Originally posted by: 1prophet
Originally posted by: Chris
Originally posted by: Jaskalas
Originally posted by: Chris
Europe better wake up. At the rate it's going, within a century Europe will be an Islamic state if we don't resist now. I don't want the Vatican to become a mosque anymore than Muslims want Mecca to become a Cathedral.
What you said is spot on, but the hour is later than that and not NEARLY enough people care. The outcome has already been decided.
Political correctness will be the death of us all. People are so afraid of being labeled racist or nationalist that they would let foreigners come in and take over the land their forefathers fought and died over for thousands of years. There should be no shame in wanting Europe to remain European. It's not a melting pot like the US.
It goes beyond political correctness to actually deciding if freedom of speech and religion is worth your life, something that many in the west have forgotten after the cold war.
Fear of criticizing Islam
Debate about self-censorship
On September 17, 2005, the Danish newspaper Politiken ran an article under the headline "Dyb angst for kritik af islam" [4] ("Profound fear of criticism of Islam"). The article discussed the difficulty encountered by the writer Kåre Bluitgen, who was initially unable to find an illustrator who was prepared to work with Bluitgen on his children's book Koranen og profeten Muhammeds liv (English: The Qur'an and the life of the Prophet Muhammad ISBN 87-638-0049-7). Three artists declined Bluitgen's proposal before an artist agreed to assist anonymously. According to Bluitgen:
One [artist declined], with reference to the murder in Amsterdam of the film director Theo van Gogh, while another [declined, citing the attack on] the lecturer at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute in Copenhagen.[4]
In October 2004, a lecturer at the Niebuhr institute at the University of Copenhagen was assaulted by five assailants who opposed his reading the Qur'an to non-Muslims during a lecture.[5]
The refusal of the first three artists to participate was seen as evidence of self-censorship and led to much debate in Denmark, with other examples for similar reasons soon emerging. Comedian Frank Hvam declared that he would (hypothetically) dare urinating on the Bible on television, but not on the Qur'an[6][7] while the translators of an essay collection critical of Islam also wished to remain anonymous due to concerns about violent reprisals.
Many liberal secular apologists today would not think twice about urinating on christian symbols like the bible but know if they tried that with Islam it would be like pissing in a fan blowing in their face.
The Stalins and the Pinochets of the world required large security services to control the people and their thoughts with swift reprisals if one spoke out against them or their beliefs and policies.
The radical Islamists have greater power since they do not require standing armies or security services yet can silence the many even though they are few.
If you are critical of Islam in a public way you either go into hiding like
Salman Rushdie or pay the price like
Theo van Gogh
Even the
mighty Jerry Falwell had to apologize after a Fatwah was issued against him:laugh:
This says it best
Comedy Central Surrenders
Was there ever a more brutal savaging of a show's own network while that show was still on the air? Last night, Trey Parker and Matt Stone concluded last week's South Park episode by throwing everything they had against Comedy Central, a compliant press, and the people who gave in to fear of violence in the wake of a few offensive cartoons.
To underscore Comedy Central's (and by extension, Viacom's) double standards and cowardice, last night's episode ended with Jesus Christ crapping all over an American flag.
And yet, the network would allow no Mohammed, not even one handing the Family Guy a football helmet with a salmon. Parker and Stone called media institutions on the carpet over their failure to defend the First Amendment, and they replied with more fear, more weakness, and an increasing willingness to kneel before Allah. To think, a silly little cartoon on basic cable about a redneck mountain town does more to defend the constitution than such self-vaunted press institutions like the New York Times and CNN. What an extraordinary world we find ourselves in.