Agora

Considering recent events, I would like to come forward as the foremost spokesman of this worldview:
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MSNBC reports:

NEW YORK - Osama bin Laden’s niece, an aspiring singer who posed for a sexy photo shoot in a men’s magazine last year, has signed up for a reality television show about her life and her as yet unfulfilled “quest for stardom.”

Wafah Dufour Bin Ladin, whose mother was married to the al Qaeda leader’s half brother, was born in California but lived in Saudi Arabia from the age of three to 10.

“I understand that when people hear my last name, they have preconceived notions, but I was born an American and I love my country,” Dufour said in a statement from ReganMedia announcing the deal to develop a reality TV series.

Click more to see nudie-pics of bin Laden’s Niece. This was a harsh choice for this blog, because usually only profanity is shown here. But in the name of Freedom of speech, here goes:
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This feature article ran in yesterday’s Jyllands-Posten. Read this - if for nothing else, to get this sentence in its context: “Who is on our side when it comes to defending Danes against bondage and serfdom to foreign powers?”

Jyllands-Posten, March 9, 2006

Feature Article

Now is when History is Written

By Lars Hedegaard, Historian and Journalist, Copenhagen

The intransigence of the continuing Muhammed-debate shows that the combatants are painfully aware of what’s at stake. Posterity will ask a simple question: “On whose side were you when it mattered?” Says today’s feature writer.

Shortly after the travelling Imams had been to the Middle-East to spread lies about the country that had received them, it was said that the case of the Muhammed-cartons would enter Danish press history.
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Ah fuck! On top of everything else today, now this:

UPDATE: Transcript of interview with Foreign Commissioner of EU at the bottom of this post. Looks ominous.
UPDATE: Time to do the Dhimmi dance. Turkish Foreign Minister to urge European nations to “examine their legislation!”
UPDATE: Today is a day of happy tidings. See this post.

Jyllands-Posten, March 10, 2006

EU-Ministers considering Arab demands

It may no longer be enough to just combat discrimination, a presentation document at meeting of EU-ministers says.

As a pendant to the Muhammed-affair, the Foreign Ministers of the EU are considering complying with Arab demands to “fight defamation of religion.”

So far the EU has voted against these kinds of proposals at meetings of the UN General Assembly, but they are now considering reversing that. So a written presentation document aiming at bettering the relations between Europe and the Islamic countries.
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Transcript of excerpt of press conference held today, available here. I can’t believe the balls of these infidels. Demanding an apology from us in our own country. MFs. I say, let them go to hell.

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This is a letter to the editor from yesterday. Beautifully written.

Politiken, March 9, 2006

Letter to the editor

Verbal Sidearm

By Katrine Winkel Holm, Cand.Theol.

ISLAMOPHOBIA. A new, often used word. An effective verbal sidearm: That’s Islamophobia, they say, and the attacker is checkmate, for a while at least. Maybe it’s time to turn that weapon against those who use it. That is what this article intends to do.
But first: What does it really mean? Literally, it simply means fear of Islam. In my opinion there may be good reasons for such a fear. Just ask Salman Rushdie[1] or Ayaan Hirsi Ali. But in the context in which the self-proclaimed euro-islamist Tariq Ramadan uses it, it means a clinical fear of Islam. A delusion, in other words, because the implicit contention of Mr. Ramadan is that it is not reasonable to fear Islam. Islam can easily be reconciled with Democracy and Freedom of Speech. Islam is a religion of peace, not a religion of violence. If we assume that that is true, the mystery seems to be why lately there have been so many who advocate limiting the Freedom of Speech on account of Moslems’ feelings. Why do members of PEN want to make a law to protect religious minorities - Moslems - “against defamation due to their religion.”
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