Buy Danish
From Judith Apter Klinghoffer, noting the boycotts by the Muslim countries, which are doing serious damage to little Denmark's economy:
The Muslim countries have chosen to pressure liberal little Denmark in order to teach the media and governments, which stand by them, a lesson which does not bode well for free speech or satire. Kuwait has joined the Saudi boycott (the Saudi market alone is worth 1.2 billion) and I suspect the rest will follow. So, here is a plea from my Danish friends:"If you Americans look with this great sympathy on our case, couldn't you then raise a consumer support of DK in the US? The opposite of a boycott. A movement of: "Buy Danish!" Please?
You can easily eat and digest all our famous Danish cheese at your millions of breakfast-tables from Seattle to Atlanta. Then the boycott (which is escalating fast down there now) will be harmless."
Yo, Denmark, your flag is our flag. Let's all get shopping! (I mean, I'll do it when there's no politically good reason to do so; all the more reason to do it now, with a vengeance.) Danish butter cookies, here I come!
Here's a list of Danish products and services.
Got a blog? I don't care if you have three readers. Please copy this flag and put it up on your site (just drag it off onto your desktop and upload it to your site) and link to the Danish products yourself, and ask your readers to join in the un-boycott in the fight against terror, repression, and regression.
AA comes through like a sister.
Crid at February 4, 2006 2:37 PM
Postrel!
http://tinyurl.com/7q3w3
Hitch!
http://www.slate.com/id/2135499/
Crid at February 4, 2006 3:10 PM
The Hitch piece was perfect. I forwarded it to everyone else in the world.
Lena at February 4, 2006 3:59 PM
For me, the essential quote from Hitch, linked by Crid above:
Amy Alkon at February 4, 2006 4:47 PM
I went out and bought some Tuborg, just to show solidarity.
KateCoe at February 4, 2006 6:01 PM
I am going out today to pick up a six pack of Carlsburg and\or Tuborg for the Super Bowl party today. I don't know how they will go with fajitas, but....
eric at February 5, 2006 8:01 AM
Tak, Amy! (Thanks, in DanishWe must be on the same wavelength, Amy, because listening to NPR this morning, I was thinking we should be buying lots of Danish products to counter the Muslim boycotts.
For those who live in LA, you can find a good selection of Danish food products at the Scandinavian deli on Pico, a couple blocks east of Fairfax).
Melissa "jeg er Dansk" at February 7, 2006 2:40 PM
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