Professor Frederik Stjernfelt, Århus:
Why is Islamism not seen as right-wing extremism? Frederik Stjernfelt on the media reaction to the arson attack on Charlie Hebdo.[..]
On the international scene, the internet versions of many leading European newspapers feature the photograph of Charlie’s editor holding up the front page of the magazine with the drawing of the prophet saying “100 lashes, if you do not die from laughter!” before the sooty ruins of its premises. But not a single English or American news media ran the image, as far as a quick net survey shows. At the same time, new threats against Libération are trying to force the daily to stop protecting Charlie. Slowly and steadily, the poison of the extreme religious right is spreading in democratic societies, shrinking the space of free speech and criticism day by day. The strange and unsavoury cocktail of death threats, bombings and arson with whining and whimpering – topped off by defeatist intellectuals talking about “sensibilities” – is slowly eating away at the heart of open societies. Nausea in Paris by Frederik Stjernfelt is a professor at the Center for Semiotics at the University of Aarhus
I Frankrig er debatten særdeles hidsig. I Sverige løses det på den måde, at man refererer terroranslaget, men den kaster ingen mediedebat af sig. Perspektiver? Tystnad. Jyllands-Posten er, som Stjernfelt skriver ved at være slidt op af trusler og terrorplots. Udmattelsesstrategien har virket. I Oslo ønsker Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak Kurt Westergaard død.Hvor langt er der fra en modløs avis, til en lukket avis, og hvem skal blive de næste? Tre Charlie Hebdo journalister har måttet under politibeskyttelse. Liberation er blevet truet for at huse bladet, deres redaktion er under bevogtning og gitter på gaden. Anderledes med en restauratør der har været udsat for lidt lokal terror i Grenoble. Terror og modterror, som vi skrev forleden allerede selvkørende:
Part of the terrace of “Le 5” restaurant in Grenoble was torched and destroyed over the weekend in what the owner, Pierre Pavy, suspects was revenge for his support of Charlie Hebdo after its offices, too, were torched and destroyed last week. Following the fire-bombing of the magazine’s offices, “to respond to the stupidity” Pavy chose to display the Charlie Hebdo front pages featuring a laughing Mohammed in his restaurant. Afterwards, he received insulting telephone calls and even a visit from a person claiming to represent Islam who demanded that the front page be taken down. Pavy refused to comply. He has collected Charlie Hebdo front pages and displayed them in his restaurant for years and intends to continue. Le Dauphiné
Dalrymple: Kulturelt selvhad som karrieredrivkraft
Citatet her er ikke nyt og kommer via PJ Media, men ikke mange ting er vigtigere end at indkredse og udbrede delforklaringer på det der foregår i den vestlige kultur i disse år (LFPC).
Limitless guilt being a form of grandiosity, the past commission of great crimes is a consolation for those who have lost power. It assures them that, notwithstanding their loss of the more immediate trappings of power, important, indeed determining, factors in the current situation of the world are traceable to them. […]
a miserabilist history is a very useful instrument in securing if not a social revolution, then at least a change or expansion of elites. […]
Bureaucracies must be created to right the wrongs of the past, the very bureaucracies that absorb the newly educated thousands and millions. Miserabilism thus combines business with pleasure. Fra Theodore Dalrymple: The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
Psykolog: Tyskerne skal integrere sig i den tyrkiske diaspora
To velkendte fænomener her: Akademikerens insisteren på at virkeligheden bør være lige modsat af hvad almindelige mennesker mener (måske selveste den moderne definition på det akademiske?). Og det rutinemæssige forsøg på at få sin vilje ved at opmuntre til håbløshed. Udviklingen er ubønhørlig: ‘You ….. vill ….. be …. multiculturalized’ (LFPC).
[…] So is learning German not a necessity?
This demand is part of the old model, which is: go to school, learn German, be good, then all problems are solved. This fails to take into account the fact that the migration of Turkish people to Germany is a historical movement that is nowhere near complete. So sometime there will be Turkish schools and universities. The process can no longer be reversed; on the contrary, in Europe we are just at its beginning. We must consent to this development. Until that happens, understanding will not work. And only when we consent can we shape the process. I am certain it will generate something completely new..
Are we Germans then required to make room and accept parallel societies?
Migration was never discussed in terms of the migration of peoples, only in terms of immigration and adjustment. But we must engage with those who do not want to immigrate. Perhaps we need to start learning Turkish. The migration of peoples demands a lot of everyone involved. It’s about co-existence on the basis of equality. And accepting other people as equals, leaving them as they are, and granting them the same rights, that is a real challenge. For example, that a muezzin should be able to call in the mornings in the same way that church bells ring. […] New Approach to Integration in Germany: “We Should Learn Turkish” (engelsk oversættelse fra Psycho: Wir müssen beginnen, türkisch zu lernen)










