Denmark’s Rasmussen to apologize to ‘Islamic World’

Another terrible blow to free speech.  Why are leaders of the free world submitting to Islam? Why are we surrendering our most basic freedoms to a barbarian ideology? Why is the world capitulating to the  Organization of the Islamic Conference?

It is horrifying to imagine a leading Danish politician crawling and getting on bended knee to  the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who made these outrageous demands of Islamic supremacism here: Turkey: Prime Minister Objects to ’Moderate Islam’ Label Days

To become NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen will apologize for
the Mohammed cartoons.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark’s leader, was one of the few European
politicians who refused to give in to pressure from fundamentalists in the
Middle East when a Danish newspaper published the now infamous “Mohammed
cartoons.” His attitude was welcomed by may Europeans, especially by
conservatives. He was quickly promoted to “hero of the freedom of speech,” and
became one of the old continent’s most popular politicians.

But then something changed. Rasmussen set his eyes upon NATO. He wanted to
become the organization’s next secretary general. An ambitious man, he proved
willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish his goals.

One of those ‘things’: apologizing to the “Islamic world” for the
cartoons.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip does not like Rasmussen very much (among
other reasons because Rasmussen is anti-Turkey). So when the latter appeared to
be the man most likely to succeed secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the
former put up a fight. Turkey would not agree to let Rasmussen accomplish his
goal, Erdogan said, unless Turkey got something in return and unless the prime
minister would apologize to “the Islamic world.’

Rasmussen agreed. Dutch magazine Elsevier reports he will do so tomorrow, in Istanbul.

If true, it’s a major blow to the freedom of speech the prime minister said
he held so dear. Rasmussen should have stuck to his guns and defended Western
principles. This is not about whether one agrees with him on every single
subject, nor about whether or not one is a fan of his (country’s) policy towards
Turkey. It’s about the freedom of newspapers to publish whatever cartoon they
want, no matter how controversial they may be in some quarters.

It is not only a sad day for those who love the freedom of speech, but also
for Turkish secularists; Erdogan presented himself once again as spokesman for
the “Islamic world,” which would have been unthinkable only ten years ago.

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