[M]any Europeans -- not most, but many -- are suddenly aware they stand on the edge. If they let Islamic clerics determine what Europeans can and cannot print in their own press through a process of intimidation and force, the Old Continent will have surrendered a large part of its independence and sovereignty. The holy grail of every agitator is to find an issue on which both sides are unalterably opposed. Radical Islam has found it [in] the blasphemy of Mohammed and ironically gave those who would rouse the West a mirror issue of their own: the blasphemy of censorship and the extinction of freedom of speech.
Both sides now are in too deep to climb down without damage. For the European press the path to this confrontation has been imperceptible, absentminded and catastrophic. Yet all so terribly familiar. The old warnings come naturally to mind.
... descending incontinently, fecklessly the stairway that leads to a dark gulf.
It is a fine broad stairway at the beginning, but after a bit the carpet ends.
A little farther on there are only flagstones, and a little farther on still these break beneath your feet.
The fine, broad highway to Hell that is political correctness which has achieved the opposite of its intent: not the universal chorus of harmony but religious conflict at its most primitive level.
And do not suppose this is the end.
This is the beginning of the reckoning.
This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of the bitter cup,
which will be proffered to us year by year,
unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour,
we rise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.
Winston Churchill's comments on the Munich agreement of 1938
But the words are only memories. The men who said them are gone and their heirs are not yet found.
Leonidas agrees that the Danish ambassador should issue an apology. In the largest synagogue in Saudi Arabia.
MOLON LABE
3 comments:
If muslims wernt cutting off innocent peoples heads and blowing up things this would not be an issue. We NEED freedom of speach! Damn the muslims! They damn everyone else dont they? I dont see any peaceful muslims out there anywhere.
It is a falicy that Islam is peaceful. It cannot peacfully coexist with another religion. Islam is a cancer that will consume this planet. It is high time that the United States and her allies discover just who the true enemy is. It is not radical Muslims....it is Islam itself. A holy war is what they want. Perhaps a holy war is what they should get.
The biggest mistake that The U.S. and European countries continue to make is attempts at appeasement. Muslims view appeasement as a sign of weakness and rather than achiving common ground it only strengthens their resolve. You cannot negotiate with them, so what do you do with such an enemy?...You fight them. You fight them fiercely and you fight them with the resolve that you will not stop until they are completely defeated....ALL OF THEM.
(found your blog via a search for my favorite battle cry. Apparently it means a great deal to you too...MOLON LABE!)
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