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This article is heartening:

Dozens of Danish Muslims are joining the network of moderate Muslims, the Demokratiske Muslimer (Democratic Muslims). About 700 Muslims have already become DM members and 2,500 Danes have expressed their will to support the network. The initiative has caused anger among the Danish imams and their leader, Ahmad Abu Laban[sic], who have referred to the moderates as “rats”. The imams feel that they are beginning to lose their control over part of the Muslim population.

Moderates such as Kamran Tahmasebi say they have had enough of fanatic Islamism and its intimidation of the Muslim immigrants in Denmark. “It is an irony that I am today living in a European democratic state and have to fight the same religious fanatics that I fled from in Iran many years ago,”...

Mr Tahmasebi is one of the people involved in the newly established network of moderate Muslims in Denmark led by Naser Khader, a member of the Danish Parliament…who has for a long time been living under police protection… “Naser Khader has carried this responsibility for too long. I share his beliefs and now I want to stand up and say so. Apart from that, as a parent I feel a responsibility to fight, so that my children will not have to live under Islamist dogmas. They shall be able to live free in this country.”...

Thank God.

Those keeping track may remember Ahmad Abu Ladan as the very same imam who, after being unable to stir up outrage over the original Jyllands-Posten cartoons in Denmark, took a trip to the Middle East to (very successfully, it seems) stir up violence with fabricated ones.

I pray that more and more people would rise up and support one another against Islamist thugs like Abu Ladan and his ilk. And by “support”, I don’t mean reprinting the cartoons from the Jyllands-Posten. That might even be counter-productive at this point. I mean real words (including cartoons, if you like) of truth and encouragement, and willingness to stand up in the face of intimidation.

This is about far more than cartoons.