Ahmed Akkari, one of the Danish Muslim clerics responsible for instigating the "The Battle of Khartoon" earlier this year, recently suggested murdering a moderate Muslim leader in Denmark. He was quoted in Arabic:
"If [Naser Khader] becomes the Minister of Foreigners or Integration, why don’t we send out two guys to blow up him and his ministry?"
When he heard the news, Akkari gave a little smile and replied: Oh yeah? Prove it.
Well, Ahmed, you’re busted. Turns out you were being secretly taped in an automobile when you said it. The tape’ll soon be part of a French documentary.
Akkari’s reaction to the news? Backpedallin’ time!
"If they think I have said that, then I must have been jesting.
[…]
You also need to understand, from the context, that I wasn’t being serious because I usually don’t say stuff like that – not even in jest. But sometimes things happen."
So your excuse is that you were just joking? About what? About whether the moderate would actually GET a cabinet post? Or about whether you would only need TWO of your terrorist buddies to blow up the building?
As you might guess, Danish journalists could just SMELL the blood in the water:
Interviewer: Do you understand that it might be hard for Danes to accept that it’s not okay to make caricatures of Muhammed, but that it’s okay to threaten – in jest – to kill a Danish politician? (emphasis added)
Akkari: That’s a wrong conclusion and comparison to make of this.
Interviewer: Isn’t it very natural? You’ve been very angry, very offended that your prophet has been offended, but now you’ve – in jest – threatened to kill a politician.
There’s more, but you get the idea. Word is that the Danish "Islamic Faith Community" organization is now looking for a new spokesman.
Y’know, if members of the Religion of Peace™ need spokesmen, they really ought to start rejecting job applications from Imams who’ve lost their jobs as student teachers because they pinned 4th grade pupils to the ground and beat them until their faces were bloody.
But, they know their business…
Unfortunately, this sort of stuff from Muslim leaders is all too common. Even Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Iraq, regarded as a moderate voice of reason in the West, was recently caught saying one thing in English on his website and another in Arabic, the latter much more radical (I read this on National Review).
The question is whether Europe will wake up. The murder of Theo van Gogh, the riots in France, and the “Cartoon Jihad” should have been enough.
As I see it the problems are
1) Europeans (I of course speak generally) have nothing to believe in. They’ve abandoned Christianity and nationalism. The leftie trio of multiculturalism, diversity and tolerance are all they’ve got left, and these work in favor of the radical Muslims.
2) Immigrants are not assimilated in Europe as they are in the United States. We’ve got a tradition of a “melting pot”, “salad bowl” or whatever you want to call it. Europeans keep their newcomers separate(I speak generally, of course there are exceptions) with the result that the immigrants radicalize and the natives don’t try and understand them.
Sorry for being so pessimistic, but there it is.
I also think that Europeans are hampered by their elite’s utopian views regarding the use of force. A few firm words explaining that the government will persue treason charges against the treasonous would be of great value. Having the option of a death penalty as an ultimate deterrent would also help.
Bland statements about passively “letting the law decide” give the impression of weakness to everyone. Legislators need to step up to the plate and announce that if this stuff isn’t found to be criminal, the laws will be changed to make it so in the future. Because while I fear Europe’s surrender to Islamofascism, I’m also afraid of the possibility that European neofascists could someday be catapulted into power due to public disatisfaction with the limp-wristed response of the moderates.
As George Will once wrote regarding German neo-Nazi skinheads: Who would have thought that a half-century after Berlin was left in ruins, that communism would be dead and fascism would have a future?