The Importance of the Danish Cartoons

The cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten will go down in history as an important milestone showing in graphic terms (literally and metaphorically), the unbridgeable chasm that lies between Western pluralism and the totalitarianism and intoleranace of the Islamo-Fascists. Whilst it was very wrong of the Danish government to apologise for these harmless cartoons, their attempts to pacify the situation in order to save precious human lives was understandable. Denmark is a decent, tolerant and democratic country. To see Danish embassies attacked and burned by violent and disturbed people claiming to be affronted by cartoons they had probably never seen was both annoying in the extreme and profoundly disturbing. If the concept of irony is available to these people, then they must have seen that their actions reinforced and justified the stereotypes portrayed by some of the cartoons. Most of the cartoons are, however, just harmless caricatures, infinitely less offensive and less racist than the daily output of anti-Semitism and anti-Westernism in the Middle Eastern press.

The arrogant and unacceptable stance of the Islamo-Fascists and their sympathisers is that they are the custodians of the one self-evident truth in this world and the rest of us are here on suffrance and better watch out. We are not allowed to question, criticise, call into question or reject. They speak of respect. Well, respect is something that works both ways and moreover it is something that needs to be earned. Where are the furious demonstrations denouncing the acts of terror carried out on a daily basis all over the world in the name of Islam? Where are the placards and posters with pictures of Bin Laden saying "Not in my name"? Where is the mass out-pouring of anger rejecting suicide bombers (the topic of one of the cartoons)? Where is the indignant reaction against the provocative and outrageous statements coming from Tehran denying the existence of the holocaust? Now, that is truly offensive.

North Korea: A Failed State

[This piece is a response to: http://unrepentant.blogspot.com/2006/02/lenins-tomb-ponders-north-korea.html].

The DPRK is a failed state, and was pre-programmed for failure right from the start. Marxism in whatever guise, is after, synonomous with failure. What we are witnessing now are the death throes of an evil quasi-religious Marxist regime that has imprisoned, tortured and murdered hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. Kim Il-Sung was a monster, much in the same way that Lenin, Stalin, Ceaucescu, Hoxha and all the other Marxist ratbag murderers were. The DPRK, is on its last legs, staggering on the ridiculous platform shoes of Dear Leader, Kim Jong-Il. It survives by counterfitting American cuurency, trafficking in narcotics and other criminal activities, as well as by blackmailing the international community. How ironic that it relies so heavily on the USA for food aid.

No amount of windy Marxist pseudo-intellectual claptrap can escape from the fact that North Korea is a failed state because it is Marxist tyranny and South Korea is a prosperous and successful state because it is now a capitalist democracy. And yes, I should also mention that South Korea was saved from the same dire fate as the North largely because of the efforts of the United States and other capitalist states in standing up to the communist aggression instigated by the great Marxist beast, Joseph Stalin. Yes, it really is as simple as that.

Respect for Whom?

This blog [i.e. the blog on which I originally posted this piece at http://leninology.blogspot.com/ ] is called 'Lenin's Tomb', but perhaps calling it 'Hitler's Bunker' would have been just as appropriate. Why is that members of looney far-left parties, with unworkable and inherently contradictory agendas (e.g. SWP, Respect, etc.) like to refer to those who don't subscribe to their world-view as 'xenophobes', 'sectarians' or even 'fascists', when it is they who have got into bed with the real xenophobes, sectarians and fascists? In Britain, and in many other parts of the world, discredited and moribund left-wing socialism has teemed up with intolerant, anti-democratic and virulently anti-western Islamofascism. It is the 21st century's equivalent to the Nazi-Soviet pact.


Lenin (i.e. the Soviet tyrant and mass-murderer and not the blogger of the same name) called people living in liberal democracies who gave moral and material support to the totalitarian Soviet ideology 'useful idiots'. He knew that such people were braiding the rope that might one day be used to hang them. What better examples do we have of modern-day 'useful idiots' in the UK than the rebarbative tyrant-groveller George Galloway and the Stockholm-syndrome-suffering and Taliban-loving Yvonne Ridley?. The far-left is replete with such 'useful idiots', pushing their poisonous anti-American, anti-Israeli (and ultimately anti-Western) agendas, whilst either allying themeselves with, or at the very least being apologetic for, freedom-hating radical Islam.

The red and black (or red and green?) alliance between the far-left and radical Islam is a far more sinister challenge to this country than anything posed by the transient washroom racism of potential BNP voters.

Useful Infidels

So, the mass-murderer and unwashed cave-dweller, Usama Bin Laden, has today released another one of his hateful tapes. Well, today I have started my blog, and here is my first offering.


The freedoms many of us take for granted are under threat from a belligerant and intolerant ideology; the term Islamofascism has already been coined to describe it. Recently, we witnessed the grotesque and violent overreaction in many parts of the world to the cartoons of Mohammed published in Denmark. And it is a sad fact that we have become almost accustomed to the almost daily acts of terrorism, violence and intimidation carried out throughout the world in the name of Islam. Some people have begun to realise the grave threat posed by militant Islam, but many others are in a state of denial about the true state of affairs; this applies to both Muslims and non-Muslims. There are even those from the left wing of politics who apparently sympathise with the aims of the Islamists and because of their hatred for the United States have adopted the immoral and ultimately ruinous principle of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend'. They foolishly and dishonestly claim that the present dire situation is caused by the so-called Palestinian problem or is as the result of American foreign policy. The truth is that it has nothing to do with the supression of Muslims in the world but everything to do with the jihadis desire to force the entire globe to submit to their terrible and intolerant belief system. In some Western liberal circles, it is considered to be a mark of sophistication to express contempt for the USA and Israel whilst suggesting that it is America, not militant Islam, which is the problem. These 'useful infidels', to modify Lenin's 'useful idiots' expression to describe non-communists who unwittingly helped the Bolshevik cause, are actually also viewed with total contempt by the jihadis who have nothing but loathing and hatred of liberal Western ideas, not to mention other non-Muslim cultures. After all, we have witnessed what these Islamofascists do to sympathetic non-violent Christian peace activists in Iraq: they behead them.

And speaking of Bolshevism, Fascism and Islamism in the same breath, it is no perhaps no coincidence that militant Islam combines neatly all the qualities of Bolshevism and Fascism: the 20th-century's two ideologies that sought to thrust themselves on the unwilling through terror and violence. In this respect, it is perhaps worth considering the following insightful words written in the 1920s by Bertrand Russell following his famous visit to the Soviet Union:

"Mahommedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of this world ... What Mahommedanism did for the Arabs, Bolshevism may do for the Russians".

Fortunately, Bolshevism ultimately failed, but not before extracting a heavy cost in terms of lost lives and untold misery. The same can be said for the 20th century's most terrible ideology: Fascism. But what of the 21st century? Can the rational and civilised world stand up to, and overcome, the challenge and threat of Islamofascism? For all our sakes I hope it can, but first of all it has to acknowledge the that the problem exists.