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Sharia Italy: Newspaper editor charged with having “publicly injured the Islam religion”

May 16, 2017 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

“Islamic bastards.” Intemperate language, to be sure. But subject to prosecution? Do you think that Marco Belpietro would have been prosecuted if he had written “Christian bastards”? Neither do I.

“In the public prosecutor’s indictment Belpietro is accused of having ‘publicly injured the Islam religion through contempt towards those who profess it.'”

How do Belpietro’s words injure the Islamic religion? Isn’t it the same as it was before he wrote what he wrote? Or is it now somehow wounded? If so, is it not extraordinarily weak? And it’s illegal now in Italy to injure the Islamic religion and express contempt for Muslims? So Italy has adopted Sharia blasphemy laws? Is it illegal in Italy to injure the Christian religion and express contempt for Christians? If such a law is on the books, I doubt it is enforced. Nor should it be.

“Islam group plaintiff agst Belpietro,” ANSA, May 15, 2017:

(ANSA) – Milan, May 15 – A Milan judge on Monday admitted the Coordination of Islamic Associations in Milan and Monza (CAIM) group as a civil plaintiff in the trial against Marco Belpietro, who wrote a front-page news story in November 2015 titled “Islamic bastards” when he was editor of Italian newspaper Libero.

The story was in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris.

In the public prosecutor’s indictment Belpietro is accused of having “publicly injured the Islam religion through contempt towards those who profess it”….

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  1. Ciudadano says

    May 16, 2017 at 11:15 am

    ‘Do you think that Marco Belpietro would have been prosecuted if he had written “Christian bastards”?’

    Of course he would’ve not been prosecuted. He would’ve been given a badge of honor, the city keys and a job promotion.

  2. John A. Marre says

    May 16, 2017 at 11:26 am

    Letting them in is stupid. Handing them the instrument by which they kill you is insane.

  3. traci94 says

    May 16, 2017 at 11:41 am

    Muslims are the whiniest bunch of babies I’ve ever seen.

    • andra says

      May 16, 2017 at 12:29 pm

      If only they were as little dangerous as babies.

  4. andra says

    May 16, 2017 at 12:27 pm

    I am so sick of it. If they are not happy with our use of language – why don´t they leave and celebrate their Religion in their countries of origin?

    • John Wychowanko says

      May 16, 2017 at 10:46 pm

      Great idea. I’m also fed up, and Nobody will tell me how to speak. Black is Black, White is White.

  5. lebel says

    May 16, 2017 at 1:28 pm

    “Do you think that Marco Belpietro would have been prosecuted if he had written “Christian bastards”?”

    Jewish bastards, 100 percent yes. Christian bastards would also be prosecuted under this law.

  6. Santa Voorhees says

    May 16, 2017 at 1:31 pm

    Yeah, I remember this. We discussed this in my classroom back then.

    Little off topic here, but, in that same day, when I entered my school I saw a group of people distributing leaflets on which they were accusing France and the West for the Paris attacks.

    They were basically accusing the West for bombing cities in the ME trying to “export” democracy provoking deaths and refugees and this in turn makes them hate us.

    Of course, they totally ignored that Islam is a violent religion and has always been since its beginning 1400 years ago, as many verses in the Quran can attest. After all, it wasn’t much convenient for their narrative, was it?

    Apparently they were tricked by Isis terrorists who said they done it in retaliation for the airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, which in my opinion is another Taqiyya to deceive the infidels (and apparently it worked).

    Yeah, no matter how backward Isis terrorists are, they are still far more intelligent than leftists.

  7. Emma says

    May 16, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    I’s like to be a ‘fly on the wall’ when President Trump meets with the Pope. I pray he will have moral courage to continue to call a spade a spade.

  8. common sense says

    May 16, 2017 at 3:21 pm

    The marxist pope bastard acts in opposition to Western Christian values and spreads lies about global warming and tolerance where there is none to be found among those he says we should tolerate while he lives behind walls with personal security 24/7. Islam is the bastard child of decent religions that gives a good bastard like Charles Martel a bad name and by every definition the pope is Anti-Christ.

  9. JayT says

    May 16, 2017 at 3:39 pm

    This must have upset Pope Franscisco to no end. He’s probably out washing the feet of Muslims in the streets as an apology.

  10. John A. Marre says

    May 16, 2017 at 3:46 pm

    You can’t insult a religion. You can insult people. The ideology of Islam is inherently violent, and uses violence to expand throughout the world. It is a cancer, and should be eradicated. It’s not a religion.

    • carol says

      May 17, 2017 at 11:21 pm

      Also, adults are responsible for their own feelings. They needn’t be coddled like children – especially when they or their creed need correction. Sly political Islam chooses to debase and wear out the “other” and it thus needs to have a mirror held up to itself for all to behold. Only complete phonies or idiots would pander to such a beast.

  11. DRHazard says

    May 16, 2017 at 4:04 pm

    I am so glad I live in the U.S. We may be the last place on Earth that understands the importance and meaning of free speech, despite endless attempts to shut it down. If you give any group an exemption to criticism, even if the criticism is full of hatred, then you no longer have free speech. And, of course, it is very patronizing towards Muslims as it implies they cannot control themselves and should be seen as victims who are just reacting to something that didn’t and won’t happen to them but could have (if they lived in a different time and place).

    Instead what we see in Europe is a useless attempt to appease Muslims by pretending Islam is a religion just like everybody else’s. And this is from people who for the most part don’t even believe in God. The first weapon against deadly ideologies is public shaming and criticism. But apparently it is illegal to defend oneself in Europe unless you are Muslim, who can claim every murder they commit is self defense. This idea is straight from the Quran where Allah divides the world in to the House of Peace (Muslims) and the House of War (everybody else). It’s like living with a psychotic child who has managed to stifle any attempt at getting him to act like a normal child by threatening to poison all the food in the house. All the adults fold and submit to the child’s demands and then almost immediately pretend to be morally superior to anyone who would have just punished the child (or sent him to a mental hospital). When the child grows up to be a murderer the coddling continues with attempts to “explain” the external causes for the behavior, which are treated as more important than the damage the spoiled monster has caused to the lives of innocent people who don’t even know him.

    Basically, Muslims are rewarded for acting like assholes because the people in charge have become frightened assholes hiding behind unsupportable moral positions. And in Europe the authorities go one step further by criminalizing the entire discussion. Just think of all the people who died defending freedom. Their sacrifice is becoming pointless.

    • Monty says

      May 16, 2017 at 5:20 pm

      The USA is not immune from creeping Islamification. Europe is finished. Australia is well on the way (where I live). The USA says much but does little to contain Islam. I’m thinking of moving to Japan. It could be the last refuge! OK, I’m not serious. But I am glad that I am 66 and I am unlikely to see Islam finally take over. The western world has only itself to blame. The moral corruption, greed, self interest, lawlessness and dishonesty has weakened society to the point where it cannot withstand Islam. The bible predicted this scourge 2000 years ago. Islam rose up at a time when the Christian church was pathetically weak and almost unrecognisable as Christian. As the world turns away from God then they turn away from the only One who can help. We reap what we sow.

  12. billybob says

    May 16, 2017 at 6:55 pm

    I did a Google search for the article and found it – hiding behind a paywall in Italian. 🙁

  13. underbed cat says

    May 16, 2017 at 10:04 pm

    Islam is a master of control. with the cover of a religion.. SA.money perhaps to influence, control the media narrative, all forced to deny the legal law they will follow, the doctrine in the Haddiths, Quran. Using our universities and diversity to educate, grooming in speech, dress, and familiar positions in places of political power within our educational system to perpetuate. Appearing charitable, refined, pious while the terror jihadi groups bring denial, silencing the critics using many muslims to accomplish their goal. But most of all patience to proceed without a hint of deceit that many are driving forward with the caliphate goals in mind accomplished by our hand and ignorance.

  14. John Wychowanko says

    May 16, 2017 at 10:43 pm

    My view, ‘say it again Sam’ After all, isn’t this Freedom of Speech?? sometimes I wonder!

  15. Stewart Davies says

    May 17, 2017 at 4:24 am

    Maybe next time, he will have to be content with “Muslim bastards”.

  16. Sarah says

    May 17, 2017 at 6:21 am

    Am I the only person to find it absolutely astonishing that of late, it seems that many different democratic, civilized nation’s are suddenly dusting off their law books and hauling out their outdated, long-unused blasphemy type laws again? And only with reference to Islam?

    What is happening to the world? Things are escalating so quickly against us – meanwhile our very own politicians, media outlet’s and public speaker’s are completely ignoring this! It is astonishing, what is happening in front of our very eyes, yet there is utter silence from those who should be shouting the loudest AND doing something about this.

    I’m not one for conspiracy theories as a rule, but this even makes me pause. Its as though there is a deliberate, elaborate plot to destroy our culture’s and societies, to usher in a new era. But I just can’t see the sense of it. If we lose the living standards we have, we no longer remain the insatiable consumers that we currently are. If we are all worse off, the Elite loses. Importing horde’s of unemployed and unemployable scum doesn’t improve the economy, it doesn’t increase consumerism when the vast majority of these new imports can’t afford to buy anything because welfare is not high enough to live a champagne lifestyle.

    It doesn’t benefit the 1% to drag the status quo down further. So what’s the reasons behind this? I just cannot believe its as simple as a bunch of people being so wilfully blind as to not want to see the catastrophe in front of them that is coming. Pure human self interest alone, prevents that.

    • Christian Indeed says

      May 17, 2017 at 8:25 pm

      As much as I agree with most of what you say and everything you have stated should, and does to me, make perfect sense, for some inexplicable reason, it is not so!

      For example; I have a 24yo daughter (white, Christian’ish, gay and reasonably intelligent) who has decided to ‘disown’ me for my ‘radical’ views! She refuses any attempts at discourse on the subject and agrees with unfettered immigration, a ban on ‘Islamaphobia’ and apparently, the right of Islam to march unhindered on to it’s logical conclusion!
      Her girlfriend, siblings (grown up) and mother all agree with her and won’t so much as look at an article or video that may promote feelings of ‘Islamaphobia’.

      Most of my work colleagues don’t want to know and NONE of will discuss the issue openly (for fear of being overheard, perhaps?) over coffee or in the pub.

      Seriously, I am as confused as you and know not which way to turn next!

      • Sarah says

        May 18, 2017 at 8:45 am

        I am so sorry to hear that. In my family, about half of us over the age of 30 sit more to the Right, I’m probably the most no-nonsense out of the lot of us. But the younger ones in my family – yeah, they’re all dye in the wool Lefty thinkers.

        They’ve been raised on it. Schooled in it. Taught nothing else but progressive views. It takes a lot of time to break free of that, and some people simply never do – and some people genuinely find an accord with the Left and its ideology for whatever reason.

        Your daughter, being gay, may be a good example of that. Please excuse me for making a bunch of assumptions here – I mean absolutely no disrespect to you or her whatsoever 🙂 Perhaps that she is a member of the LGBTQ community, it may place extra pressure on her to align with all aspects of the Left. After all, its the Left that has championed her cause originally. There isn’t really a separation between the LGBTQ community, politically and the Left. Perhaps its a case of her choosing to adopt all facets as accurate and right for her, because it was the Left who stood up and protected her and her rights to begin with?

        I think its sad, in this day and age in the West, that there are people who are still negative towards the rights of people who are gay or bisexual. You cannot help who you love and your daughter isn’t hurting anyone by being attracted to the same sex. But her rights as a gay woman, whilst being picked up as a cause to champion, by the Left- have also become subsumed by the Left. Feminism is the same nowadays, too. The Left took them on as useful causes for awhile, but they’re being betrayed and abandoned now. Those people need to wake up and see that truth for what it is.

        With the Left jumping into bed with Islam – just how long do the LGBTQ community or the feminists think they’re going to maintain their current status quo, let alone continue to advance their aims and rights in the West, with Islam gaining a stronger stranglehold? The Left is betraying them and they don’t seem to be able to see that, yet.

        I hope that you and your family can come to a point where you can agree to disagree and still love and support one another. Family is too important to be divided over something like political ideology. I strongly disagree with your daughter’s arrogance (no offense, please) for announcing she is disowning her own father simply because the pair of you have different ideological beliefs. That is not right and it is not appropriate. You and her mother gave her life. She needs to respect that more.

        I wish you the very, very best!

  17. ibrahim itace muhammed says

    May 17, 2017 at 9:17 am

    Mr Spencer,the man is being prosecuted for hate_speech not for merely calling muslims as bastards.He uttered that Islamic bastards shall be kicked out of Italy calling for ethnic cleansing of muslims from Italy like what happened in Spain.Mr spencer , you know at the bottom of your heart that muslims get offsprings through marital relationships unlike christians who produce most of their children outside marriage due to indiscriminate sex like beasts,which they consider as sign of being civilised.thus,the man cannot be said to mean mere insults on some individual muslims that they are bastards.
    He meant that muslims shall be swept out of Italy as rubbish.Mr spencer should endeavor to read the facts of the case against this man.in the first place why mr spencer should term the prosecution of this man as “sharia Italy”? Is mr spencer saying muslims do not deserve protection in the west?No wonder mr spencer is one of the leading promoters of hate speech against muslims in contravention of hate_speech laws enacted in most jurisdictions in the west, as can be seen featuring in jihad watch.It is wrong to say freedom of speech mr spencer is claiming to protect include freedom to make hate_speech.why mr spencer is supporting law against anti_semeticism?Do the two laws not having the same goal of protecting a particular community from hatred? Any way mr spencer made it clear that he loves jews as his masters and hates muslims

    • Sarah says

      May 17, 2017 at 6:39 pm

      Slow your roll. I have just spent nearly an hour Googling for ANY information to back up your claim. I cannot find it – so please, feel free to identify where Belpietro said that he wants ethnic cleansing to occur etc.

      All I can find is that he was charged on the basis of a headline that screamed from the front page ‘Islamic Bastards’. And that was in direct reference to the terrorists who committed the terror attacks in Paris that had just occurred, that he and the article were referring to.

      I’m not sorry at all when I say that those terrorists WERE Muslims and those terrorists WERE bastards. Actually bastard is far too kind a word for them, but we’ll stick with what we have. Tell me – in what way were those terrorists NOT Islamic Bastards for doing what they did, in the name of their beloved religion?

      Belpietro has been charged on the basis of calling those terrorists Islamic Bastards. And no mate, no, no Muslim who does what they did, or supports what those bastard’s did, deserves protection in the West. You’re a lying, self entitled fool if you feel otherwise.

      None of this is hate speech. You Muslims just love crying foul over hate speech. You want to know what actual hate speech sounds like?

      “O Muslim, O servant of Allah, O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”

      Let’s see if you can be honest for once in your misbegotten life and tell us where that quote comes from?

      Or listen to the sermon on Youtube by Imam Sayed Al-Ghitawi at the Al-Andalus Islamic Centre in Montreal Canada. Charming stuff. Here is a transcript of a sermon he did:

      ‘Allah destroy the accursed Jews.’
      ‘Allah bring upon them a black day’
      ‘Allah show us the wonders of your power and ability inflicted upon them’
      ‘And shake the ground beneath their feet’
      ‘Allah, KILL them, one by one!’
      ‘Allah, KILL them, one by one!’
      ‘Oh Master, do not leave any of them alive’
      ‘Allah, grant victory to our brothers, waging JIHAD IN YOUR NAME, in every place, oh Master of the universe’
      ‘Allah grant victory to our brothers waging jihad in Palestine’
      ‘Allah strengthen their hearts, make their feet firm! Allah, make their feet firm!’
      ‘Allah grant them victory over their enemies.’
      ‘ALLAH, DESTROY THE ACCURSED JEWS’
      ‘Allah bring upon them a black day’
      ‘Allah show us the wonder of your power and ability afflicted upon them, O Merciful One’
      ‘Allah! Show them a day like ‘Ad and Thamud’!’
      ‘Allah! Show them a day like ‘Ad and Thamud’!’
      ‘Allah cast them down on stones of baked clay, oh Master of the Universe!’
      ‘Allah make their children into orphans and their wives into widows!’

      NOW YOU SIT HERE AND LIE TO MY FACE AND DARE TO TELL ME THAT THIS IS NOT HATE SPEECH. GO ON, I DARE YOU TO TRY AND BALD FACE LIE TO ME ABOUT IT.

      You are a typical Muslim. You are self entitled, lazy and arrogant. You think the West owes you anything? We do not. Check your privilege, mate. You are not owed anything on the basis of you believing in Islam.

      ‘Oh poor me, I’m a Muslim. Islam is the religion of peace.’. You are a snake, weaving your way through life, hissing and snapping hatred about the Jews, demanding privilege’s and special rights – all because your pig ignorant, illiterate, innumerate, warmongering pedophile, dark ages version of a courier truck driver ‘Prophet’ tells you that you are superior. That is the weakest possible justification that anyone could ever come up with for their supposed inherent superiority.

      Answer this. If Islam is so superior, why is the entire Islamic world ridden with violence, strife, conflict, poverty, misery, discrimination, hatred and perverse obscenities? Its so great in fact, that all these Muslims are running away from it and heading to the West!

      Belpietro did not commit the crime of hate speech. You know it. It just doesn’t suit your sense of self-martyrdom, you lazy coward, to be honest about it.

      • Noel says

        May 17, 2017 at 10:57 pm

        Brilliant, Sarah.

        • Sarah says

          May 18, 2017 at 8:52 am

          Thanks 🙂

  18. Frank Verderber says

    May 17, 2017 at 2:39 pm

    My Grand farther who was from Sicily used to use that epithet on just about anyone who disgusted him. The word certainly knows no bounds and came originally from the saddle bags used by travelers on horseback. Though most Muslims di not come to the EU on horse-back, they did bring their saddle bags. For the Muslims to argue that the word B_ _ _ _ _ ds belongs to them alone, is tantamount to robbery. But if they are bent on receiving this word as their own, well why should we stop their theft? They are good at it! The moniker even goes well with Mussolini Bastards! And if we consider all the rapes done in the name “The God,” or for the need for male relief, there must be a lot of their B_ _ _ _ _ds running around all over the world!

    Franco Josepi Nuccio-Verderber BSGS/ASCT
    author – educator – US veteran
    Russell, Massachusetts, USA

  19. fido says

    May 17, 2017 at 8:23 pm

    Big bloodshed is coming as the islam-satanist ideology must simply be destroyed. It cannot coexist with freedom and democracy.

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