Denmark: Child Porn: Andrew Sullivan covers for Danish child porn capital in name of 'free speech'

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Andrew Sullivan has continued his misrepresentations, this time by using a Danish correspondent's email as prima facie a truthful document about freedom of speech in Denmark. An exceptional email worthy of his lugubrious praise. And then he attaches a bizzare final comment of his own that not only compounds the falsehood of his correspondent, but exponentially expands it into a smog of cliché. But I have to reproduce in full the whole dang bit in order to assure readers that the cool cat has flipped his moral lid like that of Pandora's Box.

A Danish reader writes:

"Allow me to illustrate what we're up against here and why the people of Denmark have every right to refuse to tolerate or appease Muslim intolerance. Back in the 1980's I covered a murder trial for a Copenhagen tabloid. The victim was a woman from a family of Kurdish guest workers newly arrived in Denmark from Turkey. Her crime was to divorce her husband in order to support herself and their children through honest labor. By doing so, she violated the family's so-called "honor" and enraged her father in-law to the point where he ordered his two youngest sons to revenge this blatant violation of his patriarchal prerogative. Returning home in the early morning hours after a night spent cleaning offices she was set upon by her teenaged brothers in-law who stabbed her repeatedly before leaving her to bleed to death in the street.

Now try to imagine the impact of this horror in Denmark, a country with very low crime rates and also one of - if not the most - advanced countries in the world in terms of equality between the sexes. Danes have a long and proud tradition of tolerating and protecting minorities whether they be religious, sexual or otherwise. When Protestants from the 17th century fled Catholic persecution in - what was then - the Spanish Netherlands, they were welcomed with open arms in Denmark. Jews have practiced their religion freely in Denmark and were so seamlessly integrated into the national fabric that looking the other way and pretending not to notice simply wasn't an option for their Christian compatriots when the Nazi occupiers came knocking on Jewish doors in 1943. What I'm trying to say here is that Danes have a proven track record of openness, fairness and tolerance. We are however most intolerant towards those who would limit or abolish those freedoms we simply take for granted."

After commiserating with the victim in the Sullivan correspondent's horror story about "the Other" and noting the correspondent's accompanying whitewash of snow-white Denmark, let's just briefly note that an immigrant family in culture shock in a cold country where the patriarch sends his wife out to work all nite at a job that the well-fed Danes won't do but who will use hard-pressed folk from a world away–this helps contextualize the horribly dysfunctional family dynamics that bind titely the dislocated to ancient traditions, and the extended family falls into deep sin against the wife/mother who becomes victim. But in the correspondent's construction and Sullivan's exploitation of it without reflection – these now well-othered immigrants become a single example to prove a huge generalization, a whole religion and ethnicity held up for loathing, while the corresondent self-righteously cites Denmark's lack of crime [by the native born, he means to say, of course!]. Perhaps upon examination, when we look closer, we may note that Denmark doesn't have crime because it won't (for instance) criminalize child pornography and the child pornographers who hover about taking pictures and making movies or videos of the Danish men who sexually-abuse the children. Danes are famous as child-sex tourists to third-world countries. At home, they don't get criminalized because they don't kill their victims (often); and that's because the penalties are not so severe for sex such as appear in the Danish child-porn dossiers. And, of course, the photographing and the photos placed on the world market for such is in Denmark only a matter of a falsely absolutized freedom of expression.

It is this stark reality of forces in Denmark who want to protect the child-porn industry and integenerational sex down to nearly the just-born that stands behind the ferocity of the atheist absolutization of "freedom of expression" in the Conservative = Liberal = Ayn Rand mental territory of the Jyllands-Posten cultural ideologues. Most Danes, born and baptized into the state's Lutheran church, a truly gutless wonder, apparently don't give a damn. The Christian political party which wants to oppose some of these excesses gets barely enuff votes to have two or three representatives in the Parliament, where laregely they're scoffed at by the o-so-enlightened atheist Free Market "Conservatives" (Liberals) supported by the xenophobic junior partner in the governing coalition.

Having concentrated these very real criticisms into one brief passage, it may seem I am opposed to free markets and busniness enterprise (I'm not, just opposed adamantly to their absolutization and to the ideologues of political parties and governments that do the absolutizing); it may also seem that I'm opposed to Danes and Denmark (I'm not, but am opposed to the vile failure of the government and the crown prosecutor to protect Muslims equally to the protection of Jews and on-paper of Christians); it may seem I despise atheists (I don't, but at the same time I try to drag into the light the outcome of atheism in godless free-marketism that allows the child-porn industry to flourish, its photographers to witness and record and possibly sponsor the sex-violent abuse of children down to the youngest of all, and the cover for all of this by Denmark's malicious ideology of "freedom of expression" which is aimed to protect these horrible white gentlemen while othering people of colour (often in culture shock) who are stereotyped as incorrigibly backward and criminal by a Dane/Danes, to Sullivan's applause. Here's what numbnut AS says:

I have to say I am ashamed that the West has not been more forthright in defending the Danes. That idiots like John Kerry and Bill Clinton would call standing up to Islamist intimidation bigotry appalls me. The West has a right to say that all its citizens have an inviolable right to free speech, and that all its female - and gay and Jewish - citizens have a right not to submit to medieval barbarism. Period.

Period? Hah! I'm no supporter of Kerry and Clinton; I support the War on Terrorism against the Islamofacists, and the child-pornofascists who function in the name of freedom of speech. Sullivan sows confusion, but not everyone is fooled by his priorities and ideology; not even all homos are fooled by his cover-up. After erasing vital facts of the Danish milieu, Sullivan trots out his usual clichés themselves exploitive of women, homos, Jews, Muslims and Christians who do not coincide with his clever cover of the real import of his specious defense of absolute free speech and expression to the hurt of sex-abused pornized children by a Danish free-enterprise industry in the free-market economy of the ruling "Conservatives" plus Xenophobes. And Sullivan does this with the scare tactic of only one instance of a presumably Muslim family of Kurdish ethnicity gone berzerk and invoking ancient codes (these codes are found in many societies and cultures other than some Muslim communities; they linger in immigrant communities with special virulence because of the culture shock). Notice that the correspondent and Sullivan select the Muslim aspect of this family from the ensemble of factors involved in this family's heinous action. Why? – because it pleases both the correspondent and Sullivan to do so in defense of Jyllands-Posten, the Danish Free-Marketeers' version of atheism, the Danish Xenophobes, and the Danish child-porn industry (which is hidden in the text of both of writers). Period? I guess Sullivan was having his period. - Politicarp