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DANISH GAINS
A note of cheer to all those Slate readers who either attended the Solidarity With Denmark rally, or sent encouragement, or rallied round to buy Danish goods. I have today received a note from one of the Copenhagen editors who published the original cartoons, informing me that in the last quarter, Danish exports to the United States have increased by 17 percent and that, overall, the Danish economy has more than compensated for the results of the unjustified Muslim boycott. Let us keep this example in mind.
Via Jim Nolan. More—thanks to Tom Pechinski—on current Danish attitudes here.
UPDATE. More from Hitch.
I should thank the Islamo-fascists. Without their ridiculous rampaging windbaggedness, I never would have discovered the joy of Lurpak butter.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 06 13 at 12:39 PM • permalinkCNN is reporting that the recent Gaza beach bombing that killed a Palestinian family was not caused by an errant Israeli missile, but rather a landmine planted by Palestinian militants. CNN reports:
An explosion on a Gaza beach that killed seven people last week was caused by explosives planted there by Palestinian militants, not artillery fire from an Israeli navy gunboat, Israeli military sources said.
The liberal media (a.k.a.The New York Times) and many historically anti-Israel countries such as France and Russia have harshly condemned Israel. Hamas has used the false accusations to rallying the Palestinian people back into a bloody war against Israel.
It’s a real pleasure to learn that Denmark hasn’t suffered export setbacks.
Even in Karachi, where I live at the moment, supermarkets that initially banned Danish cheeses and Lurpak butter very quickly learned that they were loosing a lot of business. They are such hypocrits, aren’t they?
Unfortunately Pakistan has censored all blogspot sites - and quite a lot of on-line newspapers that published the cartoons.
They missed you site though, Tim..lol
#7 And the irony is that CNN, just after reporting that the Palis were responsible for the beach deaths (and without an apology from CNN for getting it wrong), then went onto report that the Palis were claiming that ambulance workers were wounded by a 2nd IDF strike at the same site as the one that killed the Pali rocket expert and his buddies in a van shortly before.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 06 13 at 01:56 PM • permalinkRe #7, I guess the Palis never of land mine signs. Assuming that they can read, I mean. Or care about protecting their own people.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 06 13 at 02:52 PM • permalink“I have today received a note from one of the Copenhagen editors who published the original cartoons, informing me that in the last quarter, Danish exports to the United States have increased by 17 percent and that, overall, the Danish economy has more than compensated for the results of the unjustified Muslim boycott.”
Is this just too funny or what? Maybe we should line up to ask muslims to boycott us….please…..me next
I was out shopping the other day and noticed that Lurpak butter has a decent position on the shelves where I’d never seen it before.
Since today is shopping day, and butter is on the list, looks like Lurpak!
(That was in a Safeway supermarket!)
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 06 13 at 06:09 PM • permalink#20 Phillip,
Lego does indeed rock!, Iv’e been collecting it for about thirty years now and I am never going to stop. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to play with my TIE fighter( or maybe my vikings, the agony of choice!).Posted by Daniel San on 2006 06 13 at 07:42 PM • permalinkI cannot believe that Hitchens is still beating this poor, dead horse. Hitchens takes data, and then spins it to coincide with his fanciful beliefs. Hitchens’ portrayal of Saddam as a jihadist is absurd, while the allegation that al-Zarqawi belonged to al-Qaeda before 2004 is simply false.
Hitchens correctly formulates a response to his own statement: Zarqawi wouldn’t have been in Iraq at all if not for the US invasion of Iraq. Unfortunately, but characteristically, Hitchens provides his own misleading response, which is that al-Zarqawi was in Iraq before the war. Partially true, however, he was in Kurdistan and the bordering area of Iran, beyond the reach of Hussein. He only began operating outside of the Ansar al-Islam camp after the war. In fact, a final riposte would be to point out that the White House rejected proposed attacks on al-Zarqawi’s Ansar al-Islam camp in Khurmal, northern Kurdistan on 3 separate occasions before the war began.
In this month’s Atlantic Magazine article about al-Zarqawi, a former high-level Jordanian intelligence official is quoted as stating: “We know Zarqawi better than he knows himself…And I can assure you that he never had any links to Saddam. Iran is quite a different matter. The Iranians had a policy: they want to control Iraq. And part of this policy has been to support Zarqawi tactically, but not strategically.”
One of the problems with Hitchens is that he takes the same old canards and simply recycles them practically every week.
#26 Addamo
-“the allegation that al-Zarqawi belonged to al-Qaeda before 2004 is simply false.”
(1) In 1989, Zarqawi travelled to Afghanistan to join the insurgency against the Soviet invasion, but the Soviets were already leaving by the time he arrived. It is thought that he met and befriended Osama bin Laden while there.
(2) Jordanian and European intelligence agencies claim that Zarqawi formed the group Jund al-Sham in 1999 with $200,000 of start up money from Osama bin Laden.
(3) In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.
Addamo - “al-Zarqawi was in Iraq before the war. Partially true, however, he was in Kurdistan and the bordering area of Iran, beyond the reach of Hussein.”
(1) From ‘Khaleej Times’(19 May 2005):“The regime of Saddam Hussain rejected repeated requests from Jordan to hand over Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who now heads Al Qaeda in Iraq, the Jordanian king said in an interview published on Thursday.
King Abdullah II told the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat that Jordan exerted “big efforts” with Saddam’s government to extradite al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian sentenced to death at home for terrorist activities.
“But our demands that the former regime hand him over were in vain,” Abdullah said.
“We had information that he entered Iraq from a neighboring country, where he lived and what he was doing. We informed the Iraqi authorities about all this detailed information we had, but they didn’t respond,” the king said.”
That Saddam was playing footsie with Islamonuts, particularly of the Sunni Arab variety, is apparent and growing more so.
Addamo - “the White House rejected proposed attacks on al-Zarqawi’s Ansar al-Islam camp in Khurmal, northern Kurdistan on 3 separate occasions before the war began.”
(1) Former CIA official Michael Scheuer told reporters that the Bush Administration “had Mr. Zarqawi in his sights for almost every day for a year before the invasion of Iraq and he didn’t shoot because they were wining and dining the French in an effort to get them to assist us in the invasion of Iraq.”
Now on two counts, that WAS a mistake.
Addamo - ” ‘The Iranians had a policy: they want to control Iraq. And part of this policy has been to support Zarqawi tactically, but not strategically.’”
I find it difficult to believe that the late child molester was trucking with the hated Shiites - Iranian or otherwise. A day before Zarqawi was killed, a U.S. strategic analysis site suggested that Zarqawi could have lost the trust of al-Qaeda due to his emphatic anti-Shia stance and the massacres of civilians allegedly committed in his name.
I have lifted some of this from a well-sourced Wikipedia article - disputed, of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Zarqawi#_note-molestationOh, and I didn’t make it to Safeway today so I shopped at Coles. In the dairy section, there was no Lurpak, but there were two new brands that were labelled: Danish Style butter.
I laughed hard at that one, and you’ve got to give points to the opportunists out there. God bless capitalism.
I didn’t buy either of them, however. I don’t know either of the producers, even if they are Australian based. Will have to grab some Lurpak after.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 06 14 at 04:40 AM • permalinkThe answer to islamic fascism is to empower Evangelical Christian Africa. Black Africa will do the rest.
Posted by Astonished on 2006 06 14 at 05:50 AM • permalinkAddamo,
There are lots of other links between Saddam and Al Quada as well. For instance Mohammed Atta’s meetings with the Iraqi Secret Police in Prague.
Go ahead, post chapter and verse how the meetings never took place. Puhleeze. I will happily rip your arguments to shreds.
The idea that a secular state would never ally with jihadis is just that, an idea. It proves nothing, and there are plenty of counter-examples of alliances between people whose interests allign only temporarily.
Stalin allied with both Hitler and Roosevelt. He figured that he would slit their throats, and ours, later. To assert a negative, “a secular state would never ally with jihadists”, is to make an argument that will not withstand a counterexample.
“The FBI has gathered evidence indicating that Atta was in Virginia
Beach on April 4 (as evidenced by a bank surveillance camera photo),
and in Coral Springs, Florida on April 11, where he and Shehhi leased
an apartment.On April 6, 9, 10, and 11,Atta’s cellular telephone was used
numerous times to call various lodging establishments in Florida from
cell sites within Florida.We cannot confirm that he placed those calls.
But there are no U.S. records indicating that Atta departed the country
during this period. Czech officials have reviewed their flight and bor=
der records as well for any indication that Atta was in the Czech Repub=
lic in April 2001, including records of anyone crossing the border who
even looked Arab.They have also reviewed pictures from the area near
the Iraqi embassy and have not discovered photos of anyone who looked
like Atta.”So they concluded the meetings never took place because Atta did not enter the country traveling under his own name, and he didn’t meet with the Iraqis at their embassy.
The Czech official who claims that Attah was not there says “Why would he not travel under his own name, since he had not yet commited a crime?”
One reason might be to cover involvement of the Iraqis in an operation where a heave military reaction by the US was likely to materialize.
“Hitchens’ portrayal of Saddam as a jihadist is absurd,” So Saddam could never ally with Al Quaeda, because Al Quaeda is not secular, and Saddam is, if I follow his logic.
But he has no problem allying Zarqawi, who, if known for anything, is known for his hatred of the Shia, and with a strategy of brutal murder of Shia, and destruction of Shia holy sites, with Shia Iran.
“Iran is quite a different matter”
So which is it Adamo?
moptop, right
When scum have common enemies, why should they suddenly become particular? There’s always the idea that the partner of convenience can be kept on ice until the proper time. Think of Hitler and Stalin.
On my earlier comment that Z Man was perhaps not a child molester, I meant that rather than ‘touching’ them, he preferred to kill them. So that’s not bad then…
God, how can you touch bottom with these specimens?
Love this from Hitch:
“Furthermore, the Zarqawi elements appear [before the war] to have found it their duty to join with the Ansar al-Islam splinter group in Kurdistan, which for some reason thought it was the highest calling of jihad to murder Saddam’s main Kurdish enemies. But perhaps I have a suspicious mind.”
RebeccaH
How could they have been happy? He was into Bach; she dug Wham. Always out of the house, she felt, somehow, that he was up to no good. Then, with the progress of her adolescence, his eyes began to wander.
Seriously, I feel very sorry for this poor girl and her child. God knows how little choice she had in the matter.
Islamopsychos are now killing themselves in Gitmo to stoke condemnation from western leftoids.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19472055-7583,00.html
Regrettably, they were not able to take others with them when they died. Merely a part of the regime of deprivation and torture being practised at Gitmo. Among so much else they are deprived of their right to asymmetrical political expression. Amnesty International must request relief supplies of suicide belts.
’Canard’ also happens to be French for ‘duck.’
French Canardian?
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Maybe this explains the turnaround too:
http://tinyurl.com/gtq2o
War toys rule!