Nothing happens for decades, decades happen in a day.
I am in receipt of an email from a man who fled Sweden. YOU MUST READ IT. I deleted his
last name, everthing else is unedited. Please read it all.
Subject line: A beacon in the twilight of civilization
I like your blog. It is refreshingly free of compromise and
attempts to tell both sides of every issue. I share your values all the way,
and I am especially appreciative of your support for Israel.
Where I come from, Sweden, being a Jew is almost like trying to be
anything except a muslim in the nexus of islamo-fascism. Jewish students are
assaulted on a regular basis in schools, and even Jewish teachers are
bullied by students without any reaction from school administrators.
Jewish students in public schools use code words when talking about, e.g.,
bar mitzvah or going to the synagogue. They try to use Swedish family
names instead of their Jewish names, and they certainly try to avoid
wearing religious symbols in public.
Anti-semitic violence is at an all time high. Last winter an anti-racist
rally in Stockholm, organized by leftist groups and muslim organizations,
culminated with a raging assault on a small group of Jewish teenagers.
Other anti-racist events have been held on the same day as Jews commemorate
the victims of the Kristallnacht, but the organizers have purposely
chosen to locate their events as far away as possible from the Jewish
commemoration ceremony. The Swedish supreme court has even ruled that it is
not racism if a muslim speaks in defamation of Jews, but it is racism if
a native Swede does it.
Islamo-fascism is spreading like bonfire among muslims in Scandinavia. I
have tons of anecdotes to tell about this.
I came to America three years ago, much because I wanted to give
something back to the country that has stood so relentlessly by Europe's
side against totalitarianism. Today, many Europeans have turned their
back on America, and more do it every day. Some are scared by the onslaught
from islamo-fascism, but they still try to find a reason to blame America
for it. It is a sad thing to witness, and it infuriates me at the same
time because Europe was the cradle of modern, Western civilization. Today,
it seems almost as if Europe is going to become the grave of that same
civilization.
It was not easy to come here, though. As a conservative college professor
I soon realized that I had left the lion's den only be hurled into the snake
pit instead. I taught for three years at Skidmore, a small liberal arts
college here in upstate NY that does its best to put two meanings into
"liberal". It's a long story that I won't bore you with now. Suffice it
to say that I soon discovered that the venom that is slowly killing free
society in Europe is also being injected into America, little by little, day
by day.
Postmodern collectivism opens the door for totalitarianism and tyranny.
It is the greatest threat to free society. It must be stopped. You are doing
a great job at it with your blog. Keep it up!
/Sven
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." Ronald
Reagan
» A familiar pattern from Exit Zero
Pamela of Atlas Shrugs has published an email she received from Sweden:
..Where I come from, Sweden, being a Jew is almost like
trying to be... [Read More]
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» A familiar pattern from Dean's World
Pamela of Atlas Shrugs has published an email she received from a Swede:
..Where I come from, Sweden, being a Jew is almost l... [Read More]
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» A beacon in the twilight of civilization from Gegenstimme
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I couldn't agree more with Sven. There is definetly alot of anti-semitism in sweden and I myself am affraid to tell other students at school about me being jewish. It´s really sad that anti-semitism has become accepted in the swedish society and I think that the issue is just growing worse. Therefore I have accepted that there is nothing I can do about it rather than living as an outcast, after I finish school I will hopefully get a chance to move to the US and I really hope that the Americans won´t be as intolerant, uninformed and full of prejudice as most Swedes are.
Europe is sinking in the sewer of dhimmitude. Muslims are protected from all forms of discrimination, then allowed to attack anything that offends them. The barbarians are within the gates and are demolishing the structure. The residents are sleeping a drugged sleep and wish not to be disturbed.
"Senator Kennedy killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head
and pulled the trigger" - George Killen ~ State Police Detective-Lieutenant
Senator Robert Byrd
This ex-Klansman wasn't just a passive member of the nation's most notorious hate group.
He wrote: "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state in the Union."
The ex-Klansman later filibustered the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act - He also opposed the nominations of the Supreme Court's two black justices, liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas. In fact, the ex-Klansman had the gall to accuse Justice Thomas of "injecting racism" into the Senate hearings.
The ex-Klansman vowed never to fight "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
Senator John Kerry
The North Vietnamese general in charge of the military campaign that finally drove the U.S. out of South Vietnam credited a group led by John Kerry with helping him achieve victory.
Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap wrote that if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S.
Bill Clinton
Pardoning terrorists, discussing troop movements while being pleasured by an intern, running an obstruction-of-justice operation out of the Oval Office and suborning and committing perjury.........
In acts of official perfidy that may be unparalleled in our nation’s history, Clinton accepted bribes from Red China in the form of illegal political contributions, and in exchange made policy decisions that undermined our national security.
• The Red Chinese military (the so-called People’s Liberation Army, or PLA) is now able to deploy much more accurate nuclear-armed missiles pointed at the United States, in large measure because of policy decisions by President Clinton
• President Clinton signed national security waivers to allow four U.S. commercial satellites to be launched in China, despite evidence that China was exporting nuclear and missile technology to Pakistan and Iran.
"How did it come about that highly sensitive technical information was given to the Chinese? Why did the president ignore the national security experts who counseled against this deal? What damage has been done to our national security?" Goss asked.
Clinton's terror failures are too numerous and damaging to recount here but Bill Clinton was the quintessential dhimmi. He allowed AL QAEDA CELLS - INCLUDING THE 9/11 CELL to OPERATE IN THE USA ignored the World Trade Center bombings of '93, ignored the Cole, the embassy bombings and handed Israel over to the most barbaric terrorist of the late twentieth century, Yassar Arafat.
and that's just for starters...........Clinton-era policies ignored Able Danger (Mohammed Atta et al)
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This influence is Ginormous. It's the media elites, the alphabets, the LLL, Hollywood, to quote Ike - instead of the the "Military Industrial Complex", the real enemy is "the Media/Entertainment Industrial Complex".
Plagiarist. He plagiarized somebody else's life story, claiming it as his own. He plagiarized a speech from British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. A barrage of revelations by the press contributed to Biden's withdrawal from a presidential race: a serious plagiarism incident involving Biden during his law school years; the senator's boastful exaggerations of his academic record at a New Hampshire campaign event; and the discovery of other quotations in Biden's speeches pilfered from past Democratic politicians.
The Carter White House during the disasters of the Sandinista takeover of Nicaragua, the energy crisis and stagflation, the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis, and the invasion of Afghanistan. Not backing the Shah of Iran in 1979, our close ally in the Middle East, resulted in the take over by Radical Islamic Fundamentalist Ayatollah Khomeini which brings us to where we are today with Iran.
Time magazine columnist wrote that some of Carter's "Lone Ranger work has taken him dangerously close to the neighborhood of what we used to call treason"
Carter befriended North Korea during the Clinton administration, appeasing the communist regime and giving it cover for its nuclear weapons program
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, two leftwing cub/pitbull reporters at the Wahington Post, intent on bringing down President Nixon.
And they did. After being exposed for covering for his people (not guilty of the break in mind you), Nixon resigned. Imagine if Nixon had been a democrat. Would that ever have happened? The shenanigans of Democrat Presidents going back to JFK's stolen election are wildly known (don't even get me started on Bill).
What made this left wing assault on America so damaging is the subsequent road America went down. Had it not been for Watergate, America- leery and distrusting of the GOP after Nixon's resignation - would never have elected a Democrat, an unknown peanut farmer to the office of the President. A man so out of his league, a man so incapable of the office of the President, that we are still suffering from his ineptitude.
Imagine if Reagan had been President when the leader of one of our greatest allies in the Middle East, Iran, called upon the President for help. Imagine the course of history, if you will, if we had backed the Shah of Iran.
Imagine what a different world this would be.
According to many Iranians, Carter practically pushed out the Shah and gave Iran to the Ayatollah Khomeini (much the way he relinguished control of the Panama Canal).
In a treatise titled, "Some People Push Back," written after the attacks, Churchill asserted the 3,000 people killed at the World Trade Center worked for "the mighty engine of profit" but chose to ignore their role.
"True enough, they were civilians of a sort," he wrote. "But innocent? Gimme a break."
Churchill went on to describe the World Trade Center victims as "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolph Eichmann, who carried out Hitler's plan to exterminate Europe's Jews during World War II.
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all provide a refreshing alternative to the moral relativism
and politically correct anti-Israel blather of the media. Michael
Freund, Jerusalem Post
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb. Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952
God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart. Edna
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good
advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most
valuable mistakes.
I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
What the customer demands is last year's model,
cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
I couldn't agree more with Sven. There is definetly alot of anti-semitism in sweden and I myself am affraid to tell other students at school about me being jewish. It´s really sad that anti-semitism has become accepted in the swedish society and I think that the issue is just growing worse. Therefore I have accepted that there is nothing I can do about it rather than living as an outcast, after I finish school I will hopefully get a chance to move to the US and I really hope that the Americans won´t be as intolerant, uninformed and full of prejudice as most Swedes are.
Posted by: Gabriel | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 at 03:35 PM
Hopefully, you won't have to go to most US universities, because they are as uninformed, intolerant, and full of prejudice.
Posted by: neverforget | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 at 07:09 PM
This is off-topic, but I found it from a link on LGF. I thought you might enjoy it (or at least sigh).
A comparison of Jewish and Muslim Nobel Prize winners:
http://www.masada2000.org/nobel.html
Posted by: rickl | Tuesday, November 01, 2005 at 08:25 PM
Europe is sinking in the sewer of dhimmitude. Muslims are protected from all forms of discrimination, then allowed to attack anything that offends them. The barbarians are within the gates and are demolishing the structure. The residents are sleeping a drugged sleep and wish not to be disturbed.
Posted by: Arbib | Wednesday, November 02, 2005 at 06:34 AM
Linked and excerpted.
Posted by: David Foster | Wednesday, November 02, 2005 at 07:00 PM