Sappho om kristne i England og navne i Danmark

Som altid meget læseværdig:

England: Multikulturel kampagne mod synlig kristendom

Artikel af Katrine Winkel Holm – 20. maj 2012

I en lang række sager er briter, der åbent giver udtryk for deres kristentro på arbejde, blevet enten suspenderet, fyret eller slæbt i retten.

Mere HER i Sappho.

”Der er et kulturradikalt tyranni i dette land”

Artikel af Katrine Winkel Holm – 20. maj 2012

En ny totalitær sekularisme har ramt England og sætter bl.a. ytringsfriheden under pres, advarer kritikere.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Navne er sociale markører

Klumme af Geoffrey Cain – 18. maj 2012

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.

Mere HER i Sappho. Desuden link til:

• Internationalt af Raymond Ibrahim
• Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels
• Ved Profetens Skæg af Niels Thomsen
• Udkigsposten af Dan Ritto
• I medierne ved Jette Plesner Dali

Sappho om blasfemi og sharia

Oversat af Lars Hedegaard:

Vær velkommen, søde sharia

Artikel af Nidra Poller – 15. maj 2012

Den dødbringende fortælling om Det Arabiske Forår spiller på den vestlige kulturs gode ønsker for alle. Det forekommer langt mere anstændigt at håbe, at folk, der så længe har været undertrykt, omsider vil kunne ånde frit, end at erkende, at de simpelthen er blevet trætte af den gamle kalif og vil have en ny.

Mere HER hos Sappho. Kan også læses på engelsk hos The New English Review her.

Bevis jeres værd, IMR

Klumme af Kit Louise Strand – 11. maj 2012

Efter årtiers politisk korrekte udmeldinger er der bevægelse i Institut for Menneskerettigheder, men direktøren har stadig ikke forstået, hvad menneskerettigheder går ud på.

Mere HER i Sappho. Desuden link til:

• Internationalt af Raymond Ibrahim
• Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels
• Ved Profetens Skæg af Niels Thomsen
• Udkigsposten af Dan Ritto
• I medierne ved Jette Plesner Dali

Sappho, altid Sappho

Heldigvis:

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

“Entartete Kunst” er tilbage

Reformationens færdreland tillader ikke længere religionskritik. Protestantismen ville ikke eksistere, hvis kritikere ikke havde sagt noget. Eller det må man måske heller ikke sige? Den Korte Avis om Tyskland og Kurt Westergaard:

Pro-NRW har under valgkampsmøder vist plakater med både egne karikaturer og tegninger fra Westergaards pen.

Og:

Nu udsteder indenrigsministeren for Tysklands folkerigeste delstat, Nordrhein Westfalen, Ralf Jäger (SPD), et forbud mod at vise Westergaards tegninger offentligt.

EkstraBladet:

Indenrigsministeren i delstaten, Ralf Jäger, kalder udstillingerne for “åndelig brandstiftelse.” Han frygter, at tyske institutioner og tyske borgere i udlandet bliver bragt i fare.

Skynd jer ud af Europa. Vi er færdige her. Alt er tabt, vi kan ikke længere gøre noget…

Sappho om Iran, Sverige, Danmark – man kan snart ikke se forskel

Vi må ud af Europa:

Ingen pisk – kun tavshed

25. april 2012 – artikel af Sapphos udsendte

De islamistiske organisationer æder sig ind på vore frihedsrettigheder, sagde svensk-iranske Bahareh Andersson på et møde i det svenske Trykkefrihedsselskab. Men ingen i Sverige vil lytte til hende.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Brændemærknings-paragraffen

23. april 2012 – klumme af Katrine Winkel Holm

Konklusionen på den langstrakte sag mod Lars Hedegaard er, at ingen rigtigt kan vide, hvad der er strafbart og ikke-strafbart at sige.

Mere HER i Sappho.

• Sapphos Venner har flyttet mødet med Jørgen Kieler. Stadig 8. maj kl. 19:30 men nu hos CEPOS, Landgreven 3, København K
• Trykkefrihedsselskabet af 2004 har fået en sig en konto på Facebook HER
• Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels
• Ved Profetens Skæg af Niels Thomsen
• Udkigsposten af Dan Ritto

Opdatering 27. april 2012:

De evigt krænkede: mere om den arabiske psyke

27. april 2012 – klumme af Geoffrey Cain

Det er aldrig arabernes skyld, hvis noget går galt. De vil snarere opfatte sig som ofre for onde tunger.

I mit sidste indlæg om det arabiske forår kom jeg ind på ordet “mazlum”, der betyder “krænket”. Ordet har en personlig betydning for mig, fordi jeg først så det i en artikel om arabernes livsindstilling, der var skrevet af en forhenværende bekendt, Hussein S.

Mere HER hos Sappho. Cain har to gange tidligere skrevet om Mazlum – Sappho:

• Det er synd for dem
• Arabisk forår

Melanie Phillips, Andrew Bostom, Ann Snyder, Mark Steyn, Jerry Gordon, Soeren Kern om Lars Hedegaard

Udlandet reagerer meget positivt på nyheden om Hedegaards frifindelse. Mange pundits her:

Two cheers for Danish justice

Melanie Phillips – 22 April 2012

In the event, Denmark pulled back from the brink. Following my piece here a few days ago about the witch-hunt against the President of the Danish Free Press society Lars Hedegaard, the Danish Supreme Court ruled last Friday that he was not guilty after all of hate speech and racism – the second time he has been acquitted of this charge in a roller-coaster of a case which has stained Denmark’s reputation for justice, free speech and common-sense.

So a victory, certainly — but still only two cheers for Denmark’s legal system.  First, as has been the case throughout this saga, the acquittal – like the previous acquittal and conviction – turned merely on the narrow question of whether the remarks by Hedegaard which were in contention had been made in a private forum. The Supreme Court decided that he had had ‘no intention of disseminating his remarks to a wider audience’, and that therefore no offence had been committed.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips har den her. Det er anden gang på få dage, Phillips skriver om sagen:

Europe’s auto-immune disease

Melanie Phillips - 17 April 2012

In decadent Europe, freedom of speech is dying. Loudly trumpeted as a ‘human right’ for any attacks on America, Israel, Christians or on the core values of the west, it is swiftly transformed into ‘hate speech’ and the shutters are slammed down on the speaker whenever Islam is in the frame.

Lars Hedegaard is President of the Danish Free Press Society, which is devoted to defending freedom of expression — particularly against the threat from radical Islam to extinguish it on the spurious grounds of ‘Islamophobia’.  With no sense of irony, Denmark is trying its damnedest to shut Hedegaard up on precisely those grounds.

Mere HER i The Daily Mail. Melanie Phillips har den her.

The Prosecutor Lies in Wait

by Lars Hedegaard – April 23, 2012

Article 266b, under which I was charged, remains unchanged. Thus, we still have no right to refer to truth if we are indicted under this article.

I am satisfied that the Supreme Court has delivered a verdict in accordance with the evidence given in lower and superior court. The prosecution had this evidence before it decided to press charges so I cannot understand why it went ahead.

The prosecutor has burdened the courts and the taxpayers needlessly for more than two years.

This judgment is not necessarily a victory for free speech. Article 266b, under which I was charged, remains unchanged. It remains a disgrace to any civilised society and is an open invitation to frivolous trials. Thus, we still have no right to refer to truth if we are indicted under this article.

Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute.

Free Speech Found Guilty by Europe

by Soeren Kern – April 23, 2012

The ruling showed that while Judaism and Christianity can be disparaged with impunity, speaking the truth about Islam is subject to swift and hefty legal penalties. The Supreme Court stressed that the substance of the charges — public criticism of Islam – is still a crime punishable by imprisonment. Under Danish law, it is immaterial whether a statement is true or false. All that is needed for a conviction is for someone to feel offended.

Lars Hedegaard, the president of the Danish Free Press Society, has been acquitted by the Danish Supreme Court on charges of “hate speech” for critical comments he made about Islam.

The verdict, however represents only a partial victory for free speech in a Europe that is being stifled by politically correct restrictions on free speech, particularly on issues related to Islam.

Mere HER hos Gatestone Institute.

Infidel Hedegaard avoids prosecution for Islamic blasphemy in Denmark. For now.

Andrew G. Bostom – April 21, 2012

Intrepid Danish journalist, historian and President of the Free Press Society Lars Hedegaard, has been acquitted unanimously by a panel of seven Supreme Court justices.  led by Chief Justice Børge Dahl. Hedegaard was accused of intentionally denigrating Muslims in breach of Article 266b of the Danish Penal Code, which states,

Whoever publicly or with the intent of public dissemination issues a pronouncement or other communication by which a group of persons are threatened, insulted or denigrated due to their race, skin color, national or ethnic origin, religion or sexual orientation is liable to a fine or incarceration for up to two years.

Mere HER i The American Thinker. Kan også læses her hos Andrew Bostom.

Danish Supreme Court Acquits Hedegaard

by Ann Snyder  •  Apr 21, 2012

On April 20, 2012 in a 7-0 decision, the Danish Supreme Court acquitted Lars Hedegaard of violating Article 266(b), the infamous “hate speech” provision of the Danish penal code.

Hedegaard’s case has been winding its way through the courts for some time now.  Readers will recall that he was first acquitted and then retried and convicted—a decision he appealed to the country’s highest court.

Mere HER hos The Legal Project.

Lars Man Standing, Final Score

By Mark Steyn – April 22, 2012

I’ve written previously about Lars Hedegaard of the Danish Free Press Society, my host in Copenhagen in 2010. Lars was charged, acquitted, re-charged, convicted and fined 5,000 kroner for remarks about Islam made during a conversation in his own home. He appealed to the Danish Supreme Court, and late on Friday they struck down his conviction 7–0.

Mere HER i National Review Online.

Justice in Denmark: Supreme Court dismisses Lars Hedegaard’s racism and hate speech conviction

20 April 2012 – Jerry Gordon

There is sweet justice in Denmark. We received news that the Danish Supreme Court acquitted Lars Hedegaard, President of the Danish Free Press Society of Prosecutor charges of ‘racism’ and “hate speech under Article 266b of the penal code that were upheld in a conviction and fine by the Eastern Superior Court in May 2011.  The headline of the Supreme Court  press release was “Dismiss the case on insulting and degrading statements about Muslims “  This is a major victory for free speech in Denmark and the EU.  This legal victory in Denmark should also be welcome news to the Hon. Geert Wilders in The Netherlands and hopefully useful news for Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in her legal proceedings in Austria. The opinion of the seven justices convened by the Danish Supreme Court was posted on the website of the Danish Supreme Court. Hedegaard indicated that he will have an English translation for us later today along with observations about the decision. As we can appreciate it he has been swamped with congratulatory phone calls and interviews by the Danish press. In our last post on  Hedegaard’s Supreme Court case heard last Friday, we noted:

Mere HER i The New English Review. Også Gordon har skrevet adskillige artikler om sagen:

Lars Hedegaard – The Scene at Yesterday’s Danish Supreme Court Hearing

Jerry Gordon – 14 April 2012

We had the occasion today to speak with Lars Hedegaard, President of the Danish Free Press Society (DFPS) about the circumstances behind yesterday’s hearing before the Danish Supreme Court.  A mutual Canadian colleague and friend, Bjorn Larsen,  flew to Copenhagen to observe the proceedings. Larsen is a Board Member of both the Canadian and International Free Press Society. He sent us some photos of Hedegaard and his counsel, Karoly Németh and DFPS board member, Jette Dali.  Németh escaped from his native Hungary as a teenager during the 1956 Revolt and has become a brilliant advocate in his adopted country. Németh arrived at the Supreme Court on his own power. He rode a bicycle. Larsen said in an email that the entire proceeding lasted approximately three hours. The prosecutor spoke for almost two hours, Nemeth for 40 minutes and Hedegaard for approximately 10 minutes. [...]

Mere HER i The New English Review.

Opdatering – Karen Lugo skriver i The National Review Online den 30. april 2012:

• The Death of Free Speech, Continued – An alarming trial in Denmark

Andre kilder: Calgary Herald, Jihad Watch,

Sappho: Hedegaard frifundet af enig Højesteret

Hip, hip hurra! Hjerteligt tillykke til Lars Hedegaard fra Veritas Universalis. Hvorfor skulle det tage så lang tid? Urimelligt at behandle en god mand på den måde. Sagen skulle aldrig have været rejst:

Hedegaard frifundet af enig Højesteret

20. april 2012 – artikel af Sapphos redaktion

Et enigt højesteretsdommerpanel frifandt i dag Lars Hedegaard. “Dommen kan ikke uden videre udlægges som en sejr for ytringsfriheden”, udtaler Hedegaard.

Et enigt Højesteretsdommerpanel med højesteretspræsident Børge Dahl i spidsen frifandt i dag Lars Hedegaard.

Det hedder i pressemeddelelsen:

Læs det hele HER i Sappho.

Med Røde Vilfred ved roret

19. april 2012 – klumme af Ulla Nørtoft Thomsen

Den pædagogiske verden har taget hævn over “regimet” Fogh ved at sidde loven om pædagogikuddannelse overhørig, skriver Ulla Nørtoft Thomsen.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Desuden link til:

• Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels

Andre kilder: Jyllands-Posten, Jyllands-Posten, Berlingske Tidende,

Sappho: Interview med Uriaspostens Kim Møller og artikel af Hans Rustad fra Document.no

Uriasposten har mange fans. Mig for eksempel:

En fri mand

16. april 2012 – interview af Sapphos redaktion

Kim Møller fra Uriasposten har valgt: “Jeg prioriterer min integritet langt højere end en akademisk karriere. Så skulle jeg begynde at snakke folk efter munden, og det duer jeg slet ikke til.”

Han kritiserer islam, jager venstrefløjen og føler sig som en fri mand. Sappho har mødt manden, der fravalgte en akademisk karriere til fordel for Uriasposten, Danmarks mest læste blog.

Mere HER i Sappho. Sappho følger retssagen i Norge:

Forbandelsen blev brudt

18. april 2012 – klumme af Hans Rustad

Breivik virkerde nærmest underlig og komisk under retssagens første dag og nævnte ikke det såkaldte “counter-jihad”-miljø, skriver Hans Rustad.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Se hvad pressen skriver om Lars Hedegaard:

• Staten versus Hedegaard

Sapphos venner afholder arrangement den 8. maj 2012:

• Hør modstandsmanden Jørgen Kieler

Desuden link til:

• Ved Profetens Skæg af Niels Thomsen
• Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels
• Udkigsposten – af Dan Ritto

Bruce Bawer om Lars Hedegaard

Flere interessante artikler af Bawer:

Witness for the Defense?

by Bruce Bawer on Apr 16th, 2012

In 2009, the Danish writer and historian Lars Hedegaard, who is the founder and president of the Danish Free Press Society, made remarks in his home about the treatment of women in Muslim communities.  His observations, while expressed in broad generalizations, were based in fact, although when they were made public and resulted in widespread criticism he apologized for the way he had expressed himself.  This was not good enough for the Danish courts.  He was charged with violating Denmark’s racism law, and went to trial in January 2011.  He was acquitted, but was tried again on the same charges three months later.  This time he was found guilty.  Last Friday Hedegaard initiated an appeal of his conviction before the Danish Supreme Court.

Not so many years ago, such a story would have been regarded as nothing less than sensational: a writer is put on trial in a Western country for making critical remarks about a certain religion’s ideology and practices.  The unsettling truth is that the more often the sensational happens, the less and less sensational it becomes.  In recent years, the Western world has grown used to seeing writers hauled before official tribunals – Mark Steyn in Canada, Oriana Fallaci in Italy, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in Austria – invariably for criticizing Islam.  It doesn’t help that the mainstream media, with very few exceptions, almost always report on these actions as if they were anything but sensational: they’re treated as ordinary, reasonable, and legitimate judicial proceedings.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Mere om den norske massemorder:

• Pampering the Oslo Killer

A Pivotal Week for Norway’s Resident Jihadist

Posted by Bruce Bawer on Apr 2nd, 2012

When we last left Mullah Krekar, Norway’s top-seeded resident jihadist, author, and Dancing with the Stars contestant (OK, I made that last one up, but not too long ago it would’ve been entirely conceivable), he was reportedly packing up his old kit bag and preparing to move back to his native Iraq.  His intention, he announced, was to give courses in how to strap explosives to your kid – sorry, I mean, in Islamic theology.

Well, as it turns out, rather amazingly, the Norwegian judiciary has upset Krekar’s plans.

Here’s the story.  Back in June 2010, Krekar – who at the time was facing possible expulsion to Iraq, where he insisted he was in danger of execution –issued the following warning: “My death will cost Norwegian society.  If, for example, Erna Solberg tossing me out of the country leads to my death, she will suffer the same fate.”  Solberg is head of the Norwegian Conservative Party.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

The Death of Free Speech in Sweden

Posted by Bruce Bawer on Mar 22nd, 2012

Earlier this month, under the headline “Words are not innocent,” the Swedish newspaper Dagbladet ran an opinion piece by its cultural editor, Kaj Schueler, which was, essentially, an attack on Sweden’s newly minted Free Press Society.  It was one of several such attacks directed at the organization in recent weeks by members of Sweden’s mainstream media, all of which made essentially the same arguments as Schueler – who, early in his article, summed up his position as follows: “According to the Free Press Society, we no longer have real freedom of speech in Sweden.  They are wrong – we have it.  But since words are not innocent, there are limits to free speech.”

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Kan også læses her hos AINA.  Mere om svenskere og nordmænd:

• The Nobel Follies

Om England:

U.K. Thought Police Send Man to Prison

Posted by Bruce Bawer on Mar 14th, 2012

A few days ago I did some reflecting here on the steady rise of sharia in Britain, as exemplified by the BBC’s frank admission of its unwillingness to mock Islam, the harassment of an air passenger for an innocuous remark about hijab, and the see-no-evil response of a BBC reporter to mass displays of pro-sharia aggression in Luton.

Alas, the evidence of Britain’s decline and fall in the face of Islam just keeps on coming.  This week’s case in point is that of Darren Conway, who on March 6 was sentenced to a year in prison for posting anti-Islamic materials in the window of his ground-floor apartment in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.  As the BBC puts it, he was “convicted of a religiously aggravated public order offence for putting anti-Islamic literature in his window.”

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. AINA her. Om Frankrig:

Au Revoir Les Enfants

Posted by Bruce Bawer on Mar 26th, 2012

After last week’s killing of three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, early reports suggested that the murderer was a white, right-wing racist who was targeting minorities.  Indeed, one could be excused for getting the impression, from those first accounts, that the authorities and the media wanted him to be a white, right-wing racist – a lone maniac like the guy who mowed down dozens of teenagers in Norway last July.  Yet the Toulouse terrorist turned out, like so many perpetrators of unspeakable European atrocities in recent years, to be an Islamic jihadist – a self-declared Mujahideen and member of al-Qaeda who said he was out to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children and the military involvement of France in the Islamic world, and who, if a van had not blocked the path of his scooter, might have succeeded in executing as many young people as Anders Behring Breivik did on the island of Utøya.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine.

Remembering Mike Wallace

by Bruce Bawer on Apr 13th, 2012

Channel surfing the other night, I ran across All the President’s Men for what felt like the thousandth time.  I came in about twenty minutes before the end, and – not for the first time – I felt compelled to watch it to the end.  What a splendidly written, brilliantly directed, terrifically acted movie!  What a stirring story!  What a beautiful piece of filmmaking, from the cinematography to the lighting design!  And what a crock!

All the President’s Men converted a generation of innocent, impressionable, pre-Internet Americans – myself included – into unthinking fans of the mainstream news media.  Some people in the government might be out to screw us over, and certainly every last man and woman in corporate America was up to no good, but the knights in shining armor at the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the network news divisions were there to come to our rescue – to save our freedoms and preserve our Constitution, wielding the truth like a shining sword.

Mere HER i FrontPageMagazine. Desuden link til disse:

• Hilton Kramer R.I.P.
• Today’s Radical Chic

Giulio Meotti anmelder og roser Bruce Bawers nye bog “The New Quislings” i Arutz Sheva:

• Our New Vichy-Like Intellectuals

Andre kilder: The New Criterion, This is Lincolnshire,

Lars Hedegaard: Der falder dom i sagen fredag den 20. april 2012

Sidste nyt:

Ny udvikling i retssagen mod Lars Hedegaard

13. april 2012 – artikel af Sapphos udsendte

Begrundelsen for Landsrettens dom over Trykkefrihedsselskabets formand var forkert, erkendte anklageren, der ikke desto mindre opfordrede Højesteret til at stadfæste afgørelsen.

Lars Hedegaards sag for Højesteret den 13. april kom mest til at dreje sig om juridiske detaljer om forsætbegrebet – altså om det havde været den anklagedes hensigt at udbrede de bemærkninger om voldtægter i muslimske familier, som Østre Landsret den 3. maj 2011 idømte ham en bøde på 5000 kr. for at have fremsat.

Mere HER hos Sappho. Steyn siger også noget om sagen:

Lars Man Standing, Round Three

By Mark Steyn – April 13, 2012

I’ve written before about the case of Lars Hedegaard of the Danish Free Press Society, my hosts in Copenhagen a year and a half ago. Today, in the third round of a long legal battle, Lars was at the Supreme Court of Denmark appealing his conviction and 5,000 kroner fine for some observations made about – what else? – Islam.

Mere HER i National Review Online.

Andre kilder: Atlas Shrugs, Gatestone Institute, FrontPageMagazine,

Lars Hedegaard & Højesteret

Særdeles interessant artikel af Jette Plesner Dali:

Islamofobi, racisme og 266b

I morgen den 13. april tager hele syv dommere ved Højesteret stilling til, hvorvidt der efter deres mening var tale om forsæt, da Trykkefrihedsselskabets formand, Lars Hedegaard fremsatte sin udtalelse om, at nogle muslimske mænd voldtager familiens pigebørn.

Karoly Németh, Hedegaards advokat forventer, at der afsiges dom efter kl. 12.00.

I dagbladet Politiken kunne man allerede 3. marts under overskriften “Hedegaard- og Pittelkow-tiden er slut” læse følgende udtalelse fra Mona Sheikh: “Debatten om islam og muslimer er forsvundet … Integrationsdebatten har i lange træk været styret af fremmedfrygt og islamofobi … Det faktum, at DF ikke længere er tungen på vægtskålen, at den nye regering har nedlagt Integrationsministeriet, og at man nu forsøger at forklare integrationsproblemer – som jo stadig findes – som sociale problemer, har bestemt været med til at sætte en ny diskurs.”

Mere HER hos Jette Plesner Dali. Lars Hedegaard fik mulighed for et sidste ord i Højesteret i dag:

Tale i Højesteret

13. april 2012 – klumme af Lars Hedegaard

Hæderværdige Højesteret

Min forsvarer har fremdraget de juridiske argumenter, der taler for, at jeg skal frifindes, og dem skal jeg ikke yderligere kommentere.

Jeg kan dog ikke tilbageholde en stille undren over, at nogen kan påstå, at det skulle have været min hensigt at beskylde samtlige muslimske fædre verden over for at misbruge deres børn – ganske særligt i lyset af, at jeg omhyggeligt har forklaret, at det naturligvis ikke er min opfattelse, og at jeg ikke har haft forsæt til at udbrede sådanne absurde påstande.

Læs det HER i Sappho. The New English Review har allerede oversat talen til engelsk:

• Lars Hedegaard’s Remarks at Today’s Danish Supreme Court Hearing

Hedegaard’s Appeal to the Danish Supreme Court

by Ann Snyder  •  Apr 12, 2012

Once again, freedom of speech is under attack in Europe. Lars Hedegaard’s appeal to the Danish Supreme Court will be heard April 13th along with the prosecutor’s cross-appeal seeking a higher fine. Court proceedings are anticipated to wrap up the same day and a decision is expected within a week.

Mere HER i The Legal Project.

Is the Third Time a Charm for Lars Hedegaard?

Jerry Gordon – 10 April 2012

On Friday the 13th, Lars Hedegaard will have his appeal to the Supreme Court heard seeking to overturn his conviction and fines under an arcane Danish law.   Hedegaard is President of the Danish Free Press Society  and one of three heroes of conscience in an EU Country tried for exercising free speech,the criticism of Islam.  Together with the Hon. Geert Wilders in The Netherlands and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff in Austria, Hedegaard’s predicament and theirs have been captured in interviews in the recently published collection, The West Speaks.  Of the trio of free thinkers, only Wilders has been acquitted of all charges.  We noted this as an update at the conclusion of Hedegaard’s interview:

Mere HER i The New English Review.

Update om Hedegaard-sagen i Højesteret

12. april 2012 – artikel af Jens Gregersen

Hele syv højesteretsdommere skal tage stilling til hate speech-sagen mod Lars Hedegaard i morgen. Jens Gregersen informerer om morgensdagens begivenhed.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Andre kilder: Jyllands-Posten,

Nødvendige Sappho

Så er Sappho på banen igen:

Retsløs i Putins Rusland

02. april 2012 – artikel af Katrine Winkel Holm

Sappho-prismodtager Olga Romanova gav et rystende indblik i Putins korrupte Rusland

“Det er ligesom en dødelig sygdom. Den rammer altid alle mulige andre. Aldrig dig.”

Mere HER i Sappho.

Se video hos Snaphanen – Olga Romanova taler i Trykkefrihedsselskabet:

• Olga Romanova in Copenhagen

Hundreder af reaktioner på Olga Romanovas Sappho-pris

04. april 2012 – interview af Lars Hedegaard

Nyheden om den russiske menneskeretsforkæmpers optræden i København har bredt sig som en lynild.

Mere HER i Sappho.

First You Take the Telegraph

04. april 2012 – klumme af Anna Libak

Why are the Russian authorities so worried about Olga Romanova and her undertakings, asks Anna Libak.

Mere HER i Sappho.

DDL og mediernes manipulation

04. april 2012

Medierne gav et forvrænget billede af lørdagens demonstration i Aarhus, mener et øjenvidne til begivenhederne.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Trykkefrihedsselskabet i fin form

09. april 2012 – klumme af Lars Hedegaard

Selskabets årlige generalforsamling har affødt skadefro avis-kommentarer. Læs hellere bestyrelsens beretning.

Det slår aldrig fejl. Hvert år efter Trykkefrihedsselskabets generalforsamling kommer der et surt opstød i Weekendavisen forfattet af Leif Blædel. Man kan næsten sætte uret efter det.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Hedegaard-sagen for Højesteret

09. april 2012 – artikel af Sapphos redaktion

Først blev Lars Hedegaard frikendt for sine udtalelser om overgreb på muslimske piger. Så blev han dømt. På fredag skal sagen for Højesteret.

Mere HER i Sappho. Og link til:

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

Opdatering:

Appel til alle muslimer

10. april 2012 – artikel af Sapphos redaktion

Muslimer i Aarhus  blev inden sidste lørdags DDL-demonstration opfordret til at vende ryggen til “Breiviks venner”.

Mere HER hos Sappho.

Artikel af og interview med Lars Hedegaard

Hele tre interview endda:

“We need a real press!”

Felix Strüning – 3. April 2012

CT-Interview with Lars Hedegaard on Mohammed cartoons, Denmark as a role model and one Million Euros

As a small country, Denmark is not very influential within the European Union. But ever since then there appeared the Mohammed cartoons, the country became the focus of international attention. Citizen Times Editor in Chief Felix Strüning spoke with the Dane Lars Hedegaard, president of the International Free Press Society, on developments in his country, the chances of a peaceful solution to the problem of Islam and what he would do with one million Euros.

Citizen Times: Mr. Hedegaard, six years ago, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the famous twelve Mohammed cartoons. Kurt Westergaard, one of the artists, still needs police protection. So, how is the mood in the Danish population right now?

Lars Hedegaard: There are some indications that parts of the public are getting tired and would dearly like to return to a state of “normality”. In early March the leading PC-paper Politiken even claimed that the debate over Islam and immigration is over – which is exactly what the paper would like to happen.

Mere HER i Citizen Times.

Round Three in the Trial of Lars Hedegaard

An interview with the Danish free speech advocate, who again goes on trial for insulting Islam.

by Ann Snyder – April 8, 2012

In Denmark, sticks and stones may break your bones, but insulting words will get you fined — to the tune of 5,000 kroner (or about $1,000). Article 266(b) of the Danish penal code, one of the more sweeping of the “hate speech” provisions, criminalizes, among other things, merely insulting groups of people due to their membership in enumerated protected classes.

On April 13, 2012, Lars Hedegaard — a journalist, historian, and president of the Danish Free Press Society – takes the appeal of his conviction under Article 266(b) to the Danish Supreme Court. Readers may recall that back in January of 2011, Hedegaard was tried and acquitted for remarks he made during a 2009 interview concerning sexual abuse within Muslim communities. (In a related story, Danish MP Jesper Langballe “confessed,” pleading guilty to violating Article 266(b) for remarks he made in support of Hedegaard.) But, in a strange twist, Hedegaard’s acquittal was appealed. He was retried on April 26, 2011, and convicted on May 3.

Mere HER hos PJ Media eller her hos The Legal Project.

The Free Press Societies: Interview with Swedish Chairman Ingrid Carlqvist and International Chairman Lars Hedegaard

by Nicolai Sennels on February 6, 2012

The Swedish Free Press Society, Tryckfrihetssällskapet, was launched on January 31, 2012. The Swedish press is known for notoriously hiding facts and consequences concerning Islam, immigration and Muslim criminals (example: Swedish specialty: Pink pixellation of dark-skinned criminals and pixellated anonymization of wanted criminals).

People who want to meet to talk about such topics need severe police protection (Sweden: Launching the Swedish Free Press Society under police protection).

I have interviewed Lars Hedegaard, initiator and chairman of both the Free Press Society in Denmark and the International Free Press Society, and Ingrid Carlqvist, initiator of the new Swedish branch.

Mere HER hos Jihad Watch.

Hedegaard: Islamdebat lever i bedste velgående

Lars Hedegaard | 22. marts 2012

Det er altså svært at finde nogen fornuftig begrundelse for, at den tidligere så livlige debat nu skulle være forbi, siger Lars Hedegaard

En velsignet glæde har sænket sig over dagbladet Politiken. Søndag den 3. marts kunne organet triumferende meddele, at den vådeste drøm, der nogen sinde er blevet drømt i chefredaktørens hjørnekontor, er gået i opfyldelse: Debatten om islam, shariaen og den muslimske indvandring er død.

Mere HER i Kristeligt Dagblad. Lars Hedegaards Sappho-klumme, Svenske tilstande, fra 3. februar 2012 er blevet oversat til engelsk af Norman Berdichevsky. Kan læses i The New English Review:

• Swedish Conditions, Or, Something is Rotten in the State of Sweden

Forårsnyt fra Sappho – nu med egne tv-programmer

Se det nye Sappho tv her: Forfulgte kristne. Artikler:

Fast procedure ved islamisk terror

28. marts 2012 – klumme af Mark Steyn

Mediernes reaktion på islamisk terror følger en fast skabelon, skriver Mark Steyn, og gennemgår dens fire faser.

Mere HER hos Sappho.

”Jeg måtte sige mit arbejde op”. Hara Dvinge om ghettoskolen bag facaden

19. marts 2012 – artikel af Nicolai Sennels

Hun fik den halve skole på nakken, da hun tog bladet fra munden og fortalte offentligheden om de islamiske værdiers sejrmarch i den ghettoskole, hun arbejdede på. Til sidst måtte hun sige sit arbejde op. Læs interview med pædagog Hara Dvinge.

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Når den fjerde statsmagt bliver den første

22. marts 2012 – klumme af Peder Jensen

Den medicinske sagkundskab skal afgøre, om Breivik var sindssyg eller tilregnelig – ikke massemedier med en klar politisk dagsorden, mener Peder Jensen.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Fakta og fiktion om militant islamisme i Europa

26. marts 2012 – klumme af Mrutyuanjai Mishra

Terrorisme-eksperternes udlægning af Toulousedrabene er præget mere af fiktion end af fakta, skriver Mrutyuanjai Mishra.

Mere HER i Sappho. Og husk:

31. marts 2012

Trykkefrihedsselskabets generalforsamling og uddeling af årets Trykkefrihedsspris

Mere HER i Sappho.

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

Video: Danmark forsvandt…

Og det gik stærkt:

25 år for Danmark – Et interview med Ole Hasselbalch

25 år for Danmark – Et interview med Ole Hasselbalch. Omhandlende foreningens virke gennem årene og den politiske situation i dagens Danmark.

Interviewer; Harry Vinter – Den Danske Forening

I 1983 åbnede Folketinget grænserne. Mange advarede – men forgæves. Resultatet var en fremmed-invasion uden sidestykke. Fire år senere skabtes så på tvær­politisk grundlag Den Danske Fore­ning med det formål “på folkestyrets grund, uafhængigt af økonomiske og politiske interesser at sikre dansk kul­tur, sprog og levevis”.

Via Monokultur.

Video: Taqiyya og tawriya

Nej, har man nu kendt magen! Løgn i islam? Det skriver Raymond Ibrahim:

Tawriya: “Creative Lying” Advocated in Islam

by Raymond Ibrahim – February 28, 2012

Now meet tawriya, a doctrine that allows lying in virtually all circumstances.

Perhaps you have heard of taqiyya, the Muslim doctrine that allows lying in certain circumstances — primarily when Muslim minorities live under infidel authority. Now meet tawriya, a doctrine that allows lying in virtually all circumstances—including to fellow Muslims and by swearing to Allah—provided the liar is creative enough to articulate his deceit in a way that is “technically” true.

Deceit and lying may be far more ingrained in the culture than previously thought.

The authoritative Hans Wehr Arabic-English Dictionary defines tawriya as, “hiding, concealment; dissemblance, dissimulation, hypocrisy; equivocation, ambiguity, double-entendre, allusion.” Conjugates of the trilateral root of the word, w-r-y, appear in the Quran in the context of hiding or concealing something (e.g., 5:31, 7:26).

As a doctrine, “double-entendre” best describes tawriya’s function. According to past and present Muslim scholars, several documented below, tawriya occurs when a speaker says something that means one thing to the listener, although the speaker means something else, and his words technically support this alternate meaning.

Mere HER hos Stonegate Institute eller her hos The Middle East Forum. FrontPageMagazine her.

Refuting Muslim Apologetics Concerning Tawriya (“Creative Lying”)

by Raymond Ibrahim – March 9, 2012

Sam Shamoun of Answering Islam recently forwarded me an article titled “Tawriya: Islamic Doctrine of ‘Creative Lying’? Response to Raymond Ibrahim,” appearing on a website called Muslim Debate Initiative, and written by one Shadid (“Severe”) Lewis in response to my recent exposition on the doctrine of tawriya. Although this response—poorly written, poorly argued—would normally be ignored, I address it for three reasons: 1) To date, it is the only rebuttal I have seen from a Muslim concerning tawriya; 2) Far from rejecting tawriya, it actually validates it (the author spends his time chasing red herrings, not disproving the doctrine); 3) It is a good example of the speciousness and sophistry employed by those who try to downplay or rationalize some of Islam’s more problematic doctrines, in this case, tawriya. (Note: Although Shadid’s original article is littered with grammatical and punctuation errors, in the interest of readability, I have corrected the more egregious when quoting him.)

At the start, after informing readers that he “read the article of Raymond Ibrahim posted on Frontpagemag.com and I just had to respond,” Shadid argues that tawriya really “means deliberate ambiguity rather than creative lying.” Discerning readers understand such euphemisms change nothing about the doctrine.

Mere hos Jihad Watch HER eller Raymond Ibrahim her. FrontPageMagazine her. En YouTube om sagen – ser ud til at være fra “The Third Jihad”:

Taqiyya and Tawriya: how muslims deceive the infidels

Sappho – Bent Jensen, Jørgen Kieler, Katrine Winkel Holm, Lars Hedegaard, Lars Vilks, Ole Hasselbalch og flere

Artikler:

Han skulle have været henrettet i stedet for Hvidsten Gruppen

09. marts 2012 – interview af Katrine Winkel Holm

Modstandsmanden Jørgen Kieler overvejede at sende sin Ebbe Munck pris tilbage, da Tøger Seidenfaden fik den. Læs interviewet med modstandsmanden, der sad i Vestre Fængsel med Hvidsten Gruppen.

Mere HER hos Sappho.

Den nye censur – Ole Hasselbalch svarer sine kritikere

11. marts 2012 – interview af Lars Hedegaard

Aviskampagnen mod den private forening ORG bygger på løgn og opspind og er udtryk for det rene bølleuvæsen, mener professor Ole Hasselbalch. Han har aldeles ikke tænkt sig at lægge bånd på den vrede, som flere anmeldere af hans netop udkomne bog om “Politiken-affæren” har kritiseret ham for. Et af ofrene for smudskampagnen har opnået erstatning.

Mere HER hos Sappho.

”Dødstrusler – det er noget man vænner sig til”

14. marts 2012 – interview af Sapphos medarbejder

Han er på al-Qaedas dødsliste, og i haven sidder efterretningstjenesten og passer på ham døgnet rundt. Alligevel tager den svenske Muhammed-tegner Lars Vilks sin skæbne med ophøjet ro. Sappho har besøgt manden, der nægtede at gå under jorden.

Mere HER hos Sappho.

Putin er ikke den værste man har

16. marts 2012 – klumme af Bent Jensen

Rusland har gennemgået en dyb forandringsproces, der bekræfter, at landet er en del af Europa – og EU bør feje for egen dør, før det peger fingre.

Mere HER hos Sappho. Desuden link til:

• Husk: Islam-seminar med konvertitten Sam Salomon i Sorø Sognegård lørdag den 24. marts 2012
• Udkigsposten af Dan Ritto
• Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels

Sappho om præsident Obama, feminister og mere

Den engelske version af Ibrahim’s artikel kan læses her hos Stonegate Institute eller her hos The Middle East Forum:

Obama: Islams søn

05. marts 2012 – klumme af Raymond Ibrahim

Præsident Obama er kristen, men hans handlinger tyder på, at hans sande loyalitet ligger et andet sted, skriver Raymond Ibrahim.

Mere HER i Sappho.

En kvindehistorie

08. marts 2012 – klumme af Lars Hedegaard

Drabelige kampe om absolut kønsenshed optager vore dages feminister – udbredelsen af sharia-love for muslimske medsøstre lader dem kolde.

Mere HER i Sappho. Desuden link til:

• Sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels
• Udkigsposten af Dan Ritto

Sappho & Trykkefrihedsselskabet – artikler og arrangementer

Carsten Niebuhr – islamapologiens danske grundlægger

29. februar 2012 – artikel af Ulla Nørtoft Thomsen

1700-tallets danske arabist Carsten Niebuhr er en berømmet pionér inden for sit felt og har lagt navn til et helt institut. Ulla Nørtoft Thomsen har genlæst hans lovpriste beskrivelse fra Arabien, og hun er ikke imponeret. Hendes vurdering repræsenterer en radikalt ny måde at betragte det berømte værk på: Niebuhrs skildring er et videnskabeligt misfoster, en politisk tåbelighed og en psykologisk gåde. Læs hendes opgør med Niebuhrs ikonstatus.

Mere HER i Sappho.

Sappho-prisen 2012 til Olga Romanova

1. marts 2012

Den russiske dissident, Olga Romanova [...] modtager Sappho-prisen d. 31. marts; Ruslands-kender og redaktør på Weekendavisen, Anna Libak [...], motiverer den.

Prisoverrækkelsen finder sted lørdag, d. 31. marts kl. 15:30 i forlængelse af Trykkefrihedsselskabets generalforsamling.

Mere HER hos Trykkefrihedsselskabet.

Sam Solomon – shariatilhængeren, der blev kristen forkynder

02. marts 2012 – klumme af Katrine Winkel Holm

Katrine Winkel Holm om den farverige eks-muslim Sam Solomon, der senere på måneden kommer til Danmark.

Mere HER i Sappho. Man kan tilmelde sig arrangementet hos Islamkritisk Netværk i Folkekirken HER.

Desuden link til denne uges sharia-toppen af Nicolai Sennels og Udkigsposten af Dan Ritto:

• Sharia-toppen
• Udkigsposten

Skandanistan

Det sted ligger jo her:

The Road to Skandanistan

Edward Cline – February 21, 2012

One shouldn’t wonder much about why Norway, Sweden, and Demark are willing to submit, like “Britainistan,” without so much as an audible whimper, to their steady Islamization, to their becoming de facto departments of a growing international caliphate. All three countries are welfare states that welcomed Muslim immigrants by the planeload over the decades to perform the work which entitlement-obsessed and welfare benefits-seduced Scandinavians no longer wished to perform. “Islamophobes” they were not. And still aren’t, even though their skyrocketing crime rates are directly attributable to immigrant and second-generation Muslims.

All three countries are governed by leftist elites, by political parties that redistribute other people’s money and spread the wealth around a lot. The Left has made an alliance with Islam, which wants to spread its creed around across the board and impose its ideology on non-Muslims by guile or force. There are, however, two camps of the Left. There is the Left that hates the West as much as do the Muslims, and will do anything to destroy it, even if it means its own dhimmitude and demise under Sharia law and submission. One could not imagine another group in that part of the globe more dedicated to the destruction of their own country. “We will be multicultural and non-judgmental, even if it means our own deaths. It is the right thing to do. We will be virtuous, even if it means accepting penance for our culture being superior to Islamic culture.”

Mere HER hos Family Security Matters.

It’s Those Damned Danes Again

Nick Cohen – March 2012

It is a statement of the obvious to say that since the Ancient Greeks writers have known that the powerful are more dramatic than the rest of us. You do not need me to tell you that their decisions can improve or destroy individuals or nations; that what leaders do with power shows their character in the clearest light, and teaches the rest of us hard truths about human nature. Someone needs to tell the controllers of television, however. Their disdain for politics in part explains the collapse of British TV drama from world leader to also-ran.

Media managers still commission excellent one-off drama-documentaries — Peter Morgan’s films about the Blair years, for instance. But drama series come from the classics, or the tired detective genre or feel-good scripts written by and for Middle England because editors lack the imaginative intelligence to see their society in the round.

Mere HER i Standpoint Magazine.

Andre kilder: Document.no,