[ April 20, 2024 ]
My Monday column for WND:
DEFENDING THE WEST
New York Times sides with jihad
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A Muslim in Denmark recently tried to assassinate freedom fighter
Lars Hedegaard. Now the New York Times has done its part by
assassinating Hedegaard’s character, smearing him in a notably belated piece on the attempt on the Danish activist’s life.It’s a pity that lily-livered cowards at the New York Times like
Andrew Higgins can’t distinguish between savages and their victims. The
Times’ coverage of the assassination attempt was long overdue, but the
article just added insult to injury. Hedegaard is a free-speech activist
who was targeted for death by Muslims who use brutal violence to impose
Shariah. But you’d never know it from the New York Times article, which
could easily have run in the Tehran Times.Higgins immediately rips into Hedegaard, a man of principle and
nonviolence, characterizing his opinions as “a stew of anti-Muslim bile
and conspiracy-laden forecasts of a coming civil war.”In his article, Higgins furiously spins a new narrative: that Muslims
might rightly despise Hedegaard, but they actually support him. He even
includes this claim in his article’s title: “Danish Opponent of Islam
Is Attacked, and Muslims Defend His Right to Speak.”“That Danish Muslims would rally to defend Mr. Hedegaard, a man they
detest,” writes Higgins, “suggests a significant shift in attitudes, or
at least in strategies, by a people at the center of a European debate
over whether immigrants from mostly poor Muslim lands can adjust to the
values of their new and, thanks to a long economic crisis, increasingly
wary and often inhospitable homes.”A shift in strategies, indeed. Higgins quotes Karen Haekkerup,
Denmark’s minister of social affairs and integration, saying of the
Muslim leaders: “They have changed their approach.” He also quotes Imran
Shah of Copenhagen’s Islamic Society, saying this of the murder attempt
on Hedegaard: “We knew that this was something people would try to
blame on us.” Higgins doesn’t explore the implications of these
statements about how the Muslim leaders have just changed their approach
and strategy out of concern for being blamed, without changing their
core beliefs. He doesn’t explain how the Islamic leaders justify
discarding Islam’s blasphemy laws, or even question whether they’re
really sincere in claiming to support Hedegaard’s freedom of speech.Even worse, Higgins strongly implies that Hedegaard himself is
responsible for the attempt on his life: “The response from native Danes
has grown more equivocal over time, with some suggesting Mr. Hedegaard
himself provoked violence with his strident views and the activities of
his Danish Free Press Society, an organization that he set up in 2004 to
defend free expression but that is best known for denouncing Islam.”
Higgins quotes Mikael Rothstein, a religious history scholar at the
University of Copenhagen: “I think that Hedegaard wanted this conflict …
brutal words can be as strong as the brutal physical act of violence.
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7 Comments
11 years ago
“… brutal words can be as strong as the brutal physical act of violence.” How surprising that Higgins can’t apply that axiom to the brutal words of the Koran and hadith that inspired the attempt on Lars life — not to mention over 20,000 such ‘attempts’ (successful attacks) since 9/11/01.
11 years ago
FULL INTERVIEW: Mitt Romney’s Fox News interview with Chris Wallace:
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/03/full-video-mitt-romney-ann-romney-fox.html
11 years ago
He is sewing the Danish Press……and he will win!
11 years ago
I’ve heard of “suicide by cop.” But “suicide by Muslim?”
Hedegaard wanted to be killed? Hedegaard was just asking for it?”
People who think this way are true assholes.
11 years ago
Oh, that the media could understand how dangerous it is to misrepresent the truth about jihad and shariah. The West appears bent on committing cultural and economic suicide. It’s tragic because the liberty of millions throughout the world will be lost under “hate laws,” shariah, and the like.
11 years ago
This is very strange. Ed Cline wrote about this first on early on March 2 in Rule of Reason. Of course, Mr. Cline’s column is much more detailed and includes references.
http://ruleofreason.blogspot.com/2013/03/journalisms-jihad-against-journalists.html
11 years ago
A lot is rotten in Denmark.
