The new naziism

[SW1-32-5-4]

Ezra Levant has never been one to shy away from controversy and his venture into publishing politically incorrect cartoons could test the Canadian muslim world for their level of moderatism. Aggresive radical islam is no different than the old nazi-ism. What are you gonna do if some Canadian muslims grab onto this emmotional hatred? I find it amazing that all other Canadian news papers are to chicken to do the whole story. It kind of reminds me of reading European history of the 1930's and '40's. So I say hats off to Ezra for having the gonads to do a story. The majority of Canadian news media are quick to make fun of Christianity and anyone connected with it but they won't touch this issue. Am I missing something?

[charliep]

As far as I am concerned making fun of anyones beliefs, or race isn't a very mature thing to do.

Ezra did it to sell his magazine and to get some free air time on the radio and TV which he is getting !!!!

[silverback]

It may not be mature, but who is the one to decide what can be put to paper and what can not?

Who has the absolute right to decide what I can see, read, or listen to?

How about I don't tell others what to think or do, and I won't tell them what to do? Personal responsibility, what a concept!

[ivbinconned]

"Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."

Justice Robert H. Jackson

[ivbinconned]

With all the negative things that are happening in our world I would question why anyone would want to fuel the discontent by printing or broadcasting anything that is derogatory in nature.
With the freedom to choose what we read, say etc. comes an obligation to ensure that our RIGHTS and FREEDOMS aren't used at the expense of others feelings or rights !!! Making fun of anothers beliefs or religious symbols is a tasteless way of evoking our own freedom of choice.

[cowman]

Like there has never been any cartoons or jokes about any other religions? When they mock Jesus Christ should we go burn down the paper or something?
The fact is these "muslims" who are going psycho over this are nothing but a bunch of troublemakers bent on carrying on the work of their terrorist brothers. The next time they go nuts outside some embassy they should just mow them down with machine guns...that might bring them back to reality?

[ivbinconned]

AAhh yes...but first they come for our cartoonists!!

Elrald have you seen the way they cut of heads?? I have. Sawing from the back to the front so first you are paralized but still able to scream!!

Trying to appease these fanatics would be like petting a rattle snake...sooner than later you are going to get bit!

Funny how the CBC just loved denigrating the beliefs of Christians like Stockwell Day and infact made fun of him and others like him in national broadcasts but suddenly are now so sensitive. What a farce.

[ivbinconned]

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By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, February 10, 2006; Page A19

As much of the Islamic world erupts in a studied frenzy over the Danish Muhammad cartoons, there are voices of reason being heard on both sides. Some Islamic leaders and organizations, while endorsing the demonstrators' sense of grievance and sharing their outrage, speak out against using violence as a vehicle of expression. Their Western counterparts -- intellectuals, including most of the major newspapers in the United States -- are similarly balanced: While, of course, endorsing the principle of free expression, they criticize the Danish newspaper for abusing that right by publishing offensive cartoons, and they declare themselves opposed, in the name of religious sensitivity, to doing the same.

God save us from the voices of reason.


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What passes for moderation in the Islamic community -- "I share your rage but don't torch that embassy" -- is nothing of the sort. It is simply a cynical way to endorse the goals of the mob without endorsing its means. It is fraudulent because, while pretending to uphold the principle of religious sensitivity, it is interested only in this instance of religious insensitivity.

Have any of these "moderates" ever protested the grotesque caricatures of Christians and, most especially, Jews that are broadcast throughout the Middle East on a daily basis? The sermons on Palestinian TV that refer to Jews as the sons of pigs and monkeys? The Syrian prime-time TV series that shows rabbis slaughtering a gentile boy to ritually consume his blood? The 41-part (!) series on Egyptian TV based on that anti-Semitic czarist forgery (and inspiration of the Nazis), "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," showing the Jews to be engaged in a century-old conspiracy to control the world?

A true Muslim moderate is one who protests desecrations of all faiths. Those who don't are not moderates but hypocrites, opportunists and agents for the rioters, merely using different means to advance the same goal: to impose upon the West, with its traditions of freedom of speech, a set of taboos that is exclusive to the Islamic faith. These are not defenders of religion but Muslim supremacists trying to force their dictates upon the liberal West.

And these "moderates" are aided and abetted by Western "moderates" who publish pictures of the Virgin Mary covered with elephant dung and celebrate the "Piss Christ" (a crucifix sitting in a jar of urine) as art deserving public subsidy, but who are seized with a sudden religious sensitivity when the subject is Muhammad.

Had they not been so hypocritical, one might defend their refusal to republish these cartoons on the grounds that news value can sometimes be trumped by good taste and sensitivity. After all, on grounds of basic decency, American newspapers generally -- and correctly -- do not publish pictures of dead bodies, whatever their news value.

There is a "sensitivity" argument for not having published the cartoons in the first place, back in September when they first appeared in that Danish newspaper. But it is not September. It is February. The cartoons have been published, and the newspaper, the publishers and Denmark itself have come under savage attack. After multiple arsons, devastating boycotts, and threats to cut off hands and heads, the issue is no longer news value, i.e., whether a newspaper needs to publish them to inform the audience about what is going on. The issue now is solidarity.

The mob is trying to dictate to Western newspapers, indeed Western governments, what is a legitimate subject for discussion and caricature. The cartoons do not begin to approach the artistic level of Salman Rushdie's prose, but that's not the point. The point is who decides what can be said and what can be drawn within the precincts of what we quaintly think of as the free world.

The mob has turned this into a test case for freedom of speech in the West. The German, French and Italian newspapers that republished these cartoons did so not to inform but to defy -- to declare that they will not be intimidated by the mob.

What is at issue is fear. The unspoken reason many newspapers do not want to republish is not sensitivity but simple fear. They know what happened to Theo van Gogh, who made a film about the Islamic treatment of women and got a knife through the chest with an Islamist manifesto attached.

The worldwide riots and burnings are instruments of intimidation, reminders of van Gogh's fate. The Islamic "moderates" are the mob's agents and interpreters, warning us not to do this again. And the Western "moderates" are their terrified collaborators who say: Don't worry, we won't. It's those Danes. We're clean. Spare us. Please.

[SW1-32-5-4]

There is an old proverb, "the fear of man brings a snare" that fits this terrorism by fear. Radical islam is only now waking up and it will be a scurge in every free nation. I wonder if the moderates especially those raised in free democratic countries will stand up counter these religeous nazis?

[cakadu]

There are ethics in journalism and this crosses the line. What makes it okay to make fun of the muslims like that? This is being done for one reason and one reason only - to try and sell magazines.

Of course, we do have the option of NOT buying it and periodical sellers have the option of not selling them.

What about far reaching reprecussions that will not be felt by the editor as he sits in his office in Calgary. We have troops around the world - is it worth putting them in jeopardy? Of course, one would have to have a conscience to consider that.

[cowman]

When you censor the press you are on a slippery road toward the police state?
What is this garbage about how no one can criticize Islam? They do it to every other religion.
The Idea that somehow this is going to affect our troops just doesn't wash! Our troops in Aghanistan are not there as boy scouts? They are there for one reason...to seek out and kill terrorists! Terrorists who are murderers and killers.
Why is it that we must not stand up and say It is wrong to burn buildings and kill people... over a cartoon? How come these dogs are suddenly so sensitive?
Supporting this kind of behavior by being quiet about it, leads where? Will the day come when you won't be able to criticize the Muslim religion at all?
Will the day come when we will all have to bow down to Islam and respect their religion?
I would suggest some of you ladies pause for a second and consider that...because these boys really don't have a lot of use for you as humans...regard you as having about as much value as a goat or a camel! And if there are any gay types on here...well how does your head look on the chopping block?
Who are these damned ragged cut throats to tell us how things are going to be? Talk about the tail wagging the dog.

[ivbinconned]

"There are ethics in journalism and this crosses the line. What makes it okay to make fun of the muslims like that? This is being done for one reason and one reason only - to try and sell magazines."

Sorry cakado but that is nonsence!

To come to that conclusion would suggest that you just got here.

I am sure upon reflection you would aggree that the cartoons are not the CAUSE of the riots...but the EXCUSE!!