This article was originally published in Danish on February 25, 2019.
Most of the surviving Danish converts and foreigners with Danish citizenship who in their Islamist enthusiasm traveled to Iraq and Syria to fight for their religious ideals in Islamic State – all while claiming social benefits from the Danish state – are now lining up to be allowed to come “home” and the “democratic” politicians will eventually give in to this pressure supported by all the intellectual traitors and criminals against the Danish people – none mentioned and none forgotten!
These so-called people left their safe havens in Europe, where the foreigners had apparently been granted political asylum and citizenship under false pretenses, to fight for arguably the most murderous, vile and criminal grouping the world has seen since the Russian Revolution. The list of its atrocities would fill entire libraries.
In this connection, Jyllands-Posten on 19.2.19 has a moving editorial in which they emphasize that it is precisely in such a situation that the rule of law must be put to the test. The ivory tower of Jyllands-Posten seriously believes that we should bring these criminals to Denmark, bring them before a Danish court, judge them according to Danish law and lock them up for a few years in a Danish luxury prison, after which they can once again continue their terrorist activities in complete freedom, now directly against the Danish people. How completely cut off from reality can you be?
Firstly, they are already at home and they have committed their crimes in Iraq and Syria. Therefore, if resources are to be wasted on prosecuting them, they should be handed over to the governments of those countries to be tried and punished according to the laws of those countries. Surely this is only fair. It is largely their citizens who have suffered under the Islamic State’s reign of terror and often paid for it with a painful death. To imagine that we could do this work here is complete madness – for many reasons – but above all because our laws are not at all geared to punish crimes of this kind on merit. Secondly, because the burden of proof will be very difficult to lift. Any evidence is in Iraq and Syria, if it can be found at all. Clever lawyers like Bjørn Elmquist will easily get them acquitted or given ridiculously light sentences. Finally, because such trials would cost triple-digit millions, which the Danish taxpayer would have to pay in cases that are completely irrelevant to Denmark. It is no coincidence that the same Elmquist and other lawyers are fighting to bring them to Denmark. There are millions of dollars to be made from defending them – all paid for by the hard-working Dane. In addition, prison places cost around DKK 800,000 per nose per year – far more than is spent on our senior citizens.
But what about the rule of law? It was abolished in 1945 because it could not be reconciled with the political and historical situation, and it has not been reintroduced since, but apart from that, the prerequisite for the rule of law is general support for its principles in society, a common culture within which a certain set of legal rules is generally accepted and recognized. In such a culture, one legislates on the crimes that experience shows will be committed in that society. Here we are dealing with human-like creatures that clearly flout any civilized concept of law. They are simply not part of our imagination. Our legal system has simply not taken such behavior and crimes into account, and culturally we are not at all equipped to conduct legal investigations in such alien environments. We have gotten a taste of this in connection with the cases of alleged torture, where Danish authorities take all “documents” from the Middle East at face value, even though they have been bought and paid for by the alleged “torture victims”. A rule of law along our lines can only be maintained within our cultural and societal framework – within civilization. But ISIS and its supporters are far, far outside anything that can be described as civilization. We have no punishments to match their crimes. They must be treated according to their own legal system, which they themselves have so cruelly enforced, and which they must therefore vouch for. As we all know, you must treat others as you would like to be treated yourself!
People who want to import this scum into Europe are deliberately exposing the peoples of Europe to terror. They must not be forgotten. They must be assumed to recognize the IS legal order and therefore, on the day of judgment, they must be treated in accordance with it.
In Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s excellent little novel Things Fall Apart, a situation arises where Christian fantasists have killed the tribe’s sacred snake. Everyone was horrified and no one really knew what to do, because the tribe had no prescribed punishment for this terrible crime – simply because no one could have imagined that anyone could ever do such a thing. That is the situation we find ourselves in.
It can be compared to the international conventions on warfare. They presuppose that both parties have ratified them. Otherwise they don’t apply. This was one of the reasons why the war on the Eastern Front during the Second World War was so cruel and bloody. The Soviet Union had not ratified the Land Warfare Convention and had no intention of complying with it. Ergo, neither did the Germans. We are in the same situation in the war against ISIS, and that war is not over. It will continue until Islam is wiped off the face of the earth and the current former IS fighters will remain IS fighters until someone puts a bullet through their head, which is what should be done where they are right now! This is the only way to reduce the danger of terrorist attacks in Europe in the future. The Americans are experts at this, so get it done!
The same goes for the brides of war and their offspring. They will be ticking time bombs under our societies and the rule of law that Jyllands-Posten, in its feverish delirium, raves about.
Povl H. Riis-Knudsen
Translated by means of AI
Danmarks Frihedsraad 