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- People Know The Consequences: Why Did France Allow The Tabloid To Provoke Muslims?
No more CONDEMNING screed against the demands of Islam exists than Anjem Choudry ‘explaining’ that Muslims just cannot be provoked, and that freedom of speech (which will always ultimately be blasphemy to SOME) is a product of our corruption. From...
- Unfree Speech
I was surprised by Mezba's comment in this post:Rushdie’s writings were offensive to Muslims and I have no problem with countries banning his books and what not.That almost-flippant remark says a lot.No nation has absolute free speech. For example,...
- Better Integration Of Muslims By Not Bothering Them With Western Values
The Al Guardian, this mouthpiece for Muslim grievances and generally any wrong, evil, or doomed cause, tells us how to be more sensitive: Turkish Urges Tolerance Toward Muslims Wednesday June 28, 2006 8:16 PM By JAN SLIVA Associated Press Writer STRASBOURG,...
- "the Whole Facade Of Free Speech Is A Bluff"
Islam, as it is taught by those who adhere to its radical element (which unfortunately, is very sizable), is an anti-freedom philosophy and a form of mental slavery. If you don't believe me, look at the title of this post, and read this article about...
- Ibn Warraq On What's At Stake
From Ibn Warraq, Muslim dissident, in Der Spiegel: "The cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten raise the most important question of our times: freedom of expression. Are we in the west going to cave into pressure from societies with a medieval...
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When Muslims have no problem with free speech
(Australia) How many times have you heard a demand by Islamic groups or their supporters that freedom of expression can sometimes go too far and that whatever they are complaining about (Mohammed cartoons, Salman Rushdie, Nike Trainers, EDL) is simply a step too far, reeks of that invented word 'Islamophobia' and thus by default is racist, offensive to Muslims and so should be banned?Click on the title to read the whole thing at Eye on the World.
But have you noticed how the very freedoms they object to are deemed an inalienable human right when they need to express themselves? Be it wearing the burka, building a minaret or even living under Sharia law in a non-Islamic country, then freedom of expression is a must, and by being denied that right, Muslims have become the new Jews.
Which is why I wish to discuss a news story currently hitting the headlines in Australia. There, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission has highlighted how the Islamic parents of a very small child who allowed their young daughter to hold a racist placard at a rally did her a terrible injustice. The rally during the Israeli/Gaza war of 2009 resulted in the child hosting a placard which read:
- People Know The Consequences: Why Did France Allow The Tabloid To Provoke Muslims?
No more CONDEMNING screed against the demands of Islam exists than Anjem Choudry ‘explaining’ that Muslims just cannot be provoked, and that freedom of speech (which will always ultimately be blasphemy to SOME) is a product of our corruption. From...
- Unfree Speech
I was surprised by Mezba's comment in this post:Rushdie’s writings were offensive to Muslims and I have no problem with countries banning his books and what not.That almost-flippant remark says a lot.No nation has absolute free speech. For example,...
- Better Integration Of Muslims By Not Bothering Them With Western Values
The Al Guardian, this mouthpiece for Muslim grievances and generally any wrong, evil, or doomed cause, tells us how to be more sensitive: Turkish Urges Tolerance Toward Muslims Wednesday June 28, 2006 8:16 PM By JAN SLIVA Associated Press Writer STRASBOURG,...
- "the Whole Facade Of Free Speech Is A Bluff"
Islam, as it is taught by those who adhere to its radical element (which unfortunately, is very sizable), is an anti-freedom philosophy and a form of mental slavery. If you don't believe me, look at the title of this post, and read this article about...
- Ibn Warraq On What's At Stake
From Ibn Warraq, Muslim dissident, in Der Spiegel: "The cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten raise the most important question of our times: freedom of expression. Are we in the west going to cave into pressure from societies with a medieval...