Thursday, February 09, 2006

In Defence of Denmark and a Free Press

The Rights of Man Vs. Theocratic Dictators

A free, valiant and courageous press has never been needed more than it is needed now.

The cartoons are just one more excuse that radical Islam is using to spread its hatred of our western culture and values. The cartoons themselves are not really the point. The point is that each person in the West has to face what we are really up against and decide where we stand. Do we side with ‘reason’ and the application of a rational view of the world to determine how individual men and women live their lives, or do we side with the interpretation of ‘holy scriptures’ by ‘men of god’ to enforce a particular way of life upon us. Sooner or later (and I fear sooner) EVERYONE is going to have to face this choice and decide where they stand. This is not a game we are playing here—it is time to get serious! It is a time when 'reason' and 'The Rights of Man' need a valiant press to come to its defense!

Europe evolved out of a long dark-age and the fruit of centuries of struggle and suffering gave birth to the Renaissance and “The Age of Reason” with its enshrinement of “The Rights of Man”. Reason, consistently applied, inevitably discovers and implements individual rights: rights we now take for granted. Through the application of ‘reason’ we banished, forever, theocratic tyrants dictating how individual free men and women should live their lives.

The clash of cultures that we hear about so often today is really an historical clash between rationality and an irrational view of the world, which is governed not by objective reason but by the rule of theocratic dictators (with their various random and inconsistent interpretations of religious texts), who are far too eager to visit the wrath of their ‘god’ upon those who disagree with them. They should observe that without their enthusiastic propensity to murder people who do not share their view of the world, this ‘god’ of theirs tends to leave us all alone. Perhaps it may be helpful if these ‘thugs-for-god’ took note of this divine silence and instead spent their time discovering why they are so easily offended by our open society and freedom of expression.

I refuse to have our open secular culture being dictated to by these theocratic tyrants who neither understand the “Rights of Man” nor their objective significance.

The response of the American Government and media is truly disgraceful. A small country like Denmark, who stood behind America in its war against terror when many of its so-called allies around the world turned their backs, is now finding that she is left alone to defend a free press and the Western cultural heritage in general. The American Press in particular is a disgrace and the timidity of our politicians in the face of Islamic violence is telling. With leaders like these and without a valiant and courageous press, the Western culture (which is objectively far superior to any other that we have witnessed so far) is in grave danger of being extinguished and humanity will then enter a dark age much worse and longer than the last.

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