Least shocking news I’ve Heard All Day.

Lenin phrases it:

Victims of police shooting not evil paedophiles after all.

The man, shot by the Police when Two Hundred and Fifty of them raided his house to stop an “imminent” chemical attack.. which which involved a weapon that could disperse chemicals.. quickly.. a weapon which turned out not to exist, and the chemicals, and indeed entire “plot”, which transpired to be fictitious.

After the police realised they’d destroyed two innocent men’s homes and reputations they managed to find child Porn images on the phone and PC of one of the Men… only, the images weren’t sent by Text message, or by blue-tooth.. they were “embedded” into a phone (Which, coincidentally, means that the date the images were placed on the phone cannot be ascertained, and also, only someone working with the Phone Company, or the police, would have the technology to actually embed the images into the phone.)

I can’t really say I’m surprised at this, its what the British establishment are best at.. Mudslinging and character assassination.

BBC summary here.

Letter from the indo

Considering this will be gone from the indo’s Site tomorrow, I’m just going to repeat it here. Its a letter from Steven Berkoff.

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Bomb Al-Jazeera! Blunkett goes bonkers

The winner of the 2003 award for “the most Islamophobic British politician“, David Blunkett has released tapes of his time in Tony Blair’s cabinet. Blunkett, who has been repeatedly portrayed as a media-whore by the Private Eye (Every time you read a newspaper report about a ’source close to David Blunkett’ – Chances are its David himself after calling the paper to get himself into it!) was sacked.. err, resigned in disgrace twice from Blairs cabinet, once for breaking ministerial rules for the woman he was having an affair with, fast-tracking her visa, and then again after some dodgy share dealings. He has repeatedly said he has “the common touch” with the voters, but I don’t know how common these traits are..

Anyway, Blunkett has no time for such trivial matters as the Geneva Conventions. “I don’t think that there are targets in war you can rule out because you don’t have military personnel inside.” Nice.

From the Mirror;

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Former Nazi, the Pope now attacks Muslims

 

The Nazis killed 6 Million Jews in a very short space of time, the holocaust, as well as around half of all Roma gypsies and far too many of any other European minority you can think of and among their ranks was one Joseph Ratzinger, the current Roman Catholic Pope. Now, not content with being part of the nazi death machine, Pope Benedict XVI takes aim at Muslims.Popex watches

Not content with demanding that Turkey be booted from European accession talks, or having a Chin-wag with Oriana Fallaci – The woman who said “Muslims have been told to come here and breed like rats” and “Arab men have something in them that makes women of good taste vomit“, or trying to make the EU constitution be explicit in its Christian references, thus negating the Jewish influence.. the one the Nazi member Ratzinger tried to eliminate.. Ratzinger decides that Muslims should be put in their place.

Show me just what MohammadSAW brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” Nice. The Pope said that because he was quoting a quote it makes it alright. He also says he said it in a speach promoting inter-religous discourse. Apparently referring to that which practising Muslims hold most dear as “evil and inhuman” is the former Nazis way of promoting peace and dialogue.

He has since apologised, but this will not be forgotten.

Niqaabs and Burqas, and whiskers on Kittens

So, someone in the NHS, seeing the high rate of Asian women who do not attend Hospital appointments for fear of being forced to wear hospital gowns which don’t cover their arses, have designed a garb which can cover a person, including a NIqaab style face covering.  Now, considering this is to be merely an option for a woman that chooses it, you would think it particularly unnewsworthy. Well, I would. but, then again I’m not the editor of the Dianaly Express.Shock Horror.. Green things on the rampage

 Apparently this voluntery method of dress is the “new look” for the entire NHS, rather than just an alternative form of clothing that Muslim women, and others, can wear so as to have some form of modesty while suffering the usual indignaties of an NHS hospital.

The Express, apart from not knowing the difference between a Burqa and a Niqab, has never been known for its anti-Islamic stance.  After all, there is nothing wrong with going on the odd Crusade it tells us. It rabbits on and on about traditional honest values, while remains in the ownership of a man who made his millions selling cheap porn, Dirty Des.

Now, today, the Express columnist Virginia Blackburn goes on about her problems with seeing women choosing to wear too many clothes for her liking. Perhaps shes more used to the attire of the ladies in her boss’ TV channels, such as the “Fantasy Channel”, or perhaps his mag “Asian babes” is more to her liking?

Anyway, Blackburn moans that the sight of a Burqa “chills” her, as it is “the strongest visual indication of female oppression in the world.” So, its established, Blackburn judges women solely on their appearance.  There is no indication that Blackburn has bothered attempting to speak to these women who look “like a mummy”, but then why would she, “Britain is the high point of civilised Western culture – a culture, for all its faults, that really is morally superior to anywhere else.” and these Mummy like folks are just not British, it would seem.

She says that “In countries where [wearing a Burqa] commonplace, and in some cases mandatory, women are not allowed to vote, drive or leave the house unaccompanied by a male relative.” which is of course inaccurate.  The Burqa is only common in two countries, Afghanistan, where women are allowed to vote, leave the house, drive, etc, and Nigeria, where no-one can vote freely, but the women there can drive and leave the house.

Now, considering restricint a womans right to choose to wear some more clothes than her is one of Blackburn’s sore points, guess what she thinks a minor issue is. Honour Killing. Welcome to the world of the Daily Express.

 Just for Blackburns readers, see if you can tell the difference between a Mummy and the new hospital gown?

A mummyThat new hospital gown

Cead Míle Fáilte!

Welcome to Ireland, Tír na cead míle fáilte (land of a thousand welcomes). Sure to be sure, begorrah, lets have a guinness, etc. Ireland has managed to propagate an image of a care-free, idyllic land where the stress of the modern world is absent. The nation sees twice as many tourists to its 40 shades of green shores than its population a year, which I’m sure is some sort of record.

However, this image is a piece of crap. Firstly, the nation is extremely racist. Zhao Liutao, a chinese student, was killed, the cause of death was head injuries which caused brain damage. Mary O’Rourke, the former education minister and current leader of the Seanad said her staff worked “like blacks” during her nomination for the seanad, and then refused to apologise (”political correctness gone wrong” to even ask her to) she meant it in a complimentary sense.

Secondly, the suicide rate in Ireland has quadroupled since 1990, while the cost of living keeps on creeping up and the effects of “rip-off Ireland” take hold.

Thirdly, we pollute.  We pollute and then we pretend we don’t.

That being said, I did not expect the following…



 

 

 

From the Sunday times:

What did we do to deserve your hatred?

Ireland’s 26,000 Muslims know all about the war on terror — they now live in constant fear of abuse, says Brian Carroll

Their head scarves frame faces that are unmistakably Irish and their Dublin accents seem out of place among the strictures of their religious dress.

They are unlikely targets of racial abuse, but Patricia Fitzpatrick, 43, and Lesley Carter, 35, have been spat upon, called Pakis, Osama Bin Laden and even “Jewish bastards” on the streets of their native city.

As converts to Islam they have joined Ireland’s estimated 26,000-strong Muslim population (Err, census says “19,147 Muslims“, but, thats an aside), which has become the focus of controversy since the discovery of planned terrorist attacks in Britain two weeks ago.

Last week two Algerian-born Irish citizens — a man and a woman — were arrested under anti-terrorist legislation in Wales. Although both were released without charge, the media coverage did nothing to improve intercommunity harmony in Ireland.

“I always felt people would leave me alone because I’m Irish. But now when they look at the newspaper and see the story about Irish Muslims arrested in Wales, I wonder what people think of me today?” Fitzpatrick says.

She accepts that there may be a tiny element of extremism in Ireland. But it’s among Muslims who have moved here, not those born here. “There are terrorists in every society,” she said. “Were all the Irish people in the IRA? Don’t judge us all.”

Her Muslim name is Saffiyyah and she was raised in York Street, Dublin, in a working-class family of 13. Carter grew up in Ballybrack.

They refused to be interviewed individually because neither can be left alone with a man. So one sits quietly while the other talks.

Carter clasps her hands together and stares at her feet while Fitzpatrick explains that at the age of 23 she married a Libyan national, Khairi, eight days after meeting him and now has six children aged from four to 18.

Fitzpatrick had converted to Islam two years earlier. “Something was missing for me. I started searching for answers. They had just finished building the mosque on the South Circular Road and I saw the moon shape and said to a friend: ‘Let’s go in and find out what it’s all about.’

“I hid it from my family. I couldn’t tell my brothers I wanted to be a Muslim. I used to go in the summer with an umbrella over my head. But they spotted me.”

Her family thought she had joined a cult, presuming Muhammad was the cult leader. One brother threatened to burn down the mosque.

“I got a hard time from my family for years. They’d say things like ‘Where’s your camel?’ I was their funny half hour, especially when they got drink in them,” she said.

Theresa, Fitzpatrick’s mother, cried throughout her daughter’s wedding ceremony. “I didn’t know what to make of it,” she admits, “but by degrees we got to know Khairi. He’s a lovely man and a good husband.”

The Fitzpatricks moved to Libya for 10 years, returning in the late 1990s to live in Kilmainham. “I noticed a big difference when I came back — a lot more racism. I was walking down Sandymount the other day with my mother and I got spat on. Then yesterday, around the corner from where I live, I was called a terrorist.”

A man recently called her a “Jewish bastard”, betraying his ignorance and his racism. “If you had seen the hatred in his eyes,” Fitzpatrick says. “I’m afraid for my children, afraid to let them out of my sight. My son got spat on going to the shops.”

 Shortly after the 7/7 attacks in London, she was buying a school bag in a shop. The shop assistants laughed and said they knew what the bag was going to be used for.

Shortly after the 7/7 attacks in London, she was buying a school bag in a shop. The shop assistants laughed and said they knew what the bag was going to be used for. “It’s only hitting Ireland now about Irish Muslims and terrorism. Now you are afraid of nightfall: are you going to get a brick through your window?” Carter has kept her hands clasped and eyes downcast throughout.

“I’m a Bracker,” she finally says in her soft Dublin accent, a reference to her native suburb. When she was 20 she went to England on a two-week holiday, met an Egyptian Muslim, married him a week later and lived in Essex for seven years. Her parents only found out about it afterwards.

Carter’s mother, Terry, said finding out her daughter had married a man she barely knew was every parent’s nightmare. “But once we got to know him and knew he was going to look after our daughter and our grandchildren, things changed. We accepted it.”

Though married 14 years, Carter only converted to Islam four years ago. She used to sit outside the Islamic Cultural Centre of Ireland in Clonskeagh when her husband went in to pray. One day she joined him. “I used to laugh at people who said they had a calling from God, but now I feel I’ve had one to become a Muslim.”

When she began to wear a hijab, she was harassed, called a Paki and told to go back to wherever she came from. Ignorant youths called the mother of four Osama Bin Laden.

The recent thwarted suicide bombings and the arrests in London have heightened tensions, she admits.

“We’re not like what the media are portraying us as. I don’t think any person should be branded as a nationality or religion. It’s sad Muslims can be branded like this.

“I have an 11-year-old son and we are planning to go to Florida and he’s scared, asking: ‘Mammy, what if they take you at the airport, because you wear the scarf?’” Fitzpatrick, whose husband is a shopkeeper in Dublin city centre, agrees. “You can’t paint us all as extremists and terrorists. People have the right to fight for their country, but lunatics that blow people up don’t stand for me.

“Now it’s across the papers about Irish Muslims being arrested. Now it’s like all Irish Muslims are terrorists. My kids are in the scouts and the football team, they go swimming, play in the park and do the things other kids do.”

But whatever lies in store, she does not regret the journey she has taken. “No matter what happens in my life now, I would never go back,” she says. “I have found peace.”



 

 

 

Doesn’t it make you want to stand up and sing Amhrán na bhFiann loud and proud?

Fly with Asian-Free airlines!

Kenan Malik, the guy Muslim-haters love (after all, he has a Muslim sounding name), says that IThe BNP and their supporters, for example, do not hate Islam and Muslimsslamophobia is there to “to stifle criticism of Islam“, he claims that it is a “myth“, and claims there is no hate at all directed at Muslims! This view is echoed by such folks as Roger Kimball (who also gleefully reports upon the death of socialism) among other conseratives. Curiously, even the BNP don’t deny there is such a thing as Islamophobia, though, they claim that it is “justified fears of Islamification and of Muslim terrorism in the UK”.

So, in light of that, I’m curious as to how Malik and his conseratives bed-mates would describe the following…

India on Friday lodged a strong protest with the Netherlands at the way it handled Indian passengers from a Bombay-bound flight that returned to Amsterdam shortly after takeoff, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
Dutch authorities detained 12 Indian passengers for more than a day and later released them after finding no evidence of a terrorist threat aboard the Northwest Airlines flight on Wednesday.
“My brother is a businessmen traveling with colleagues and friends,” said Sanober Chotani, whose brother, Shaqeel, was among those held. “Indians talk more loudly than Westerners. So if you are happy, excited and Muslim, and don’t converse in English, you are a terrorist?”
Lubna Kulsawala said her brother-in-law, Ayub Kulsawala, 32, often flew abroad to sell garments. “He flies frequently for trade fairs and business. But he is Muslim, so he was arrested. Why should he be detained with no calls allowed to family?” she said.

Full story here

The Mail on Sunday screamed “Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed” on August 20th. Two british asian chucked from a plane.  Whats curious here is the account given by the victims in the mirror days later.

Firstly, they were marched off at Gun-point, was that really needed? The men had cleared the security checks already, why add the weapons.

Whats more curious is that some of the passengers started crying! “Then we heard a child crying. I looked around and there was a girl of about 12 looking at me, pointing and crying… Her parents were putting their arms around her protectively and staring at us”. The men were asian, dressed in western dress, had been drinking beer, eating at McDonalds and had long(ish) hair. What is so terrifying about that? Perhaps its their audacity at speaking “a foreign language” (thats is, not english… while in spain), but, it seems, that brown skin is now enough to drive children to tears, and the elderly to suspicions.. “The pair, studying for degrees at Manchester’s Umist institution, believe the scare was sparked by an elderly lady sitting nearby… Khurram said: ‘We were chatting away in Urdu and she kept looking at us. At first I didn’t really take any notice. I just thought perhaps she’d never seen an Asian person before.’”

And more;

Off-duty Amar Ashraf, 28, was settling in his seat as a stand-by passenger on the Continental Airlines’ flight to Newark when a stewardess said he had to get off.The aircraft had already pulled away from its stand at Manchester Airport and was getting ready to taxi to the runway when he was led away and his bags were taken from the hold.Mr Ashraf said: “I felt very demoralised when I had to get off.“I must have met the profile on the day. I have an Arabic name, I am a Muslim, I’m from Britain and I know how to fly.”

Full story here.

And more;

A Winnipeg doctor is demanding an official apology and compensation from United Airlines after being kicked off a flight in the U.S. this week, an incident he has characterized as “institutionalized discrimination.”   Dr. Ahmed Farooq, a Muslim, was escorted off an airplane in Denver on Tuesday. According to Farooq, reciting his evening prayers was interpreted by one passenger as an activity that was suspicious.

Farooq said the allegation came from a passenger who appeared drunk and had previously threatened him during the trip.

Full story here.

And more;

A senior member of the Edinburgh Airport ground staff relayed the two incidents to The Sunday Post this week.
“I’ve only witnessed two sets of passengers kick up a fuss about Muslims on their flight but I’m sure it’s happening regularly. It’s sad, but people are inclined to take the law into their own hands if they think their lives may be at risk.”

Full story here.

And, the most famous instance;

The British singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, is due to be sent back to London after being refused entry to the United States.

Mr Islam was on a flight from London to Washington when officials realised his name was on a “watch list”. The plane was diverted to another US airport.

Muslim groups in Britain and the United States have criticised the decision, saying Mr Islam is a man of peace.

In our market driven economy, how long will it be before we see the arrival of Muslim-free airways, or no-Asians-air?

 

Liberal Hollywood hates Arabs.

Hollywood has never liked Arabs. Conspiracy theorists suggest this is because, “Jews run Hollywood” and they are Pro-Israeli, or some such.  I disagree, Money runs hollywood, and Arabs, unlike the Chinese, Japanese, the Irish or any other such group, have no significant purchasing power. The cinema going public like identifiable bad-guys, and a different skin colour to the good guy always helps. Add to that an alien religion that people simply don’t want to get to know or understand and you have a recipe for any Arab being a stock cartoon bad guy.

Jack G. Shaheen has a book called “Reel bad arabs: How Hollywood vilifies a people,” where he details more than 900 American flicks and the negative portrayal of Arabs therein (read a review here).  Films like “True Lies” (where Art Malik plays the stereotypical Baddie) and “Rules of engagement” (where images of Arab Men, women and children holding AK-47s shooting at the good guys in the US Army are seen) are just two in a whole catalogue of Hollywood stereotyping the Arab people.  It extends beyond hollywood.  The TV series Lost, for example, is supposed to be notable for its intelligence and astute observations, yet, of its multi-cultural cast, guess which one is the professional torturer? Yeps, the worlds second most popular show’s Arab is a torturer, and, as chance appears to have it, one of Saddam Husseins Henchmen.  He, Sayid Jarrah, was allowed his emancipation though, by a Good Guy .. an American Soldier.

 Team America, World Police, famously mocked Hollywood for being wooly and liberal.  If this crass characterisation of an entire ethnic group is “liberal”, what exactly would it be if there was no such steroetypical portrayal?

Liberal Hollywood, further, backs Israel. 38 signatories including Nicole Kidman, Michael Douglas, Dennis Hopper, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Danny De Vito, Don Johnson, James Woods, Kelly Preston, Patricia Heaton William Hurt, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Michael Mann, Dick Donner and Sam Raimi have signed a letter stating:

We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

“If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die. We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs”.

Apparently willfully ignorant of the facts that, firstly, Hamas and Hezbollah are both Democraticly elected sections of their respective societies governments. The siege of Gaza and the West Bank was in operation prior to Hamas’ existence, likewise, Israels intervention in the sovereign state of Lebanon caused there to be a Hezbollah, not the other way around. Ignorant of the fact that the assault of Lebanon was a plan by Israel, not by Hezbollah, and supported by the USA and UK. Ignorant of the fact that while the whole world, Hezbollah and Lebanon included, wanted a ceasefire, the ones in favour of the war and killing and death and destruction and ethnic cleansing were not the named terrorists, rather they were the USA, the UK and Israel. In fact, these nations actively worked in direct opposition to peace, and the ending of the killings.

Liberal Hollywood sounds curiously similar to that notorious wooly liberal, George W. Bush.  It is time for people to cop themselves on!

The world Vs. The Palestinians.

Palestine is a land now divided into mulitiple parts. 

There is Gaza, which is now as one.  One large prison where no plane nor ship is allowed enter, unless its an Israeli plane. Its a prison where three out of every four people are below the poverty line, and where one out of every four children is suffering from Malnutrition.

There is Israel, like a cancer it continuously grows swallowing up more and more land spreading further and further east. Most recently annexing the Jordan Valley, which is about as far east as the Israelis can go before invading Jordan (again). This borderless state is one of the few explicitly racist nations left on the planet.  Someone from, lets say New York, can go and live there if they are Jewish, however, someone (unsurprisngly, a Non-white Arab) who was forced from their home inside this land is not allowed to return to it!  Thus under a law they call the “Law of return“, people who have never lived in the land are allowed to “return” to someone elses home!  If a citizen marries a Palestinian, they must live apart, as Palestinians “should not be allowed into the country.”Woman who tried to stop a series of Israeli bullets with her head.

Yet another infant who obstructed Israeli bulletsAnd then, of course, there is the West Bank.  With East Jerusalem as its besieged capital, its under steady barrage of death from the swamping mass of Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers. If the Israelis are to be believed, Palestinian infants, women and other civilians are actually getting themselves in the way of their bullets and are not being targeted at all.  Just there, Yesterday, Sunday May 14th a further six people were murdered.  On Friday another person was shot dead by the Israelis following an illegal raid.  Apart from East Jerusalem, the west bank includes places like Hebron, Nablus and Jericho, and as such tourism could easily become a major source of Palestinian Revenue if the Israelis ever end their war.  but the Irsraelis are more interested in grabbing more and more land.  note this map which details the land Israel has both grabbed for their settlements, and simply banned the native population from living in.

                                                West bank, Settlemtns etc

We can clearly see the displacment and strangulation in place by the israelis.

Now, let us compare another thing. In 2002 it was recorded that since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today’s population, that is more than $5,700 per person.  That was before the Sharon Government demanded $10 billion to “disengage” from a territory that was never there’s to begin with. The biggest most important Lobby group in the US are the sinister “AIPAC“, (The American Israel Public Affaris Committe) an organisation designed solely to propogate the interests of Israel, and several of whose members are currently on trial under espionage charges. Total US aid to Isael is approximately one-third of the American foreign-aid budget. A portion of US foreign aid to Israel, which has increased in the past decade to $80 million annually, goes into building settlements for Jewish immigrants. 

However, the Palestinians, as we have seen, are living in poverty and hundreds of thousands of whom are literally starving to death recieve no US aid.  Not a single solitary cent. The EU too has cut off all aid.  $70m donated by Arab states is blocked because banks, fearing international sanctions, refuse to transfer the funds. Israel is refusing to hand over the tax money that is legally the Palestinians.

This is the world at large attacking the people of palestine, something which, as the law of israel highlights, would not happen if these people were Jewish. It is a disgrace of the highest magnitute. 

It is comparable, and I hope I cause no offence, with the time Muhammad ((SAW)) spent in the desert.  Rejected for not being the right religion, one third of the Muslims died. But they recieved help, the Ansari of Madinah aided the starving people of the Arabian Desert.  Today it is the Palestinians who are in need of their Ansari.  We need to help.

You can help by donating to Interpal, MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians), UNRWA, or Islamic Relief and I’m sure there are many more!

Don’t even think about it, just do it.

Cartoons?

How can cartoons cause such a fuss?  The Denmark cartoons have led to international revulsion, protests and the upswing in support for far-right parties, including, in the UK, the BNP. They have led to over one hundred deaths, an Anti-Denmark boycott and a small counter “Support Denmark” rally in New York. The Thousands rallied in Trafalgar Square against the Cartoons and the increase in Islamophobia (And also to show that the freaks who from the Saviour sect who marched to test the limits of Freedom of Speach were unrepresentative) were ignored while the media chased a guy who proved there are limits to free speech (the point he was trying to make is true, but surely, if you accept their are limits to Free Speech and expression, you should not try to exceed them in this manner?) by wearing a mock Suicide Bomb Belt.

 The media is always in need of extremists and the fear they propogate to sell their wares.  The Western media played into the Far-Rights hands by following up on the Pathetic march of less than one hundred outside the Danish Embassy while effectively ignoring the message of close to ten thousand Muslims in Trafalgar Square.  This was repeated prior in places like Egypt and Saudi Arabia where they almost gleefully reported on the cartoons which had appeared almost half a year ago in Denmark.  The Danish Muslims had, wisely, ignored the “newspapers” attempt at incitement.  As offensive as this Far-right newspaper was of itself, it was clearly looking for trouble and the persecuted minority of Denmark, a primarily Arab and Turkish Muslim population, did not give them the satisfaction. So, a group of Danish Imams went to Egypt, bringing a dossier of examples of hate levelled at Muslims in the Scandanavian nation, which included the cartoons.

 Danish Muslims make up a mere 2% of the population, but are villified and hated by many people in Denmark, including the Queen (Who informed her people that they should “show their opposition to Islam” – Or “These people” as she prefers to call Muslims).  The Cartoons are not the first nor the last time it’s media has incited hatred against Muslims.The Governing parties have introduced draconian laws explictly aimed at Muslims.  The Progressive Party of Denmark openly campaigns on a “Denmark with no Musselmen“. Its’ High-Courts have dismissed the idea that a woman be allowed to wear a headscarf if they want. Denmark took part in the war on Iraq, a war which left around one hundred thousand mostly Muslims dead. Muslim graves have been descrated and Mosques have been attacked. I could go on, but, Kiku Day summizes it better; “the Denmark that helped Jews flee from Nazi deportation is long gone. A new Denmark has appeared, a Denmark of intolerance and a deep-seated belief in its cultural superiority.”

In fairness, Denmark is not the only nation which has succumed to the peace that comes in having an identifiable religious enemy.  Life becomes simple when it is just black and white. Us: Good – Them: Bad, so simpletons europe over have flocked to give support to people like Jean Marie Le Pen and the Deutsche Alternative party.  Brigitte Bardot, the French actress who enjoyed taking her clothes off, described Muslims as “blood-thirsty savages“. The attacks on Muslims come from all sides, from the Left leaning Tribune, The Right leaning Express, the so called “homosexual terrorist” Peter Tatchell, Nazis and Communists, etc.

However, the simpletons of Denmark, when they elected the hate-filled bigots to power, bear some blame for the furore that erupted.  They elected representatives that demonised 2% of their population and that is just wrong.  Then, when the Ambassadors of ten Muslim nations requested a meeting with the Prime Minister they were refused, a deliberate action desgined to create enflamed reactions. That was also wrong. Not a word of support for the Muslim minority was issued by the Right-Wing Danish government, instead choosing to try and wash its hands of the affair as trouble boiled. 

Thankfully now though, Muslims around the world are aware of the pressures facing Danish Muslims, and Muslims around Europe.  Non-Muslims too have been made aware of the perilous Monolithic positions that they are applying to Muslims.  Hopefully, out of the hatred poured on Muslims by Danes, a new era of understanding can come forth and the intolerant Viking can be sent back to the dark Ages where he belongs.  Maybe, but, I’m not counting on it.

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