Yesterday there was a manifest published, which is signed by 11 European writers, intellectuals and journalists in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten. It’s called : Together facing the new totalitarianism . I think that everybody should not only read it, I think that everyone should pass it on to others which he knows. We all have to show Solidarity to them who signed it. I copied it from the Blue Star Chronicles :
                   MANIFESTO: Together
              facing the new totalitarianism

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.

We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.

The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.

Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations. The hate preachers bet on these feelings in order to form battalions destined to impose a liberticidal and unegalitarian world. But we clearly and firmly state: nothing, not even despair, justifies the choice of obscurantism, totalitarianism and hatred. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present. Its success can only lead to a world of domination: man’s domination of woman, the Islamists’ domination of all the others. To counter this, we must assure universal rights to oppressed or discriminated people.

We reject cultural relativism, which consists in accepting that men and women of Muslim culture should be deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secular values in the name of respect for cultures and traditions. We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of "Islamophobia", an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.

We plead for the universality of freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit may be exercised on all continents, against all abuses and all dogmas.

We appeal to democrats and free spirits of all countries that our century should be one of Enlightenment, not of obscurantism.

There also was an article written by Flemming Rose, the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten with his explanation: Why I Published Those Cartoons . Both articles are worth reading and so I’m passing them on.

Friday was a great dart evening! This time I was the Champion. Chrissie and Wolfgang where looking at me as if I would come from Mars. And at Saturday we had the great Carnival party, where lots of people were coming in crazy costumes. I hope, that I’ll be able to get a few photos in a short time which I can put in the album.

On Monday Jovy asked me for help, if I can put a new picture and text in the YUPPACE file which she had send to me. Well, that was no problem even I didn’t know if the old text had to stay in it, but something must have happened while I send them back to her via mail annex. So I printed them, scanned them and send ‘em again. I hope she received and could use them.