A glimpse into the future of the U.S. This can’t happen here, you say? We respect the freedom of speech, you say? Maybe that was true at one time, but it is no longer. Cowardice is pandemic. Newspapers all over the country refused to republish the notorious Muhammad cartoons out of a newfound “respect” for Islam that they never showed for negative portrayals of Christianity, which they hailed as “courageous.” Those who call attention to the ideological roots of jihad violence are excoriated as racist, bigoted “Islamophobes,” and most organizations on both the Left and the Right would never dare feature such people as speakers. Any organization that does is immediately denounced and called upon to apologize, and it usually does. So given that this is the climate today, what do you think the situation will be like in ten or twenty years?
“Saudi man, 2 Yemeni women arrested for mocking Islamic rites,” Gulf News, March 21, 2020:
Cairo: Saudi police arrested a man for mocking religious rites after he had appeared in pictures prostrating to a woman, a police official said.
The images went viral online showing the man in worship positions in front of the girl next to a mosque in emulation of the Islamic prayer.
A spokesman for police in the holy region of Mecca, Brig Mohammad Al Ghamdi, said authorities had identified those involved in “this criminal act”.
The suspects are a Saudi man in his 30s and a Yemeni female resident in her 20s as well as another Yemeni woman who took the photos and uploaded them on social media, the official said, according to Saudi news portal Sabq….
Brig Al Ghamdi added. The incident reportedly took place next to a mosque in Jeddah, triggering public outrage.