As I predicted, in the wake of the Paris jihad attacks, the Islamic war on the freedom of speech is escalating, as Muslims worldwide work to extinguish the freedom of speech and compel the free world to adopt Sharia blasphemy laws restricting criticism of Islam.
“‘The heart of the Muslim,’” by Howard Feldman, Times of Israel, January 11, 2015:
According to the South African Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) freedom of speech has its limits – especially when “connected to the heart of the Muslim.” In a statement that would confuse even the most intelligent amongst us, we are left wondering, despite the assertions condemning violence, where they stand on the matter.
Or maybe, sadly, we aren’t.
The statement, “We accept freedom of speech, but there is a limit to your freedom of expression when there is something that could potentially lead to hate speech” adds to the enigma, and I for one am left wanting. According to magnificently constructed conundrum, it doesn’t have to be hate speech but merely something that might “lead” to hate speech. And this I am afraid, is very dangerous. Who would get to decide what might “lead us” to temptation. The MJC? One shivers at the thought.
Firstly let them condemn the slaughter of the innocent Jews in a supermarket. No mention was made of this barbarism in their statement and the fact that despite the terrorists being linked, no nexus could be fabricated between the cartoons and Jews. But it is Jews who die. Because freedom of speech apparently has its limits….
Angemon says
This guy gets it.
mortimer says
PROTECTION FROM CRITICISM makes the one group that gets it SUPREME.
Supremacism is the point of Islamic blasphemy laws.
Ren says
@mortimer
Very well thought and to back up your statement, here’s Voltaire : ” To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize ”
http://i.imgur.com/Rqj4l.jpg
Papa Whiskey says
Now that I’ve learned the word of Muhammad
I no longer cuss and say “Damn it!”
Instead I stay calm
And assemble my bomb
And soon, up your asses I’ll jam it.
Salah says
“We accept freedom of speech, but there is a limit to your freedom of expression when there is something that could potentially lead to hate speech”
There is a limit to freedom of expression indeed: when there is DIRECT hate speech.
The Qur’an is a good example of direct hate speech.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/05/accursed-book-le-livre-maudit.html
katnis says
Oh the untouchable moohammed – the child-molesting, plundering, robbing, sex slave-keeping and champion of lying and manipulating ways is considered the perfect man. And anyone who disagrees – in writing, in art, or in any form of communication – must die.
The worst offense for the infidels? To do anything that might encourage thinking. Because a lack of thinking and a lack of understanding supports islam, and this lack of understanding is islam’s biggest ally.
Let’s keep the conversation, the commenting, the cartoons, and the articles going.
#jesuischarlie
Spot On says
Totalitarianism never ends well. When people are imprisoned or worse by their government for what they are saying or thinking, then they know the feel of totalitarianism. Unfortunately for us, our government is using this “terrorist war” to subjugate us in every possible way. If Washington succeeds in getting the job done, we will also know what Totalitarianism feels like and we will also lose our freedom of speach. Islam today is totaliarian. Once becoming a Muslim, there getting out…just like the Mafioso.
Spot On says
Typo correction: …There is no getting out…
DeusLoVult says
This reminds me of the ending to a Twilight Zone episode. “Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.” This is why Islam will always be obsolete.
PAthena says
As Tom Lehrer said, “I hate anyone who does not love his fellow man!”
Papa Whiskey says
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don’t hate nothing at all
Except hatred
— Bob Dylan
pdxnag says
Is this like a never ending Good Cop — Bad Cop routine?
If only you would shut up.
You didn’t shut up. (Smack!)
(Repeat forever.)
mortimer says
Exactly. Hegira (retreat) prepares the way for violent jihad attack. After the violence, the jihadists retreat to prepare for the next jihad, etc. When the kafirs are all dead, the Muslims attack each other.
eib says
The Muslim has no heart. He has only Mohammed.
mortimer says
The Muslim has SHARIA LAW which condemns apostates and blasphemers with the death penalty. Anyone is authorized to kill an apostate or blasphemer if the state does not do it.
That is the great problem with Islam: every Muslim is authorized to kill as a vigilante.
mortimer says
New definition of HATE SPEECH!
Ok, so now it’s hate speech if it is ‘connected to the heart of the Muslim.”
That means we need a Muslim police chief on every police force who will use his ‘heart’ to subjectively decide what is hate speech. So far, understood!
Presumably, we will also need a Muslim CHIEF JUSTICE who can use his ‘heart’ to subjectively punish the hate speaker. It will require a Muslims with a well-tuned ‘heart’ to make these distinctions…presumably, Sharia law will help figure it out…maybe David Lean will have some tips.
mortimer says
…maybe Nathan Lean will have some tips.
john spielman says
we now have a great slogan to use against these supremacists. It was uttered by the editor of CHARLIE HEBDO; ” I WOULD RATHER DIE STANDING, THAN LIVE ON MY KNEES”!
Medina says
He was not the first to say it, and I would rather kill jihadists than die on my feet OR live on my knees.
bolaz says
But…but
than the quaran and hadith’ have to be censored and forbidden,
because all the violence and crime may hurt a muslims heart.
Imagine a muslim living mentally in in fantile 100% islamic-fantasy-paradise
and discovers all these evil things mohammed had done.
He would not be able to cope with reality.
And let’s be hoenest:What’s mohammeds perpetual wars, killings and rape of non-muslims compared to the heart of a single muslim that may be hurt
Nothing-i tell you:Nothing.
(and someone may complain about muslims being extremly intolerant
but you’ll have to know:Muslim need all their tolerance for the crimes of mohammed and stupid and unlogical commandements of Allah in quran.
Try it yourself:Try to be so tolerant to call a pedo-psychopath the most perfect human being and to call an evil ,cruel and stupid entity like allah god-you will see:no tolerance left for anything else)
Skeptic2000 says
I asked for a book on hatred, deceit, treachery, slavery, murder, rape, pedophilia, mutilation and war. The librarian handed me a Quran!
Wellington says
It’s really very simple actually. Anyone promoting the banning of so-called hate speech is, in effect, promoting the banning of free speech. No exceptions.
And anyone, including silly Western elites in academia and the media, never mind Muslims who are dismal, truly dismal, on the free speech front, who would disagree with me here had better not confuse action accompanied by speech with the design of negating what I averred.
Just as you can’t falsely yell “Fire” in a crowed theater and then claim free speech rights, so too you cannot accompany severe criticism of Islam and Muslims by certain actions. For instance, one can say in America that Islam is a basic threat to the basic freeedoms guaranteed by the American Constitution. But if one accompanies such a statement with handing out torches to burn down a specifric mosque in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Oregon, etc., then this is not protected speech and the person doing so should be prosecuted.
We don’t have to destroy Western laws on free speech in order to accommodate Islam, though Muslims aplenty desire exactly this (loads of clueless, pathetic Western leftists do too). What IS necessary is that 1) Western laws are not stupidly diminished by pc/mc hate speech laws; 2) that Muslims come to FULLY UNDERSTAND that Western concepts of freedom are completely at variance with how Islam views freedom (which is to say pretty much how every totalitairan ideology looks upon freedom——as an enemy, a mortal threat to the preservation of the totalitarian ideology in question); and 3) that Western Civilization blows the Islamic world away in virtually any category of human endeavor one cares to mention. I mean just look at the over 50 Islamic nations that now plague mankind. Most are backward, if not cesspools, and to the extent that some of them are prosperous (e.g., Saudi Arabia) it is only because of Western technology. Truly, does anyone, ANYONE, think the Saudis on their own would have figured out how to extract the huge amounts of petroleum reserves they possess? Ditto here respecting the Islamic world on such other achievements, let’s see here, like the steam engine, railroads, the telegraph, refrigeration, telephones, automobiles, planes, radio, TV, spacecraft, computers——–ah, the list is a very long one of accomplishments that the Islamic world, I submit, would NEVER have accomplished on its own. Indeed, I don’t know how any Muslim, assuming such a person is intelligent, could not be dismayed by the almost total lack of accomplishments of the Islamic world over the past half millennium or more (and, I might add, that most of the so-called medieval achievements of the Islamic world were either 1) appropriated, or 2) exaggerated.
A very silly young man on MSNBC said just the other day that Islam deserves respect. To this I say, Hell no. A belief system that asserts that non-believers are the equivalent of human waste, which Islam does; a belief system which maintains that those who leave that belief system should be killed, which Islam does; a belief system which to this very day says that adultresses should be stoned to death, which Islam does; a belief system which refers to Jews and Christians as “the vilest of creatures” {Sura 98:6}, which Islam does; a belief system which holds out as the Model Man a person who exhibited psychopathic, narcissistic and pedophiliac tendencies (among so many other wrongs), which Islam does; a belief system which, ad nauseam, plays the victim card, which Islam does; a belief system which calls for war to be made upon the unbeliever “until all religion is with Allah” (Sura 8:39), which Islam does; a belief system which is a burden to the world in a way no other religious belief system is, which is so true of Islam (over 24,000 documented Islamic terrorist attacks just since 9/11); is, I would vigorously argue, a belief system that deserves ZERO RESPECT. As Pat Condell has said, the Islamic world is not inferior. No, by God it isn’t. It is VASTLY INFERIOR. By now, one knows this or should know it. No third alternative.
Islam is wretched. It is horrible. Whatever’s wrong with mankind, it’s nothing Islam can fix. Guaranteed.
Sick of Islam. Sick of excuses for Islam. The world is collectively mad as long as it continues to exculpate this heinous belief system, which slipped through the cracks of history and which plagues mankind to this day. As long as Islam is paid any respect, mankind remains in mortal danger.
Angemon says
Great post, Wellington. Great post.
Dillon says
Outstanding post. Worth several reads.
MessengerofGOD says
how can anyone insult a person so vile, there isn’t room to go any lower? http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/history.htm who has left of legacy of hell on earth https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-swenson/islam-provably-satanic/747974835281478
jay says
This new communism bores me. At least old commies had great uniforms, vast military, great propaganda to go along with their brutality and insanity. Watching dirty desert dwellers whine about their goats not being killed right or their moon god being a hypersensitive girl is less than interesting. I guess it’s true the USSR was the final boss of the world and we have jumped the shark. Islam is utter ridiculousness. The fact anyone outside of the sand lands takes it seriously in this day in age proves humanity is a lost cause.
Tommo says
Muslims in South Africa have inherited apartheid and taken it to new levels. Black South Africans are used to having their freedoms eroded but with Sharia imposed on them will find that this is not what they fought so long and hard for.