At en mand skydes ned på åben gade i Gøteborg og dræbes med 10-15 skud ? Xheladin Purava, lige løsladt fra fængsel, tilvandret mafioso, morderen antagelig hyret på Balkan og allerede flygtet ud af landet. Det er otte dage siden det sidst sket for fire mand på en fortovsservering, og inden da var det heller ikke særlig usædvanligt.
Er Gøteborg en virkelig by? Jeg har aldrig været der, måske er den kun et ord, en lyd. Måske er det bare en ny virkelighed, og ikke engang den er helt ny, eller måske er Gøteborg bare end ond drøm, man vågner af. Måske har de styrende styr på det hele, vi er forfærdede uden grund, alt bliver godt igen, de døde rejser sig og griner: “Det var bare en krimi af Mankell for at I ikke skulle kede jer. Brød og skuespil, kulturlivets job. Nu vender vi tilbage til hverdagens presserende spørgsmål, unisex-toiletter på rådhuset,” et prioriteret spørgsmål, man ikke gør grin med.
Jan Milld har fået slettet en video fra You Tube. Om Elin Krantz. Hun døde også i Gøteborg for ikke så længe siden, men hans behandling af det er “modbydelig og chokerende” og er taget væk, selvom det kendte billede er pixelleret og You Tube flyder over af langt værre vold i forvejen. Nu er vi tilbage i uvirkeligheden igen. Eller er det den gode, gamle virkelighed? Hvem skal dø om en otte, seksten og fireogtyve dage, og må man beskrive det på mere end én måde? Hvem bestemmer hvordan vi kan tåle den, hvem ender til slut med at måtte beskrive den, og skal de have særlig tilladelse af den gode smags politi først ? Og til sidst: Skylder vi de døde andet end at glemme dem og bevare roen ?- Gängledare sköts på öppen gata. Mann henrettet på åpen gate i Gøteborg.(Avrättad på Erik Dahlbergsgatan, Naserligan rensar upp i den undre världen.)

Asylkonventionen af 1951 synger svanesang

Selvom det er langt over et tiår siden, at den blev spået som uholdbar, presses den nu af virkeligheden, ikke af præventiv politisk indsigt. Hvor megen politik er i det hele taget præventiv ? Hvor mange problemer løser en gennemsnitspolitiker, for hvert hun skaber? “Problemer erkendes først, når de ikke mere kan løses.” Tallene nedenfor for befolkningsudviklingen i Nordafrika, sætter mindst halvdelen af de nordiske parlamenters medlemmer i relief for deres komplette inkompetence og amatørisme. Inklusive “idioten” Thomas Hammarberg og co.. Smart nok af dem har de afleveret mere end halvdelen af deres aber til EU, og sidder nu kun med privillgierne løn og pension og en tvivlsom anseelse. Naivere er kun de befolkninger, der ikke smed dem ud i tide, først og fremmest den svenske, der bliver første halal-lam på slagtebænken.

The recent instability caused by revolutionary change and military conflict in some Arab countries in North Africa has the potential to generate substantial flows of migrants into the EU. EU Ministers will meet on 11 April to consider what might be done.Some migrants will be genuine refugees but many will be economic migrants. Anyone who sets foot in the UK and claims asylum has the right under the 1951 Refugee Convention to have his or her case heard and also has a right of appeal if refused. Applicants are supported by the taxpayer throughout the process which takes months, and often years. The UK’s record in removing those whose cases eventually fail is extremely poor.

The countries of North Africa are already struggling with large and rapidly growing populations; now 170 million, they are projected to reach 215 million in 2030. Youth unemployment rates range from 18% in Morocco to 31% in Tunisia, giving a total of three million young unemployed in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia (no figures are available for Libya). See Briefing Paper No 11.25. In recent times the Italians have circumvented the Refugee Convention by having the Libyan and Tunisian navies turn back economic migrants before they could set foot on EU territory. That arrangement is unlikely to continue. [..]

Commenting, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said “We must not bury our heads in the sand. We should build on President Sarkozy’s proposal for humanitarian zones in North Africa to accommodate those who are displaced for economic or other reasons.” North African Crisis Could Test the Asylum System to Destruction, Asylum crisis fear as north africans head for Britain, Britain could be plunged in to its largest asylum crisis for a decade because of the massive numbers of people fleeing north Africa, a think tank warned today.

“I want to go to England. I will be rich. I will receive benefits”
More than 3,000 migrants, mainly Tunisians, have been arrested in France since the Arab revolts erupted this year.

HORDES of Arab migrants were huddled in camps in Paris last night – poised to flood into the UK to live on state benefits.Nearly 1,000 North Africans are sleeping rough in parks waiting for the chance to slip across the Channel.The migrants will pay people smugglers up to £1,000 a time to sneak them into the UK. They expect to make the money back within weeks by scrounging off state handouts.And they believe the British Government – which backed the uprisings in Tunisia and Libya – will welcome them with open arms.

A 22-year-old Tunisian called Ali said: “Britain is like paradise. Friends who have already made it into Britain have told me about the riches you can make there without working.”I hear the British benefits system is generous. Britain supported our revolution so we will be more than welcome there.”His countryman Noureddine Bouzoumta, 30, said: “There is nothing for us in France. I sleep outside. I hear the Government in Britain gives money. I want to go to England. I will be rich. I will receive benefits. UK will be like paradise…you get rich on benefits without working.

En patriarkalsk magtbøffel ?

Sveriges problem er ikke kun at der er alt, alt for mange kvinder i svensk politik, det er der og de er de forkerte, men det er i endnu højere grad, at de mænd der er, er mentalt kønsskifteopererede. De er dygtige til det daglige, kyniske intrigespil, men på de større linjer, er de uhjælpelige idealister. Først jubler man sig ind i en lokal klankrig i Libyen og sender verdens bedste jagerfly afsted med løs ammunition, og så kalder man verdens dyreste flyvende fotografer hjem igen “fordi man også skal kunne trække sig ud i tide.” Det er ikke coitus interruptus, det er interruptus uden coitus, og så var interruptussen endda allerede en abort fra undfangelsen. Forerstil dig sådan en skabning. Håkon Juholt, som vi af gode grunde ikke har ofret et ord på, fordi han bliver lige så lidt S statsminister som Mogens Lykketoft, er altså en sød “liten tjej,” man ikke skal skue på overskægget, men når han ser sig i spejlet, ser han en Helvedes karl. Læserbrev fra Expressen via Merit Wager, klik for helstørrelse.

Politikens inderlige hus-islamist

Politisk islam er ikke noget, vi kan vælge fra eller til. Islamisme er en politisk faktor i det danske demokrati. Udfordringen i Danmark består i at finde en måde, hvorpå vi kan leve sammen. Sherin Khankan kronik. Antiislamisk retorik er vor tids antisemitisme.

Omformuleret her på bloggen:

“Antiislamisk retorik er ikke noget, vi kan vælge fra eller til. Antiislam er en politisk faktor i det danske demokrati. Udfordringen i Danmark består i at finde en måde, hvorpå vi kan leve sammen”

Sherin Khankan meldte sid ud af det Radikale Venstre, som hun fandt for højreorienteret, da det fordømte sharia og en stening af en nigeriansk kvinde. Forvirret ? Det er kun fordi, du ikke har læst humaniora på et dansk universitet.

Satireserien ’Cellen’ har kurs mod skraldespanden. Tv-stationen SBS TV har ellers pligt til at vise stand-up-komikeren Omar Marzouks føljeton om en talentløs terrorcelle i Danmark inden juni i år.Men efter at have udsat udsendelsen af programmet to gange, blokerer SBS nu definitivt for komedieserien.»Vi har ikke ændret holdning. Det er ikke det rigtige tidspunkt at vise den serie«, siger Jesper Jürgensen, informationschef i SBS TV. I november sidste år vækkede ’Cellen’ debat om ytringsfrihed og censur, da SBS afviste at sende den af frygt for at skræmme annoncører væk med seriens terror-tema. Tv-station skrotter Marzouks terrorsatire

SBS TV er en del af Europas næststørste tv- og radiokoncern, tyske ProSiebenSat.1 Media, der driver 16 tv-stationer, 11 radionetværk og 10 stand-alone radiostationer i Europa.I Danmark ejer ProSiebenSat.1 Media fire tv-stationer (Kanal 4, Kanal 5, 6’eren og The Voice TV). Derudover ejer ProSiebenSat.1 Media to radiostationer i Danmark (The Voice og Nova FM).

Tears of Jihad

These figures are a rough estimate of the death of non-Muslims by the political act of jihad: 120 million Africans, 60 million Christians, 80 million Hindus, 10 million Buddhists. This gives a rough estimate of 270 million killed by jihad.

Thomas Sowell estimates that 11 million slaves were shipped across the Atlantic and 14 million were sent to the Islamic nations of North Africa and the Middle East. For every slave captured many others died. Estimates of this collateral damage vary. The renowned missionary David Livingstone estimated that for every slave who reached a plantation, five others were killed in the initial raid or died of illness and privation on the forced march. Those who were left behind were the very young, the weak, the sick and the old. These soon died since the main providers had been killed or enslaved. So, for 25 million slaves delivered to the market, we have an estimated death of about 120 million people. Islam ran the wholesale slave trade in Africa.Tears of Jihad

Sveriges Radio sendte den 24 april et program om islams slavehold i Mauretanien. De nåede aldrig nærmere en karakteristik af forbryderne, end at de var “hvide maurere,” givetvis i det lønlige håb, at ingen forbinder dem med det de er: det islamiske herrefolk der fortsætter deres historiske racisme overfor sorte. Klart at de har krav på Sveriges Radios yderste diskretion.

Messerschmidt film om EU: Vi fik hele pakken

Morten Messerschmidt siger om filmen: ”Det EU, vi blev lovet, er ikke det, vi har fået. Vi har fået hele pakken, selvom vi blev lovet det modsatte. Danskerne satte deres kryds i 1972 på fejlagtigt grundlag og datidens politikere talte med to tunger. Danskerne var allerede dengang meget bekymrede for optagelsen i EF og de ændringer af det danske samfund, det ville medføre. De mange bekymringer blev afvist af den socialdemokratiske statsminister, selvom han godt vidste, at EF ikke blot ville forblive et fællesmarked. Det stod sort på hvidt i traktaterne. Det er dette vælgerbedrag, som jeg har valgt at vise i min film. Ved at krydsklippe datidens debatter om EF med nutidens EU, bliver det tydeligt, at alt det, danskerne frygtede, i dag er en blevet realitet.”Filmen ”Det europæiske bedrag” er et led i DR2´s nye dokumentarserie “Der er noget galt i Danmark”. ( Messerschmidt blog: EU og det store bedrag.)

Steyn: Ikke at blive “krænket” er blevet en menneskerettighed

Med udgangspunkt i retssagerne for krænkelse mod den australske journalist Andrew Bolt, Lars Hedegaard og den canadiske stand-up-komiker Guy Earle skriver Mark Steyn –

[…] In all the above “human rights” cases, the traditional protections of Common Law do not apply — whether the notion that truth is a defense or the principle of equality before the law. For the crime of giving offense is in the eye of the offended. A “multicultural” society needs not sensitivity training but insensitivity training — that’s to say, thicker skins. The alternative is what is happening in some of the oldest free societies on earth: a state ever more comfortable in regulating the citizenry’s speech, thoughts, and jokes. There’s a word for that, and it isn’t “diversity”. The human right not to be “offended” hør også Steyn kommentere arrestationen af en pubsanger for Kung Fu Fighting

Holland: Skolelærere presses til ikke at anmelde dødstrusler fra elever

Schools are putting teachers under pressure to keep silent if they receive death threats from pupils. Teachers are advised against going to the police and sometimes even offered hush-money, according to TV programme EenVandaag.

A teacher recounted on EenVandaag how the school management instructed her to give a higher mark to an aggresive pupil for fear he would turn to violence if he did not receive this. This pupil had at that time already made death threats to six teachers.

There was reason to assume that the pupil was dangerous because he was a friend of the Turkish boy who shot a teacher through the head in a school in The Hague in 2008. But instead of informing the police, the school management tried to please him.

Another teacher recounted how schools sometimes dismiss teachers when they go to the police to make a report against a violent pupil. […] Teachers Say Schools Succumb to Violent Pupils

Nu er dette selvfølgelig ingen forbrydelse, og pointen er da heller ikke at det burde være det, men derimod det himmelråbende hykleri der gør én mands afbrænding af ét eksemplar af en privatejet bog til en verdensbegivenhed og afbrænderen til den skyldige i efterspillet, og disse San Francisco-homoseksuelles organiserede smæderi af en religionsstifter der ikke slog ihjel, giftede sig med mindreårige og ernærede sig ved karavaneplyndringer, til blot mere af den velkendte lokalkolorit som ingen reaktioner afføder. Zombies overskrift til den fyldige reportage er selvfølgelig polemisk vendt på hovedet: Christians mock gays at shocking Easter service (LFPC).

Pirrende politisk korrekte forbrydelser

Det begyndte da jeg tændte bilradioen i går på vej fra Danmark til Sverige netop landet i Helsingborg. Fire kilometer, og en gennemført anderledes, parallelforskudt virkelighed. Her skal den formes, ikke først og fremmest afdækkes og undersøges. Uvirkeligheden siver ind i Volvoens kabine gennem højttalerne.
I 20 nyhederne var tophistorien af højdespringeren Patrik Sjöberg var blevet seksuelt misbrugt af sin træner…. for 30 år siden, altså. Jeg tænkte , det var da en underlig topnyhed, der tilmed fyldte tre fjerdedele af udsendelsen. Jeg anede nok hvor det bar hen og værre skulle det også blive. SVT Aktuellt havde på sine 30 minutter to hovedhistorier. Alt for mange svenskere er småalkoholikere, lægerne skal konfrontere dem. Som om det overhovedet var prioriteret, når en svensker endelig får fat i sin læge, får sin kræft-diagnose og kan kigge i vejviseren efter sygedagpenge. Lidt for mange genstande, hr. eller file af køen? Men to tredjedele handlede om Patrik Sjöbergs pilfingrede træner. TYVE minutter ! Aviserne er fulde af det, radioen, og i skrivende stund er hele nationens kollektive liv fikseret i den unge Patriks underliv anno 1980.
I dag fortsætter det i svensk TV i SVT Debatt i aften. Det er fænomenalt “poppis”, de er simpelthen pjattede, eksede, og ekstatiske over det. Seneste måneds darling Fukushima kan kan smelte ned til et spejlæg i fred for svensk journalistik. Og er der ikke nok pædofili indenlands, går man til udlandet efter det. I dag står den på absolut nul MSM radio og tv, kun seriøst deprimerende blogs. Den kommende uge bliver ét incestuøst Oxford-møde, ethvert anstændigt menneske melder sin far til politiet over genfundne barndomserindringer. Desuden magter jeg ikke de antimonarkistiske journalisters schizoide, skræk-oppiftede fryd over prinsebrylluppet i England. SVT´s madamme i London var igår synligt forfærdet over, at 80 % af englænderne er så plebejeriske og uoplyste, at de støtter “det udemokratiske monarki,” men hun har ikke i sinde at lade dem dø i synden, mens hun rapporterer om deres hatte og rober med den anden halvdel af sin lyserøde tunge. Hvad Ingrid Carlberg sagde for en måneds tid siden i København om journalistikkens små-perverse sutteklude, lå hele tiden i baghovedet. Ud i virkeligheden igen:

Første gang jeg udfordrede den politisk korrekte konsensukultur i Sverige, var da jeg i begyndelsen af halvfemserne skrev om falske beskyldninger om incest. Naiv som jeg var, troede jeg mine artikler ville få stor gennemslagskraft. Tidligere havde journalister skrevet, at incest var meget almindeligt, det var endda måske 50 % af alle børn, der oplevede det. Nu afslørede jeg, at en stor finsk undersøgelse viste, at det var mellem 2 og 5 promille.
Hvad tror I mødte mig efter tre dage med store artikler ? Tystnad. Tavshed. Ingen fulgte det op. Journalisterne blev lige så vrede på mig, som den finske forskers kolleger blev på ham, da han præsenterede undersøgelsen. De sagde , at sådanne undersøgelser burde man ikke have lov at foretage og ikke skrive om, for så kan folk jo tro, at det ikke er så almindeligt forekommede med incest. Jamen, det er jo ikke så almindeligt forekommende med incest! Hallo, det er good news. Og nu er der gået tyve år, og jeg kan konstatere at incest-hysteriet er værre end nogensinde i Sverige.

Det vestlige selvmordsparadigme

Brussels Journal interviewer norske Ole Jørgen Anfindsen fra HonestThinking.org. Via Gates of Vienna.

[…] SS: What can be done to keep the West from committing suicide? Do you see any chance of this happening, or is it already too late?

OJA: While I do not see it as inevitable that the West will eventually commit suicide, it does appear to be a quite likely outcome of today’s processes. The currently ongoing destruction of our societies is possible because people either don’t care enough to speak out against our elites, and/or because they actually believe that we are merely going through some ‘adjustments’ on our way to the multicultural paradise. Our political Titanic can only be turned around if sufficient numbers of voters demand a change.

This appears unlikely to happen in the near future, and I suspect that part of the reason has to do with a certain level of decadence that has permeated the Western mindset. Exaggerating somewhat, people care more about wealth, status, and careers than about the future of their own children. As a matter of fact, we are not even producing sufficient numbers of children for there to be any future for us at all. Unless there is a change in attitude here, our societies are doomed, and deservedly so.

I suspect we have a long fight in front of us; a fight that will ultimately be about what Western civilization is, and upon which values it should be built. As we engage in battle with those who hate the West and everything it stands for, as well as those who despise people of European descent, let us not stoop to their corrupt ways and despicable methods. Let us affirm the value of every human being, irrespective of ethnicity, race, or religion (or lack of such). Let us be caring, reasonable, and generous – without becoming utopian, stupid, or naïve. And let us, above all, seek the truth – wherever it may lead. The Suicidal Paradigm – A Conversation With Ole Jørgen Anfindsen

Eva og Petters jordkoja

Som de allerfattigste boede i Småland, i dette tilfælde mellem 1829 og 1906. Tre små huse. Et til brænde, et til forråd og et til beboelse. Der var også dyrene om vinteren, én ged og fem høns. Nærmere forklaring på nederste foto. (foto © Snaphanen)

Fortsæt med at læse “Tænk hvis de begik en hate crime og ingen reagerede”

Denmark’s approach to radical Islam within its own borders is a confusing series of contradictions: defending the Mohammed cartoons while charging citizens for speaking the truth about Islam – and allowing the building of what many believe will be a dangerous, a radical mosque.

Med blandt andre Massoud Fouroozandeh, Hans Kristian Neerskov og Lars Hedegaard. Dale Hurd var i Danmark i februar. Radical Islamic Threat Grips Denmark.

EUs nationalstater til slyngelrettighedsdomstolen: Her stopper festen

Human rights judges in Strasbourg were last night instructed by all of Europe to stop blocking the deportation of failed asylum seekers and terrorists.

Each of the 47 countries which oversee the unelected European Court of Human Rights issued a joint statement saying the judges’ meddling in national affairs must end.

Ministers hope it will pave the way for the UK to deport more foreign criminals, asylum rejects and preachers of hate.

The declaration by the Council of Europe is a humiliating rebuke for Strasbourg, which has effectively been slapped down by its own parent body. Justice Secretary Ken Clarke was instrumental in persuading other countries to join the attack on the European Court. […] Stop meddling in asylum cases, unelected Euro judges warned by 47 countries

UK: Arresteret for “racisme” for at synge Kung Fu Fighting

Storbritannien, krænkelseskulturen i sin yderste konsekvens. Er det virkelig der vi skal hen? (LFPC)

A pub singer has been arrested on suspicion of racism for singing the classic chart hit Kung Fu Fighting.

The song, performed by Simon Ledger, 34, is said to have offended two Chinese people as they walked past the bar where he was singing.The entertainer regularly performs the 1974 number one hit, originally by disco star Carl Douglas, at the Driftwood Beach Bar in Sandown, on the Isle of Wight. But after one of the passers-by reported his routine on Sunday afternoon, Mr Ledger was arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment.

‘We were performing Kung Fu Fighting, as we do during all our sets,’ he said. ‘People of all races were loving it. Chinese people have never been offended by it before.

‘But this lad walking past with his mum started swearing at us and making obscene hand gestures before taking a picture on his mobile phone. […] Pub singer arrested for racism after Chinese passers-by hear him perform Kung Fu Fighting

“Heidi – den modige tysker”

Kvinder, der forleden skældte Bilal Philips salafister huden fuld i Frankfurt forleden, og som også oversat er blevet et You Tube hit, giver et interview til den tyske blog PI. Denne oversætter er off line idag, men “tyskere” kan læse det her:

En mobilvideo filmet i nærheden af kanten af Salafistenforsamlingen i Frankfurt, er i de seneste dage blevet det store hit på Youtube. Videoen viser en vred kvinde, der ophidset opfordrer forbipasserende til endelig at gøre noget ved folk som Pierre Vogel. Også en version med engelske undertekster cirkulerer nu i det globale netværk og er set mere end100.000 gange. Den er nu kendt som “den modige tysker”, som konfronterer Pierre Vogel og hans tilhængere. PI har identificeret den tapre forsvarer for Aftenlandet. Nærmere detaljer om hendes person ønsker vi her ikke at opgive af sikkerhedshensyn. Heidi stillede op og besvarede nogle spørgsmål: […]

Nogen har sagt: “Kun den, der elsker sit land vil betale prisen for at forsvare det.”Dette er en sandhed, det er værd at tænke over. Enhver må gøre, hvad der står i hans magt. Men jeg ved, at vi foruden det politiske modsvar til islam, også må have et åndeligt. De kristne i Tyskland og Europa må vågne op! PI-Interview mit Heidi, der “mutigen Deutschen”

Seneste kapitel i Lars Hedegaard “racisme-sagen” udspillede sig i Østre Landsrets 8 afdeling i går. Jeg burde måske efterhånden også ytre mig om den sag, når jeg nu spiller en mindre birolle, hvis overhovedet er muligt at tilføje noget til de spaltekilometer, der allerede er skrevet. Måske haster det ikke, man fornemmer, der er tid nok. Jeg har aflagt vidneforklaring overfor politiet og byretten, og nu var jeg kørt 150 kilometer for at sige det samme igen, – troede jeg. Det tidligere sagte blev læst op, jeg skulle bare bifalde det eller ikke bifalde det. Jeg var på nippet til at tilføje “hvor er det dog nøjagtigt og godt refereret” eller “det er jo som at høre mig selv tale” for dog at levere noget for alle kilometrene, men dommeren lod forstå, at han allerede var færdig med mig. Jeg satte mig på tilhørerrækkerne med de 30 andre og tænkte på, hvad sådan en sag mon koster skatteyderne. Fem eller femten millioner? Bagefter var der øl i Bredgade, udtalt på gammelkøbenhavnsk lokaldialekt med det første “d” stumt. Solen skinnede, fuglene sang. “Hvor længe mon endnu?” sang en. “Hvem ender med røven på komedie?”, sang en anden selvom vi var tæt ved Amalienborg. (Steen)

Fra Sidste ord i landsretten af Lars Hedegaard

Magthaverne har til alle tider prøvet at feje ubehagelige problemer under gulvtæppet ved at forbyde folk at snakke om dem.Det kan de også sagtens gøre – især hvis de kan støtte sig til en tjenstvillig anklagemyndighed. Omkostningen er blot, at problemerne ligger inde under gulvtæppet og tager så meget på i vægt, at der med tiden opstår enorme buler, som folk falder over og først tør tale om, når det er for sent at gøre noget ved dem. Det er derfor vi har ytringsfrihed. Ytringsfriheden er – ud fra et samfundsmæssigt synspunkt – en institution, der skal sikre, at vi bliver gjort opmærksomme på problemer, før de bliver uløselige.

Ytringsfriheden er derfor grundlaget for, at vi kan have folkesuverænitet, demokrati og lighed for loven. Begynder man at regulere, hvad der må siges, og hvad der må tænkes, er det jo udtryk for, at magthaverne allerede mener sig i besiddelse af sandheden.
Al historisk erfaring viser, at sådanne velfriserede samfund må gå til grunde, fordi en alvidende og algod øvrighed aldrig har eksisteret. Erfaringen viser også, at en øvrighed, der mener sig så alvidende og algod, at den tyr til indhug i ytringsfriheden, står for fald.
Historien rummer en lang række eksempler på forfølgelser og fordømmelser af personer, hvis tanker måtte forekomme ethvert anstændigt menneske at være oplagt vanvittige, usaglige eller til fare for sædeligheden og den offentlige orden, men som alligevel – når de formastelige var blevet brændt på bålet, sat i fængsel eller på anden måde tvunget til tavshed – viste sig at indeholde en sandhed. Sidste ord i landsretten af Lars Hedegaard ( “Han har opført sig som en bombemand”, A Danish Show Trial, Yet Again.Muhammeds Piger. Politiken: Islamkritisk bog er komplet unuanceret.)

En vicestatsadvokat som en våd fuser

Det er fascinerende at iagttage hvordan der verden over benyttes de samme skabelonagtige virkemidler i forsvaret for den trængte multikultur: Vi har mange gange gjort opmærksom på den refleksmæssige opstilling af moralsk ækvivalens, hvor evigtgyldige, voldsopfordrende Koranvers antages at udlignes af tidsbundne blodigheder i det Gamle Testamente. På en eller anden måde er knebet blevet annammet og slugt råt i så godt som alle sammenhænge – akademisk som lavpandet.

Et andet trick med en betydelig udbredelse er at associere islamkritikere med, eller ligefrem tillægge dem, de samme voldelige tilbøjeligheder som de jihadister de kritiserer – medfører skrift eller tale ikke ligefrem afrevne lemmer og litervis af blod, kan man i det mindste prøve at smæde kritikeren ved association eller tillæggelse af skyld. Se f. eks. den formentlig højt betalte journalist Joe Klein, ansat ved det engang prestigefyldte, men nu hensygnende Time Magazine, der ikke lægger fingrene imellem, og springer alle mellemregninger over – pastor Terry Jones er så skyldig som en selvmordsbombemand:

“[T]here should be no confusion about this: Jones’s act was murderous as any suicide bomber’s. If there is a hell, he’s just guaranteed himself an afterlifetime membership.” Time Magazine’s Joe Klein: Qur’an-burning an “act as murderous as any suicide bomber’s”

På Snaphanen kender vi bedst til retssale fra Hollywoods court room dramas, og ved egentlig ikke om en dansk vicestatsadvokat kan være en manipulerende Karl Smart der godt ved hvad der sælger billetter i landsretten, eller om han evt. kunne være drevet af kognitiv dissonans der får ham til at projicere ubekvemme egenskaber hos dele af det klientel hvis følelser han varetager, over på anklagede. Under alle omstændigheder hørtes i landsretten i dag dette forsøg på at dele sol og vind lige på samme måde som hos Joe Klein:

[…] »Han (Lars Hedegaard, red.) har opført sig som en bombemand, der tænder lunten og går sin vej uden at sikre sig, at lunten går ud af sig selv, og at bomben ikke sprænger,« sagde [vicestatsadvokat] Bo Bjerregaard. […] »Han har opført sig som en bombemand«

Som sagt er Snaphanens redaktion generelt lovlydige borgere, og vi ved ikke rigtigt hvad der skal til for at ‘spille smart’ for landsrettens ‘cowboyrække’ – om man så må sige. Fra en lægmandsbetragtning ligner dette godt nok et ualmindeligt billigt kneb man ikke troede var en vicestatsadvokat værdig, men hvad ved vi? Vi må se hvad den høje ret falder for d. 3. maj (LFPC).

barry Rubin ser en stigende ‘mellemøstificering’ af den vestlige politiske kultur, i diametral modsætning til de våde drømme om at udfolde vestligt demokrati i Mellemøsten. Det er skræmmende at konstatere at der på trods af kommentarens fokus på amerikanske frihedsidealer går en lige linje til de europæiske angreb på ytringsfriheden, og således også til den verserende sag i landsretten (LFPC):

[…] So how has the Middle Eastern approach revolutionized Western discourse? What slogans are potent enough to shut people up instantly?

Racism! Homophobia! Islamophobia! And to a lesser extent, perhaps, Sexism! The minute you are accused of racism you are finished. There’s no effective response. […]

There are no pro-racism, pro-Islam-hating, pro-sexist, or pro-homosexual-baiting lobbies. Indeed, all of these things are at an all-time low in the West, rare to a degree unthinkable a decade ago. Yet the pretense must be that such dangerous enemies are lurking everywhere, just as Communist regimes constantly uncovered conspiracies that justified their existence and repression.

Thus, freedom of speech, rational discussion, and opposition are trumped by “higher values.” The most basic and long-held principles are quickly jettisoned in fear. Newspapers accept censorship, intellectuals embrace telling lies, and women’s rights’ groups cheer the suppression of women’s rights in Muslim societies. Those who have spent years fantasizing how they would have been heroic resistance fighters against dictatorship fold, trembling, in the face of a single letter of complaint.

Remember, victims of this tactic don’t have to be actually guilty but merely accused to be considered guilty. Consequently, and most likely of all, they would already have been intimidated into silence.

And then you are finished as completely as any Arab or Muslim accused of being a running dog of the Zionists and imperialists. In many cases, those in public life so branded might as well get a shopping cart and hang out on street corners collecting bottles to return for the deposit. […]

Public, even semi-public expressions of racism are virtually extinct in America, whatever might be inside people’s minds and hearts. The level of hostility toward homosexuals has fallen faster and further than anyone would have believed a decade or two ago. As for Islamophobia, its definition is unclear but certainly its scope has been greatly exaggerated by those who have a political interest in greatly exaggerating it.

The critical point is this: For every bit of “hate speech” or action, there are hundreds, even thousands of false, politically motivated accusations. Like the secret police in a dictatorship, the forces must seek out new crimes and conspiracies. But unlike an earlier phase of genuine efforts to promote tolerance, the strategy becomes a political one for crushing dissent and consolidating support for the prevailing ideology and rulers.

If laws restrict freedom to speak in the West on a variety of topics then people can be legally in a way making the West arguably more restrictive than Muslim-majority countries which, after all, generally solely restrict Islam from open discussion. […] Barry Rubin: How the West Is Being Turned into a Version of the Middle East

En Marineofficer blandt Afghanistans indfødte

Det kan kræve en mental indsats at acceptere at den vestlige tilstedeværelse i Afghanistan tjener et højere formål, nemlig vores egen sikkerhed. Man kan kun håbe at dette virkelig er tilfældet, men anstrengelsen er nok først og fremmest at måtte sluge den kendsgerning at landets egen kultur er udenfor rækkevidde. Allerhelst så man det primitive bjergland indhegnet af en uigennemtrængelig mur. En Marineofficer har sendt Pamela Geller nogle observationer fra sit ophold i Afghanistan (LFPC).

[…] A few days later, we walked next to some compounds in an area the Marines had never been to before. As we patrolled and secured, a group of little boys came out and watched us. In a nation with no literacy, Marines are a week’s worth of excitement and gossip. I had some candies in a bag so I passed some out as we talked with the kids about foreigners, Taliban, and peace. At that moment, 2 of the cutest little girls you have ever seen came out peeked out of the compound and immediately the little boys flew into a rage and chased them with sticks, throwing them and hitting one girl square in the back. I immediately chastened the boys and told them that what they did was not wrong, it was evil. The boys shouted back that they were “just girls!”

Two days ago, one of the linguists I work with was sitting looking like a man broken-hearted. I asked what was wrong and his friends, all full of vacant eyed smiles, said, “His fiancé killed herself!” as they all laughed except for the broken hearted one. I didn’t believe them at first because humans do not respond to tragedy in triumphant laughter. I again asked what the matter was and they again reiterated that his girl had killed herself. At this he looked up mournfully and nodded. Her parents tried to force her into a marriage with another man and she resisted. They forced, so she took poison. His friends went on to explain that it was OK because “she was just a girl and there are many others.” I stopped them as only an angry Marine can. I described to them in very insensitive language that they are all jacked up and their mood represents why their country is in the Stone Age, that this place has no heart and their souls are dead. I told them that they need to get through their heads that a woman’s life is just as important as a man’s and when a woman dies it is just as tragic as when a man dies. They looked at me as though I was explaining to them a deep secret and two of them even started nodding. Maybe there is hope. I wished the linguist affected well and was done with them. […] Afghanistan Observations

What remains, then, is to conquer Rome. The second part of the omen. “The city of Hiraq [once emperor of Constantinople] will be conquered first”, so what remains is to conquer Rome.’ This means that Islam will come back to Europe for the third time, after it was expelled from it twice… Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing], that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa. Yousef al-Qaradawi, MAYA Conference, 1995, Toledo, Ohio( Endnu en video: Hundreds of Muslims gathered in Rome’s famous Piazza Venezia to conduct their Friday prayers and demand religious freedom in Italy. Fotoserie på Bivouac-ID, hvor man samtidigt kan se at Roms meget store moské ligger øde hen.)

“Det er vores kristne pligt i et globaliseret samfund”
At gå under for at andre kan leve, er en kristen tanke. Også pave Benedikt har været inde på den i sin påskemesse, der også udkom på arabisk.

Germany and Europe should open their doors to refugees fleeing North African unrest and instability rather than barricading the borders, according to the Evangelical Bishop of Central Germany, Ilse Junkermann.Junkermann said in an interview that those fleeing violence in places such as Libya should be granted safety and help. “That we should help civil war refugees should not be put under question,” she said. “That is Christian duty, citizens’ duty in a global society.” Bishop says Europe must take refugees (Fra det seneste døgn: Italy: 1,000 migrants evacuated from Lampedusa, Immigration threatens to divide Europe, With help from Italy, Tunisian migrants head for France, Tunisian migrants find an unwelcome Europe.)

Vesten drukner

Jordens befolkning tæller i dag knap 7 mia. mennesker og vokser med godt 80 mio. om året. Den årlige tilvækst svarer således til Tysklands samlede befolkning. En tilvækst af denne størrelse er imidlertid af ny dato. Det kan vi få et indtryk af ved f. eks. at se på, hvor lang tid det tog at forøge jordens befolkning med 1 mia. mennesker før i tiden og i dag. Omkring 1800, dvs. for ca. 200 år siden, havde verdensbefolkningen nået den første mia., og det havde altså taget mange årtusinder. I løbet af de næste blot 130 år – dvs. til omkring 1930 – var Jordens befolkning vokset med yderligere 1 mia. Men omkring 1960 talte verdensbefolkningen 3 mia. Nu tog det altså kun 30 år at lægge yderligere 1 mia. til. På vejen frem mod de nuværende knap 7 mia. er jordens befolkning hvert 13. år blevet forøget med en mia.
Den stagnerende befolkningsudvikling i industrilandene og den hastige befolkningsudvikling i udviklingslandene siden midten af 1900-tallet har medført en stor ændring af den befolkningsmæssige balance mellem de to regioner. Medens 1/3 af jordens befolkning i 1950 boede i industrilandene, er det i dag mindre en 1/5. Af verdensbefolkningens årlige tilvækst på 80 mio. sker over 95 pct. i udviklingslandene. På grund af Afrikas langsomme fødselsnedgang vil denne verdensdel opleve en forøgelse af indbyggertallet fra en 1 mia. til godt 2 mia., dvs. mere end en fordobling i løbet af blot 40 år.

I dag bor 18 pct. af verdens befolkning i industrilandene, om 40 år er det under 14 pct. Europas andel af verdensbefolkningen vil falde fra knap 11 til godt 7 pct. Derimod vil Afrikas andel af verdensbefolkningen øges fra 15 til 22 pct. Dvs., at hver femte af jordens beboere om 40 år vil være afrikaner. Kronik: Den globale befolkningsudvikling, Poul Chr. Matthiessen, professor emer. dr. polit

Ingen snak om “retssikker asylprøvning”, “overholdelse af konventioner,” “generøs flygtningepolitik”osv, der ikke forholder sig til verdens demografi, og at den altså vil medføre egenudslettelse, bør tages alvorligt. I dag er godt 20 % af Sveriges indbyggerede indvandrede og efterkommere fra den seneste generation. Et ret konservativt skøn siger, at 9.9 % af Sveriges befolkning om kun 19 år er muslimer. Det vil sige at 20 % er inden for rækkevidde, og måske endda 30 % også i dette århundrede. Altså mod en Kosovo-lignende demografi. Hvordan forestiller den svenske Riksdag sig mon det vil spænde af ? Det gør den selvfølgelig heller ikke, det overlader den til andre som den kan skamme ud for deres beskidte fantasi. Ingen i den offentlige debat forholder sig til det simple faktum. Selv mener jeg som bekendt, – selvom det er gætværk på nogle årtiers aftsand – at Sverige allerede har passeret det punkt, hvor et fredeligt forløb virker som det sandsynligste. Men landet er kun den ekstreme illustration på det der sker lidt langsommere i resten af Europa: vores ledere fører os som lam til slagtebænken, lidt mere tøvende end før, undtagen i Sverige, naturligvis. Mine forældre var unge under besættelsen, de ville ikke tøve et sekund med at kalde disse politikere “quislinge” og “landssvigere”. Man må jo håbe for dem, at det ikke er en holdning, der breder sig ved den næring tiden kan give den.

Religionsdialog på amerikansk

Sagerne om Terry Jones’ anstrengte forhold til islam har forlængst fjernet sig fra spørgsmålet om hvad denne pastor og hans lille kirkesamfund selv repræsenterer, og ønsker at opnå med deres mediestunts. Rituel hændervasken og afstandstagen fra vulgær amerikansk cowboykristendom er formålsløs – Jones er blot katalysator og øjeblikkets brændpunkt, og enhver der har øjne og kan og vil se kan ikke være i tvivl. Videoen her er et lille mikrokosmos på noget der transcenderer cykelstyroverskæg og primitiv teologi. Og når det er sagt så klarer Terry Jones faktisk optrinnet her med stor værdighed – i modsætning til den fremmødte arabiske gadepøbel der beklageligvis opholder sig i hans land (LFPC).

Gumløse Kirke i Skåne – Nordens første teglstensbygning

Gumlösa Kyrka är den äldsta daterade tegelbyggnaden i Norden *. Man vet exact när den invigdes 26 oktober 1192, i närvaro av ärkebiskop Absalon i Lund, ärkebiskop Erik av Nidaros , nuvaranda Trondheim samt biskop Stenar i Växjö. Genom renheten i sin stil och sine väl bibehållna ursprungliga anordningar kunde den betraktas som typisk i sitt slag. Kyrkan har härjats av brand två gångar. Först den 9 februar 1612, då Gustaf II Adolf härjade här och brända hela byn, för att få tag på snapphanarna. Andra gången den 24 mars 1904, då man tröskade säd på Sinclairsholm, då även gårdens ekonomibyggnader bran ner. [..]
Kyrkan har en fin gammal dopfunt som även den är från 1100-talet och huggen av Tove Stenmästare. Bland alla ornament på funten står också TOVEGIRI= Tove gjorde mig. [..]
Till kyrkans 700-års-minne 1891 utgaf rektorn C.O.Arcadius i Växjö en broschyr om kyrkan och dess historia. Han slutade med följande önskan: “Måtte kommande släkten akta denna minnesvård af forntids fromhet och urgammal konst, som oaktadt vidriga öden genom menighetens vördnad bevarats till våra dagar och måtte det genom gudomlig tillskyndelse upptända ljuset få lysa genom dess murar, till dess den dag randas, då de såsom allt människoverk störta.” (Uddrag af Tillbakablick på Gumlösabygden, 1992.) (* Flere kilder fortæller, at Sct Bendts Kirke i Ringsted, klosterkirken i Sorø er dateret til 1160-70 og Bjernede rundkirke er tidligere, ligesom Søborg Slot.)Gumlösa kyrka, UNESCO:s lista över oersättliga världsarv

Fortsæt med at læse “Tillbakablick”

One of the least known aspects of the current Libyan conflict is its brutal, racial component. Media reports claim Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is using black African mercenaries in his war against the rebels. In retaliation, the insurgents have targeted in violent attacks African immigrant workers living in Libya, from whom, the rebels believe, Gaddafi is recruiting his mercenaries. Before the uprising began, an estimated 1.5 million Africans resided in Libya, many as low-paid labourers, but the violence has caused a large number to flee the country or to go into hiding. […]

But another, more sinister motive lurks behind the current rebel “African hunt” than just Gaddafi’s disturbing use of African mercenaries to put down the rebellion. The ferocious animosity Libyan rebels are showing toward black Africans is actually rooted in a deeply embedded, centuries-old Arab racism the war has inflamed. This racism has its roots in the institution of Islamic slavery.

And this abomination of Islamic slavery, upon which Arab racism rests, will be difficult to eradicate. It is an ingrained, centuries-old institution that is also legal under sharia law and, according to historian Bernard Lewis, “elaborately regulated.” The case of Cairo University professor Dr. Abu Zayd, an Islamic theologian, indicates the dangers and complications of challenging sharia law’s slavery provisions. When Zayd contended that “keeping slave girls and taxing non-Muslims” was contrary to Islam, he was declared an apostate and a sharia court forcibly divorced him from his wife. He later fled to Europe to escape Islamic extremists who now wanted to kill him because of his apostate status. […] Libyan Rebels Terrorize Black Africans

U.S. Sen. John McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the American military intervention in Libya, said Friday that Libyan rebels fighting Muammar Qaddafi’s troops are his heroes. […]

“They are my heroes,” McCain said of the rebels as he walked out of a local hotel in Benghazi. […] McCain Lauds Anti-Qaddafi Forces During Libya Visit

Dearbornistan: Terry Jones har nu færre rettigheder end KKK og nazister

Frygt kan lamme et samfund. Uerkendt og bortrationaliseret frygt kan undergrave et samfund. USA er på vej imod en smertefuld læreproces (LFPC).

[…] Terry Jones was sent to jail in Michigan over a planned protest outside the largest Islamic Center in the U.S. I have seen the most vile displays of subversion, anti-Americanism, Jew-hatred and violence at anti-war rallies during the Bush years. No one said boo. It’s free speech. The KKK marches, no one says boo, it’s free speech. Monsters protest military funerals, it’s free speech. Nazis in Skokie? A-OK. But Islamic jihadis launch the most brutal and bloody attack on America on September 11, 2001, and we haven’t stopped apologizing. And now we have turned over our soul, the heart of our freedom. […] Jailed Jones Prosecutor “Un-Worthy’s” Alliances

Slyngelrettigheder og den engelske syge

Man kunne kalde dette et eksempel på det konsekvensløse samfund kørt ud i det ekstreme, men for samfundet selv er dette selvfølgelig alt andet end konsekvensløst. Os bekendt har vi ikke noget der kommer i nærheden af dette suicidale rettighedsregime i den danske socialpædagogik, men er de eksempler vi også har oplevet herhjemme med oplevelsesture og nye cykler til nogen der ikke fortjener det alligevel et udslag af det samme socialpædagogiske paradigme du jour? (LFPC)

When Winston Smith became a youth worker after leaving university, he was an idealistic liberal. But after ten depressing years of seeing disruptive children in care being indulged rather than disciplined, he’s written a devastating book exposing the truth about the anarchy in this country’s care homes.

Well past midnight, a thuggish teenager called Liam is playing music in his bedroom at full volume. Three adults have spent 20 minutes cajoling him to ‘make the right choice’: in other words, to turn it down and let everyone get some sleep.

As they’ve been trained to do, they’ve praised him for those few hours in the past week when he wasn’t causing mayhem. But none of this works. It rarely does.

Liam has an angry, vacant look in his eye. Even threats don’t work. When I tell him he risks not going to Alton Towers this weekend, as planned, he roars: ‘B******s! I’ll be f***ing going. I’d like to see you try and stop me.’ If I dare to come into his room, he adds, ‘I’ll f***ing smash you right up!’ […]

The next day, Liam refuses to go to school. Instead, he’s taken for a walk in the countryside and then a row round a lake in the grounds of a stately home.

You might think this a highly inappropriate reward for attempted murder, and you’d be right. But the care system prefers always to look on the positive side. In the paperwork we have to fill out, Liam’s relaxing day is magically transformed into an ‘educational outing’. […]

For the few minutes or hours that they aren’t misbehaving, they receive cash bribes and other awards. Violent rages go unpunished — a policy known as ‘positive reinforcement’. Far from receiving much-needed guidance, semi-feral kids are dictating the agenda. […]

There was no point arguing, because social services object to anything that even hints at criticism of the young people in our charge. Instead, we’re expected to inhabit a morally neutral universe, without judgments or standards. […]

Naturally, the residents also require rewards for things they should be doing in the first place. So, they get ‘points’ (which can be exchanged for cash) every time they apply for a job or enrol on a training course. In other words, the taxpayer has to reward unemployed teenagers simply for trying to find employment. […] The untouchables: How violence and drugs go unpunished in Britain’s care homes where all that matters are children’s rights

Én optræden i salafist-pyjamas blev det til i Frankfurt og så march. “dr. Philips” har været i tyskland for sidste gang, det kan svenske og danske myndigheder tygge lidt på. Der var en talstærk moddemonstration, vi faldt særlig for denne bestemte og rasende dame på videoen, der godt ved hvilken anden grøn pest, salafisterne minder hende om. Flere af den slags og skam over Gøteborg, at ingen mødte op og demonstrerede imod dem. Måske inviterende TUFF får inddraget offentlige midler, det må man nøjes med. (Bericht aus dem Hexenkessel von Frankfurt)

EU som menneskesmugler til lavpris

[…] It isn’t clear whether the following initiative from Brussels was announced before or after the Nicosia meeting [om flygtningekrisen], but there’s no doubt that European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström and the other European commissioners were well aware of the sentiments expressed by the delegates in Cyprus yesterday.

What’s extraordinary about this latest response from the bureaucratic heart of the European Union is that it includes the declared intention of deliberately and pre-emptively importing the North African refugees into Europe.

That is, the Commission intends to surrender to the “Camp of the Saints” invasion before it is fully underway. According to ANSAmed:

EU Proposal: Redistribution of Refugees

(ANSAmed) — Brussels, April 20 — One of the proposals made by the European Commission is to start a programme for the redistribution of Libyan refugees in the camps at the border between Tunisia and Egypt to European countries, to avoid human trafficking.

The EC wants to make this proposal part of the ‘communication on immigration’ drafted by Cecilia Malmstrom, which will be formally approved by the European executive on May 4. After that it will be presented to the European Council and the European Parliament.

Sources in Brussels explain that the redistribution proposal wants to replicate what was done in 2009 and 2010 for around 10,000 Iraqi refugees in Syrian and Jordan, who have been distributed among several European countries, with funds that have been made available by the EU. […]

So, in order to “avoid human trafficking”, the European Commissioners will become human traffickers themselves. And their low, low rates will drive all the other traffickers out of business.

And the model for the “redistribution proposal” is the recent resettlement of 10,000 culture enrichers from Iraq. Notwithstanding the fact that the “success” of the Iraq asylum program is debatable — ordinary Swedes and Finns may have a somewhat different opinion on the matter — the European Commission acknowledges that forty-seven times as many refugees are currently waiting to come to Europe. […] Camp of the Saints: A Strategy for Surrender

Schengen: Grænser for vanviddet?

The EU’s scheme to abolish national borders and allow free movement of people between member states is under threat as a wave of migrants flees to Europe from strife-torn North Africa.

Five major European countries are bringing back border checks on travellers to try to deter the arrival of thousands of North Africans escaping political upheaval. […]

Checks on documents at borders are being reintroduced by France, the Netherlands and Belgium, which is demanding that Tunisians arriving on Italian temporary permits show they have at least 10,000 euros.

Austria has indicated that it is looking for ways to curb the movement of migrants, and German interior minister Jens Teschke said there would be ‘more intensive observation’ of people arriving at road and rail borders and airports.

The return of inspections of travel documents is a major blow to the Schengen Agreement which allows people to move between 25 EU countries without passports or visas and without being held up by customs or immigration checks at borders. […] End of Europe without borders? Row over African immigrants threatens free travel

Virkelighedsresistensens anatomi

En fantastisk øjenåbnende artikel der sætter ord på den frustration vel alle i vores del af blogverdenen og på vores side af kulturkløften kender: At henvisninger til virkelige tildragelser i virkelighedens verden hos venstreorienterede preller af og afværges med diverse tankemæssige og retoriske manøvrer. Ikke bare i den moderne krænkelsesjura, men også hos venstrefløjen, er sandfærdige udsagn ikke gangbar mønt hvis de truer sammenhængen i verdensbilledet. En lang og lærd artikel, og det anbefales også at læse kommentarerne i bunden (LFPC).

In the gated community of the leftist thought-world, no suspicious words, abrasive ideas, or events disturbing to its peace of mind and settled convictions are permitted entry. It lives in an encysted, self-referential domain guarded against unwelcome intrusions. Thus, the expression of doubt, uncertainty. or hypothesis is generally lacking in its world-view. Its core propositions are usually context-free or context-impoverished, in the sense that the left tends to deny the existence of pragmatic referents. Meaning is often mediated through a process of referential exclusion, an avoidance or even willed ignorance of the “facts of the matter.” It can look at what is demonstrably happening before its eyes and decide that it is not happening. It will then mobilize language to posit and describe a counterfeit reality, a knock-off world. […] David Solway: The Lingo of the Left

UK: Sejr for kristen elektriker – må fortsat vise krucifiks

To pointer: Multikulturens kommissærer er gerne mere nidkære end det sydlandske klientel hvis interesser de hævder at varetage, hvilket Colin Atkinsons støtte fra hinduer, sikher og muslimer jo tydeligt viser. Dernæst, nej, der er ingen som helst pointer at udlede om den multikulturelle harmonis bæredygtighed med den rette indstilling. Al erfaring viser at ændrede magtforhold til gunst for én bestemt af disse parter vil vise dette i det rette perspektiv – nemlig som en boble i tid og rum. For det langsigtede perspektiv må man kigge på den demografiske udvikling i f. eks. Tyrkiet, Egypten eller Irak, hvor det store flertal formentlig er ligeså large og velmenende som Atkinsons støtter, men ikke magter at forrykke skredet væk fra multikulturen (LFPC).

Christian electrician Colin Atkinson has won his fight to display a cross in his van following a nationwide outcry. The dramatic climbdown by Wakefield District Housing came after senior church figures were joined by Hindu, Muslim and Sikh leaders in condemning his employers.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey had described the 64-year-old grandfather’s plight as ‘scandalous’ and Housing and Planning Minister Grant Shapps said WDH’s action was ‘wrong’. […]

Mr Atkinson faced the sack after he refused to take the small palm cross off the dashboard of his company vehicle. WDH told him it was ‘unacceptable’ to display the 8in symbol of his Christian faith in the van for fear of upsetting ‘diverse’ tenants in the organisation’s 31,000 homes.

However, a Muslim worker is allowed to display a Koranic verse in the car she uses for work and staff are allowed to wear specially made company burkas. […]Hallelujah! An Easter victory as Christian electrician wins battle to display cross in his van

Villawood rooftop protesters’ claims already rejected: minister, Asylsøgere sætter ild til australsk asylcenter

Kvindesyn? Jo tak!

Inden man ryger på alt det lyriske vrøvl om “islams respekt for kvinden”, skal man undersøge det selv. Her er endnu et grumt eksempel på mentaliteten:

To prevent the overloaded boats from Tunisia and Libya headed for Lampedusa from capsizing, young males on board have been throwing the women overboard, most of whom apparently drowned.
All exclusively young men, rather poor and rarely speaking, tell the same story. As Tarek, 20, left there twenty days of Kairouan. ”We were packed in 150 in a boat designed for 60, says the boy. During the trip to Lampedusa, twelve girls were thrown into the sea.”
Then I was transferred to Sicily, I escaped and took the train.But now I have no money, so tonight I’m going too the beach. “Most want to go to France, Belgium, the Netherlands or Scandinavia, confirms Gaetano Scullino. Le Figaro via Now we know why we don’t see women among the thousands of Tunisian illegals flooding the Italian Island of Lampedusa

Påsken 2011

Se det Sixtinske Kapel virtuelt uden at tage til Rom og lægge  dig på gulvet på ryggen.

Grünewald og Bach

The final flowering of the Gothic came relatively late, in the work of the German artist, Matthias Grünewald 1470-1528. He was possibly an exact contemporary of Dürer, but while Dürer was deeply influenced by the Renaissance, Grünewald ignored it in his choice of subject matter and style. Much of his work has not survived to this day, but even from the small amount that has come down to us, it is possible to see Grünewald as one of the most powerful of all painters. No other painter has ever so terribly and truthfully exposed the horror of suffering, and yet kept before us, as Bosch does not, the conviction of salvation. His Crucifixion, part of the many-panelled Isenheim Altarpiece, is now kept in Colmar. It was commissioned for the Antoinite monastery at Isenheim and was intended to give support to patients in the monastic hospital. Christ appears hideous, his skin swollen and torn as a result of the flagellation and torture that He endured. This was understandably a powerful image in a hospital that specialized in caring for those suffering from skin complaints. Grünewald’s dark vision.  (detalje fra Isenheim alteret, helbillede her.)

Langfredag er det også værd at minde sig om, at påsken oprindeligt var en gammel israelitisk fest fra nomadetiden, hvor man fejrede foråret og kvægets frugtbarhed.

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