printWhat’s another bout with a 48-hour flu, my second this season, compared to the ordeal the heroic Kurt Westergaard—illustrator of the the 12 Jyllands-Posten cartoons, depicting the connection between Muhammad and the violence that disfigures the Muslim world—must live with day-in and day-out.
Satire is a highly civilized and refined way of exposing “folly, vice, or stupidity,” to follow the dictionary. For lampooning the connection between Muhammad, author of Islam, and the savagery and atavism that grip the Muslim world today, Westergaard’s life has been continually threatened.
“On Friday night, a 28-year-old Somali man, armed with an ax and a knife, tried to enter the home of Kurt Westergaard in Aarhus Denmark. Westergaard was at home with his visiting 5-year-old granddaughter when he heard the suspect trying to break in. ‘I locked myself in our safe room and alerted the police.'” (The Examiner.com.)
“Unable to smash the front door with his ax, the suspect was shot once in the knee and once in the hand by police. The wounds are not life-threatening.” [Why not?]
AND:
“Police were aware of the Somali suspect’s background from previous activities in east Africa and had a permit to live in Denmark.”
I’ve said it again and again: This is not a failure of Jihad; Jihad is doing just fine for itself, functioning as it ought to. Rather, attacks on the lives of the likes of the late Theo van Gogh, Geert Wilders, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Westergaard, and Wafa Sultan showcase the West at its miserable emasculated worst.
Contrary to some libertarian opinion, a free society is not one in which civilized courageous, peaceful human beings fear for their lives, but one in which such individuals thrive, as their assailants cower in dank corners, hunted and exterminated like vermin.
Updated (Jan. 4, 2010): A little timid for my taste, but well worth a read: “Heeere’s Muhammed!”
Absolutely! The West is emasculated – its people are better that its “leaders.”
Have some chicken soup 🙂
(1) I’ve worked with fine scientists from “Islamic backgrounds”- HOW do random Somalis … get permission to schlep around the West with no real purpose? Why OPEN BORDERS for random drifters with Jihadist connections like Umar Farouk Abdulplaneabomber?
(2) I made some comments that as far as I personally cared, people could marry their toaster! Humorless gay militants accused me of being some Heterosexual Himmler but my punishment was being de-Facebooked, not beheaded! Jihadist Islam combines irrational paranoid intolerance WITH violence.
(3) Jihadist Islam favor their cause over the “rights” of people INCLUDING Moslems. Gaza is a hellhole from this mentality – the concept of a 3rd and 4th generation of people living in “refugee camps” furthers this sadomasochistic martyrdom. Did Jews stay in Auschwitz awaiting the recognition of the state of Israel? Having no respect for “fellow” Moslems, it goes without saying that any non-Moslems and (especially) those who (in their minds) are enemies will be slaughtered.
(4) Many libertarians tolerate Jihadist intimidation, ignoring the true (negative) rights of life and liberty of Westergaard. In a LOGICAL PERVERSION, violent Jihadists who hate neocons makes them the “enemy of my enemy” and thus a “de facto” friend of liberty.