Here's the latest development in Denmark.
Remember that all the brouhaha about the "offensive" cartoons a while ago was essentially engineered by a group of Danish muslim religious leaders (imams), who went around the middle east, showing much more offensive faked cartoons and claiming stuff like that was published in Danish newspapers all the time, and generally lying to the world about how mean Denmark is to the muslim immigrants (who are in reality given everything they could ever want, in the wonderful social welfare paradise that Denmark is).
However, it is very important to remember that these imams do NOT represent all muslims in Denmark, and of the roughly 200,000 muslims, they may only have strong support from about 10% of those. In fact, one of the loudest critics of these muslim imams and their attempts to generate hatred for Denmark, and undermine freedom of expression, is a muslim member of parliament, called
Naser Khader. He has been very outspoken on the cartoon issue, saying the the suggestion that Denmark had anything to apologize for was "ridiculous" and compared the attacks on Denmark to people blaming a rape victim for having been raped because she wore a short skirt.
Of course he has received many death threats from extremist muslims, and is under close protection by the police intelligence unit (which are very hardcore). But he is widely respected in Denmark as a reasonable and honorable politician (if such a thing is even possible
), and a lot of regular Danes really like him.
The LATEST development is a French documentary, where a journalist managed to anonymously get to know some of these imams while they were visiting, and secretly taped (hidden cameras) conversations with them. The journalist, Mohamed Sifaoui, said that he was just observing them (during a car ride) and did not ask questions or participate in the discussion.
Here is one excerpt from one of the conversations between two danish imams (Ahmed Akkari and Raed Hlayhel), where they are discussing the possibility that Naser Khader might become minister of integration (the Danish government agency that oversees the integration of immigrants into Danish society). These are two very close associates of the one of the leading imams in Denmark, Abu Laban - who was traveling with these two, but riding in another car.
Akkari: If Naser Khader one day becomes Minister of Integration, maybe we should send a couple of guys over and blow him and the ministry up.Holy fucking crap!!
I am so furious at these kinds of assholes, it's impossible to put into words. I SO hope that the legal system and the police intelligence service crawl so far up his ass that they can look out his nostrils.
Hopefully, he'll be charged with a crime. But since these assholes are Danish citizens, it's not clear that they can be expelled back to the shitholes they came from.
Naser Khader is apparently considering leaving politics after this latest threat. Nice.