Though Europe Rots, We Must Defend the West
The realities behind this decades-long campaign have now slammed Europe. On December 3, 2010, Denmark’s public prosecutor collected his first scalp for racism, that of pastor and Member of Parliament for the Danish People’s Party Jesper Langballe [19] — not surprisingly, for defending Hedegaard. “Of course Lars Hedegaard should not have said that there are Muslim fathers who rape their daughters,” Langballe stated, “when the truth appears to be that they make due with killing their daughters [the so-called honor killings] and leave it to their uncles to rape them.”
Randers municipal court found MP Langballe guilty of hate speech under Denmark’s penal code, article 266b, after duly honoring Danish legal precedent to deny Langballe the right to prove his truthful allegation that Muslim families often sexually abuse and murder their daughters for family honor. In such cases, Danish law figures the truth immaterial. As if under Islamic libel law itself [20], Denmark may nowadays convict a defendant solely upon the personal offense taken or perceived in his or her statement. No actual crime need have occurred.
At his kangaroo court trial, MP Langballe therefore concluded, “With this article in the penal code, I must be assumed convicted in advance. I have no intention of participating in this circus. Therefore I confess.” Denmark denied MP Langballe both freedom of speech and due process — and may now fine or incarcerate him up to two years. [21]
This is but the most recent occasion that an elected official, journalist, or humanitarian has been charged for perceived defamations of Islam in their statements of fact and exact reiterations of Quranic and other Islamic sacred texts. In 2009, for instance, Finland convicted its best known political blogger, Jussi Kristian Halla-aho, then 38. [22]
And in May 2008, Gregorius Nekschot, a pseudonymous Dutch cartoonist, was similarly arrested and charged with discriminatory speech. In September 2010, Dutch prosecutors finally dropped charges against Nekschot (on the eve of Holland’s next travesty of justice). Despite a court order that he dismantle his personal website, Nekschot was victorious. “I can carry on making caricatures, perhaps even more controversial ones, because I have been allowed to keep my anonymity,” he said. [23]
Then came five charges of hate speech against Dutch MP Geert Wilders. Prosecutors initially ruled that Wilders’ statements might hurt Muslim feelings but weren’t crimes. But in January 2009, Amsterdam’s Appeals Court reversed the finding and ordered prosecutors to proceed. [24] At trial, an empaneled judge snidely remarked on Wilders’ intent to remain silent. An immediate appeal to replace the biased panel was denied. [25] Dutch prosecutors reiterated the legality of criticizing religion (Muslim feelings determine no “facts of the case”), but trial judges ignored their request to acquit on all five charges. [26]
After incontestable judicial bias surfaced, however, a new appeals court on October 22 terminated the Wilders trial. At a private May 2010 dinner party, Islamic expert and defense witness Hans Jansen revealed that magistrate Tom Schalken, one of the Amsterdam judges who ordered Wilders’ prosecution, had approached him to explain why Wilders must be prosecuted. Schalken’s unlawfully expressed, extra-judicial comment to a defense witness forced the appeals justices to order a new Wilders trial. [27]
Next up was Austria’s Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff — Pax Europa‘s Austrian representative and a former Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe envoy. Pax Europa, focusing on sharia law incursions and the simultaneous erosion of free speech in Europe, is Germany’s “foremost human rights organization,” she says. [28] In September 2010, Sabaditsch-Wolff learned she was accused of “defamation of religion” during a 2009 three-part seminar on “Islamization of Europe” for the Freedom Education Institute (FEI). She is not a member of FEI or any part of the late, controversial Joerg Haider‘s “far-right” Austrian Freedom Party. But even if Sabaditsch-Wolff did belong, it would not be criminal: the state gives public monies to the Austrian Freedom Party’s Institute.
Moreover, Sabaditsch-Wolff based her academic observations on experience gained, by choice, from living most of her adult life “in Arab and Muslim-majority countries.” Exactly which statements prompted Vienna’s prosecutor to indict her for hate speech, he did not see fit to specify. [29] She was “tried” in Vienna, if one can call it that, in November 2010. No decision has yet been announced.
I’m wondering what are the roots of the ‘free speech under attack’ in Europe? Twenty years ago you’d easily say any of the facts that now ensue in charges of hate crime.
It’s not only Europe that rots. The political correctness was well alive here prior to Europe’s current idiocy.
Yup, Muhammad (POS) was a pedophile. Sue me!
Only the soccer thugs can save Europe.
The bold peasantry that Oliver Goldsmith wrote about in the 1700s are in fact the soccer thugs of today. They are the descendants of the men who tilled the fields and forged the iron, not the vermin called the elites. The vermin called the elites have capitulated, and are the very same people who capitulated to Nazi Germany in 1939.
Unless there is a Revolution in Europe, Europe is finished…
This is a repeat of history: There have been battles in the past where Muslims tried to take over Europe… and it was only when the knights turned them back at cities like Poitiers in France, that the Muslim invasion was stopped – but this time it’s a different kind of Muslim invasion…
They have Conquered Europe without virtually firing a shot… And that brings us right back to America, is it much different here? it isn’t different here except by numbers…
There needs to be a charismatic leader – who is not a racist. We need a patriot, we need a nationalist – who is not a racist. Does he exist, does she exist, it’s possible – I just don’t know who it might be. We’re all waiting for that charismatic leader to arise, and lead this country out of the abyss,whether or not that individual exists, or can exist in this drugged up, psychopathic nation that we’re living in, is another story… and I have to leave that up to faith in G-d, I don’t have an answer.
–Kipling
How about Allen West?
Very true and very sad, how Churchill must be revolving in his repose! “Never in the field of human conflict was so much surrendered by so many to so few.” America must keep the torch of human freedom aloft now, Europe is a lost cause.
Nick Griffith was arrested in the early 2000s for pointing out that Muslim immigrants were grooming young white European girls for the sex trade.
The truth was no defense.
And even if you are acquitted the charge itself is the punishment.
This is besides non governmental negative consequences to your career and economic well being.
Europeans are going to have to decide whether their culture is a going concern, or if they are more concerned with promoting others cultures.
Today’s http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10021220 article is about the efforts to ban the Muslim terrorist Hizb ut-Tahrir in Norway.
They’re still pondering … Naturally, they’ve not yet got rid of their other Muslim terrorists.
Try applying the Jew-test, folks. Would it be OK for, say, Nancy Pelosi to state that there is a cultural acceptance for incest and rape among jews, based on one or two cases? Thats what Langballe did. WOuld it be OK for the editor of Wahington Post to sit on a council with people who march with neo-nazis? Thats what Hedegaard did.
The discussion of hatespeech and free speech is a difficult one, agreed, but given Europes nazi past we are rightly ( I think) vigilant against such hateful generalizations about cultural groups. The one slogan that all agreed on after the Holocaust was “Never Again”. Europes hate-speech laws reflect this, in Germany even being in posession of nazi literature is forbidden. You can discuss that principle all you like, but according to common Law both Hedegaard and Langballe were indeed guilty.
“The discussion of hatespeech and free speech is a difficult one, agreed, but given Europes nazi past we are rightly ( I think) vigilant against such hateful generalizations about cultural groups.”
In short, Yes and Yes. That’s what free speech means.
Don’t you perceive the irony of the same laws passed, with the best of intentions, to prevent the recrudescence of Nazism and protect Jews, being used now to protect the operations of the Nazis’ allies and heirs, who wish to massacre Jews?
No society can ever afford to blind itself to the truth simply because it’s uncomfortable.
Fair enough if you are a total free-speecher, but given the laws we have over here both of the danes are indeed guilty. So if you protest, make sure to state that you are protesting on behalf of the individuals right to hate-speech and for the legalization of nazism and anti-semitism. (Not to mention that this would also legalize muslim fanatics to extol to jihad in public spaces…) Gives it another spin, eh?
“Not to mention that this would also legalize muslim fanatics to extol to jihad in public spaces…”
I thought they were doing that already and that it didn’t count as hate speech because they are so “oppressed.”
There has been so much discussion about hate speech, the nazis etc… you are missing the point. If you prevent it from being said do you gain anything if it is still being thought by the masses? In this case you outlaw any Nazi or hate speech but you tolerate radical islamic marches and political killings of writers and others. If you use hate speech you must fear the government or do you more fear the long arm of the muslim underground???? Do they control the government by the ballot box and number of votes or because the elected officials are to afraid to say no to them. The US is moving that way. CNN decided to discuss the muslim cartoons that inflamed the muslim world but not show the cartoons but only a short time later they showed ??ART?? that included a cross in urine. I don’t want to hear their public excuses, their actions speak to loud for me to hear it.
Some say you never negotiate a perminant truce with a muslim, only a convenient cessation of hostilities. Some say the US war with the islamic Barbary pirates was never truly over just simmering under the surface. My hope is that the non-muslim part of the US is close to their limit and is about to play cowboys and muslims and change the demographics. Time will tell????
I have to hand it to you Fnord, you really do try to debate but your lefty reasoning only goes around in circles. And those leaps of logic defy physics.
If I were in Denmark or Holland, etc., I’d be outside the courthouses protesting. Look how effective protesters were in Tunisia recently.
I seriously doubt the Danes or the Dutch people are for Muslim invasion and infringement of their freedom of expression.
At the present, such a protest by the natives would only land you in jail
What does one say, exactly, to the Danes? They’re practically finished as a nation anyway. One of the West’s worst economies. rampant socialism…Perhaps their failure might be a helpful example. A few Somali-style pirates in the Skaggerak might wake up the old Hanseatic League.
There is another possibility. How about the threat to boycott? Here’s some popular Danish companies that export to the USA:
Bang and Olufsen
Lego
Carlsberg beer
Just the threat might be enough. If their DC embassey starts getting a few score emails and phone calls aimed at the Danish wallet, it might make a difference. It is what I am going to do.
I don’t assume that Pajamas Media management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment, such as this one.
Denmark’s DC embassey can be reached at:
Phone:
+1-202-2344300
Fax:
+1-202-3281470
Email:
wasamb@um.dk
Let me remind you, that during the Cartoon crises there was no help or support for Denmark from the US – Non, zero, zilch, nada. Denmark a country of 5 million against 1 billion fanatic Muslims. At that crucial moment of truth, the US proved itself 100% to be a nation of absolutely gutless cowards when it comes to the fight for freedom of speech. George Bush publicly criticized the cartoons. Not a single major American newspaper publicized the Cartoons. It was extremely disappointing and disturbing.
Don’t over estimate American resolve in this matter. America is possibly the worst offender of all western countries.
Well JL, probably this was just because George W. Bush was a bad lefty. That all major American newspapers are liberal and left everybody in the world knows. That the Bush-Family made and makes much money in the oil-buisness and within countries like saudi-arabia has probably nothing to do with.
Also everybody looks like knows that it was Obama who is guilty for the economic crises which begun while his leftist friend George W. Bush was president.
The Prime Directive holds sway on this one. If the Danes are okay with their freedoms being taken, I see no point in insinuating ourselves into their decision. I see no case made in this article for defending Europe and their increasingly tenuous values. Most of them find Muslims to be much more appealing than Americans, so they’ve made their choice.
Call me when the Danes and Dutch start charging Muslims with hate speech and sedition. This is more than a case of “free speech for them” but not the rest of us. This is full on capitulation, a voluntary assumption of dhimmitude.
Throughout Europe, Muslims can say the vilest, hate-filled genocidal rants against gays, Jews, and native Europeans in their mosques and on the streets, and NO ONE takes them to task for it. A lutheran pastor can be charged with homophobia, but has an imam EVER been charged for same offense? A few years ago, a group of Dutch schoolchildren on a trip to a mosque were told by an imam (in Arabic) that they are “the progeny of apes and pigs.” Aside from a bit of hand-wringing and blog entries, did anyone charge that imam with a hate crime? Imagine if Muslim kids were called names by a priest, that priest would be hauled off to court before the sun set.
“In other words, the law gives the prosecutor endless latitude to levy criminal charges over a wide range of easily misconstrued statements by or about almost anyone.”
Funny how this guy can be hauled into court and put on trial, but all of those Muslim fanatics who held RIOTS in Denmark over some stupid cartoons are simply allowed to “express their opinion.” If a bunch of Muslims defame and insult the west, Christians, not to mention their home country Denmark, isn’t that “hate speech?” This is just another example of how the west is trying to humor Muslims in fond hopes that they won’t, in the end, come and kill you, or at the very least try to take over your country. Appeasing your enemy will never work. Thought the Europeans learned that bitter lesson in 1939, when Hitler invaded Poland.
I notice the patronizing comments addressed to the Europeans in some posts, like “Europe needs a revolution.”
Yes, Europe’s cultural identity, based on the tenets of Western Civilization, has been under assault for decades now; the European side of the “West” has to a large extent become history.
But what about the American (never mind Austalia/New Zealand) side of that “West” (Canada and the US)? Well, Western Civ has been disappearing as well, for decades in Canada and in an accelarated manner over the past two years here in the US.
The basic cause for the collapse of Western Civ can be found in the pages a wide ranging socio-political movements, under different terms and nomenclaure: liberalism, progressivism, leftism, marxism, socialism, communism, fascism, nazism, etc. All of them being forms of totalitarianism, and the seeds of the West’s own destruction. Rampant leftism with their (often contradictory) sub-components of atheism, islam, statism, homosexuality, abortionism, environmental extremism, unchecked Keynesianism. The downfall of the West, fueled by these authoritarian ideologies, has been concomitantly feeding from corruption in the public sector of a scale unimaginable only a few years ago, a truly totalitarian state-run “press,” and a court system owned by this perverted ideology, all blended within statist capitalism.
The shield that protects and maintains this stench of liberalism by seemingly “democratic” means is of course “political correctness” cum “hate speech” provisions – both nothing but totalitarian restraints on free speech, Constitutional rights and national identity. In effect, the initial consequences of this liberalism, its telltale signs everywhere throughout the Western World, have been the informal abolition of the local Constitution and the rejection of all aspects of national sovereignty.
We live in a nodal era, that historians will compare to that of the fall of feudalism in Europe. Progressives refer to this, of course, as cultural progress; in reality, it’s the de-composition of human societies and a march towards a lawless new phase of “primitivism” and destruction of traditional Western values with no clear sign as to what will emerge in the aftermath of a complete breakdown of Western Civilization. Physicists have a term for this: a state of increased entropy.
Revolution is not needed only in Europe. If survival is still an instict within us, what we need is revolution in all formerly “Western” settings, including the US. That’s how we can confront and counter these global de-stabilizing, de-composing, destructive forces at work. We need above all leaders who understand the global nature of these forces and can lead such a campaign.
In effect, as silly as this might sound, we need an anti-BHO, who campaigned knowing fully well the global forces behind his rhetoric (actually, his handlers did, he’s just the puppet). But what he represents (a Kenyan/Indonesian arrogantly sitting in the Oval Office) is nothing short of the utter destruction and elimination of the West as an Idea.
I agree…but good luck finding anyone of the guitar sawing, gaping mouth “singing”/yelling, pants falling down, pierced, tatooed, celebrity worshipping generation who will turn off the computer porn, set down the game controller, mute the cellphone, move out of their girlfriends apartment and take up a cause other than tolerance and diversity, free love and free babies.
I guess I’m a little tireder than I thought…
How can we in the West win the war against radical Islam when little by little our rights are being taken away by liberal and PC law-makers? I was fired from a job for making a comment about Moslem terrorists to a colleauge in the ladies room. FIRED FOR FREE SPEECH. Anti-Israel, flag-burning protestors in Toronto are left unpunished while those across the street who answer back are pushed aside by police and threatened with jail. I am a witness to this. The world has gone mad….and as long as the inmates are running things, we have little chance of winning this war.
Toronto Girl there is no good answer to your question but I would offer a long shot option for you to watch. In the US it is called the Tea party. Depending on where you get your news from you can hear everyone and anyone slamming them. In effect that is what makes them so refreshing, they scare the snot out of both sides. Which is what our system needs, a serious house cleaning. To many professional politicians that don’t work for those that elected them and don’t know how to work for a living the tea party may represent a wake up call. To many of our politicians have the moral fiber of a slug. Interesting reading might be the book, The 5000 Year Leap. It discusses how the founding fathers accepted that a democratic government cannot long exist if it’s elected officials are not people of high moral standing. Our political system lost that long ago and it is only with the reversal of this back slide that the country has any hope. Lets hope that the tea party can spark that peaceful revolution that we so badly need.
What comes next for the former West?
“Barbarianism ante portas” now would be a good guess.
I doubt most Europeans would care if American liberties diminish, they may even take the perverse opportunity to see themselves superior. I don’t think most care about Americans, period and I think there’s a possibility if we did inject our support they may take offense.
Most would not lift a finger on our behalf. We should quit deluding ourselves, pull out of NATO and kiss our former allies goodbye.
All I can say is, thank God for our Constitution and our First Amendment — you know, that dusty old document written at least 100 years ago.
How lucky we Americans are to inherit a culture where no aristocracy ever existed. Europeans spent most of their history bowing to an elite class, therefore, they obviously don’t value individual freedom. The concept that you stay in the class into which you are born is the antithesis of America, but has been entrenched in most of the world’s cultures for millenia. It’s unlikely any mass protests over loss of free speech will occur in countries with those ancient traditions.
Old causes die, and new ones replace them in mankind’s lust for power over his fellow humans. It must be a human frailty, because it keeps repeating through history; after all, it’s only been 65 years since Hitler and Mussolini, and a mere 30 since the USSR. Where was free speech then? Is the EU headed back down the same path of totalitarian elitists controlling the people? Sadly, it is looking more and more like history repeating itself.
Hopefully, Americans are waking up to our drift in that direction, and enough freedom lovers will reverse the course before we, too, fall into the dustbin of failed states. The media tried to sell the idea that ivy leaguers were superior to the rest of us, but it is now falling on more-enlightened ears. When the truth of the Kennedy men was exposed, the idea of a America as a neo-Camelot championed by Europhiles failed, but most Americans laughed at the idea from the start. When the ivy league elitist’s left-leaning economic theories were re-tried after having failed under FDR, the concept of letting them rule over us was refuted Nov 2, 2010. Most Americans believe in tolerance, and tolerance works both ways; don’t force your religion on me.
To paraphrase Alanis Morrissette: Isn’t it ironic that…
in the aftermath of 9/11, the biggest hate crime perpetrated by Muslims on a single day, offense to Islam has become a bigger crime against humanity than terrorism, and theoretical victims of anti-muslim sentiment count for more than actual victims of muslim terror?
All of Western Civilization has a death wish and the only hope for survival as darkness descends across the world is for the non-dhimmified to seek their own land and secede from the rotting corpse of Western Civilization. The liberal college kids from the 80′s who were chanting “hey hey ho ho western civ has got to go” are now in the seats of power and have found, in Islam, the means to end western civ once and for all.
…where exactly does this land might be found?
Europe has rotted;and the hundreds of thousands of American boys who died for its freedom have been betrayed.Europeans are morally castrated,hedonistic ,feckless louts with no future.Let ‘em rot.Anyone who proposes saving them from Islam,China,a resurgent Russia, or whatever,should be arrested and placed in an insane asylum!
Hey FS SNERD I thought that supressing free speech was part of “Europe’s Nazi past”! Evidently, it’s okay to use Nazi tactics to defend Islam! As for Pelousy or any leftist politician ,here, or in Europe,it’s fine to appear and even collaborate with a thugs, criminals, and anti semites,as long as those persons are leftist thugs, or muslims.Look at Obama and Bill Ayres. If you could leave planet Dhimni, and return to earth,SNERD , you might notice that European Imans have been openly preaching the destruction of the West.Europe’s hate speech laws, represent a threat to freedom period!
If Democracy, Capitalism and Christianity (the three pillars of the West) can’t defend themselves against the enemies within and without, who’s going to do the job for them? Leftist totalitarianism, communism or islam?
Get real.
I’m watching as the two commies, Hu and Soetoro, are discussing the fortunes of the West and I’m thinking: “boy, are we in good hands.”
It’s not just Europe. Look what happened to Mark Steyn and Erza Levant in Canada. Apparently there is some of Human rights commission in Canada that decides whether your speech is really hate speech or not. And unless your have money, time and lawyers available you have better watch what you say.
Freedom is under attack by bureaucrats, self-anointed frustrated personalities who can accomplish nothing on their own in the real world.
BTW recall Obama’s FCC liaison Wilson praised Chavez’s handling of the media in Venezuela. Couple that with O’s effort to destroy democracy in Honduras it is sort of obvious what the Prez has planned for the US.
Kudos to Alyssa! Excelelnt recap of Western Liberties. Unfortunately, the link for ref #17 is not in English. Ref # 15 should be required reading for every public official in the Western World. When will the MSM understand the implications of Muslim perceptions about their duty for jihad and “dawa”. When will public officials and MSM recognize that “dawa” means defeating democracy?
Thank you for your praise. Yes, the link to 17 IS in English —- if you scroll down to page 15, 16 or 17, where the English translation begins. You will find this document most enlightening.
Thank you for the praise. Yes, the link to 17 is in English if you scroll down to page 15-17 or so where it begins. You will find the translation most enlightening.
i am wondering from which information you all are drawing your knowledge of “the europeans”?
Nearly everybody here knows so well about europe that i would like to ask you one thing: Whom of you ever was visiting europe physically in the last years?
If i would speak about “the americans” because i am reading here at the pajamas and thus think every american is like this all my friends should think i am stupid.
Much other threads here are leaving the impression that the USA will collapse in the next years because of PC, stupid laws and because of the “leftists”.
So what is true now? Who is really rotten? The USA or europe?
The history of the USA is about 400 years old or maybe only 300.
Europe has an history of more than 2000 years. there was a lot of changes, but europe still exists and so will the USA still exist too in the next 100 years. i am very sure about this.
All your fears about the forthcoming catastrophe is just because of the relative short history of the USA i think.
sometimes it really looks like if the USA has becoming a country of people being afraid about much things just because they cant rule the world anymore so absolute like 20 years ago. just because islam and china had become more strong.
What do you think about this thoughts?
It is argued here that BOTH Europe and the US are collapsing (in fact the whole of the West is); read the threads (all of them) carefully, if possible.
I was born a European, and now I’m a citizen of the US; my parents and brother still live there; so, I know a thing or two about Europe. You’re right though, your knowledge of the US is very limited. And one more thing, “collapsing” doesn’t mean that Europe the Continent is or will disappear, lefty.
well, i had the impression that this thread is mainly about europe, but maybe you really think about the “West” when speaking about Denmark?
I read sentences like:
“Europe has rotted”
“I doubt most Europeans would care if American liberties diminish, they may even take the perverse opportunity to see themselves superior.”
“Europeans spent most of their history bowing to an elite class, therefore, they obviously don’t value individual freedom.”
“Throughout Europe, Muslims can say the vilest, hate-filled genocidal rants against gays, Jews, and native Europeans in their mosques and on the streets, and NO ONE takes them to task for it.”
But you are right too. there are other comments here involving the USA and Canada into discussion. F.e. this one i just read:
“Let me remind you, that during the Cartoon crises there was no help or support for Denmark from the US – Non, zero, zilch, nada. Denmark a country of 5 million against 1 billion fanatic Muslims. At that crucial moment of truth, the US proved itself 100% to be a nation of absolutely gutless cowards when it comes to the fight for freedom of speech. George Bush publicly criticized the cartoons. Not a single major American newspaper publicized the Cartoons. It was extremely disappointing and disturbing.
Don’t over estimate American resolve in this matter. America is possibly the worst offender of all western countries.”
Nobody commented this one yet. what do you think about this one righty?
Having been to most of the European countries, I can say this — I’ve met more Europeans (especially in non-tourist areas) that are far, far, far more sympathetic to the US (and it’s policies) than the media would lead us to believe. My partner and I were in a gay bar in Copenhagen a few years ago and I was shocked to find that several of the people we met were, 1) supportive of GWB and 2) supportive of the Iraq War/War on Terror. From what I was lead to believe (in the US/European media, anyway) these people simply didn’t exist in Europe.
And frankly, I was disgusted by the lack of a response to the cartoon issue, both from the US media and from the President. I chalk it up to PC, plain and simple. To the left in the US, Muslims are part of the “victim” class and therefore, beyond criticism. That, and to a lesser degree, the fact they were far more likely to be bombed by criticizing Muslims (for once) than Christians or Jews (like they do on a daily basis).
I think Europe and Denmark have lost the fight, again. This time we have our own fight to deal with. If they don’t notice the loss of freedoms I doubt that anything the dumb Yanks say will impact their system. I am not very confident about the positive impact you would see if you send it to you Congressman but could it hurt. Tell them what the future can look like if we keep going the way we are headed. Push the politically correct group out the door and be honest. If it stinks say so. Why do people ask muslims that claim to be moderate (no radical terrorist)to denounce many of the core parts of islam, killing of apostates, homosexuals, violence against women, slavery, insulting and lying to non-muslims. Because they will never fit into a modern democratic society if they don’t move past the system based in the dark ages. If they don’t want to be obligated by the US Constitution why do we let them stay. First time I hear someone wanting sharia law I want to take up a collection so they can go back to where they came from, NOW! If you came to change us, NO Thanks!
This is a major article for the defenders of Free Speech, a Gold Medal to you Mrs Lappen.
Completing the works of Fjordman and Bat Ye’Or (and others ), you have provided the
West with a valuable tool for quick cross-referencing of the attacks against opinionating,
against democracy at large.
With this type of easy sourcing can strategies be set up because of the clearer vision of
those fatal events. Not only defend, but attack the enemies within and without, be it in
Europe, in the US and Latin America.
Europe currently has a non-democratically elected maoist President Juan M. Barroso.
The US have President Obama, who wrote in his book “Dreams of my father” :
” I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction” (!).
Thank you, Mrs lappen.
Dear Yves –
You are most welcome for this article, and I hope it proves as useful as you suggest. But I’m not sure I merit the same stellar ranking as my friend and mentor Bat Ye’or.
All of us have learned from her, as well as from David Littman; he has for upwards of 30 years gone into the U.N.’s beastly Geneva belly to expose encroaching totalitarian Islamic law and globalists before various so-called Human Rights commissions. Alas, a great many more need yet to learn.
Take verbal arms, nos cityoens!
The law of the United States is derived from the living God. The “sharia” law was concocted by the man, now dead, named Mohammed, some few centuries ago. God’s law leads us to life, while Mohammed’s law leads always to death. The claim of muslims is wrong.
The new EU Directive, the “racism clause” in Denmark’s penal code and the “defamation of religion” charge in Austria are all cruel and unintelligent because they try to outlaw opinion. Opinions come to we humans as easily as breathing. Some opinions are criminal and some are beautiful, but none have any effect, for good or ill, by themselves. No wonder the US 1st Amendment protects opinions. However the danger from the Muslims is that they want to put their criminal opinions into practice. The difference between those who believe in Sharia and those who take steps to implement it should be easy to see. Everyone, Jew, Gentile, Muslim should be allowed their opinion, but those who wish to harm others because of their opinions should be stopped. There was no harm coming from Hedegaard, Langballe, Wilders or Elizabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff because of their opinions. The harm, if any, comes from those who hear the opinions and decide to be violent. The diference between stating an ugly opinion and advocating a crime should be obvious. If a nation, including its lawyers and politicians, cannot see the difference then they cannot hope to uphold justice, in which case they do not desrve to be a nation.
What about “Holocaust deniers”? Historian David Irving was jailed in Austria in 2003 (kept there for a year) for “Holocaust denial,” a matter of speaking his mind and disclosing it to contain thoughts/beliefs that Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, and other bastions of human rights have laws against.
Will we (they) have free speech, or no?
If your Jewish I figure now is the time to move if you live in Europe.
The cowardice of European leadership , if not their eager participation. Will once again fall upon the Jew as the scapegoat. You see it already in Malmo Sweden, Amsterdam & other places as far as India. In colleges & universities World wide. The hatred Islam has for this people is even worse than the Nazis. Muslims just have never had the chance to do what they want. The infrastructure of death to deal out.
After years of infiltration & subversion of the Media along with the ruling classes in Eurabia. The Islamists can now begin to fulfill there dreams of bloodshed against all mankind.
Is it to late for North America?
JMO
Thank you, Alyssa, for mentioning my case here in Austria. For the latest info, readers should go to http://www.savefreespeech.org. I need all the help I can get to defeat this ridiculous – and dangerous – charge.