The Danes are bemused and irrelevant. They played with fire and we all know what happens when you play with fire, don’t we?
The French are just being utterly stupid. They hate Mulsims because having plundered their lands and allowed North Africans in, they woke up one day to find that fucking over your poor immigrant population by consigning them to ghettoes and marginalising them out of decent jobs and education only results in having all your 2CVs pyrobuggered. Well, let them eat halal cake and rip their headscarves off eh?
As for the Germans, you didn’t think all that buried racism had simply vanished, did you? Of course, they have their own little gastarbeiten problem, which suited them well as long as those 6 million (now there’s an interesting number, best not talk about that just in case Mossad and half the press of the world crucify me, whoops, there’s another word that freedom has rendered loaded, with both barrels) Turks just carried on driving buses and cleaning streets.
All of these countries will ultimately pay for their shallow hypocrisy of thinly veiled post-empire malaise.
The United Kingdom I’m pleased to say has been very sensible. Of course, the Sun has been inflammatory, but what did we expect, someone has to make money out of an explosive situation. Hmmmm…. Really must stop with these loaded words, but it’s too late for all of that.
Jack Straw actually spoke sense, the papers have covered the situation with about as much reserve as is prudent and for once, I’m pleased we haven’t sided with the arseholes in arrogant Europe.
Thankfully, it’s not too tough for me to boycott Danish bacon, but it will be French and German products I will boycott. Damn, I so had my eye on a nice BMW 645ci. Just as well I can’t afford it.
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Anonymous 02.07.06 at 10:08 am
Muslims around the world have been offened…burning embassys,flags and such like. Deaths have even resulted.If this were to happen in the time of the prophet what would have been the outcome? Surely not this! I am fairly sure it would have been a dignified response, resulting in no deaths, especailly the deaths of his own followers. You can look at history and deduce as to were we are (muslims), socio-economic factors aside, muslisms response around the world has been out of proportion. Again the small number of protesters in London have only reinforced sterotypes of sword waving, suicide bombing fundementalists. Is this what you are suggesting is correct. We have created this situation..We didn’t draw the cartoons..but we burned flags,embassys and caused deaths.
Stef 02.08.06 at 6:42 pm
In fairness to The Sun, and believe me that doesn’t come naturally, an editorial last week said that the paper had decided not to reprint the cartoons because…
1. They serve no purpose other than to cause offence
2. The entire story was a manufactured event
I find it difficult to disagree with either observation.
(In my own defence I didn’t actually buy that copy of the Sun. I just flicked through a copy lying around a cafe)