A story told by the great Belgian Sinologist , Simon Leys, in his recent book of exquisite short essays, Le bonheur des petits poissons. Leys was sitting in a café where other customers were chatting, playing cards, or having a drink. The radio was on, tuned to a station that relayed idle chatter and banal popular music (you are lucky these days if popular music is banal only). But suddenly, and for no apparent reason, it played the first movement of Mozart’s clarinet quintet, transforming the café into what Leys called “the antechamber of paradise.” The customers stopped what they were doing, as if startled. Then one of them stood up, went over to the radio, and tuned it to another station, restoring the idle chatter and banal music. There was general relief, as if everyone felt that the beauty and refinement of Mozart were a reproach to their lives to which they could respond only by suppressing Mozart. Theodore Dalrymple: When Hooligans Bach Down
Islamister og islamologer
En sælsom skånsk alliance af politiserende akademikere og muslimer, der næppe har behøvet ligefrem at læse alle rapportens 37 sider, for at føle sig “dybt krænkede”:
Att rapporten skrivits utan att någon från de muslimska föreningarna tillfrågats är nog det som stör honom mest. – Det innebär att trettio personer har utvärderat 30 000. Resultatet har blivit en rapport som sprider fördomar och ökar islamofobin. Liknande kritik hörs från flera av de cirka 30 manliga deltagarna när mötet kommer igång. Flera talare känner sig djupt kränkta.
En mötesdeltagare tycker att man borde anlita en advokat, som kan klämma åt forskarna med juridikens hjälp. Andra förespråkar politiska åtgärder, till exempel att inte rösta på stadsdelens nuvarande ledning i nästa val. Ammar Daoud från Islamiska kulturföreningen berättar att han har haft kontakt med forskare på Lunds universitet som är kritiska mot rapporten. Ett möte är redan inbokat med dem.
– Men hur många här har egentligen läst rapporten? undrar han. Få händer sträcks upp.
Muslimer rasar mot regeringsrapport, Kritiken från Lundaforskarna är politisk och inte vetenskaplig
“Ikke uden politibeskyttelse”
Det mest kontroversielle er Burmesters karakteristik af islam som en syg og fejlslagen civilisation, der slet ikke kan følge med. Selv de moderate muslimers reformønsker er slet ikke nok.
Sven Burmester præsenterer sig selv som kosmopolit, men er pæredansk og dejligt provinsiel, for at kalde islamiske samfund syge og fejlslagne ville ikke kunne udgives på noget andet sprog og i noget andet land uden politibeskyttelse, fordi det ville fordømmes som krænkende, hadefuldt og islamofobisk.
Det kunne være en overvejelse værd til næste bog. For når en påstået fejl eller sygdom end ikke må diagnosticeres, er der ringe chancer for at komme fremtiden i møde. SE Henrik Gade Jensens anmeldes af Svend Burmester i Jyllands Posten idag.
Da Timothy Garton Ash trykkede på panikknappen
En højst underholdende lille anekdote som det kunne være interessant at få bekræftet. Ligesom med BBC-korrespondenten Frank Gardner der tiggede om hjælp med ordene “please help me, I’m Muslim”, da han lå blødende af skudsår i Riyadhs udkant, således ved Oxford-professor Ash udmærket godt, hvis dette er sandt, hvad islam og Muhammed står for, når det gælder ens eget liv. Her skulle professoren absolut ikke nyde noget af at blive Rushdie II:
[…] For a year or two ago, [Timothy Garton Ash] was in a public debate in London. He was defending Islam. At one point, so a spectator reported to me later, he – Ash – “lost it” and began to admit that yes, Muhammad was this and Muhammad was that, but so what, what were we to do with Muslims in our midst now? And then, apparently, after the debate, realizing his denunciations or rather admissions about Muhammad, made in a heated moment, had been captured on film, and further knowing that this might lead to death threats and possibly worse, Ash called up everyone who had been involved in sponsoring the evening, or who had possibly made tapes of that evening, to make sure that they were destroyed. In other words, Timothy Garton Ash showed, in his own behavior, that he knew that he could not, dare not, exercise free speech, and would have in this case to collaborate in his own post-factum censoring. […] Fitzgerald: Ian Buruma, Geert Wilders, hatred, and ignorance
Hele Hugh Fitzgeralds ætsende klumme om Ian Buruma anbefales i øvrigt (LFPC).
One in 10 inmates behind bars turns to Islam
“Islam is a total way of life” er et mantra man hører igen og igen fra ideologiens udøvere og fra dens kritikere, men vist aldrig fra akademisk hold, hvor ikke-essens til gengæld er mantraet. Hvordan ser tallene mon ud herhjemme, og er det også bare noget man dropper efter løsladelsen? Via Jihad Watch (LFPC).
[…] A movement that began in the 1970s under Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to evangelize inmates has evolved into one of the most effective religious rehabilitation agendas in the U.S. Imams under the Nation of Islam continue to draw converts, but most Muslims in prison today are Sunnis, said Lawrence Mamiya, a professor at Vassar College who has studied Muslim prison ministries.
Mamiya estimates that about 10 percent of all prison inmates have converted to Islam. Using his estimate, about 1,800 of the state’s 18,000 inmates would be Muslim. About 1 percent of Washington residents claim to be Muslim, according to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. That’s the same as the national average. For most men behind bars, their conversion is temporary. Just one in five who convert to Islam while in prison continue on in that faith once they are released, Mamiya said. […]
A 2006 report by George Washington University and the University of Virginia found that tight-knit communities of Muslims in prison are ripe for radicalization, and could easily become terrorist cells.[…]
Muslim communities in prisons also provide some of the same benefits of gangs, Mamiya said. They protect one another, but they don’t “demand extortion in order to be initiated,” he said. “Many of the men don’t like the idea of the Christian ‘turning the other cheek,’ ” Mamiya said. “Islam emphasizes self-defense as an ethic, so they prefer that.” […]
“Being a Muslim is the hardest thing you could possibly do,” said Phil Thomes, 32. “Just being a Christian, it wasn’t enough. Islam is a total way of life, which is good because I needed extreme change.” […] [mine fremhævelser, LFPC] One in 10 inmates behind bars turns to Islam
Sweet dreams: Også socialisterne vejrer morgenluft
Som om jihad ikke var nok at skulle bekymre sig for. Socialister ser åbenbart et interessant potentiale at opdyrke med den indeværende globale finanskrise. Så længe de ikke udgør en talstærk, mere end middel reproducerende etnisk minoritet med løfte om opfyldelse af kødelige lyster i det hinsidige, tror jeg ikke der er så meget at bekymre sig for her. Kun for så vidt at de kan indgå alliancer med jihadisterne, og dette er jo allerede en realitet. Via Gates of Vienna (LFPC).
Belem – Lay-offs around the world brought on by the economic crisis will result in social upheaval and violence that could herald the death of capitalism, unions meeting at the World Social Forum in Brazil said. Such unrest would be a painful but necessary step towards a new world order that is being delayed by efforts to save the old, crippled one, argued the labour organisations, mostly from Latin America. “It’s obvious the effects of this crisis will be large-scale social conflicts,” Martha Martinez, the Americas director for the World Federation of Unions, told trade unionists on Thursday. […]
“The crisis is something good and positive, because it has opened the way to discuss and to revise the (world economic) model,” Sonia Latge, the political science director for Brazil’s Workers’ Central of Brazil, said. “I think the future of the planet is socialist,” she said. – AFP WWIII: the Super Revolution – Lay-Offs Will Lead to Violence – the Communist & Far Left Hell Dream…
What makes the West strong: Forgiveness and Irony
by Roger Scruton
Wherever the Western vision of political order has gained a foothold, we find freedom of expression: not merely the freedom to disagree with others publicly about matters of faith and morality but also the freedom to satirize solemnity and to ridicule nonsense, including solemnity and nonsense of the sacred kind. This freedom of conscience requires secular government. But what makes secular government legitimate?
That question is the starting point of Western political philosophy, the consensus among modern thinkers being that sovereignty and law are made legitimate by the consent of those who must obey them. They show this consent in two ways: by a real or implied “social contract,” whereby each person agrees with every other to the principles of government; and by a political process through which each person participates in the making and enacting of the law. The right and duty of participation is what we mean, or ought to mean, by “citizenship,” and the distinction between political and religious communities can be summed up in the view that political communities are composed of citizens and religious communities of subjects—of those who have “submitted.” If we want a simple definition of the West as it is today, the concept of citizenship is a good starting point. That is what millions of migrants are roaming the world in search of: an order that confers security and freedom in exchange for consent.




Overskriften er selvfølgelig en lettere opstramning begået af Snaphanens redaktion, men det er jo det som denne overfladiske artikel, en klon af utallige andre om det samme emne, implicerer. Jeg har efterhånden et temmeligt skizofrent forhold til Jyllands-Posten. Der er de fremragende lange baggrundsartikler af kvalificerede skribenter i den trykte avis, og så er der den lalledumme livsstilsblog jp.dk, hvor (formoder jeg) yngre bladsnedkerkloner som ikke ville kunne genkende et kritisk spørgsmål eller en kritisk perspektivering om de så kunne vinde en Pulitzer derved, udspyr ligegyldigheder og spamhistorier der formentlig er skrevet sideløbende med SMS-skrivning eller chat på Facebook. Som denne, der i sin implicerede patronisering af “indvandrere” kalder på perspektivering som imidlertid ikke kommer. Historier af denne slags, ikke blot i hjemlige medier, antager nemlig altid at “integration” er noget værtslandet udfører på klienterne/indvandrerne. Intet om krav om tilpasning til gældende normer, f. eks. at lade døtre leve et normalt dansk liv, eller omvendt at sætte grænser for drengebørnene, eller ikke at insistere på særhensyn til mærkelige religiøse skikke. Og som sædvanen er slås sagesløse vietnamesere og kinesere i hartkorn med etageklippede labaner og deres fædre der drikker kaffe i indkøbscentret – men man kan så trøste sig med, at mange af asiaterne nok ikke læser notitsen, da de utvivlsomt har travlt med at passe arbejde og studier (LFPC).

