Hönster. En vänster som är en höger som är en hönster. Läs Lars Hedegaards artikel om attentatet

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Lars Hedegaard skriver i Wall Street Journal:

"For years I have been a campaigner for free speech—since 2004 as president of Denmark's Free Press Society. I have been an outspoken critic of Islamic supremacism and of attempts to impose Islamic Shariah law in Denmark and the West. Together with my Swedish colleague Ingrid Carlqvist, I have recently launched a Swedish-language weekly newspaper called Dispatch International—to the great dissatisfaction of the Swedish mainstream media, which are probably the most politically correct in the Western world and are in absolute agreement on every issue of any consequence.

Dispatch International is critical of mass immigration to Sweden and Denmark from third-world countries and takes a dim view of Islam. As a consequence, we have been reviled as "racist." We are not. We simply insist on our right to defend freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and individual and sexual equality. We also insist on our right to criticize religious fanatics of every stripe who try to impose theocratic laws and customs on free societies.

When I was a young Marxist during the 1960s and '70s, these opinions used to be described as characteristic of the political left. Nowadays the defenders of such positions are routinely labeled as right-wing or as belonging to the "extreme right." Meanwhile, what used to be the left is cozying up to holy men who want adulterous women to be stoned, homosexuals to be hanged, apostates from Islam to be killed, and 1,200-year-old laws emanating from somewhere in the Arabian desert to replace our free constitutions.

In my home country of Denmark, the reaction to the failed murder has mainly been one of horror. Nearly all leading politicians and media have condemned it. To be sure, some newspapers have availed themselves of this opportunity to emphasize what a despicable racist I am, but at least they express their satisfaction that I'm not dead.

Not so in Sweden, where I work most of the time. The Swedish media have either hinted that I have invented the incident in order to set myself up as a martyr—which would have required a major conspiracy involving the Danish police and Security Service—or they seem disappointed that my delivery man was not a better marksman."

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En intressant dansk artikel vill jag också rekommendera. Den anknyter till frågan om det personliga modet idag, är skriven av en folketingsledamot från Vestjylland och publicerad i tidningen Al om Herning under rubriken Fra Kaj Munk til Lars Hedegaard:

"Når jeg som barn hørte mine bedsteforældre fortælle historier om modstandsbevægelsens aktiviteter under 2. Verdenskrig, tænkte jeg ofte, om jeg ville have haft modet til at kæmpe for Danmarks frihed med livet som indsats. Det samme har jeg siden tænkt på, når jeg har læst om Kaj Munks indsats, eller når jeg har set film som Hvidstengruppen eller Flammen og Citronen.

Attentatet mod Lars Hedegaard i den forgangne uge aktualiserede tanken om mit eget mod! Hvor meget tør jeg sige som politiker og debattør i kampen for frihed, hvis jeg ved, at der er en risiko for, at jeg en dag har en formummet islamist stående med en pistol uden for min hoveddør?

Langt de fleste ved, at den politiske islamisme er blandt de væsentligste årsager til terror i verden samt til angreb på vestlige frihedsrettigheder også i Danmark. Det er jo ikke almindelige københavnere, som udgør en trussel mod jøder i Københavns gader. Det er heller ikke almindelige Frederiksberg-borgere, som iklæder sig en rød postjakke og opsøger islamkritiske debattører som Lars Hedegaard for at skyde ham. Endeligt er det ikke almindelige RingkøbingSkjern-borgere, som PET holder under opsyn, når der dannes frie skole eller foreninger af den ene eller anden karakter hos os."