We Are All Danes Now (Jeff Jacoby editorial)

Boston Globe ^ | 2/5/06 | Jeff Jacoby

[finnman69]

HINDUS CONSIDER it sacrilegious to eat meat from cows, so when a Danish supermarket ran a sale on beef and veal last fall, Hindus everywhere reacted with outrage. India recalled its ambassador to Copenhagen, and Danish flags were burned in Calcutta, Bombay, and Delhi. A Hindu mob in Sri Lanka severely beat two employees of a Danish-owned firm, and demonstrators in Nepal chanted: ''War on Denmark! Death to Denmark!"In many places, shops selling Dansk china or Lego toys were attacked by rioters, and two Danish embassies were firebombed.

It didn't happen, of course. Hindus may consider it odious to use cows as food, but they do not resort to boycotts, threats, and violence when non-Hindus eat hamburger or steak. They do not demand that everyone abide by the strictures of Hinduism and avoid words and deeds that Hindus might find upsetting. The same is true of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Mormons: They don't lash out in violence when their religious sensibilities are offended. They certainly don't expect their beliefs to be immune from criticism, mockery, or dissent.

But radical Muslims do.

[finnman69]

He should expect some death threats, BRAVO for standing up to these vile cockroaches.

"That anything so mild could trigger a reaction so crazed -- riots, death threats, kidnappings, flag-burnings -- speaks volumes about the chasm that separates the values of the civilized world from those in too much of the Islamic world. Freedom of the press, the marketplace of ideas, the right to skewer sacred cows: Militant Islam knows none of this. And if the jihadis get their way, it will be swept aside everywhere by the censorship and intolerance of sharia."

[finnman69]

great flash movie summary of the Cartoon War here

http://danishcartoons.ytmnd.com/

[MedicalMess]

We have pried open the soft underbelly of the beast!

Don't stop now!

DRAW MORE CARTOONS!!!

Then the world will begin to see this trash for the Nazis that they are.

DRAW MORE CARTOONS!!!

ALL ARTISTS TO THEIR PALLETTES!

MORE CARTOONS HERE: http://retecool.com/comments.php?id=13539_0_1_0_C


Danish bloggers are having a field day...

[From many - one.]

This is something I jst posted a few minutes ago. Not enough people know the whole thing is a fake:

The (real) cartoons were published way back in September and no one got terribly upset.

So, some Imam got the idea of adding 3 fake and fairly profane/obscene cartoons that he had made up for the purpose of the little cartoon booklet he distributed. Far nastier than any published ones: Mohammed with a pig snout, a dog copulating with a praying Moslem, Mohammed as a pedophile demon.
So they made up the cartoons which set off the outrage.

Plus, no one is upset that Moslems made these profane/obscene drawings.
Like I said...the whole thing is a fake.

Here's a link to the post I got this info from. Go to post 305
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1571682/posts?q=1&&page=301

[CBart95]

"Ich ben ein Danish Pastry"

or words to that effect.

What?

Now we are all Danes?....bravely "standing up to those vile cockroaches"? ( Lord! Who writes this stuff?)

[Labyrinthos]

But radical Muslims do.

Since nearly all Muslims seem to be radical, that would make them "mainstream," which is why we are still waiting for the mainstream, moderate Muslims to stand-up and loudly condemn the violence and advocate respect for the values, rules, and laws of the western countries where they live.

[Andy from Beaverton]

[TheGeezer]

Hindus may consider it odious to use cows as food, but they do not resort to boycotts, threats, and violence when non-Hindus eat hamburger or steak. They do not demand that everyone abide by the strictures of Hinduism and avoid words and deeds that Hindus might find upsetting. The same is true of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Mormons: They don't lash out in violence when their religious sensibilities are offended. They certainly don't expect their beliefs to be immune from criticism, mockery, or dissent.

But radical Muslims do.

I am not so sure it is only radical Muslims that make such demands. In the so-called golden era of Muslim Spain, Christians and Jews had no rights, were forbidden to do anything to practice their religions, were murdered for many reasons justified by sharia, lost their children to slavery and to forced education as Muslims...in other words, even in the time which is popularly (and inaccurately) known as the golden age of Spanish Islam, Islam was barbaric to those who did not become Muslim.

Were they radical then, too, or is it the teachings of Islam that make its adherents violent and intolerant?

[Bubba M. Aurelius]

Is this like the dubious Gitmo claim of the Quoran being urinated upon which so inflamed the great Middle Eastern unwashed and caused such hand wringing by the liberal establishment?

The salient issue is a culture that is intellectually frozen in the Eight Century. To paraphrase Aquinas, "beware of the man with one book." These clowns have one book and by all appearances and actions appear to be ready to perform the Old Nuremberg book burning ritual.

[kstewskis]

Far nastier than any published ones: Mohammed with a pig snout, a dog copulating with a praying Moslem, Mohammed as a pedophile demon.

Well, those Mooselimb Imams would know all about that now, wouldn't they? :o)

Buy Danish!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Yes, I don't happen to remember any rabble of Christians going out and fire-bombing gay bars when Mappelthorpe put an image of Jesus (a crucifix) in a jar of urine.

[blueminnesota]

[kjo]

Our message to Islam needs to be that they are a very, very, backward culture and religion. No man has a right to treat women the way they do.

No religion, and by definition religions are supposed to be life affirming, has the right to take the lives of people because they don't practice it.

Where are our great liberal institutions like the New York Times? Why aren't they standing tall for Denmark by printing these cartoons?

Just what are they afraid of that they'd drop the first amendment so quickly?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Welcome to World War III, ladies and gents. Strap on your seat belt.

[zook]

Fox Sunday showed one of the cartoons this morning and Juan Williams took a pretty bold stand not only against the violence, but against Islam as well (paraphrasing: "...a weak religion if it can't handle some cartoons...").

[caspera]

Actually, Jeff Jacoby is wrong on this count. In India, McDonalds establishments were destroye by Hindu mobs on the rumor -- incorrect, as it turns out -- that the fries were cooked in beef tallow. The Hindus rioted and trashed at least one McDonalds.

Also, Hindus go on a rampage every year on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day has become very popular in India, and reactionary Hindus are trying to discourage the practice by trashing places that celebrate the day, and believe it or not, dragging young lovers out of cafes and beating them up.

Fascinatingly, my Hindu coworker (New York City) defended these approaches.

Hindus do have their own anger issues.

But Muslims make Hindus look like teddy bears.

[rellimpank]

--b-

[purpleland]

"That anything so mild could trigger a reaction so crazed --riots, death threats, kidnappings, flag-burnings -- speaks volumes about the chasm that separates the values of the civilized world from those in too much of the Islamic world."

We've seen the alleged offending cartoons which are TAME and innocuous. The Muslim/Islamic leadership and its willing hordes afflict mob and gang rule, intimidation, death threats, extortion, destruction ... and all devices of terrorism to get their way - to quell their insane tantrums. Let their behavior and thinking process be the alarm for us. The Muslim/Islamic maniacs are NOT to be tolerated. They are intolerable. Gad, what a mess! ... thanks to the world's leadership and politicians!

[jwpjr]

This whole cartoon issue is just one more example of why it's not possible to reason with the Islamofascits. I cannot think of a single instance in my 40 plus years of paying attention to world affairs where a radical Islamist group has one a single honorable thing. Just look at Israel's experience with them. They use the time period provided by 'negotiations' to prepare themselves to destroy the one with whom they are negotiating. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and negotiations are only as successful as the least honorable party to them.

We are going to have to learn, once and for all, that our intentions don't mean squat when it comes to dealing with this faction of Islam. We simply cannot bring enough good intentions to the table to overcome the dishonesty and cowardice of those who would shoot school children in the back and behead teachers for teaching girls at their school.

The choice is becoming abundantly clear. Deal with these animals in a manner they understand and is effective in handling the growing threat to America and our way of life, or be prepared for defeat. There is no middle ground.

[fallujah-nuker]

Is this like the dubious Gitmo claim of the Quoran being urinated upon which so inflamed the great Middle Eastern unwashed and caused such hand wringing by the liberal establishment?