"Gert Medom" <Gert.medom (slet dette)@stofanet.dk> skrev i en meddelelse
news:43e1e95c$0$12401$ba624c82@nntp02.dk.telia.net...
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> "Peter K. Nielsen" <nixen@bixen.dk> skrev i en meddelelse
> news:43e1d907$0$2434$edfadb0f@dread14.news.tele.dk...
>> Hvad pokker er det der foregår i verden lige nu? Alle kan kun tale om
> nogle
>> landes boycut af Danmark (og formentlig nu også udviddet til flere
>> Europæiske lande)
>>
>> Er vi da alle gået fuldstændig fra forstanden, og har lagt
> proportionssansen
>> i skraldespanden?
>>
>> En flok lande der er kendetegnet ved dikatur, og manglende ytringfrihed,
>> hidser sig op over noget som en fri presse bringer. SO WHAT?
>
> Det handler om at Penge lugter ikke! De saudiske oliepenge er ligeså gode
> i
> et regnskab som penge fra demokratiske lande.
>>
>> Det eneste der undrer mig i denne sag er: hvor pokker er verdens førende
>> nation når det gælder om at kæmpe for demokrati og ytringsfrihed henne??
>> Det eneste JEG har hørt fra USA er fordømmelse af Jyllands-Posten. Jo
>> hykleriet er uden ende fra den kant.
>
> USA har baser og soldater i Saudi arabien, hvis konge familie er venligt
> stemt overfor USA. Det lægger bånd på hvor meget USA kan tillade sig at
> sige. Hvis det handlede om menneske rettigheder og højere idealer, var der
> en del af de kongedømmer på den arabiske halvø, hvor man kunne invadere og
> fjerne styret..
Der er sikkert også en anden grund. Bush har hele tiden gentaget det mantra,
at islam er en fredens religion.
Washington ønsker tydeligvis ikke at blive
associeret med memet om, at islam er årsagen til problemerne i Mellemøsten.
I en tale den 6. oktober 2005 til National Endowment for the Arts anerkender
præsident Bush dog faren for islamisk radikalisme og nævner mordet på Theo
van Gogh.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/06/bush.transcript/
In a courtroom in the Netherlands, the killer of Theo van Gogh turned to the
victim's grieving mother and said, "I do not feel your pain because I
believe
you are an infidel."
And in spite of this veneer of religious rhetoric, most of the victims
claimed by the militants are fellow Muslims.
When 25 Iraqi children are killed in a bombing or Iraqi teachers are
executed at their school or hospital workers are killed caring for the
wounded, this
is murder, pure and simple; the total rejection of justice and honor and
moral and religion.
These militants are not just the enemies of America or the enemies of Iraq,
they are the enemies of Islam and the enemies of humanity.
We have seen this kind of shameless cruelty before, in the heartless
zealotry that led to the gulags and the Cultural Revolution and the killing
fields.
Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy pursues totalitarian aims. Its
leaders pretend to be in an aggrieved party, representing the powerless
against
imperial enemies.
In truth, they have endless ambitions of imperial domination, and they wish
to make everyone powerless except themselves.
Under their rule, they have banned books and desecrated historical monuments
and brutalized women.
They seek to end dissent in every form and to control every aspect of life
and to rule the soul itself.
While promising a future of justice and holiness, the terrorists are
preparing for a future of oppression and misery.
Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy is dismissive of free peoples,
claiming that men and women who live in liberty are weak and decadent.
Zarqawi has said that Americans are, quote, "the most cowardly of God's
creatures," but let's be clear: It is cowardice that seeks to kill children
and
the elderly with car bombs and cuts the throat of a bound captive and
targets worshippers leaving a mosque.
It is courage that liberated more than 50 million people. It is courage that
keeps an untiring vigil against the enemies of a rising democracy. And it is
courage and the cause of freedom that once again will destroy the enemies of
freedom.
And Islamic radicalism, like the ideology of communism, contains inherent
contradictions that doom it to failure.
By fearing freedom, by distrusting human creativity and punishing change and
limiting the contributions of half the population, this ideology undermines
the very qualities that make human progress possible and human society
successful.
The only thing modern about the militants' vision is the weapons they want
to use against us. The rest of their grim vision is defined by a warped
image
of the past, a declaration of war on the idea of progress itself.
And whatever lies ahead in the war against this ideology, the outcome is not
in doubt: Those who despise freedom and progress have condemned themselves
to isolation decline and collapse.
Because free peoples believe in the future, free peoples will own the
future.
We didn't ask for this global struggle, but we're answering history's call
with confidence and a comprehensive strategy.
Defeating a broad and adaptive network requires patience, constant pressure,
and strong partners in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and
beyond.
Working with these partners, we're disrupting militant conspiracies,
destroying their ability to make war, and working to give millions in a
troubled region
of the world a hopeful alternative to resentment and violence.
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