Revolt of the Infidels

Suddenly, incredibly, swooping down from European  skies, a specter is haunting and agitating all Islam: the specter of Western Civilization and  free speech. Western men (well, a few, anyway) have defied not only white  progressives and their  multy-culty political correctness, but, far more seriously,  the mooslim code. That is, they  dared to rejoin  Western civilization, exercising  free speech on a religious figure. White progs  do this too, of course,  but with Christianity. This time there's a kicker. The target is not Jesus or the Virgin Mary or 'Merry Christmas' or Jerry Falwell,  This time it's  the warlord/ prophet Mohammed (said not to be an idol.) Some Western men are indeed living dangerously. Mooslims are boiling over with the insult to Mohammed (said not to be an idol.) Mooslims, as you know, venerate, and would not worship an idol.

 

Maybe it's all little Denmark's fault? On September 30, 2005, its biggest newspaper did what liberals, lefties, most Republicans, Condoleeza Rice, George Bush and "Pinch" Sulzberger's New York Times would not dream of doing: Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons satirizing Mohammed (said not to be an idol.)

 

This is strictly a no-no for mooslims (as novelist Salman Rushdie could have explained when he went into hiding for two years after getting fatwa-ed for writing the "Satanic Verses.")

 

 

Why did Jyllands-Posten misbehave, or act like it did not fear what President Bush calls "The Religion of Peace"?  Actually, it really was about fear and free speech, and which do you choose.  Author Kare Bluitgen couldn't find anyone to illustrate his book on  Mohammed the warlord prophet. Danish illustrators feared death threats from  mooslims. What?  In todays' gentle Scandinavia, this doled-out generous welfare make-pitta-not-war Europe, hailed as so superior to Cowboy America?.... Yes...Yes....The Multy-Culty has landed. They  knew that Theo van Gogh(great-great grandson of Vincent ),  after making a film on mooslim violence against women, was stabbed and shot dead in Amsterdam in November, 2004. They knew that Dutch Professor Pim Fortuyn, who criticized immigration and called Islam "a backward culture" was assassinated in May, 2002 by a left-wing environmentalist.They understand  that  progressives and their media, the white eliteniks with their law or business degrees or TV or movie contracts  or trust funds, don't much  care, unless you can implicate Israel,  Bush or the Christian Coalition.

 

Jyllands-Posten took a stand in Copenhagen. This was not U.S. media cake walk, or just a nasty war of words, where "dissidents" can slam opponents, and even strut and say "Hitler" and maybe, very occasionally, face a subpoena. This was real life.  The Danes have a national memory of Nazis in their homeland. Now they would  test what was stronger in Europe today: free speech or the mooslims.  They  published the 12  cartoons, including the one where Mohammed at the entrance to paradise is trying to hold back the martyrs  with, "Stop, stop! We have run out of virgins!"( Defying the Ummah, the community of believers? It was irreverent. Post-medeival. Un-pc. But was it the safe  thing to do?

 

It was thought the story would die after initial protests, warnings, death  threats, the ritual dispatch of pc functionaries, UN "experts on racism" to investigate "disrespect for belief." But, surprising many, the story did not die. Somehow, news cycle after news cycle, it kept breathing . Jyllands-Posten issued an apology, of sorts, saying it did not mean to offend, but it would defend its freedom of the press---another of those infidel concepts. Even the Prime Minister Rasmussen chimed in. Rasmussen made clear that he, too,  defended that freedom. These Danes were not crumbling like the butter cookies, or a sensitive white wuss.They were not even shifting blame to the usual suspects, like the Zionists, the neo-cons or Haliburton. What could this be---men who took their Western heritage seriously? Weren't they tuned in to The Best and The Brightest Progs, like His Slickness Bill Clinton who, while the Middle East was showing rabbis as cannibals and televising the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, called these 12 Mohammed cartoons "appalling" and compared them to anti-semitism?

 

Some, worried that being called "Islamophobe" might tarnish you even more  than  "homophobe," point to the Washington post cartoon about Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and an Iraq veteran without arms or legs.  Didn't the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a rare move, write to WaPo about the insensitivity? This is true. But the Chiefs, while dismayed by the use of a paraplegic for a political agenda, agreed with the papers' right to freedom of expression and apparently made no bomb threats.

 

Does this "revolt" in Copenhagen really represent the West? The "sensitized" West of 2006? And who will cave?

 

We may find out sooner than expected. Mooslims around the world, incited by their expert inciters, are now properly on fire. (In pc era, you musn't call it rabble-rousing.) Often sharp poker players in the past, playing their Israel card,  they are now showing a different hand against the unclean gentiles.  Boycotts. Issuing of threats, Diplomatic sanctions. Embassies closed.    Shrieks for  revenge and retribution. Even the progressive old nanny BBC is reporting global mayhem. Danish-Swedish dairy giant Arla Foods has been shut down in Saudi Arabia, its sales sinking to zero in MIddle East. Danes and other kaffirs  in danger of being kidnapped or worse. Thousands of Palestinians  in the streets, on break from shouting "Death to Israel."  Gunmen of the martyr's brigades raid the EU offices in Gaza. Kalashnikovs are brandished at the heathen (and frightened?) West. Mooslim macho roars again, as the comfortable white eliteniks search for a way to calm the onslaught and  surrender in style.

 

Will the West cave? That is, will the lawyers and diplomats and UN functionaries and progressives  find a way to surrender a legacy of centuries and call it "a mature solution to cultural differences"? Appeasement served with haute cuisine?  Who doesn't want peace, no matter how temporary and deceptive?

(The blogosphere is ablaze with this story.  Egs. The ever feisty Michelle Malkin on "The Cowardly U.S. Press," and The Volokh Conspiracy on how Liberalism enjoys its freedoms on the cheap, Legal Fiction looks at the "deeper battle" here between "Liberalism and Anti-Liberalism", the ever moderate Joe Gandleman looks at the danger for infidels in the Middle East, and The American Princess does not seem inclined to walk on eggshells, even Islamic ones. while All Things Beautiful, as to be expected, plunges  into The Cartoon War and dives beneath the surface)

 

Actually, there are still a few signs that old Europe might not be too moribund yet. Can it still resist the growing might of the mullahs?  The Danish Prime MInister Rasmussen, while praising Jylland-Posten's "apology" to mooslims, re-iterated his stand for free speech. Other papers are supporting little Denmark, re-printing the cartoons in soldarity: La Stampa in Italy, El Periodico in Spain, Volkskrant in Holland, Die Welt in Germany.

 

 

But let's get real. In Europe the oil money talks. Saudi wahhabi understands it well. In Paris at France-Soir the editor who published the Mohammed cartoons in solidarity with the Danes has been sacked---by his Egyptian boss. Forget 'The mooslims are coming.' The mooslims are there already, and you know it. So why not desist, along with the progs and eliteniks and leave the battle to baby, in times to come? At any rate wasn't old Europe, medicated into  a comfortable socialized stupor, supposed to go quietly in its sunset of demographic doom, churches empty, mosques full, as the multiplying mooslims show their gratitude for Euro-Lefty's  welfare bonanza by allowing the greyed-out race to witness the exotic spectacle of Sharia comes to Eurabia---a continent free of American cowboys, evangelicals and where even Coca Cola is replaced by Mecca Cola?

 

A clash? A conflict? An international crisis over some cartoons?

 

Wills are going to be tested, while the Bush White House sides with mooslim over free speech:   old Europe's will and the mooslim will. Blasphemy against the warlord-prophet Mohammed (said not to be an idol) vs. Blasphemy against Western civilization.

The will of the West vs. the will of the mooslims. Which will prevail?

 

Would you bet money?

 

Comments

[Phillip Wedeen]

Gringoman, "the sky is falling!" starts his latest en-voyage to europe with a link to the Horowitz FrontPageMag.com. (If ever there was a Leninist, it's Horowitz) Then he makes the usual round to the american fascist blog scene; that hermetic little world where the "mooslims" are les autres du jour, coming to get you and me... I am sooo afraid; j'ai peur!
This is a case of the neo-con buffons monitoring the cartoons in an effort to get lazy americans to accept fascism as the antidote to the "fears" they themselves have created through their own inadaquacies and small penises.
Did Gringoman know why Harry wore a Hitler suit to the halloween party?
(ans. His bin-Laden suit was at the cleaners)
There is only ONE solution!! George Bush and the Military!

[Dan Cameron Rodill]

Here is a comment, from the wildly popular GlennReynolds Instapundit site which gringoVision cannot resist re-publishing (Mr. Reynolds happens to be an INTELLIGENT holder of a law degree--a professor too. Proof is that the "I agree" at end of the comment is his.

Meanwhile, a reader from Belgium emails:

On the "dreadful mistake bit". Of course we Europeans (I am Belgian) have only ourselves to blame but Americans have to understand how fearful we are becoming of this violent minority in our midst. Muslims are already a majority in the lowest age groups in several large European cities. The potential for civil war is clearly there and what is even more worrysome is the dedication of most our governments to appeasement.

For the US State dept to seize this opportunity to burnish its image with the "muslim community" was only to be expected however and I am pretty sure that this is exactly the kind of noise our governments would want to hear from the US at this stage. So no harm done to us in any case. It will gain you zero goodwill from the fanatics, but it will not harm us. I do hope however that nobody at State dept really thinks that the fanatics have to be appeased and that those caricatures should not have been published. *That* would be a mistake of the first magnitude.

Bernard Vanden Bloock
Overijse
Belgium

I agree.

[Dan Cameron Rodill]

Here's url for very vivid series of fotos showing mooslim reaction around the world to cartoons of Mohammed (who they do not, of course, idolize) [hat tip to the relentless filipino-american troublemaker,Michelle Malkin]

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004441.htm

[Phillip Wedeen]

Leave it to the neo-con to attempt to snow job lazy americans with BS like this:
"Muslims are already a majority in the lowest age groups in several large European cities."
(Does he mean among Parisians born within the last five minutes?)

Then "..we Europeans (I am Belgian) have only ourselves to blame..." For what?!
Typical neo-con nut! Start with a conclusion and work backwards!

[scott edwards]

We have heard the frantic voices of the american demogogues, so unable to parce out constitutionally protected protest from persons who are citizens or lawful immigrants and are demanding redress. Or the neocon unbridled anger; anger aimed more at those who oppose a fascist, militarist approach in dealing with domestic political opponents. (No wonder these american neo-con assholes live in gated communities; walled off from even their countrymen!)

So in an effort to diffuse the potentially explosive situation, and given my work on presenting american war crimes and atrocities committed in Iraq before the Hague, I met today with representatives of the Danish consulate in Santiago and , via phone patch with Copenhagens' Immans , to redirect the incohate and potentially explosive anger spurnned on by a leaderless mob. Feb 4, at some sixteen world capitols is a rally entitled, "The World Can't Wait: Drive Out The Bush Regime". There was tentative agreement that participants in muslim rally against the Danish government and press would join in with the Feb4 global protest to drive out Bush; the rationale being that the broad public participation would diffuse the incohate anger of those incensed muslim protesters.
There will be marches in Copenhagen, Madrid, London, Berlin and Paris (as well as here in Santiago Chile) The american majority which opposes this evil regime will meet in Washington DC:

http://www.worldcantwait.net/

It my sincere hope that a more targeted appraoch will provide both anger management and a more constructive process in helping provide a solution to the #1 cause of crisis in the world today.

[Dan Cameron Rodill]

Comrade Eduardos:

A mantra much beloved by the neo-coms and the greying 60's refritos suffering from advanced terminal marxitis: THE CAPITALISTS WILL SELL US THE ROPE TO STRANGLE THEM WITH. You know it well, no doubt.

But the work you cite--- so compassionate, so driven, so demented--- with the MooslimMarxola People's Front (and its "asshole" logic) indicates urgent need for updating: THE PROGS WILL DEFEND OUR RIGHT TO BEHEAD THEM LAST OF ALL.

[Dan Cameron Rodill]

Hey Wedeen,

Interested in a hot New England case? Sounds like it would be perfect for Edwards and his ACLU: defending the civil rights of a serial pedophile rapist. Unfortunately, Edwards, as you know, is currently defending the mooslims who are on a world rampage, setting embassies on fire, hurling death threats at their welfare benefactors in London, Paris, Copenhagen et al. He'd appreciate you helping out, no? He'd be glad to offer any legal expertise you might need, wouldn't he? Also, it could be a good location for a Canadian "anti-imperialist." The serial pedophile rapist is in Vermont. Conveniently located for you, no? The Judge in the case probably snapped. Edwards could advise you on work-arounds. And here's the no-brainer (for you, that is): Bill O'Reilly would be on the opposite side! You could be hailed as an ACLU hero, defending civil rights against the "American fascists." Think about it. My Vermont source can help you to contact the pedophile. Let us know, after you talk it over with advocate Edwards. Think what it could do for your left-wing reputation.

[Dan Cameron Rodill]

As the "Religion of Peace" burns the Danish Embassy in Damascus and ayatollahmobs in London vow "another 9.11" and pale progressives prefer to warn us about "Christian funadamentalists," here's the view of a real live Dane (hat tip to Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler)............

It’s very disappointing for the people of Denmark to see the US “Conservative” government together with the lossy Brits take their stand on the side of the howling Muslim mob. The strong condemnation of the 12 cartoons from US government, has only fueled the rage against our people and our fight for free speech.

We fully supports the US lead war against terror. Our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq are fighting on the same side as US and the shitty Brits.

It has been a prime argument in the public debate that we had an obligation to support US, because US was an allied that needs support. This argument about one of our friends need help, was in many cases enough to support the military intervention in Iraq.

We still support US even after the missing weapons of mass destruction and the Abu Gail pictures. Many Danes including me, always saw US as the good guy, the country that stood up against Nazism, Communism and fights for democracy and free speech.

One of my friends joked a bit today:
“I wonder if UK and US will disarm our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and turn them over to the angry mob. To boost their popularity in the Muslim world.” Things like that will newer happened, but as a Dane i feel that US and UK has betrayed on of their allies to gain more sympathy in the Muslim world.

But we have plenty of support in the continental part of Europa. Cartoons are printed all over continental Europa. Conservative, liberal and even socialist media prints the cartoons to defend free speech . Most important Germany and France takes our stand to protect our rights of free speech. The same two countries that condemned the invasion of Iraq !

The terror attacks in the London sub way forced the UK government into submission to Muslim pressure. We will never surrender to terror and intimidation. What will US gain in supporting the Muslim extremists ?

mad

Comment by Bishop_Absalon — February 4, 2006 @ 3:42 pm

[Alexandra]

Phillip Weezel,

Hey you with "the small penis" complex (your words not mine). You are incoherent and messy in your delivery. What on earth are you actually saying, do you yourself know, or are you just a leftie troll caught in a time warp?

Your comments are rants with no succinct point to them, and culminate in vulgar insults that interest no one. Did you get lost on the way to Atrios where English seems to be a second language?

Speaking of the above, you need to consider dying on your feet a better option than living on your knees.

[scott edwards]

I tell my third year law students in Evidence to take a healthy dose of skepticism and think critically.
Gringoman too should heed this advice.
It seems that it is more important for the neo-con right to stay on messege even if that means to create fantasy. "Bernard Vanden Blook" and "Bishop Absolon" are probably penned by the same author. If fact just surfing around the loony right blogs I found nine "europeans" offering the same presice thesis, in the precice same logical order; talking points, and all relating back to support for americans in Iraq. Curious.
The "Bishop Absolon" of "Copenhagen" went momentarily out of character however when his "friend" referred american soldiers as "our troops".

For Alexandra, I think my Quebecois friend was saying that Gringoman offers poor justification for his thesis in offering as evidence reports exclusivly from the american far right wing.
No doubt however that his thesis be open for any criticism... because it is dogma. Otherwise, why the diatribe on pedophilia?
Most Waloons residing in europe would keep the flemish appellation "vanden Blook" instead of the anglized "Vanden Blook", however the inference against authenticity arose only when the text of his letter was read. Wedeen is right that vanden Blook is wrong on his facts, about the muslim census and on european appeasement.
I do like Aleandra's "dying on your feet" metaphor as emblematic of a bankrupt society that can confront any and all problems through a militaristic approach. Wipe 'em out, Alex!

[Dan Cameron Rodill]

Comrade Eduardos,

If you snap out of the ideo-cocoon for a moment, you might understand why a Dane would refer to "our troops" either without reference to American soldiers or even with reference to American soldiers. The Danes have troops with the Coalition forces. 'Coalition forces' includes Danes AND Americans. I'm sure you understand what "coalition" means, and how it relates to the plural possessive pronoun, such as "our."

But do you include this in the "citical thinking" you teach your third year law students?

Oh, and another point. You dismiss "gringoman evidence" on the basis of an unsubstantiated assertion, namely "it's from the far right wing." In circles where people are capable of thinking, this trick is considered a cheap dodge. But let's not assume that someone teaching law students was employing a cheap dodge. Let's assume that you can substantiate your assertion. For some reason you didn't have the time. Maybe you had to rush back to the class on "critical thinking"?

[Dan Cameron Rodill]

Alexandra,

Touche! You pierced the pretensions of "Phillip Weezel" even better than I did last year. Wedeen rates a place in the Mujahadeen Hall of Useful Infidels, (hopefully to become another of the spectacular illustrations on your site one of these days.) Another key to his and Edwards taste for psychorabble: The picture of a couple on the beach at radiant Tulum (in 'Gringolandia' on sidebar of gringoman.com) The BAB twins (bourgeois anti-bourgeois) Wedeen and Professor Edwards insisted that the illustrated beach couple is two males. I have no idea if they plan to see "Brokeback" together, but their fantasy life keeps banging into their other demonstrations of "critical thinking," as they show again here and even in the "General Negrete" post which, once again, I had to straighten them out on (usually a thankless task, and futile too.)

[scott edwards]

Some rationality in a sea of wingnuts:
(Don't bother gringoman, it doesn't entail a statist approach)

http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk02062006.html

[Dan Cameron Rodill]

For Secular Sammy and the loopy leftniki riding the Mooslim Express: BACK TO VOLTAIRE.

http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2006/02/mohammed_cartoons_row_basta_with_intimid.php