"terrorism does have a religion"

Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg on the basic difference between AB Breivik's actions and Islamic terrorism.

Taiwan PM's Rebuttal

Looks like Taiwanese authorities don't feel flattered by Breivik's remarks:

Taipei, July 27 (CNA) Premier Wu Den-yih took issue Wednesday to Norway's mass murderer Anders Breivik's praising of Taiwan as a society that has maintained public safety by upholding a homogeneous culture.

Recent media reports have quoted Breivik as citing Taiwan, Korea and Japan as countries that he looks up to as he tries to build a monocultural society in Norway and Europe. (...)

These "role models," he said, "represent many of the European classical conservative principles of the 1950s" because they are "scientifically advanced, economically progressive" societies "which will not accept multiculturalism or Cultural Marxist principles."

Breivik said that Japan and South Korea are today the most peaceful societies "where you can travel freely everywhere without the constant fear of getting raped, ravaged, robbed or killed."

In response, the premier clarified that Taiwan is a multicultural society with a deep root in Chinese culture, and influence by Western and other Asian cultures.

What Breivik said about Taiwan does not match Taiwan's reality, Wu said, stressing that "Taiwan is not a monocultural society."

After several hundred years of development, according to Wu, some Western culture -- such as Dutch -- has been left here in Taiwan. Fifty years of Japanese rule left its legacy too, and Chinese culture has existed here for more than 300 years.

After 1945, a second wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in Taiwan, Wu said. "In addition, Taiwan's aborigines have always been here," he added.

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I'd agree with a reservation. Multiculturalism itself isn't wrong and I don't think many Europeans have problems with Indian, Chinese or Jewish cultures. The problem is that what is practiced in some parts of Europe has nothing to do with multiculturalism. Just take a trip to Malmobad and you'll see that it is actually ISLAMIC MONOCULTURALISM being imposed under the disguise of Multiculturalism.

Europe has been multicultural since the time of Roman Empire, and respect and interest for other cultures has since then been a strain in an educated European's nature. Just read how Plato describes ancient Egypt or what Tacitus writes about German barbarians.

The problem is that Islamic “culture” is devoid of any respect for other ways of life, and this is precisely why Islam has proven itself unable to adapt to European (as well as Indian, Thai etc) Multiculturalism.

Of course, it doesn't justify nor does it ”explain” the horrible crime committed by Breivik. I just think that it is always better to call a “spade” “spade”.

"Something Rotten in Norway" by Daniel Greenfild

"But what Norway’s political elite failed to grasp is that the genie of terrorism cannot be kept in a lamp, to emerge only at your command. Once you legitimize terrorism as a tool of political change, you lose the ability to determine who will make use of it. Breivik followed the example of Lars Gule, that of the Marxist terrorists, whose intellectual legacy is the black tar that seeps through the painted walls of Norwegian foreign policy."

Read more http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/01/something-rotten-in-norway/