Seneste kapitel i Lars Hedegaard “racisme-sagen” udspillede sig i Østre Landsrets 8 afdeling i går. Jeg burde måske efterhånden også ytre mig om den sag, når jeg nu spiller en mindre birolle, hvis overhovedet er muligt at tilføje noget til de spaltekilometer, der allerede er skrevet. Måske haster det ikke, man fornemmer, der er tid nok. Jeg har aflagt vidneforklaring overfor politiet og byretten, og nu var jeg kørt 150 kilometer for at sige det samme igen, – troede jeg. Det tidligere sagte blev læst op, jeg skulle bare bifalde det eller ikke bifalde det. Jeg var på nippet til at tilføje “hvor er det dog nøjagtigt og godt refereret” eller “det er jo som at høre mig selv tale” for dog at levere noget for alle kilometrene, men dommeren lod forstå, at han allerede var færdig med mig. Jeg satte mig på tilhørerrækkerne med de 30 andre og tænkte på, hvad sådan en sag mon koster skatteyderne. Fem eller femten millioner? Bagefter var der øl i Bredgade, udtalt på gammelkøbenhavnsk lokaldialekt med det første “d” stumt. Solen skinnede, fuglene sang. “Hvor længe mon endnu?” sang en. “Hvem ender med røven på komedie?”, sang en anden selvom vi var tæt ved Amalienborg. (Steen)

Fra Sidste ord i landsretten af Lars Hedegaard

Magthaverne har til alle tider prøvet at feje ubehagelige problemer under gulvtæppet ved at forbyde folk at snakke om dem.Det kan de også sagtens gøre – især hvis de kan støtte sig til en tjenstvillig anklagemyndighed. Omkostningen er blot, at problemerne ligger inde under gulvtæppet og tager så meget på i vægt, at der med tiden opstår enorme buler, som folk falder over og først tør tale om, når det er for sent at gøre noget ved dem. Det er derfor vi har ytringsfrihed. Ytringsfriheden er – ud fra et samfundsmæssigt synspunkt – en institution, der skal sikre, at vi bliver gjort opmærksomme på problemer, før de bliver uløselige.

Ytringsfriheden er derfor grundlaget for, at vi kan have folkesuverænitet, demokrati og lighed for loven. Begynder man at regulere, hvad der må siges, og hvad der må tænkes, er det jo udtryk for, at magthaverne allerede mener sig i besiddelse af sandheden.
Al historisk erfaring viser, at sådanne velfriserede samfund må gå til grunde, fordi en alvidende og algod øvrighed aldrig har eksisteret. Erfaringen viser også, at en øvrighed, der mener sig så alvidende og algod, at den tyr til indhug i ytringsfriheden, står for fald.
Historien rummer en lang række eksempler på forfølgelser og fordømmelser af personer, hvis tanker måtte forekomme ethvert anstændigt menneske at være oplagt vanvittige, usaglige eller til fare for sædeligheden og den offentlige orden, men som alligevel – når de formastelige var blevet brændt på bålet, sat i fængsel eller på anden måde tvunget til tavshed – viste sig at indeholde en sandhed. Sidste ord i landsretten af Lars Hedegaard ( “Han har opført sig som en bombemand”, A Danish Show Trial, Yet Again.Muhammeds Piger. Politiken: Islamkritisk bog er komplet unuanceret.)

En vicestatsadvokat som en våd fuser

Det er fascinerende at iagttage hvordan der verden over benyttes de samme skabelonagtige virkemidler i forsvaret for den trængte multikultur: Vi har mange gange gjort opmærksom på den refleksmæssige opstilling af moralsk ækvivalens, hvor evigtgyldige, voldsopfordrende Koranvers antages at udlignes af tidsbundne blodigheder i det Gamle Testamente. På en eller anden måde er knebet blevet annammet og slugt råt i så godt som alle sammenhænge – akademisk som lavpandet.

Et andet trick med en betydelig udbredelse er at associere islamkritikere med, eller ligefrem tillægge dem, de samme voldelige tilbøjeligheder som de jihadister de kritiserer – medfører skrift eller tale ikke ligefrem afrevne lemmer og litervis af blod, kan man i det mindste prøve at smæde kritikeren ved association eller tillæggelse af skyld. Se f. eks. den formentlig højt betalte journalist Joe Klein, ansat ved det engang prestigefyldte, men nu hensygnende Time Magazine, der ikke lægger fingrene imellem, og springer alle mellemregninger over – pastor Terry Jones er så skyldig som en selvmordsbombemand:

“[T]here should be no confusion about this: Jones’s act was murderous as any suicide bomber’s. If there is a hell, he’s just guaranteed himself an afterlifetime membership.” Time Magazine’s Joe Klein: Qur’an-burning an “act as murderous as any suicide bomber’s”

På Snaphanen kender vi bedst til retssale fra Hollywoods court room dramas, og ved egentlig ikke om en dansk vicestatsadvokat kan være en manipulerende Karl Smart der godt ved hvad der sælger billetter i landsretten, eller om han evt. kunne være drevet af kognitiv dissonans der får ham til at projicere ubekvemme egenskaber hos dele af det klientel hvis følelser han varetager, over på anklagede. Under alle omstændigheder hørtes i landsretten i dag dette forsøg på at dele sol og vind lige på samme måde som hos Joe Klein:

[…] »Han (Lars Hedegaard, red.) har opført sig som en bombemand, der tænder lunten og går sin vej uden at sikre sig, at lunten går ud af sig selv, og at bomben ikke sprænger,« sagde [vicestatsadvokat] Bo Bjerregaard. […] »Han har opført sig som en bombemand«

Som sagt er Snaphanens redaktion generelt lovlydige borgere, og vi ved ikke rigtigt hvad der skal til for at ‘spille smart’ for landsrettens ‘cowboyrække’ – om man så må sige. Fra en lægmandsbetragtning ligner dette godt nok et ualmindeligt billigt kneb man ikke troede var en vicestatsadvokat værdig, men hvad ved vi? Vi må se hvad den høje ret falder for d. 3. maj (LFPC).

barry Rubin ser en stigende ‘mellemøstificering’ af den vestlige politiske kultur, i diametral modsætning til de våde drømme om at udfolde vestligt demokrati i Mellemøsten. Det er skræmmende at konstatere at der på trods af kommentarens fokus på amerikanske frihedsidealer går en lige linje til de europæiske angreb på ytringsfriheden, og således også til den verserende sag i landsretten (LFPC):

[…] So how has the Middle Eastern approach revolutionized Western discourse? What slogans are potent enough to shut people up instantly?

Racism! Homophobia! Islamophobia! And to a lesser extent, perhaps, Sexism! The minute you are accused of racism you are finished. There’s no effective response. […]

There are no pro-racism, pro-Islam-hating, pro-sexist, or pro-homosexual-baiting lobbies. Indeed, all of these things are at an all-time low in the West, rare to a degree unthinkable a decade ago. Yet the pretense must be that such dangerous enemies are lurking everywhere, just as Communist regimes constantly uncovered conspiracies that justified their existence and repression.

Thus, freedom of speech, rational discussion, and opposition are trumped by “higher values.” The most basic and long-held principles are quickly jettisoned in fear. Newspapers accept censorship, intellectuals embrace telling lies, and women’s rights’ groups cheer the suppression of women’s rights in Muslim societies. Those who have spent years fantasizing how they would have been heroic resistance fighters against dictatorship fold, trembling, in the face of a single letter of complaint.

Remember, victims of this tactic don’t have to be actually guilty but merely accused to be considered guilty. Consequently, and most likely of all, they would already have been intimidated into silence.

And then you are finished as completely as any Arab or Muslim accused of being a running dog of the Zionists and imperialists. In many cases, those in public life so branded might as well get a shopping cart and hang out on street corners collecting bottles to return for the deposit. […]

Public, even semi-public expressions of racism are virtually extinct in America, whatever might be inside people’s minds and hearts. The level of hostility toward homosexuals has fallen faster and further than anyone would have believed a decade or two ago. As for Islamophobia, its definition is unclear but certainly its scope has been greatly exaggerated by those who have a political interest in greatly exaggerating it.

The critical point is this: For every bit of “hate speech” or action, there are hundreds, even thousands of false, politically motivated accusations. Like the secret police in a dictatorship, the forces must seek out new crimes and conspiracies. But unlike an earlier phase of genuine efforts to promote tolerance, the strategy becomes a political one for crushing dissent and consolidating support for the prevailing ideology and rulers.

If laws restrict freedom to speak in the West on a variety of topics then people can be legally in a way making the West arguably more restrictive than Muslim-majority countries which, after all, generally solely restrict Islam from open discussion. […] Barry Rubin: How the West Is Being Turned into a Version of the Middle East

En Marineofficer blandt Afghanistans indfødte

Det kan kræve en mental indsats at acceptere at den vestlige tilstedeværelse i Afghanistan tjener et højere formål, nemlig vores egen sikkerhed. Man kan kun håbe at dette virkelig er tilfældet, men anstrengelsen er nok først og fremmest at måtte sluge den kendsgerning at landets egen kultur er udenfor rækkevidde. Allerhelst så man det primitive bjergland indhegnet af en uigennemtrængelig mur. En Marineofficer har sendt Pamela Geller nogle observationer fra sit ophold i Afghanistan (LFPC).

[…] A few days later, we walked next to some compounds in an area the Marines had never been to before. As we patrolled and secured, a group of little boys came out and watched us. In a nation with no literacy, Marines are a week’s worth of excitement and gossip. I had some candies in a bag so I passed some out as we talked with the kids about foreigners, Taliban, and peace. At that moment, 2 of the cutest little girls you have ever seen came out peeked out of the compound and immediately the little boys flew into a rage and chased them with sticks, throwing them and hitting one girl square in the back. I immediately chastened the boys and told them that what they did was not wrong, it was evil. The boys shouted back that they were “just girls!”

Two days ago, one of the linguists I work with was sitting looking like a man broken-hearted. I asked what was wrong and his friends, all full of vacant eyed smiles, said, “His fiancé killed herself!” as they all laughed except for the broken hearted one. I didn’t believe them at first because humans do not respond to tragedy in triumphant laughter. I again asked what the matter was and they again reiterated that his girl had killed herself. At this he looked up mournfully and nodded. Her parents tried to force her into a marriage with another man and she resisted. They forced, so she took poison. His friends went on to explain that it was OK because “she was just a girl and there are many others.” I stopped them as only an angry Marine can. I described to them in very insensitive language that they are all jacked up and their mood represents why their country is in the Stone Age, that this place has no heart and their souls are dead. I told them that they need to get through their heads that a woman’s life is just as important as a man’s and when a woman dies it is just as tragic as when a man dies. They looked at me as though I was explaining to them a deep secret and two of them even started nodding. Maybe there is hope. I wished the linguist affected well and was done with them. […] Afghanistan Observations

What remains, then, is to conquer Rome. The second part of the omen. “The city of Hiraq [once emperor of Constantinople] will be conquered first”, so what remains is to conquer Rome.’ This means that Islam will come back to Europe for the third time, after it was expelled from it twice… Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing], that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa. Yousef al-Qaradawi, MAYA Conference, 1995, Toledo, Ohio( Endnu en video: Hundreds of Muslims gathered in Rome’s famous Piazza Venezia to conduct their Friday prayers and demand religious freedom in Italy. Fotoserie på Bivouac-ID, hvor man samtidigt kan se at Roms meget store moské ligger øde hen.)

“Det er vores kristne pligt i et globaliseret samfund”
At gå under for at andre kan leve, er en kristen tanke. Også pave Benedikt har været inde på den i sin påskemesse, der også udkom på arabisk.

Germany and Europe should open their doors to refugees fleeing North African unrest and instability rather than barricading the borders, according to the Evangelical Bishop of Central Germany, Ilse Junkermann.Junkermann said in an interview that those fleeing violence in places such as Libya should be granted safety and help. “That we should help civil war refugees should not be put under question,” she said. “That is Christian duty, citizens’ duty in a global society.” Bishop says Europe must take refugees (Fra det seneste døgn: Italy: 1,000 migrants evacuated from Lampedusa, Immigration threatens to divide Europe, With help from Italy, Tunisian migrants head for France, Tunisian migrants find an unwelcome Europe.)

Vesten drukner

Jordens befolkning tæller i dag knap 7 mia. mennesker og vokser med godt 80 mio. om året. Den årlige tilvækst svarer således til Tysklands samlede befolkning. En tilvækst af denne størrelse er imidlertid af ny dato. Det kan vi få et indtryk af ved f. eks. at se på, hvor lang tid det tog at forøge jordens befolkning med 1 mia. mennesker før i tiden og i dag. Omkring 1800, dvs. for ca. 200 år siden, havde verdensbefolkningen nået den første mia., og det havde altså taget mange årtusinder. I løbet af de næste blot 130 år – dvs. til omkring 1930 – var Jordens befolkning vokset med yderligere 1 mia. Men omkring 1960 talte verdensbefolkningen 3 mia. Nu tog det altså kun 30 år at lægge yderligere 1 mia. til. På vejen frem mod de nuværende knap 7 mia. er jordens befolkning hvert 13. år blevet forøget med en mia.
Den stagnerende befolkningsudvikling i industrilandene og den hastige befolkningsudvikling i udviklingslandene siden midten af 1900-tallet har medført en stor ændring af den befolkningsmæssige balance mellem de to regioner. Medens 1/3 af jordens befolkning i 1950 boede i industrilandene, er det i dag mindre en 1/5. Af verdensbefolkningens årlige tilvækst på 80 mio. sker over 95 pct. i udviklingslandene. På grund af Afrikas langsomme fødselsnedgang vil denne verdensdel opleve en forøgelse af indbyggertallet fra en 1 mia. til godt 2 mia., dvs. mere end en fordobling i løbet af blot 40 år.

I dag bor 18 pct. af verdens befolkning i industrilandene, om 40 år er det under 14 pct. Europas andel af verdensbefolkningen vil falde fra knap 11 til godt 7 pct. Derimod vil Afrikas andel af verdensbefolkningen øges fra 15 til 22 pct. Dvs., at hver femte af jordens beboere om 40 år vil være afrikaner. Kronik: Den globale befolkningsudvikling, Poul Chr. Matthiessen, professor emer. dr. polit

Ingen snak om “retssikker asylprøvning”, “overholdelse af konventioner,” “generøs flygtningepolitik”osv, der ikke forholder sig til verdens demografi, og at den altså vil medføre egenudslettelse, bør tages alvorligt. I dag er godt 20 % af Sveriges indbyggerede indvandrede og efterkommere fra den seneste generation. Et ret konservativt skøn siger, at 9.9 % af Sveriges befolkning om kun 19 år er muslimer. Det vil sige at 20 % er inden for rækkevidde, og måske endda 30 % også i dette århundrede. Altså mod en Kosovo-lignende demografi. Hvordan forestiller den svenske Riksdag sig mon det vil spænde af ? Det gør den selvfølgelig heller ikke, det overlader den til andre som den kan skamme ud for deres beskidte fantasi. Ingen i den offentlige debat forholder sig til det simple faktum. Selv mener jeg som bekendt, – selvom det er gætværk på nogle årtiers aftsand – at Sverige allerede har passeret det punkt, hvor et fredeligt forløb virker som det sandsynligste. Men landet er kun den ekstreme illustration på det der sker lidt langsommere i resten af Europa: vores ledere fører os som lam til slagtebænken, lidt mere tøvende end før, undtagen i Sverige, naturligvis. Mine forældre var unge under besættelsen, de ville ikke tøve et sekund med at kalde disse politikere “quislinge” og “landssvigere”. Man må jo håbe for dem, at det ikke er en holdning, der breder sig ved den næring tiden kan give den.

Religionsdialog på amerikansk

Sagerne om Terry Jones’ anstrengte forhold til islam har forlængst fjernet sig fra spørgsmålet om hvad denne pastor og hans lille kirkesamfund selv repræsenterer, og ønsker at opnå med deres mediestunts. Rituel hændervasken og afstandstagen fra vulgær amerikansk cowboykristendom er formålsløs – Jones er blot katalysator og øjeblikkets brændpunkt, og enhver der har øjne og kan og vil se kan ikke være i tvivl. Videoen her er et lille mikrokosmos på noget der transcenderer cykelstyroverskæg og primitiv teologi. Og når det er sagt så klarer Terry Jones faktisk optrinnet her med stor værdighed – i modsætning til den fremmødte arabiske gadepøbel der beklageligvis opholder sig i hans land (LFPC).

Gumløse Kirke i Skåne – Nordens første teglstensbygning

Gumlösa Kyrka är den äldsta daterade tegelbyggnaden i Norden *. Man vet exact när den invigdes 26 oktober 1192, i närvaro av ärkebiskop Absalon i Lund, ärkebiskop Erik av Nidaros , nuvaranda Trondheim samt biskop Stenar i Växjö. Genom renheten i sin stil och sine väl bibehållna ursprungliga anordningar kunde den betraktas som typisk i sitt slag. Kyrkan har härjats av brand två gångar. Först den 9 februar 1612, då Gustaf II Adolf härjade här och brända hela byn, för att få tag på snapphanarna. Andra gången den 24 mars 1904, då man tröskade säd på Sinclairsholm, då även gårdens ekonomibyggnader bran ner. [..]
Kyrkan har en fin gammal dopfunt som även den är från 1100-talet och huggen av Tove Stenmästare. Bland alla ornament på funten står också TOVEGIRI= Tove gjorde mig. [..]
Till kyrkans 700-års-minne 1891 utgaf rektorn C.O.Arcadius i Växjö en broschyr om kyrkan och dess historia. Han slutade med följande önskan: “Måtte kommande släkten akta denna minnesvård af forntids fromhet och urgammal konst, som oaktadt vidriga öden genom menighetens vördnad bevarats till våra dagar och måtte det genom gudomlig tillskyndelse upptända ljuset få lysa genom dess murar, till dess den dag randas, då de såsom allt människoverk störta.” (Uddrag af Tillbakablick på Gumlösabygden, 1992.) (* Flere kilder fortæller, at Sct Bendts Kirke i Ringsted, klosterkirken i Sorø er dateret til 1160-70 og Bjernede rundkirke er tidligere, ligesom Søborg Slot.)Gumlösa kyrka, UNESCO:s lista över oersättliga världsarv

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One of the least known aspects of the current Libyan conflict is its brutal, racial component. Media reports claim Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is using black African mercenaries in his war against the rebels. In retaliation, the insurgents have targeted in violent attacks African immigrant workers living in Libya, from whom, the rebels believe, Gaddafi is recruiting his mercenaries. Before the uprising began, an estimated 1.5 million Africans resided in Libya, many as low-paid labourers, but the violence has caused a large number to flee the country or to go into hiding. […]

But another, more sinister motive lurks behind the current rebel “African hunt” than just Gaddafi’s disturbing use of African mercenaries to put down the rebellion. The ferocious animosity Libyan rebels are showing toward black Africans is actually rooted in a deeply embedded, centuries-old Arab racism the war has inflamed. This racism has its roots in the institution of Islamic slavery.

And this abomination of Islamic slavery, upon which Arab racism rests, will be difficult to eradicate. It is an ingrained, centuries-old institution that is also legal under sharia law and, according to historian Bernard Lewis, “elaborately regulated.” The case of Cairo University professor Dr. Abu Zayd, an Islamic theologian, indicates the dangers and complications of challenging sharia law’s slavery provisions. When Zayd contended that “keeping slave girls and taxing non-Muslims” was contrary to Islam, he was declared an apostate and a sharia court forcibly divorced him from his wife. He later fled to Europe to escape Islamic extremists who now wanted to kill him because of his apostate status. […] Libyan Rebels Terrorize Black Africans

U.S. Sen. John McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the American military intervention in Libya, said Friday that Libyan rebels fighting Muammar Qaddafi’s troops are his heroes. […]

“They are my heroes,” McCain said of the rebels as he walked out of a local hotel in Benghazi. […] McCain Lauds Anti-Qaddafi Forces During Libya Visit

Dearbornistan: Terry Jones har nu færre rettigheder end KKK og nazister

Frygt kan lamme et samfund. Uerkendt og bortrationaliseret frygt kan undergrave et samfund. USA er på vej imod en smertefuld læreproces (LFPC).

[…] Terry Jones was sent to jail in Michigan over a planned protest outside the largest Islamic Center in the U.S. I have seen the most vile displays of subversion, anti-Americanism, Jew-hatred and violence at anti-war rallies during the Bush years. No one said boo. It’s free speech. The KKK marches, no one says boo, it’s free speech. Monsters protest military funerals, it’s free speech. Nazis in Skokie? A-OK. But Islamic jihadis launch the most brutal and bloody attack on America on September 11, 2001, and we haven’t stopped apologizing. And now we have turned over our soul, the heart of our freedom. […] Jailed Jones Prosecutor “Un-Worthy’s” Alliances

Slyngelrettigheder og den engelske syge

Man kunne kalde dette et eksempel på det konsekvensløse samfund kørt ud i det ekstreme, men for samfundet selv er dette selvfølgelig alt andet end konsekvensløst. Os bekendt har vi ikke noget der kommer i nærheden af dette suicidale rettighedsregime i den danske socialpædagogik, men er de eksempler vi også har oplevet herhjemme med oplevelsesture og nye cykler til nogen der ikke fortjener det alligevel et udslag af det samme socialpædagogiske paradigme du jour? (LFPC)

When Winston Smith became a youth worker after leaving university, he was an idealistic liberal. But after ten depressing years of seeing disruptive children in care being indulged rather than disciplined, he’s written a devastating book exposing the truth about the anarchy in this country’s care homes.

Well past midnight, a thuggish teenager called Liam is playing music in his bedroom at full volume. Three adults have spent 20 minutes cajoling him to ‘make the right choice’: in other words, to turn it down and let everyone get some sleep.

As they’ve been trained to do, they’ve praised him for those few hours in the past week when he wasn’t causing mayhem. But none of this works. It rarely does.

Liam has an angry, vacant look in his eye. Even threats don’t work. When I tell him he risks not going to Alton Towers this weekend, as planned, he roars: ‘B******s! I’ll be f***ing going. I’d like to see you try and stop me.’ If I dare to come into his room, he adds, ‘I’ll f***ing smash you right up!’ […]

The next day, Liam refuses to go to school. Instead, he’s taken for a walk in the countryside and then a row round a lake in the grounds of a stately home.

You might think this a highly inappropriate reward for attempted murder, and you’d be right. But the care system prefers always to look on the positive side. In the paperwork we have to fill out, Liam’s relaxing day is magically transformed into an ‘educational outing’. […]

For the few minutes or hours that they aren’t misbehaving, they receive cash bribes and other awards. Violent rages go unpunished — a policy known as ‘positive reinforcement’. Far from receiving much-needed guidance, semi-feral kids are dictating the agenda. […]

There was no point arguing, because social services object to anything that even hints at criticism of the young people in our charge. Instead, we’re expected to inhabit a morally neutral universe, without judgments or standards. […]

Naturally, the residents also require rewards for things they should be doing in the first place. So, they get ‘points’ (which can be exchanged for cash) every time they apply for a job or enrol on a training course. In other words, the taxpayer has to reward unemployed teenagers simply for trying to find employment. […] The untouchables: How violence and drugs go unpunished in Britain’s care homes where all that matters are children’s rights

Én optræden i salafist-pyjamas blev det til i Frankfurt og så march. “dr. Philips” har været i tyskland for sidste gang, det kan svenske og danske myndigheder tygge lidt på. Der var en talstærk moddemonstration, vi faldt særlig for denne bestemte og rasende dame på videoen, der godt ved hvilken anden grøn pest, salafisterne minder hende om. Flere af den slags og skam over Gøteborg, at ingen mødte op og demonstrerede imod dem. Måske inviterende TUFF får inddraget offentlige midler, det må man nøjes med. (Bericht aus dem Hexenkessel von Frankfurt)

EU som menneskesmugler til lavpris

[…] It isn’t clear whether the following initiative from Brussels was announced before or after the Nicosia meeting [om flygtningekrisen], but there’s no doubt that European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström and the other European commissioners were well aware of the sentiments expressed by the delegates in Cyprus yesterday.

What’s extraordinary about this latest response from the bureaucratic heart of the European Union is that it includes the declared intention of deliberately and pre-emptively importing the North African refugees into Europe.

That is, the Commission intends to surrender to the “Camp of the Saints” invasion before it is fully underway. According to ANSAmed:

EU Proposal: Redistribution of Refugees

(ANSAmed) — Brussels, April 20 — One of the proposals made by the European Commission is to start a programme for the redistribution of Libyan refugees in the camps at the border between Tunisia and Egypt to European countries, to avoid human trafficking.

The EC wants to make this proposal part of the ‘communication on immigration’ drafted by Cecilia Malmstrom, which will be formally approved by the European executive on May 4. After that it will be presented to the European Council and the European Parliament.

Sources in Brussels explain that the redistribution proposal wants to replicate what was done in 2009 and 2010 for around 10,000 Iraqi refugees in Syrian and Jordan, who have been distributed among several European countries, with funds that have been made available by the EU. […]

So, in order to “avoid human trafficking”, the European Commissioners will become human traffickers themselves. And their low, low rates will drive all the other traffickers out of business.

And the model for the “redistribution proposal” is the recent resettlement of 10,000 culture enrichers from Iraq. Notwithstanding the fact that the “success” of the Iraq asylum program is debatable — ordinary Swedes and Finns may have a somewhat different opinion on the matter — the European Commission acknowledges that forty-seven times as many refugees are currently waiting to come to Europe. […] Camp of the Saints: A Strategy for Surrender

Schengen: Grænser for vanviddet?

The EU’s scheme to abolish national borders and allow free movement of people between member states is under threat as a wave of migrants flees to Europe from strife-torn North Africa.

Five major European countries are bringing back border checks on travellers to try to deter the arrival of thousands of North Africans escaping political upheaval. […]

Checks on documents at borders are being reintroduced by France, the Netherlands and Belgium, which is demanding that Tunisians arriving on Italian temporary permits show they have at least 10,000 euros.

Austria has indicated that it is looking for ways to curb the movement of migrants, and German interior minister Jens Teschke said there would be ‘more intensive observation’ of people arriving at road and rail borders and airports.

The return of inspections of travel documents is a major blow to the Schengen Agreement which allows people to move between 25 EU countries without passports or visas and without being held up by customs or immigration checks at borders. […] End of Europe without borders? Row over African immigrants threatens free travel

Virkelighedsresistensens anatomi

En fantastisk øjenåbnende artikel der sætter ord på den frustration vel alle i vores del af blogverdenen og på vores side af kulturkløften kender: At henvisninger til virkelige tildragelser i virkelighedens verden hos venstreorienterede preller af og afværges med diverse tankemæssige og retoriske manøvrer. Ikke bare i den moderne krænkelsesjura, men også hos venstrefløjen, er sandfærdige udsagn ikke gangbar mønt hvis de truer sammenhængen i verdensbilledet. En lang og lærd artikel, og det anbefales også at læse kommentarerne i bunden (LFPC).

In the gated community of the leftist thought-world, no suspicious words, abrasive ideas, or events disturbing to its peace of mind and settled convictions are permitted entry. It lives in an encysted, self-referential domain guarded against unwelcome intrusions. Thus, the expression of doubt, uncertainty. or hypothesis is generally lacking in its world-view. Its core propositions are usually context-free or context-impoverished, in the sense that the left tends to deny the existence of pragmatic referents. Meaning is often mediated through a process of referential exclusion, an avoidance or even willed ignorance of the “facts of the matter.” It can look at what is demonstrably happening before its eyes and decide that it is not happening. It will then mobilize language to posit and describe a counterfeit reality, a knock-off world. […] David Solway: The Lingo of the Left

UK: Sejr for kristen elektriker – må fortsat vise krucifiks

To pointer: Multikulturens kommissærer er gerne mere nidkære end det sydlandske klientel hvis interesser de hævder at varetage, hvilket Colin Atkinsons støtte fra hinduer, sikher og muslimer jo tydeligt viser. Dernæst, nej, der er ingen som helst pointer at udlede om den multikulturelle harmonis bæredygtighed med den rette indstilling. Al erfaring viser at ændrede magtforhold til gunst for én bestemt af disse parter vil vise dette i det rette perspektiv – nemlig som en boble i tid og rum. For det langsigtede perspektiv må man kigge på den demografiske udvikling i f. eks. Tyrkiet, Egypten eller Irak, hvor det store flertal formentlig er ligeså large og velmenende som Atkinsons støtter, men ikke magter at forrykke skredet væk fra multikulturen (LFPC).

Christian electrician Colin Atkinson has won his fight to display a cross in his van following a nationwide outcry. The dramatic climbdown by Wakefield District Housing came after senior church figures were joined by Hindu, Muslim and Sikh leaders in condemning his employers.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey had described the 64-year-old grandfather’s plight as ‘scandalous’ and Housing and Planning Minister Grant Shapps said WDH’s action was ‘wrong’. […]

Mr Atkinson faced the sack after he refused to take the small palm cross off the dashboard of his company vehicle. WDH told him it was ‘unacceptable’ to display the 8in symbol of his Christian faith in the van for fear of upsetting ‘diverse’ tenants in the organisation’s 31,000 homes.

However, a Muslim worker is allowed to display a Koranic verse in the car she uses for work and staff are allowed to wear specially made company burkas. […]Hallelujah! An Easter victory as Christian electrician wins battle to display cross in his van

Villawood rooftop protesters’ claims already rejected: minister, Asylsøgere sætter ild til australsk asylcenter

Kvindesyn? Jo tak!

Inden man ryger på alt det lyriske vrøvl om “islams respekt for kvinden”, skal man undersøge det selv. Her er endnu et grumt eksempel på mentaliteten:

To prevent the overloaded boats from Tunisia and Libya headed for Lampedusa from capsizing, young males on board have been throwing the women overboard, most of whom apparently drowned.
All exclusively young men, rather poor and rarely speaking, tell the same story. As Tarek, 20, left there twenty days of Kairouan. ”We were packed in 150 in a boat designed for 60, says the boy. During the trip to Lampedusa, twelve girls were thrown into the sea.”
Then I was transferred to Sicily, I escaped and took the train.But now I have no money, so tonight I’m going too the beach. “Most want to go to France, Belgium, the Netherlands or Scandinavia, confirms Gaetano Scullino. Le Figaro via Now we know why we don’t see women among the thousands of Tunisian illegals flooding the Italian Island of Lampedusa

Påsken 2011

Se det Sixtinske Kapel virtuelt uden at tage til Rom og lægge  dig på gulvet på ryggen.

Grünewald og Bach

The final flowering of the Gothic came relatively late, in the work of the German artist, Matthias Grünewald 1470-1528. He was possibly an exact contemporary of Dürer, but while Dürer was deeply influenced by the Renaissance, Grünewald ignored it in his choice of subject matter and style. Much of his work has not survived to this day, but even from the small amount that has come down to us, it is possible to see Grünewald as one of the most powerful of all painters. No other painter has ever so terribly and truthfully exposed the horror of suffering, and yet kept before us, as Bosch does not, the conviction of salvation. His Crucifixion, part of the many-panelled Isenheim Altarpiece, is now kept in Colmar. It was commissioned for the Antoinite monastery at Isenheim and was intended to give support to patients in the monastic hospital. Christ appears hideous, his skin swollen and torn as a result of the flagellation and torture that He endured. This was understandably a powerful image in a hospital that specialized in caring for those suffering from skin complaints. Grünewald’s dark vision.  (detalje fra Isenheim alteret, helbillede her.)

Langfredag er det også værd at minde sig om, at påsken oprindeligt var en gammel israelitisk fest fra nomadetiden, hvor man fejrede foråret og kvægets frugtbarhed.

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