Comments on: DeMos: Interview with Naser Khader http://agora.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/demos-interview-with-naser-khader/ Free and open Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:52:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Administrator http://agora.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/demos-interview-with-naser-khader/#comment-789 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:40:52 +0100 http://agora.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/demos-interview-with-naser-khader/#comment-789 #2, Kai B It's very simple. Deny, deny, deny. When they are confronted with their threats, they say that they haven't threatened anybody. A threat by telephone is hard to prove because nobody is usually recording the conversation, so the exact contents of the threat is hard to ascertain. Also, it's easy to buy anonymous cell phone SIM cards in Denmark which make it hard to track who made the call. There's also telephone boxes, of course. Threats are only ever easy to prove if those who threaten are stupid. Most people aren't that stupid. A few <i>are</i> convicted every few months, but the news rarely make it to the papers. #3, Eudaimonia Bleh! He's still a Social Liberal. I wouldn't want his party anywhere near a government coalition. They're defeatocrats. Khader is a Right-Wing Social Liberal so he would be a moderate Liberal. I propose that he change his party instead of the government expanding its coalition. Agora #2, Kai B
It’s very simple. Deny, deny, deny.
When they are confronted with their threats, they say that they haven’t threatened anybody. A threat by telephone is hard to prove because nobody is usually recording the conversation, so the exact contents of the threat is hard to ascertain. Also, it’s easy to buy anonymous cell phone SIM cards in Denmark which make it hard to track who made the call. There’s also telephone boxes, of course.

Threats are only ever easy to prove if those who threaten are stupid. Most people aren’t that stupid. A few are convicted every few months, but the news rarely make it to the papers.

#3, Eudaimonia
Bleh! He’s still a Social Liberal. I wouldn’t want his party anywhere near a government coalition. They’re defeatocrats. Khader is a Right-Wing Social Liberal so he would be a moderate Liberal. I propose that he change his party instead of the government expanding its coalition.

Agora

]]> by: Eudaimonia http://agora.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/demos-interview-with-naser-khader/#comment-788 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:38:06 +0100 http://agora.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/demos-interview-with-naser-khader/#comment-788 Admirable person indeed! He is exactly the kind of person we need in Danish politics. Brave, sharp, honest, uncompromising, passionate about freedom and democracy *and* a Social Liberal. I'd vote for him as Prime Minister any day. He represents the nuance and critical thinking that Pia Kjærsgaard and the Danish People's Party so desperately lack. Admirable person indeed! He is exactly the kind of person we need in Danish politics. Brave, sharp, honest, uncompromising, passionate about freedom and democracy *and* a Social Liberal. I’d vote for him as Prime Minister any day. He represents the nuance and critical thinking that Pia Kjærsgaard and the Danish People’s Party so desperately lack.

]]> by: Kai B http://agora.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/demos-interview-with-naser-khader/#comment-787 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:52:48 +0100 http://agora.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/demos-interview-with-naser-khader/#comment-787 Thanks for this post Agora. In this debate there is one thing that makes me wonder, it concerns the threats against moderate Muslims, like Khader. Why is it that the police cannot prove and prosecute those who threaten? Are they totally inept? What is going on here? As long as those threats can go on without being stopped and punished they will remain effective. Couldn't you try to put some spotlight on this problem, i.e. the Danish police. We have the same problem in Norway, where I come from, the police seem to be helpless. But I suspect this helplessness is not due to the cleverness of the criminals behind the threats (no doubt criminal totalitarian Islamists) but that the police is incompetent. What say you? Thanks for this post Agora. In this debate there is one thing that makes me wonder, it concerns the threats against moderate Muslims, like Khader. Why is it that the police cannot prove and prosecute those who threaten? Are they totally inept? What is going on here? As long as those threats can go on without being stopped and punished they will remain effective. Couldn’t you try to put some spotlight on this problem, i.e. the Danish police. We have the same problem in Norway, where I come from, the police seem to be helpless. But I suspect this helplessness is not due to the cleverness of the criminals behind the threats (no doubt criminal totalitarian Islamists) but that the police is incompetent. What say you?

]]> by: foreign devil http://agora.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/demos-interview-with-naser-khader/#comment-786 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:07:30 +0100 http://agora.blogsome.com/2006/04/03/demos-interview-with-naser-khader/#comment-786 Bravo Naser Khader! What an admirable person! That's exactly the kind of person within Islam we need. Someone who has his community's best interests at heart, but is also able to see what it is within the heart of that community which is making life impossible for everyone. Those clues which he gives within his answers, as to the divisions of Wahhabist Salafists versus others was enlightening, as was his differentiation of Arabic bombastic rhetoric from the threats and more serious insinuations coming from some of the Islamist/Salafists. Bravo Naser Khader! What an admirable person! That’s exactly the kind of person within Islam we need. Someone who has his community’s best interests at heart, but is also able to see what it is within the heart of that community which is making life impossible for everyone. Those clues which he gives within his answers, as to the divisions of Wahhabist Salafists versus others was enlightening, as was his differentiation of Arabic bombastic rhetoric from the threats and more serious insinuations coming from some of the Islamist/Salafists.

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