A Super Bowl Salute To Denmark (UPDATE)

After Thanksgiving, for Super Bowl Sunday more Americans come together in a uniquely American rite. Regardless of religious or ethnic heritage, we gather to celebrate as one.

In the Middle East, a Christian – not to mention a Jew – is persecuted for their faith, even for wearing a symbol of their faith.

Right now, it is imperative that Americans demonstrate our common support for those seemingly dwindling few in Europe willing to stand for common values.

I’ve discussed in “Please Eat Danish” what’s going on, as have many other bloggers.

Please buy Danish food products to serve at your Super Bowl Sunday fete, or while munching any other time. They are excellent. It really means a lot to the brave Danes. (List of some is below.)

The Danish are very appreciative. I’m told that I was favorably mentioned on Danish news TV2 for the “counter-attack” in the U.S. to buy Danish.

A sample email from Denmark:

”It’s no surprise for me that USA are the first to support Denmark…Thanks from Denmark to all Americans for the sacrifice they constantly are giving since World War II. There is a lot of reasons why Americans should be proud to be Americans.”

Some wonderful Danish food products:
Danish butter cookies
Danish Havarti cheese
Carlsberg and Tuborg beers
White Clover and Holland Farm dairy products (Wisconsin company, owned by Denmark's Arla)
Danish Crown hams (DAK) -- (Please forgive me Rabbi!)
Shop Online at The Danish Foodshop and Danish Deli Foods
Gevalia coffee
Also: Legos for the kids, and Danish porcelain for you

Toast the Danes at halftime.

UPDATE: Andrew Sullivan's post is so good:

Please, Bill
31 Jan 2006 10:40 am
Go look at the cartoons. They are not against Islam, although they understandably bristle at the intolerance of some contemporary Muslims in Europe. They are against what has been done in the name of Islam. They are about, in the words of the editor who published them, the way in which Islamist thugs have intimidated free speech in Europe:
"These were not directed against Muslims, but against people in cultural life in Europe who are submitting themselves to self-censorship when dealing with Islam. I wanted these cartoonists to appear under their own names. That was the point of the whole journalistic exercise."
Get it now, Bill [Clinton]? These cartoons help expose the brutalization of women, the use of violence in defense of faith, the idiocy of suicide bombers allegedly going to heaven, and so on. If we cannot speak of these things without giving offense, then we have lost our ability to discuss freely the most significant cultural shift of our time: the rise and rise of religious fundamentalism. While I'm still steaming, let me ask another question: How can Clinton glibly speak of historical anti-Semitism in Europe without noting that the most unrestrained anti-Semitism is now parlayed by the Islamic religious right? Where does he get off lecturing free people about their right of free expression, while remaining silent about the pathological anti-Semitism now manifested in Islamo-fascism and its adherents across the globe? Here's one option: buy Danish.