Note there is no section "Sharia law in the US".
The First Amendment stops any such nonsense dead.
Sharia law in the West
As I say on the
Islam in the West
page,
millions of Muslims and ex-Muslims have come to the West
precisely to escape sharia law.
Instead they want to live in western freedom.
Unfortunately, surveys of the West,
the UK
and Ireland
show that many other Muslims in the West
want to import the failed ideas of their home countries
- namely rule by the decrees of an alleged holy book.
They are
Islamists
- essentially religious fascists who want to impose their religious beliefs
on the rest of us.
What to do about these aggressors is one of the questions of our time.
Islamism has made little progress in threatening our
civil liberties in the West so far.
But there is a steady and constant threat.
Petition against sharia:
"People of all nations should be unequivocally supported in their struggle against Sharia law and should be able to live in societies where universal human rights and nationwide citizenship rights are guaranteed.
There is no place in the 21st century for Sharia. Full stop."
Redeker
directly criticised Mohammed, the Koran and the Islamic religion
in 2006.
Death threats from violent Islamic fascists drove him
and his wife and children from their home.
In theory, we have the freedom to criticise Islam in the West.
In practice, we know we don't.
Someday, hopefully in my lifetime,
we will have the freedom to criticise Islam without fear -
as we can Christianity.
Robert Spencer
goes through the 18 complaints
brought against Oriana Fallaci by a radical Islamist.
It is outrageous that any of these were even entertained.
Fallaci Beheaded
by Robert Spencer, February 13, 2006
- Leftists in Italy depict Fallaci beheaded by their jihadi heroes.
"Veneziano's painting is doubly offensive, however, in light of the fact that Fallaci herself
has been driven out of Italy by frivolous charges that she has "defamed Islam."
Giuseppe Veneziano is not on trial for depicting Fallaci decapitated, but Fallaci faces trial
for making a series of heated but largely true statements about Islam and Muslims."
Fallaci died before the Islamists and their left-wing appeasers could try her.
Austria
Susanne Winter was
convicted in Jan 2009 of incitement to hatred and degradation of religious doctrines.
She said Mohammad was a pedophile, and
Islam is "a totalitarian system of domination that should be cast back to its birthplace
on the other side of the Mediterranean."
Such statements should be legal in every free society.
I'd like to see everything she said - for example,
she apparently said
that Muslim men should commit bestiality rather than making "indecent advances" on girls.
But it is very disturbing that
"degradation of religious doctrines"
should be illegal.
She has to live in hiding from Muslim fanatic death threats.
Finland
Politician and blogger
Jussi Halla-aho
charged with blasphemy and incitement of an ethnic group for
calling Mohammad a pedophile.
See here
and here:
"Far from being racists and bigots, the people who being singled out for "extra attention" by the state are nothing more than political dissidents in the classical sense."
The Swedish government
got the
hoster of one of the websites
of the
Sweden Democrats
to delete the website
in 2006
for displaying the
Muhammed cartoons.
"I will defend freedom of the press no matter what the circumstances .."
said the hypocrite
Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Laila Freivalds,
as she got the website shut down.
She later had to resign for this,
and the site went back up.
Who are the Sweden Democrats?
Like the BNP,
they have a
racist, anti-semitic and neo-Nazi past
that they are trying to move beyond,
and move towards a supposedly non-racist anti-immigration position.
Whether they have succeeded or not I don't know.
They seem to be trying harder than the BNP.
In 2002, their vice-chairman advocated banning mosques and Islamic clothing.
But they do not seem to have any officially racist policies.
But I would still keep my distance for a while.
Having said that,
the Swedish government's actions are still outrageous.
There are claims that the website was shut down
not because of the original (Danish) cartoons,
but because of an extra cartoon.
The extra cartoon can be seen
here.
It is very mild.
Such speech must be legal,
just as criticism and parodies of Christianity
are.
Pim Fortuyn came 1st in the people's vote for
greatest ever Dutchman
on Dutch TV
in 2004.
Theo van Gogh,
critic of Islam, murdered 2004
by a young Islamic fascist.
Van Gogh was killed for making the film
Submission
with
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
about Islamic violence against women.
Western feminists don't care.
The silence of the left
- "Do they care someone was killed for making a film which protested violent abuse against women?
Are they even interested?"
The evil jihadi killer
Mohammed Bouyeri
- grew up in one of the world's freest and most tolerant societies,
won after hundreds of years of struggle,
yet rejected it and turned to medieval
hatred and religious fascism.
Unfortunately,
instead of leaving
and going to some tyrannical hellhole where he would be happy,
he stuck around Holland and tried to attack it.
In future, could people like these
please leave?
The world is a big place, and there are lots of medieval hellholes where you could be happy.
Total victory for the killers of Theo van Gogh.
What the jihad couldn't achieve, the left helped them with:
(*) Yes, she was basically driven out because of
her ideas and her unpopularity,
i.e. for criticising Islam.
Would the government have stripped the citizenship of any other refugee
(who had been in Holland since 1992!)
for such trifling irregularities in the immigration process?
Why her?
There was
uproar about this in Holland.
The
Dutch government fell over the issue.
The Minister for Immigration
Rita Verdonk
lost her job
(though she re-gained it later).
Hirsi Ali was in the end allowed stay in Holland.
It is unclear whether she is currently living in Holland or the USA.
There was a dispute between Holland and the US over who pays for her security.
Both the US and Dutch governments should pay.
Apart from anything else, Hirsi Ali is an important figure in the struggle of the
US and Holland against their domestic and foreign enemies.
Hirsi Ali is part of the war effort.
Protecting people like Hirsi Ali is exactly
the kind of thing that the US and Dutch security budget should
be spent on.
Christopher Hitchens, Oct. 8, 2007:
"If a prominent elected politician of a Western country can be left undefended against highly credible threats from Islamist death squads, what price all of our easy babble about not "appeasing terrorists"?
...
does the "war on terror" administration take no interest in protecting the life of one of the finest enemies, and one of the most prominent targets, of the terrorists?"
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: abandoned to fanatics, by Sam Harris and Salman Rushdie, October 9, 2007:
"Hirsi Ali may be the first refugee from Western Europe since the Holocaust.
...
It is difficult to exaggerate her courage.
As Christopher Caldwell
wrote in the New York Times, 'Voltaire did not risk, with his every utterance, making a billion enemies who recognized his face and could, via the Internet, share information instantaneously with people who aspired to assassinate him.'
...
There is not a person alive more deserving of the freedoms of speech and conscience we take for granted in the West, nor is there anyone making a more courageous effort to defend them."
After death threats,
she goes into hiding
and the Dutch museum removes the exhibit.
Terrorism works.
Sooreh Hera
understands the Enlightenment:
"Works of art can be provocative.
It is not an artist's job just to paint flowers.
Art should shine a light on social issues."
So does Wouter Bos,
the deputy prime minister:
"In a democracy, we do not recognise the right not to be insulted."
Sooreh Hera
says she has "no regrets".
"I do it for them, for the boys and girls with no freedom in Iran."
The Catch the Fire Ministries case
- The prosecution (and conviction) of Christians for criticising Islam
- the start of sharia law in Australia.
It is true that
Catch the Fire Ministries
are Christian extremists
with whom I have little in common
- see their comment on
"Satan's strongholds".
But they were not prosecuted solely for comments like this.
They were prosecuted for normal criticism of Islam.
Many of the things they were prosecuted for saying
are simply true.
Andrew Bolt
urges the end of this obnoxious and disgusting law:
"The pastors were found guilty of vilifying Muslims
even though the judge identified only one thing Scot had said that was factually wrong:
he'd given the wrong birthrate for Muslims here."
The children's thriller
The Army of the Pure,
by the Australian author John Dale,
deserves widespread publicity
because it is the target of censorship.
His publisher dropped it
after
booksellers and librarians said they would not stock it
because the bad guys were Islamist terrorists.
The outrageous plot involved Afghan jihadis
plotting to
blow up the Lucas Heights
nuclear reactor in Sydney.
In 2005, 17 Australian and foreign Muslims were arrested and charged with
plotting to
blow up the Lucas Heights
nuclear reactor in Sydney.
As
Western Resistance says:
"Such is the state of the Western world.
While real Muslims plot real attacks upon Sydney's Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in the real world,
a fictional tale involving how children might react
if they knew something of a terror plot is banned."
Ezra Levant
has posted the videos
of his interrogation by
Shirlene McGovern.
Mark Steyn:
"at the end of this exchange, Agent McGovern, licensed to chill, looked blandly across the table and shrugged: "You're entitled to your opinions, that's for sure."
No, sorry. That cliché is no longer operative in Canada. Today you're only entitled to your opinions if Agent McGovern says you are - "for sure." Ezra Levant was of the opinion that he should publish the Danish cartoons. That opinion is now on trial."
Muslims Against Sharia
supports Ezra Levant.
They say:
"HRC legitimizes radicals' claims that Islam cannot be criticized".
Human-rights-hating Islamists using the
Canadian "human rights" commissions
to ban free speech about Islam and Islamism:
Shirlene McGovern complained about the publicity she is receiving.
Tough shit.
Trample on people's fundamental rights.
You should expect to receive lots of publicity.
"you'd think someone who regularly interrogates citizens about their private political views would be comfortable with the concept of public scrutiny".
Case starts to collapse.
Ezra Levant may even be able to sue
Syed Soharwardy,
Shirlene McGovern
and the Alberta "Human Rights" Commission for damages.
Hurray!
Let's hope they all lose their jobs.
Let's hope Ezra Levant gets costs with damages.
Syed Soharwardy and his mosque
should be forced to pay them.
Shirlene McGovern
asks to resign from the case.
"The human rights commission advised my lawyer that McGovern quit because of the public backlash against the commission - and against her in particular. In other words, she didn't like being called a censor in the blogosphere.
I'm not sympathetic. I believe that any government bureaucrat who makes a living interrogating citizens about their political beliefs ought to be held in public contempt. McGovern truly doesn't get it - she thinks what she does for a living is perfectly bland, just like her."
Shirlene McGovern
is the public face of sharia law in the West.
She threatens all of our freedoms, all across the West.
Did she really think people wouldn't hate her for that?
If you're going to threaten people's human rights,
you should have the guts to stand up to the abuse you will get.
The great
Mark Steyn
was the subject of a similar
lawsuit
from the obnoxious, speech-stifling
Canadian Islamic Congress,
who are "offended" by an article they read, or something.
The Canadian "Human Rights" Commission
grovels before real human rights abusers:
On
27 Oct 2008,
government censor
Jennifer Lynch
of the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission
welcomed lackeys of the
regime of Cameroon:
"I extend a warm welcome to our distinguished international guests, Mr. Divine Chemuta Banda, Chief Commissioner of the Cameroon National Human Rights and Freedom Commission, and Mr. Moise Segue, also from the Cameroon Commission."
As
Mark Steyn says, 25 June 2009:
"Freedom House ranks the country not merely as "not free," but as one of the 20 worst nations on earth for political rights and civil liberties, down there at the bottom of the barrel with Burma, Equatorial Guinea, North Korea and Sudan.
...
If you schmooze enough Third World thug states, it's not surprising your postmodern cultural relativism starts to drift past the point of no return."
Rex Murphy
on the Steyn case.
See
transcript:
"Time was when "human rights" was a truly large and noble idea."
He says he associates it with genocide and so on.
"What I do not associate with this deep and noble concept is getting ticked off by something you read in a magazine".
Defend
Mark Steyn
against the offensive
lawsuit of the obnoxious, speech-stifling
Canadian Islamic Congress.
Stop sharia law in Canada!
"She's a thug. You're a thug."
Ezra Levant
sticks it to government censor and sharia enforcer
Shirlene McGovern.
Brilliant stuff.
"In the last year and a half, I couldn't have asked for a doughtier comrade in my battles with Canada's disgusting "human rights" commissions. ... At the beginning of my own troubles, a lot of fellows told me: Stand well back from all this; play it cool; let the legal process work itself out... If Maclean's and I had done that, we'd have been thrice convicted by now. It was only because Ezra chose to go Magna Carta on the HRC's totalitarian ass, and I decided to follow, that the thought police decided that, for the moment, discretion is the better part of valor.
If Commissar Lynch
and Commissar MacNaughton
and the rest think that all they have to do is lie low for a few months, this book is a timely reminder that Ezra and I are in this till we win."
- The great
Mark Steyn, 24 March 2009, on his and Ezra Levant's temporary defeat of the appalling, sharia-enforcing, Canadian "human rights" commissions.
"The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic."
- H. L. Mencken
on ludicrous ideas such as getting the state to enforce a book you believe is "holy".
is being prosecuted
for "hate speech" in Austria,
apparently for this speech.
Looks like a big victory for freedom:
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal rules that
Canada's hate speech law is an unconstitutional violation of right to free expression, Sept 2009.
Since 1995.
