Safe spaces wanted. More than 3,600 people have signed a petition calling on GW to remove Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas from his role as a professorial lecturer in law at GW Law after he voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. Thomas has lectured at GW Law since 2011, co-teaching a constitutional law seminar with his former clerk Gregory […]
Justice Thomas Wants to End Media’s Ability ‘to Cast False Aspersions on Public Figures’
New in PJ Media: The Left is a big club, and you’re not in it. Leftists play a game that works this way: the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of their primary attack machines, publishes a report purporting to demonstrate that some conservative group or other is a “hate group.” This allegedly objective study […]
Afghanistan: YouTubers arrested for ‘insulting verses of the Qur’an,’ apologize for ‘promoting Western culture’
The guardians of acceptable opinion will tut-tut at the Taliban’s “hardline” stance, but they’re busy implementing speech restrictions in the West, so they don’t really have a leg to stand on to object to this. Before too long, it will likely be illegal in the U.S. to engage in “insulting verse of the Qur’an,” or […]
Woke tech company Slack bans Federation for American Immigration Reform
“Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.” — David Horowitz They’re getting out. “UNFAIR: Woke Tech Company Slack Bans Conservative Group From Platform,” by Joseph Simonson, Washington Free Beacon, June 16, 2022: Slack banned the immigration restrictionist group Federation for American Immigration Reform from using any of its services for allegedly violating […]
Good News! Harris to Head New Biden Disinformation Task Force
New in PJ Media: The bad news is that the Biden administration’s notorious Disinformation Governance Board, a flagrantly unconstitutional effort to restrict the freedom of speech that was “paused” in May after an avalanche of criticism, is back (although its Orwellian name is still on ice). The good news is that heading up Biden’s handlers’ […]
Canada: Liberals’ ‘censor the Internet’ bill sparks YouTuber backlash
There is a reason why Canada keeps getting referenced as being on a “totalitarian” path. One incident after another points to a pattern of creeping totalitarianism under Justin Trudeau. Recently, it was Trudeau’s gun sales ban, while lowering sentences for serious gun crimes; and then Trudeau said in an interview that Canadians have no right […]
Oman: Two activists jailed for ‘blasphemy’ over ‘trumped-up charges’
Oman is widely supposed to be “moderate,” but “freedom of expression is extremely restricted in the Sultanate.” And of course that’s the vogue all over these days. “Outcry in Oman as two activists jailed for ‘blasphemy’, in ‘trumped up charges,’” The New Arab, June 9, 2022: Two Omani activists have been handed prison terms over social media posts and WhatsApp messages […]
Pakistan: Special Assistant for Religious Affairs says UN should make blasphemy against Muhammad a crime
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has been working on this for years now, ever since the first Muhammad cartoon controversy. The West, meanwhile, is working toward it by means of official efforts to silence “misinformation” and “hate speech.” The two sides will converge before too long. “The United Nations should make blasphemy a crime […]
Video: Robert Spencer on the ‘blasphemy’ controversy and Nupur Sharma
On Politically Perfect, Friday.
India: Journalist admits that most terrorists are Muslims, but insists you can’t say that
This same fear to speak unpleasant and unwelcome truths prevails the world over. Vishnu Som could just as easily have been articulating the ethos of CNN, the New York Times, MSNBC, the Washington Post, etc. “NDTV’s Vishnu Som admits that most terrorists are from Islam, but says the truth must not be spoken to preserve […]