New in PJ Media: Barack Obama, now a gray-haired elder statesman of the left, appeared at the Connecticut Forum in Hartford on Tuesday and engaged in a lengthy discussion with a sycophantic historian, Heather Cox Richardson. The welcoming environment apparently led the left’s revered hero to relax a bit too much, for he let the […]
Obama calls for ‘government regulatory constraints’ on the freedom of speech
Obama pines for a social media Ministry of Truth: “We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts…it will require some government regulatory constraints.” “There is a difference between these platforms letting all voices be heard, versus a business model that… pic.twitter.com/CVnTJHqZ13 — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 19, 2025 Leftists can’t hide their […]
UK: Parliamentarian tries to roll back Sharia blasphemy law, protect the freedom of speech
Too little, too late for shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain? Probably. Nevertheless, it’s good to see that in that entire spineless and compromised land, there are still a few people who are determined to resist civilizational suicide. “U.K. Parliamentarian Files Bill to Protect Free Speech,” by Jules Gomes, Focus On Western Islamism, June 12, 2025: A […]
UN ‘Islamophobia’ top dog says Western countries must adopt laws to fight ‘Islamophobia’
Notice how the UN’s new Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, starts out by talking about the alleged need to “prohibit by law incitement to violence against persons on the grounds of their religion or belief.” Actually, incitement to violence is already illegal. New laws are not needed. But Moratinos actually wants to […]
UK: Attorney for man on trial for burning Qur’an says convicting him would bring blasphemy law to the country
Katy Thorne is quite right in saying this, but Britain is already far down the road to accepting and imposing Sharia blasphemy laws. Otherwise, Hamit Coskun would never have been arrested or brought to trial at all. Note also that Thorne assures the court that Coskun did not “exhort hate” against Muslims. This is important, […]
Tommy Robinson is free, but could be back in prison soon
The UK authorities are desperate to silence Tommy Robinson, the foremost dissident voice in the country. He is due back in court on June 5, and could be headed back to prison then. It would be no surprise. Meanwhile, what he says about the freedom of speech in Britain is quite right. The British government […]
New York: Muslim who tried to murder Salman Rushdie gets 25 years prison
25 years was the maximum sentence. AP says that “Matar next faces a US federal trial on terrorism-related charges. While the first, state-level trial focused mostly on the details of the knife attack itself, the next one is expected to delve into the more complicated issue of motive.” Matar’s motive is completely clear and straightforward. […]
Telegram founder rejected request from ‘Western EU government’ to silence dissident voices in Romania
The founder of Telegram Pavel Durov stated: “You can’t ‘defend democracy’ by destroying democracy” in response to “a request by a Western government, which he did not name but appeared to imply was France, to silence conservative voices in Romania ahead of a presidential election run-off there.” It isn’t surprising that it would be France, […]
Critics of Islam Are Being Silenced in the UK
The Italian journalist Giulio Meotti provides disturbing examples of the infringement of the freedom of speech in the UK: “Orwell’s 1984 is now! Don’t dare to criticize Islam in the UK,” by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, May 14, 2025: In London, Niyak Ghorbani, an Iranian dissident, has been marching alongside the Jewish community for months […]
In the UK, Free Speech Is on the Ropes
Which speech is now being punished in the UK? Oh, any speech that could be interpreted as criticism, however indirect, of Muslims and of Islam. Robert Spencer wrote about this here, and the Italian journalist Giulio Meotti provides five disturbing examples here: “Orwell’s 1984 is now! Don’t dare to criticize Islam in the UK,” by […]