Photo: Danish Jews Escape to Sweden (WW2)
A little known fact about Denmark is that during World Two, she stubbornly protected her Jewish population. Other occupied lands turned over their Jews and even assisted the Nazis, so much so, that Himmler commented about France that his own SS couldn’t have done a better job. In the land of my ancestors, Czechoslovakia, the Slovaks in particular were ardent Jew-hunters.
But not the Danish; they continued their liberal human rights traditions even when faced with the full brutality of Adolf’s Reich. Now, in 2008, it would seem that the tradition is continuing and the Danes provide a lonely voice in a sea of “progressive” milque-toast values. They understand full well the menace they (we) face:
Today the Danish Board of Foreign Policy Matters unanimously have cancelled a planned trip to Iran after the Iranian ambassador demanded an apology for the reprinting of the Mohammed cartoons. That is, every single member from the far right to the far left has collectively made it crystal clear to the Iranians that under no conditions will they try to interfere with the press, or even worse, make an apology. And since this is an ultimatum from the Iranians, the trip is cancelled!
As they say: “No one is going to tell us what to print in our own newspapers. If anyone should make an apology it should be the Iranians for all their repeated violations against human rights etc.”
I cannot tell you how happy I am to see this kind of collective spirit among Danish politicians.
Only if the rest of Western civilization would learn from the Danish example, we might be spared the next great conflict between barbarism and the democratic liberal West. First though, the “progressive” class has to somehow be injected with a dose of reality, and made to see how dangerous its well-meaning, but naive, multi-culti-we-are-the-world religion is.
crossposted @ Celestial Junk
Update: And then, there was Finland.
Update 2: Bomb and Slaughter Them.
Update 3: Youths Celebrate the Motoons.
I humbly and respectfully take my toque off to the Danes. I do not think I would not have the guts they have shown if I was pesonally put to the test. Buy Danish!!!
The Original form of liberalism appears to apply to the Danes today- for the moment.
The Original form of liberalism, is what Conservatives hold today- In Canada, Australia, The US….
The multi-Culti form of liberalism, is what is going to destroy us. That is the one the likes of kinsellout and kevmoron cheer for.
Check out the podcast from England with Ezra Levant:
http://podcast.shirenetworknews.net/:entry:tuatara-2008-02-18-0001/
The revelation that the HRC bureaucrat that conducted was as hilarious, as the Ed Stelmach soundbite was pathetic…
Let us stand by the Danes.
We in Canada agree with their stand, their findings about Iran, so Let Denmark be congratulated in our [brave?] house of commons.
They can have Hans Island too. They just won title, in my view.= TG
The Danish government has taken the only reasonable course open to people who believe in values they espouse.
I think this speaks volumes about the rest of Europe who continue to say what the Danes say, but do something else entirely.
Its a good day to be a Dane. Pity my distant relatives in Scotland are such a bunch of namby pamby Labour Party wusses these days.
I’m afraid it’s going to take some kind of serious blow to America and Canada to occur before North Americans wake up to the danger we face from Islamofascism. As if 9/11 weren’t enough. Check out the utube on Jawa today.
I’m with the Danes.
What an encouraging and heart swelling bit of news.
I bought two pairs of Ecco shoes two years ago and I have some Rosenborg Blue Cheese in my fridge.
I’m now going to put on my Danish shoes—they’re great, BTW: attractive, sturdy and comfy—and have some crackers and Blue Cheese. BUY DANISH!
Up the Danes!! (I’m going to contact their embassy here and cc my message to the PM.)
Warren has lost it once again.
http://www.warrenkinsella.com/index.php?entry=entry080217-201653
It is a proud heritage that my father gave me. I have many relatives in Denmark and I sure hope they are standing tall against the counterfiet religion.
And on top of all of they have been determined to be the “happiest” people on earth (see last nights 60 Minutes).Maybe there is something to the small “l” liberal after all.
Unfortunately we have confused that with big L and allowed liberalism to be rebranded whereby “L”iberal is progressive and conservative is regressive. That is bass ackwards.
My in-laws are mostly Danish school teachers whose politics are similar to an Ontario teacher. Their parents were the ones who took personal risk to get the Jews out of Denmark during the Nazi occupation. But after the War, Scandinavian socialism took hold and they seemed to loose their Viking spirit just as we lost ours with Trudeaupia.
My discussions with the Danish teachers have been a bit over the top the last few years with me saying Bush is a leftie (on fiscal issues) and they think he is extreme right wing. Lately however , there is more appreciation for my point of view especially about Islamofascism.
In the new millennium the Danes started to choke on paying people not to work and lollygag around drinking Tuborgs. November 2001 PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen, a conservative, was elected and that marked a dramatic change in Danish politics. It was the first time since 1920 that the Social Democratic Party lost its position as the largest party in the parliament, mainly due to a loss of working class votes.
Rasmussen is in favour of deregulation, privatization, and limiting the size of government. His government has also enacted tough measures designed to limit the number of immigrants coming to Denmark, specifically as asylum seekers or through arranged marriages.
The point I’m trying to make is that the Danes have a history like Canadians, of punching above their weight. Then they became weighted down with excessive socialism. Now with a conservative PM they, like Canada again, seem to have found some purpose as a nation. BTW they never bought into the EU constitution and they still have their own currency not the Euro.
But leadership is the key. Without strong conservative leadership there seems to be a tilt left throughout the world. It seems to be the complacent way to go for an affluent society not threatened directly by invasion by soldiers in a uniform.
The Danes new response to the cartoon intifada is to make the Muslim parents financially responsible for the destruction, rather than the insurance companies and the taxpayer.
A sober, rational approach, as usual from the Danes.
Islamic threats, violence and demands must not be tolerated. Western submission through tolerance at once gives credence to violent and passive jihad and may even hearten moderates who believe that one day the world will submit to Allah and that day is approaching faster than they think.
“Personal” tolerance in the West is rooted in Judeo-Christian concepts like “love your enemies” and “turn the other cheek,” but Franklin D. Roosevelt warned regarding “national” tolerance in a Fireside Chat, Dec. 29, 1940:
“No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.”
Warren has been more extreme since he was replaced by Kate.
First he loses to a girl in a blog fight, then he loses to a girl on the MSM.
😉
I wrote just about the same thing on my blog a few days ago.
Knowing a few folks of Danish extraction myself, I have come to appreciate that where others have a line in the sand, Danes have a CLIFF. You can go to the edge of that cliff, look over the edge at the jagged rocks below, and then decide not to jump. But once you’re over, that’s all she wrote. One of the most memorable conversations I had was with a lady in her 80’s who lived through the Nazi occupation of Denmark, discussing a nice Luger pistol (which she eventually sold on):
Me: Nice Luger there. Where’d you get it?
Friend: Oh, a German soldier lost it in an alley.
Me: Uh.. yeah?
Friend: My husband and I helped him a little.
Me: OK…
This is the email address of the Embassy of Denmark in Canada: ottamb@um.dk
I’ve sent a message of respect and encouragement to the Ambassador, Poul E.D. Kristensen, and copied it to our fine PMSH.
I’m about to take a bite of Rosenborg Blue Cheese with a toss of port jelly. Yum!
OH dear. I had no idea there was any problem in Denmark! This morning’s local rag talked about an increase in “vandalism” (word used in Heading) in “immigrant” (about 8th paragraph) communities. I wondered what these youthful Danes would be so upset about. They have free education through University, a wonderful enlightened socialized health care system. Oh, then near the end of the article it said something about being upset about a cartoon. Sounds like a story out of loonie-tunes (no, actually Associated Press)
Why on earth do we have such large immigrant communities in Danmark, France, Finland, England, Canada, United States…. BECAUSE we killed off a generation in the womb. So how do you support a cradle to grave welfare state without workers? YOu import them. Oops, shoulda checked out the ideologies they were bringing along with them.
I am not against immigration – just bring in those who are sane and civilized.
And look after your own house while your at it.
When the NAZI’s told Denmark that the Danish Jews had to wear armbands, the Danish King walked out of his castle wearing an armband featuring the Star of David. That is courage, that is the heritage of the Danish people.
Now I know where I get my stubborness from. Great, Great Grandparents, both mother and father’s side, were full blooded Danes.
These grandparents were also involved in politics. One evenutally made it to Utah and became a very important political person.
Shawn, cal2 & Louise:
Warren is a craven coward who cannot face debate with anyone
proffering a differing viewpoint. No commenters allowed on his blog,
blocks ISP address of people who have offended his lordship.
Does the heart good to see his arse kicked all over
the blogosphere by a couple of young women.
And Louise:
I loved the second link in your excellent article
A Heartfelt Overdue Apology .
Hits the nail right on the head!
This is a great post. Would that the rest of the world be so courageous but no, we live in a world of bloody cowards who don’t see the writing on the wall. The relativist position that all the multi-culti idiots espouse plays directly into the hands of those who want to destroy us. When a culture refers to all the non-believers as “godless infidel that must be destroyed” we know where we stand … why they don’t see that is beyone me.
Buy danish … besides stinky cheese, Lego and Ecco golf shoes what’s out there … two out of three are off the table … and I already have the shoes …
Just an aside arising from the SS reference in Denmark.
If you google Albanian Waffle SS, the top-hit page is Wikipedia, which shows the shield of the group which had attempted to ethnically cleanse Serbs out of Kosovo province in WWII.
Curiously, when Kosovo declared independence on Sunday, the same insignia that appeared on that Waffen SS shield is part of the flag that was unveiled.
In the news report I saw, it was explained that it was a neutral flag that was not meant to be controversial.
So now, the US and much of Europe supporting this declaration of independence seems to be behind a movement that allied itself with Nazi Germany during WWII.
Those darn Danes… there they go avoiding the stone age again.
Highly reccomend Russel Martin’s book “Beethoven’s Hair.” The story is obviosly about a lock of hair of the composer but much of the story (not fiction, btw) centers during this time (WWII) and involves German Jews trying to flee through Denmark. Very interesting.
Canada and the Danes have a common enemy. Their defiance should be supported by us.
Hans island isn’t going anywhere. We and the Danes can discuss that issue AFTER we deal with our common enemy.
Maybe we and the Danes can make use of Hans Island jointly? Club Gitmo of the North?
i guess that would be called action- not just words. irwin daisy, the bible does not say thou shall commit suicide.
My uncle saved many a Jew in Serbia with false documents including a young girl named Madeline Albright.
Secretary of State Madeline Albright thanked Serbia for saving her life by bombing the people who saved her.
I have heard that that story of Danes wearing a yellow star on their sleeve in solidarity with the Jews is a myth. Anyone know for sure? Nevertheless they were very courageous. Mackenzie King of course didn’t want any Jews in Canada.
“Warren is a craven coward who cannot face debate with anyone proffering a differing viewpoint. No commenters allowed on his blog, blocks ISP address of people who have offended his lordship.”
And that’s how he will lose in the court of public opinion. Er, he is losing, big time.
The truth about the ‘Yellow Star worn by the Danish King’ is here:
http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/denmark.asp
Thanks, Alienated. That is the entry I wanted to link to. I made a mistake in my link above, although both are about the brave Danes.
There’s a nice article in the International Herald Tribune by Mona Eltahawy against Sharia law;
“Witness the archbishop’s insistence that he wasn’t advocating the “inhumanity” of Shariah à la Saudi Arabia or Iran, where adulterers are stoned and thieves have hands amputated. No, he told us, he was just referring to the use of Shariah to resolve marital disputes.
But that is precisely where the “inhumanity” of Shariah lies for women. As a Muslim woman – born in Egypt, raised in Saudi Arabia – I can only laugh at the archbishop’s naïveté. In Egypt, as in many Muslim countries, the legal system has been completely modernized, with the exception of one area that remains caught in the web of edicts issued by Muslim scholars who lived centuries ago – family law. Shariah is used only to govern the lives of women and children.”
“For the less naïve view of just how “humane” Shariah is to women, I refer the archbishop to the recent study, “Crimes of the Community: Honor-Based Violence in the U.K.,” by James Brandon and Salam Hafez. It makes for difficult reading. Women and activists mince no words in showing the hurdles for women with children who want to get divorced, and tell the researchers that women are being forced to stay in violent marriages as a result of skewed decisions by the Shariah Council.
“When the archbishop so generously extended Muslims the right to use Shariah, I wonder whose version of Shariah he meant? The Angel Gabriel did not reveal Shariah to the Prophet Mohammed. Much Islamic law was codified many centuries after the prophet died, by male jurists who came up with laws that met the needs of their time. There are various Sunni and Shiite Muslim schools of thought, but there is no consensus on one version of Shariah.”
And: “In the name of multiculturalism, I will not accept cultural rights as a cover for Sharia”.
It’s important to stand up for what we in the West have developed, using reason, common sense and experience, over hundreds of years. Islam hasn’t gone through this long phase of analysis and historic trial and error.
Islam rejects the use of reason and analysis and therefore, froze its ideology outside of the reality of experience and thought. How can a frozen ideology supercede one based on reason and experience?
Declaring that one’s ideology is valid because it ‘came direct from God’ is an unacceptable explanation because, of course, it is unprovable. Islam has to open itself to examination; if it refuses to do so, doesn’t mean that we must also refuse to do so.
And the Danes have a full combat role, with their own Leopard tanks, in Afstan. They have some 600 troops there. On a per capital basis (5.5 million Danes) that would be equivalent to a Canadian force of 3,600 as opposed to the 2,500 CF members with our mission.
Mark
Ottawa
There are Danish Butter cookies for sale, in most stores. Very ummy.
old white guy,
I don’t think you understood my post. The idea of tolerance comes from Judeo/Christian principles contained in those verses. And no, the verses haven’t been helpful in turning back Islam. However, FDR, on National tolerance said, “No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.”
So, no I don’t advocate tolerance for intolerant savages at all. I also don’t blame the Crusaders in protecting their own and attempting to take back their stolen land and possessions from the foreign Arab Muslim pirates, despite the fact none of their actions were rooted in Christian doctrine.
It is only natural and human to protect your property, loved ones and country from criminal invaders, despite ideology.
With regard to the Alberta Human Rights Commission, it continues to reel in the publicity. Apparently, the bureaucrat who heard his ‘case’, Shirlene McGovern, has resigned from his case; she can’t handle the publicity.
Here’s a marvellous commentary on it by an author in the US: Lee Duigon, under the title of Watch Canada Strangle Free Speech.
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_19413.shtml
Oh – and there’s ONE pro-HRC article today. It’s in the Montreal Gazette. However, interestingly enough, the author doesn’t disclose that she, Pearl Eliadis, is a former director of the Ontario Human Rights Commission!
And, she makes numerous errors, and one really outrageous comment, when she declares that the HR Commissions have NO power to make orders, all they can do is dismiss a complaint. Now wait – what about the fines of up to 20,000 and 40,000? What about required apologies and so on? An outright lie. She’s attempting to hide the powers of the Human Rights Act, by this statement. The fact that it’s the Tribunal (a part of the Human Rights infrastructure) rather than the Commission that makes the order is irrelevant.
She also states that ‘there must be ‘objective proof of hatred or contempt’. Absolutely not. The whole point of Section 13.1 is a rejection of objective evidence.
As noted, this Section 13.1 claims that it is a ‘hate crime’ to say or write anything that might possibly expose some individual, and only an individual of a designated group (ie, this protection against Hate isn’t universal in Canada)…, at some indefinite time in the unspecified future, to some personal subjective feeling that they were viewed with ‘hatred or contempt’. Whew.
Any evidence that such views were related to the original speech, rather than the person’s own current actions of ranting and yelling – are irrelevant to the HRC.
There’s an outstanding cartoon about Mohammedan reaction to the Danish cartoons:
(via City of Brass) http://redstate.com/stories/war/anti_jihadist_open_thread
ET,
From the article by Pearl Eliadis, it appears taqiyya is not just an Islamic principle. Dualism is institutionalised into CHRC law. The law is malleable, it can mean this, or it can mean that, depending on arbitrary, unelected and in most cases, uneducated opinion.
Just waiting for the time when they call HRC ‘officers,’ ‘scholars.’
Hopefully, we’ll be rid of them before these totalitarian scoundrels can define themselves that way.
Your continuing exposure of the CHR ideology is much appreciated.
Hey, the Finnish paper actually showed the cartoons. Craven, sure, but lightyears better than the CBC. They digitized the pictures out.
Well the Danes and I have had discussions on the issue of Hans Island.
The Danes are rightly entitled to their cartoon caper, but hands off HANS Island!!
I am sorry but Christmas Operations take precedence to any Viking tendencies displayed by the Danes.
TG et al. take note!!
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Buy LEGO!
Actually, the danes are on the forefront of dealing with the “immigration” problem.
http://www.mackenzieinstitute.com/2007/danish-110107.htm
If you wish to become Danish, you must attend three years of language classes. You must pass a test on Denmark’s history, culture, and a Danish language test.
You must live in Denmark for 7 years before applying for citizenship.
You must demonstrate an intent to work, and have a job waiting.
If you wish to bring a spouse into Denmark, you must both be over 24 years of age, and you won’t find it so easy anymore to move your friends and family to Denmark with you.
You will not be allowed to build a mosque in Copenhagen.
Hans,
You are not going to disappoint everyone by adopting a rigid and testy Liberal style attitude about Hans Island, are you?
Do you recall the sputtering red-faced Bill Graham Vowing all sorts of empty threats?
That*s not really like you at all. . . eh?
As part owner of Hans Island, a sharing with the noble Danes would be ideal and very much to our advantage.
We would be mutually strengthened by the sharing of North based intelligence.
Our moderate joint governance of the area would garner added respect from nations wishing to navigate there.
Nightmare at 3:01 PM . . .said . .
Hans island isn’t going anywhere. We and the Danes can discuss that issue AFTER we deal with our common enemy. [ Isamofascists ]
Maybe we and the Danes can make use of Hans Island jointly? Club Gitmo of the North?
Posted by: Nightmare at February 18, 2008 3:01 PM
Guess I*m not alone in this. = TG
PS:
It would make me proud to be Canadian if the house were to pause and pledge Solidarity with Denmark*s brave *Motoons* policy.
I hope the Liberals are not quick enough to suggest it first. = TG
Good on Denmark and the Danes!
Canada should follow their immigration policies: absolutely no free rides for any immigrants, especially the ones who insist on living in their own ghettoes and who refuse to assimilate to OUR way of life.
For those of us who have paid our own way, our children’s way, and who have always had to sacrifice to make a living and pay all our bills, it’s contemptuous and insulting to have newcomers to our country arrive and immediately have all of their families’ expenses covered when they have no intention of contributing to our democratic way of life–in fact, when the intention of far too many of them is exactly the opposite, the destruction of our Western way of life. To add insult to injury, we’re told to shut up about our culture (if it’s white, Anglo-Saxon, and Christian) but to extol all others’ cultural heritages.
It’s good to see a sovereign country standing up for its values and traditions and giving the heave-ho to parasistes and up-to-no-good hangers on.
Canada: Take note.
Let’s not forget that denmark is a socialist country. Which is good.
Not unlike the province that you live in, eh separatiste frog?
Hail to my Dansk brothers!
To the halls of Valhalla, where the brave shall live forever!
SKAL!
quebecois separatiste,
Why don’t you go suck off their teat for awhile … they’d like it … being socialist and all.