tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-176482792012-01-26T23:06:52.790-08:00Reporting from the frontlines of the Culture Warssyvogtredivenoreply@blogger.comBlogger1231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17648279.post-1143094113468829172006-03-22T21:54:00.000-08:002006-03-22T22:08:33.490-08:00

The campaign by "Danish" imams against the country they live in has taken a new turn. French journalist Mohamed Sifaoui, who earlier infiltrated an al Qaeda cell in France, this time took it upon himself to infiltrate the scene around the Danish imams. In a program that airs tonight on French TV station France 2, he shows how the imams are conducting an aggressive campaign against opponents in

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I actually wanted to pass this by, since it has nothing to do with Denmark, but what the heck - its a slow newsday for Danish stuff I can blog.You may or may not know, that The Independent recently ran an article on the exhibition "1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World" that is currently circulating in Great Britain. The Independent piece then nominated the 20 most important

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Large parts of the Danish industrial and agricultural elite have utterly disgraced themselve following the moslem boycot of Danish goods. For quite a few of them, prophet has seemed to rhyme with profits, and they have only been too happy to rip into PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen for his handling of the entire affair.Others are merely blind, and refuse to see that this crisis is a confrontation

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In Denmark, the Mohammed-affair has brought into the open in its purest form what so far only some rightwing pundits dared to say: that large parts of our intellectual elite are sellouts when it comes to standing up to totalitarian ideologies - or religions. While for example the international organisation of authors PEN has come out solidly on the side of free speech during the whole Mohammed

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It has been some time since I blogged on the continuing cyber-war on Denmark. Let me make good on that by blogging a piece of an editorial in the Danish paper Ekstra Bladet that appeared 4 days ago (sorry, no link. The one I had now hosts another editorial):Modern technology has created new fronts, when wars are fought. Thus Ekstra Bladets section kriminalen today reports, that more than 3000

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In the whirl of things happening in our lives this saturday, let us not forget that today is the 2-year anniversary of the moslem bombing of four commuter trains in Madrid in 2004. 190 people from 16 different nations died that day. Let one stand for all when you consider their death and who brought it about:María Jesús Macías Rodríguez, a 30-year-old spaniard, was commuting to work when moslem

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Leftwing Danish paper Politiken thursday reported, how Egypt is aching under the drop in numbers of western tourists following the moslem boycot of Denmark. Apparently, Egypt is seeing a 20 to 25% drop in numbers of tourists from western Europe. Among Scandinavian tourists, the drop is 20 to 30%.According to Politiken, Egyptian tourist attache in Denmark, Ibrahim Khalil, receives a daily torrent

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One of the outcomes of the Mohammed controversy is, that Radical MP Naser Khader with a number of other moslem immigrants formed the organisation Democratic Moslems, with ambitions to go international at a later time.As such a commendable initiative, if only more moslems actually chose to sign up. According to the last numbers mentioned in the press, the organisation had 900 members out of an

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As I reported earlier, a city councilman from the city I live in has opened up a discussion of an apparently propensity of some immigrants to take advantage of the the generous social benefits Denmark provides those in need. An earlier case in the same city make that clear, too (from DR):More than a third of immigrant women on unemployment benefits in Odense are continually calling in sick, which

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More from the aforementioned study on the experiences Danish nurses have with immigrant patients:They are called hookers, spat at and treated as helps. Those are some of the more aggravating examples of, that nurses feel discriminated against by patients of immigrant backgrounds in Danish hospitals.One in four nurses in a new study that Sygeplejersken has done in cooperation with the analytical

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One of the larger stories in late january (of course overshadowed by the Mohammed-affair) was, that a study found 80% of nurses to have had problems with immigrant patients. From DR:Eight in ten nurses in daily contact with immigrant patients in the Danish hospitals, have had problems attending to patients of immigrant backgrounds over the last year.That is what a new study, done by the trade (as

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Im currently cleaning my inbox of stories I didnt get around to report back in january and february. So for the next couple postings, you are going to have to do with "news" that isnt quite "new", but that still didnt make it into the international press.First off this one from Nsvt.se, on the school situation in Norway:The share of studenst with a native tongue other than Norwegian hasincreased

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Another story from multiculturalistic Sweden: The Swedish government consisting of social democrats has managed, along with its semi-communist ally Vänsterpartiet to field a law that makes Swedish only the "main" language in Sweden.While the rightwing opposition gained the support from the social democratic governments other ally, Miljöpartiet, a foulup during voting on the law meant that it

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According to the paper BT, the group of young offenders (ie. below 18 years of age) araigned in front of Copenhagen city court has reached an all-time high (a whopping 130). From the paper:- It is absolutely unacceptable, that we are heading in the wrongdirection, says chief inspector Per Larsen from the Copenhagen policedepartment.One in nine people brought in for preliminary examination was

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From Sweden comes the next step in multiculturalism (admitedly borrowed in England): Swedish police are now free to attire themelves with all sorts of colourful ethnic attire - turbans, scarfs and yarmulkes. An example (though no turban - from svt.se):

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Things are heating up in Germany. According to Jyllands-Posten, a wide array of grassroots´ movements, organied in the Bundesverband der Bürgerbewegungen ((BdB - Federal Union og the Citizens´ Movements) has reported the Koran to the police, with an aim to get the law to stop its spread. The reasoning is, that the book is not just a religious and historical book, but a political one, outlining a

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A recent poll among immigrants in Denmark with the right to vote had a quite startling result: 95%+ vote left-of-centre. The breakdown:Unity List (communists): 7.2%Socialist People´s Party (semi-communists): 19.0%Social Democrats: 47.6%Radicals: 21.4%Left wing total: 95.2%Liberals: 2.6%Conservatives: 0.5%Danish People´s Party: 1.2%Right wing total: 4.3%Given that a party needs 2% of the votes to

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Well, at least according to the polls.Probably due to the case about the Mohammed drawings, rightwing parties now have majorities in all three Scandinavian countries according to a new poll. The majorities range from a razor-thin 50.1% in Norway over 53.7% in Denmark to 55.5% in Sweden. As Denmark and Norway both held elections last year, the results for both of these countries dont mean much.

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The Danish english-language blog Agora has for the benefit of the rest of the world translated an enormously interesting piece on the precedent to the Mohammed-drawing case that the Rushdie affair 17 years earlier was. I have to confess that all I remembered was Rushdie getting a death sentence from the Iranian mullahs over his book, but this article rolls the entire affair up, showing how it

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This blog was originally created to provide Danish news for the rest of the world. Given the enormous attention Denmark got over the Mohammed cartoons, and the speed with which other Danish english-language blogs turned up, and with which the larger American blogs created Danish networks for feeding them stories from Denmark, I actually considered closing down Viking Observer. But what the heck -

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...a bit of entertainmend. Muslim rave party sensation :-)

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Rantings of a sandmonkey has an interesting perspective on the boycot of Denmark over the Mohammed-drawings (hat tip: Renwaa). He found out that an Egyptian paper reprinted some of the drawings back in october. His suggestion?Guess we will have to Boycott Egypt now as well, huh?Now while the arab islamic population was going crazy over the outrage created by their government's media over these

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By now, most people know of the "fake cartoons" the Danish imams used to incite anger in the ME during their tour there in December, 2005. Now Neander News has found out where one of them is from (hat tip: Mike H., comment no. 2):Do these two photos look similiar?They should because they are the same! No, not a satire of Mohammed nor any other sacred Islamic figure but a photo of Jacques Barrot,

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For a second day in a row, islamists have attacked the Danish embassy, trying to set in on fire with molotov cocktails. Kept at a distance by police, they only managed to hit a janitorial building, though. Later in the day, the Norwegian embassy was also hit. Though windows were smashed by stone-throwers, as with the Danish embassy, police managed to keep them at a distance so their

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The assault reported by a hotdog vendor, which I mentioned here, has been investigated and deemed non-believable by the police:It is the over-all impression of the police, that the assault hasnt taken place, says inspector Bent Isager-Nielsen. Now the public prosecutor has to decide, whether the hotdog vendor will be charged.

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I earlier promised to do a round-up of the lies the Danish moslems have been selling their "offendedness" on in the Middle East. Turns out, Ekstra Bladet kame first, so why do it myself?:Imam Abu Laban and his spokesmen in The Islamic Belief Society have a quite loose attitude towards truth. Lie no. 1Abu Laban and other representatives from The Islamic Belief Society have in countless instances

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From CNN:A crowd of about 200 people pelted the Austrian Embassy in Tehran with petrol bombs and stones on Monday in a protest over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.The protesters, chanting "God is Greatest" and "Europe, Europe, shame on you," smashed all the diplomatic mission's windows with stones and then tried to hurl petrol bombs inside.Austria currently holds the

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Need I say more?UPDATE:It has been brought to my attention that the above picture has been photoshopped and is NOT representative of reality. Thanks to Renate for pointing this out. There is nobody but me and a case of shoddy source-critique to blame for this. The actual picture can be seen here: Not much better.

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Drawmohammed.comEnjoy!

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Yesterday, an al Qaeda-aligned group in Iraq, the Islamic Army, threatened to kill any Danes they can and "chop them to pieces". In other Iraqi news, the Iraqi "resistance" continues to show that it doesnt really care about the Iraqi people:A patrol of the 530 men strong Danish force near Basra in Iraq has been shot at by angry Iraqis, says The Operative Command of the Army in Karup. The shooting

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This one, from the Philadelphia Enquirer, is spot-on:

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From DR:20-year-old Mette Nielsen of Nyborg has been brought out of the city Ramallah on the West Bank along with a couple other Danes according to BT. Mette Nielsen has been a peace guard in Ramallah for a week, taking part in protests against Israeli mistreatment of palestinians. She has been pulled out of the West Bank, to safety in Israel - behind the Israeli soldiers the has been protesting

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A bit more from the Bangkok Post:Angry protestors started throwing stones at a nearby Christian Maronite church, breaking its windows and prompting the priest at the church to protest. Lebanese Justice Minister Charles Rizk condemned the attack on the church, saying " this is an unacceptable act by the demonstrators. Christian churches have nothing to do with the issue of the cartoons." The

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Turkish islmists are heading to the Danish embassy in Ankara in busses.More soon.

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From DR:Angry and aggressive protesters run amok.Dannebrog (the Danish flag) was burned, car tires set alight and a sea of Hamas-people were wearing vests where the Danish flag was cut through by a drawing of a sabre. Almost 20.000 protestors were according to news agencies on the street. For a long time they were held back about 200 metres from the consulate. About 2000 police and soldiers were

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Yesterday, as you probably all know, saw the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian embassies in Syria burned down by moslem fanatics. An attack on the French embassy failed.Here in Denmark, the headlines were grabbed by the competing demonstrations over the Mohammed drawings and the accompanying islamic boycot. In Hillerød, the far rightwing organisation Danish Front had arranged a demo that, according

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A wee bit of blogging before its off to work on this beautyful, snow-covered Sunday.To begin your sunday with a smile (or a horrified realization, depending on how much you have followed the news since, oh, 9-11), listen to this one:Because its in the Koran

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As Renwaa has pointed out in the comments, the Danish press is currently running the story of how there are moves underway to expel some of the imams that have basically been lying their pants off to bring about the current confrontation over the mohammed-drawings.The whole case is too big for me to blog right now (maybe tomorrow, or saturday), but over the last couple weeks the imams in The

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After the paper of the Swedish immigration-sceptical party The Sweden Democrats decided to hold a competition for its readers over who could draw the best carricatures of Mohammed, the Swedish moslems have begun threatening to make the moslem countries boycot Sweden, too:Mahmoud Aldebe, spokesman for Swedens moslem society, reacts harshly: - To portray our prophet is to offend our religion. I

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According to Jyllands-Posten tuesday, the cyber-offensive against Danish targets seems to have found new targets. Since monday, no reports of blogs or news websites going down have been reported. Instead, the hackers seem to have switched to attacking normal websites, defacing them and leaving statements in arabic, turkish, english, and in a few instances danish:"We Will Kill All Domaine .DK

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I am sorry to have left you all in the middle of this, but real-life work takes up most of my time these days. But back to business.Over the last two days, the islamist threat against freedom of speech has produced a wave of reactions across Europe, after an initial embarrassing silence. Papers in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Iceland have reprinted the drawings. Even a paper in the Middle

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By now, things are developing so fast that its hard to keep track:Hungary sides with Denmark. Says the Hungarian foreign minister: "To us, freedom of speech is a cornerstone of a functioning democracy". The arab reaction is "unfitting". In the arab parts of Palestine, the Danish representative office in Ramallah was fired on yesterday, and today demonstrations burned pictures of, among others,

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In my last post, the Danish businessman Asger Aamund was mentioned as condemning the demands coming from Danish Industry. The following is his piece in Jyllands-Posten saturday (sorry, no link):It is when you are under pressure, that you are tempted to give in. It is when you are under pressure, that you are lured into compromising. But it is also when you are under pressure, that you have to

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Put under pressure by the islamic boycot of Danish goods, some of the Danish business leaders have begun whining about the threat to their dividend. Hans Skov Christensen, the head of the association "Danish Industry" came out saturday in the paper Berlingske Tidende, demanding that Jyllands-Posten explain itself. The following is the reply of Jyllands-Posten on sunday:You have sent The Morning

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Danish blog Polemiken is down. Same with the blog Bussels Journal.

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The boys over at the conservative blog MINUT (named after the Minutemen) have a habit of whipping up politically loaded graphics when they feel like it. The islamist boycot of Denmark is another opportunity, and they seized it:For more good ol´Danish rightwing propaganda, go here and here. One of my personal favorites:

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Sometimes the Loony Left surprises me. Normally, its for the worse, like when they launch into anti-semitic conspiracy-mongering. This time, its a case of pre-emptive pleading for Dhimmi status that has surprised me.Danish Loony Lefto blogger Raapil is including the message "Do not hack this site! It is not islam critical!" on his blog. Just to show his multi-culti sensibility, he is translating

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Most people have heard about the case of the drawings of the alleged prophet Mohammed. Few know that it all started because a Danish author writing a childrens´ book about him couldnt find artists willing to draw Mohammed under their own name.Now the book is out, and it is a neutral reporting of Mohammeds life as the Koran and Hadith describe it. Of course that also means protraying Mohammed

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The islamic boycot of Danish goods, and the cyber attacks on Danish media over the weekend are not eliciting a response from the general population. On one hand, there is a cyber-counterattack brewing (Jyllands-Posten):Chain-mail suggests attack on arab mediaA Danish chain-mail that is circulating by email urges people to take part in a web-based attack on arab media. This happens in reaction to

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Various rightwing Danish blogs are reporting an inordinate amount of traffic from the Middle East, normally in the 20-30% range. From Angantyrs Hjørne:And from Ab jetzt wird zurückgeschossen:

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Most people following current affairs are probably by now aware, that a boycot of all things Danish (and Norwegian and Swedish, too, in some instances) is spreading in the ME. What hasnt been reported is, that Denmark has likewise come under cyber attack. From the paper Politiken friday:Hacker attack paralyzed news mediaA large number of Danish papers´ web versions have crashed. Suspicions

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Sorry, people, but I have to put blogging on hold for another week or two. My computer crashed a week ago, so I dont have access to the internet until it has been repaired.Sorry.Henrik

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Norwegian blogger Fjordman has earlier blogged extensively on the wave of rapes that Scandinavia has been seeing coming to a large degree from immigrants. One of his posts even made it into Frontpage Magazine, creating global awareness of the problem.Things are getting worse, however: rape statistics in Sweden have jumped 30% between 2004 and 2005 (source: Svenska Dagbladet, my translation):The

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During December, Denmark has been the place where our intellectual elite staged an offensive against the immigration policies that our current government, now elected with decent majorities twice in a row, is conducting. The thing finally starting it was the Mohammed drawings, and the medium was petitions signed by various groups.First came a petition on December 15th in the leftwing paper

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The New York Times three days ago decided to publish a story about the row over the depiction of the alleged prophet Mohammed. In it, imam Ahmed abu Laban, a leader of The Islamic Belief Society gets much airtime:In Norrebro, an ethnically mixed neighborhood of Copenhagen where the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard is buried and where kebab stands dot the tree-lined streets, Imam Ahmed Abu-Laban, a

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Jyllands-Posten continues a tradition of hard-hitting drawings. In case you cant see it, the guy is Irans president "The holocaust didnt happen - lets remove Israel from the face of the earth" Ahmadinejad:In case you are wondering: "Ugens streger" means "lines (as in a drawing) of the week". It was to be found in the recent JP (Jyllands-Posten) International section.Henrik

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The last couple years, much has been made of moslem immigrants in Denmark having a lower employment rate than Danes, or for that matter any number of other groups in the immigrant population. A number of theories have come up trying to explain this, from the less-than-charitable ("they´d rather mooch off of our taxes") to the more graceful. One of the latter set is, that the simple fact that many

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From the norwegian blog document.no:Finn Graff, drawer for the paper Dagbladet, admits that he doesnt dare draw the prophet. He´s afraid for his life. That emerged when NRKs (Norwegian national public broadcaster) program "Kulturbeitet" covered the dispute about the prophet-drawings in Jyllands-Posten.Asked whether he would consider to draw the prophet, Finn Graff answered: - No. That is taboo.

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After the past months of perpetual cries of "Im offended" from moslem clerics and spokespersons, they suddenly got a whole new set of Danish carricatures to be offended by (from Politiken, my translation):It is not just the Mohammed-drawings by Jyllands-Posten, that the Islamic Belief Society is enraged by. 10 satirical pictures published in Weekendavisen in November last year are even worse,

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Goes to show motivation. From The Australian, an article entitled "Racism is repulsive, but so is self-loathing":YESTERDAY a colleague emailed me from New York. The young lawyer - her family lives in Brighton-Le-Sands, a bayside suburb north of Cronulla in Sydney - wrote: "While I agree there is no justifying excuse for the violence and breakdown in order that occurred at Cronulla, it needs to be

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OK, I promised more than I could keep yesterday. Apparently I cant be bothered to stay away from the blog if something interesting happens.The Australian reports:Police are also now investigating bullet holes found in the cars of several staff members at St Joseph the Worker Primary School in South Auburn after a Christmas carols service on Monday evening. Parents and children were abused by a

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First, I have to tell you that real-world things will keep me from blogging until the evening of January 3rd, 2006 (ie, for the next 3 weeks).Secondly, a bit of background to the Australian riot Sunday and the follow-up Moslem riot Monday. Other than the assault on two Australian life guards that immediately sparked the sunday riot, I have only seen small bits on the background in Australian

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From Jyllands-Posten:Frevert's replacement: Islam is terrorThe Danish People's Party's new spokesman on education affairs describes Islam as a terrorist movement A few days after the Danish People's Party (DF) punished its Copenhagen mayoral candidate for publishing racist remarks on her website, removing her from the post as the party spokesman on educational affairs, her successor went ahead

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From Jylland-Posten:New death threats against Mohammed cartoonistsDemonstrations in Pakistan have escalated into death threats against Danish illustrators who drew pictures of the prophet Mohammed The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned Danish travellers to Pakistan of increased hazard after a Danish newspaper's decision to publish cartoons of Muslim prophet Mohammed escalated into a bounty

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Turkeys islamist government is currently trying to exact a wee bit of revenge over the printing of 12 pictures of the alleged prophet Mohammed. The means the Turks have chosen is to complain incessantly about Denmark allowing the Kurdish television station ROJ TV to broadcast from Denmark. So far, the culmination was when Turkish prime minister Erdogan stormed out of the country when told that

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From the paper Weekendavisen (my translation):The Siddique-family belong to the Malik clan, which has its base in the western part of the Punjab in Pakistan, and to the party Muslim League N, which is considered moderate. Wallait Khan belongs to the Gullar clan and the party Muslim League Q. This party is more fundamentalistic, and is part of the government in a border province close to

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The outing of two Copenhagen councilmen as supporters of the radical islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir, one social democratic councilman has finally had enough - he has left the party after 37 years of loyal service (Source: DR, my translation):Surrounded by press photographers, journalists and quite a few angry social democrats, the local politician Finn Rudaizky explained, why he had left

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Following the recently concluded local elections, our capital Copenhagen was hit by a political scandal when Wallait Khan, elected for the rightwing Liberals, defected to support a leftwing government of the city in return for the spot as 2nd deputy mayor along with a couple other posts.It goes WAY beyond mere political backstabbery, though. Other than a series of economic irregularities (running

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From Dagsavisen.no (my translation):"Sure, he beats me. But he doesnt hit me every day."That is how one of the residents at a battered women´s refuge in the East Country excuses her husband. He is not an "abuser". He only beats here off and on. - In many cultures, violence against women is unfortunately more the norm and more accepted. It isnt seen as abuse, either. That is part of the

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From the paper B.T (my translation):The boys seem brainwashed by extreme islamic positions, that they dont stop for a moment expressing in class. Several teachers, that B.T. has spoken to, are directly shocked and appalled over the tone coming from some of the very aggressive students.Some of them have been to koran schools, and according to teachers that is also where they have their extreme

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An accusation you often meet from moslem circles is, that evil racists are keeping them from getting jobs. This especially came up in a recent row over unemployment benefits, that need a bit of explanation. People who receive those here are divided into 5 "match groups" according to how equipped they are to have and hold a job, with "match group 5" being the worst group and 1 the best. The Danish

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Turkish islamist premier, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visited Denmark last week. He made a highly interesting remark during the visit in reaction to the drawings of the alleged prophet Mohammed in Jyllands-Posten (source: Politiken, my translation):"Freedom of speech is important, but it is more important what is holy to me"The article continuesIn a speech, that almost solely dealt with building

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I dont care much about the phrase "ethnic women", given that women arent an ethnicity, but the phrase appeared in the original article I quote, and it gives me an opportunity to address this: the Danish establishment is bending over backwards to avoid calling them moslem immigrants. Over the last couple years, we have been through "New Danes", "Ethnic" people (to the extent where "Ethnic Danes"

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Not from Scandinavia, but I cant not blog it. From the BBC: Christopher Yates, 30 (right - Henrik), was knocked to the ground and his head kicked like a football last November, the Old Bailey was told. .. Sajid Zulfiqar, 25, Zahid Bashir, 23, and Imran Maqsood, 21, of Ilford, east London, will be sentenced on Thursday.The court heard that after the attack Zulfiqar shouted, in Urdu: "We have

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The following is from Berlingske Tidende (my translation):They had received permission to pray in the basement. A quiet prayer in the midday break. But at Vestre Borgerdyd Highschool the permission for conducting friday prayers for a group of moslem students - among them a student now charged with terrorism - has run amuck. The prayer has just been stopped after a sermon conducted by imam Abu

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The following is the text to one of the songs sung at the tv-transmitted kongress of the new Swedish party Feminist Alternative (source: Federley):Old, dirty man, accursed manDestroys our world without any shameRapes, wages wars, fights and destroysGet that you cant and shouldntGrab my pussy when you get hornyOr grab my breasts when you lustI hate you, you accursed manYou think you know, You

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Sikandar Siddique, about whom I blogged a week ago, was elected tuesday to the city council of our capital, Copenhagen.In Odense Anna Rytter was elected to the city council for the communists/Unity List. She is, as far as I know the first Danish convert to Islam to get in.Other notable results of the elections:The Liberals had a comparatively weak showing - did not get the 50 mayoral posts (out

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From Arutz Sheva:Islamic radicals have been using the Temple Mount as a focal point for planning and preaching the establishment of a world Islamic state with Jerusalem as its capital. One of the radical groups operating on the Temple Mount is Hizab Altahrir (The Islamic Liberation Party), which espouses an ideology similar to Al Qaeda. Hizab Altahrir’s network spans most Western European

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I earlier blogged the weird story about Jason Brandon aka Andrew Nassim, and how he lied his way through an article on moslems in Denmark, trying to paint the Danish People´s Party as nazis. In case you didnt catch that, I took exception to the following snippet:The party's provocative slogan "Dit Land, Dit Valg" (One land, one people) for many people conjures up unwelcome reminders of Denmark's

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From DR News (my translation):A child that is being raped, is apparently not being violated in the same degree as a grown-up, and thus should get a lower compensation, says a new ruling by Svea Hovrätt.The ruling is in a case about a 25-year-old man, who was sentenced to two years in prison for rape of a 14-year-old. At the same time, he was sentenced to pay 75.000 crowns (about 10.000 dollars -

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Danish national public TV station DR has been known as a leftwing stronghold for more than three decades. They have normally stonewalled all critique, but after they got a new boss a couple months ago, things seem to begin changing for the better. To begin with, in the first interview he gave, he acknowledge the obvious: that DR had a slanted coverage, and that it needed correcting.An example of

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From LewRockwell:Recently the Swedish government was forced to admit that they simply had no idea how many government agencies exist. As the major daily papers took up the issue, the Agency for Public Management were given the task of performing an official inquiry to find out how many agencies there were. One of the first things the agency did was to call the largest free-market think tank in

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From Dagens Nyheter (my translation):According to a not yet published study from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, men with a foreign background are over-represented in the group of suspected rapists. It is approximately four times more common that a known offender is born abroad, compared to persons born in Sweden. It has looked like that for a long time, according to Peter Martens,

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»We strongly condemn this act. I think, that the fear of islam and actions of this kind create a divide between religions, that we make enormous efforts to bridge", says Tasnim Aslam, spokeswoman for the Pakistani foreign office (source: Politiken, my translation). But what is she talking about? Is ita) Some pictures of a pedofile robber in the Danish paper Jyllands-posten, or is itb) The recent

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The Danish blog En Dansker i Sverige has been so kind to share some pictures of election posters from Copenhagen. Some of them are quite telling, too. All pictures in this post are copyright En dansker i Sverige. The Socialist People´s Party has had a minor accident with some of its posters - they are the wrong way around. It could be argued their ideology is the same way, of course, so maybe its

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I have already mentioned, that the social democrats´ candiate for the spot as mayor of our capital, Copenhagen, has been accused of justifying terrorism. Now it transpires that another candidate - Pakistani-descented Sikandar Malik Siddique (seen right) - may be a member of the radical islamist organization Hizb-ut-Tahrir. The organisation "The Freedom of Printing Society"´s online publication

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The Danish defense of freedom of speach has, for the time being, fended off the bickering babble of islamic ambassadors, whining that christians cant draw their alleged prophet.Of course, such a state of affair cant be allowed to continue, so now a journalist is trying to add fuel to the fire. Thus, the correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor in Copenhagen, James Brandon, had an article

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Maybe the peace you find in a graveyard. From an ordinary thursday in October:Afghanistan: Afgjan "rebel attacks" kill nineArgentina: Buenos Aires bomber "identified"Iraq: Bomb attack on Baghdad restaurantJordan: "Al-Qaeda link" to Jordan blastsFrance: Curfew for riot-hit French townsIndonesia: Bali bomb maker confirmed deadHenrik

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I promised myself, I would only touch upon Scandinavian issues, but this one is so bad, it makes my blood boil. It is a story that has been known for some time now in French media, and is only now beginning to seep into the english-language media. The Observer has taken it up, but in a way that angers me beyond belief. More about that in a bit.By now, everybody should have heard about the riots

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From Berlingske Tidende. Those under arrest in Denmark (my translation):A. Male, 20 years old. Lived in the public housing project of Tranemoesgård in Brøndby. Came to Denmark in 1993 with the rest of his family as Bosnian refugees. Got increasingly religious. Was arrested on the Technical School of Copenhagen, where he is under education to become an industrial technician. B. Male, 16 years old.

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Here is the relevant parts of the exchange that is creating an uproar in the mayoral race in Copenhagen. It is part of a series of exchanges between Liberal Candidate Søren Pind and Social Democratic candidate Ritt Bjerregaard, that is running daily in the paper Berlingske Tidende until friday. From Berlingske Tidende (sorry, articles arent online. Translation mine):Now we have a man in the heart

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From Jyllands-Posten (my translation):Fogh to take Turkish colleague to school on freedom of the pressPrime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Liberals) will personally teach Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan about freedom of the press and speech, when his Turkish colleague visits Copenhagen in a couple of weeks in connection with a NATO-summit. That is what the PM declared wednesday during

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Im sorry I havent been reporting on the terrorist cell exposed here in Denmark, but its quite hard to get a full picture of it all from the multitude of snippets that have gotten into the press, and it hasnt gotten any easier after the police decided to put a lid on the case:Friends of one of the six youngsters suspected of planning a terrorist attack have been making repeated attempts at

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The mayoral race in Copenhagen is heating up after Social Democratic candidate Ritt Bjerregaard on one hand tried to deny the Liberal candiate Søren Pind the security argument (rightwingers = more believable on security) while at the same time pandering to radical islamists by excusing terrorism. From Jyllands-Posten:Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen entered the municipal election debate in

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Danish police is cracking down on the rioters who ravaged a suburb of Århus over the weekend. From DR:Police in Århus have announced a zero tolerance policy over for the troublemakers who have been rampaging through a suburb of Århus during the weekend.The area of Viby, just outside central Århus has witnessed a spate of riots all weekend with shop windows being smashed, a kindergarten burnt out

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With permission from Fjordman, I hereby reproduce his entire posting about about the whole "pictures of Mohammed" affair. Thanks, Fjordman:Since the murder of the Islam critical Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, Danish artists have become fearful of criticising Islam. Author Kåre Bluitgen is due to publish a book on the prophet Muhammad, but so far no one had agreed to illustrate the work

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Local elections are fast approaching here in Denmark. The elections this time around are remarkable, because an administrative reform being introduced as we speak is decreasing the number of counties from 271 to just 98, which means that large numbers of "local kings" are battling it out. With the success of the rightwing government, and the addition of many normally right-voting counties to

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From Kristeligt Dagblad (translation mine):From November, Imam Fatih Alev will get monthly visiting hours in Saint Stefans Church on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The goal is to fight preconceived notions about Islam. Questions about islam must also be answered in the church, parish priest Anne Braad thinks. That is why she has invited imam Fatih Alev into Saint Stefans Church on Nørrebro in Copenhagen

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Lately, the moslem-led riots now running for four days straight in France have been given a great deal of attention, fex from the BBC:France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to step up security after violence flared for a fourth night in a Paris suburb. Six policemen were hurt and 11 people arrested in the latest clashes with youths in Clichy-sous-Bois, although it was calmer than

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From Jyllandsposten:Death-threatened politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali hails PM's refusal to discuss Danish press coverage of IslamEuropean leaders should step forward and support Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's refusal to meet with eleven Muslim ambassadors to discuss press coverage of Islam, Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali said on Sunday.Somalian-born Hirsi Ali, who is considered one of northern

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