Abu Laban, in fact, was first shown speaking on Danish television condemning the boycott of Danish goods (in English), then shown interviewed on al Jazeera, cheerfully commenting on the effectiveness of the boycott (in Arabic).

In other words, this was indeed a campaign, planned by important members of the Islamic world?s power structure, intended to force Denmark to comply with Sharia requirements. A new norm, that a western nation would conform to Sharia regardless of its free exression tradition, would be on the way to being established. Let a few more small nations succumb and someday a United States Supreme Court Justice might cite such behavior as a precedent in a decision. The American Thinker.

Por outras palavras isto foi uma campanha, planeada por membros importantes da estrutura do mundo Islâmico, com a intenção de forçar a Dinamarca a seguir os requerimentos da Sharia. Uma nova regra, em que uma nação Ocidental teria de seguir a Sharia, apesar da sua tradição da liberdade de expressão. Deixem mais algumas nações sucumbirem e qualquer dia o supremo tribunal dos EUA pode citar tal comportamento como um precedente numa decisão.

Unless, we show some solidarity, unashamed, noisy, public solidarity with the Danish cartoonists, then the forces that are trying to impose on the Free West a totalitarian ideology will have won; the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest. Do not apologize.
This raises another more general problem: the inability of the West to defend itself intellectually and culturally. Be proud, do not apologize
How can we expect immigrants to integrate into western society when they are at the same time being taught that the west is decadent, a den of iniquity, the source of all evil, racist, imperialist and to be despised? Why should they, in the words of the African-American writer James Baldwin, want to integrate into a sinking ship? Why do they all want to immigrate to the west and not Saudi Arabia?
By defending our values, we are teaching the Islamic world a valuable lesson, we are helping them by submitting their cherished traditions to Enlightenment values.