Condells religionskritik sidder ofte lige i øjet, men den har det tilfæles med Richard Dawkins, at den bundter alle religioner sammen for at være på den sikre side, man skulle jo nødigt være en fob. Ligesom vores 24-års regel gælder alle og ikke kun dem, der foranledigede den. Den svenske variant lyder sådan her: “Allahs lilla snopp” och “Gud faders impotens”. Men SVT gengiver selvfølgelig ikke det hele, det er her på You Tube. Velbekomme.
Minaretkrigen
En lille lynindføring i afstemningen i Schweiz i morgen. Som man ser skal man ikke tage minareterne for bogstaveligt, de er en anledning for schweizerne til at begynde at diskutere, hvad der sker med deres land. Islam har medført spændinger i landet, som også i Tyskland, selvom Per Øhrgaard, der burde vide bedre, jævnligt hævder i P 1 at det ikke er nogen problemer der. Enhver der kan tysk, ved det er politiserende røgslør, jævnfør senest Thilo Sarrazin affæren.
Up until recently, Muslims living in Switzerland had mostly been keeping a low profile, preferring to practice their religion discretely in nondescript mosques. But over the past several years the number of mosques has mushroomed; there now are some 200 mosques and up to 1,000 prayer rooms dotted around the country. And although only four of those have minarets (plans to build a half-dozen more minarets are currently pending approval), observers say the minarets symbolize the growing self-confidence of Switzerland’s Muslim community.
Indeed, the Muslim population in Switzerland has more than quintupled since 1980, and now numbers about 400,000, or roughly 5 percent of the population. Most Muslims living in Switzerland are of Turkish or Balkan origin, with a small minority from the Arab world. Many of them are second and third generation immigrants who are now firmly establishing themselves in Switzerland.
The new Muslim demographic reality is raising tensions across large parts of Swiss society, especially as conservative Muslims become more assertive in their demands for greater recognition of their faith.
In the end, even if Swiss voters reject the anti-minaret referendum, the SVP will still be able to claim victory for having drawn the public’s attention to the limits of multiculturalism. Indeed, Swiss voters across the political spectrum seem to agree that Muslim immigrants need to be better assimilated and socially integrated. They are also beginning to understand that the debate about Islam in Switzerland (and Europe) is just beginning. Switzerland’s Minaret War. (Nu skal Roskilde, af alle steder have en muslimsk storambassade: Roskilde får stormoské.)
Women lead Swiss in vote to ban minarets
A right-wing campaign to outlaw minarets on mosques in a referendum being held in Switzerland today has received an unlikely boost from radical feminists arguing that the tower-like structures are “male power symbols” and reminders of Islam’s oppression of women.
“If we give them a minaret, they’ll have us all wearing burqas,” said Julia Werner, a local housewife. “Before you know it, we’ll have sharia law and women being stoned to death in our streets. We won’t be Swiss any more.”Tatiana, a teacher who had previously voted for the left, was quoted in a newspaper as saying she would vote for the minaret ban as she could “no longer bear being mistreated and terrorised by boys who believe women are worthless”. Times Online
Steyn om Warmergate: What Story?
Når mainstreammedierne groft misinformerer om eller fortier vigtige samfundsspørgsmål, er bloggeres arbejde ikke “en form for intellektuelt tyveri”, det er demokratisk selvforsvar. Prøv f. eks. at søge i Infomedia på islamiske termer som taqiyya og kitman, eller på Antifascistisk Aktion. Resultatet er mildest talt pauvert. Climategate/Warmergate bliver en afgørende prøve på græsrodsmediernes gennemslagskraft (LFPC).
Michael Gerson has lousy timing. In The Washington Post, in one of those now familiar elegies for old media, he writes:
And the whole system is based on a kind of intellectual theft. Internet aggregators (who link to news they don’t produce) and bloggers would have little to collect or comment upon without the costly enterprise of newsgathering and investigative reporting. The old-media dinosaurs remain the basis for the entire media food chain.
That’s laughably untrue in the Warmergate story. If you rely on the lavishly remunerated “climate correspondents” of the big newspapers and networks, you’ll know nothing about the Climate Research Unit scandals – just the business-as-usual drivel about Boston being underwater by 2011. Indeed, even when a prominent media warm-monger addresses the issue, the newspaper prefers to reprint a month-old column predating the scandal. If you follow online analysis from obscure websites on the fringes of the map, you’ll know what’s going on. If you go to the convenience store and buy today’s newspaper, you won’t. That’s the problem. […] Mark Steyn: What Story?
“Varning för folkpartister”
Folkpartisten Cecilla Malmsten har fået posten som EU-kommissær over migration, grænskontrol, asyl och politisamarbejde. Benyt anledningen til at læse Anders Johanssons artikel om Folkpartiet, de bedste af de gode: Godhet och högmod, En berättelse om folkpartiet og gå ikke glip af Anders Johansson i Radio Kalmar. Det han siger, har man aldrig hørt i Riksradio.
Siten dette er taget fra er en som det tilrådes at udvise største skepsis over for – vi taler om den amerikansk-evangeliske kategori af konspirationsteorier der ser Johannes’ Åbenbaring udfolde sig især i Den Gamle Verden, dvs. det Europa som de tidlige puritanske bosættere var flygtet fra. Der findes et utal af disse teorier, men især EU har altid udøvet en særlig tiltrækning hos nybyggernes efterkommere. Antikrist skulle i dette tankesæt udgå fra det genopstandne Romerrige i form af EU. Den slags teorier kommer og går alt efter hvordan verden ser ud på et givet tidspunkt. Hvad der nok er værd at videreformidle her er EU-symbolik og arkitektur der unægteligt ser ud til at referere til (det noget uheldssvangre, skulle man mene) Babelstårnet. Plakaten her skulle angiveligt være trukket tilbage fra EU, og her er forlægget i Breughel uomtvisteligt. Stjernerne skulle være diabolske nedadvendte pentagrammer. Hvis den er autentisk? (LFPC)
Det var forstemmende at læse
LARS MAN STANDING. Kunstneren Lars Vilks’ tegning af Muhammed som en rundkørselhund bliver malet i kæmpeformat direkte på væggen i svensk galleri.



One of the world’s most famous children’s toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover – wearing a burkha. Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby’s for Save The Children.