There’s an election on Tuesday, and Copenhagen is plastered with campaign posters. Many of these posters are targets of…umm… creative alteration, but none more so than the Dansk Folkeparti posters. In fact it’s rare to see one that hasn’t been somehow abused. Apparently the vandalism is so widespread that the party had to replace most or all of them. If they did, I certainly didn’t notice, probably because the vandals quickly soiled the new ones.
I have mixed feelings about this vandalism. On the one hand there should be freedom of speech, and a party should be able to run for office without having posters that they pay for ruined. On the other hand, it’s pretty funny.
In recent interviews, when DFP party members are asked how they can justify sharply curtailing immigration at a time when Denmark is having record low unemployment and struggling to find warm bodies to fill jobs, they concede a bit, saying essentially yes, of course we need to allow foreign workers into the county — we just don’t want them to stay.
When I first moved to Denmark, I got pretty confused and — at times offended. People would say things like, “Don’t live in THAT neighborhood. That’s where the immigrants live.” Or, “I think all the immigrants should be kicked out.” After a while I realized that “immigrant” really means “Muslim”. That’s what DFP is saying: We pledge to continue to make it more and more difficult for Muslims outside the country to get in, and those inside the country to stay.
Get out the RACIST stickers, here come more bigoted, intolerant extremists who need to have their mouths taped shut:
Fred Thompson (not really the President, he just plays one on TV) introduces Ayaan Hirsi Ali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0aMl1IvnRo
Glenn Beck interviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3tgY_eI_P0&NR=1
On The Map with Avi Lewis: Ayaan Hirsi Ali & Islamophobia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08EYqwyns-k
“You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom, because you don’t know what it is not to have it.”
Soundbite Central: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on HardTalk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg8AYs56RAY
Theo van Gogh (DECEASED)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDwEWx_WsTA
Pim Fortuyn (DECEASED)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBBJ1bOtSHI
Nonie Darwish – Jihad Culture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNtKSLZNJY
Almost forgot the flaming hot Michelle Malkin…
VENT Banned by YouTube III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znZrgAeNjAU
And finally… I know you’ll be disappointed to hear you missed Islamofascism Awareness Week here in America. Michael Medved’s speech at UW was so popular I couldn’t even get in the door to hear him speak.
Tragic ADD victim Glenn Beck interviews archliberal David Horowitz on “Islamofascism Awareness Week”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwZ8IcdhUAw
Wow — I came so close to deleting your comment. With so many links, it looks just like the “You can have a bigger penis” comments that I get all the time…. for some reason.
Most of these are about Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose story is compelling. There is undoubtedly a vocal, active, oppressive, and dangerous element within Islam. What I object to is taking that fact and jumping to the incredible conclusion that therefore the entire religion is evil.
The Spanish inquisition was waged in the name of Christianity. Is Christianity therefore an evil religion? Was it evil then, but then redeemed itself? No, it was waged by evil people within an otherwise good religion. That’s exactly what is happening to Islam now.
The answer is to take power away from the evil people — not to mock and rile the entire religion. Slander and stereotyping is, however, a great way to help the evil ones recruit. Which is exactly what is happening, helped in no small part by the Iraq mess, but fueled as well by parties like the DFP, who have no qualms vilifying millions of innocent people in order to scare voters into supporting them.