner så ligeglade med hendes Israel-hadende billedgalleri?

Ja, det er ret sært. Læs mere HER i Sappho.

H, S & L: Springtime for Allah in Libya

12. april 2011 – artikel af Pertinax

Pertinax er tilbage med hån, spot og latterliggørelse om det arabiske forår.

129 år gammel

Ja, undskyld jeg bruger en angelsaksisk overskrift. Det byder mig ellers imod, for jeg blev født i Frankrig.

Here HER i Sappho.

Lee Smith om venstrefløjen og Gaddafi

Committed

Western public intellectuals have a bad habit of supporting unsavory regimes like Muammar Qaddafi’s not for money or intellectual rigor but because of vanity

By Lee Smith | Mar 23, 2011

Contrary to President Barack Obama’s remarks, the European and American bombs that are falling on positions held by Col. Muammar Qaddafi’s forces in Libya do not herald a war of humanitarian intervention. No one really knows who the Libyan rebels are. These are not the peaceful men and women of Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution. They are not even like the members of the Muslim Brotherhood who will likely come out of Egypt’s uprising as the biggest winners. Some of them appear to be the same Islamic militants who made their way into Iraq to kill American soldiers and who are now being encouraged to fight by senior al-Qaida field commander Abu Yahya al-Libi. Even weirder, champions of this war are members of the same Western intellectual class who appeared to be in love with the nutty Libyan dictator only a few months ago.

The Obama Administration was compelled to join its European allies in going against Qaddafi, but what forced the Europeans to act were the scandals surrounding the British academic institutions—like Leeds University, Glasgow University, the School of Oriental and African Studies, King’s College London, and the London School of Economics—who’d enjoyed unseemly ties with Qaddafi. Most famously, Howard Davies was compelled to resign this month as director of the LSE, to which Qaddafi’s International Charity and Development Foundation donated £1.5 million (about $2.5 million), and which admitted to its doctoral program his son Saif al-Islam, now best known not for his academic endeavors, or even his expensive suits, but for exhorting his allies to “fight to the last man, until the last bullet” in a rambling speech that more closely recalled his father’s tirades than polite London dinner-party chatter.

Mere HER i The Tablet.

Video: Ny forelæsning med Mark Steyn

Oploadet på YouTube for en time siden. Optaget på Hillsdale College den 9. marts 2011. Det handler mest om USAs dårlige nationaløkonomi:

Mark Steyn – The Stupidity of Broke

Andre kilder: Free Republic,

Video & audio: Salman Rushdie om muhammedkrisen

Jeg skal lige dyrke mit Rushdie-flip nu igen. Det første interview herunder handler bla. om muhammedkrisen. Fra TVO – The Agenda med Steve Paikin den 29. november 2010:

Salman Rushdie: On Storytelling

A feature interview with author Salman Rushdie. Literature plays an important role in providing insight into society. What can authors like Rushdie do to mend some of the divisions within Islam, and help non-Muslims better understand the faith?

Og en audio fra Free Library of Philadelphia den 23. november 2010. Undervejs læser Rushdie en masse højt fra den nye bog. Audioen minder meget om de videoer, jeg postede i går:

Salman Rushdie | Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel

Salman Rushdie’s acclaimed novels are known for their witty examinations of an ever-changing sociopolitical landscape. He is the author of 10 books, including Midnight’s Children–winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 and the “Booker of Bookers” Prize in 1993, Shalimar the Clown, The Satanic Verses, and The Enchantress of Florence, which was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by the Washington Post. Luka and the Fire of Life, Rushdie’s fantastical new novel, chronicles the journey of 12-year-old Luka as he navigates a world of magic in order to rescue his father from a deep and potentially permanent sleep. Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture

Åbner Windows Media Player HER. Varighed 1 time.

Nye Greenfield-artikler

The sweep of revolutions across the Middle East, The countries targeted invariably were either opposed to Iran, or not aligned with it

5 Reasons why the Talibanization of the Middle East may not be a Bad Thing

Daniel Greenfield  - March 7, 2011

The sweep of revolutions across the Middle East has optimists cheering and realists preparing for the worst. And the worst is generally a good thing to prepare for in the region.

The regimes targeted by the movement have invariably either been allied to or achieved a stalemate with Western countries, (a statement that applies to Libya despite how loosely it may be interpreted) and did not seek to build an Islamic republic and impose it across the region. This was not about the overthrow of tyranny. Turkey with its tens of thousands of political prisoners got a free pass, so did Syria and the Iranian revolution was once again left to go it alone. The countries targeted invariably were either opposed to Iran, or not aligned with it. Jordan, which might have otherwise been ripe for a protest movement, saw little action, perhaps due to its king’s recent visit to Iran.

Canada Free Press HER – Sultan Knish her.

A Rally at Times Square and a Time for a Muslim Moral Reckoning

By Daniel Greenfiel – March 07, 2011

The occupant of the White House’s middle name is Hussein, every school curriculum lists a whitewashed history of Islam that ignores the genocides and atrocities, and there are now more positive depictions of Muslims on TV, than there are of Christians and Jews combined. But Muslims in America still aren’t happy.

From all the wailing and boohooing, you might think that mosques were being shelled, the way Muslims are attacking monasteries in Egypt. Or that Muslim politicians were being gunned down in the street the way that Christian politicians are in Pakistan. You might at least think that Muslims are treated like second-class citizens, the way non-Muslims are treated in every Muslim country in the world. But no that’s not the case.

Mere hos Sultan Knish HER. Kan også læses her hos Free Republic.

Brian DePalma’s movie, Redacted, fake atrocity porn

Hollywood’s War on America

Daniel Greenfield – March 9, 2011

This isn’t the first time the news-entertainment complex has manufactured its own fake atrocity porn with ugly results. In 2005, Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff ran a fake report about Gitmo personnel flushing a Koran down the toilet. Muslims reacted with their usual violent restraint, rioting, burning and generally running amok. One of the perpetrators of the 2005 London bombing was reportedly influenced by that story. That would make it the first news article to have killed over 50 people.

In 2004, the Boston Globe was so desperate for anti-war porn in the wake of Abu Ghraib, that it published photos of US soldiers raping Iraqi women that they got from the Nation of Islam. In reality the photos were pornographic fakes, but the Globe went ahead and ran them even though they had already been exposed as fakes.

Mere HER i Canada Free Press eller her på Sultan Knish.

En ny klumme fra Sappho

Chikane virker

22. February 2011 – klumme af Helle Baldersbæk

Aktuelle eksempler viser, at chikane virker. Netop derfor må vi som samfund ikke prisgive ofrene for chikanen.

Ofrenes forunderlige reaktioner

En bil i brand. En hvæsen i ansigtet. Ubudne gæster i haven. Indbrud. Private ting rodet igennem og besudlet. Ofre, der går i flyverskjul.

Hvordan reagerer man som menneske, når man oplever den slags? [...]

Mere HER hos Sappho.

Søren Kern forsvarer Lars Hedegaard

Danmark har ikke fået så meget presseomtale siden muhammedkrisen:

Free Speech on Trial in Europe

by Soeren Kern – January 27, 2011

The “hate speech” trial of Lars Hedegaard, the president of the Danish Free Press Society and the International Free Press Society, began in a courthouse near Copenhagen on January 24. Hedegaard, who has been charged with “racism” for critical comments he made about Islam, faces up to two years in prison.

Hedegaard’s trial, which is similar to recent or current ones in Austria, Finland, France, Italy and the Netherlands, represents a landmark case that will establish the limits of free speech in a country where the politically correct elite routinely seek to silence public discussion about the growing problem of Muslim immigration. The trial also exemplifies the increasing use of lawfare: the malicious use of European courts to silence criticism of Islam.

 Mere HER i Hudson New York.

Sappho om xenofili, pakistansk vold og danske ekstremister

Først en ny Sappho-artikel af Ibn Warraq:

Secularism the only answer to Pakistans sectarian violence

17. January 2011 – Ibn Warraq

I anledning af drabet på Punjab-guvernøren, Salmaan Taseer, fortæller Ibn Warraq Pakistans historie. Islamiseringen er kommet nedefra.

Murder applauded by Muslim clerics

Salmaan Taseer, the secular-minded Governor of the Punjab was killed for opposing the country’s blasphemy law; a murder that was openly celebrated by thousands, and applauded by 500 Muslim clerics who warned that to mourn the late Governor would also be considered blasphemy.

 Mere HER i Sappho. Og Trykkefrihesselskabets næstformand skriver:

Udsat for xenofili

17. January 2011 – Ahmed Mohamud

Ahmed Mohamud har på egen krop oplevet fænomenet xenofili, den anden side af xenofobi.  En rigtig udlænding må nemlig helst ikke være ”leverpostejsneger”, har han fået at vide.

Hudfarvefiksering

En dag, hvor biler, træer og bygninger var indhyllet i en hvid dis, der lagde sig som en kunstig oplysning i en teaterkulisse, skulle jeg modtage en kvindelig dansk patient. Med mig på stuen havde jeg diverse apparaturer, som jeg skulle bruge, og havde derfor hænderne fulde.

Mere HER i Sappho. Og så til de herboende ekstremister. Jeg var lige ved at skrive “vore hjemlige”. Det have mildt sagt været uheldigt:

For eller imod al Qaeda?

19. January 2011 – Helle Merete Brix

Muslimer i Dialog er moderate, hævder de. De prædikanter, de inviterer herop fra Yemen er alt andet end moderate, kan Helle Merete Brix afsløre.

Yemens hellige krigere

Yemen. Det fattigste af verdens arabiske lande. Med en voldsom befolkningseksplosion og problemer med terrorisme i baghaven. Det sidste er et så alvorligt problem, at den amerikanske udenrigsminister Hilary Clinton den 11. januar 2011, som den første amerikanske udenrigsminister i 20 år, landede i Yemen.

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Bernard-Henri Lévy med kritik af norske Vibeke Løkkeberg

The Antisemitism to Come

Bernard-Henri Lévy – December 3, 2010

Is there no end to the demonization of Israel? Three recent events, three signs, force us to ask the question once again. First of all, in France, this strange “boycott” campaign that looks like it’s spreading. Of course there are situations in which a boycott is justifiable. And I am the first to have advocated it when, in sum, the right of peoples to self-determination becomes the right of tyrants to determine their destiny, or that of the neighboring people. But in the case of a democracy like Israel? In the case of the sole democracy in the Middle East, the only state in the region where political differences can be solved by compromise? In the face of one of the only nations in the world that, with the miracle of a regime that, from its very birth was, in fact, a democracy has answered the timeless question as to whether one can improvise democracy, invent it out of nothing, and whether it can surge from a people who have often known only totalitarianism and tyranny? And what can one say, finally, of this collective punishment supposedly inflicted upon a country that, in its relations with its political adversary, in other words, the Palestinians a) counts a large minority of citizens willing to grant any and all concessions; b) counts a majority that has long since been converted to the two-state solution, in return for guarantees of security, and c) where there exist virtually no reasonable authorities who have not resigned themselves, whether they like it or not, to putting to rest their utopian dreams and accepting the sharing of the land. This business of a boycott, whether economic, cultural, or as applied to sports, makes no sense. Or, if it does, one shudders at the thought of the expression of such, for we are so close, here, to the most irrational, the craziest, and the most rabid of hatreds.

Mere HER i Huffington Post. Susan Abulhawa, som også omtales i artiklen ovenfor, har svaret:

The Antisemitism to Come? Hardly

Susan Abulhawa – December 22, 2010

Bernard-Henri Levy, the French pop star of philosophy and intellectual elitism, authored an essay that featured my novel, Mornings in Jenin, as one of three distressing developments that led him to ask “is there no end to the demonization of Israel?” It was titled: “The Antisemitism to Come.” The other two happenings that concern him, he says, are the growing boycott of Israel and an acclaimed documentary film called Tears of Gaza.

Huffington Post HER.

Kendte støtter Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani

Are the Beautiful People’s Pens Mightier Than the Iranian Regime’s Stones?

By Phyllis Chesler – 2010 December 15

The Beautiful People have just weighed in on the matter of She-Who-Would-Be-Stoned. More than eighty actors, models, singers, musicians, comedians, authors, philosophers, artists, and parliamentarians (mainly based in Europe), have just signed a letter on behalf of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. The letter is addressed to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, and President Ahmadinejad.

The signatories include V.S. Naipaul, Wole Soyinka, Carla Bruni, (the first lady of France), Sting, Lady Antonia Fraser, Damien Hirst, Howard Jacobson, Isabelle Huppert, Bernard Kouchner, Bernard-Henri Levy—and American actors Mia Farrow, Robert De Niro, and Robert Redford.

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