Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Stand up for Denmark in Chicago

Today's ralley inspired by Christopher Hitchens in front of Chicago's Danish Consulate. More pictures over at Bill Baar's West Side.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin links all of the Chicago bloggers there today.

UPDATE: Andrew Marcus shot a video for Pajama Media. It's outstanding! Please check it out.

4 comments:

Anonymous,  10:43 PM  

Michelle Malkin is totally bonkers, but I have always found her attractive. Much more so than Skeletor aka Ann Coulter.

Anonymous,  2:18 AM  

Wow. Big crowd there. Rivals the immigration rally in size. I wonder how long they tied up traffic.

Bill Baar 6:07 AM  

The Belmont Club did a post on non violent protest contrasting responses of Christian Peace Teams, and Wafa Sultan --the Arab American interviewed on Al Jazeera.

Wafa Sultan's answer is that you start by denouncing it. You begin by intellectually opposing the ideology that drives it; that legitimizes it; that portrays it as attractive to children from their cradle. The CPT website, on the other hand, says that denunciation is part of the problem, because it dehumanizes the denounced; hides our Western guilt; and shows a lack of tolerance and respect for Islam.

I don't like cartoons that denigrate a religion. But I want to say I stood up to anyone who threatened someone elses right to print those cartoons. I want to say I stood up to hateful ideology.

I think that kind of non violent protest has impact, even when our numbers small.

Remember none of this very organized. No one knew each other. It just rolled.

Anonymous,  8:07 AM  

Love Hitchens, great writer.

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