{"id":961,"date":"2007-04-26T08:11:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T06:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larshvidberg.dk\/blog\/?p=993"},"modified":"2007-04-26T08:11:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T06:11:36","slug":"naser-khader-meets-keith-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Naser Khader meets Keith Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known Danish politician <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khader.dk\/\">Naser Khader<\/a>, founder of the organization <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demokratiskemuslimer.dk\/\">Democratic Muslims<\/a>, meets the first Muslim member of the American Congress, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithellison.org\/\">Keith Ellison<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jp.dk\/udland\/artikel:aid=4372812\/\">blasts him<\/a> for American support for countries like Saudi Arabia, while talking about working for democratic values.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Der er tale om dobbeltmoral, n\u00e5r man p\u00e5 den ene side siger, at man er n\u00f8dt til at fjerne diktatoriske ledere, som i Irak, mens man med den anden h\u00e5nd stryger Saudi Arabien med h\u00e5rene. Dette g\u00f8r det sv\u00e6rt for folk, som mig, der arbejder for at indf\u00f8re demokrati i Mellem\u00f8sten, fordi vi altid bliver m\u00f8dt med dette eksempel p\u00e5 amerikansk dobbeltmoral.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quite true. But what to do about it? The applies for Danish foreign policy as well. On the one hand we need their oil, on the other we have an interest in spreading democratic values. It&#8217;s quite a tightrope walk, and right now we seem to be tripping!<\/p>\n<p>Khader&#8217;s visit to the USA has gotten wide attention in the DK, but I&#8217;ve yet to see American media cover his tour. Anyone has any links?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><br \/>\nActually <a href=\"http:\/\/politiken.dk\/udland\/article292117.ece\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berlingske.dk\/indland\/artikel:aid=888930\">here<\/a> are articles about Khader being too controversial for American television &#8211; apparently he is too critical of islamists. It seems that PBS is afraid of being accused of islamophobia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known Danish politician Naser Khader, founder of the organization Democratic Muslims, meets the first Muslim member of the American Congress, Keith Ellison. And blasts him for American support for countries like Saudi Arabia, while talking about working for democratic values. Der er tale om dobbeltmoral, n\u00e5r man p\u00e5 den ene side siger, at man er &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/?p=961\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s mere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Naser Khader meets Keith Ellison<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whiteberg.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}