Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "Danish Muhammad Cartoon Controversy (Pt. 1) | Flemming Rose | FREE SPEECH | Rubin Report" video.

  1. I remember how, because of these few cartoons, Denmark's years of nazi occupation was picked over in the media. There had been Danish nazi collaborators during the war, we were told. And these cartoons somehow proved that there was still a stubborn strain of fascism running thro Danish society. The credit for the cartoon 'controversy' was down to three reactionary imams, who Denmark had offered asylum. In Dec 2005 - two months after the cartoons were published, the three went to an Arab league meeting in Egypt. They carried with them a 43 page dossier which included the cartoons along with 3 other unconnected images supposedly of Mohammed (one of a man wearing a plastic pig mask and one of a praying man being sodomised by a dog). The imams claimed this was proof of the hateful anti-muslim atmosphere within Denmark. The country that had offered them asylum. There were riots in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran, Lahore, and Libya, where some 139 people died. Western embassies and businesses were attacked and boycotted. In France and other European countries newspapers published the cartoons as a gesture of solidarity. But in the UK, the media refused to do so. Out of 'respect' for Islam. This was very strange. Because in the UK the media has no such problems with ridiculing and disrespecting Christianity, their own 'mainstream' religion. Channel 4 even ran a debate with a live audience. And the question was asked, should channel 4 show the cartoons? The audience voted yes. But channel 4 refused to do so. Altho the media talked of 'showing respect', we all knew the real reason why they had refused to show a handful of cartoons of a 7th century prophet. Fear. Since then we have had a new word introduced into the English language: Islamophobia. But the media has a problem. A phobia is an irrational fear of something. So were the media who were lecturing us about this irrational fear of Islam being Islamophobic themselves when they refused to show the cartoons? After all, either they had a rational fear of the repercussions of doing so. Or their fear was misplaced. In which case they themselves were being 'Islamophobic'.  Then in 2010 we had the American pastor, Terry Jones, who threatened to burn a copy of the quran. And the humiliating spectacle of western leaders practically grovelling on their knees for him not to go thro with it. We even had supposedly liberal commentators questioning why the local authorities couldn't just arrest him. For what? Is Islam really that dangerous an ideology? Is the bar really set that low? If so, don't we have a right to be concerned? If we are to accept Islam into the west, then it no longer becomes just the concern of foreign cultures. It becomes part of our culture. And just like any other belief or ideology we live amongst, it becomes our right to ridicule, criticise, dislike, and hate it. But not just our right. Our duty too. Because whether we like it or not, Islam is part of our future now.
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