In New York City, world leaders dodged traffic, deranged panhandlers and the city’s unique fall funk, to lecture the planet about their views at the United Nations General Assembly. Their theme was the threat that “misinformation” or “disinformation” poses to their power. “Hate speech, misinformation and abuse — targeted especially at women and vulnerable groups […]
New York Times: We Should Criminalize Speech Like Germany
The New York Times has been running an extended crusade for some years now to dispense with freedom of speech. It’s run op-eds arguing that speech is violence, that the First Amendment has been misunderstood… and that we should be more like Germany. The story starts with this incident: When the police pounded the door […]
Pakistan: Man held for posting derogatory material against Muhammad and his companions
In the West, we are much more enlightened than this. We don’t arrest people who are accused of insulting Islamic sacred beliefs. We simply excoriate them as “racists” and “Islamophobes,” deplatform and forcibly silence them, and ostracize them from polite society. We are much more advanced in the West. “Man held in Bahawalnagar for uploading […]
Will court ruling that Big Tech has no ‘right to censor’ restore the freedom of speech?
In a word, no. A court ruling is one thing. It will be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, anyway. Meanwhile, it would have to be enforced. Who would enforce it? Biden’s handlers’ authoritarian Justice Department? Forget it. “Federal Court rules Big Tech has no ‘freewheeling First Amendment right to censor,’” by Brianna Herlihy, Fox […]
Morocco: Appeal court upholds woman’s prison sentence for ‘undermining the Muslim religion’
A glimpse into the future of the West. This is where the Left’s “hate speech” rhetoric is tending. We are very close to this now, far closer than most people realize. For years, critics of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others have been routinely excoriated, vilified, demonized, deplatformed, and shunned by all […]
Germany: Critic of Islam gets six months in prison without parole for ‘hate speech’ for criticizing Islam
What is and is not “hate speech” is an entirely subjective judgment. “Hate speech” laws are a tool of the powerful to silence the powerless, and this case shows that vividly. Stürzenberger spoke the truth about Islam, but those truths are as unwelcome in Germany as they are elsewhere, and so he is going to […]
France: Leftist at rally for antisemitic imam says ‘I am not Charlie. This newspaper is evil.’
Charlie Hebdo published cartoons mocking Muhammad (and every other religious figure). In January 2015, Muslims accordingly massacred the cartoonists there. Now a French Leftist, Alexis Trouillas, is coming out strongly for submission to Sharia blasphemy laws. “[Video] ‘A weapon of mass destruction’: Charlie Hebdo accused of being an ‘evil newspaper’ at the demonstration in support […]
Turkey: Criticism of Islamic theology leads to professor having to testify before prosecutors
A university professor in Turkey has been summoned to testify at a prosecutor’s office for his remarks on a Turkish TV channel. These consisted of his rejection of the validity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to a news report in Turkish media, professor Celal Şengör was ordered to testify in ten days as a […]
Turkey: Pop singer detained for saying Islamic religious schools cause ‘perversion’
These schools teach the Qur’an and Sunnah. No perversion in those, right? Jihad warfare, child marriage, the beating of women, the sex slavery of infidel women — perversion? Come on, man! Don’t be “Islamophobic.” “Turkish pop singer Gülşen detained over remarks on religious schools,” Ahval News, August 25, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): […]
The Disinformation Governance Board Is Now Officially Dead, But the Enemies of Free Speech Will Keep Trying
New in PJ Media: There should have been a victory parade and a nationwide celebration of the freedom of expression, but the great day came with no fanfare at all: the Department of Homeland Security has announced that its sinister little exercise in Orwellianism, the Disinformation Governance Board, as of Wednesday is officially and definitively dead. You […]