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Robert Spencer in PJ Lifestyle: 5 Ways the Islamic War on Free Speech Advanced Last Week

Mar 3, 2014 12:13 pm By Robert Spencer

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Katy Perry, Google and more: the Islamic war on free speech had a good week last week. My latest in PJ Lifestyle:

Islamic organizations, led by the 57-government Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), have for years been trying to intimidate the West into criminalizing criticism of Islam, so as to render us mute and defenseless in the face of the advancing jihad. Last week, their effort made a few small but significant advances.

5. Bahrain arrests four for insulting Muhammad’s companions on Instagram
Reaffirming the Islamic supremacist distaste for the freedom of speech, in Bahrain last week “four cyberactivists” were arrested for posting to Instagram what the state news agency described as “texts and pictures damaging to companions of the Prophet.” Most likely these “cyberactivists” are Shi’ites who dared to disparage figures of early Islamic history who are revered by Sunnis, such as the early caliphs Abu Bakr, Umar, and Uthman – all of whom were chosen as caliph instead of the Shi’ite’s favorite, Ali ibn Abi Talib.

Bahrain is a majority Shi’ite nation ruled by a Sunni minority, so the authorities who had them arrested no doubt saw these “cyberactivists” as making a political statement. But whatever they may have thought, they shut them down for making statements that have only been characterized in published reports as religious – thereby neatly reinforcing the OIC’s campaign to criminalize internationally what it terms “incitement to religious hatred,” by which it means “anything said about Islam that the OIC doesn’t like.”
4. Czech Muslims call for ban on book by ex-Muslim
The Prague Post reported that “Muslims in the Czech Republic are trying to have the book Islam and Islamism by Lukáš Lhoťan, a former Muslim, now an apostate from Islam, banned.” Of course, filing a criminal complaint demanding that a book be banned and actually having it banned are two different things, but the mere fact that Muslims are making such demands more frequently in the West is a sign that more assaults on free speech are to come.

The Muslims in the Czech Republic are using the well-worn playbook of Muslims in the U.S.: tar anything that tells uncomfortable truths about Islam and jihad as promoting “hatred.” For in his book, according to the Prague Post, Lhoťan charges that,

Muslims abuse the ideology of multiculturalism to infiltrate Czech schools, and they do not only deliver innocent lectures there but recruit converts and perhaps new jihad fighters.

Lhoťan, who was a Muslim for 12 years and then left Islam, also,

describes extremist tendencies inside the Czech Muslim community and tries to highlight their contempt for democracy, women’s rights and justification of suicide bombers.

True to the practice of Islamic supremacists in the U.S. who move to get critics shut down instead of engaging and debating them, Muslims in Prague and Brno are trying to have Lhot’an’s book banned rather than working to demonstrate their “moderation” and thereby showing these charges to be false.

3. UK’s Daily Mail sweeps jihad murderer’s Qur’an quotes under the rug
The UK’s Daily Mail reported Wednesday that Mujaahid Abu Hamza (whom the mainstream media insists on referring to by his rejected infidel name, Michael Adebolajo), one of the jihad murderers of British soldier Lee Rigby on a London street, passed a bloodstained note to a bystander shortly after the murder.

The Mail, a poor excuse for a newspaper in the best of times, published an image of the two-page handwritten note, along with a transcription. Conspicuously absent from the Mail’s transcription, however, was a series of twenty-two passages from the Qur’an that Mujaahid Abu Hamza cited in order to explain and justify his murder. As these included passages exhorting the believers to wage jihad and castigating those who shrank back and stayed behind, they’re highly illuminating of Abu Hamza’s motives and goals:

fight those adjacent to you of the disbelievers and let them find in you harshness (Qur’an 9:123)

But as far as the Daily Mail is concerned, they’re not worth considering. To call attention to them might lead some people to get a negative view of the Qur’an and Islam, and that can’t be tolerated in Brave New Multicultural Britain.

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  1. veggiedog says

    Mar 3, 2014 at 12:25 pm

    “If you build it they will come” Well we did and they did, now they want to put their values above anyone else’s, so where is the PC in this? I just continue to scratch my head in wonder, WTF is going on.

  2. veggiedog says

    Mar 3, 2014 at 12:25 pm

    Sorry, I want to follow this and I forgot to add that, they need to put a follow up if you do not post.

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 3, 2014 at 12:33 pm

    Good call, Mr. Spencer!

    Mainstream journals (like Daily Mail) need to be held ACCOUNTABLE for being ENABLERS of SUPREMACISM, rather than ADVERSARIES of SUPREMACISM.

  4. Td Sonnier says

    Mar 3, 2014 at 1:05 pm

    Facebook is at it again. I can’t see this post. So much of free speech. I love it when they tell me what I should watch and should not watch on MY PAGE. A$$HOLES… Yes you Facebook……

    • Jihad Watch says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 2:03 pm

      the site was under a DoS attack, and they are mass reporting this page.

  5. Andrea McGann Little says

    Mar 3, 2014 at 3:28 pm

    Link won’t work.

    • Jihad Watch says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 2:03 pm

      should all be good now

  6. Steve Wojo says

    Mar 3, 2014 at 4:48 pm

    Katy Perry quietly removes “Allah” symbol from video to please enraged Muslims. At 01:15 into the video Dark Horse; a man is shown being burned, whilst wearing a pendant forming the word ‘Allah’, which is the Arabic word for God,” has been removed.
    Published on Feb 20, 2014.

    http://youtu.be/0KSOMA3QBU0

  7. richard Sherman says

    Mar 3, 2014 at 6:34 pm

    Muslims revere the SOCIOPATH MUHAMMAD WHO PERSONALLY DECAPITATED 900 UNARMED JEWS in 627…if you revere a sociopath, hating infidels is natural.

  8. Salah says

    Mar 3, 2014 at 9:09 pm

    @WatchDawg

    “When free speech turns to slander and hatred, it’s not free anymore”

    You’re right, we don’t need free speech, we don’t need to slander or hate any ideology. All we need to do is copy/paste from Islamic texts…and YOU’RE DONE!

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html

    • Champ says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 1:18 pm

      You’re right, we don’t need free speech, we don’t need to slander or hate any ideology. All we need to do is copy/paste from Islamic texts…and YOU’RE DONE!

      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

      Good one, Salah! …so spot on!

  9. No Fear says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 1:24 am

    I suggest that we all join Islam and learn as much as we can from the mosques and imams, preferably capturing it all on audio or video. Then we can share it with the world as “ex muslims”. Why not? It is not yet a crime to join then leave a religion like Islam and to share what you have learned.

    I might sign up today at the local mosque. Where’s my mini-microphone…..

  10. Steve says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 7:50 am

    It has long road to the decline of free speech since 1977, when the first episode of¨Mind Your Language¨was shown. I am sure that the exchange between the Muslim and Sikh would not be shown today.

  11. Galvin Fox says

    Mar 4, 2014 at 12:51 pm

    Without the freedom of speech good men will have to resort to violence. When it kicks off we must hit them hard & fast & destroy anyone who gets in the way. The blood of 270 million people is already on the filthy hands of those who follow the mass-murdering paedophile prophet & between 1.7 billion people thats about one dead body for every 6 muslims.

    • Jihad Watch says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 1:05 pm

      as admin of the website i disagree.
      “A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.”
      ― Steve Jobs

    • Galvin Fox says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 1:07 pm

      explain

    • Jihad Watch says

      Mar 4, 2014 at 1:37 pm

      they launch a massive DDoS against the site, well-funded criminal assault by dozens of savages. me and a friend side stepped it, negligible cost. Freedom of speech restored.
      and here, 5 mins on the phone to bbc radio, Robert publicly destroys a respected muslim supremacist.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Mar 4, 2014 at 4:39 pm

        While I applaud you and your friends in defeating islam0fascist DDoS attacks, that won’t help much in the legal arena. If criticism of islam is outlawed (as it arguably is in Canada and Europe/Eurabia), the ability to stop cyber-attacks won’t do much good.

        • marclouis says

          Mar 4, 2014 at 10:05 pm

          A few ideas I’d like you to think about, and they are mine, I could never speak for anyone else
          neither me or Robert operate outside of the what is allowed by law.
          I refer you to Steve Job’s Law I mentioned earlier, we are just better than them, leverage it.
          I was taught never to threaten, I believe you only put those around you at risk, and too many times it is turned against you, either feeding the victimhood that our enemies thrive on, or a knock on the door by law enforcement.
          Lastly, all counter-jihad forums come under constant, criminal DDoS attacks, they actually might be classed on terrorist, I hear very little complaint about this, we could do with some vocal support here. They seem to want to call it “hacktivism” turn it into some acceptable trendy thing how did that happen and it became legitimate.
          I’m sorry I probably haven’t addressed your actual fears, but I hope I have given you something to think about.

      • Jan says

        Mar 4, 2014 at 5:49 pm

        @ Jihad Watch.

        Sorry to be a nuisance, and off topic to boot, but I’ve been trying to re-register since the new format took off, to no avail. I’ve tried to get a new password, but when I fill in the form, and am told I will be sent an email to re–set my password, all I get is this:

        Which goes nowhere. Please can you help, as at the moment my comments wait in a moderation queue ? Thanks.

        • marclouis says

          Mar 4, 2014 at 6:13 pm

          am sending you an email

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