Anti-dhimmitude in Italy as Jacques Lefranc gets a new job. However, I still wish he were President of the European Union.
From Reuters, with thanks to Mac:
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's right-wing Northern League wants to hire as its Paris correspondent a French editor who was sacked for printing caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, party member and Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli said on Friday.Jacques Lefranc, editor at newspaper France Soir, published cartoons that first appeared in a Danish daily and triggered protests by Muslims around the world.
"He is certainly a person with the courage to tell things the way they are, rather than write what his boss tells him," Calderoli told reporters at a Northern League support rally in front of the Danish consulate.
La Padania, the Northern League's newspaper, also printed some of the offending cartoons on Friday under the headline: "... no one will fire me!" One of the caricatures showed the Prophet wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb....
"This is only the tip of the iceberg of the religious war Islamist extremists have declared on us," Calderoli said, surrounded by a handful of party members waving flags.
Calderoli seeming to have a rare moment of european enlightenment on this issue, I only wish more of them would speak out this way.
The muslims are breathing down their necks, is the european public genuinely afraid to say anything or is this just being shrugged off?
I was about to post a "Go Italy" kind of post, but
I did a quick scan and some superficial surfing
puts these guys as not much better than the UK's
BNP, and slightly worse than LePen. Can an Italian
clear things up, with a hopefully nonbiased take
on the Northern League?
American, don't be a downer. Lefranc is back in the fight against Islam and dhimmi law in the world. The Free World!!! This Italiann editor has shown some big ones and hired the "Patriot of the European Press" to lead the charge at his paper against the Islamofeces that look to silence free speak in Europe.
Go ahead and post your "Go Italy." They need the encouragement. And salutations.
God Bless La Padania, Roberto Calderoli, Jacques Lefranc, and Italy!!!
Saluti a tutti il popolo Italiano! I Musulmani hanno dichiarato la guerra sulla cultura Italiana, la religione Cattolica e prosciutto di Parma.
(Sigh)I wish there was more demand for Mohammed satirists. We could all retire early.
If I recall correctly Paolo, who posted here only last week after an absence, does not reckon the Northern League for much the same reasons that worry you.
GO ITALY!!!
GO....GO....ITALY! Now I need to go buy some of my favorite Italian food products!
Ironman Hondo,
I of course never want to be a downer to my infidel compatriots, and I'm very tolerant of a
wide range of opinions (which differ from mine, the
One True Opinion ;-), but I'm not about to break bread with, say, the BNP, unless they apologize for their past racism and get with the program, which is
not "Lily white England Uber Alles", but rather,
"Keep Western Civilization Western". I just want to know where the Northern League sits. Of course I
like what they did, but to be honest, if the
BNP were to convince mohammadans to depart, I'd like
that, but I still wouldn't like the BNP.
Folks, this is slightly OT, but whenever Islam gets a lot of media attention, at some point the apologusts come out and start telling us about the RoP. There are two famous verses they often cite from the Koran. I expose what these verses say at the links below. What they really say is not good at all for non-Muslims.
http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/guestessays/islam_compulsion.html
http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/guestessays/islam_peace.html
My favorite anti-dhimmi quote of the day from a French government official:
Philippe Douste-Blazy, the French foreign minister, said: "It is not normal to caricature a whole religion as an extremist or terrorist movement." But the extreme reaction to the cartoons "would suggest the caricaturists were right," he added.
At the very end of this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/04/wcart04.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/04/ixnewstop.html
"Una scopa nuova spazza bene!"
("A new broom sweeps clean.")
This should be the Italian motto for Europe as they try to brush the dust of the 7th century off the 21st.
Out to order a Sicilian pizza & wash it down with some good Danish Tuborg beer! Then re-read Voltaire's play "Mohammed- or Fanaticism" (which would make a great Sean Penn / George Clooney / Tim Robbins movie vehicle).
Go Italy!
Go Denmark!
And even Vive La France!
(A pity the mainstream American Press is still cowering in puddles of p.c. pee over the fear of Mohammedan threats.)
"Una scopa nuova...."
--- from a posting just above
I don't think as a motto for a revived Europe that particular saying, expressed in Italian, will quite do the trick. Subject to punning, of the well-known chi mi ama mi sega variety.
Profitsbeard, it is a shame, but they are beyond useless. Count how many stories the lame-wad press has failed to cover, especially those stories where THEY are the topic, and what do you have? A trickling wound that has become a deadly drain for them. Does anyone read the papers anymore? I haven't watched television news in a long time, and having to endure the morning shows is torture...my husband has a need for mindless banter in the morning. Even if one of the dimwitted dingbats of news-fantasy-land were able to talk about this topic, she would be a day late and a kroner short.
One mo' thing: I went looking in all my usual haunts for Havarti and DAK Hams and Dansk cookies....everywhere I went: OUT! Great job. Save me a slice of ham and havarti, Darth batman...even if it is only a picture of it.
oh boy - the Northern League.
theres a bit of a whiff of Mussolini style fascism surrounding those types. but, having said that, they have democratically elected members of parliament, and are part of the current Italian government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_Nord
"Viva Padania" - someone said.
What is Padania? Padania is nothing. It is a non-entity. Study Italian history of the last two thousand years, and by all means, do try to find a nation-state called "Padania". I dare you.
As to the Northern League, as another poster wrote or at least hinted, it is an extreme-right party. Not a Neo-Nazi party and not even a full-blooded neo-fascist party, but nonetheless, extreme-right.
The only assumption I can make of many of the posts above, is that either many of you don't have a clue about European politics or that there are affinities between some of you and the extreme-right. The first possibility is more likely and easier to correct.
If Islam is a shark, the extreme-right is a crocodile. Even if the crocodile defeats the shark, in the end you would still have a beast to deal with.
Many manors have poster with something like "Beware of the dog".
Beware of the "dog", and please, do not feed him.
From the article: "This is only the tip of the iceberg of the religious war Islamist extremists have declared on us," Calderoli said, surrounded by a handful of party members waving flags.
Sadly, so few in the West barely appreciate that such a declaration of war has been made against us. By an organized enemy. Just look at the plethora of evil Danish flags readily available for torching around the world as confirmation of this organized war.
Cruzado, what exactly is the definition of the extreme-right? If a desire to preserve your culture and respect your country's traditions is considered to be extreme, it goes to show how much we have "drunk the Kool-Aid". Anyway, what is currently defined as "extreme-right" would have been downright progressive 40 years ago. I wonder if smearing a group with the "extreme-right" label is just a tactic by the established parties to scare away potential voters. That said, don't expect the "respectable" right to do what needs to be done (never mind the left) in this current struggle.
"Cruzado, what exactly is the definition of the extreme-right? If a desire to preserve your culture and respect your country's traditions is considered to be extreme, it goes to show how much we have "drunk the Kool-Aid"."
No, that is not extreme, that is called patriotism and respect for one's traditions. I have absolutely nothing against protecting both (except for bullfights, that is one Iberian tradition I never found "entertaining").
"Anyway, what is currently defined as "extreme-right" would have been downright progressive 40 years ago."
Au contraire, mon ami. Sixty years ago most European countries had dictatorships.
When you define one political party solely on nationalism (do not confuse nationalism with patriotism because they are not one and the same), when your policies include racial stereotypes (ask any Italian what "terrone" means from an ethimological point of view) and when your "nation" never existed (except in the cheap minds of those that want to create a Northern Italian state where most of the industry is located), then you are not only extreme-right, but also stupid.
And stupid is what most of the Lega Nord leadership is, even if they occasionally get it right. Regarding Islam and regarding the criminal elements of some minorities they speak the truth. They do not speak the truth when they accuse southern Italians of being "tainted Italians".
This labeling of the opposition (us) as extremists is old. No one is buying it anymore. Not when you look at the Perpetually Outraged Organization of Protesters who are threatening death on anyone who disagrees with them. All we in the extreme fringe, which I suspect is the majority of us, have to do, is simply provoke them into venting their spleens and proving just who the extremists really are. What is more extreme? Burning a Koran, or threatening anyone who does it with death? Or more to the point, what did Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg do to get beheaded? I don't recall either of them burning a Koran or caricaturing Mohammed. These seem like petty pretexts for violence.
I'm not convinced that the Northern League is truly a threat to democracy. It plays by the electoral rules, doesn't promote violence and tells the truth, when it comes to immigration issues and terrorism. I agree, it is off-base when it comes to viewpoints on Italy's south, although this is borne out of frustration with taxes being transferred from the rich north to the poorer south. However, this party has been part of Italy's government for several years now and Italy hasn't suffered any diminishing of its democracy. If the establishment politcal parties want to stop the appeal of these right-wing groups, they have to start telling the truth about Islamic immigration, which doesn't seem to be happening.
From my reading of the Italian press, I get the impression that the Northern League is seen as an object of scorn or laughter, not as a serious party nor as a special threat to democracy. Now there are some very serious writers in Italy who are aware of the dangers of today's jihad. Il Foglio, Corriere, LaStampa, and other publications give this problem serious and informed attention, which certainly compares very favorably with the simplistic and ill-informed commentary on this and related issues in the American press. BTW, one of the important writers on the jihad/terrorism problem in the Italian press is himself an Arab, Magdi Allam [now at Corriere].