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.
When speaking out isn't allowed
by Diana West
- "What we have here in Paris is a little wave of sharia law lapping at Western justice."
Gagged in Paris
by Salman Rushdie
- about attempts to make criticism of Islam illegal in France.
French man prosecuted for burning the Koran, finally acquitted Oct 2011.
His lawyer said:
"In a secular and republican society, it is incomprehensible that my client was prosecuted. Blasphemy does not exist in France."
Italy
The prosecution of
Oriana Fallaci
for criticising Islam - the start of sharia law in Italy.
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.
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."
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.
Like the BNP,
the Sweden Democrats have a
racist, anti-semitic and neo-Nazi past
that they are trying to move beyond,
and move towards a 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.
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.
Whatever you think of the Sweden Democrats, this is just sharia.
"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.
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.
The Assyrian Christian immigrant
Issa Issa
is a member of the SD,
attracted no doubt by the party's opposition to the aggressive Islam
that has destroyed his
once Christian homeland.
In Sept 2010, he was attacked, beaten and stabbed
by a gang of Swedish Islamists
shouting
"fucking Christian, fucking Sweden Democrat".
Imran Firasat
is (allegedly) a Pakistani convert from Islam to Christianity.
He lives in Spain, where (definitely) he made a video critical of Islam.
Spain is now threatening to deport him for criticising Islam.
As at 2012-13, Spain is trying to deport Pakistani ex-Muslim
Imran Firasat
for the crime of criticising Islam.
If deported to Pakistan he faces death.
Spain is
afraid that violent Islamic maniacs will be angry with Spain for hosting him.
So they will do what the maniacs want,
and implement sharia law in Spain.
Spain lets in West-hating Islamists, such as the enemy scum who bombed Madrid.
And Spain deports West-loving anti-Islamists, because they are afraid of angering the Islamists!
Let in those who hate you.
Deport those who like you.
That's not going to end well.
The Imran Firasat case is complicated, though:
Counterjihad blog
Islam versus Europe
investigates his long, complex and dodgy past, and is worried that he may not even be genuine.
Though they point out that Spain is still threatening him for criticising Islam,
not for any other reason:
"Whatever the truth about Imran Firasat, it is clear that the Spanish government is acting against him because of his public criticism of Islam and not because of any dubious past that he may have. Its actions therefore deserve to be criticised on their own merits."
The documentary on Islam,
"The Innocent Prophet"
by
Imran Firasat. Ali Sina
says this film is complete rubbish, and I believe him.
But Spain cannot throw away freedom of speech for this.
Spain is trying to deport Firasat to his death because of this film.
Criticising Islam now carries a potential death sentence in Spain.
Critic of Islam
Imran Firasat declares his love for Spain on his video, formerly
here.
And yet Spain is considering deporting him to his death,
while people who hate Spain and want to destroy it are perfectly welcome.
The kind of man that is allowed into Spain:
The most evil man in Europe:
Islamic mass murderer
Jamal Zougam.
Born in Morocco.
Foolishly allowed into Spain, where he brutally killed 200 Spanish civilians
and maimed 2,000 more.
See list of Madrid bombers.
Image from here.
Total victory for the killers of Theo van Gogh:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali forced to flee Holland to USA, 2006.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali forced to flee Holland to USA.
To Holland's shame,
she is stripped of her citizenship
for trifling irregularities in the immigration process years earlier.
Despite being an elected MP,
and having been in Holland since 1992!
Hirsi Ali was in the end allowed stay in Holland.
But she moved to the US anyway.
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."
Shame on Holland for driving out
Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
after jihadis and leftists killed both Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh.
Cartoon from Cox and Forkum
(see here).
See Cartoon Use Policy.
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."
The Michael Smith case
sums up the surreal world of complaints about "offence" to Islam:
Australian radio broadcaster Michael Smith said in Jan 2009 that he thought the veil should be banned.
Omar Hassan said the radio station is
"owned by ... pigs and monkeys"
(a clear reference to this anti-semitic belief).
The "offended" Muslim immigrant also said Australia is a
"racist country ... No.1 on the world list for the violation of human rights".
(And yet he chose to live there!)
He hates the police:
"you can never recover from that disease of being a cop".
He hates the way non-Muslim women dress.
He expresses his disgust at being
"forced to look at the backside of a woman who bends over in front of me in supermarket".
He says non-Muslim female bottoms are dirty:
"Non-Muslim women do not use water to clean themselves when they go to the toilet."
And despite the clear evidence he is a religious loony,
the "Anti-Discrimination" Commission
upheld his complaint!
Mark Steyn, 9 Feb 2010:
"Every day, around the free world, liberty dims in the interests of appeasing thuggish ignoramuses like Omar Hassan. What kind of deal is that?"
The Australian Communications and Media Authority investigates Smith's comment that the prophet Muhammad
married and had sex with a child.
Offended Australian Muslim
Adem Cetinay
complains, and says it should be illegal in Australia
to describe the prophet Muhammad as a paedophile.
It is not a surprise to discover that
Adem Cetinay is a
Turkish Muslim supremacist
who complained about an Australian monument to the victims of the
Assyrian Genocide
(Christians slaughtered by Turks, 1914-20).
Non-Muslim females do not have dirty bottoms! Bodyform ad.
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:
Syed Soharwardy openly
promotes the brutal oppression of sharia:
"no jurist has the right to overrule the Qur'an and Prophet Muhammad ...
Islam is not a religion, it's a normal and natural way of life
... Islam provides a complete road map. This road map is called Shari'a.
From the early 7th century until the 18th century, the Islamic countries fully enforced the Islamic Shari'a. That might be the reason that the Muslims were the superpower of the world of that time. Currently, there is not a single Islamic state where Shari'a is enforced in its full and pure form."
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.
Support Ezra Levant
against the
Alberta "Human Rights" Commission.
Stop sharia law in Canada!
From here
and here.
"She's a thug. You're a thug."
Ezra Levant
sticks it to government censor and sharia enforcer
Shirlene McGovern.
Brilliant stuff.
Sharia enforcer
Shirlene McGovern
did not even know
that the 3 extra cartoons
were
fakes,
fabricated by
hate-mongering Danish Muslim clerics.
As Ezra Levant says:
"These are the bureaucrats who propose to tell me what I can or can't write about Danish cartoons - bureaucrats who don't even know what cartoons were published in Denmark, and lack even a child's curiosity to find out."
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."
On the other hand,
Canadian Supreme Court, Mar 2013, upholds prosecution of anti-gay Christian
Bill Whatcott.
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!
Sharia has made little progress in the US.
The First Amendment will probably stop the US from slipping down the road to sharia like
other western countries have.
But it is disturbing that attempts to copperfasten the ban on sharia have been challenged.
The vote was to change the
Oklahoma constitution to forbid
courts in Oklahoma from considering sharia law or international law in reaching their decisions.
Excellent.
Every free country in the world should pass a resolution like this.
The left will be no help in stopping sharia:
Keeping an eye on them pesky Ottomans. Irish Times Foreign Editor Patrick Smyth, 11 Dec 2010, laughs at the Oklahomans for wanting to stop sharia.
You would think that as Foreign Editor he would know that sharia is one of the two or three
greatest oppressors of human rights in the world today.
You would think he would
be aware of the many attempts to introduce sharia
to the
UK
and
European and other western countries,
either by law or threat of violence.
You would think he would know that
Ireland itself
passed a sharia blasphemy law in 2009.
But no. Instead he says the ignorant redneck Oklahomans are
"beleaguered in a hostile world beyond their understanding".
But not beyond his understanding, of course.
He says, without bothering to provide any evidence, that the Oklahomans are racist:
"there's a strong hint of the ol' unreconstructed racist south reasserting itself in a new guise."
Um no, maybe they just read the news.
The Irish Times will clearly be of no help in stopping sharia coming to the West.
On the very day this was published, 11 Dec 2010, pro-sharia Muslims
bombed Sweden
as part of a long running attempt to impose sharia law on depictions of Muhammad there.
This makes Patrick Smyth look like the guy who doesn't read the news.
"Professor Khalid Blankinship of Temple University compares following Sharia to the Catholic teaching that divorce is not allowed. "That would be like going into the Catholic Church and telling them that you can't marry people the way you want or saying you have to allow divorce""
What a muddle.
Let me explain it for the professor.
The church can preach against divorce all it likes.
But it has no right to force that teaching on citizens - even on Catholics.
If they choose to voluntarily follow that teaching, fine.
Catholics have the right to follow the church.
And Catholics have the right to ignore the church.
And the church has the right to follow its own path.
The church has the right to ignore Catholics' opinions.
If the church won't recognise your divorce, you are not being oppressed.
No one is forcing you to belong to the church.
"American Muslims speak out against the enforcement of shari‘ah law in America"
"As American Muslims we are conscious of the fact that Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups and other Islamists and their surrogates in the U.S. are trying their best to portray any opposition to manifestations of shari‘ah law as “racism” and “discrimination against Muslims.” However, as a coalition of traditional, liberal and secular Muslim Americans, we denounce this fear-mongering and playing of the race card, which only serves to mask the Islamists’ highly politicized agenda.
...
Many of us fled the Muslim world to escape shari‘ah law and to practice Islam in our personal lives, by moving to the USA and other western countries. We do not wish these laws to follow us here".
"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".
"these are heresy trials, and only the first of many. The prosecutors think Hedegaard, Langballe, Wilders, Mrs Sabbaditsch-Wolff et al are apostates from the new state religion of multiculturalism. Thuggish Muslim lobby groups, on the other hand, consider them heretics against Islam. In practice, it makes little difference, and multiculturalism is merely an interim phase, a once useful cover for an Islamic imperialism so confident it now barely needs one. The good news is that European prosecutors are doing such a grand job with their pilot program of show trials you'll hardly notice the difference when sharia is formally instituted."
-
Mark Steyn, 25 Jan 2011, on the ever expanding left-wing trials for offending Islam.
"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
- US President
Barack Obama, speech to the UN, 25 Sept 2012.
Dutch prosecutor drops all charges.
of his interrogation by
Shirlene McGovern.
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