- - - - - - - - -I remember that you once asked me what made the Danes different in this current battle against the Islamic ideology. I have been wondering about it ever since. One could (as has been done before), when comparing Denmark to many of our neighbors, find lots of possible reasons for it.
We have great debaters like Lars Hedegaard, Helle Merete Brix, Flemming Rose, Ralf Pittelkow, Farshad Kholgi and many more. We have some great blogs like Snaphanen, Uriasposten and Hodja’s Blog. Relatively recently the Danes experienced the threat from totalitarian ideologies like Communism and Nazism. During WW2 we were blessed with some brave soldiers like Anders Lassen, and heroic freedom fighters like Bent Faurschou-Hviid (The Torch) and Jørgen Schmith (The Lemon), and others.
But most countries have their heroes and their intellectuals who dominate the mental heritage and ongoing debate about what is going on in society. So what is the explanation for Denmark’s current and unexpected lead in today’s fight?
Besides the Motoon affair which opened the eyes of the broader population (whether they want to admit it or not), one of the most important thing is that the critics of Islam are well represented in Parliament. We have brave politicians who are not afraid to call things for what they are. Here I could mention Pia Kjærsgaard, Karen Jespersen, Søren Espersen, Søren Krarup, Jesper Langballe, Naser Khader, Morten Messerschmidt and others. These people are now supported by many voters and their presence in Parliament is crucial if we want to keep any kind of hope to get out of this misery alive.
So the question is: How did they manage to get into Parliament? I mean, if you look at Sweden, for example, you will not find a single Islam-critical voice in the Riksdagen. No single voice in the Swedish parliament is raising any kind of criticism against the way the government is ruling their country. Leading them directly into Dante’s Inferno. And if anybody as much as tries to do it they will be out of a job and social recognition immediately.
So again: how did Islam-critical politicians manage to get into the Danish parliament in such massive numbers? It is not difficult to understand how Karen Jespersen and Naser Khader became MP’s. Both are very likeable persons. And both have never been associated with DPP [Danish People’s Party, Dansk Folkeparti].
But what about the rest and most important bunch? The group of people who comprised the outcasts, saying all the despicable things that “good people” just don’t say. The group of people who have done all the hard work and thereby constituted a windbreak for all the others. How did they get in?
In my opinion there is only one person that we can thank for this. This person died recently and he was indeed controversial. He was a fool and an intellectual giant at the same time. His name was Mogens Glistrup and he led his party, Fremskridtspartiet, into Parliament back in the 1970s by, among other things, comparing tax evaders to the freedom fighters from WW2. He received 16% of the vote in his first election and made history.
Later he went to prison for tax evasion and his party started to disintegrate. But when Glistrup was released he started warning against the immigration of Muslims because of the new liberal laws. He knew what Islam was all about.
Of course he was accused of racism but he did not give a damn. I remember him from TV answering his wife, who in a documentary told him that his way of expressing himself was probably not the best, with the words: “It is not my assignment to say things that sound good. My mission is to warn the Danes. The Danes need to wake up.”
The rest of Glistrup’s political life was a disaster but his heritage is not. He prepared the ground for the DPP and thereby for a lot of tough people. Pia Kjærsgaard took over power when he went to prison and later renamed the party the Danish Peoples Party.
For more information about Mogens Glistrup and related matters, TB sent a couple of links for material he didn’t have time to translate.
First, an op-ed Glistrup wrote in 1991.
Secondly, an article by Søren Krarup entitled “King and People — and the Constitution” from yesterday’s Jyllands-Posten.
5 comments:
As a Swedish-American, I've always felt that Swedes were superior in many aspects, especially their tolerance and acceptance of other cultures.
Now, however, it is clear that those very qualities have caused Sweden to be a target of Islamo-Nazis - did not Osama single out Sweden as "inoffensive?"
And now I'm beginning to wonder if my beloved Swedes aren't just stupid.
There's such a thing as being so open-minded that your brain falls out...
Keep up the great work.
Acharya S
TruthBeKnown.com
I have thought for a long time that Swedes are stupid, not intellectually, but they are brainwashed.
There is a Swede I know who came to South Africa so that he could have sex with blacks. His wife left him his children hate him.
Let me add a few comments. I met Glistrup twice - and honestly didn't like him. His was a man of wild intelligence, stubbornness, but hardly tact. Actually, I was a member of the youth branch of his party for a short while, along with Peter Skaarup etc.
But it beyond dispute that he cracked open a good many doors, which never closed again, and which we've used. He deserves credit.
Technically, Pia Kjærsgaard, Peter Skaarup, Kristian Thulesen-Dahl and the other founders of Dansk Folkeparti (Danish People's Party) left Fremskridtspartiet and founded an entirely new party. That is a lot of hard work, but the good stubbornness carried through, and the original Fremskridsparti dwindled into oblivion, as the more skillful people in DPP swept the floor.
The man corresponding to Mogens Glistrup in Sweden would be Ian Wachtmeister. And he was much better.
The way of how DPP was formed out of the remains of Fremskridtspartiet, was paralleled by how Ian Wachtmeister started his new party in 1998, once again a much more serious party.
However, thanks to the difference between Danish and Swedish constitutions, the media in Sweden could block out and completely silence Ian's new party.
Read my lips: I was not even aware of the existence of this party until three years after the fact!!!
So omnipotent is the power of media. In Denmark there is a constitution countering the power of the media.
I have written about it here:
http://conswede.blogspot.com/2007/11/part-4-effect-of-constitution-in-sweden.html
http://conswede.blogspot.com/2007/11/part-7-new-party-and-how-it-was-crushed.html
Re Denmark,
As a Swede following the Danish debate intensively in 2002, I was impressed by the achievement of Naser Khader. He became a big name in Danish media since 1999, and he managed to make critical debate about Islam go mainstream. He broke the spell of the "racism" charge by who he was, how he acted and by coining the term "halal-hippie". I consider him even more important then Mogens Glistrup. We have had Glistrups in many European countries, but only Denmark had a Naser Khader. The story with Glistrup could have ended with him being quite like a Danish Le Pen.
Also Pia Kjersgaard is pretty unique for Denmark. Of course, in Sweden we had Ian Wachtmeister who was comparable. But media "assassinated" him.
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