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Offline JBA

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« on: February 09, 2006, 08:31:49 AM »
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-danes9feb09,0,2192905.story?coll=la-home-headlines



[Danish] A newspaper headline this week blamed President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair  for not supporting Denmark through the ordeal. And nearly 80% of Danes believe a terrorist attack looms.


"A lot of Danes have problems understanding what is going on and why people in those countries reacted this way," said Morton Rixen, a philosophy student, looking out his window at a city awhirl in angst and snow. "We're used to seeing American flags and pictures of George Bush being burned, but we've always seen ourselves as a more tolerant nation. We're in shock to now be in the center of this."


"Racism is suddenly popping up in this country," said Merete Ronnow, a nurse who worked in Danish relief efforts in Lebanon and Afghanistan. "I'm stunned by this. It's like now Danes can express exactly what they feel. My colleagues are saying, 'Look, this is how a Muslim acts. This is what a Muslim does.

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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2006, 08:42:25 AM »
Nice selective bolding, someday you may achieve bolding master and actually capture the message being said.
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« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2006, 08:47:50 AM »
[Danish] A newspaper headline this week blamed President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair for not supporting Denmark through the ordeal. And nearly 80% of Danes believe a terrorist attack looms.


"A lot of Danes have problems understanding what is going on and why people in those countries reacted this way," said Morton Rixen, a philosophy student, looking out his window at a city awhirl in angst and snow. "We're used to seeing American flags and pictures of George Bush being burned, but we've always seen ourselves as a more tolerant nation. We're in shock to now be in the center of this."


"Racism is suddenly popping up in this country," said Merete Ronnow, a nurse who worked in Danish relief efforts in Lebanon and Afghanistan. "I'm stunned by this. It's like now Danes can express exactly what they feel. My colleagues are saying, 'Look, this is how a Muslim acts. This is what a Muslim does.


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« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2006, 08:52:17 AM »
How can it be racism? Muslim isn't a race, it's a religion...

...right?

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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2006, 09:00:55 AM »
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How can it be racism? Muslim isn't a race, it's a religion...

...right?
Quit clouding this with facts please! Let a man have a good racism rant, will ya?!? :mad: ;)

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« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2006, 09:09:47 AM »
I think I captured it just fine; some Danes blame Bush, Blair because we didn't come running to the aid of the fools at the newspapers. (To the editors use your head, the Muslim are pissed off at everything)

Danes have grown accustomed to seeing the US blamed for all the worlds ills, in the form of flags/effigies burning and through their arrogance as expressed, “"We're used to seeing American flags and pictures of George Bush being burned, but we've always seen ourselves as a more tolerant nation. We're in shock to now be in the center of this."  

Now find themselves faced with their own questions of racism.
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« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2006, 09:20:13 AM »
the danes should print more cartoons and also put up effigies of mohommid frolicking.  that should solve the problem.

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« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2006, 09:31:16 AM »
I'm sure many will discredit the writer and blow by without even reading it, but I think Jonah Goldberg has it about right in this piece:

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Enough with the cartoons. It's not about cartoons....

...It seems obvious, to me at least, that this is clang and clatter that comes with a clash of civilizations. Last year the (false) Newsweek story that American interrogators were flushing Korans down the toilet caused lethal riots in Afghanistan. In Paris, Muslims riot or threaten to riot about everything from schoolgirls without headscarves to the lack of halal Brie. Around the world, Muslims suffer from a mixture of legitimate grievances and an enormous inferiority complex. Muslim, and particularly Arab, governments have a vested interest in stirring up this sort of thing because it distracts from their own corrupt regimes. And the Muslim "street" seems to fall for it every time.....

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« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2006, 09:34:21 AM »
I love how Muslim people get pissed when other countries poke fun at Mohammed.

...I hate double standards. :mad:

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« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2006, 09:35:55 AM »
..."President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair"...

..."have problems understanding what is going on and...

...a...re...

..."stunned"...


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« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2006, 09:58:31 AM »
Does anyone have a link for the collection of those Danish cartoons?
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« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2006, 10:07:05 AM »
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Originally posted by midnight Target
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President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair believe a terrorist attack looms.  "A lot of Danes have problems," said Morton Rixen used to seeing American flags and pictures of George Bush a more tolerant nation.  "Racism is suddenly popping up in Lebanon and Afghanistan.  Now Danes can express exactly what they feel


;) Just practicing my selective editing technique

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« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2006, 10:08:22 AM »
I'm Casca and I approved this message.

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« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2006, 10:16:22 AM »
If we had access to image files of all the anti judeism cartoons published in papers from the middle east we could make the longest AH thread evar.

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« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2006, 11:48:10 AM »
I'm sure Malkin has received threats because she linked the end-of-the-muslim-world cartoons.

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(On their terms.)
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!