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February 15, 2008 By Fausta

Copenhagen police arrest six in fifth night of riots


Six more arrests in a fifth night of rioting in Denmark.

While Rowan Williams parses the role of rule of law in the UK, Fleming Rose explains what life has become to A Danish Cartoonist on the Run:

For the past three months Kurt [Westergaard] and his wife have been moving from house to house. In early November, they had a few hours to collect their most necessary belongings before they were driven to a safe location. They had to leave their car at home because the police wanted to create the impression that Kurt and Gitte were still living in the house. The mail was collected, garbage was removed, and an agent who physically resembled Kurt was installed in the house. This was done in case the plotters were to execute their plans to kill Kurt.

Kurt’s unpardonable offense? Drawing a cartoon of Mohammed wearing a turban bomb.

Is the present rioting directly caused by religious extremism, are the rioters being manipulated by religious leaders, or is it a combination of gang activity and religious manipulation of a segment of the population that was never taught how to integrate into a modern secular society? Or is it plain old vandalism?

I would like to know my readers’ opinions.

Prior post here.

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  1. Baron Bodissey says

    February 15, 2008 at 11:45 am

    It’s an opportunistic intifada. And the Muslims picked the wrong venue for it, because the Danes are not going to put up with this crap the way the French do.

    According to Kepiblanc:

    “When PET foiled the murder of Kurt Westergaard and almost all newspapers re-printed the ‘turban bomb’ cartoon, they changed their motives to ‘insults to our dear prophet, Mohammad (pbuh)’.

    “The general opinion in our country is getting more and more anti-Islam by the hour…

    “Now we’re waiting for Friday prayers to finish. If the imams are smart they’ll calm things down and postpone the fun for a few weeks, because the weather forecast promises frostbite tonight. And Arabs slow down considerably in cold weather…”

  2. Anthony (Los Angeles) says

    February 15, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    I think it’s a combination of your first three elements: angry, resentful youth spurred on by “religious leaders” who see this as part of their jihad against the West. As they have time and again in their history, however, the Danes are showing they won’t roll over.

  3. Anthony (Los Angeles) says

    February 15, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    BTW, the link to the article about the rioting (under the photo) goes nowhere.

  4. Webutante says

    February 15, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    Isn’t it all part of the same combination, Fauta, of a very slippery slope of multicultualism coupled with the perfect storm of the rising birth rate of Islamic extremists in countries they wish to subdue?

    We better be paying attention here. And if barack is elected, God forbid, we’ll only go down that slope further.

  5. Fausta says

    February 15, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    Link corrected, with my apologies for the inconvenience

  6. Jeremayakovka says

    February 15, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    Thank you, Fausta, for inviting a little discussion!

    Without direct lived or investigative understandings of contemporary Europe or Denmark, I tend toward the “combined slippery slope.”

    If these were ethnic immigrants without a potentially unifying religious background, there would still be significant demographic problems to face: their ethnic or racial identity vs. Danish one, Danish national confidence, diminished Christianity in the region.

    * * *

    One thing I would stress to American consumers of this news: these riots, property destruction, and threats to life entail going after other people’s lives and property on other people’s turf. (This includes government property btw – I still have a pic of the charred remains of some French city’s bus fleet from a couple of years ago.)

    Pardon the simplification, but I think this is important to stress: American race riots (by blacks, that is) have resulted in the destruction of property and lives in black neighborhoods almost exclusively. So it’s important to not passively allow comparisons to American racial issues. Besides, Europeans never held Muslims in bondage – no “reparations” grievance applies here.

    OTOH, militant-minded blacks already embrace, if only through osmosis, Islam and jihad – to fuel the fiery fantasy of rebellion, getting back at “Whitey,” etc.

    Jihad, “ghetto Islam,” etc. are volatile when mixed with other contemporary conditions.

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