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Robert Spencer in PJ Lifestyle: 5 Stories from Last Week Revealing Sharia’s Spread in the West

Feb 24, 2014 6:14 pm By Robert Spencer

untitledIn PJ Lifestyle I discuss five stories about Sharia’s spread Westward that mainstream media would prefer you didn’t know about.

Aside from the sources that reported these stories, the mainstream media largely ignored them all — of course.

5. France: Muslims sue satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for blasphemy

An organization calling itself the League of Judicial Defence of Muslims (LDJM) has brought suit against Charlie Hebdo in the city of Strasbourg for its edition headlined: “The Koran is s–t – it doesn’t stop bullets.” They picked Strasbourg because, uniquely in the secular republic, it has a blasphemy law – a hangover of its periods of German rule.

This is not the first time Charlie Hebdo has offended Islamic-supremacist sensibilities. The International Business Times (which scrupulously avoids causing offense to the poor dears itself by punctiliously referring to Muhammad as “the Prophet,” although I doubt it would ever refer to “the Lord Jesus Christ”) reported:

In November 2011, the paper’s office in Paris was fire-bombed and its website hacked. The attacks were linked to its decision to rename a special edition “Charia Hebdo” (Sharia Hebdo) with the Prophet Mohammed listed as editor-in-chief. The magazine was  attacked by hackers again in September 2012, after it published cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed.

The name of the group bringing the suit, however, is a misnomer. For in fact, no Muslims were actually harmed by Charlie Hebdo, and no Muslims need any defense from it. No Muslims were physically injured by its Qur’an edition or other issues mocking Islam and Muhammad; no Muslims lost their jobs; no Muslims were discriminated against or harassed. Some Muslims may be offended by the magazine’s poking fun at the Qur’an and Muhammad, but that is the price of living in a pluralistic society: everyone has to put up with people who have values and priorities that differ from one’s own.

Ideally, this can be done in peace, and without one group attempting to assert hegemony over the others. But that is exactly what the League of Judicial Defence of Muslims is trying to do: impose Sharia blasphemy laws upon the rest of France.

4. Dearborn: Muslim at city council meeting calls for Sharia patrols, restriction on free speech

Arab American News reported that at a Dearborn city council meeting last week, “a local Arab American took the podium to address concerns he had with the city.” After “referencing Prophet Muhammad and loudly chanting Islamic prayers,” this man “said that the city needed to monitor neighborhood parks around the clock because people have been using them to conduct sexual activities,” and,

also stated that there were magazines and newspapers at the public libraries and civic center that can “cause colossal damage to a child’s health,” asking the city to review and monitor literature before they are distributed.

In other words, he was calling for morals police akin to the Sharia police who make peoples’ lives miserable in Saudi Arabia, and for Sharia restrictions on the freedom of speech. The council members appear to have received this man’s appeals with some impatience. However, make no mistake: there will be many more incidents like this, with calls for the implementation of Sharia morals police and Sharia restrictions on the freedom of speech growing louder and more insistent. And then city councils and other governing bodies will be forced either to articulate and implement a defense of Western principles of free expression, or capitulate. Right now the latter looks much more likely.

3. Lawyers for Boston jihad murderer ask judge to lift his prison restrictions

The Associated Press reported Friday that “lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are again asking a federal judge to lift special restrictions that have been placed on their client in prison, saying they are impeding their defense.” Prosecutors counter that “the restrictions, known as special administrative measures, are necessary because of the suspect’s ‘commitment to jihad.’”

Indeed. Tsarnaev is manifestly dangerous. What’s more, he already gets catered halal meals (plus the Qur’an and other Islamic texts) in prison. But even all that isn’t enough, as far as his lawyers are concerned, and given the tendency in the mainstream media to blame the U.S. for jihad attacks, parroting the jihadist tendency to justify all their murders by reference to lists of grievances, maybe law enforcement authorities should just end this poor dear’s suffering, let him out of prison and issue an apology to him for offending Islam and thereby driving him to attack the Boston Marathon.

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  1. Christopher says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 4:18 am

    I was listening to BBC Radio 4 here in the UK the other night and during a financial panel discussion show, one of the experts was an advocate of ‘Sharia Finance’. He was treated with the same respect as the other authorities on the panel. Although he mostly stuck to the topic of finance, he did occasionally talk of the morality of Sharia law more largely. Caused much face-palming from myself, really quite shocking how accepted this nonsense is with Western pseudo-liberals.

    • Jay Boo says

      Feb 25, 2014 at 9:49 am

      We have similar trickery here in the US on NPR radio.
      Although I caught only the tail end of an interview done with a promoter of ‘The 99 Superheros’ Islamic comics on NPR I could tell that there was a subtext hiding and located a TED Talk episode on the web.
      This commentator fast talking Dr Naif Al-Mutawa, creator of THE 99 superheroes, was one of the speakers at the TED Global Conference, 2010 held in Oxford, England.
      At first he appears to have good intentions (Islam is about appearance after all) but his Muslim instincts slipped out as he twice sleazed an implication that the swastika is like the cross of Christianity all the while smiling and acting innocent as if meaning no ill intent. He then implies that Hindu’s are as likely to be terrorists as Muslims so don’t be Islamophobic. To be fair he ends with a Muslim terrorist (of sorts) to give some plausibility to his slight-of-hand. He offer a photo of a child in a suicide vest who is also the VICTIM of those Extremists who “misunderstand Islam”. and that The 99 Superheros comic is the solution to those who are misinterpreting Islam.
      He would have been more convincing of good intent if he hadn’t slipped up with passive aggression attacks on other religions.
      Sadly the PC pacified audience

      http://al-mutawa.com/
      Middle Eastern superheroes
      NPR Arabic-Speaking Youth Get Their Own Superheroes

      ICNATV THE 99, the world’s first Muslim superheroes . on CNN via TED
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqY20aY_6Nk

      Why say do Muslims say inshallah ?
      What they really mean is insular.

  2. eib says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 8:18 am

    The suit should be laughed out of court.

  3. mortimer says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 10:29 am

    Tsarnaev is being quarantined by the sound of it. He is a bacterium that could infect others with his desires to murder and maim the dirty kufaar. But the kafiars treat him like an American citizen with full rights, rather than drag him through the streets while torturing him, as they would do in any Muslim country…while police look on. That’s the savage, backward, vigilante world Tsarnaev is fighting for.

  4. Shane says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 11:14 am

    In some European countries they do enforce Islamic blasphemy laws indirectly because of their strict hate speech laws. Europeans do not have the same free speech rights that Americans have, and liberals in the USA want that to change. Libs want to expand hate speech laws in the USA.

    What’s most sad in Europe is that the accuracy of the speech seems to be irrelevant to whether it is hate speech or not.

  5. Champs says

    Feb 26, 2014 at 4:28 pm

    testing

  6. gravenimage says

    Feb 26, 2014 at 5:54 pm

    The deadly stealth Jihad proceeds apace—often unwittingly abetted by the clueless dhimmis themselves. Suicidal madness.

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