Think this can’t happen in the West? Geert Wilders is already on trial in The Netherlands for insulting Islam. But this can’t happen in the United States — we have the First Amendment, right? Sure. But the Organization of the Islamic Conference is pushing hard at the UN to criminalize what it considers to be insults to Islam, including truth-telling about how jihadists use Islamic texts and teachings to gain recruits among peaceful Muslims. All it would take would be one President who wants to cozy up to the UN and the OIC, and who pushes legislation classifying Islamorealism as “hate speech” — and a compliant Supreme Court that would specify that such “hate speech” was not protected under the First Amendment.
Couldn’t happen? I hope you’re right.
“Turkish author on trial for insulting Islam,” by Ibrahim Usta for AP, May 26 (thanks to James):
ISTANBUL (AP) “” A Turkish author on trial over accusations that his latest book insulted Islam denied the charges Tuesday and insisted he was respectful of religion.
Nedim Gursel faces up to a year in prison if found guilty on charges of humiliating religious values and inciting religious hatred in his novel “The Daughters of Allah.”…
A case against him began last year after a citizen complained that the novel “” set in the 6th century and describing the advent of Islam “” was blasphemous. Gursel has repeatedly said his book, published in Turkey last year, is fictitious and that he did not intend to offend….