Monday, November 28, 2005
Banagor takes the Finkielkraut recantation to heart. Warning! Rant Ahead! Europe, the Whore
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What happened to the comment/question I put in earlier?
Emailed to him and prior asked you in a comment that you apparently erased?
His comments section sucks and comment submissions don't work for some reason.
So I emailed my comment (below) to him.
Mike, your comment is right where you put it. Here:
http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/007050.shtml
Regarding the "Europe the Whore" rant a data point from Germany:
After the London Underground massacres an outraged german
proposed to finance a memorial for the victims in London
and for Theo van Gogh, by using the profits from the sale
of toilet paper on which the words "KORAN, DER HEILGE QUR-ÄN"
(=the Holy Q'u'r'an) are printed. In his press release and
some messages to internet forums he also called the coran
a "Kochbuch für Terroristen" (=cookbook for terrorists).
Result:
He's under criminal prosecution under one of Germany's ant-hate laws
(originaly enacted to prosecute neo-nazis). The criminal complaint
makes explictit reference to a diplomatic note issued by Iran where
Iran demands the german state put an immediate end to insults to the
coran.
For some perspective, here are some utterances by german politicians
that have not been prosecuted:
"Israel is waging an unrestrained war of annihilation against the Palestinians."
Israel using "Nazi-Methods" against the Palestinians.
George W. Bush is using methods similar to "Adolf Nazi".
These politicians were at the time they made these statements members of the
Christian Democrats, the Greens and the Social Democrats. They were criticized,
and paid a political price (to a little extent), but to my knowledge none of
them faced criminial prosecution.
What the toilet paper man did may or may not be of poor taste, but it is an absolutely
legitimate expression of outrage over an atrocity.
Plus, desecration of religious symbols has been a technique of mainstream modern art for a long time
(e.g. "Piss Christ"). That a German prosecutor should act at the behest and as the enforcer
of Iran, a country that wants to complete the holocaust, is a disgusting specatacle to me as a German citizen!
The criminal complaint (in German) can be read here:
http://www.eussner.net/artikel_2005-11-29_15-39-48.html