The Dane That Roared

(Viking, courtesy Alexandra von Maltzen, Allthingsbeautiful)

These are times that try America's taste for Danish.

 

Could any  Nostradamus  have predicted it---a conservative daily newspaper in friendly old Copenhagen, forcing  the left, the right, the political/entertainment/ media mighty  into  an awkward dilemna: side with little Denmark or with a billion moderate muslims, many gesticulating and howling for kaffir blood?

 

Did the Dane plan to put Americans (and others) into such a moral dilemna,  or expect anything on this scale? Apparently not. Spit happens.  Actually, the daily Jyllands-Posten was reacting to Islamic intimidation.  Danish illustrators had been advised not to supply Danish drawings for a Danish children's book about Mohammed. The Danes had to ponder. Threats encourage ponder. The Danes are living in  today's increasingly muslimized Europe.  They were learning that even supporting Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade  against Israel would  not necessarily keep you fatwa-free. It could help, sure, so long as  you did not rebuff Islamic instructions,  teachings  and threats in other ways. This isn't exactly Sharia. It's not exactly Western Civilization either. It's the New Diversity in the new Europe.

 

At any rate,  the paper  didn't  shut up, run down, back off or bend over. It didn't react like U.S. Mainstream media. Rather than go Lamestream, it did what lefties dismiss as a provocative stunt. It took a stand, a bold one.  On September 30, 2005, it published 12  cartoons that poked a little fun at Mohammed and the muslims who claim not to idolize the prophet ("idols" are forbidden, we are told.)

 

Was Jyllands-Posten deliberately razzing the  new globalized  thought police (both the capitalist and socialist variety)?  Or was  it having a Hamlet moment? To be or not to be a Dane? Was it nobler to suffer the scimitar in the mind, or take up ink against a sea of nasty imams?  Was it chanelling the Vikings, or at least an  era when men said what they thought and manliness was socially acceptable, even in policy-wonk global trade venues?

 

Perhaps Jyllands-Posten forgot the do's-and-don'ts for Danes living in Denmark today? Perhaps it was even having politically incorrect feelings about the country's immigrants from the land of the camels?  Unfortunately for "can't-we-all-just-get-along" society, the paper's reaction to  intimidation by aliens living on Danish welfare has become famous (or notorious.) Cartoons as world crisis? Who knew?

 

The annoying dilemna soon hit the U.S.  The danska paper's act put  U.S.(and many other) editors in a sorry position. These professionals had to explain  away the astounding abdication of their own "free press" responsibility. In reporting the controversy raging world-wide, these media professionals (with extremely few exceptions) failed to publish the prima facie evidence--the Mohammed cartoons. With circulation figures in  crisis, the readers they need to keep they left blind-sided. Refusing to publish the evidence, they pleaded, was a way of taking the high road of "respect for religion" and "not giving offense,"you see. It was not, you see,  the low road of worried secular wimps who could have fun with the Bible Belt, but not the Koran Klub. They accommodated the muslims, and the Cartoon Jihad was on.

 

Mondo Islamo erupted anyway. Months after the Copenhagen publication, imams living on Danish dole traveled to the Middle East for meetings  on how to whip up the djellabahs. Concocted evidence--a fabricated drawing-- helped, showing Mohammed with a pig snout. That stoked the faithful.  Muslim madhouse guaranteed.  The  flag-and-embassy burning, Hezbollah and Hamas gun touts, kidnapping threats, death chants, corpses and holocaust greetings gave special  insights into one of the great world religions (not to mention how neatly it coordinated with Ayatollah Iran's growing and increasingly cocky nuclear showdown with the West.) Had the Dane brought this on?  You might have thought  the laid-back, tolerant, permissive, humor-loving Dane had roared, instead of only publishing some mildly satirical cartoons.

 

 

Even if beard-and-burqa mob spectacles on CNN and Al Jazeera subside,  the dilemna continues. Western business types signing fat globo deals with fat moderate sheikhs cannot escape it entirely. It's out in the open now.  Mondo Islamo clearly intends to punish and boycott the EU's Denmark for following Danish custom instead of obeying muslim strictures on depicting their prophet Mohammed. The call to obedience is in the air. The muzzein is calling from his minaret. It seems to be getting louder. Can the capitalists and socialists hear it?

 

Denmark still stands. Despite enormous pressures, the Danes  refuse to bow or yield, much less kow-tow. Meaning?  It means the dilemna continues. Today's homo americanus  can support Denmark, or Islam,   fink out by declaring 'neutrality,' or go hide and pretend not to see. U.S. editors, even if emasculated, can resume their support for freedom, civil liberties, the permitted kind of cartoons and the separation of mosque and state.

 

Meanwhile. the  boycott and pressures bloom. Arla Foods, owned by more than 10,000 dairy farmers in Denmark and Sweden, estimates that the muslim boycott will cost it US$65 million in 2006.

 

The European Union, under pressure by the 57 states belonging to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, is considering a media "code" that would forbid satirizing religion.

 
On March 9 Al Jazeera broadcast the latest Osamaton video, this from deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. He blessed the boycott against Denmark and against other European countries who "insulted the Prophet Mohammed" by publishing the cartoons. Al Quaeda and moderate Islam seem to be journeying in the same cartoon caravan.

 

Still Denmark does not repent, or not sufficiently for muslim taste.  Although Jyllands-Posten has apologized for "offending many muslims," the nation itself remains firm (and hasn't demanded apologies for the mobs burning the Danish flag that bears the Christian cross.) Prime Minister Rasmussen, while praising the paper's apology, re-affirms that the Government cannot apologize for a newspaper or any non-official. To do so would violate Danish liberty and separation of powers.  Polls show that most Danes agree . They  refuse to cave, despite the muslim boycott. They support the conservative Prime Minister's stand. And they do it their way. You cannot hear a roar. Can you?

 

And what do you hear in the U.S?  From the Liberal/Left, not much, except criticism of Jyllands-Posten.  They don't see it as a brave response, like that of the fiery (and dying) Oriana Fallaci to the new Europe where even notables can be shot and knifed unto death  (as Theo van Gogh was by a djellabah-wearing Moroccan) and dissenters are in hiding or under police protection.  "Progressives" see the paper's action  as  foolhardy at best, or just a "cheap cartoon stunt, designed to provoke." They seem peeved, as if someone  stepped on their multy-culty toes.

 

Among the globalista"conservatives," (which would include Bill Clinton and acolytes) busy  lobbying or signing lucrative deals with Chinese and oil sheikhs (including U.S. port facilities, if Congress permits)   it's mainly a nuisance, not an illuminating dilemna. There are deals to do and friends to make  with moderate muslims.

 

On Oscar night, Hollywood, that well-known enemy of oppression, tyranny, intimidation and fascism, was silent (even though Al-Quaeda asserts that their mutual enemy, President Bush, did a "Bring it on" for  the Cartoon Jihad.) George Clooney proved again why many ladies and neo-coms consider him  a mind too, and not just a Fortunate Hunk.  One of his movies showed the socially redeeming side of Islamic terror, and the other bravely raked over Joe McCarthy, the most raked-over Senator in U.S. history. Gorgeous Georgie proclaimed that Hollywood is ahead of the curve, and he doesn't mind being "out of touch" in the right way. Possibly the closest they came to a cartoon statement was in not naming  "Brokeback Mountain" as  Best Movie. Were they fearing the evangelicals, or dreading  the Koranics calling them 'Homosexual Crusaders'?  Everyone agreed that the liveliest (meaning most honest?) moment was the award to  rappers Three 6 Mafia for Best Song, another example of black entertainment success in Liberalized America.  But unlike most previous winners, like  "Secret Love," "The Shadow of Your Smile," "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head,"  "Call Me Irresponsible' etc. it's unlikely that Hollywood's 2006 selection can  be played in the Middle East except  where they discuss the Great Satan: "It's Hard Out There For a Pimp."

 

Are there Americans inclined to support Denmark and counter the boycott? Are there Americans who recognize Denmark as an ally---an ally in a Long War?

 

Yes.

 

Are these Americans suffering Viking mania? Will they put on a coat of chain mail, a metal helmet (with or without the horns), grab a long sword and axe (don't forget the small knife ) and, for the officers and pikers,  a pike and bow and arrow too?

 

No. Or probably no. (Or most of them, probably no.)

 

What, then, are these Americaners to do? What can they do? Blogworld reports and photographs  Rallying For Denmark (See Alexandra's  Vikings New York at Allthingsbeautiful.com  and Pamela's Rally Report at Atlas Shrugs.com

 

 

Others are rallying in another way, and without actually carving dragonheads on ships, sailing away or even attacking by land "with great force and without hesitation." It has to do with butter cookies, Legos toys,Carlsberg and Tuborg beer, House of Copenhagen furniture, Dancake, Danish Crown ham, world famous iconic Danish design of lamps, chairs, interiors, Dansk dinnerware, SBG Media, Toms chocolate, Thor fish, Prince bacon, Danablu cheese, Havarti with jalapenyo, Dansko footwear, GN hearing aids and headsets, Royal Danish porcelain, Skagen watches,.Morsoe fireplaces, Vesta windmills, Lindberg eyewear etc and so forth.  That is, it has to do with Support Denmark and 

 

Alexandra at Allthingsbeautiful has more on the clash in Denmark, "Muslim Clerics Demand Apology."

Comments

[gringoman]

On the subject of Apology, this just in from Europe...........

Sorry Everbody, I’m So Sorry, Really Sorry, I Sincerely Apologize
From the desk of Paul Belien on Fri, 2006-03-10 14:57

The City of Antwerp, governed by a coalition of Socialists, Liberals, Green and Christian-Democrats, has requested that the Belgian courts prosecute a member of the city council for the Vlaams Belang, the largest party in town and the only opposition. The Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (CEOOR), a tax-funded government inquisition office that under Belgian law has the competence to prosecute for discrimination and incitement to hatred, has also started a prosecution.

The councillor’s crime? He forwarded an e-mail that has been circulating widely on the internet for weeks. The councillor wrote:

A Danish website offers apologies to all “offended” Muslims. Here is what it says:
We’re sorry we gave you shelter when war drove you from your home country…
We’re sorry we took you in when others rejected you…
We’re sorry we gave you the opportunity to get a good education…
We’re sorry we gave you food and a home when you had none…
We’re sorry we let you re-unite with your family when your homeland was no longer safe…
We’re sorry we never forced you to work while WE paid all your bills…
We’re sorry we gave you almost FREE rent, phone, internet, car and school for your 10 kids…
We’re sorry we build you Mosques so you could worship your religion in our Christian land…
We’re sorry we never forced you to learn our language after staying 30 years…
We’re sorry for everything else…
And we’re sorry for having to say sorry…!

[Trevor]

So where does it go from here? Is the orchestrated rage over yet?

[gringoman]

The latest from a U.S. ally, Pakistan, is that they will seek a world-wide Internet ban on cartoon blasphemy, i.e. your computer screen must conform to Islamic strictures. Meanwhile, "The European Union, under pressure by the 57 states belonging to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, is considering a media "code" that would forbid satirizing religion."

Note: The 57 states are moderate muslims. They are not threatening to behead anyone.

[Phillip Wedeen]

Listening to Gringobuddy, euros Paul Belien the self- flaggelating Opus Dei falangist, do his mea-culpas is like another Gringobuddy and felon, Jim Prafke- soulmate to Timothy McVeigh- posing in photographs with the american Republican felon-cum-wetdream, Oliver North...in Iraq, no less!
Mr Belien was recently sent a gift of a Cannon towel and a pair of sissors to clip holes for his eyes. Belien, now has a hallowed spot among the wingnuts in the neo-con hermit kingdom. Under his suit is the leather straps of his roman sandels wound up to his knees!
Will he go mano-a-mano with Abu-Nidal? Hudson-Austin? Manual Noriega? Willie Horton? Osama? Saddam? Avion-flu? Castro? Or the bogeymen de jour?

[gringoman]

Wedeen, even I am surprised at how you continue the Waltz of the Weasel. Instead of fessing up to whether you endorse the Anti-Islamist Manifesto signed by 12 prestigious "progressives", you still make a mockery even of your own anti-American bloviations. You show that you're not even a coherent commie. Is it the weed, Wedeen? Or something in your mentor's bottle? You dodge like a kid in school gym. Or would you rather plead (again) that this post is not about the Anti-Islamist Manifesto? Like to try that one again? Or would you rather escape like a road runner?

[miguel]

Anyone who has a mind knows there will be war. It's weaklings and cowards such as the unfortunate Wedeen, who are hastening the oncoming war as they slather comfort upon the Islamofacists and slander the heroes who will save him from being beheaded.

I am an artist who was once a leftist, so I can see and predict the left's gutless cowardice, even as they make movies using guns and explosions. Those movies are absolutely nothing compared to the real bravery that will be needed of the average American soon.

The traitorous treachery of the left will have to be dealt with forthrightly, because the United States will have to take the lead in this oncoming War of the Civilizations. The Euro-weaklings are just now dimly waking up to their peril. They will need us to save them, as we did in WW1, WW2, the Cold War and now this one last time, for thereafter they must carry their own weight.

The Europeans will have to deal with the fact that their socialist utopia powered by the labor of their Moslem immigrants, is actually an expression of their sense of superiority. All liberals, socialists and leftists, secretly feel that they are the elite: just better and smarter than the working man.

That delusion makes one weak and lazy, capable only of sputtering forth fake intelligentsia noises while living off the labor of others. Wedeen shares this quality with the societies of Europe.

Buildings full of bureaucrats will not save the lazy and the weak. Salvation can come only through the power of a cohesive society.

[Phillip Wedeen]

Miguel Washington of Rollingbarrage, I presume.

Persons in your goverment(not all), "mindless" as they must be, are working hard to avoid war.

You are "an artist" alright, a BS artist who lacks the cajones to post under his correct name. While you are busy "predicting the left's cowardice" how about allowing cogent disagreement, "vociferous debate"on your blod. Mr Washington alleges that the capitulation of the french govenment over the issue of 'at-will' emploment will sink the economy. When asked to show a nexus between the statute and the economy, Mr Washington erased the comment. (Right wing liberty, Don Miguel? At least Gringoman doesn't shy away from a challenge, thou eunoch jelly, thou.)

All "liberals, socialists and leftists secretly feel that they are elite" and compared to you, they are because they don't run from an empirical debate. You find somebody with a brain and you hit the 'delete button'!

If you are speaking for securitania, do the rest of us a favour, don't try to save us. You've already lost Iraq. Go pick on Grenada; there might be a few students who need to be saved. Send the army. Send Falwell.

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