"Moderate" Arab Country Planning Act of War to Suppress Danish Free Speech
Translated from the Danish Jyllands-Posten and reproduced at Gates of Vienna:
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/05/islamic-injustice.html#readfurther
comes this report that a leading prosecutor in Jordan is planning to try the Danish editors in absentia for the "crime" of free speech against Mohammed (on the cartoon issue). They intend to ask Interpol to aid in their capture and extradition:
A leading prosecutor in a Middle Eastern state is preparing a case which has as its goal to convict 10 or 11 Danish editors.
The plan, in his exotic brain, is that the Danish editors shall be arrested by Interpol, turned over to the Middle Eastern state, and suffer the punishment which has been decided by the Islamic court of law.
First: this is an act of war. Jordan is attempting to enforce its own laws on Danish soil. What is more, Jordan is attempting to enforce laws which violate basic Danish civil rights.
Secondly, Denmark will probably not make, nor would her NATO allies (including, sadly, America) respond to a request to defend Denmark against this act of aggression. Let's not even consider that joke of an organization known as the European Union.
Thirdly, of course, Denmark and Jordan are both too weak to war directly on one another at such a distance, and the practical effect of this will be that these editors must now live in fear of being kidnapped or murdered by Jordanian agents. So the attempt will have its desired effect: it will deter other people living in minor Powers from criticizing Islam.
Now, why is Jordan doing this fairly extreme thing? Why do they think that they can get away with this?
Because, as Zenster points out in the comments on the Gates of Vienna post ...
TOO LATE! Iran already sponsored-with a $2.5 MILLION bounty-the terrorist assassination of Salman Rushdie. This Jordanian keruffle is just another cowchip off of the same old Islamic dungheap.
Iran did this -- a direct act of war against the British, and one which led to at least one serious arson in New York City (the Riverdale Free Press offices) and several murders in other countries -- and no country raised a hand against her. And Salman Rushdie is still living in hiding. The Jordanians are, quite rationally, deciding that what worked for Iran might work for them too.
I hope that America will respond with some sort of cutoff or at least reduction of aid to Jordan, but I doubt it.
When will the West act to take back its freedoms?
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/05/islamic-injustice.html#readfurther
comes this report that a leading prosecutor in Jordan is planning to try the Danish editors in absentia for the "crime" of free speech against Mohammed (on the cartoon issue). They intend to ask Interpol to aid in their capture and extradition:
A leading prosecutor in a Middle Eastern state is preparing a case which has as its goal to convict 10 or 11 Danish editors.
The plan, in his exotic brain, is that the Danish editors shall be arrested by Interpol, turned over to the Middle Eastern state, and suffer the punishment which has been decided by the Islamic court of law.
First: this is an act of war. Jordan is attempting to enforce its own laws on Danish soil. What is more, Jordan is attempting to enforce laws which violate basic Danish civil rights.
Secondly, Denmark will probably not make, nor would her NATO allies (including, sadly, America) respond to a request to defend Denmark against this act of aggression. Let's not even consider that joke of an organization known as the European Union.
Thirdly, of course, Denmark and Jordan are both too weak to war directly on one another at such a distance, and the practical effect of this will be that these editors must now live in fear of being kidnapped or murdered by Jordanian agents. So the attempt will have its desired effect: it will deter other people living in minor Powers from criticizing Islam.
Now, why is Jordan doing this fairly extreme thing? Why do they think that they can get away with this?
Because, as Zenster points out in the comments on the Gates of Vienna post ...
TOO LATE! Iran already sponsored-with a $2.5 MILLION bounty-the terrorist assassination of Salman Rushdie. This Jordanian keruffle is just another cowchip off of the same old Islamic dungheap.
Iran did this -- a direct act of war against the British, and one which led to at least one serious arson in New York City (the Riverdale Free Press offices) and several murders in other countries -- and no country raised a hand against her. And Salman Rushdie is still living in hiding. The Jordanians are, quite rationally, deciding that what worked for Iran might work for them too.
I hope that America will respond with some sort of cutoff or at least reduction of aid to Jordan, but I doubt it.
When will the West act to take back its freedoms?