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.
quebecois separatiste: The funny thing about you Quebec separatists is that you’ve had to make next to no sacrifices to bleat about separation from Canada–because it’s pretty much all on the ROC’s dime–we’re a socialist country, after all.
Your kids get to go to university for 1/2 the cost of an Ontario student–and MY FAMILY’S PAYING FOR IT–out of our hard-earned tax dollars. In Ontario, we have to pay for bilingual highway signs. In Quebec, you can get lost anywhere, anytime, because there either are NO signs or they’re unilingual francais (or, as frequently happens, just badly marked).
What gives? The usual special treatment to Quebec to appease the separatists, which always costs the ROC big bucks.
My invitation to you, quebecois separatiste, is that if you wish not to assimilate into a culture of which your people have been part for centuries, then be my guest: There’s the door.
But, don’t expect the ROC to pay for your decision: no shared currency or passports. C’est tout!
TG , good idea. Let’s make Hans Island:
Club Gitmo North and HQ of The Coalition of the Willing to Draw Cartoons.
I have always been proud of my Danish heritage.
These days have added more substance to my pride.
oh god please let it happen here F7ck true dough and the charter