To censor what he considers to be “racism” and “xenophobia” is “not an attack on free speech or the silencing of controversial ideas or criticism.”
Yeah, sure it isn’t. That’s exactly what it is, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is likely well aware of that fact. This has been a years-long chess game: first came the charge, ridiculous on its face but relentlessly and indefatigably repeated, that to speak honestly about how jihad terrorists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims constituted “hate.” Then came the likewise specious charge that “hate speech” was not “free speech,” and was capable of being identified by neutral, impartial observers, and that it did not deserve the protection that various governments gave to the freedom of speech.
None of that is true. In reality, hate speech is a subjective judgment based on the political perspectives of the one doing the evaluating, and freedom of speech protections were first instituted in order to ensure that speech that was hated by the party in power could still be aired: the freedom of speech is our fundamental bulwark against tyranny, and prevents tyrants from declaring opposition to their will to be “hate speech” and thereby outlaw it.
But I never was any good at chess, and now Facebook and Twitter have blocked 90% of their daily referrals from Jihad Watch, and the site is blocked by many Internet service providers in the UK and Europe. This represents one fulfillment of Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein’s demand, which other members of the political elites, particularly among the EU, have made previously. These clampdowns are a manifestation of those elites’ growing anxiety in the face of the populist movement that caught them unawares in the UK with Brexit and in the US with Trump, and that threatens to overturn their hegemony in Europe in the near future: they’re doing everything they can to make sure that as few people as possible wake up to how they’ve destroyed Europe with their disastrous Muslim migrant policies, and now threaten to destroy North America as well.
The force of events will soon render their censorship useless, for all anyone will have to do in order to see the catastrophe they’ve created will be to look out a window. But will they shut down Jihad Watch, get my books pulled from the shelves, and silence me altogether before their sinister power is definitively broken? Maybe. If they do, look for me busking the soprano saxophone on a streetcorner near you (at least until you see the headline “Racist, Bigoted Islamophobic Saxophonist Driven Off Streetcorner By Tolerant Multiculturalists”), but if that happens, their victory will be hollow. The truth they’re trying to cover up will one day, inevitably, overwhelm them.
“United Nations: Regulating ‘Hate’ Speech ‘Not an Attack on Free Speech,’” by Penny Starr, Breitbart, March 21, 2017:
The United Nations marked the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Tuesday by telling governments around the world that regulating “hate speech” is part of the strategy needed to “stand up for someone’s rights.”
Governments around the world “have a legal obligation to stop hate speech and hate crimes,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein reportedly said Tuesday, adding a call “on people everywhere to ‘stand up for someone’s rights,’” the press release about the event said.
“It is not an attack on free speech or the silencing of controversial ideas or criticism, but a recognition that the right to freedom of expression carries with it special duties and responsibilities,” Al Hussein said in a statement.
“Words of fear and loathing can, and do, have real consequences,” Zeid said.
In his statement, Zeid said that U.N. member states “do not have any excuse to allow racism and xenophobia to fester.”
States “have the legal obligation to prohibit and eliminate racial discrimination, to guarantee the right of everyone, no matter their race, color, national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law.”
“At the Summit for Refugees and Migrants in September 2016, U.N. member states adopted a declaration strongly condemning acts and manifestations of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” the press release said. “The Summit also sparked the UN’s Together initiative to change negative perceptions and attitudes aimed at refugees and migrants.”
The press release said this year’s theme is “ending racial profiling and incitement to hatred, including as it relates to people’s attitudes and actions towards migration.”…
joeygoest says
If I am stabbed by a man who says he attacked me on behalf of his religion, will I be charged with a hate crime if I tell the police that he shouted “Allahu Akbar,” while trying to decapitate me?
mortimer says
Joey, you are forbidden to ‘mention’ anything about Islam.
Sharia law strictly forbids the mere ‘mention’ of ‘something impermissible’ about Islam by a kafir (non-Muslim).
From authoritative manual of Sharia law, ‘Reliance of the Traveller’ Chapter ‘O’ 11.10.05:
“The (DHIMMI) agreement is also violated (A: with respect to the offender alone) if the state has stipulated that any of the following things break it, and one of the subjects does so anyway, though if the state has not stipulated that these break the agreement, then they do not; namely, if one of the subject people:
-5- mentions something impermissible about Allah, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), or Islam.”
The blasphemy punishment for a blasphemer under Sharia law is death. Under Sharia, anyone has permission to carry out the execution of a blasphemer without legal consequences…even a kafir may execute a Muslim blasphemer, because the Muslim has in theory become a kafir by blaspheming.
Sharia permits the murder of anyone who verbally opposes Islam, since they are at war with Islam:
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
Another Sharia manual states:
“We have already discussed killing the person who, with intent, curses the Prophet, belittles him or slights him in any way. The judgement in this case is clear.” (i.e. the sentence is execution)- from Sharia law manual, “Qadhi Iyaadh in ash-Shifa”, Volume No.2, Page No. 27
The Koranic scriptural defense of the above is the following:
– K.33.61 – “They shall have a curse on them. Wherever they are found, they are seized and slain.”
Mohammed himself commanded:
– A’li ibn Abi Talib reported that Nabi (saw) said “Whoever curses a prophet kill him. Whoever curses my companions beat him.” (TABARAANI, DARAQUTNI)
john spielman says
IF we all must stop hate speech, written or oral- THEN BAN ISLAM
mortimer says
Under Sharia law, there is no such thing as ‘hate speech’. Sharia forbids ‘saying something impermissible’ about any Islamic topic. That means no dirty KAFIR may ‘mention’ anything about Islam, but must remain silent.
Steve says
Banning The most Unholy Koran and it’s adherents would STOP all this in an instant!!! But it would also start WW3!
Tjhawk says
“Words of fear and loathing can, and do, have real consequences”
Make those words prosecutable and you have the perfect screen for loathsome people doing fearsome things.
Vic says
What hypocrisy! And the nations of the world cant/wont recognize that these very governments are the promoters of he most hate speech, racism and intolerance. But they are scared to death that we are finding out their true colors.
Remember the words of Joseph Goebbels: ” If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Ed Lee says
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has obviously not read “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”. If he knew the kind of irreverence constantly displayed by Hunter Thompson throughout his life, Al Hussein would never have used the phrase “fear and loathing”.
mortimer says
BLASPHEMY LAWS are a WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING. Sharia law is deadly.
Sharia permits the MURDER of anyone who verbally opposes Islam, since they are at war with Islam:
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
Jan Favre says
So start to censor Quran and Hadith.
pdxnag says
So, opposition to Sharia law and those who would impose it is hate speech? Hence all opposition to Islam is hate – ergo blasphemy or apostasy punishable by death, the mandatory prescribed Sharia law penalty. Oh happy day.
Troybeam says
What is hate speech, according to Islam anything said about Mohammed is hate speech yet Islam does not hesitate to speak its voice clearly with mentions of beheading, death to America, death to Jews, Christians and Hindu’s etc, if thats not hate speech what do these pro ISLAMIC idiots think it is.
TruthWFree says
What the problem really is, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, is hate killing according to the hate in the Quran coming from your allah god whom I am convinced is Satan.
Jeanette says
Bingo!
And I suspect that we are going to find out that the Antichrist will not be an individual, but (possibly due to mistranslation) will be an organization working for world domination – Islam.
Westman says
There is no greater or consistent source of hate than Islam which divides humanity into the loved and the hated. Allah creates no doubt, in the Quran, that he hates unbelievers, and most of all, hates Jews. His followers are expected to do no less.
The Quran is a book of hate that survives all political seasons by masquerading as the foundation of a “spiritual” religion. And its proselytizers are likely to carry a weapon.
Vic says
Excellently articulated, Westman!
I wish someone would translate the 5 prayers that are recited daily. I would venture to say that they are cursing the nonbelievers. I don’t expect they are blessing the US or the American taxpayers for welcoming them into our communities.
Dave de la Rond says
The Jordanian Human Rights chief talks about Hate Speech.Maybe he should start investigating in his own backward Islamic cesspool, Jordan.Their local newspapers , tv and Internet spews Jew hatred and the destruction of Israel .This clown being UN human rights chief just makes the UN more and irrrelevent
Kepha says
Very good point.
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is not only a Jordanian diplomat, but also a relative to the king. If Iraq decided to restore the Hashemite dynasty they kicked out in the 1950’s, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is the man who would be king.
The UN Commission on Human Rights is a joke. It seats countries like the PRC, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. In 2004, the US Ambassador, Sichan Siv (himself originally a refugee from Cambodia who was naturalized) walked out over the seating of Sudan–a country with a notorious track record on religious and ethnic persecution, as well as slavery.
Vic says
Prince Zeid Al Hussein has been angling for this chance for a long time and now he is in precisely the right position. See this article from 2014 and see the baggage behind him. https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/06/26/the-scandal-of-ambassador-zeiyd/
Al Hussein and Jordan are no friends to Israel. al Hussein has done a lot of work to set up the ICC and has defended the UN peacekeeping force from crimes against the population they were supposed to be defending and guarding. He would love to drag Israel and accuse of all sorts of crimes…
He should be removed from that post unless he says he believes in the freedom of speech as a human right.
James Gramling says
I doubt if you can find a Muslim that doesn’t want to kill me, overthrow my government, enslave my friends and family, and more….but, if I happen to mention these facts I’m guilty of being islamophobic, guilty of hate speech, I’m racist, and bigoted. I guess I’ll just need to be OK with my loss of free speech, followed by being forbidden to own a weapon — hey! No hate here!
Angemon says
Gonna stop you right there, buddy. “Legal obligation”? To whom? What supra-governmental entity makes and enforces these obligations?
JayT says
Obama’s gone (good riddance to a modern day Benedict Arnold) and so no one in the U.S. cares what you cacadoodle from your rooster perch at the U.N.
We have a new sheriff in the WH who isn’t going to give a fig about what you say on this topic either.
So convincing emasculated wet noodles living in the EU isn’t surprising, but it sure won’t work in the U.S. anymore. You’re not going to get your Sharia courts in the U.S., you’re not going to get your blasphemy laws here, you’re not going to get Sharia law here either.
My prediction is once the border is closed down fairly tight, you’ll start sending multitudes of “refugees” to the U.S. by way of ships claiming asylum. Ships secretly or perhaps openly funded by Islamic gov’ts and groups. Maybe you can get one of your pets like Keith Ellison to handcuff himself to the docks, refusing to move unless such refugee ships are allowed entry, but even his own party won’t back him for the DNC chairmanship.
davej says
Anyone who would accept a Muslim being in charge of human rights is an idiot.
No Fear says
Ban hatespeech? Good, then ban the Quran, the ultimate hatespeech against non muslims.
Klunk. {sound of me dropping coins into Robert’s busking hat}
gravenimage says
UN “Human Rights” top dog Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein: Nations have “legal obligation to stop hate speech”
……………….
In other words, he wants to coerce Infidels to impose Shari’ah strictures and criminalize the criticism of Islamic savagery.
He has castigated Donald Trump and Geert Wilders for trying to protect their people from violent Jihad, and has slammed the Brexit vote for the same reason. Criticizing Jihad itself? Not so much…
Pete says
Excellent. All muslim countries must ban the quran and the imams who cannot start the day without hating us infidels
Ted says
All Canadians, be prepared, the Bill M103 is going to say that you cannot say anything negative about “you know what.” I cant say what,” you know what is” because I am not allowed to say it. Therefore I don’t know if their are to be penalties if I say anything about “you know what”. I can say that if a deranged animal is allowed to escape from its cage and I or my family members have a choice of joining it or die, we are all quite capable of killing it. I don’t like this animal being in our country because it is not native here. Never lose your right to own your firearms because the cage-keeper will one day, through his stupidity and warm fuzzy feelings allow it to get out.
underbed cat says
The word that comes to mind is metamorphosis…turning adjectives, descriptive words into nouns and getting tyranny and slaughter to silence and control outcomes so adjectives are never used to describe the reality/facts of words of the doctrine. Cagey, clever deception.
Lydia says
Then they are in favor of censoring the Bible and all true Christians like me.
I will speak out until the day they kill me.
Leviticus 18; 22
‘You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.’
and verse 24
‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.’
Lydia says
Oh, and lest I forget to mention it:
Islam is a false, evil, violent, blood-thirsty religion that has nothing to do with peace in any way.
I will continue to say that even when it is illegal here. Their tyranny is coming, I know because it is in end times bible prophecy. Revelation 13; a one world dictatorship that most will embrace because they have been conditioned to do so by slow brainwashing propaganda (like we see now). Don’t bank on a peaceful future. At least be aware.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Ah, so he’s an apostate who wants to ban the Qur’an, is he?
The Qur’an is a clearly-written, us-versus-them hate-crime book, endorsing a permanent might-makes-right death-threat. In fact, it’s quite accurate to note that the Qur’an is what you’d get if Hitler had written the Bible.
The Qur’an tells it’s muslim mind-slaves that they are in fact SO “superior” to all the non-members of their war and plunder cult, that it’s not only their right, but also their holy duty to their god, to extort, enslave, and murder all the non-muslims in the world, simply for the “crime” of not being muslims!
SO -and according to only their own Eastern histories – islam has an official 1,400 year history of “holy” lies, extortions, robberies, tortures, arsons, kindappings, slaveries, rapes and 270 million murders: that’s OVER A QUARTER-BILLION INNOCENTS SACRIFICED TO ALLAH, so far!
For a detailed breakdown of historical islamic depredations by region and era, just Google for: “Tears of Jihad.”
Islam has a larger death-tally than that of EVERYONE ELSE, both secular and religious, COMBINED, and with an historical average of less than 1% of the global population to have committed it with, too!
Do the math: 270 million divided by 1,400 is almost 200,000 per year, or over 500 per day, or over 20 per hour or about one person every three minutes being murdered by Muslims ever since Islam was founded.
So, simply and precisely because of their “THOU SHALT KILL!” cultural indoctrination, MUSLIMS ARE STILL FROM BETWEEN FOUR AND SEVERAL HUNDRED TIMES MORE LIKELY TO ENGAGE IN MURDER (and all other crimes,) THAN EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD!
Islam is the greatest ongoing threat to humanity the world has ever yet known. But, to leftopaths, when islamic terrorists attack Infidels and then the infidel says please stop, that is the cause of the attack.
The Qur’an and islam itself should be banned, and all muslims resisted and exiled, because everything muslims pretend to believe is “holy” is already a crime!
Dennis says
Free speech: but not against my country, its rulers and my religion! That is the Islamic definition.
RK says
This is more of how serious the take over of our rights, our thoughts, speech, and complete control these others want over all of us- to stop us all from knowing the truth, the whole truth, I real truth. We see this dishonesty in our media, TV, Internet, etc- its about 100% control and we a need to stand up against this take over and this indoctrination to their one-sided so-called truth to what these others say and/or put out.
Hmmm isn’t this how the middle east is controlled? — Yes it is, from their media to their schools, so wake up people- wake the hell up and fight this fight because it is on- it is real- and this needs to be stopped and NOW!
— ASK U’RSELF WHEN ALL THIS STARTED, WHEN? We all, if u’r being honest with u’rself, know the answer to this question, this answer matches an ideology from others placed into our societies, our countries spewing their wants and rights over are own in our own land. So be honest and face the facts to all this one-sided control being put forth.
WAKE UP PEOPLE-WAKE UP. IT DOESN’T MAKE US RACIST ETC- IT MAKES US SMART AND WISE TO STAND UP FOR WHO WE ARE AS PEOPLE AND FOR OUR OWN COUNTRIES!