Dhimmitude in Belarus: Editor gets three years in prison for publishing Muhammad cartoon

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Come and get me

Not that there was ever any free speech in this dreary post-Soviet outpost, but when and how did it become a dhimmiocracy?

"Belarus editor jailed for Islam cartoon," by Yuras Karmamau for Associated Press (thanks to all who sent this in):

MINSK, Belarus - A Belarus court sentenced a newspaper editor Friday to three years in prison for reprinting a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked worldwide riots when it was initially published in a Danish newspaper.

In Vienna, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe protested the sentence and called for the release of Alexander Sdvizhkov, the former deputy editor of the small-circulation Zhoda newspaper.

Security officers in Belarus launched an investigation of Sdvizhkov in February 2006 when he published the caricatures which had originally appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Fiery protests swept across Muslim countries in early 2006 in reaction to the Danish publication.

President Alexander Lukashenko ordered the paper shut the following month, calling the publication of the cartoon "a provocation against the state." Sdvizhkov was arrested and charged with "inciting religious hatred" in November 2007 when he returned to Belarus following several months of living in Russia and Ukraine.

"Inciting religious hatred." This conformism enforced with a jail term and extinguishing of free inquiry, then, is the future of the UK and other countries in the West. If one class in any country is exempt from criticism and yes, even ridicule, then a free society exists there no longer, and that class is a protected, privileged class.

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That drawing above, it's so, so...true!

Should be re-printed everywhere.

If we are not allowed to critise Islam, maybe we should praise it?

Mohammed having sex with a 9 year old girl when he was 54 is errr, an example for us all??!

Mohammed overseeing the deaths of the Qurayza men and boys was beautiful. Especially the part where they had their hands tied and were then beheaded.

Killing Apostates is fair and just.

Women who are raped need 4 male Muslim witnesses (of good character) to testify on their behalf before they can prove it. There is no more just law on the planet

The paedophilia one is a bit tricky. Of course, no-one actually wants to advocate sex with children, but to condemn it must surely be an insult to the great Prophet who is an example to us all, in every aspect of his life for all eternity?

Stalinism Mark 2.

As remarked at the beginning of the post, it's Belarus. Any excuse to lock someone up or disappear them.

Should be re-printed everywhere.

Posted by: darcy at January 19, 2008 8:55 AM

Following my own advice, I just printed this article and taped that lovely pic of Terrorist Mo on my bulletin board!

By the behaviour of the slave you may see the orders of the master. Belarus is a cowed and obedient outpost of that sincere democrat and valiant enemy of jihad, Vladimir Putin.

By the behaviour of the slave you may see the orders of the master. Belarus is a cowed and obedient outpost of that sincere democrat and valiant enemy of jihad, Vladimir Putin.


Ostrichism in action.

Definitely not Stalinism..we are not that lucky ( he would be one person who would be prepared to accept the casualties required to defeat Islam..I would accept such a monster if it meant the end of Islam totally)

Russia is not a free-speech democracy as far as I know.
However this is very OTT!

We need an "Free Speech Watch 'Blog as well as what we already have.
I take exception to islamic f****** or any one else for that matter - even Bush, Rudd, Brown - especially them - telling me what I can read.

Guys: get the free-speech train going!


http://1389blog.com/2008/01/18/words-fail-me/#comments

Come and get me

That's my man!

"Inciting religious hatred."


...hmmm...the court officials should look around and see what the Islamists are doing....

Ban Muslim Immigration...

Belarus is run by Lukashenko, a fascistic dictator and a crook. Cherchez le fric.

....IN Kurapaty (Belurus), the soviets (in WWII) slaughtered over 200,000 civilians....without any trial or investigation.....even today many insist that this just never happened.....maybe the present day court officials belong to this group of buffoons....blind to the truth....and stupid beyond reason...

Hey, CAIR! Where's the FATWA?

Say, Ibrahim, Ahmed, where are the clerics on this one? The Friday khutbahs? The incensed, enraged MOBS and burning Sbunsar EFFIGIES? Heck, not even any FATALITIES.

This INSULT and BLASPHEMY--Errr, HATE SPEECH thing must be becoming pretty standard fare, if you're so blase about being riled by it.

As Byron put it:

"Stone walls do not a prison make
Nor iron bars a cage...
"

Not for an idea.

Mo' Motoons!

*~@):~{>

profitsbeard,

Speaking as a faux Islamic fanatic,

BLASPHEMER!--May YOU and your Infernal keyboard meet a MOST Dreadful DOOM in Jahannah, Infidel DOG!!

Have A Nice Day of Dreadful Doom.

*~@):~{>

^}~:(@~*

( * ( * ( * ( * ( *

"Democracy gave us all the tools we needed..........To destroy it." - Joseph Goebbels

"1938 ALERT"

Oh yea, a man gets 3 years jail for printing nothing more than a few skits on Mohammad while Muslim terrorists who survive or plan terror get nothing. Their clerics all over the world teach hate and for Muslims to kill the infidel and Jews and even their own don't stop them.
When will the people wake up that it is a religion of war, whoops, now I might get sent to jail for saying something like this against the poor darlings.

Gramfan, did you see that Rudd has already gone back on many of his promises..well, what can we expect he was in the government in Queensland who said that it was ok to lie in parliament wasn't he..and the government who didn't really do anything much about the vote rigging, they simply rewarded Mike Kyser by putting him in as Mark Lathan's campaign manager and now Anna Bligh has him, I think as her adviser??.. hmmm.. but then she can just use the parliamentary table again.

Actually, profitsbeard, that's 17th century English poet Richard Lovelace:

http://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Lovelace/ToAlthea.htm

Love your Mo drawing! It's great!

its no wonder our ancestors left those miserable regions to come here to seek out a new way of living , people get tired of being subjugated and will react !!! something like whats happening to our political situation today, people are fed up.

darcy-

Right you are about Lovelace!

Thanks.

I was thinking of this bit by Byron, and transposed the poets:

"Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art
"

("Sonnet- The Prisoner of Chillon")

Two nice couplets, in any case.

Robert:

"This conformism enforced with a jail term and extinguishing of free inquiry, then, is the future of the UK and other countries in the West."

Duh!

No.

Belarus is hardly what anyone would call a Western, liberal, pluralistic democracy now, is it? Your comment is deeply dishonest and an obfuscation of the facts - presumably designed to make your US of A readers feel superior in some way to we European commenters. Come on now, I expected better from you of all people!

KoranKrusher: Well, speaking as a homosexual, about time too. It's just sex, live with it! It's not like it's Islam or something.

Robert:

In the 2004 election in Belarus organisations such as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the US of A Senate delegates declared the election "un-free" (the ultimate diplomatic-speak for 'fixed'). In the country's 2006 presidential election, Lukashenko was opposed by Alexander Milinkevich, a candidate representing a coalition of opposition parties, and by Alaksandar Kazulin of the Social Democrats. Kazulin was detained and beaten by police during protests surrounding the All Belarusian People's Assembly. Lukashenko won the election with 80% of the vote, but the OSCE and other organisations, including observers from the US of A Senate, called the election "un-free" (i.e. 'fixed')

Western countries, including the US of A and Russia, have described Belarus under Lukashenko as a dictatorship; the government there has accused the same Western powers of trying to oust Lukashenko, which is hardly surprising.

Please do not try to compare Belarus, a third-world dictatorship, with modern Europe. At best that is disingenuous, at worst it is deliberately misleading.

Hugh:"Belarus is run by Lukashenko, a fascistic dictator and a crook"

Well, I doubt very much he's a Fascist but he is authoritarian. This sentencing of Alexander Sdvizhkov comes hot on the heels of Lukashenko's disgusting remarks said about the Jews in the city of Babruysk. The remarks of a scumbag.

But credit where it's due, he did boot out the NGO's from his country. The first thing any one should do if ever they get to hold high office.

Give the NGO's a good kicking That's what they're there for.

Economically, his country has seen very strong growth indeed. Double digit stuff.

Paolo:"By the behaviour of the slave you may see the orders of the master. Belarus is a cowed and obedient outpost of that sincere democrat and valiant enemy of jihad, Vladimir Putin."

If you're suggesting that Putin and Lukashenko are close allies I think you haven't been reading too much about Russo-Belarus relations recently.

But it's good of you to note Putin's well earned credentials as "an enemy of jihad" for the Jihadists defeat in Chechnya is the only victory against the Islamists in recent history.

Balrog"Stalinism Mark 2"

No, it's not. Stalinism is alive and well in North Korea, used to be going strong in Albania and Kosovo is run by Thaqi, a proud Maoist but that's about it, thank God. Think of Lukashenko as a successful, populist, Nationalist leader.

Warts and all.

darcy-

Right you are about Lovelace!

Thanks.

I was thinking of this bit by Byron, and transposed the poets:

"Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art"

("Sonnet- The Prisoner of Chillon")

Two nice couplets, in any case.

Posted by: profitsbeard at January 20, 2008 7:59 PM

Uh huh, a wonderful poem. Byron is great, of course, but my faves are the 17th century poets, esp. Herbert, Donne, Ben Jonson and the Cavalier poets such as Herrick and Lovelace.

By coincidence, Byron's 220th b'day is tomorrow! In college I was quite the Byronophile - both his extraordinary short life and poetry. A real pity his doctor bled him to death in Greece, when what By needed was as much blood as possible. His doctor didn't know that, of course. Ah, well...

Sorry for being OT.

...I like this cartoon...it is so Islamic....

Darcy:"Byron is great, of course, but my faves are the 17th century poets, esp. Herbert, Donne, Ben Jonson and the Cavalier poets such as Herrick and Lovelace."

I'm more of a William McGonagall man myself.

I'm more of a William McGonagall man myself.

Posted by: ewha1 at January 22, 2008 1:36 AM


Who is that?

By far and away the worst poet ever to set foot on Earth.

Spike Milligan devoted a whole book to his cough genius.







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