Heart Denmark

The Dutch stand with the Danes.

A demonstration in support of free speech planned in Amsterdam. And from the Intl. Herald Tribune: (via No Paseran)

AMSTERDAM Post-politically correct Europe starts here. It loops north to Denmark. These days, it branches east, although less distinctly, to Germany.

But in the Netherlands the words are free, and inhibitions about describing and dealing with the problems caused by immigration, particularly from Islamic countries, are largely gone...

Perhaps because there has been open contempt for assimilation by Muslims in supposedly soft and marginal places like the Netherlands and Denmark, both countries have been intent on demarcating the line where their accommodation of immigrants stops.

You could call it a flow-reversal of attitudes in two famously tolerant nations. Their emphasis, coming now with special intensity caused by a sense of declining sovereignty, is specifying that their Muslim communities must demonstrate compatibility with Dutch or Danish society.

One Dutch statesman is not optimistic though, "Next time," he said, "I fear it will be oil, or Israel, or nuclear weapons rather than cartoons."