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Irriterede netskribenter  vil have de blÊvrende lÊbers Poulsen Googlebombet.(grÄdighed).LÊs  hvordan man gÞr  her. Det er ikke til at sige, hvornÄr man sidst har oplevet én, der sÄ effektivt har lagt  bÄde sin fortid og sin fremtid i ruiner. Og med lidt held ogsÄ Ny Aliance, hvis det ikke  allerede ligger der. Er  han rigtig velforvaret ?  Jesper Strudsholm i Politiken : 

Det fÞrste, JÞrgen Poulsen lÊser i avisen, er bÞrslisterne. Det ved enhver, der har spist morgenmad med ham. Men da han i et af sine fÞrste interview som nyudnÊvnt generalsekretÊr for Dansk RÞde Kors blev konfronteret med denne vane, lod han forstÄ, at det skyldtes interessen for klodens tilstand.
»Hvis jeg endte pĂ„ en Ăžde Ăž og kun kunne fĂ„ Ă©n spalte fra avisen, sĂ„ ville jeg bede om bĂžrskurserne. De viser nemlig, hvordan verden ser ud. Alt andet er snak,« sagde han til Ekstra Bladet.  –   Sandheden er, at ogsĂ„ Poulsens privatĂžkonomi pĂ„virkes af bĂžrskurserne. Det ved de medarbejdere hos RĂžde Kors, der fik mĂžder afbrudt af hastesamtaler fra hans aktiehandler. Og det ved Danmarks Radios Frank Esmann, der i begyndelsen af 1990’erne var korrespondent i Washington samtidig med JĂžrgen Poulsen.
Her gav Poulsen gerne gode rÄd om valutahandel, og de to mÊnd fik ifÞlge Esmann »en del tid til at gÄ med at diskutere dollarens kurs i forhold til schweizerfranc og hollandske gylden«.

Frank Esmann kaldte derfor JÞrgen Poulsen for »krejleren«. Det var kÊrligt ment, for Esmann ansÄ mest de finansielle tryllekunster for et kuriosum

PortrĂŠt: En linedanser mellem smartness og samvittighed

Frivillighed ?

 Basra’s murderous militias tell Christian women to cover up or face death

 Norsk  homo-fatwa efterlyses

Europa afventer  i spĂŠnding Al-QaradawiÂŽs humĂžr lige den dag. (Han er  81 Ă„r og bor ikke engang i Europa ligesom  yderligere 12  af de 33  medlemmer af fatwarĂ„det heller ikke gĂžr).  Nye tider, nye skikke. De sĂ„kaldt “progressive” har skaffet os en tid pĂ„ halsen, hvor man ligefrem skal glĂŠde sig over ikke  at vĂŠre  jĂžde, bĂžsse  eller kvinde. Idel fremskridt – made in S,R & SF.

Om rĂ„det sĂ€ger ja till dödsstraff och dĂ€rmed sĂ€ger att det Ă€r rĂ€tt att anvĂ€nda vĂ„ld mot homosexuella
. Det kommer att fĂ„ konsekvenser för homosexuella i hela Europa, sĂ€ger Skeiv Verdens vice ordförande Eirik Roen till Blikk.no
Till Blikk sĂ€ger Roen att man lever i en “spĂ€nd situation” och att han fruktar för medlemmarnas liv. Han tror att det finns en liten chans till att det europeiska fatwarĂ„det kommer ta avstĂ„nd frĂ„n dödsstraff dĂ„ det Ă€r en religiös “domstol”.

Det europeiska fatwa-rĂ„det, European Islamic Council for Fatwa and Research, bestĂ„r av teologer som ger europeiska muslimer rĂ„d i olika frĂ„gestĂ€llningar. RĂ„det trĂ€ffades i Stockholm senast i juli 2003 dĂ„ bland annat frĂ„gan om terrorhandlingar diskuterades. RĂ„det Ă€r baserat i Dublin med Shejk Yusuf Al-Qaradawi som ordförande. Han har tydligt uttalat sig negativt mot den europeiska synen pĂ„ homosexualitet.-  Sommaren 2004 publicerades senast en fatwa frĂ„n Al-Qaradawi dĂ€r han förklarade att homosexualitet “Ă€r en omkastning av den naturliga ordningen, en förvrĂ€ngning av mannens sexualitet och ett brott mot kvinnors rĂ€ttigheter (det samma gĂ€ller pĂ„ samma sĂ€tt för lesbiska)”

Islamisk RÄd ber om fatwa-rÄd i homofrÄgor

Hans Hauge: Oh, to be in Britain

Tabish Khair mentions the “contradictions of Capitalism”. It is, indeed, a contradiction that the Danish state pays him so generously for spreading the message of international socialism, let alone why he happily accepts being paid by such a state. But, surely, one day, he hopes he can return to Britain. Oh, to be in England.     

New  Statesman: A Danish row on British shores

 Stolthed  og fordom

“Som sossar ska vi vara stolta över att mĂ„nga mĂ€nniskor har fĂ„tt en fristad i vĂ„rt land. Det Ă€r och ska vara en naturlig förlĂ€ngning av vĂ„r ideologi. Men vi ska ocksĂ„ komma ihĂ„g att den otrevliga och oacceptabla utvecklingen i Danmark, dĂ€r man inte lĂ€ngre diskuterar invandring och integration utan i första hand muslimer och islam, började med ett kommunalt uppror.”

Eric Sundström   Fel tÀnkt mÄste bli rÀtt gjort
 

»Islam’s Silent Moderates«  

By AYAAN HIRSI ALI – N.Y.T.

The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication, flog each of them with 100 stripes: Let no compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. (Koran 24:2)

IN the last few weeks, in three widely publicized episodes, we have seen Islamic justice enacted in ways that should make Muslim moderates rise up in horror.

A 20-year-old woman from Qatif, Saudi Arabia, reported that she had been abducted by several men and repeatedly raped. But judges found the victim herself to be guilty. Her crime is called “mingling”: when she was abducted, she was in a car with a man not related to her by blood or marriage, and in Saudi Arabia, that is illegal. Last month, she was sentenced to six months in prison and 200 lashes with a bamboo cane.

Two hundred lashes are enough to kill a strong man. Women usually receive no more than 30 lashes at a time, which means that for seven weeks the “girl from Qatif,” as she’s usually described in news articles, will dread her next session with Islamic justice. When she is released, her life will certainly never return to normal: already there have been reports that her brother has tried to kill her because her “crime” has tarnished her family’s honor.

We also saw Islamic justice in action in Sudan, when a 54-year-old British teacher named Gillian Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in jail before the government pardoned her this week; she could have faced 40 lashes. When she began a reading project with her class involving a teddy bear, Ms. Gibbons suggested the children choose a name for it. They chose Muhammad; she let them do it. This was deemed to be blasphemy.

Then there’s Taslima Nasreen, the 45-year-old Bangladeshi writer who bravely defends women’s rights in the Muslim world. Forced to flee Bangladesh, she has been living in India. But Muslim groups there want her expelled, and one has offered 500,000 rupees for her head. In August she was assaulted by Muslim militants in Hyderabad, and in recent weeks she has had to leave Calcutta and then Rajasthan. Taslima Nasreen’s visa expires next year, and she fears she will not be allowed to live in India again.

It is often said that Islam has been “hijacked” by a small extremist group of radical fundamentalists. The vast majority of Muslims are said to be moderates.

But where are the moderates? Where are the Muslim voices raised over the terrible injustice of incidents like these? How many Muslims are willing to stand up and say, in the case of the girl from Qatif, that this manner of justice is appalling, brutal and bigoted — and that no matter who said it was the right thing to do, and how long ago it was said, this should no longer be done?

Usually, Muslim groups like the Organization of the Islamic Conference are quick to defend any affront to the image of Islam. The organization, which represents 57 Muslim states, sent four ambassadors to the leader of my political party in the Netherlands asking him to expel me from Parliament after I gave a newspaper interview in 2003 noting that by Western standards some of the Prophet Muhammad’s behavior would be unconscionable. A few years later, Muslim ambassadors to Denmark protested the cartoons of Muhammad and demanded that their perpetrators be prosecuted.

But while the incidents in Saudi Arabia, Sudan and India have done more to damage the image of Islamic justice than a dozen cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the organizations that lined up to protest the hideous Danish offense to Islam are quiet now.

I wish there were more Islamic moderates. For example, I would welcome some guidance from that famous Muslim theologian of moderation, Tariq Ramadan. But when there is true suffering, real cruelty in the name of Islam, we hear, first, denial from all these organizations that are so concerned about Islam’s image. We hear that violence is not in the Koran, that Islam means peace, that this is a hijacking by extremists and a smear campaign and so on. But the evidence mounts up.

Islamic justice is a proud institution, one to which more than a billion people subscribe, at least in theory, and in the heart of the Islamic world it is the law of the land. But take a look at the verse above: more compelling even than the order to flog adulterers is the command that the believer show no compassion. It is this order to choose Allah above his sense of conscience and compassion that imprisons the Muslim in a mindset that is archaic and extreme.

If moderate Muslims believe there should be no compassion shown to the girl from Qatif, then what exactly makes them so moderate?

When a “moderate” Muslim’s sense of compassion and conscience collides with matters prescribed by Allah, he should choose compassion. Unless that happens much more widely, a moderate Islam will remain wishful thinking.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former member of the Dutch Parliament and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of “Infidel.”

New York Times

se ogsÄ:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali beskrives av flere som ekstrem. Det reflekterer full forvirring om begrepene. Ayaan Hirsi Ali er ikke ekstrem, hun er radikal: dvs. hun gÄr til roten av problemene. Det blir helt feil Ä mÄle henne feks. mot teleevangelisten Mouez Masoud. Det er snakk om to helt ulike tilnÊrminger, og begge trengs.

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Lars Findsen PĂ„ Crack (islamofob)
Lars Findsen PĂ„ Crack (islamofob)
16 years ago

Jeg fik ikke inkluderet kristendommen her, men i og med at denne ikke er en lovreligion, bliver det ogsĂ„ en hĂ„blĂžs opgave at opstille ĂŠkvivalente legitimeringer ud fra Bibelen eller fra historien. Klassikeren korstogene, var mig bekendt ikke teologisk begrundet, men var som udgangspunkt en reaktion pĂ„ muslimernes erobringstog ind i tidligere kristne lande. Mange forsĂžg bliver gjort pĂ„ at opstille ĂŠkvivalens med forhold i kristendommens historie, men de falder uden undtagelse pĂ„ at de netop er historie, ikke noget som nogle mainstreamkirkesamfund i dag ville bruge som legitimation for uhyrligheder. Kristendommen har vĂŠret gennem adskillige selvopgĂžr, i dag nĂŠrmest… Read more »

Lars Findsen PĂ„ Crack (islamofob)
Lars Findsen PĂ„ Crack (islamofob)
16 years ago

“Er du sikker pĂ„, at det teologisk holder vand<“ Israelitternes modstandere i GT har jo ingen relevans i dag. De eksisterer mig bekendt ikke engang – selv om filistrene mĂ„ske rent filologisk er ophav til palĂŠstinenserne. Deres modstandere og de foragtede afgudsdyrkere spiller roller i israelitternes egen historie – de er ikke set som eller brugt som ‘jĂždedommens fjender’ i almindelighed. Selv om bĂ„de jĂždedommen og islam er lovreligioner, er de jo sĂ„ forskellige som tĂŠnkes kan. JĂžderne opfatter sig bekendt som Guds udvalgte folk, men det er ikke forstĂ„et som om de har krav pĂ„ hele verden, sĂ„dan som… Read more »

Jacob A
16 years ago

Til det elskelige Crackhead: “Du kender selvfĂžlgelig godt svaret: Man henviser til blodige beskrivelser af krigshandlinger i Det Gamle Testamente, og til strenge lovreligiĂžse pĂ„bud om urene kvinder og stening af homoseksuelle. Voila! Det ene formodes sĂ„ at ophĂŠve det andet – hvordan klargĂžres aldrig.” Ja, jeg plejer sĂ„ ogsĂ„ at svare noget i retning af “ja, det VAR grove lĂžjer, men ingen kristne eller jĂžder agitere I DAG for at indfĂžrer Moselov overalt pĂ„ kloden, og selv ikke i den hovedsageligt jĂždiske stat Israel praktisere man stening for at arbejde pĂ„ en lĂžrdag.”. Crackhead: “Grusomhederne i GT er deskriptive,… Read more »

Lars Findsen PĂ„ Crack (islamofob)
Lars Findsen PĂ„ Crack (islamofob)
16 years ago

Du kender selvfĂžlgelig godt svaret: Man henviser til blodige beskrivelser af krigshandlinger i Det Gamle Testamente, og til strenge lovreligiĂžse pĂ„bud om urene kvinder og stening af homoseksuelle. Voila! Det ene formodes sĂ„ at ophĂŠve det andet – hvordan klargĂžres aldrig. MĂžder man disse forsĂžg pĂ„ opstilling af moralsk ĂŠkvivalens hos nogen man debatterer med, er den ultrakorte gendrivelse sĂ„ledes: Grusomhederne i GT er deskriptive, de handler altsĂ„ om specifikke handlinger for tusinder af Ă„r siden, og de lovreligiĂžse pĂ„bud efterleves ikke i dag; ingen stater praktiserer ‘jĂždisk’ stening, og ingen jĂždiske kvinder udsĂŠttes for syreangreb for ikke at tildĂŠkke… Read more »

Jacob A
16 years ago

“Lad ikke medlidenhed rĂžre dig i denne sag”. Det var da godtnok klar tale “from the horses mouth”(eller Guds, iflg nogen). Hvordan kan man stadigvĂŠk hĂŠvde, at islam ikke er anti-humanistisk, nĂ„r sĂ„dan et vers er at finde i dens “direkte instruktioner fra Gud”?

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Jacob

Lars Findsen PĂ„ Crack (islamofob)
Lars Findsen PĂ„ Crack (islamofob)
16 years ago

Ang. historien om Qaradawi og homoseksualitet er der her nogle ting omkring dette jeg tidligere har postet pĂ„ Uriasposten: En fatwa postet pĂ„ IslamOnline (al-Qaradawis site, svjh) gengiver disse holdninger til homoseksualitet i tre af de fire sunnimuslimske lovskoler: In the Hanafi school of thought, the homosexual is punished through harsh beating, and if he/she repeats the act, death penalty is to be applied. As for the Shafi`i school of thought, the homosexual receives the same punishment of adultery (if he/she is married) or fornication (if not married). This means, that if the homosexual is married, he/she is stoned to… Read more »

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