Incitement to violence against any group should always be blocked. The problem here is that Islamic advocacy groups and their allies in the West have for years claimed that any honest discussion of the motivating ideology behind jihad violence was “anti-Muslim hate.” Facebook already makes such discussion virtually impossible to find. Expect it to be […]
Sharia France: Danish activist arrested and deported for trying to burn Qur’an
Rasmus Paludan, the French publication Marianne, tells us, is “far-right,” which means that Marianne wants its readers to despise Rasmus Paludan. But in its essentials, he was going to do nothing different from what Samuel Paty did, and Samuel Paty is now celebrated in France as a hero and martyr for the freedom of speech. […]
Biden Transition Official Believes the First Amendment Has a ‘Design Flaw’ — His Remedy Is to Curb Free Speech
My latest in PJ Media: Richard Stengel, according to the New York Post, “is the Biden transition ‘Team Lead’ for the US Agency for Global Media, the U.S. government media empire that includes Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.” He is also a menace to our constitutional protections […]
Iran’s Rouhani: ‘To insult a prophet is nothing more than an encouragement to violence and an immoral act’
Here is yet another manifestation of the all-out attempt to deflect the blame for jihad violence over Muhammad cartoons onto those who defend the freedom of expression. The simple reality is that the only people responsible for acts of violence are those who commit them. Muslims who murder over cartoons are not required or forced […]
Germany: Cops investigating false bomb threat against mosque have dog wear paw covers to avoid offending Muslims
German authorities are ever solicitous of their growing and restive Muslim population, and so they’re ready to act upon the otherwise univerally denied fact that Islam hates dogs: “Once Gabriel promised the Prophet (that he would visit him, but Gabriel did not come) and later on he said, ‘We, angels, do not enter a house […]
France: 14-year-old Muslim boy tells his teacher ‘I’m going cut you like Samuel Paty’
The boy was released. Of course. It isn’t as if he did something serious such as burning a Qur’an. “Seine-et-Marne: a schoolboy threatens his geography-history teacher to ‘cut her like Samuel Paty,’” translated from “Seine-et-Marne : un collégien menace sa prof d’histoire-géo de la ‘découper comme Samuel Paty,’” by Sophie Bordier, Le Figaro, November 13, […]
UK: Law Commission calls for ‘hate crime and hate speech laws’ that would criminalize Muhammad cartoons
“The Law Commission is the statutory independent body created by the Law Commissions Act 1965 to keep the law of England and Wales under review and to recommend reform where it is needed.” The reform it sees as needed now is a surrender to violent intimidation and abandonment of the freedom of expression in favor […]
Egypt: Public prosecutor orders urgent investigation into social media conversation insulting Muhammad
A glimpse into the future of the West. Don’t believe me? Ask Richard Stengel. “Egyptian public prosecutor orders investigation of messages insulting Islam’s Prophet on social media,” Ahram Online, November 11, 2020: Egypt’s Public Prosecutor Hamada El-Sawi ordered an urgent investigation into a text conversation circulated on social media of a person insulting Prophet Muhammad, […]
Biden transition official wants speech restrictions, criminalization of burning of Qur’an
I’m not in favor of the burning of any book, and I believe that people ought to read and understand the Qur’an rather than burn it. However, note that Stengel is calling for legal “guardrails” against “speech that incites hate.” If someone burns a Bible, no one cares. If someone burns a Qur’an, there are […]
Lebanese Christian: Europe has erred in assuming Muslim immigrant communities would adopt European worldview
Habib Malik is correct in this. He is also correct that “Arab Christian support for outraged Muslims, while commendable on one level, stems from an inherited sense of dhimmitude, he said. Under centuries of Muslim rule, the Christian dhimmi accepted second-class status and paid a special tax in order to be a protected community.” This […]