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This has just come in via Stop the ACLU. Published today in the Jyllands-Posten from 12 brave intellectuals:

MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.

We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.

The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.

Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations. The hate preachers bet on these feelings in order to form battalions destined to impose a liberticidal and unegalitarian world. But we clearly and firmly state: nothing, not even despair, justifies the choice of obscurantism, totalitarianism and hatred. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present. Its success can only lead to a world of domination: man’s domination of woman, the Islamists’ domination of all the others. To counter this, we must assure universal rights to oppressed or discriminated people.

We reject cultural relativism, which consists in accepting that men and women of Muslim culture should be deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secular values in the name of respect for cultures and traditions. We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of “Islamophobia”, an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.

We plead for the universality of freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit may be exercised on all continents, against all abuses and all dogmas.

We appeal to democrats and free spirits of all countries that our century should be one of Enlightenment, not of obscurantism.

Solidarity. The 12 people who wrote and signed this document know very well the risk they take. We need to send a clear message that they don’t stand alone.Â

I don’t agree with every word of this manifesto. I do believe we are in the midst of a clash of civilizations and I don’t believe we will be able to have a respectful dialogue. This enemy has shown themselves to not be reasonable and you can’t reason with unreasonable people. They have also shown a determination to destroy western civilization and to dominate the world. That being said, I do believe this is a step in the right direction. We must stand up to them.

Attention New Yorkers: rally for solidarity with Denmark this Friday from noon to one.Address: Outside the Danish Consulate at One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 885 Second Avenue.

Address: Outside the Danish Consulate at One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 885 Second Avenue.The Vice President’s remarks [h/t] The Belmont Club]

Will American Newspapers have the courage to print the Manifesto? Insist on it!

German Blogger Politically Incorrect has photos of the signers. So does Spooonik;

Righteous Muslims

Previous posts: Just call me a Soothsayer; The Cowardice of the Main Stream Media; The West Keeps It’s Eyes Shut; The Emperor’s New Clothes; Lego My Free Speech; Stand up for Denmark; Muhammad Prophet of Peace; American Newspapers are Afraid; Cartoon Jihad Continues and Expands; Fatwa Authorizing the Use of Nukes; I’ll have a RoMo and a Cup of Jo, Please; Million Dollar Bounty for Cartoonist; ‘Gevoelig’: Sensitivity Cartoon; How Do you Spell I-N-F-I-D-E-L?; France Woke up Feeling Rather Danish Today; Islam the Religion of Peace; Dhimmitude [and more]….

Sammenhold - Danish for Solidarity

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Others in support of the Manifesto Against Islam.

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Some excellent thought provoking analysis of the Manifesto, flaws and all:

The Brussels Journal; Sisu; Conservative Culture; Jeff the Baptist; Maritime Liberal

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Linked to: Argghhh!; Cao’s Blog; Church and State; The Mudville Gazette;

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Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali et al: Together facing the new totalitarianism
Excerpt: Add my name too. Islamism delenda est! Death before dhimmitude.
Weblog: Small Town Veteran
Tracked: 02.28.06 - 7:29 pm

Manifesto Against Islamist Totalitarianism
Excerpt: Never Forget 9.1.1 MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism. We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistanc…
Weblog: Stuck On Stupid
Tracked: 02.28.06 - 7:54 pm

It’s About To Hit The Fan
Excerpt: Expect this NOT to go over too well with radical Muslims. If they were ready to riot and kill over a few stupid cartoons, imagine how they are going to react now that these 12 brave souls have basically told them all to GO F&%K themselves.
Weblog: The Bodie Specter
Tracked: 02.28.06 - 8:59 pm

The Manifesto Against The New Islamic Totalitarianism
Excerpt: Freedom of expression is our western heritage and we must defend it or it will die from totalitarian attacks….The manifesto below will be published in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo today. Philippe Val @ Charlie Hebdo has urged other papers to print…
Weblog: All Things Beautiful
Tracked: 03.01.06 - 3:18 am

This Needs To Be Read
Excerpt: After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism….
Weblog: Common Folk Using Common Sense
Tracked: 03.01.06 - 11:07 am

Manifesto against Islamic totalitarianism
Excerpt: A dozen bold intellectuals have put together an important document that speaks out against Islamic totalitarianism, published in the Jyllands-Posten (Hat tip: Michelle Malkin)
Weblog: Tel-Chai Nation
Tracked: 03.01.06 - 12:39 pm

A Manifesto for Freedom . . . And Against Islamism
Excerpt: It is no longer good enough just to be for freedom. We must be against this hostile, murderous way of life we call Islamism, terrorism, extremist Islam (but is it?), etc., etc., etc. Which side are you on?
Weblog: A Lady’s Ruminations
Tracked: 03.01.06 - 5:07 pm

Manifesto Against Islamism - A Good 1st Step
Excerpt: Islamists are facists hiding behind Islam. They obviously give it a bad name. But Nazism and Stalinism were social ideals derived from a humanist basis, not religious.
Weblog: Church and State
Tracked: 03.01.06 - 6:36 pm

A Manifesto Against Islamism
Excerpt: Blue Star Chronicles has an extensive link round up as well.
Weblog: Palmetto Pundit
Tracked: 03.01.06 - 7:47 pm

Speaking up for a Century of Enlightenment
Excerpt: Salman Rushdie, and a few other Intellectuals, have proclaimed a MANIFESTO AGAINST THE NEW ISLAMIC TOTALITARIANISM…. The piece is a powerful statement of belief, and purpose, that needs the widest audience possible, and the support of Freedom, and De…
Weblog: Sneakeasy’s Joint
Tracked: 03.01.06 - 7:51 pm

They Should Know
Excerpt:
Weblog: The Steel Deal
Tracked: 03.01.06 - 8:08 pm

Freedom Watch Looks At: “Are We fighting Terrorism Or Islam?”
Excerpt: When one looks into the history of the three major religions, Judeaism, Christianity and Islam one must look into the foundation of these religions.Read more hereDoll
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Tracked: 03.02.06 - 6:03 am

Well, well, well……. Lets Boycott the UAE Port Deal
Excerpt: So… to those that told me I needed to check my facts before I went off crying the sky is falling, IN YOUR FACE!In light of the FACTS now regarding the Dubai Port deal:* Clinton’s involvement, * the fact that the EAE’s ‘…
Weblog:
Tracked: 03.02.06 - 6:06 am

The Anti-Islamist Manifesto
Excerpt: (I’m a little late to the game with this one, having been kinda Mardi Gras-obsessed and lazy lately, but better late than never!) Count me in on this one.Thanks to Vinnie for pointing the way to this, at Agora:MANIFESTO:…
Weblog: MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Tracked: 03.02.06 - 10:46 am

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Support the Manifesto online by signing this petition.

Excerpt: The Manifesto I covered in this post can now be supported online at this site. Don’t wait. Sign today. It’s target audience is the White House and the United Nations. I now ask all those bloggers who reposted this Manifesto to spread …
Weblog: Agora
Tracked: 03.05.06 - 3:18 pm

The Big Red One’s Armor Regiment is on Mission Readiness Manuvers.

I heard Larry King talking about the Big Red One and he pronounced it Big RED One. LOLOL

Toast of the Army, Favorite Son!

Hail to the brave Big Red One!

Always the first to thirst for a fight.

No foe shall challenge our right to victory.

We take the field, A grand sight to see.

Pride of the Infantry.

Men of a great division,

Courage is our tradition,

Forward the Big Red One!

I have a heavy work load this week and will probably not be blogging much (yeah right!). I’ll try to get trackback posts up every day. But if I don’t, feel free to trackback your hearts out here or here. Or anywhere for that matter.

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Bush : Coast Guard Speaks Up On DP World Ports Deal
Excerpt: If you can’t rust the President who can you trust? The Coast Guard is always a good bet, and it is the Coast Guard who as spoken up recently in regards to the DP World Ports issue. Finally we get to hear from an unbiased, un-political, unattached, or…
Weblog: Voteswagon
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 5:44 pm

A Taste of Tuesday
Excerpt: A mix of reading for your Tuesday morning:The Black Republican looks at the hypocrisy of the left on the ports deal - and how the WSJ has come to the president’s defense.Let’s face it: our borders are as porous as a spaghetti stra…
Weblog: The Median Sib
Tracked: 02.28.06 - 3:34 am

Offending Muslims and Ignoring Anti-Semitics
Excerpt: The media apologizes for offending Muslims while ignoring anti-Semitic cartoons.
Weblog: Church and State
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 10:19 pm

Does This Course Belong In High School — *UPDATED*
Excerpt: UPDATE — Two students from the school offer extensive comments about the class. Does a course that explicitly advocates for a particular point of view on issues belong in a high school ? My initial reaction is negative, but I…
Weblog: Rhymes With Right
Tracked: 02.28.06 - 2:25 am

The National Church Burning Crisis
Excerpt: Stacy Harp over at Persecution Blog has been doing some yeoman’s work in trying to report on the Alabama Church Burnings. I’m going to revisit this topic. She provided this fascinating link to an Article by Alice Smith and what truly shocked me is ho…
Weblog: Adam’s Blog
Tracked: 02.28.06 - 6:01 am

The Unions, The Senators, and the Ports
Excerpt: Several days ago, in a post entitled Port Authority, I opined that the influence of labor unions accounted for the sudden and dramatic concern of New York and New Jersey senators for port security: Call me cynical but my…
Weblog: The Business of America is Business
Tracked: 02.28.06 - 7:46 am

Spider-Man’s new BLACK costume!
Excerpt: Although it’s still pretty cool, I must confess that I’m a bit disappointed if this is their version of a “new” black costume. The raised webbing and texture they’ve used up to this point have been a very good interpretation of the comic book. But…
Weblog: reverse_vampyr
Tracked: 02.28.06 - 2:34 pm

Abortion news
Excerpt: It would seem that events are moving a bit faster than I anticipated. We have one Supreme Court ruling, unanimous at that, regarding a case that has been a thorn in the side of the prolife movement for several decades.
Weblog: Mark My Words
Tracked: 02.28.06 - 5:25 pm 

Bush’s Approval
Excerpt: Blogs for Bush, via CBS, is reporting a 34% approval rating for President Bush.Blogs for Bush claims the poll was biased in favor of Democrats. This may be true, but most polls aren’t perfectly balanced anyway. Whenever a bad poll comes out th…
Weblog: The Liberal Wrong Wing
Tracked: 03.02.06 - 2:19 am 

Rights or Privileges?

Excerpt: …
Weblog: third world county
Tracked: 03.02.06 - 4:12 am

Dear God, Strike me blind. Thanks! Plus Open Trackback Thursday
Excerpt: The Giants had their own version of American Idol and Barry Bonds dressed up as Paula Abdul.
Weblog: Mental Rhinorrhea
Tracked: 03.02.06 - 5:53 am 

Unprofessional Conduct
Excerpt: I tread softly when it comes to politics in my classroom – the venom is saved for this blog. My students know – generally – what my politics are, because as a social studies teacher I sometimes discuss current events…
Weblog: Rhymes With Right
Tracked: 03.02.06 - 7:15 pm

The Unhinged Liberals of Idaho: Tonight, We’re Gonna Party Like Its 1789
Excerpt: Over at 43rd State Blues, Serephin listed her quote of the week from a Firedoglake commenter:Jeezus! With every passing day the French Revolution seems more and more reasonable.Now, many of you don’t know what the commenter (who bravel…
Weblog: Adam’s Blog
Tracked: 03.02.06 - 11:18 pm

A commenter calling himself ‘advisor’ took exception to one of my posts about the movie Valley of Wolves.

Advisor (whose link doesn’t go to a blog) says that I have obviously not seen the movie (which I haven’t). He says that ….

Besides, when hollywood shows every muslim as terrorist, every latin as drugger and every japan as yakuza, everybody knows this is not true. Smilarly, everybody can see that this movie is not anti-semitist.

When I first read that I thought, ‘No, Hollywood is much too politically correct these days to show anyone in any stereotypical way (with a few exceptions).’

But after thinking about it a minute I thought a history lesson might be in order. You see the map below. That’s the United States. The blue areas are the people you see on TV and in movies. They are the ones that carry on and worry about political correctness and that people in France might not like us. The blues are the ones who complain about guns and hunting.

The red areas are the rest of us. Middle America. Fly Over Country. It’s a big country and an awful lot of people live in the red areas. The reds are the ones that have a lot of guns and know how to hunt well. You don’t hear a lot from us. Yet.

If you want an education watch the History Channel and pay particular attention to the battle of Iwo Jima and the battle for Omaha Beach. Go downtown in any American town on a Saturday night and make note of all the punks and fat boys standing around on the street corner’s, and go to any college and count all the pink-fingered mama’s boys with a backpack full of books and then watch the first half of Full Metal Jacket and never forget the American military still knows how to turn them all into soldiers. Keep it up and these are the people who will be coming to get you.

Once America decides to participate in your jihad there won’t be enough virgins to go around and the word martyr will stick in your throat.

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Update: TMH’s Bacon Bits has a history lesson posted today asking Has Radical Islam’s “Line of Death” Been Crossed Again?. ‘It is a signal that serious conflict is about to escalate as western cultures will either clash or die through toleration of this violent incursion.’

It’s well worth the read.

 

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The Greatest National Security Scandal
Excerpt: I’m glad that our liberal friends, as well as many Conservatives have raised concerns about giving a United Arab Emirates State Owned Company control of Hiring at several US Ports. The understanding that we cannot take a gamble on the goodwill of a…
Weblog: Adam’s Blog
Tracked: 02.26.06 - 11:03 pm

Intro To Moron Of The Week #22
Excerpt: Well, congratulations goes to John from Holstein Grove for breaking Stray Dog Found’s month long winning streak. So, now Holstein Grove has the challenge of maintaining the throne for three more weeks to match the record. Can it be done…
Weblog: The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns
Tracked: 02.26.06 - 11:15 pm

South Dakota Challenging Roe vs Wade
Excerpt: The state legislature of South Dakota has passed a bill to ban all abortion practices statewide, with the exception of situations in which the mother’s life is in danger. The governor, Mike Rounds (I’m assuming he’s a Republican) has said he is “in…
Weblog: The Liberal Wrong Wing
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 2:17 am

Moonbats: Stuck on Stupid
Excerpt: Hey, I have this great idea! Let’s all storm the White House. Pass the word and I’ll put a big public announcement on the web. Crazy? Well…Yeah, I think so. It’s down right asinine, but when has asinine ever stopped
Weblog: The Violence Worker!
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 2:59 am

The Taliban Bulldog
Excerpt: From the Diversity Run Amok Deptartment, we have this, from Daniel Henninger: “The Taliban’s former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that?” Um, yup….
Weblog: TMH’s Bacon Bits
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 5:31 am

What Religion is Your Bra?
Excerpt:   I am taking the lazy way out today with a copy of an email joke I received this weekend. I am sure it is as old as the hills, but it was new to me and gave me a chuckle and is lingerie related.What Religion is your Bra? A man walked into …
Weblog: Talking About Lingerie
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 7:48 am

Proof for the 1st Amendment
Excerpt: But Thomas Jefferson had no intention of allowing the government to limit, restrict, regulate, or interfere with public religious practices. He believed, along with the other Founders, that the First Amendment had been enacted only to prevent the feder…
Weblog: Church and State
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 8:41 am

Rewriting the Constitution of Alabama 1901
Excerpt: If passed in state legislature, HB 109 and SB 52 would call for a vote in November’s general election in Alabama this year on holding a new Constitutional Convention to rewrite the state’s current Constitution. The current Constitution of Alabama…
Weblog: Everyman Chronicles
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 8:59 am

Turkey: Getting On My Nerves
Excerpt: Okay, I posted on the movie “Valley Of The Wolves:Iraq” a while ago and comments starting pouring in from our beleaugered ally. It turns out I’m a big meanie, oh well, I think I’ll live.
Weblog: Freedom Folks
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 9:57 am

Life in the berm lane
Excerpt: Like I said, this blog is not about boo-hoo-ing about bipolar disorder. There are worse diseases. I have this. I take my meds. Get exercise. Try to not be a hermit.
Weblog: Bipolar Joe
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 10:34 am

Raese Takes The High Road
Excerpt: Good angle. Raese has a reputation in West Virginia for being a loose cannon (given the shape of the ship of state, that is not necessarily a bad thing) but if he sticks to praising Byrd past while questioning Byrd future, I may have to eat that pred…
Weblog: Don Surber
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 11:53 am

Dubai port deal - a decade too late
Excerpt: Or so goes some of the criticism being thrown around by various politicians. It’s hardly unexpected that certain Demoncraps would try to glom on to national security as an issue, though they’ve been doing plenty to make such efforts more difficult wi…
Weblog: Mark My Words
Tracked: 02.27.06 - 5:42 pm

Not easy to not go along with the popular consensus
Excerpt: Well friends it looks as if I have lost some friends and readership over my stand on the UAE Port deal. To those of you still visiting and commenting ask me if I care. I knew from the start that when I wrote Outrageous Actions by President Bush and…
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Where did everyone miss it?
Excerpt: I spent the better half of 2004 working to re-elect President Bush. My leader of ’security’ for our nation in the wake of 9/11. The only President that was willing to stand up and fight the terrorists on their turf. A Christian President that was …
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From News Telegraph (U.K.). Tony Paterson in Berlin reports, Outcry in Germany as anti-Semitic film sells out

A virulently anti-Semitic film about the Iraq war has provoked a storm of protest in Germany after it sold out to cheering audiences from the country’s 2.5 million-strong Turkish community.

Valley of the Wolves, by the Turkish director Serdan Akar, shows crazed American GIs massacring innocent guests at a wedding party and scenes in which a Jewish surgeon removes organs from Iraqi prisoners in a style reminiscent of the Nazi death camp doctor Joseph Mengele.

It seriously offends me to have our Soldiers portrayed in this way. To portray Jews as in a ’style reminiscent of the Nazi …’ is outrageous.

As offended as I am about this. I will not kill anyone over it.

The problem is, does it incite the Muslim viewers to kill?

Bavaria’s interior minister admitted last week that he had dispatched intelligence service agents to cinemas showing the film to “gauge” audience reaction and identify potential radicals.

Good. He should be doing this. The current environment is much too volatile to not take this seriously.

Edmund Stoiber, the state’s conservative prime minister, has appealed to cinema operators to remove what he described as “this racist and anti-Western hate film” from their programmes.

Also, good.

The £6 million film, the most expensive Turkish production ever made, had already proved a box office hit in Turkey, where it first opened last month at a gala attended by the wife of the country’s prime minister.

The wife of the Turkish Prime Minister attending the gala grand opening serves to legitimize the film. I thought Turkey is supposed to be an ally.

The production went on general release in Germany a fortnight ago and has had full houses ever since. More than 130,000 people, most of them young Muslims, saw the film in the first five days of its opening. At a packed cinema in a largely Turkish immigrant district of Berlin last week, Valley of the Wolves was being watched almost exclusively by young Turkish men. They clapped furiously when the Turkish hero of the film was shown blowing up a building occupied by the United States military commander in northern Iraq.

In the closing sequence, the hero is shown plunging a dagger into the heart of a US commander called Sam, played by Billy Zane. The audience responded by standing up and chanting “Allah is great!”

Inciting already stirred up mass hysteria and determination to extinguish the West.

Afterwards, an 18-year-old member of the audience said: “The Americans always behave like this. They slaughtered the Red Indians and killed thousands in Vietnam.

“I was not shocked by the film, I see this on the news every day.”

Get it??

The nature of the film and the enthusiastic reception given to it by young Muslims, has both shocked and polarized politicians and community leaders.

Bernd Neumann, the culture minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government complained last week that the reaction to the film “raises serious questions about the values of our society and our ability to instill them”.

Kenan Kolat, the head of Germany’s Turkish community, insisted that a ban on the film would make matters worse. “If it is withdrawn, it will raise levels of identification with the film,” he said. “A democracy must be able to endure films that it doesn’t approve of.”

Alin Sahin, the film’s distributor in Germany, argued: “When a cartoonist insults two billion Muslims it is considered freedom of opinion, but when an action film takes on the Americans it is considered demagoguery. Something is wrong.”

But everyone is walking on egg shells to keep from upsetting the Muslim community. The newspapers and television media have not shown the cartoons in order to not offend. So you are right, something is wrong.

But those arguing for a ban on Valley of the Wolves appeared to have won a partial victory last week when Cinemaxx, one of Germany’s largest cinema chains, announced that it was withdrawing the film.

Sounds like the Turkish community has already seen it anyway.

American actors Billy Zane and Gary Busey star in the film. I fully expect Hollywood will embrace this film. It’ll probably win numerous oscars as will the actors Zane and Busey.

Linked to Sister Toldjah who guest blogged at Blogs for Bush; memorandum; Freedom Folks; Varifrank

I’ve been waiting a few days to see what the MSM was going to have to say about the Victor Prize awarded to the Jyllands-Posten newspaper for it’s defense of freedom of expression.

I have seen NOTHING on the television or in American newspapers. It’s entirely possible I’ve missed it. I work a lot and certainly don’t have time to go prowling around looking in dark corners for obscure articles.

But it seems to me, in light of the current global bru-ha-ha over the publication of these cartoons and subsequent violent reaction to them, and in light of the fact that the tiny country of Denmark has stood up to world-wide pressure to submit to the will of Islam, that this would be news worthy.

But then, putting this in the news would require courage wouldn’t it.

That might mean that the journalists or newspapers that published this article would be subjected to the death threats, bombings, throat-slashing, torture and medieval rantings of the mobs of Muslims wallowing in mass hysteria.

There has been an internet mujahedeen. Even I’ve had a lot of visitors from the Middle East (and Denmark) and I’m certainly no one of any importance to this issue.

So, where is the American Free Press? Those defenders of freedom of speech. The great courageous investigators and guardians of the truth. Where is the Fourth Estate?

Has anyone seen them? I haven’t. Perhaps they’ve tucked tail and run to the nearest dhimmitude swearing-in ceremony. Perhaps they are all secretly French ex-pats!

Copenhagen - Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered the Muslim world by publishing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad last year, has won a Danish critical journalism award for its initiative, the jury said.

Denmark’s largest daily was honoured with the Victor Prize for “having opened everyone’s eyes by showing how easy it is to introduce cracks in freedom of expression and how so-called political correctness is infiltrating what we believe to be inalienable rights,” Hans Engell, the editor of tabloid Ekstra Bladet which awards the prize, said during a prize ceremony in Copenhagen late on Thursday.

The Victor Prize, named for the late editor-in-chief of Ekstra Bladet Victor Andreasen, was handed to Jyllands-Posten’s editor Carsten Juste.

“This prize is awarded to Jyllands-Posten for its adamant defence for months of freedom of expression, which is under threat,” Engell told AFP.

Freedom of expression

“Jyllands-Posten only did its duty: exercise its right to freedom of expression,” he added.

Juste, guarded by two secret service bodyguards, noted “how fragile freedom of expression is” as he accepted the award, his newspaper reported.

The 12 drawings of Muhammad, which first appeared in Jyllands-Posten last September, have sparked violent protests in Muslim countries against Denmark especially, as well as against other European countries where the cartoons have since been reprinted.

Islam considers any image of the prophet blasphemous.

Both the newspaper and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen have repeatedly refused to apologize for the publication of the cartoons, insisting that freedom of expression is a fundamental right in Denmark.

source: News24.com (South African); The Daily Times (Pakistan); oddly I can’t find any more articles about this other than blogger posts.Lets do a gut-check.

We have Christopher Hitchens and those who attended and spoke out at the rally he organized in support of the Danish and freedom of speech. [there are lots of links there to follow for info on that if you want.] 

Mark Steyn has an article in the Chicago Times about the Ilan Halimi murder in Paris and the MSM’s willingness to keep it’s eyes closed.

There’s also ordinary Americans who volunteer to go into the war zone to teach others how to be soldiers. And soldiers and here.

Gary Sinise quietly serves.

There is not Jimmy Carter (here) (here) or Bob Simon.

So in between doing other work today, I’m going to see who I can find who has the guts. My guess is, it’s going to be ordinary Americans - us in the fly-over world of Middle America that will stand and deliver. Hopefully, I’ll prove myself wrong.

I just don’t want anyone to forget that Hollyworld, the media and the ‘intellectual elite’ do not represent the majority of Americans.

Middle America is alive, well and will not be putting turbans on, thank you very much! And, most of us carry guns.

I’ll be updating this with links throughout the day. Feel free to send links you think should be included in this little spur - of - the - moment Gut Check.

 

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William J. Bennett and Alan M. Dershowitz write about the Failure of the Press. [h/t to 7 Deadly Sins ]

What we never imagined was that the free press — an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms — would be among the first to surrender.

The Vatican has finally spoken out. [h/t to Fausta's Blog ]

Let’s drop this diplomatic silence,” said the rector of the Pontifical Lateran University. “We should put pressure on international organizations to make the societies and states in majority Muslim countries face up to their responsibilities.”

Blogs posting on the Victor Prize and/or the rally to support Denmark and freedom of the press and freedom of speech or other issues that the Main Stream Media is afraid to report. Lawhawk at A Blog for All; Sigmund, Carl and Alfred explains the islamization of Europe; Mark My Words has a list of what offends Muslims for those who don’t want to take a chance at offending;

The Chicago Times
Mark Steyn writes Needing to wake up, West just closes its eyes

In five years’ time, how many Jews will be living in France? Two years ago, a 23-year-old Paris disc jockey called Sebastien Selam was heading off to work from his parents’ apartment when he was jumped in the parking garage by his Muslim neighbor Adel. Selam’s throat was slit twice, to the point of near-decapitation; his face was ripped off with a fork; and his eyes were gouged out. Adel climbed the stairs of the apartment house dripping blood and yelling, “I have killed my Jew. I will go to heaven.”

Is that an gripping story? You’d think so. Particularly when, in the same city, on the same night, a Jewish woman was brutally murdered in the presence of her daughter by another Muslim. You’ve got the making of a mini-trend there, and the media love trends.

Yet no major French newspaper carried the story.

This month, there was another murder. Ilan Halimi, also 23, also Jewish, was found by a railway track outside Paris with burns and knife wounds all over his body. He died en route to the hospital, having been held prisoner, hooded and naked, and brutally tortured for almost three weeks by a gang that had demanded half a million dollars from his family. Can you take a wild guess at the particular identity of the gang? During the ransom phone calls, his uncle reported that they were made to listen to Ilan’s screams as he was being burned while his torturers read out verses from the Quran.

This time around, the French media did carry the story, yet every public official insisted there was no anti-Jewish element. Just one of those things. Coulda happened to anyone. And, if the gang did seem inordinately fixated on, ah, Jews, it was just because, as one police detective put it, ”Jews equal money.” In London, the Observer couldn’t even bring itself to pursue that particular angle. Its report of the murder managed to avoid any mention of the unfortunate Halimi’s, um, Jewishness. Another British paper, the Independent, did dwell on the particular, er, identity groups involved in the incident but only in the context of a protest march by Parisian Jews marred by ”radical young Jewish men” who’d attacked an ”Arab-run grocery.”

At one level, those spokesmonsieurs are right: It could happen to anyone. Even in the most civilized societies, there are depraved monsters who do terrible things. When they do, they rip apart entire families, like the Halimis and Selams. But what inflicts the real lasting damage on society as a whole is the silence and evasions of the state and the media and the broader culture.

A lot of folks are, to put it at its mildest, indifferent to Jews. In 2003, a survey by the European Commission found that 59 percent of Europeans regard Israel as the “greatest menace to world peace.” Only 59 percent? What the hell’s wrong with the rest of ‘em? Well, don’t worry: In Germany, it was 65 percent; Austria, 69 percent; the Netherlands, 74 percent. Since then, Iran has sportingly offered to solve the problem of the Israeli threat to world peace by wiping the Zionist Entity off the face of the map. But what a tragedy that those peace-loving Iranians have been provoked into launching nuclear armageddon by those pushy Jews. As Paul Oestreicher, Anglican chaplain of the University of Sussex, wrote in the Guardian the other day, “I cannot listen calmly when an Iranian president talks of wiping out Israel. Jewish fears go deep. They are not irrational. But I cannot listen calmly either when a great many citizens of Israel think and speak of Palestinians in the way a great many Germans thought and spoke about Jews when I was one of them and had to flee.”

It’s not surprising when you’re as heavily invested as the European establishment is in an absurd equivalence between a nuclear madman who thinks he’s the warm-up act for the Twelfth Imam and the fellows building the Israeli security fence that you lose all sense of proportion when it comes to your own backyard, too. “Radical young Jewish men” are no threat to “Arab-run groceries.” But radical young Muslim men are changing the realities of daily life for Jews and gays and women in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Oslo and beyond. If you don’t care for the Yids, big deal; look out for yourself. The Jews are playing their traditional role of the canaries in history’s coal mine.

Something very remarkable is happening around the globe and, if you want the short version, a Muslim demonstrator in Toronto the other day put it very well:

”We won’t stop the protests until the world obeys Islamic law.”

Stated that baldly it sounds ridiculous. But, simply as a matter of fact, every year more and more of the world lives under Islamic law: Pakistan adopted Islamic law in 1977, Iran in 1979, Sudan in 1984. Four decades ago, Nigeria lived under English common law; now, half of it’s in the grip of sharia, and the other half’s feeling the squeeze, as the death toll from the cartoon jihad indicates. But just as telling is how swiftly the developed world has internalized an essentially Islamic perspective. In their pitiful coverage of the low-level intifada that’s been going on in France for five years, the European press has been barely any less loopy than the Middle Eastern media.

What, in the end, are all these supposedly unconnected matters from Danish cartoons to the murder of a Dutch filmmaker to gender-segregated swimming sessions in French municipal pools about? Answer: sovereignty. Islam claims universal jurisdiction and always has. The only difference is that they’re now acting upon it. The signature act of the new age was the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran: Even hostile states generally respect the convention that diplomatic missions are the sovereign territory of their respective countries. Tehran then advanced to claiming jurisdiction over the citizens of sovereign states and killing them — as it did to Salman Rushdie’s translators and publishers. Now in the cartoon jihad and other episodes, the restraints of Islamic law are being extended piecemeal to the advanced world, by intimidation and violence but also by the usual cooing promotion of a spurious multicultural “respect” by Bill Clinton, the United Church of Canada, European foreign ministers, etc.

The I’d- like- to- teach- the- world- to- sing- in- perfect- harmonee crowd have always spoken favorably of one-worldism. From the op-ed pages of Jutland newspapers to les banlieues of Paris, the Pan-Islamists are getting on with it.

Why are there so few media outlets reporting on these incidents? Emphasis are mine.

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h/t: Memeorandum

Others discussing this: The Volokh Conspiracy; All Things Beautiful; Betsy’s Page; Dr. Sanity; History News Network; Glenn Reynolds; Captain’s Quarters; Daily Pundit; Say Anything; Michelle Malkin; Israpundit; Tai-Chi Nation;

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Free Iraqi writes Let’s Blame it on the Sunnis [h/t to Wizbang: CARNIVAL OF THE TRACKBACKS LII ] gives an excellent and insightful explanation of some of the dynamics fueling the ethnic conflicts and insurgencies in Iraq.

He offers some reasonable solutions:

I think the major problem is that Saddam’s mentality is still running this country through people like Sadr, Al-Hakeem, Adnan Al-Dulaimi and Barzani.

This post answers many questions and raises others. We will all understand the what is going on in Iraq better if we read this post and read it with an open mind intent on understanding.

Woman Honor Thyself has posted a powerful article honoring the Marines killed when two helicopters crashed off the coast of Africa this week.

Argghhh! points out that It’s An Odd War. He also posts some pictures of our soldiers in action.

The Real Ugly American has an excellent article on What’s Really Going on in Iraq through the eyes of real soldiers who have been there.

One Marine’s View says the MSM is so busy with insignificant stories that they aren’t telling the real story of what is happening in Iraq. He says the MSM is so desperate they are running 2 year old photos from Abu Ghrab prison. [h/t A Rose By Any Other Name]

I love our Soldiers.

Aubrey J. has a great photo of the day. [hint it has to the with the 1st Armor Division - hooah] He also posts a list of casualties.

Speaking of our Soldiers. I think we really must have depleted the German warrior gene-pool in WWII. Born Again Redneck posts the story of the German man jailed for a year for insulting Islam.

Bullwinkle Blog has some bad news for the left. While your there, just for fun, check out his idea for a new Winter Olympic sport.

Freedom Watch does not approve of the UAE deal. Is It Just Me? asks if it’s Paranoia Mixed with Politics. Red Hot Cuppa Politics asks, ‘Why the hell not?. Violence Worker is back and analysing the UAE deal as well. The Paladin is looking at the politics of the deal with a level head as well. While you are at Daves (The Paladin) you might look at his graphic and poignant definition of the Religion of Peace.

Kimdergarten has seen her daughter through preparing for and joining the Air Force, now her son is getting ready to go. So soon. You Betcha I’m a Proud Army Mom is dealing with a homesick 18 year old soldier. It’s so hard to see our babies having to be so grown.

Life-Florida-Whatever has some info for deployed family support. Thirdee at Code Red: Women for the Troops reports on the return of the 13th MEU.

Soldier’s Dad has an update on Iraq Security and Stability.

Last, but not least, one of my favorite blogs, Samantha Speaks about the Marines rendering aid to the Phillipines. We haven’t see this on CNN. If you like history, you’ll love Samantha’s blog. She has post after post on the history of the Marine Corp.

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Carnivals! Blue Stars - Insanities - Blogging at its Best
Excerpt: Blogging time has been scarce the past few days - and so for my readers who are trying to adjust to a mere one measly post a day at THE MEDIAN SIB after months of multiple posts each day, let me direct you to two sources of great blog-reading.Fi …..
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