Maybe It's the Butter

Perhaps it's because they invented the concept of Danegeld, which as Kipling noted means you never get rid of the Dane, in any case the Danish state and people are demonstrating a shrewd understanding of how to stand up to thugs.  If the United States were to show the same resolve, in as clearly expressed a manner, the war against Islamist fundamentalism would soon be over.  Our enemies are weak, they remain apparently strong only because we have refused to call their bluff.  Most of the West now hoves toward the policy of Norway, where the word "appeasement" is considered a compliment.  From the new British conservative magazine, Standpoint:

So it was that when confronted with the wrath of Hitler’s present-day counterparts – and with “allies” and media around the world who condemned Jyllands-Posten while oozing “understanding” for the rampaging hoodlums, who, after all, had no other way of communicating the extent to which the cartoons had wounded their delicate sensibilities – the Danes stood firm. Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen refused even to meet Muslim ambassadors, because, he said, the issues were so clear that there was “nothing to discuss.” That’s how to respond to jihadists.

Sweden took another route. When a political website featured a Jyllands-Posten cartoon, the government sent police to close it down. More recently, hit with his own cartoon crisis involving artist Lars Vilks, Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt not only met Muslim ambassadors, but was praised by one for his “spirit of appeasement.”

Norway didn’t cover itself in glory, either. On the pretext that a tiny newspaper, Magazinet, had reprinted the Jyllands-Posten cartoons (never mind that major dailies in Spain, Germany, and France had done so as well), the cartoon jihadists chose to target Norway as well, plainly betting that the dialogue-happy, UN-worshiping “peace country” would curb its freedoms at the first hint of Muslim displeasure.