Another good piece about how eagerly America’s political and cultural elites are accepting the principle that in the face of violent intimidation, one should give those who are doing the intimidating everything they want.
“There’s a war on free speech — and radical Islam is winning,” by Philip Klein, Washington Examiner, May 8, 2015:
Warnings about the threat that radical Islam poses to America are often greeted with sneering and mocking by cultural elites — as if anybody who expresses concern is a paranoid nut who believes that Sharia law is soon going to replace the U.S. Constitution after an EMP attack destroys civilization.
Radical Muslims are succeeding in eroding fundamental American values, but the reality is more nuanced. Through a combination of fear, intimidation and exploitation of the liberal reflex to sympathize with supposedly marginalized groups, radicals have been steadily eroding our long-standing conception of free speech.
In the most recent example in Garland, Texas, two men with body armor and assault rifles shot up a community center that was holding a cartoon contest to draw the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. Luckily, they were shot dead by police before they could harm anybody.
Yet, in a horrendous case of mass victim-blaming, media figures across the political spectrum have been pointing fingers at the contest organizers — and worse, suggesting limits on offensive speech.
The New York Times ran an editorial distinguishing between “free speech” and “hate speech” writing that the event “was not really about free speech. It was an exercise in bigotry and hatred posing as a blow for freedom.” CNN’s Chris Cuomo wrote on Twitter that “hate speech is excluded from protection,” later claiming it was a “clumsy tweet.” Fox’s Bill O’Reilly got into the act, saying the organizers of the event “spurred a violent incident.”
Alia Salem, executive director of the Dallas and Fort Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, floated restrictions on the First Amendment freedoms, stating, according to the New York Times, that, “The discussion we have to have is: When does free speech become hate speech, and when does hate speech become incitement to violence?”
But as First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh wrote, “incitement” is defined as trying to persuade people to carry out an attack imminently: “Generally condemning Islam (or condemning capitalism or condemning the police or condemning evangelical Christians), even in harsh terms, doesn’t constitute incitement. Even if people think the speaker is trying to foment violence, there’s no advocacy of imminent illegal conduct.”
Let’s be clear: the only reason the Texas event was associated with violence is that there are radical Muslims who are willing to shoot people over cartoons. To shift any blame for violence to the conference organizers is to reward this violent action. If Christians responded to an art show that they found offensive with violence, the media would call for a national conversation on Christian fundamentalism. But when radical Muslims do it, the national conversation is on hate speech.…
If the takeaway from this incident — even among those who depend on free expression for their livelihood — is that people shouldn’t offend radical Muslims, than the radicals have succeeded in undermining American values by creating a chilling effect on free speech.
laura r says
is there another way i can email this? the mail feature used on this site is not possible to send. this artical must be shared.
jihad3tracker says
Hello Laura — If I correctly understand your problem, it can be solved by going to the link for the original article, and then “copying and pasting” with your mouse . . .
Try this : http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/theres-a-war-on-free-speech-and-radical-islam-is-winning/article/2564186
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somehistory says
The wild beast of islam, straight from satan, is endeavoring to control the entire population of planet earth One of the ways to control people is to control speech and thought through intimidation and fear. This is the aim of the devil…to have all of the earth in fear and obedience to him.
Many are giving in…many more may give in to the threats in the near future.
(Revelation 13). Prophecy has to come to fulfillment. And it is.
Angemon says
Precisely.
Jay Airahs says
Muslims are vain.
Islam begins with the letter “I”.
No wonder they spelled religion on the banner with “I” in place of “e”.
Jaladhi says
These are the “moderate” Muslims that the Western leaders keep dreaming of?? I wonder, if so, what the radical Muslims will be like?
Theodoric says
Say NO to the barbaric Islamic campaign against freedom of speech. Nobody’s “Prophet” has a right “NOT TO BE MOCKED.”
Even HUMAN “Prophets” have NO right “NOT TO BE MOCKED” – and the same thing goes for Islam’s Muhammad.
https://drawthevileprophet.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/even-human-prophets-have-no-right-400dpi.jpg
mortimer says
‘Mohammed’ can be mocked, because he is a legend like Robin Hood, rather than a real person.
‘Mohammed’ was concocted out of tribal stories by the caliphs.
If there was a real Mohammed, he was not the Mohammed of the Sira and hadiths.
Jay Airahs says
Instead of the twelve cartoonists now living in hiding:
— every Muslim exiting a mosque should lower their heads and hide his or her face in recognition of Islam’s daily disgrace.
Carol says
Isn’t the reason the media elite acts like cowards in face of this issue because most of the US media is now controlled by the Saudis? Much of the schools and universities have been largely funded by oil rich sheikhs? The west must stop accepting their money in exchange for freedoms that are slowly being compromised
Lesley says
I’m deeply offended by the flagrant misspelling of religion as, ‘riligeon’…
mortimer says
Pointless.
The word translated as ‘religion’ is the Arabic ‘deen’.
‘Deen’ means a ‘legal system’ or ‘governance system’, rather than a religion in the English sense.
Muslims always speak doubletalk. That’s the point.
quotha raven says
Mortimer – “Deen”, huh? I didn’t know that word, but thank you for it. My “hobby horse” has long been, however, that Islam is not a religion, but a theocracy, which point I try from time to time to pound home here to those who misunderstand that mosques are just like churches, only with different architecture and beliefs.
Churches don’t embody a legal system complete with prescribed punishment and the power to carry out punishment, or political totalitarianism (one can always “opt out” of a fundamentalist church; to do so in Islam carries a death sentence, depending on the whim of the imam) and violent jihadist educational services like mosques do. I believe failure to understand the difference between a deen and a religion is crucial to why Islam is making such inroads here in the USA amongst Western masses who do not devote much thought to the problem. Thanks again for “deen”, which I’ll try to research a bit, Mortimer. Just one of your many good contributions to JW. Cheers! Quotha .
David, Thailand says
Spineless Western leaders have dug their hole by taking the politically expedient stand that Islam is a religion of peace, and that Islamic violence therefore cannot have anything to do with Islam.
Our media, meanwhile, who are the real kingmakers and thought controllers, have set in stone the principle that because Islam is a peaceful religion, victims of Jihad must have been responsible for their own fate.
If Orwell were alive today nobody would notice him.
Sabri S. says
The world would be much better if America was a muslim majority
Country….just look at the police misconduct and corruption endemi c
To American society….
mortimer says
Muslim apologists like Sabri knows in his heart that Islam is a dysfunctional failure in every practical measure of failure.
Islam causes poverty, disease, ignorance, backwardness, stagnation, superstition, brutality, injustice, misogyny, religious persecution, dictatorship, inequality, dishonesty, amorality, pedophilia, necrophilia…I can go on all night with this list.
Angemon says
Sabri S. posted:
“The world would be much better if America was a muslim majority
Country….”
No more Hollywood pumping out blockbusters. No more music from america. No more books from America. No more TV shows from America. No more goods and products made in America. No more research of medicine because, hey, camel piss heals everything, right? Yeah, sure sounds lovely. Tell you what? Why don’t you pack your stuff, move to the middle of a barren wasteland and see what would happen in in a reality where America is a muslim-majority country?
“just look at the police misconduct”
Like what? Police looking the other way while religious minorities are slaughtered by a frenzied, raging mob? Oh, wait, that’s in muslim majority countries. Police coming in and sending young girls to their death in a fire because they deemed them not to be “adequately” dressed? Oh, wait, that was in Saudi Arabia. Police letting some random civilian walk into a precinct and shot dead someone accused of blasphemy? Oh, wait, that was in a muslim-majority country – again.
“and corruption endemi c
To American society….”
Son, don’t even start:
http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results
Chris says
Eric Brazau needs your help! He needs money for transcripts to appeal his conviction.
What was his crime? Why questioning islam of course.
His lawyer is working probono but the transcripts cost money to get.
This man is on the front lines fighting for your rights, fighting for free speech. Fighting for Canada! Help him! Any donation helps. I have donated 50$ but even 10$ helps.
Do you have a few dollars to spare to help someone fighting for you when he needs it most!?
Please donate!
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mortimer says
Pam and Robert are ‘odious’, but the man with the sign that says, “BEHEAD THE MAN WHO INSULTED OUR PROPHET’ … well that’s understandable…he isn’t ‘odious’.
Noble savages cannot be ‘odious’, because they are the deadly, exotic pets of the cultural Marxists.
The cultural Marxists are like the delusional people who bring exotic animals like chimps, lions or gorillas into their homes putting the lives of their friends and families at risk.
somehistory says
Your comment reminds me of the situation in Florida with the pythons that are so large that even gators can’t rid the State of the snakes. All because people…ignorant, stupid or uncaring…brought them in as *pets* and then when the snakes were too large to handle and too expensive to feed, let them go in one of the many acres of woods around the State or directly in the Everglades. The Everglades is overrun with them where they are breeding like they do in Burma, and in recent times, they have been found outside the Glades…in the yards of innocent people. It’s scary.
Lia Wissing says
Philip Klein asks, ‘When does free speech become hate speech, and when does hate speech become incitement to violence?’ When a muslim quotes the qur’an?
RAMJIRAO says
I want to see the cartoon. Who is the winner?
Dag says
Free speech. A whole book full of it. An illustrated life story of Mohammed. Motoons. The backward version.
http://www.amazon.com/Snootom-D-W-Walker/dp/0987761587
terry says
Islam is not marginalized, it is Islam that marginalizes everyone else.
Theodoric says
If all of us who are determined to preserve our most precious possession, the freedom of speech, were to post a link to a “Prophet” Muhammad cartoon everyday, they would become so ubiquitous that it would become obvious even to the Muhammadans that the idea of stopping the cartooning with jihad attacks was a lost cause. Free Speech lovers outnumber the Muhammadans by far. Let’s take advantage of it and put an end to this barbaric lunacy.
https://drawthevileprophet.wordpress.com/2015/05/07/preserve-freedom-of-speech-draw-the-vile-prophet-muhammad/
Walter Sieruk says
The words of violence and death on the banner of the top picture say much. Nevertheless, there are still some people who still have the ignorant gall to call Islam a “peaceful religion.” Those same people greatly need a reality check and to come out of denial and wake put the to the truth about the violent and murderous essence of Islam.
Mark says
https://youtu.be/o_qYcJ-GSZc
wayne says
Shariah Law
Daniel 7:1-8 ( KJV )
Great Beasts
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Daniel 7
The first was like a lion,(lion of Justice symbol of England) and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, (Uncle Sam and the eagle) and a man’s heart was given to it. (England and the USA)
Revelation 6
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer. (Christian Nations)
Daniel 7
And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, (symbol of Russia red bear) and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. (Russia or communist)
Revelation 6
And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword (Red Communist)
Daniel 7
After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. (China or Asian descent )
Revelation 6
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. (Trade)
Daniel 7
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. (Middle East)
Revelation 6
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
(Muslims)
Dan 2
{And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, (5 on each foot not together as yet) part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
And as the toes of the feet (10 Nations no fully together yet) were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, (Muslims are all over the world) even as iron is not mixed with clay. (Now you know why the Muslims can’t get along with each other)
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, (Jesus) and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.}
Dan 7
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
And the ten horns (10 toes(10 Nations no fully together yet) out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: ( Shariah Law ) and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. (3-1/2 years)
Revelation 12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, (3-1/2 years) from the face of the serpent.
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Dan 7
But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
rcourtemanche says
Thanks to our craven media.
Psychewhisperer says
Why are we still using “radical” and “extremist” when referring to Muslims? This is absurd! There are no radical or extremists. There’s only Muslims. Calling genocide, honor killings, terrorism, etc….. extreme is like saying that Christians baptizing there children is radical. All the things you see that we call “extreme” that Muslims do is part and parcel of their Islamic doctrine and has been carried out non-stop for 1400 years. Stop making out like there’s a few “radicals” out there mucking it up for everyone else. There are 1.2 billion Muslims out there who aim to dominate the earth because Muhammed and Allah said to do it under no uncertain terms.