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Hugh Fitzgerald: Those Danish Right-Wing “Racists,” Their “Harsh” Demands and “Hate” Speech

Sep 8, 2016 2:23 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

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The other day the New York Times published a story about how Danes are souring on Muslim immigrants, and how some feel guilty about it:

Johnny Christensen, a stout and silver-whiskered retired bank employee, always thought of himself as sympathetic to people fleeing war and welcoming to immigrants. But after more than 36,000 mostly Muslim asylum seekers poured into Denmark over the past two years, Mr. Christensen, 65, said, “I’ve become a racist.”

He believes these new migrants are draining Denmark’s cherished social-welfare system but failing to adapt to its customs. “Just kick them out,” he said, unleashing a mighty kick at an imaginary target on a suburban sidewalk. “These Muslims want to keep their own culture, but we have our own rules here and everyone must follow them.”

When Christensen says “I’ve become a racist,” he has internalized the false charge made by Muslims, and their willing collaborators, that those who are sensibly anxious about Islam are “racists.” Since that scare-word automatically consigns one to the outer darkness, when even perfectly intelligent people with perfectly reasonable grievances turn that word on themselves, it is clear that something is amiss. Mr. Christensen needs to be unapologetic for his views, and he should start by watching his language: Islam is not a race, antipathy to Muslims does not constitute “racism.” Leave that word alone.

If Mr. Christensen wishes to feel guilty, he ought to feel guilty only about what future generations of Danes will inherit: a country which, because of the numbers of Muslims allowed in during Mr. Christensen’s time, will be far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous for native Danes than it might otherwise have been.

As the Times story notes, “Denmark, a small and orderly nation with a progressive self-image, is built on a social covenant: In return for some of the world’s highest wages and benefits, people are expected to work hard and pay into the system. Newcomers must quickly learn Danish — and adapt to norms like keeping tidy gardens and riding bicycles.”

But just look at how the Times reporter then slants the story at every point: “The center-right government has backed harsh measures targeting migrants, hate speech has spiked, and the anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party is now the second largest in Parliament.”

“Harsh measures targeting migrants,” “hate speech has spiked,” “anti-immigrant party.” It all sounds so terrible, until you ask a few questions.

What “harsh measures” are these? Apparently the “harshest” measure, passed in January, empowers the Danish authorities to confiscate valuables from new arrivals, both Muslim and non-Muslim, to offset the cost of settling them. It has seldom been enforced, and does not apply to the first $1,500 a migrant possesses.

Why exactly is this considered “harsh”? Should migrants not be expected to contribute, when they are capable of doing so? After all, they arrived uninvited, are immediately the recipients of a cornucopia of expensive benefits, and these benefits now flowing to them were paid for by generations of Danish taxpayers, who thought they were providing for poorer members of their own, that is Danish, society.

Is it “harsh” to require immigrants to pass exams in Danish? At present, only 72%, or a little more than 2/3, manage to learn even elementary Danish. Is it “harsh” to make immigrants take a citizenship exam, requiring them have studied the laws and mores of the Danes, given that they have the great good fortune to have been admitted to this peaceful pleasant land? Is it wrong to require immigrants to study the history of Denmark, since they have decided they’ve come to Denmark to stay? If the goal is to integrate these foreigners, the free courses and tests required will only further that goal.

And why are these putatively “harsh” measures described as “targeting immigrants,” rather than, in less loaded words, described simply as “applying to immigrants”? Since these are measures to further the successful integration of immigrants, of course they apply only to — but do not “target,” which has a distinctly menacing ring — immigrants. As to the casual assertion that “hate speech has spiked,” where is the evidence for this? Since not a single example of such “hate speech” appears in the entire Times piece, the reader must simply take it on faith that Danes – again labelled as “right-wing” – have been guilty of “hate speech.”

Let’s try to figure out what the reporter had in mind as conceivable “hate speech.” Suppose a member of the Danish People’s Party points out that Muslim Somalis in Denmark commit ten times as many crimes per capita as native Danes. That is a statement of fact, not “hate speech.” Or suppose a member of the Danish People’s Party notes that Muslim immigrants receive a much larger benefits package, and for a longer period, given their high unemployment, as compared to what non-Muslim immigrants and native Danes receive. Would that be “hate speech,” or simply a statement of fact?

“There is new tension between Danes still opening their arms and a resurgent right wing that seeks to ban all Muslims and shut Denmark off from Europe.”

So the reporter sees a Morality Play with two kinds of Danes: the Good Danes, “still opening their arms,” and the Bad Danes, “a resurgent right wing that seeks to ban all Muslims.” But even the Good Danes did not invite the Muslims in, and never quite were “opening their arms.” And even if the Bad Danes want to end Muslim immigration, none have as yet called for removing all of the Muslims already in Denmark. Not quite a Morality Play.

The Times reporter continues:

There is tension, too, over whether the backlash is really about a strain on Denmark’s generous public benefits or a rising terrorist threat — or whether a longstanding but latent racial hostility is being unearthed.

First, what does it mean to write “there is tension” over whether the “backlash” is about “a strain on generous public benefits” OR “a rising terrorist threat”? “Tension” over trying to apportion blame for the anxiety Muslims have caused? Why can’t there be anxiety among Danes about both the cost to their welfare system of Muslim migrants, and about the threat of Islamic terrorism to their very lives? Why can’t there be more than one reason for growing antipathy to Muslim migrants in Denmark?

And then there is that other proffered reason, which Muslims and their apologists find much to their liking: Could anxiety about the effect of Muslim migrants on Danish society reveal “a longstanding but latent racial hostility”? Just think, this “racial hostility” has been so longstanding but so very latent that no one noticed it, and strange to say, now that the Danes have revealed themselves as “racists,” their “racism” apparently doesn’t apply to all black people, for black African Christians in Denmark have rarely had any troubles, while, strange to say, even white Muslims (as from Syria) have engendered antipathy. So this hostility must have to do not with race but with Islam. The Danes are not revealing “racial hostility,” but well-grounded fears about Islam and the behavior of Muslims. Those who talk about a “latent racial hostility” in this famously tolerant country are deliberately trying to make the Danes feel guilty about their well-justified fears, and to deflect attention away from Islam

The Times reporter does concede that “perhaps the leading — and most substantive — concern is that the migrants are an economic drain. In 2014, 48 percent of immigrants from non-Western countries ages 16 to 64 were employed, compared with 74 percent of native Danes.” There then follows the sensible comments of immigration officials about the need to avoid “parallel societies,” and the story of one Muslim immigrant family’s success (but no similar stories about the many cases of immigrant unemployment and crime), that of an Iraqi engineer who allows his children to eat pork at school, and who with his family attends church to learn about Christianity. How typical do you think this Muslim immigrant family is?

This report from Denmark, with its loaded words – “right-wing,” “hate speech,” “targeting immigrants,” “harsh measures” – does not leave much room for thoughtful analysis of what is clearly a grave problem everywhere in Western Europe. That problem, let me repeat, is that Muslim migrants, in large numbers (one million arrived in Germany alone in 2015), have been moving into Europe, bringing Islam with them in their mental luggage, putting great strain on the welfare systems of every country in which they end up, and on the criminal justice systems because of their sky-high crime rate, and, given Muslim terrorist attacks in nearly a dozen Western countries, on the security services too.

Yet it is amazing that even now, after all the murder and mayhem that has been committed by Muslims, and not only those of ISIS who dutifully cite Islamic texts to justify their every act, people in Denmark are embarrassed to admit to an anxiety about Islam, and instead accuse themselves (“I’ve become a racist”) rather than ask what it is about the ideology of Islam that makes it uniquely difficult, perhaps even impossible, for Muslim migrants – always with a few remarkable exceptions — to integrate.

That is the question to be asked again and again: what explains the success of so many non-Muslim immigrants in managing to integrate into many different European countries, and the failure of so many Muslim immigrants to do so in those same countries? And why do the peoples of Western Europe allow themselves to feel so apologetic about their anxiety about, and antipathy toward, Islam? And when will we, the world’s Infidels, dare to study the texts that explain Muslim acts and attitudes, or shall we forever deny ourselves the right to engage in such study, that is, from doing the one thing that makes the most sense?

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  1. Stephanie says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 2:25 pm

    ‘Integrated ya’ THAT’s Islamic supremacy

    https://twitter.com/schnellmann_org/status/773929758639984640

  2. Stephanie says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    … “Hate” Speech

    hater No. 1, http://quran.com/60/4 ‘… hatred forever until you believe in Allah alone’

  3. John Magne Trane says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 2:44 pm

    “does not apply to the first $1,500 a migrant possesses”

    Danes getting support have to follow this rule, why should it be any different if your “prophet” was a mass-murderer?

    • Stephanie says

      Sep 8, 2016 at 3:16 pm

      … was a mass-murderer?

      … cf. http://quran.com/33/26 ‘… a party you killed, and you took captive a party.’

      revealed at muh’s massacre of Banu Quraizah 600-900 Jews beheaded (8:12, 47:4)

    • Shane says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 11:10 am

      Another slanted opinion piece from the biased NYT in favor of muslim immigration and labeling anyone who says anything negative about muslim immigrants as a racist. Sick of this liberal crap!

  4. Alien Republican says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    Quote: “When Christensen says “I’ve become a racist,” he has internalized the false charge made by Muslims, and their willing collaborators, that those who are sensibly anxious about Islam are “racists.”

    Over time being called a “racist” will become an accolade. People like me prove that “racists” are pretty decent people, making future generation questioning why “racism” was ever considered a problem at all.

    • G. R. Gunning says

      Sep 8, 2016 at 3:22 pm

      Bravo!

    • Shane says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 11:14 am

      When Blacks and Hispanics do these that are in the best interest of their race, they are applauded by the left, but when Whites show some loyalty to their race they are labeled as a racist. Certainly, there is a double standard regarding racism when it comes to Whites and the other races. Also, the term racism is not relevant when talking about muslims, because it is their barbaric religion and culture that we Westerners abhor, not their race.

      • Aardvark says

        Sep 9, 2016 at 2:32 pm

        ‘Culturist’ would be more accurate. I am a culturist, not a racist. I think the Western culture(s) are far superior to Islam. I don’t particularly care what race a person is, but the culture he is part of is extremely significant.

        • eduardo odraude says

          Sep 9, 2016 at 6:23 pm

          Exactly.

          The use of “racist” to label people who merely oppose an ideology, may end up changing the meaning of the word “racist” to be something like “culturist.” I think that swapping of meanings is probably what happened to the self-accusing man described in Mr. Fitzgerald’s article. By racist, the man did not mean he opposes people with different skin color. But he has adopted the lie that the PC left and Muslims push, namely that to oppose Islam is “racism.” Very well, the meaning of that word will change till it does not refer to skin color, but to any group even if the only basis of that group is an ideology.

      • Roy C says

        Sep 9, 2016 at 7:16 pm

        All over Europe people are slowly awakening to the harsh reality of Muslim immigration. Most of the European media is as far left as the NY times and are doubling down on the racist propaganda to less and less effect. Whether it is too late for many countries over there is an open question. I’m not a fan of the Donald but he’s our only shot to prevent disaster should George Soros manage to install Clinton in the white house for the next 8 years. Republicans who won’t vote for Trump are committing cultural suicide.

        • Anne Smith says

          Sep 10, 2016 at 8:25 am

          The harsh reality of Muslim immigration is that they are parasites on the host population. Like ticks, fleas, bed bugs, worms, lice they feed off their host and contribute nothing towards its survival. In most cases a parasite does not kill its host as it would serve no purpose, this is what we are seeing in Europe today.

    • Kepha says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 5:18 pm

      And the new “racists” will probably also include people who may not be easily identifiable as “white” and will be found to care less if Asian, African, and Latin American immigrants who assimilate turn their countries somewhat swarthy or turn a random sampling of their countrymen into a spectrum of human skin tones.

      Maybe Aardvark nailed it that we’re seeing “culturalism” rather than “racism”.

  5. TheFastig says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 2:58 pm

    The key of all these immigation problem is the lack of qualification for people who want to migrate to one`s country :
    1. They can speak (at least) English, as it is the international language , & more important they are willing to communicate with others /adapt, not like what they are doing right now. They came to your house, talk to themselves & ignore the host / home owner 😉
    2. They should have something to offer ( skill or things different from what locals already have ), so there will be no conflict of interest in the future.

    Without these 2, what you invite to your home is just troubles. They ( these troubemakers) will make your nation spend much money they could / should have given to you, so think more about this. Be smart, as when we talk about immigration,we are not talking about humanity but about our own rights. Spread these words to those smart ‘liberals’.

    • quota raven says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 10:20 am

      To TheFastig, who sez “They ( these troubemakers) will make your nation spend much money they could / should have given to you…”

      Excuse me? All I see happening is the government is TAKING my money. The government has no money at all to “give” unless it has first taken it in taxes, fines, fees, etc, etc.

      Cheers!

      quota raven

  6. mortimer says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 2:58 pm

    Leftarded cultural Marxists have determined that Muslims are officially designated ‘victims’ whose status may not be questioned. To protect Muslims from critique, Islam has been designated in Alinskyite fashion as ‘a race’. Therefore, criticizing Islam is now ‘racist’.

    • Alien Republican says

      Sep 8, 2016 at 3:01 pm

      …but to single out “angry, old white males” is not. It’s annoyning but I hope that the tide is turnning indeed.

    • Crimelord Canada says

      Sep 10, 2016 at 1:00 am

      I find this website to be very useful but it irks me that there is a misunderstanding that ‘the left’ is the problem, it’s liberalism (or liberal left) that is the problem. Those of us who are the left know the score that tolerating the intolerant is not a logical path forward.

      • Alien Republican says

        Sep 10, 2016 at 9:30 am

        C. Canada: I find both terms confusing and “liberal” is even used in almost the opposit meaning in Europe. Liberal = the economic liberals = republicans, while there is a socially liberal strand in the left that is not really represented as an own group in many countries. Personally, I consider “liberal” as connected to respect for peoples individuality as opposed to social engineering, accountability rather than dependance on a nanny state etc.

        The “globalisers” are trying to shape western societies into a mallable mass of passive consumers. Their policies serve their own intrests while the drawbacks are carried by taxpayers. To me, the “establishment” is pretty much the same, independently whether the profess allegedly left or conservative ideas.

        • SAKOVKT says

          Sep 10, 2016 at 6:00 pm

          “Left” once simply meant those who wanted change.
          “Right” wanted to preserve the status quo.
          THe problem, today, is that the ‘Left” of the late 19th Century (socialists) have not only gotten into power but remained in power for so long that they are the established “Right” of today.
          A Nationalist would be very ‘Left”, even though the “Left” still insists that they are “Right”.
          It’s simply a confusion resulting from terms that have long outlived their original meanings.

        • RL Robison says

          Sep 10, 2016 at 6:53 pm

          Alien Republican, I found your statements interesting. Indeed, the waves of illegal immigration into Western societies is usually applauded by the economic and political elite because it provides more low cost workers, increased consumers demand and a “pat on the back” dose of self-righteousness. Those folks a the top or the heap have more secure incomes, can live in gated and guarded communities and can toddle off to Monaco or Singapore (or wherever) when things get heated. It is the average American citizen who is being overwhelmed by our governments’ forced social engineering over our citizen protests. While I don’t much like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton’s globalization ideals are willing to throw Americans under the proverbial bus to achieve her view of the perfect America.

  7. mortimer says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    What use is Islam to Denmark? Is it not merely a drain on revenues, a loss of freedoms of speech and movement and an obstacle to social harmony and a grave addition to security concerns?

    • quota raven says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 10:23 am

      Mortimer – That about sums it up!

      Cheers!

      quota raven

  8. Michael Cunningham says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 3:14 pm

    For those who forgot history or never knew it to begin with: wasn’t the Danes (including the king) who wore the Star of David during the Nazi occupation in WWII?

  9. mortimer says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 3:14 pm

    Islam is incompatible with modern Western values and civilization. Islam is an alternate society from the 7th century with plans to destroy Europe’s cultures. Is that what was sold to Europeans? The destruction of European cultures? A one-way track to 7th century Arabia.

  10. Kiel says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    Hugh Fitzgerald’s article about the mood in the famously tolerant country is very much up to date. That the N.Y.T. gives a distorted picture of the current situation has everything to do with their worldview. The same worldview held by those in Denmark and the EU who want an endless expansion for the “humanitarian” belief-system including extinction of ethnicity, borders, and gender differences. These elitist politicians and media have seen the writing on the wall. And they’re scared. The ingenious peoples of Europe are slowly on the move. See to Frauke Petry, Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, Victor Orbán et al.

  11. mortimer says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 3:25 pm

    Islam is a system of governance and law that takes its justification from the supposed revelations of a racist Bedouin.

    Why should a 7th century bigot guide us today?

  12. mohamonator says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 3:33 pm

    So a Daesh mujahid shoots three people in the Christiania neighborhood of Copenhagen, and Danes are understandably reluctant to allow even more of these retrograde mohammedans into their happy little country. If you’re Alice in Wonderland–or a NY Times reporter–this reluctance may seem odd. Not to me.

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/09/denmark-muslim-migrant-shoots-three-non-muslims-for-the-islamic-state

  13. dumbledoresarmy says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    Danes have four things going for them. 1/ They have Lars Hedegaard, founder of the Free Press Society. 2/ They produced Kurt Westergaard, one of the ‘Danish cartoonists’ whose efforts allowed so much of the world to see just how violent and irrational so many Mohammedans are. 3/ They have the Danish People’s Party. 4/ They have Niccolai Sennels, a *young* Danish psychologist who, out of his bruising experiences with Muslim ‘youth’ in the juvenile justice system in Denmark – and with his observations of the differences between the Muslim criminal ‘youth’ and young criminals from other cultural backgrounds, whether native Danish or immigrant – wrote a very, very telling and useful book entitled “Among Criminal Muslims”, with lots of insights into the ‘Muslim mind’ that are applicable far beyond Denmark.

    Also, Denmark is small, really small, and densely populated. It comprises 43,000 square km and it contains 5 million people. At some point people just have to say, “look, since my car only seats 8 people, why are you demanding that I cram into it 20 – or 200 – hitchhikers all at once?” Hundreds of thousands of extra people cannot and ought not to be poured into, stuffed into, tiny tiny Denmark. Enthusiasts for unlilmited ‘immigration’ need to be asked: *exactly how many* extra people do you think Denmark must take in in a year? Five years? Ten years?

    Danes here present, reading over my shoulder, should read Mr Sennels’ book, if they haven’t already. And since many Danes can read English, the Islamosavvy – again, probably lurking here right now reading over my shoulder – should get, and read, and circulate amongst their English-reading acquaintance, a book by an ex-Muslim, the apostate from Islam, now Christian, ‘Sam Solomon’. It’s called “Al Hijra: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration’. Those who read it will see exactly why Muslim immigration into *every* Infidel country in the world ought to be stopped. Totally stopped. Right now. And why ways must be found of *removing* Muslims who’ve already gotten in.

    Here, for anyone who hasn’t yet read it, and for any Danish persons who may be listening in, is a review of that book which gives a good summary of its main points.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/the_hijra.html

    August 16, 2009
    The Hijra
    By Janet Levy

    Modern Day Trojan Horse: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration
    By Sam Solomon and Elias Al Maqdisi
    ANM Publishers, 2009

    Excerpt:

    “In their compelling book, “Modern Day Trojan Horse: The Islamic Doctrine of Immigration,” authors Sam Solomon, a former professor of shari’ah law and convert to Christianity, and Elias Al Maqdisi, an expert on Islamic teachings, explain the migration of Muslims to the Dar-al-Harb, the “land of war,” as a religious edict with a basis in Islamic doctrine.

    “They delineate the step-by-step process of this 1,400-year-old strategy of conquest. It is a transitional strategy which they characterize as the most important step in spreading Islam and preparing for jihad.
    “From their carefully delineated treatise on Hijra, it is clear that migration in concert with military conquest comprise the bookends of Islamic expansionism…”.

    In fact, if this book, “Al-Hijra”, has not yet been translated into Danish, I would encourage Danes to try to find out how that can be done, as quickly as possible. In the meantime, nothing to stop Danish jihadwatchers, fluent in English, from reading it and translating portions of it into good Danish, and circulating, to as many people as they can.

    The author, ‘Sam Solomon’, has also written a book about mosques – “The Mosque and Its Role in Society’. Not long, but very clear and well-referenced from the relevant Islamic sources. Very sobering reading, and it should be read and reread by all infidels who wish to stand up and protest against the imposition of mosques – Muslim military bases – in *their* neighbourhoods.

    • rubiconcrest says

      Sep 8, 2016 at 7:27 pm

      Perhaps the latter book name changed. It can be found by searching for .
      Thanks for the review.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Sep 9, 2016 at 8:45 am

        I think it might now be called “The Mosque Exposed”.

        I ran a search for ‘Sam Solomon’ , ‘mosque’ and that came up.

        I have the booklet under its older title. Probably the new title is a revised / updated/ expanded version.

    • EYESOPEN says

      Sep 8, 2016 at 8:52 pm

      DDA, that is an EXCELLENT book. I have it, have read it, and am also suggesting that others get it – even from their libraries if they cannot afford to buy it. Thanks for mentioning it!

    • Kay says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 1:39 am

      Thanks for the referrals.

      I am wondering who The Times works for.

    • carpediadem says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 11:52 am

      “Islamosavvy!” Great term!

      dumbledoresarmy you’ve done it again!

  14. davej says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 6:28 pm

    Racist? NO, don’t fall for that or for “islamophobe”.

    Defenders of their countrymen and civilization – YES.

    • Kepha says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 5:22 pm

      I suspect you could also add “welcomers of newcomers who respect their new country and its civilization”.

  15. Dom107 says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 6:45 pm

    I remember talking to a Danish lady a few years ago telling her what would happen if this immigration continued and she disagreed and said nothing wouldn’t happen.Now they pay the price of naivety like Sweden and Germany.
    Denmark was once assessed to be the happiest country in the World but you can bet your life they aren’t now
    Why don’t western countries listen to what is patently obvious to everyone on this site.
    Assisting in the demise of Gaddafy was a big mistake.He is on record as saying that his country was the wall against Islamic radicals and mass immigration from Africa which has now become an unstoppable tide.

  16. Mockingjay says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 6:47 pm

    “There is tension, too, over whether the backlash is really about a strain on Denmark’s generous public benefits or a rising terrorist threat — or whether a longstanding but latent racial hostility is being unearthed.”

    Mr. Fitzgerald – I don’t think this sentence means to distinguish between the first two named reasons (the strain on the benefits “or” a terrorist threat) – I think the journalist here just grouped these both “reasonable” arguments together to set them off against what he or she clearly thinks is in reality the ACTUAL reason for the Danes’ “hardening” attitude against immigrants: THE LATENT, LONGSTANDING RACISM of the Danish people .

    It is VERY clear that the journalist thinks the Danes – and everyone else who might agree with them – f.e. the people in the US who will vote for Trump – are simply “using” those “reasonable” arguments to mask their ACTUAL motivations, which are originating from the darkest crevices of the white Europeans’ minds.

    In short, the journalist simply believes that criticizing immigrants in reality ALWAYS is based on the lowest of human impulses, and that whatever people CLAIM is the reason for disliking immigrants, is in truth nothing more than some poor excuse to cover up their REAL motivations.

    So there you have it.

    We, white people of the West, are nothing but a bunch of hypocritical racists.

    The writer of this piece so much as proved it.

    This piece is ENTIRELY divorced from everything journalism is supposed to be – but will any of its readers notice?

    Probably not.

  17. jewdog says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 6:49 pm

    That interview with the guilt-wracked Dane was carefully cherry-picked by the reporter. For the Times, many of their reporting scenarios are nothing but Potemkin facades for their slanted ideology. This was the reporter’s sly way of implying that anybody who wants to preserve Western civilization from a Muslim invasion is a racist.
    Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Hillary Clinton stated in a speech that the alt-right desire to preserve Western values was racist. So what does that make her desire to throw them away? Stupid.

  18. eduardo odraude says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 7:10 pm

    Outstanding piece by Hugh Fitzgerald. May the Danes translate it into Danish and publish it widely.

  19. Paul says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 7:22 pm

    This is the same blatant bias the Times has been aiming at Israel for as long as I can remember. Now its metastasizing and spreading to anyone critical of Islam. Not surprised.

  20. abad says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 8:07 pm

    Islam is all about war.

    Muslims have been belligerent and making war for centuries and they want to “flee” the wars they start?

    Just no.

    Deport them all back to the sandbox.

  21. Gray says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 8:17 pm

    It is extraordinary that the New York Times would accuse Danes of being racist and blindly anti-immigrant. Many years ago, the Queen of Denmark gave permission for her son to marry not only a Commoner, but a non-Danish commoner. Mary Donaldson from Australia is now Crown Princess Mary of Denmark. From all accounts the Danish people could not have been more welcoming to the girl from Oz. Again, from all accounts, Crown Princess Mary has responded by learning Danish, absorbing herself in the culture of her new homeland, and presenting her husband, and the nation, with four children. Crown Princess Frederik is heir to the throne. Should he become King, Frederik’s Australian-born wife will become Queen Consort of Denmark, and one of her children will conceivably, at some time, become King or Queen of Denmark. And the Times is accusing the Danes of being racist and blindly anti-immigrant?

    • Mazo says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 1:37 am

      Jordanian royals have married British and Swedish women.

      Wow this must mean xenophobia doesn’t exist in Jordan! /s

      • eduardo odraude says

        Sep 9, 2016 at 6:01 pm

        In the most canonical hadith collection, Muhammad said, “Whoever changes his Islamic religion, then kill him.” See http://quotingislam.blogspot.com/2011/06/whoever-changed-his-islamic-religion.html

        Those who follow Islam after knowing about that are terrified to leave, deluded fools, or evil.

  22. Angemon says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 9:09 pm

    There is tension, too, over whether the backlash is really about a strain on Denmark’s generous public benefits or a rising terrorist threat — or whether a longstanding but latent racial hostility is being unearthed.

    A very handy way to dismiss two perfectly valid, evidence-backed points – implying that they’re merely smokescreens for a thought-crime. It’s not that “migrants” are straining the Danish systems or pose a security threat. No, forget logic and evidence – it’s just that the Danes have an “racial” hostility to people who adhere to a certain ideology.

  23. SAKOVKT says

    Sep 8, 2016 at 9:17 pm

    Ha!
    Maybe we’re finally catching on!
    “Racism” and “Hate Speech” have always been political!
    Clausewitz maintains that Hate is the Will to War, because the most violent actions of the State cannot be undertaken with ambivalence but, war is also politics by other means.
    Race Ideas are ancient.
    The Romans, Jews, everyone, thought of themselves as a Race, with a special God and Political Destiny.
    Hierarchical Racialism was a Political Idea of the Early-Mid 20th Century, now given way to Racial Equalitarianism, like everything else, “Progressive”, especially economic and, unfortunately, in Leaders.
    No more, the Pontiff Maximus, the Bridge between Man and God!
    No, today, you can get someone out from under the overpass to do it, with predictable results.
    Quality versus Quantity.
    Hierarchy versus Equalitarian.
    The Eternal Contentions, Anew, and Anew, Again.
    aahHHAHahaaaaa!

    • eduardo odraude says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 6:12 pm

      Don’t put too much faith in Clausewitz. To say that war is the continuation of politics by other means is rather like saying divorce is the continuation of marriage by other means. Rudolf Steiner pointed that out a long time ago, that the famous statement by Clausewitz is in a way totally non-sensical.

      Also, you seem to think the only way to look at things is in terms of “race.” You think one either believes the races are equal, or else one believes they are arranged in a natural hierarchy. Those are your only two alternatives. But either way, you confine yourself to the concept of “race” as the basis of your whole worldview. If you do that, you limit human beings to a purely physical reality, and that way lies barbarism. Human beings are mostly non-physical. They have something called individuality, just for starters. Race is relatively unimportant compared to that.

      • SAKOVKT says

        Sep 10, 2016 at 5:56 pm

        I put a lot of fait in Clausewitz.
        War, as politics by other means, is only one facet of war and it’s the novice who fails to see pass that or see Clausewitz in terms of any specific quote.
        Each war is different.
        Clausewitz presents the characteristics of war, in general, but assigns no hierarchy.
        That is determined under the circumstances of each war.
        Clausewitz also states, for instance, that hate is the will to war because the most violent actions of he state cannot be undertaken with ambivalence thus, there is the “cabinet war’, politics by other means, versus the philosophical or peoples’ war, driven by hate.
        Bismarck’s wars were cabinet wars. There was little propaganda involved, only money for mobilization and a cause decided in the courts of Berlin, Paris or Vienna.
        The Napoleonic Wars, WW1 or WW2 were peoples’ wars, with lots of propaganda on both sides.
        As for race, the word has degenerated into a purely biological definition which it once didn’t have. To conceive of world history in terms of the more general and inclusive sense of the ward, as people of previous times did, is hardly “racist” as you might believe, with the current idea.
        Historically, all the people I mentioned, as well as many others, thought of themselves as a race, or people, later nation, with their own set of values and identity which they adhered to, versus all the others, which were different.
        Rule by one was anti-thesis to others.
        You can’t speak of a “culture war” without this idea, to begin with.
        The Roman Idea of a universal religion was probably the first attempt in the West to reduce racial or national differences to the point where it could managed by a single government because all gov’t subscribes to some ultimate Power Idea and, of course, if these ideas conflict (like capitalism and communism, in our day) then a single government is impossible.

  24. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 12:52 am

    Hugh Fitzgerald’s essay is informative as far as it goes, but he might also have warned Muslims against settling in Denmark. According to ‘Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2, every Muslim enjoys the right to kill his or her child or grandchild with impunity. But this abortion-friendly freedom is far outweighed by the fact that the monarch of Denmark has more arbitrary power than the cruelest caliph, even Muhammad (pbuh): Section 13 of the Danish Constitution says, “The King shall not be answerable for his actions; his person shall be sacrosanct.” See
    http://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/da00000_.html
    Thus the King (or Queen) of Denmark can kill and torture Muslims (and anyone else) at whim, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about. Muslims, remain in the nurturing bosom of Dar al-Islam — keep away from dangerous Denmark!

  25. Rufolino says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 2:55 am

    A brilliant article, Hugh. Thank you.

  26. BC says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 3:11 am

    Bringing a Muslim into your country is the same as inviting one into your home. He will want to rearrange the furniture so there is room for him to prostrate himself, tell you what food to eat, what pictures you may hang on the walls, preferably none; and tell your wife and daughters what they may wear.
    Any modes of entertainment or books other than the Quran must also be thrown out, and your kids must give up their music lessons. After all you would not want him to feel offended.

  27. Yorkshire Kufir says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 4:49 am

    The actions of the danish polity and that people are taking on the labels misapplied by islamist apologists may indicate the start of a sea change in attitudes throughout europe. It’s early days, but if islamists continue their random attacks, europeans will apply themselves with brutal efficiency to expunging this menace, as they have done before.

  28. stubb says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 6:08 am

    One of the best articles I’ve read for a while. Outstanding. I particularly appreciate how Mr. Fitzgerald picked apart the NYT’s standard-issue leftist bias and distortion. That was brilliant and very satisfying to read. Thank you.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 8:52 am

      And the thing is: if you read the original article, slowly and carefully, and then read and reread Mr Fitzgerald’s analysis, you can come to understand how to perform similar analysis *yourself*. You can then look at other articles, not only in the NYT either, and ‘read between the lines’.

  29. Mubarak says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 7:11 am

    —“and questions over 
whether the country has a latent racial hostility at its core.” —

    David Zucchino’s moral exhibitionistm is evident in this sentence.

    The religious/ideological luggage Muslims arrive with is not welcome and should not be welcomed in Denmark. And if that means, that Muslims should be denied immigration to Denmark, so be it.

    • Mubarak says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 7:16 am

      PS:”moral exhibitionism”

  30. Dan Christensen says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 8:08 am

    The “offended” Islamophiles in Denmark rarely enter any debate on moslem immigration. They immediately start complaining about bad “tone” rather than addressing substance – so it is nearly impossible to conduct any meaningful conversation on the subject.
    This war of religions is also a trench war.

  31. TH says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 8:30 am

    Of course, the can’t learn Danish, because besides not even wanting to, Muslims have an IQ of some 15% lower than average due mainly to inbreeding.

  32. ronald reed says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 11:21 am

    The NEW YORK TIMES and those news papers and msm like them who target others with the racists terms are the true collaborators against freedom and liberty. In their zeal to destroy countries using barbarians to do it are as nasty and corrupt and hateful toward others who disagree with their tactics and agendas. Freedom is not won, the battle is continuous , is never over against those oppressors of the human spirit.

  33. chrissie01 says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 4:35 pm

    No, I am not racially hostile.
    Those who dump millions of Africans and North Africans into my country, they are.

  34. Kepha says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 5:32 pm

    Once I got into an online discussion with an apparent Communist from West Bengal (guessed from the name) who said that if he immigrated to Louisiana or South Carolina (the states he named), he’d probably be lynched. I retorted they’d probably elect his US-born son or daughter governor (days of Bobby Jindal and Nikki Hailey). Yes, there are lots of places with a strong tradition of racism, but where a “different-looking” immigrant who assimilates into the language, political culture, and civic values will probably be accepted.

    I have an inkling that if I looked a bit closer at “Johnny Christiansen”, I might find that he is cordial and accepting of very black-complexioned African immigrants who worship at his Lutheran church and enjoy friendly relations with the owner of his neighborhood Chinese restaurant. His “racism” is probably reserved for welfare spongers, young punks who want to insult or even assault his granddaughter, and creeps who throw axes at cartoonists.

    • eduardo odraude says

      Sep 9, 2016 at 6:37 pm

      Exactly.

    • Mazo says

      Sep 10, 2016 at 5:47 pm

      Puritan law in Massachusetts colony said its okay for parents to murder their children and banned freedom of religion for non Puritans

      The writers of the USA Constitution and Bill of Rights were Deists and not Puritans.

      Your views are totally incompatible with USA law.

    • Mazo says

      Sep 10, 2016 at 5:48 pm

      There is also the issue of witch trials which are not allowed by USA federal law.

  35. rickMT says

    Sep 9, 2016 at 11:15 pm

    RACIST: wear it like you proudly wore your swimming and cooking merit badges.

  36. Torben Snarup Hansen says

    Sep 11, 2016 at 4:49 pm

    1) It is quite improbable that the quote of Mr. Christensen is a sign of guilt. The expression “racist” is used every day in verbal attacks on those Danes and civilized immigrants who oppose the supremacist intruders into this small country. Lots of people here accept being “racists” og very often explain it as simply being able and willing to see the enormous difference between victims and their foreign criminal perpetrators. This is simply patriotism: We are the Danes, and they are the violent and arrogant parasites, imported by mad politicians. We want them to leave – supremacists and politicians!

    2) According to the Constitution the queen / king cannot be held responsible like the subjects / citizens. This has nothing to do with absolutism. She / reigns. Period! She / he does NOT rule. Royal criminal acts or lunacy would immideately have consequences – almost certainly abdication. So the monarch knows how to behave!

    Best greetings from and old and grumpy Dane (who remembers the highly unpleasant occupation of Denmark by Hitlers Wehrmacht).

    • quota raven says

      Sep 11, 2016 at 7:36 pm

      To Torben, who identifies himself as “and old and grumpy Dane (who remembers the highly unpleasant occupation of Denmark by Hitlers Wehrmacht).”

      Thank you so much for your edifying comment, Torben. I appreciate nothing so much as an intelligent, thoughtful report from anyone with boots on the ground. As a grumpy – no, “grumpy”:doesn’t begin to cover it – “aghast” more describes my increasing angst – old American, I urge you to contribute again – and often.

      What you say encourages a little hope in me that Europe MIGHT come alive and reverse this unwanted and dreadful danger being perpetrated upon them – and us, as well. It seems that there is a strong resistance movement rising in Germany, Holland, France and elsewhere on the continent. Les Belgiques?

      Cheers!

      quota raven

      • quota raven says

        Sep 11, 2016 at 7:40 pm

        Torben – further to previous: One thing I have to confess as a grumpy, aghast old American is that I really have NO IDEA how the so-called American “millenials” think about jihad or any other major issue. They seem, the few of them I’ve been able to identify and talk to, quite blase, almost indifferent. Cheers – qr

  37. Torben Snarup Hansen says

    Sep 12, 2016 at 5:26 am

    Estimado don quota raven.

    The enemy n. 1 is the government – all over Western Europe. The French are waking up and furious citizens yelled “murderer” when the prime minister appeared. In Eastern Germany – the former communist DDR – they are alert too. So are the Poles, the Serbs, the Hungarians and the Checs. They have had enough of tyranny and oppression.

    Worst place is Sweden. The Swedes are paralyzed. They don’t yell at a politician, but suffer in silence. Last time Sweden was in a war is 200 years ago. There is no tradition of citizens participating in politics. Government was and is run by aristocrats for at least three centuries (remember Oluf Palme?). The State is God. Hard work to organize resistance to that one!

    Denmark and Norway were attacked by Nazi Germany, and as mentioned above some of us remember this experience. Fortunately youngsters OUTSIDE institutions of higher education are beginnig to wake up – particularly boys. Polls indicate that a majority of Danish males reject the insane immigration policy, the rape, the supremacy crimes and the ritual murders. Unfortunately most women still want the whole nation to welcome illegal migrants from Nigeria, Marocco, Afghanistan and Somalia.

    We have seen blood in the streets. More will follow – plus toil, sweat and tears.

    Un cordial saludo. Nunca se rinde el gallo negro.

    • Mubarak says

      Sep 18, 2016 at 7:56 am

      “Unfortunately most women still want the whole nation to welcome illegal migrants from Nigeria, Marocco, Afghanistan and Somalia.” –

      The Danish society – run by women of both sexes – is so effeminate and the males so emasculated that many Danish women has developed a taste contrarily to what is sweet, docile and domesticated.

      Femininity is stamped on Danish boys from an early age, and for a Danish woman to marry such a boy, when he has grown up, would amount to same-sex marriage – which otherwise is enthusiastically embraced in Denmark.

      That might help to explain the migration policies promoted by women in power – May and Merkel in mind.

  38. Mubarak says

    Sep 18, 2016 at 7:53 am

    “Unfortunately most women still want the whole nation to welcome illegal migrants from Nigeria, Marocco, Afghanistan and Somalia.” –

    The Danish society – run by women of both sexes – is so effeminate and the males so emasculated that many Danish women has developed a taste contrarily to what is sweet, docile and domesticated.

    Femininity is stamped on Danish boys from an early age, and for a Danish woman to marry such a boy, when he has grown up, would amount to same-sex marriage – which otherwise is enthusiastically embraced in Denmark.

    That might help to explain the migration policies promoted by women in power – May and Merkel in mind.

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