Ach lieber Gôtter! What a week, what times. What ablaze proportions. I kind of promised my self not to comment on the vandalism that have torn Denmark up over the last two weeks, mostly because the only feeling and observation it has left me with, is one of utter baffled astonishment.
I cannot defend aimless vandalism following the riots among primarly young immigrantkids. Smashing up libararies, shops, cars just added to a picture of utter stupidity , but I cannot say it is surprising. Without connecting the riots directly to the attempted re-cycling of The Mohammed Crisis, and the deportation of two alleged terrorists, the riots has a reason or more of them that points to the troublesome work performed by the danish police upholding the visitation-ones in Copenhagen. The spin-off vandalism was irrationel, and i believe that perpertrators should be found and prosecuted, but I strongly hope, that the matter doesnt stop with a few arrests and selective law-monging stigmatising the muslim minority of Denmark even more. They are, without comparisment, the most publicly scorched group, and the focus is twisted, compared for example to the lack of attention to priveliged crimes, meaning tax-fraud, speculation, weapontransport and whatnot practice with greater profit but way larger cost for the society as such, than the 25 million the blazes in Copenhagen and Denmark experienced over the past days.
I dont the answers to the problems, of I did I wouldnt be sitting here thinking about it, but things that have been done so far can absolutely be dealt with diffenrently. I see very complex economic and social-political structures and climate that have led up to these very unfortunate events.
I have a hard time coping with the "victimization" expressed by a good part of the young rebels, and a even harder time making ends meet, but I believe it is doable, and I believe that within the greater part of the muslim society and the danish per se (all for one) can move forward with time.
Some will say that its all a cultural problem (meaning islamic problem) and that 2 generation immigratans and fundamentalist are over representated in danish crime-statistics, and others would say that nationalromatintic fundamentalists are over-representated in the danish Parliament (meaning DFF).
Others would say that we have been at a fullfrontal war with The Muslim World since 9.11, and choosing war, we also choose two fronts, so live with it.
Not very subtle thoughts, an expressions of much frustration, but man these are interesting times.
Which leads me to the, what I find, the pathetic "case" against MP Kamal Quereshi. Here we have a member of parliament whose alleged crime have was signing an email with another name to keep "a certain degree of anonymity", and his alleged cheating a medical examination in 1990 (he was 20 at the time) was punished within the educational system.
Lets not forget - so - that sitting chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen in 1982, as minister, was fired for creative accounting running the Ministry of Tax and Economics, and got replaced by non other than Peter Brixtofte.
And finally, Nyhedsavisen, that on february 15th runs a story about Denmark being ridiculed by swedish supergiant IKEA. The case being that IKEA names the top-ucts primarely after swedish cities and places, secondly norweigian names and places, while danish cities and places are used for naming products as mats and carpets!
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