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Denmark embarasses itself further
Talk about self-loathing.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/j...ersion%3D0
Quote:Something’s Rotten in Denmark
The attempted axe-murder of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has been widely reported. On January 1, a 28-year-old Somali Muslim hacked his way through the door of Westergaard’s house near Aarhus and when police arrived was attempting to do the same to the reinforced “safe room” where Westergaard had retreated.
Less widely reported is the shameful aftermath, in which Danes have cravenly ostracized the artist.
Westergaard is one of a dozen Danish cartoonists who depicted Mohammed for the newspaper Jyllands-Posten in 2005, for a feature on self-censorship that later touched off deadly riots around the world and the torching of three Danish embassies in the Middle East. There have been numerous death threats against all the artists. Two Pakistani immigrants, one American and one Canadian, were arrested in Chicago in October and charged with planning an attack on the newspaper.
After his narrow escape, Westergaard donated a watercolor painting to a charity auction hosted by a Danish TV program, with the proceeds to be devoted to earthquake relief in Haiti. But the Lauritz auction house got cold feet and refused to auction his art. “The drawing was in no way controversial, but it seems my name is. I’m sorry for the fear it causes people. When even my hairdresser, who is Muslim, told me with sadness that she didn’t dare keep me on as a customer for fear of reprisals, then there’s reason to be sad about this development,” the 72-year-old artist told reporters in Copenhagen.
The Danish prime minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, to his credit chastised Lauritz. But defenders of Westergaard are becoming rarer. And there is worse: Karen Thisted, a columnist in the leading tabloid Ekstrabladet, blamed Westergaard for his own troubles. Her January 5 column ran under the headline, “You Are a Coward, Kurt Westergaard.” She accused him of a “constant urge for self-promotion. . . . It has got nothing to do with freedom of speech to keep shouting about oneself and one’s artistic rights, and it irritates me intensely that we Danes have to suffer just because Kurt Westergard can’t get enough of his five minutes of fame.” The column concludes: “You suffer from the compulsive idea that you are personally engaged in a heroic fight on behalf of freedom of speech.”
Seems there are plenty of cowards (and worse, in the case of Thisted) in Denmark, but Westergaard isn’t one of them. A friend of The Scrapbook in Denmark notes that none of the papers there in their coverage of the axe attack dared reprint the cartoon.
On a happier note: Galleri Draupner in Skanderborg stepped up and auctioned Westergaard’s watercolor, raising 100,000 Danish krones ($19,000) for earthquake victims.
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
Quote:Seems there are plenty of cowards in Denmark. A friend of The Scrapbook in Denmark notes that none of the papers there in their coverage of the axe attack dared reprint the cartoon.
It's sickening that media wont print the cartoons when they are the subject of an article. Always good to see representatives printed in The Weekly Standard. One of a very few print media that aren't cowards.
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
Danish Special Forces took a Merchie back from some Somali Pirates the other day.
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
Inch by inch the Muslims are starting to take control of everything - and they do it because they use violence to get their way and people back down from it. The day I turn on the Rush Limbaugh show and hear a Muslim cleric is the day I'll know they got everything.
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
(02-06-2010 11:02 PM)smn1256 Wrote: Inch by inch the Muslims are starting to take control of everything - and they do it because they use violence to get their way and people back down from it. The day I turn on the Rush Limbaugh show and hear a Muslim cleric is the day I'll know they got everything.
Don't worry. THe Christians will have another Crusades before that happens(actually, it has already been started by Bush-lets just hope we can end it before the Christian right get their wish of armageddon).
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
(02-07-2010 01:59 AM)RobertN Wrote: (02-06-2010 11:02 PM)smn1256 Wrote: Inch by inch the Muslims are starting to take control of everything - and they do it because they use violence to get their way and people back down from it. The day I turn on the Rush Limbaugh show and hear a Muslim cleric is the day I'll know they got everything.
Don't worry. THe Christians will have another Crusades before that happens(actually, it has already been started by Bush-lets just hope we can end it before the Christian right get their wish of armageddon).
^ This is one of the reasons people think you're a f'n moron.
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
1 0f over 14,000 reasons.
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(02-07-2010 10:55 AM)Rebel Wrote: (02-07-2010 01:59 AM)RobertN Wrote: (02-06-2010 11:02 PM)smn1256 Wrote: Inch by inch the Muslims are starting to take control of everything - and they do it because they use violence to get their way and people back down from it. The day I turn on the Rush Limbaugh show and hear a Muslim cleric is the day I'll know they got everything.
Don't worry. THe Christians will have another Crusades before that happens(actually, it has already been started by Bush-lets just hope we can end it before the Christian right get their wish of armageddon).
^ This is one of the reasons people think you're a f'n moron.
Why? I state the truth and somehow that makes me a moron? Please tell me what I said that wasn't true?
(This post was last modified: 02-07-2010 04:53 PM by RobertN.)
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So your truth is that your just fine with the Muslims taking over with the rest of the world not even bothering to put up a fight.
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
"Bush's crusade"?
I guess we COULD have just let them keep blowing stuff up in America.
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
(02-07-2010 06:11 PM)Smaug Wrote: "Bush's crusade"?
I guess we COULD have just let them keep blowing stuff up in America.
I am sorry but what did Iraq have to do with blowing anything up in America?
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
The same thing Bush had to do with the attack on the World Trade Center in '93.
What's your point?
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
(02-07-2010 06:33 PM)Smaug Wrote: The same thing Bush had to do with the attack on the World Trade Center in '93.
What's your point?
My point is the war in Iraq was not necessary and was a waste of tax money. THe waste of tax dollars is something you guys on the right should be upset with. Who ever said Bush had anything to do with the attack? The Democrats may claim that his administration blew it on the intelligence(which DID occur under HIS watch and the intelligence was there despite what Faux tells you) and seemed a little slow to react after the attack(ie. continued reading to the kids).
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For the record, I agree Iraq was a mistake. But if you don't believe Iraq had WMDs, maybe you should ask the Kurds for a second opinion.
Maybe we should get out of the UN, huh?
And if Bush dropped the ball on 9/11, then so did Clinton.
As far as not terrifying a classroom full of small children? I'm okay with that.
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
(02-07-2010 06:44 PM)RobertN Wrote: ....and seemed a little slow to react after the attack(ie. continued reading to the kids).
Gee, the guy was on TV, should he have panicked a country even further by appearing to panic himself? He spent a few more minutes reading, got on AF1 and circled over the Caribbean until things got sorted out.
Your guy, on the other hand, did nothing for days when the undie bomber tried to blow up a plane and when passengers stopped it an mindless Obamaphile said the system worked. And on the day this happened there could have been hundreds of undie bombers on planes all across the country but the O did nothing but play a little golf, and why not, his plane was safe.
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RE: Denmark embarasses itself further
(02-07-2010 10:58 AM)Paul M Wrote: 1 0f over 14,000 reasons.
He's a troll.
Someone should ban him.
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