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Contact Sappho: helmerbri@gmail.com or 0045 22 92 70 46
Sappho´s Editors-in-chief:
Helle Merete Brix and Lars Hedegaard
Co-editors:
Katrine Winkel Holm and Farshad Kholghi
Sappho is the magazine of The Free Press Society and Denmark´s most outspoken magazine on free speech, radical islam, culture and politics. Sappho - the Greek poetess from the sixth century B.C. - is also depicted in our logo. Plato characterised her as the tenth muse, and Sappho has adopted her as the Muse of Free Speech.
Our yearly award - The Sappho Award - has gained much media attention. In 2009 it was given to Melanie Philips, british journalist and commentator. In 2008 it was given to the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. In 2007 the Sappho Award was given to Jyllands-Posten´s editor Flemming Rose.
Among the people we have interviewed are: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Reza Pahlavi, Abd al Malik, Ben Okri, Gunnar Heinsohn, Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Peter Whittle, Douglas Murray, Abed Azrié, Ole Nydahl, Freidoune Sahebjam and Pia Kjærsgaard.
Our many public debates and seminars featuring influential danish and foreign writers, intellectuals, publicists, artists and politicians continue to attract much political and media attention. Speakers have included Ibn Warraq, Daniel Pipes, Geert Wilders, Bruce Bawer, Henryk Broder, Samia Labidi, Elisabeth Schemla, Shabana Rehman, Peter Whittle, Douglas Murray, Bat Ye´or, Chahdortt Djavann, Amir Taheri, Roy Brown, Jørgen Bæk Simonsen, Klaus Rothstein, Asger Aamund and Hans Jørgen Bonnichsen
Below you find a selection of articles from Sappho in English
10.03.2009
DANIELLA CSIZMADIA:
One Law for All
08.02.09
LARS HEDEGAARD:
The second round in Malmoe
11.01.09
LARS HEDEGAARD:
It´s 1932 in Europe
Supporters of Israel demonstrate in Copenhagen
despite threats of violent attacks
27.11.2007:
LARS HEDEGAARD:
The Growth of Islam in Denmark and the Future of Secularism
There appears to be a growing realization among demographers that, despite the anti-immigration policies of the current Danish government, third-world immigrants and their descendants will constitute the majority of the Danish population before the end of this century. A sizeable segment of this third-world population will be Muslim, and well before the middle of the 21st century, the number of Muslims will be large enough to have irreversibly changed the composition and character of the country
27.11.2007:
LARS HEDEGAARD:
The Resilience of the Commoners
We know more or less what the operatives of the umma are up to and how they usually go about their day-to-day business of undermining Western society. We now need to proceed from fact collection to resistance against the Islamic onslaught
15.7.2007:
HELLE MERETE BRIX:
Khomeini and the Blindness of the Left
Twenty-seven years ago the Danish historian and former Trotskyist, Torben Hansen was an excited eyewitness to the Iranian Revolution. Today he accuses the European and American Left of having learned nothing from Islamic barbarism
3.6.2007:
LARS HEDEGAARD:
A Continent of Losers
While the European populations are shrinking and the best-qualified young people are leaving, we continue to allow mass immigration of unqualified Muslims, who will soon make our welfare states collapse. Add to this the fact that the Muslim world has built up a "youth bulge", which according to experience will lead to mass murder and whose effects cannot be offset by foreign aid. The originator of these bleak predictions is the German sociologist Gunnar Heinsohn, who believes that the game is over for Europe
1.6.2007:
HELLE MERETE BRIX:
Among the Believers
Despite the fact that France's Union of Islamic Organisations (UOIF) has recently adopted a more moderate rhetoric, the old warlike tone and hatred of the West still lie near the surface. Sappho was the only foreign media to cover the UOIF's annual conference in Le Bourget
6.4.2007:
LARS HEDEGAARD:
The Buddha Meets Holger Danske
Almost all the harm inflicted upon Buddhism throughout history has been caused by Islam, says Ole Nydahl. He finds it embarrassing that Buddhists never defended themselves. Muslim extremists now threaten Buddhists with renewed violence
18.3.2007:
LARS HEDEGAARD and HELLE MERETE BRIX:
Zyklon B and the Conservatives
Committee member Safia Aoude links to well-known Holocaust denier and accuses the Danish People's Party of being National-Socialist
6.1.2007:
LARS HEDEGAARD:
Free Speech: Its Benefits and Limitations
Laws against blasphemy must be stricken from the books and the very concept of blasphemy as a criminal offense must be expunged from the minds of men.
Keynote speech at international conference in Istanbul
30.8.2006:
FREE SPEECH AND THE TURKISH TABOOS:
An International Conference
Organised by The Free Press Society and Jyllands-Posten
Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen
April 29, 2006
Is the Turkish government prepared to live up to the requirements of a western democracy? Does it protect free speech? And what will be the consequences for Turkey's development if the country suppresses freedom of expression? These were some of the issues illuminated at a recent international conference. The presentations by Yusuf Kanli, Tina Magaard, Burak Bekdil, Semih Idiz and Lars Hedegaard are now available at The Free Press Society's website www.trykkefrihed.dk 9.6.2006:
LARS HEDEGAARD OG HELLE MERETE BRIX:
The Muhammed Affair and the Denmark Pact
While the Danish elites have almost forgotten the plight of the 12 cartoonists, extremist imams believe they have won a decisive victory that will lead to Denmark's incorporation into the Dar al-Islam and its subjugation to islamic law.
28.2.2006:
A PLEA FROM CANADIAN MUSLIMS:
Don't be silenced by extremists
Free speech should not be compromised under the garb of fighting hate, say 11 leading Canadian muslims. Muslim extremists such as the imams Abu Laban and Ahmad Akkari have seized the opportunity to add fuel to the fire and should be held accountable for their criminal actions.
28.2.2006:
ROY BROWN:
Religions Don't Have Human Rights and Islam Has No Special Place
In an open letter to his Danish friends, the President of The International Humanist and Ethical Union, Roy Brown, emphasises that only humans have human rights. Religions don't.
2.2.2006:
HABIB C. MALIK:
The Future of Lebanon
A balance sheet drawn up of the developments in, and concerning, Lebanon since the Valentine’s Day 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri would reveal a cautiously optimistic trend for the country’s future
3.1.2006:
FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK (2):
Islamic Extremists and Their Western Allies on the Offensive against Free Speech in Denmark
Danish Union of Journalists advocates "respectful dialogue" with supporters of death penalty for blasphemy. Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen stands firm against internal and external pressure and refuses to apologise for Muhammad cartoons.
5.12.2006:
FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK (1):
Jamaat-e-Islami's Danish Friends
Jyllands-Posten's Muhammad cartoons were discussed at a meeting with Kashmiri extremists in Copenhagen in the beginning of October.
23.11.2005:
INTERVIEW WITH AYAAN HIRSI ALI:
It's Your Life or Your Thoughts
For a long time Ayaan Hirsi Ali has dreamt of making a muslim "Life of Brian" with all the juicy details of Muhammed's violent exploits and womanizing. And she would be happy to make it in Denmark.
