Danes feel Obama is greater than Jesus

[Crusader]

I enjoy the humorous juxtaposition of the two news events. Islamic extremists upset by something as banal as a cartoon drawing repeatedly attempt to kill the artist, however, when in a similar fashion, the main figure of Christianity is likewise impugned by a person in the Danish press there is hardly a whimper of protestation. I'm not suggesting there should be moral outrage, because I understand that this is one persons opinion, and it may be shared by some other Danes, but hardly would be the position of everyone who read the editorial. I feel the same way about the infamous cartoons, in that, while crass, they are an expression of one person, and published by one paper, but hardly express the sentiment of an entire nation.

What I found humorous was that this person avoided life threatening outrage by attacking mere Christianity this time. It highlights one of the differences between West notions of freedom of expression, and those from the Middle East.

You'll find this in most (European) countries that are starting to be dechurched. People finally realise that religion isn't all it preaches to be. There are too many holes in the bible and other holy writings to take it seriously now that science (and the education of the plebs) is catching up. So Christianity is rapidly in decline. In fact, while most people here are still registered as Christians, a good part of them actually aren't, except that their parents made the choice for the baby to have it registered as Christian. So over here Christianity is rapidly in decline and being sarcastically rediculed as a relic of the past by most of the younger generations, where unwashed masses were kept dumb by the church so they could be kept under the thumb better. (We're missing roughly 800-1000 years of scientific advance thanks to Christianity). Over here, if you chose to believe that's fine for most people. Just don't expect tolerance when you bother them at their doors coming to bring the holy word. This is pretty much the opposite for the States, where people still cling to Christianity with fervor and you are an outcast if you're not Christian (an openly athiest president of the USA is not possible at this point in time. People won't blink at an openly gay athiest prime minister in the Netherlands. In fact Pim Fortuyn had a shot at this).

Then we move on to the Muslim religion and then we come to one of the most troublesome problems a good part of Europe faces today. Over here as said above we're rapidly casting off the shackles of religion and religion is being rediculed with fervor by many. Then comes along the muslim minority which tolerates NOTHING of the sort. Most Christians will shrug at a picture ridiculing Jesus and move on, perhaps feel hurt or insulted, but only a handful will actually go rabid at it. Muslims, however, immediately scream murder or, more appropiately, Jihad! Immediately they flock to instances against discrimination or the law to have this insult stamped out (and fail, freedom of speech and all) while in the meanwhile their younger generation (often poorly educated and statistically about 4x more criminal) goes to the street and molests some people (further increasing anti-Islam feeluings in society, viscous circle and all). So here you have the modern europe realising how religion bent them over and are catching up with vigor to stamp it out and on the other side religious fanatics who tolerate nothing of the sort. Welcome to the hotpot that creates newspaper flashes like the above. Immigration of muslims is rapidly failing, muslim youth criminality is reaching absurdly high levels, the people scream murder that something needs to be done, the politicians do nothing except dab at it with a soft cloth and soothing words, (extremist-) right anti-Islam politicians are rapidly gaining support and the world will surely end in 2012 after these nutjobs have been in power for a year.

Oh, and the War on <strike>Islam</strike> Terror isn't helping at all.