Sweden Submits, Really

[Annie]

http://www.spectator.se/stambord/?p=1100

2/10/2006
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- Michael Moynihan (Stockholm, Sweden)@ 12:55 am

According to Dagens Nyheter, the Swedish security services (Säpo), in collusion with Foreign Minister Leila Freivalds, have forced the website SD-Kuriren offline for publishing the Jyllands-Posten cartoons (SD-Kuriren is the house organ of the hard-right Swedish Democrats).

“We think that this was the best decision after we were contacted by the Foreign Ministry and Säpo,” Anna Larsson, vice president of hosting compant Levonline, told DN. Freivalds told DN that “it is terrible that a small group of extremists are exposing Swedes to danger [by reprinting the cartoons].”

Note: Freedom House’s 2005 survey ranks Sweden 9th in press freedom.

Note to Säpo: This site is hosted in Sweden, on the servers of Loopia AB. You can find their contact information here. The Spectator calls on every Swedish blog—left, right and center—to reprint the Mohammad cartoons in solidarity with SD-Kuriren, however odious we find their political views. Freedom of the press doesn’t make exceptions for stupidity and provincialism.

Our readers can report us to the police at the following address: sakerhetspolisen@sakerhetspolisen.se

 

[dmp]

Sweden just cost the world thousands of lives.

 

[Annie]

Sweden just cost the world thousands of lives.

I'm afraid so too. BTW, just when I clicked on this, there is that weird 'carrot?' in your avatar, it made me laugh, when I felt like crying.

 

[ThomasPaine]

th end of a free press. Hell I say print those apt cartoons all over the world. If islam insists on stopping the western free press we've already conceded our freedom to their stupidity. As a Christian I find their sensitivity to criticism hilarious as they print untold endless garbage about Christians and Jews.. Let's fight the good fight and bury these 7th century idiots. Bomb them with nukes back into the stone age they so long for.

 

[Annie]

th end of a free press. Hell I say print those apt cartoons all over the world. If islam insists on stopping the western free press we've already conceded our freedom to their stupidity. As a Christian I find their sensitivity to criticism hilarious as they print untold endless garbage about Christians and Jews.. Let's fight the good fight and bury these 7th century idiots. Bomb them with nukes back into the stone age they so long for.

Except for the nukes part...

 

[Annie]

How would you spell M*A*K*I*N*G A P*O*I*N*T ?

http://www.neandernews.com/?p=63

Danish Kids Don’t Get Pork

Apparently it’s not just cartoons that are under fire in Denmark. NeanderNews has learned that Copenhagen kids only get Halal prepared meats in their school hot lunchs(!). The ‘Committee for Education and Youth’ (very scary) decided in 2001 to only use the halal meat for the hot lunch dishes.

Apparently now this will be changing. Below are excerpts from a translated Jyllands-Posten article dated February 7, 2006 (link in Danish):

Showdown about halal-meat in schoolchildren’s lunch

By LAURITS NANSEN and MARIA LÜTZEN
(Jyllands-Posten Copenhagen)

THE SCHOOLS OF COPENHAGEN WILL NO LONGER SERVE ONLY HALAL-BUTCHERED MEAT IN THE STUDENTS HOT LUNCHES

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Students in the Copenhagen council schools shall no longer be denied the choice of pork when they buy their daily hot lunch in the school’s canteen.

Out of consideration to pupils with a moslem background there is presently only halal-butchered meat - and no pork at all - in the daily hot meals which are offered at a price of 15 kroner (appr. 2,35 US $) in the canteens of the 49 schools run by the council of Copenhagen.

A political majority in the council’s committee for children and youngsters now demand that porkchops and meatballs be introduced on the menu.

“We need to see more freedom of choice in the canteens. It’s fine with me that the ethnic minorities can have halal-meat but those who want pork should find it available. When it comes to food there are many minorities and they should all be accomodated”, says Jan Andreasen, spokesman on educational issues for the [ruling] Social Democrats.

He suggests that some days of the week there will be dishes of pork, vegetarian meals or fish. He makes it clear that he is not opposed to halal butchering which means that the throat of the animal is slit while it is still alive but unconscious.

Liberal and conservative politicians are in favor of pork and other non-halal dishes being on offer in the canteens every day.

“We suggest two or three different meals to choose among in order that both christians, jews and moslems are accomodated,” says Pia Allerslev, council member from Venstre, the liberal party of Denmark.

Conservative council leader Majbritt Mamsen would rather that no halal-meat at all was served. “It just is not right that my own and other children should eat food which has been processed in accordance with the rituals of a foreign religion. As a minimum we ought to be able to offer pork or other sorts of non-halal meat to the children of non-moslem background”, Majbritt Mamsen says.​

 

[ThomasPaine]

Except for the nukes part...

fighting these "people".. Better to use the Mirv's we built to blast the Ruskies to bits than get good people killed offing human riff-raff.. Give it a mental go around. Now I'm being a bit facetious granted, however, it's more bang for the buck, sends the muslims to their "heaven filled with virgins", and saves us a lot of time and blood.. Let's see gotta come up with a slogan...hmmmm.. "Vaporize the ragheads".. Nope too "politically incorrect". How 'bout "Islam needs a 50,000 year half-life"? Nahhhh...I got it "The Nuclear Crusade"...

 

[Annie]

fighting these "people".. Better to use the Mirv's we built to blast the Ruskies to bits than get good people killed offing human riff-raff.. Give it a mental go around. Now I'm being a bit facetious granted, however, it's more bang for the buck, sends the muslims to their "heaven filled with virgins", and saves us a lot of time and blood.. Let's see gotta come up with a slogan...hmmmm.. "Vaporize the ragheads".. Nope too "politically incorrect". How 'bout "Islam needs a 50,000 year half-life"? Nahhhh...I got it "The Nuclear Crusade"...

I really do NOT want to find out how many 'secret alliances' are afoot nowadays. I see way too many parallels between today and 1911.

 

[Bonnie]

http://www.spectator.se/stambord/?p=1100

How awfully sad!! So I guess violence does work??

 

[Annie]

How awfully sad!! So I guess violence does work??

For Sweden it seems. UK too seems to be embracing dhimmi.

 

[Just a guy]

So typical.

There is a law in Sweden that prohibits slandering of an ethnical group. Ethincal groups are groups like for example Jews. They are born Jewish and doesn't have to practice to be part of that group. Religions however is not considered ethnical. There is no law prohibiting the printing of those pictures.

Instead we hide behind some reasoning about "security of the people" and shut it down.

But hey, we have a good and long tradition of that! We managed to avoid a couple of wars. Its a touchy nerve in Swedish history.

Interpretation of a Swedish songtext:
"Are you absolutley sure, the worst thing of all is war?"

In my mind a nation that doesn't stand up for its laws at the time of testing has just lost a war. (I don't like war but letting down your ideals put scars that heals badly in the nations soul.)

Anyhow, the last words hasn't been said in the matter. But it might take a year or so to clear the mess up and confirm that the closing of the page was wrong.

I know two muslim families. I asked them what they thougt about the whole matter and they said something like this, they feel exposed both by the publications - that it is a deliberate insult and by the ones removing the images because they feel identified as voilent people. The publications didn't bother them nearly as much as the following medial wave. Now they feel identified as voilent muslims - not as an icehockey trainers and shopkeepers. The point is that even if it was a stupid stunt to pull in the first place - the really low acts was those made afterwards.

 

[Just a guy]

How awfully sad!! So I guess violence does work??

It has always worked. This has more to do with lack of confidence and fear of facing voilence.

 

[Bonnie]

Just a Guy.......I know two muslim families. I asked them what they thougt about the whole matter and they said something like this, they feel exposed both by the publications - that it is a deliberate insult and by the ones removing the images because they feel identified as voilent people. The publications didn't bother them nearly as much as the following medial wave. Now they feel identified as voilent muslims - not as an icehockey trainers and shopkeepers. The point is that even if it was a stupid stunt to pull in the first place - the really low acts was those made afterwards.

That is an interesting perspective that I had not given thought to.

 

[Bonnie]

It has always worked. This has more to do with lack of confidence and fear of facing voilence.

Very true in the US as well. Riots get good mileage here, politicians are too afraid of being PC to stand firm.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

It's more widespread than just Sweden:

THE WAR ON THE FREE PRESS
By Michelle Malkin · February 09, 2006 10:35 PM
The Cartoon Jihadists are winning...

Malaysia:

The Malaysian government shut down on Thursday a local newspaper after it published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the official Bernama news agency said. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is also the internal security minister, ordered the indefinite shutdown of The Sarawak Tribune with immediate effect, Bernama said. "Internal Security Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today ordered Sarawak Tribune's publication permit to be suspended indefinitely with immediate effect for reproducing controversial caricatures of Prophet Mohammed on February 4," it said.
New: Malaysia bans possession of Prophet cartoons

Yemen:

Yemeni paper closed, editor wanted for publishing cartoons
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the Yemeni government's decision to revoke the license of the private weekly Al-Hurriya Ahliya and issue an arrest warrant for the paper's editor. The actions came after Al-Hurriya became the third Arab newspaper to publish controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

The public prosecutor ordered the arrest late Monday of Abdulkarim Sabra, editor-in-chief and publisher of Al-Hurriya, for publishing the cartoons, according to news reports and CPJ sources. Sabra could not be reached for comment, but a human rights lawyer in Yemen told CPJ that Sabra could be charged under Article 103 of the Press and Publication Law.

Article 103 prohibits "printing, publishing, circulating or broadcasting ... anything which prejudices the Islamic faith and its lofty principles or belittles religions or humanitarian creeds." If convicted on that charge, Sabra could be imprisoned for up to one year.

Also Monday, the Ministry of Information ordered the closure of Al-Hurriya after it published four drawings on February 2 as part of its coverage of the protests spawned by the cartoons, the state-run Saba news agency reported. The ministry also removed all issues from newsstands.


South Africa (via VOA):

Court's Outlawing Prophet Cartoons Seen as Threat to S. African Press Freedom
The South African Freedom of Expression Institute says a judgment by the Johannesburg High Court which prevents the publishing of cartoons found offensive by the Muslim community is a major threat to press freedom. The Freedom of Expression Institute argues that while the cartoon should not be published, that decision should be made by newspaper editors not the courts.

The Muslim Judicial Council applied to the High Court for an interdict to prevent two of South Africa's largest media houses publishing the offensive cartoons. The cartoons, which originally appeared in a Danish newspaper, have angered Muslim communities around the globe, sparking riots and protests in many countries. The judge agreed with the Council's argument that the cartoons impinged on the constitutional rights of the Muslim community to dignity.

However the Freedom of Expression Institute says the ruling threatens press freedom in the country. Naeem Jeenah, who heads the Institute's program against censorship, argues that the right of editors to publish is fundamental to a strong democracy.

"We don't believe that editorial decision making should be placed in the hands of the court we think that that sets a very bad precedent that in fact that editors should have that kind of decision making power but to have the court deciding what newspapers can or can't publish before the newspapers even decide whether they are going to publish that we feel is quite problematic," he commented.

...Meanwhile the Independent Media Group, one of the media houses involved in the case, has apologized for an article which appeared in the Cape Argus over the weekend. The article included quotes from Salman Rushdie's book, The Satanic Verses, which was also considered highly offensive by many Muslims when it was released.


Ukraine: Editor-in-chief of popular Ukrainian newspaper "Today" apologizes before Muslims for publishing cartoons, satirizing Prophet Muhammad

Poland: Editor of Polish newspaper apologizes for reprinting cartoons

Canada (via Rants from the Right Coast; hat tip - Steve Janke):

The Cadre, UPEI's student newspaper has published the twelve infamous editorial cartoons that criticized aspects of Islam.
At the request of president Wade MacLauchlan, university administrators have removed all 2,000 copies of the paper from campus.

The campus police also showed up at the office of Ray Keating, the paper's editor, and asked that he hand over any copies in his possession, a request he refused to comply with. Read Keating's editorial here.

The UPEI Student Union has withdrawn support of this week's issue of The Cadre and has also stated that Weblogs@UPEI "are no longer accepting comments on the cartoon issue" CTV's Steve Murphy noted during his broadcast tonight that it appears that they are now "censoring discussion about censorship".


Sweden (via Instapundit): "Sweden is reportedly shutting down websites that show the dread Mohammed cartoons."

U.N.'s Kofi Annan criticizes reprinting of controversial cartoons

European Union mulls media code after cartoon protests

The European Union may try to draw up a media code of conduct to avoid a repeat of the furore caused by the publication across Europe of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, an EU commissioner said today.
In an interview with Britain's Daily Telegraph, EU Justice and Security Commissioner Franco Frattini said the charter would encourage the media to show ''prudence'' when covering religion.

''The press will give the Muslim world the message: We are aware of the consequences of exercising the right of free expression,'' he told the newspaper.


This is not "prudence." This is submission. Repeat after me: I will not submit.

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Update: At the Jyllands-Posten, Flemming Rose, the culture editor who commissioned the Muhammad cartoons, has been put on indefinite leave.

 

[theHawk]

On a postive note you can now buy T-Shirts with the Bomb-Turban Muhammed on it.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/2/inktomi343238.php

Temporarly down at the moment due to so many hits lol




:ali:

 

[deaddude]

Sweden just cost the world thousands of lives.

somehow, I doubt it.

I realy dont see how you bridge the gap between "Sweden shuts down website" and "casualties in the thousands."

 

[rtwngAvngr]

somehow, I doubt it.

I realy dont see how you bridge the gap between "Sweden shuts down website" and "casualties in the thousands."

Placating muslim insanity emboldens it.

 

[Abbey Normal]

Placating muslim insanity emboldens it.

It's a logical progression.