The Bulgarian parliament has moved to criminalise the promotion of radical Islam, including advocating a caliphate, religious violence, and sharia law.
Kudos to Bulgaria for tackling political Islam head on and making the important point that the “change in law was not aimed at targeting a religion but a dangerous ideology.”
As stated by UP Member of Parliament Boris Yachev:
Radical Islam is a particularly aggressive and dangerous ideology that justifies violence and the murder of [infidels]
The article goes on to say that Yachev was “insisting it also excused ‘slavery and genocide’ as a ‘systemic policy.’”
Yachev’s words are not difficult to grasp, but many will refer to such truths as “Islamophobic.” The only notable issue in the quote is that Yachev is not “insisting” anything of his own accord. What he describes is in plain black and white in the Quran and Sunnah. Of course not all Muslims live in accordance with such texts, but those texts are there, and adhered to by enough Muslims to require Western governments to take action to protect their culture and citizens against those who adhere to them.
Promoting any ideology of violence or one threatening the law and constitution of the nation could be punishable with one to five years in jail and a fine of around £2,000, the Bulgarian newspaper Dnevnik reports.
Bulgaria should be congratulated, and should serve as a model nation in its recognition of the Islamic ideology. That ideology is indeed invoked by those committing jihad attacks, as well as by those practicing female genital mutilation, sex slavery, the persecution of infidels and apostates, the murder of gays and the like. Let’s also hope that Bulgaria researches and take a further step to outlaw stealth jihad groups that are found to have ties to recognized terrorist organizations (such as unindicted co-conspirators to terrorism). For example, even the United Arab Emirates deemed the “unindicted co-conspirator” CAIR to be a terrorist entity. These stealth organizations also shield jihadists by means of their incessant victimology narrative and promotion of the word “Islamophobia” to beat down legitimate criticism of Islam.
“The Bulgarian parliament has moved to criminalise the promotion of radical Islam, including advocating a caliphate, religious violence, and sharia law”, by Liam Deacon, Breitbart, December 7, 2017:
The Bulgarian parliament has moved to criminalise the promotion of radical Islam, including advocating a caliphate, religious violence, and sharia law.
The legislature adopted the amendments to the nation’s criminal code aimed at tackling radical Islam on their first reading this Wednesday.
They were proposed by a nationalist electoral alliance called the United Patriots (UP).
Promoting any ideology of violence or one threatening the law and constitution of the nation could be punishable with one to five years in jail and a fine of around £2,000, the Bulgarian newspaper Dnevnik reports.
UP Member of Parliament Boris Yachev told the paper that the change in law was not aimed at targeting a religion but a dangerous ideology.
“Radical Islam is a particularly aggressive and dangerous ideology that justifies violence and the murder of [infidels],” he said, insisting it also excused “slavery and genocide” as a “systemic policy”.
His party proposed a legal definition of radical Islam, which, according to the law’s parliamentary reading, includes “when a person is agitating for the creation of an Islamic State [or caliphate]”.
Other tenets are promoting religious law over secular law, the “forcible application of religious principles”, advocating violence including “sacred war against non-Muslims [jihad]”, and recruiting people into Islamist terrorism.
In June 2016, the Bulgarian parliament voted with a large majority to become the third European nation to ban the Islamic full-face veil, or burqa, finalising the law in September with a fine of around £90.
As a legacy of almost 500 years of Ottoman Turkish rule, Bulgaria has one of the biggest Muslim minorities in Europe at about 12 per cent of its 7.1 million population, Reuters reports.
Speaking in October of this year, Deputy Prime Minister Krasimir Karakachanov said: “It turns out that problems [with radical Islam] we see in a number of European countries already exist in Bulgaria.”
He claimed that “extremely liberal” laws were allowing the spread of more radical strains of Islam in education and training.
“It is mostly the… financing by private structures of religious communities that attempt to realise political influence in the country,”….
Andrew says
Common sense prevails; in one country at least.
Lydia says
Great! Some intelligent life is on earth!
J D S says
Maybe they should go one step further and just “criminalise” the whole of islam…There sure seems to be a lot of criminal activity showing up in Islam..The problem…criminal activity by Muslims
Is not considered criminal. It’s just part of their norm..ITS IN THE BOOK!!!
Bodega says
I am very happy to read this. I hope their rationale and terminology are carried into many nations, including ours.
James Pierce says
Amazing how the only things making an ounce of sense in Europe these days are coming from places formerly behind the Iron Curtain
Westman says
By the same logic, Merkel should have saved Germany from getting on the road to its current fate. What was she thinking?
Does she see herself as an immigrant or did she see herself as a communist central planner, a role now carried on under a German form of Democracy? Any ideas of why she was not concerned about the effects on Germany’s historic citizens? Ambitions to run the EU after Juncker?
It’s not difficult to realize that the EU is dangerous for member states as national interests will be suppressed by leaders to get in the running for EU positions. With politicians it’s not “follow the money”, it’s “follow the power”.
PaulM says
Yes indeed. Praise for Bulgaria. So very true. The Eastern Bloc are not spoiled rotten little brats living on state handouts,as is the western world. And they can’t afford to molly coddle a bunch of welfare bums, fascist scumbags who publicly advocate for the destruction of the very countries that they are mooching from, like the malicious, pus ridden, vicious cancer that they are.
Liam says
Don’t hold back tell how you really feel, most people too scared to say the truth but the truth shall set you free.
bodega says
The comments are entirely right about differenciating “radical Islam” from the rest. That allows allows laws to me created to get rid of the honor killings, FGM, and all the other garbage that is so anti-human. Getting rid of Sharia Law, etc. is critical.
I honor the Bulgarians for this activity and Follow Through.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
It’s not an accident. Within the memory of several of their citizens there is the knowledge that tyranny can come from both the Right and the Left (or, for that matter, anywhere, even a theocracy.)
Emilie Green says
“has moved to criminalise the promotion of radical Islam, including advocating a caliphate, religious violence, and sharia law”
Well, it’s a start. Hope they get to realize soon enough that there’s only one kind of Islam. Islam doesn’t come in flavors. So, that’s no “radical Islam,” just plain old Islam. Even Erdogan will tell you that.
Michael says
One to five years in jail is peanuts.
The death penalty would be more like it.
Michael Copeland says
“An ideological political movement” is how Anjem Choudary described his Islamic organisation.
Recognition of this is overdue in Western Europe.
Savvy Kafir says
It’s a start anyway. Moving in the right direction. For that I’m really grateful.
duh swami says
What? Those greasy Islamophobes can’t do that…what are they trying to do, wreck Islam?
mortimer says
Bulgaria while communist did a great deal of work on accelerated or ‘speed’ learning with the use of sleep-learning with pillow-speakers delivering lessons while the student slept and also the use of relaxing music during classes to aid absorption.
The Bulgarians may be the best placed, then, to start researching ABSOLUTE DEPROGRAMMING of JIHADISTS right out of Islam. Such ABSOLUTE DEPROGRAMMING would in no way be ‘brainwashing’, but would be instead a solidly intellectual approach to systemically demolish belief in Islam’s genocidal Death Cult which places JIHAD-GENOCIDE as the top priority for Muslims. Only ABSOLUTE DEPROGRAMMING has a chance for ending jihad. Deprogrammed Muslims will then be able to deprogram other Muslims, creating a snowball effect. Ex-Muslims are the most effective counterjihadists.
Bodega says
If deprogramming doesn’t work, might a prefrontal lobotomy do?
Carolyne says
Yes, assuming there is a brain.
gravenimage says
Mortimer, your idea that Muslims listen to Muslim apostates is quite mistaken–instead, pious Muslims *murder* apostates.
As for learning in your sleep, I’m afraid this idea was debunked decades ago:
http://www.premedmag.org/2013/10/15/you-cant-learn-in-your-sleep/
Carolyne says
I was in Bulgaria once when it was under communism. The people were actually afraid to even talk to me. At the airport, they were frightened to sell me a plane ticket. They closed all the ticket windows. I was able to take a bus to Belgrade and leave via Air Yugoslav. I am gratified to see the Bulgarians have developed some backbone.
M says
I thought heavy doses of thorazine would have to be involved….but maybe that’s just being pessimistic.
Anyway, go Bulgaria!!!!
Lu says
Cheerful comments … Bulgaria has not adopted this, make no mistake. It will be a battle in their Parliament, and even if won in the nation, the law may (and most likely will) contradict to the EU laws – hence subject to pressure from the Brussels hellhole, using probably the same leverage as already tried on the countries of V4.
So all in all, realistically – nice try, I foresee a very difficult path towards adoption and then enforcement of the said law proposal.
St. Manuel II Palaiologos says
Bulgaria still has a strong Christian civilizational and cultural identity. This is why they’re able to make such a move.
Infidel says
The more tolerant and liberal the host society, the more virulent the Islamic parasite… KUDOS to Bulgaria for taking this much needed stance. Hope more non-Muslim nations follow.
CRUSADER says
Now…how best to go about doing something big and similar as what the Bulgarians have executed.
We in the USA have to gradually but assuredly find a way to justify and legally execute a similar path.
Certainly making Muslim Brotherhood minions and CAIR advocates as suspected terror criminals is a start to this process here in the USA. As for our northern neighbor, Canada better get its act together!
(…no pun on ACT, if you get that drift…)
Islam seen as an ideology is one angle to work from…. How Muslims will retain it as an innocuous faith will be up to the “reformers” of that scaled down religion…. particularly if the perspective held by Ayaan Hirsi Ali about the Medina vs Mecca aspect of Islam can be parsed and filtered and minced…. Otherwise Islam as it is will prove unworkable in a flat world full of countering ideas and ways of living…
Thomas Kimball says
I like your choice of the word “execute” in your second line !
LB says
The chance of USA adopting a law like this is infinitesimally close to zero, because these are the conditions that need to be fulfilled first:
1. Muslim population 80% of population)
3. Strong national identity (at least > 80% of population identifying as a [insert country name])
4. ZERO POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!
As you might’ve guessed, in the West, only the countries of Eastern European Bloc fulfill these conditions.
Guest says
Excellent another country is coming to their senses
Santa Voorhees says
Bulgaria should outlaw leftism as well.
Leftism is what allowed radical Islam’s atrocities to expand into the West.
Thomas Kimball says
Thank God for Bulgaria! At least one country isn’t afraid of Islam and has the courage to call it what it is!
Older Canadian says
Agree!!
Tom says
Brilliant !!! What an incredible move.
Anyone who objects to outlawing radical islam and all that it entails will be falling right into the brilliant trap that has been set for them. It is a catch 22 for Islamists, if they object they confirm their support of radical islam and jihad and if they say nothing their agenda does not progress.
When are the rest of Europe going to follow this common sense move.
Tom says
We need a motion put forward to criminalize “Radical Islam” in Canadian parliament to counter the m-103 Islamaphobia motion.
If they can get away without defining what islamaphobia is, then a motion proposing making radical islam illegal, without defining what “radical Islam” means should have no problem passing. Unless of course, if there is an agenda at play.
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?=f8BtB4C3Vi8
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8BtB4C3Vi8
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Considering their geography and history, this seems to be coming a bit late. Maybe deportation would be better than jail time and a fine. The convicted perp wouldn’t have to go far.
CRUSADER says
Deportation.
Yes, considering Bulgarian history, that makes more sense!
Deport to where, though?
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Whichever of the OIC member states will take him.
My phrase, ‘wouldn’t have to go far,’ was a reference to the fact that Bulgaria is right on the doorstep of Turkey and the Mohammadan world.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
criminalising political Islam or Sharia means that Islam is now banned in Bulgaria with substantial percentage of Muslim population. This is real fascism, which Christine Williams is applauding. Christine, as Christian bigoted, there is nothing you can do to wipe out Islam for your filthy Christianity to survive. All lies against Islam by Christian evangelist liars have failed. Your attempt and that of Mr Spencer and Co will also fail.
Christine ,abandone filthy Christianity and embrace Islam before your death,otherwise you will start regret serving the Satan (Holy Spirit)while gasping for death. May Allah show you the light of Islam to cherish
Vann Boseman says
My prospects as a non-Christian are best served by embracing the Christian aspects developed through the traditions of Christian majority countries. The core of law in Christian countries, while Christian, also promotes natural law and natural rights, which are not necessarily Christian in origin. I long for the day that my country will have the bravery and courage to have the debate on Islam that Bulgaria is having now.
Islam is ugly and unnatural. That is one truth among many that you have no defense against. This is why you must judgmentally accuse Christine Douglass-Williams of bigotry and lying. You know that if anyone were to probe your judgments that they would discover that Islam has historically been a blight on humanity and that Islam is so ugly and unnatural that it cannot honestly present itself to the world.
It is not the responsibility of Western countries to embrace ugly and unnatural cultures. It may happen, but the West has no responsibility to embrace it. What Islam would have to do in order to demand such a thing is to honestly debate fully embracing freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is an aspect of Western civilization that is superior to alternatives in Muslim majority countries. I have the right to say anything about any religious figure that I want to for any reason or no reason at all. I have the right to say, “Mohammed is a faggot, child molesting, ass,” and if you do not like it and understand that I have such a right, then I will always remember that you have no integrity when you claim to speak the truth, especially concerning Islam.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Vann, you lied. you are a filthy christian worshipping the Satan you call Holy Spirit who inspired you to colonise and subjugate other nations stealing their resources. Idiot !!
CRUSADER says
Islam Watch reveals how lies and deceptions are integral to Islam:
Knowing Four Arabic Words May Save Our Civilization from Islamic Takeover
…Takiyya
is defined as dissimulation about ones Muslim identity…
…Tawriya
is defined as concealing, and it could be called “creative lying”…
…Kitman
is characterized by someone telling only part of the truth. The most common example of this is when a Muslim says that jihad really refers to an internal, spiritual struggle…
…Muruna
means using “flexibility” to blend in with the enemy or the surroundings…
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abad says
Ibrahim, if you’re going to post here, please do it in English, no one understands your Ishnaq language
gravenimage says
The vicious Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
criminalising political Islam or Sharia means that Islam is now banned in Bulgaria with substantial percentage of Muslim population. This is real fascism, which Christine Williams is applauding.
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Note what Ibrahim itace muhammed is admitting here–that Muslims cannot really practice their foul creed if they are not allowed to oppress, rape, and mass slaughter unbelievers.
He is pretending that standing against the systematic persecution of women and Infidels is “fascism”. How utterly grotesque.
More:
Christine, as Christian bigoted, there is nothing you can do to wipe out Islam for your filthy Christianity to survive. All lies against Islam by Christian evangelist liars have failed. Your attempt and that of Mr Spencer and Co will also fail.
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Actually, I am not sure if Christine Douglas-Williams has ever said whether she is Christian or not–but this does not matter to ravening Muslims like Ibrahim itace muhammed, who considers all Westerners to be Christians–even Atheists like Hugh Fitzgerald.
As for his claim that all opposition to the horrors of Islam is “Christian evangelist”, nothing could be more absurd.
Ibrahim itace muhammed has himself affirmed that Muslims can mass rape and slaughter Infidels, that they may rape and enslave them, and that they may “marry” little children. He has also affirmed Muslim plans to commit genocide against the Jews.
His only problem with alluding to such Muslim savagery is when anyone dares speak of this critically.
More:
Christine ,abandone filthy Christianity and embrace Islam before your death,otherwise you will start regret serving the Satan (Holy Spirit)while gasping for death. May Allah show you the light of Islam to cherish
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This is standard Islam, where the “invitation to Islam” is coupled with a death threat. *Ugh*.
More, in reply to Vann Boseman:
Vann, you lied. you are a filthy christian worshipping the Satan you call Holy Spirit who inspired you to colonise and subjugate other nations stealing their resources. Idiot !!
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Notice that Ibrahim itace muhammed is incapable of addressing a single one of Vann Boseman’s points, and so he just slanders him. No surprise there.
Also telling is that Ibrahim itace muhammed still considers Vann Boseman to be a Christian, even though he specifically mentions that he is not.
Alex Smythe says
Not all Sharia law is necessarily bad, but aspects and versions of it which oppress and persecute non-Muslims is indeed bad. Was it wrong for the U.S.A. to criminalize Jim Crow laws and slavery against black people? Was it unfair to extreme white-supremacists (be they Christian or non-Christian)?
Vann Boseman says
Alex,
You are comparing apples and oranges.
Slavery against blacks ended abruptly when though white people, the majority, in the north or south at the time, saw black people as fully human. That is why Jim Crow laws lasted way after slavery. When white culture was was mostly ready to view blacks as fully human, then of course the same natural rights would apply to them as whites, even if the laws pushing this were a bit unnatural.
But this was a short period of time compared to Islam and sharia.
For most of its 1400 years, Islam has advocated for black slavery to whites. (Arabs traditionally consider themselves white regardless of skin color.) The word abid in Arabic came to mean slaves as well as blacks.
Sharia laws directly contradict the natural rights referred to under the Constitution. Sharia laws largely operate under the presumption of the superiority of Islam to any other religion. As Islam is a minority religion, your comparison again fails. Here you have to speak for Islam as one outside of Islam regardless of your religion. Islam has blasphemy laws against saying anything against Islam, regardless of truth, while freedom of speech advocates a whole other approach. The two approaches are diametrically opposed with no common ground whatsoever.
FYI says
Excellent.Heavy fines too, are a good idea to impose upon the Godless muslims if they dare to break the law.
That’s what should have been done in western Europe years ago… now thanks to Merkel,Tony Blair,David Cameron,Teresa May,Hollande etc who allowed mass islamic immigration into their countries..they are left with this savage creed..
islam the false cult.
allah the false god of islam
muhammed the false prophet of islam
koran the false scripture of islam {given to muhammed by jibreel(satan’s own angel)}
false god,false prophet,false scripture:islam wins the prize for fraud!
Carolyne says
A Heavy fine” would mean nothing to a Muslim immigrant. Most of them are on the dole so it would be taking money from the government to give back to the government.
abad says
Heavy fines will not work.
Deportation will though.
gravenimage says
+1
Gregg says
Very wise people. If things don’t changes in other countries, Westerners will be begging these people to let them in so as to escape the genocide of their former native country
henner720 says
puc.become mainstream.p uncorrect c.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “Kudos to Bulgaria for tackling political Islam head on and making the important point that the “change in law was not aimed at targeting a religion but a dangerous ideology.”
What utter crap; islam itself is the enemy – but as I also live in Canada, I realize why you felt you had to say it: Canada has gone totally fascist – Turdeau has actually made it into a crime to criticize islam at all.
Matthieu Baudin says
A sober move by the Bulgarian State. Bulgaria has a local Muslim population of about 7% with roots going back centuries. Some are orthodox but many others have chosen to let go of their previous religious identities, change their names and take on a more local non Muslim persona. These people are now being protected by this forward thinking legislative move.