Who are these amazing Danes, these wonderful Scandinavians?
In 2004, Lars Hedegaard founded The Danish Free Press Society. The Society went international in 2009. One of their activities has been to give an award every year to a journalist who “combines excellence in his/her work with courage and a refusal to compromise.” To date, these awards, called Sappho Awards, have been given to Flemming Rose (2007), Kurt Westergaard (2008), Melanie Phillips (2009), Mark Steyn (2010), and Rachel Ehrenfeld (2011).
Rose published Westergaard’s Mohammed cartoons in the Jyllands-Posten; subsequently, Westergaard and Rose were nearly assassinated. Ever since, Rose and Westergaard have required bodyguards. Their alleged crime was really committed by Islamists who slipped their own more offensive cartoons into the mix in order to incite anti-infidel riots.
In 1996, Phillips received the (British) Orwell Prize, and in 2003, she received the (British) Islamic Human Rights Commission’s award as “The Most Islamophobic Media Personality of the Year.”
In 2007, Steyn and Ehrenfeld were forced to legally defend themselves because of their work about Islam. Both triumphed after very costly struggles. Ehrenfeld obtained legislation protecting authors in both New York State (2008) and in the United States (2010).
Heroes all.
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http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/04/28/fund-the-truth-about-islam-or-lose-the-war-of-ideas/
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