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Links and comments from Ali Dashti:
Non-dhimmis have been re-elected in Denmark, the first nation in the West to start taking strong measures against Muslim immigration, even before 9/11. They now seem set to continue or strengthen this course. A Coalition supporter, the Danish People’s Party, want more restrictions on the movement of people between Denmark and ultra dhimmi Scandinavian neighbour Sweden, as they fear that a breakdown of the Swedish welfare state due to massive Muslim immigration could trigger a flood of migrants from Sweden in a few years. Even though the rightwing won, the election showed signs of increasing polarization, as the most “compliant” party regarding immigration also did well. The elections took place under heavier security than usual, as Denmark has been threatened before due to its active involvement in Iraq:http://www.cphpost.dk/get/85794.html
By 10 p.m. Tuesday evening, with 75 percent of the votes counted, it was clear that Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Liberal party had won enough votes to allow him to continue as prime minister. The PM's Liberal party, together with coalition partners the Conservative and the Danish People's Party, captured enough votes to give them 95 seats in the 179 seat parliament. Fogh Rasmussen's reelection is the first ever for a Liberal prime minister.
http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/fremmedsprog/English/article.jhtml?articleID=233438
"The political change that began in 2001 has been reaffirmed. The Social Democrats and left wing have lost ground again and a stronger right-wing government can now continue its work," said Rasmussen, the first Liberal prime minister ever to be re-elected. The Social Democrats failed to provide a clear alternative after falling in line with the government both on immigration and Iraq, recording their worst election result in decades. "It pains me that Danes will now have to live with a Liberal government propped up by the Danish People's Party for another four years," said the defeated Social Democratic leader Mogens Lykketoft, referring to the ruling coalition's anti-immigrant allies. The DPP, whose proposals include expelling immigrants whose children commit crimes, took two more seats. But at the same time the opposition Social Liberal Party almost doubled its support in a big victory that Social Liberal leader Marianne Jelved ascribed to her party‘s calls for softer asylum laws.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/cc787e12-7944-11d9-89c5-00000e2511c8.html
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister who is seeking re-election in Tuesday's general election, reiterated on Monday his commitment to the strict immigration regime that has become a hallmark of his first three years in office. The prime minister, who faces calls from minority parties to tighten the strict regime, said Denmark's firm immigration policy was an example worth following. "It's clear to me that other countries have followed, and will follow, our lead," he said. His remarks came as Charles Clarke, the British interior minister, unveiled sweeping changes to UK immigration policy.
His government is also strongly pro-Israeli and pro-American:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1107314592308
Israel finds a defender in Denmark
Since Denmark has only a tiny Jewish community, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen can't be accused of pandering to the Jewish vote when he launched a spirited defense of Israel on the campaign stump earlier this week. Rasmussen, head of a center-right coalition in Denmark that is pro-American, faces re-election on February 8, with polls showing he is comfortably leading the race. Denmark has some 500 troops in Iraq.
Posted by Robert at February 10, 2005 10:18 AM
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Re: "Since Denmark has only a tiny Jewish community, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen can't be accused of pandering to the Jewish vote when he launched a spirited defense of Israel on the campaign stump earlier this week."
Nice work and congratulations to Denmark. I've always thought they have been ahead of the pack when it comes to recognizing the jihad threat. I believe Denmark also had by far the best record in Europe in protecting their Jewish population from the Nazis. Didn't many Danes risk their lives smuggling Jews to Sweden in boats?
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at February 10, 2005 10:37 AM
Good news!Sweden is a worry though.
Posted by: Morgane at February 10, 2005 11:51 AM
Wow!
Europe finally growing guts again I guess. Time to give it to the multiculti-morons. Take no prisoners, and finish them electorally.
Posted by: voletti at February 10, 2005 2:15 PM
I've argued here many times over the past eight months or so that there is no good reason to debate with dhimmis and trolls. We have a natural and committed constituency ready-made and waiting for the call if only we would approach them.
As we see above, Denmark is polarized over the question of Moslem infiltration, some leaning toward stricter policy and others for less stringent rules. There is a clear division between the two groups that has nothing to do with reason or logic, but that has everything to do with personality and opinion, that has to do with attitude. No one is going to shake a belief based on attitude, and it's not worth the effort to try. Those Danes who are committed to multi-cultural dhimmitude are stuck in the mould of conformity, and the only thing that will change their opinion of the rightness of that mould is if they see the majority of their fellows in their midsts change to some other attitude.
The majority of people follow what the majority believes. When the majority moves left or right, the majority follows itself. Leaders do not pull the crowd, they are pushed. The whole of it is semi-conscious, and the way to move the attitude of the people isn't to appeal to reason but to the natural urge to conformity. Let the leftists stay in their day-dream world of romantic attitude, and in time they'll see the shift away and will follow the newest fashion, being as committed to the new as they were to the old. In time they'll fall over each other to excel at the norm.
Salman Rushdi wrote in the NYT Op-Ed, Feb. 1997:
In the Netherlands, I actually found myself obliged to explain to Foreign Ministry officials why it would not be a good idea for the European Union to accept the fatwa's validity on religious grounds.
How is it that anyone would have to explain that? How do Foreign Ministry officials get their jobs? I suggest again that it makes not a bit of difference what the prevailing norm is, people will for the most part believe it intensely till something else comes along. I see no point at all in trying to convert the aggressively stupid, especially those who have high-paying jobs with some reasonable status. Forget them, the trolls, the posers, the idiots. There is only to be the building upon the discontented and the nervous. Find those who are worried and bring them out. In time they will be a sizable group, and their size will attract followers.
The Liberal win in Denmark will become the Liberal land-slide win in Denmark if success is seen in Liberalism in Denmark. There's no reason to appeal to reason because mostly it's a matter of following the wind. If you want to make a difference, stand up and be counted.
You might be called names, and you might go to jail for anti-social behavior, but really, so what? Who are you up against? You're up against the norm, and if that bothers you consider what that is. Ask if you really want to be a silent spectator to the idiocy of the norm. And what is the norm today? The norm in Europe today is "The Ideology of Duh."
Consider that if Dutch Foriegn Ministry officials are so stupid they can't figure out that murder on religious grounds is still murder, then they will believe anything if they believe it's what others believe. They will happily give up their attachment to the Ideology of Duh for whatever else comes along. And if we work at it, the ideologues of Duh will even adapt to the rule of right Reason and Democracy.
There's no reasomn to think the Danes are smarter than the Dutch. More likely is that the Liberals got out the vote better than the opposition. If that continues, away fades the Ideology of Duh in the popular imagination. If the Dutch work harder at getting out the vote for anti-jihad, then the Dutch, like the Foreign Ministry officials Rushie met, will say what they say because that's what they say. Today they say "Duh, multi-culturalism," but if we bring out the vote, as it were, tomorrow they'll say "Duh. Anti-jihad."
Why bother reasoning with them at all. Meet your neighbors and see if they're already far advanced in comparison to the Dutch Foreign Ministry staff. Likely so; and also likely they feel alone and frustrated, swamped by the Ideology of Duh, and wondering if they're the only ones who think this is all far too stupid for words.
Yes, the hobby-commie fashion queens of Duh flash and fret and pose this hour upon the stage, but that hour draws to a close. The tragic turns of Humanity's struggle for justice have turned into farce. Scoff at Duh, and soon the whole world will scoff with you.
Posted by: sonofwalker at February 10, 2005 3:41 PM
LOL. Ultra dhimmi?
What is that? Ultra Man gone monstrously wrong?
I think we've stumbled on to something here:
Ultra Dhimmi: Willingly embraces dhimmitude without being under the obligations and incapacitations of the Dhimma
Dhimmi: Subjected to the dhimma under penalty of death.
Ultra Dhimmi: Consistent with voluntarily embraceing his/her dhimmitude, the Ultra Dhimmi naturally does not resist their servile condition/position
Dhimmi: Consistent with the involuntary imposition of his/her dhimmitude, the dhimmi naturally seeks to resist or escape their condition/position
BTW, excellent post, Son of Walker.
Posted by: Mike at February 10, 2005 4:56 PM
Good post SonofWalker.
The Danes have been leading the way for well night three years. If there is one country that heard the wake-up-call on 9/11 and WOKE up, it is Denmark.
I particularly like the DPP policy of deporting any immigrant convicted of crime.
Posted by: DP111 at February 10, 2005 5:55 PM
"If there is one country that heard the wake-up-call on 9/11 and WOKE up, it is Denmark."
What is remarkable about Denmark is that the local debate started even BEFORE 9/11. It was caused by the behavior of Muslims in Denmark, not the 9/11 murders.
at February 10, 2005 6:04 PM
Thanks Ali Dashti for the information.
I do recall that there posters of a young woman in in Denmark, and posed the question if such a poster would be allowed in the future. Or some such matter.
Posted by: DP111 at February 10, 2005 6:41 PM
WAY TO GO DENMARK
Posted by: hadithher2 at February 10, 2005 7:58 PM
The Danes have had a few wake-up calls in the past few years. They found that the vast majority of convicted rapists were Muslims, who were committing something like two-thirds of rapes, while accounting for only about 5 or 6% of the population. Most of the victims are non-Muslim girls. They also discovered that this small percentage of their population was using 40% of the welfare budget. The Jews in Denmark increasingly need police protection and a Muslim group there announced a $30k bounty for the murder of several prominent Danish Jews. And some Muslim leaders there openly said they'll bring in Islamic law once the Muslim population gets big enough.
Yep, that'd make me vote to stop the influx of more of this into my country. All other issues pale in comparison compared to having your country threatened by thugs, your women treated like dirt, and your tax money going to supporting this ungrateful, rabid rubbish. Only 5% and this is what happens. Why would you gamble on 10%?
But, oh we're so Islamophobic to point these things out. To blame Muslims for their own poor behaviour and bad reputation. Surely we must know it's our fault!
Posted by: feralee at February 10, 2005 10:32 PM
"Something is right in the state of Denmark" (from Shakespeare on a good day)
Posted by: obl r us at February 11, 2005 7:20 AM
Welcome news, indeed!
Hopefully this is only the start of a new trend toward the right across all of Europe; or at least simply a broad recognition, across the political landscape, of the danger posed by unchecked Islamic immigration.
(To think that the viability of the European "no borders" system is put at risk because of Muslim rats -- sheesh!)
Posted by: spect8or at February 11, 2005 7:24 AM
I hear that England is changing its immigration policy as well. They will not allow "immigrants" i.e., muslims to migrate unless they speak English and have job skills that benefit the Country. muslims are a drain on society.
Posted by: Just_Linda at February 11, 2005 7:34 AM
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