| | Akram's Razor - Svend White's blog on Islam, Muslims & America: Whose fault is the Danish boycott? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22) |
 | | It is becoming distressingly commonplace to see headlines about prominent Danish figures openly expressing prejudice against Islam, and mainstream parties are working increasingly closely with hardline nationalist (and, of course, Muslim-baiting) parties that were once rightly viewed as beyond the pale. |
| | It is always tempting to discuss such thorny problems in a historical vacuum--in fact, this is the preferred tactic of Muslim bashers, who prefer to cast Muslims as savage natives inexplicably prone to irrational behavior and random acts of violence--but this condemns the analysis to irrelevance in the real world. |
| | As one Danish commentator Rune Engelbreth Larsen noted, Jyllands-Posten should rather have exercised its vaunted right to freedom of expression not to denigrate Islam, but to mock these dictatorial and hypocritical regimes, which are now cynically exploiting this crisis for domestic political consumption. |
| akramsrazor.typepad.com /islam_america/2006/02/jp.html (4632 words) |
