Henryk Broder ved høringen “Antisemitisme i Tyskland”, 16.6.2008. Teksten kan læses her.
“Også antizionismen er en afsky ligesom den klassiske antisemitisme. Antizionisten har den samme indstilling til Israel, som antisemitten har til jøder. Han bekymrer sig ikke over hvad Israel foretager sig, men over at det overhovedet eksisterer.
Orwell ville have blogget
Idag er alle enige om at prise Orwell. Det var de bestemt ikke da han levede. Da han frem for alt var antitotalitarist og antikommunist, hadede venstrefløjen ham intenst. Idag hænger den sin hat på hans afsky for kolonialismen, det engelske klassesamfund og hans hjerte, der brændte for de fattige – så blev han alligevel én af deres. For fattig havde han selv været, (læs “Down and out in London and Paris” hele bogen her) og han havde pengesorger hele sit liv. Han skrev nogle halvdårlige romaner, man godt kan springe over, men læs – foruden de berømte – hans Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters i fire bind. Eller vent til de kommer online. Jeg læste dem da de udkom som Penguins i 1970. Man skal ikke spilde sin ungdom med at læse dårlige bøger.
George Orwell started keeping a diary on August 9, 1938, and maintained it on a more or less daily basis till shortly before his death in 1950. Now the trustees for the Orwell Prize have decided, 70 years after his first entry, to post the diaries on the internet, a day at a time, an enterprise that should therefore continue till 2019 or 2020. Impatient readers don’t, of course, have to wait so long. The diaries have already been published in the 20-volume Complete Works, edited by Peter Davison, while excerpts from his wartime diary were included in the four-volume Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus, first published by Secker & Warburg in 1968, and then by Penguin two years later.
George Orwell would have blogged
Bruce Bawer: »European Muslims Debate: Should Gays Be Executed?«
Norway’s Islamic Council still can’t decide.
One of the pillars of the future totalitarian state in 1984 is the practice of doublethink, which Orwell defined as
“the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. … To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary.”
As it happens, this is a precise description of exactly what’s been going on in many parts of Europe in recent years, as multicultural ideology has been confronted by realities about Islam that, in a doublethink-free world, would send that ideology crashing to the ground in flames.For a case in point, I will refer the reader to an episode I’ve mentioned previously in this space — an Oslo debate last November at which the deputy chairman of Norway’s Islamic Council, Asghar Ali, refused to reject the death penalty for gays. When Senaid Kobilica, the head of the Islamic Council (which represents 60,000 Muslims), was asked where he stood on the question, he replied that he couldn’t give a definitive answer until he got a ruling from the European Fatwa Council. This week it was reported that he’s still waiting……….. Bruce Bawer
Fears over Brussels plans for ‘European CIA’ which would force Britain to share security secrets
(Grafik og link: Gates of Vienna). Argumentet med den mulige konsekvens mht. forholdet til USA er højst interessant. Det der allermest er påkrævet lige nu er et paradigmeskift hen imod fuld åbenhed om situationen i de vestlige lande vis-a-vis islam. Et skift der betyder fuld åbenhed om kendsgerninger; stop for lammende selvcensur og poetiske omskrivninger af frygt (islamofobi) for hysteriske og voldelige reaktioner fra de altid krænkede; brug af den korrekte terminologi som ‘jihad’, og henvisninger til islamisk historie og teologi; åbenhed omkring den kendsgerning at det ikke ‘blot’ drejer sig om ‘terrorisme’, men om at denne terror har et mål som udspringer af mainstreamislam, og at truslen i måske endnu højere grad kommer fra demografien og petrodollars brugt på undergravende virksomhed. Der skal fuld åbenhed om disse ting før vi overhovedet kan begynde at løse problemerne.
Det er disse forhold som vi her i blogverdenen prøver at skabe mere opmærksomhed om. Jeg er dog så realistisk at jeg erkender at vi næppe ad oplysningens vej kan få virkeligheden frem i lyset, og ‘dialogbænkene’ og al pludderet og selvbedraget sendt på historiens mødding. Den politiske og psykologiske modstand er massiv. Men hvis USAs kolde, nationale sikkerhedsinteresser kan nødvendiggøre en cut-the-crap-tilgang til virkeligheden, kunne gennembruddet komme. Den samme problemstilling findes i øvrigt også i spørgsmålet om sikkerheden i europæiske lufthavne og de transatlantiske flyvninger (LFPC).
Brussels is planning a ‘Euro CIA’ which would threaten Britain’s national security by forcing MI5 to pool its intelligence, critics warn. France and Germany are pushing for the sharing of security secrets and far greater integration between national police forces to tackle terrorism.
It led to fears that the U.S. would stop sharing important security secrets with the UK because the European Union has such a problem with leaks. […]











