Reykjavík Grapevine - 25.09.2015, Blaðsíða 4

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Subject: Ólafur Stefánsson
Hi there,
I'm from Switzerland and I've trav-
elled from Denmark to Iceland by
ferry from 12 to 15 September 2015.
I was traveling with a friend and Ole
and I've met an talked sometimes. Is
there a way to get an email address
from him? We forgot to exchange our
contact information.
Many thanks and greetings from
Kolsstadir!
Ursula
ursula@westwind.tv
Dear Ursula,
Thank you so much for your letter.
What a breath of fresh air!
Maybe Ólafur Stefánsson will see
this and drop you a line? We hope
so. At least, you’ve just won our
AWESOME LETTER prize, for
being nice and for your letter not
being full of either angry racist
diatribes against refugees, or an-
gry defenses of Israel (SO MUCH
OF THAT recently. Apparently,
the best way to win sympathy for
Israel is going around yelling that
anyone who criticizes the state’s
conduct is a frozen-brained, alco-
holic, whoring, cheating, whale-
killing, inbred schmuck). Anyway,
thanks for not writing a letter like
that—enjoy your t-shirt!
Your Friends At The Reykjavík
Grapevine
Dear Sir/Madam,
It has become fashionable in the Liberal
Left circles in the West to brand anyone
who does not hew to their worldview as a
racist or a bigot. You have only two choic-
es in this scenario: either you acquiesce to
their warped, politically-correct screed
or speak out and risk being smeared as a
lowlife of a human being.
Take the recent case of the disastrous
proposal by Bryndís Bjorgvinsdóttir.
Anyone opposing it has been subjected
to vehement diatribes by the Left Liberal
tribe, those self-appointed custodians of
humanity on the planet.
Bryndís and her cohort of 10,000 do
not have the right to alter the demograph-
ic composition of Iceland. Let there be a
national referendum on refugee intake.
And let there be honest debate where ALL
sides of the issue are heard.
Have these people learnt nothing at
all from recent history? In every single
advanced Western nation where muslims
have acquired critical mass there have
been severe problems. This is a statement
of fact, not hate speech. Why would Ice-
land want to invite trouble in one of the
last peaceful areas left in the world?
If Bryndís wants to show her love for
humanity, she should be taking in the
refugees already in Iceland into her own
home, paying for their housing and medi-
cal care. Is she prepared to do this? Or
does she want the rest of the Icelanders to
pay for her conceit so she can then bask in
her pecksniffian glow?
The little boy who died on the Turkish
beach is now made into a propaganda tool
to emotionally blackmail tender Western
hearts. He died not because of the evil pol-
icies of the West but because of the reck-
less decisions of his father. Worse human
tragedies play out day in and day out in
so many impoverished parts of the world.
You won’t see photographs of those.
Finally - It is perplexing that large
numbers of ‘refugees’ of the past few
weeks are young men wearing comfort-
able clothing, sunshades and armed with
smartphones (and surely with Facebook
profiles). But then, when you have hun-
dreds of Bryndíses in the West willing to
drop the welcome mat of welfare benefits,
who wouldn’t want to take up the invite?
As I recently read someplace: Europe will
run out of money and space far sooner
than the world will run out of refugees.
Rajan Parrikar
Mountain View, California
Dear Rajan,
Thank you for your letter.
Now. It’s amusing how you manage
to undermines every single thing you
say (as if that was even necessary), by
revealing that you obviously haven't
even bothered properly acquainting
yourself with whatever it is you seek to
discredit (Bryndís Björgvinsdóttir’s
grassroots campaign?). The whole
essence of that campaign, which has
been embraced and celebrated by
a vast majority of Icelanders—you
know, those people who have every
right in the world to determine what
kind of society Iceland is and should
become—is that people like Bryndís
and others are quite literally offering
to personally house the refugees, or
pay for their airfare, or donate exper-
tise or furniture or food or whatever
else.
Jackass.
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