Assuming that the situation will continue to develop in the same direction, the following and other policies should be considered.
European homeland security:
- Define temporary rules restricting the freedom of expression in the Western countries, to expire on March 31st, 2006
- Visualization of major prophets and deities or their linking with the recent political questions would be an offense and the persons who do it could be detained for a day or two
- Posters and placards favorably referring to things like 7/7, 9/11, Al Qaeda, bin Laden, holocaust, executions of religiously inconvenient citizens, or placards attacking freedom as such would also be an offense, and the culprits could be detained, too
- Citizens of Arab descent would temporarily be disallowed to be equipped with weapons and dangerous tools including guns, knives, gasoline, or other equivalents except for their homes
- The cartoonists and perhaps others should be given a new identity
Presence in the Islamic world:
- All Danish embasssies and companies present in the region should cancel their activities and be evacuated, and companies from other countries whose situation resembles that of Denmark should consider the same thing
- NATO should ensure safe transfer of all people whose life is at risk
Economy:
- The European Union should pay measured compensations to the affected companies
- The EU commission should buy products from those exporters who lost the markets, at least for two months, and use the products to appease various ethnic groups on the EU territory, among other programs
- Other "luxurious" programs unrelated to the crisis could be frozen if a higher amount of resources is needed
- Currencies such as the Danish krone and others at risk should be pegged to the euro or even the U.S. dollar with the change from February 1st guaranteed to be preserved in 2006 plus minus 10 percent, by a common declaration of several central banks
- Prepare EU plans and compensation policies for various types of hypothetical terrorist attacks on the European soil
Immigration:
- All Western countries with population density below XY and with Christianity as the primary religion should be automatically giving political asylum to all applicants from the mostly Islamic countries who are either Christians or whose race is Caucasian
Work with the ideas and impressions:
- Experts in the culture of Islam and psychologists should be hired to develop an optimal system of ideas that would have the capacity to convince the Muslims that freedom, at least in the Western world, is something that they must learn how to live with
- Try to think about big-scale visual Hollywood-like effects on the skies that would convince sufficiently uneducated Muslims that Allah wants them to behave differently
- Teach all Western soldiers located in the Islamic countries how to play the theater that they actually believe and adore their prophet
Expansion of the EU:
- Speed up negotiations with candidates such as Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria
- Freeze the negotiations with Turkey because their approach to human rights and safety of Christians on their territory is probably going to remain questionable and incompatible with the EU standards and the current developments highlighted the differences
Diplomacy and military:
- Close all Western embassies and consulates that are perceived as insufficiently protected against attacks, and move some of their tasks to other, safer embassies of other EU countries
- Send Danish soldiers currently in Iraq back to their homeland because their reduced self-confidence could prevent them from doing their job right
- Prepare emergency defense plans for the hypothetical scenario of an Islamic country attacking another country, including the policies for using unconventional weapons if necessary
Although this cartoon trouble will certainly unify most of the people who are worried about various related trends, it will unfortunately not unify everyone, not even at Harvard. Our colleague from the Asia Center of Harvard University unfortunately shows a complete lack of understanding of the West after 1500, including the fact that it is no longer mandatory to believe in God. In fact, honestly speaking, most people at Harvard today believe that a belief in God is a symptom of reduced intelligence. Could not she have figured this fact out? Sad and hard to understand.
