Hitchens avrättar vänstern och relativisterna februari 22, 2006
Posted by Sebastian Weil in Islam, Uncategorized.trackback
Christopher Hitchens har ett svavelosande inlägg på Slate där han under titeln Stand up for Denmark! avrättar allt vad islamister och relativister heter.
Det går knappat att återge vad han skriver (eftersom det är så mycket) men han går hårt åt dem som verkar ha problem att stå upp för yttrandefriheten och verkar tycka att man får säga vissa saker men inte andra.
But my attachment to free speech is at least absolute and consistent. Those who incite murder and arson, or who silkily justify it, are incapable of rising above the childish glee that culminates in the assertion that two wrongs make a right.
Hitchens fortsätter:
Not until, at the very least, churches and synagogues and free-thought libraries are permitted in every country whose ambassador has bullied the Danes. If we have to accept this sickly babble about “respect,” we must at least demand that it is fully reciprocal.
And there remains the question of Denmark: a small democracy, which resisted Hitler bravely and protected its Jews as well as itself. Denmark is a fellow member of NATO and a country that sends its soldiers to help in the defense and reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. And what is its reward from Washington? Not a word of solidarity, but instead some creepy words of apology to those who have attacked its freedom, its trade, its citizens, and its embassies.
“And there remains the question of Denmark: a small democracy, which resisted Hitler bravely and protected its Jews as well as itself.”
En kommentar bara: Hitchens borde nog läsa på lite om andra världskriget. Den danska armén slogs inte mot tyskarna utan kapitulerade direkt till skillnad från den norska armén (som i stort sett utrotade den tyska jagarflottan). Inte fanns det någon större motståndsrörelse i Danmark heller, vilket torde bero på att danskarna fick, i jämförelse med öststaterna, gulli-gullbehandling av tyskarna.