Too Cowardly To Print Muhammad Cartoons?
At the same time, however, the leader of the international Islamic campaign against the freedom of speech, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the 57-government Organization of Islamic Cooperation, “urged all Muslims to exercise restraint in the face of this incitement,” according to a report in Arab News. “He reiterated the OIC’s principled position on developing an international consensus on dealing with a frequency of deliberate acts of incitement, within the framework of the Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18.” In other words, don’t riot and kill this time, since soon we will prevail upon dhimmi Western governments to outlaw criticism of Islam. After all, the dhimmi press is already falling into line on its own accord; how far away can ultimate victory really be?
The United Nations passed Resolution 16/18 in July 2011; it calls on member states to adopt legal restrictions on speech that fosters “defamation of religions.” Secretary of State Clinton and Ihsanoglu issued a statement urging member states of the United Nations “to take effective measures, as set forth in Resolution 16/18, consistent with their obligations under international human rights law, to address and combat intolerance, discrimination, and violence based on religion or belief.”
That sounds high-minded and impossible to be opposed; after all, who could be in favor of “intolerance, discrimination, and violence based on religion or belief”? However, when state authority is given the authority to define what constitutes “intolerance,” and Islamic supremacists like Ihsanoglu define as intolerant any honest discussion of how the texts and teachings of Islam are used to justify violence and recruit terrorists, this becomes a call for authoritarian restrictions on the freedom of speech.
They’re coming. And even if they don’t, many of our media outlets will adopt them of their own accord. Just like the Daily Mail.
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Related: The New Free Speech Movement
These are the descendants of folk who put up with George III and stayed there…
U.S. Attorney’s office protected Rezko friend Dr. Ronald Michael
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Muslims are using the same tactic that Hitler and the Nazis used before WW2. No one wanted another war with Germany (especially after Germany had rearmed and was putting on parades showing its military strength). This allowed Hitler and the Nazis to commit aggression against other countries while the democracies tried everything they could to avoid a direct conflict with Germany. Then when the democracies were forced to fight, they faced a much more powerful Germany than they would have faced earlier if they had decided to face up to Nazi Germany.
This is the exact same tactic the Muslims are using today. They hold the threat of violence over our heads and get away with it. We cower before their threats, censor our own media to avoid anything that might “anger” them. We have become “dhimmi” in our own societies even though we are the majority and possess the means if necessary to use sufficient violence to teach them a lesson they won’t forget. Islam is a lot like Nazism, like Soviet and Chinese Communism, and should be properly seen not as a religion, but an aggressive political philosophy that poses as a religion.
NO. Islam is NOT “an aggressive political philosophy that poses as a religion.”
Politics has been best described as “power-trading,” but in islam, there’s no give-and-take “trading” at all – it’s ALL “Take.”
Islam is Submission to the threat of force; islam is extortion, and extortion is a crime.
So obviously Islam is ONLY an ancient, ongoing extortion-racket CRIME-syndicate, and the only “religious” part in it, is where they say:
“God told us to commit these crimes!”
(Capisce?)!
I’m waiting for Piers Morgan to rag on Muslims the way he’s ragging on American gun and freedom proponents.
That is never going to happen. See the invasion of London by the Muslims. They already have areas that are submitted to the Sharia.
“…after all, who could be in favor of “intolerance, discrimination, and violence based on religion or belief”?”
“…the sensitivity to offending Muslims … is wholly and solely due to the fact that when such images are published, an uncomfortable number of Muslims tend to riot and kill in response.”
Answers the question, doesn’t it? — Islamofascists favor such behavior, mostly unopposed by their religious kin, which in reality means that almost all µslims do favor such behavior. Certainly their “botherhood” does. — And we, their targets, are supposed to agree?! “Out of my cold, dead, hands…”
“…to address and combat intolerance, discrimination, and violence based on religion or belief.”
Based on their own criteria for intolerance, Islam should be banned.
I don’t know if it’s cowardly, really. Consider that they know their governments won’t back them in this. All the governments ever do is talk about how bad “Islamophobia” is and how people need to be nice to Muslims. Our service members are expected to bend over backwards to Muslims in the field. The governments consider burning Korans – even accidentally – a terrible thing to do, whereas mocking Christians or other religions is considered free speech.
The governments set the tone. When you know your government will simply join in on castigating you, why sacrifice your own safety or that of your family?
I would say it is the appeasing governments who are cowardly, not the individuals.
“I don’t know if it’s cowardly, really. Consider that they know their governments won’t back them in this.” … “The governments set the tone.”
The government only sets the tone when a population ALLOWS them to set that tone.
Courage is not standing up only when you know the weight of government is supporting you. Courage is standing up for what you know to be right, even if NOBODY is standing in front of you, or even beside you. If this has to be explained to you, it probably means you are a coward.
You are right; I am a coward. About this, anyway. Even if I wanted to draw such cartoons, I wouldn’t, as I don’t want to be killed for it.
Easier to believe that if the media was not so in the bag for certain politicians, politics, etc. They act more as accomplices and if these people were culturally against Islam both government and media would be reacting differently. The West is still militarily superior to Islam it just chooses appeasement for its own reasons.
The sad part is that if the press was as neutral as its own ideals say it should be and the gov’t cared about its real job in protecting its citizens this would not be happening.
We’re just about a half-step away from Proggies telling us that we’re Anti-Muslim bigots for not being willing to voluntarily put our necks to their scimitars.
Since 2004, up to 884 innocent civilians, including at least 176 children, have died from US drone strikes in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan. A new report from the Stanford and New York University law schools finds drone use has caused widespread post-tramatic stress disorder and an overall breakdown of functional society in North Waziristan. In addition, the report finds the use of a “double tap” procedure, in which a drone strikes once and strikes again not long after, has led to deaths of rescuers and medical professionals. Many interviewees told the researchers they didn’t know what America was before drones. Now what they know of America is drones, death and terror.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yMOzvmgVhc&feature=player_embedded
There are no innocent Muslims.
And you have no reasoning or research skills! Got a reasoning problem? Get some! Get away from the government run media for truth. The web is world wide. Stay away from the MSM! Do not be a SERF!
Since 2004, up to 884 innocent civilians, including at least 176 children, have died from US drone strikes in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan. YES there is!
There are millions of innocent Muslims; don’t be an ass.
#7. This is Obama’s “clean” method of dealing with the bad guys. Much tidier that having all those soldiers and Marines blasting their way into enemy compounds to get to the jihadis. Now when Bush did the drone thing, liberals considered him to be a beast and a brute, and the outcry was ferocious. But with Obama? Not so much. After all, his intentions are good – and that is what really counts.
I don’t know, but giving needless offense in defense of free speech seems the least we can do, especially when the the “other side” does it all the time.
Who wants to help me set up a newspaper so we can print all the anti-Muslim cartoons anybody can devise? Bring some heavy weaponry with you to the office.
Exactly. The day we regain freedom of speech is the day we’re willing to fight and possibly die for it.
Terrific post. So when will PJ Media post the cartoons?
Probably the first and last time I’ll ever agree with you.
Hey PJ media Idont see you guys running any muhammad images. You want to run a story about to cowardly to print. PRINT IT YOUR SELVES.
One of the first times I wrote to a conservative website publisher was to raise the question of Yale Univerity Press’s cowardice in not publishing muhammed cartoons, as promised to the author of a book about that very thing.
So, ARE there images or AREN’T there? See, if nobody prints them, we…can’t…know.
I haven’t printed any images of the founder of islam either, but if someone asserts that I did without producing proof…it’s ridiculous. Why assert, or even talk about, what is not being published when, by NOT publishing a thing, it’s impossible to know if it ever existed in the first place?!
WSJ online does a funny thing (James Taranto actually), called the Bottom Stories of the Day. They are usually headlines about things that will not happen as in, “Congress will take no action on thus and such,” or, “Octomom not pregnant,” that sort of thing.
We already know that the world is scared sh*tless of islam. It reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live sketch about,”…and this just in, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.” Well, the west is still peeing its pants.
So everybody is scared. God forbid we should do anything about it.
I salute saudis who have perfected the 20 and 21 st war game. No arms and soldiers needed now from saudis. Just their book and mullahs are doing the job by converting poor and uneducated class in a country and making sure they remain poor for many many generations doing the job of saudi destroying all converts nations internally. jai Ho Saudi. You are great No one gets this game plan yet even after 1400 yrs..
56 islamic nation still poor and all are ready to kill and die even after 1400 yrs of these facts
There’s a site that is quite philosophical about christianity, muslimism, cartoons and life in general, http://www.jesusandmo.net/