There is no objectively identifiable quantity known as “hate speech.” “Hate speech” designations are used by the powerful to silence speech they don’t want aired. In this case, the OIC is using European Leftist dupes to silence criticism of Islam and force adherence to Sharia blasphemy laws forbidding criticism of Islam.
“European-Islamic media forum calls for clampdown on hate speech in Western press,” Arab News, June 30, 2018 (thanks to Lookmann):
JEDDAH: The first Islamic-European forum for examining ways of cooperation to curb hate speech in the media began on Friday at the Press Club Brussels Europe, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
During the opening session, the head of the Council of Journalists Union in Brussels, Peter Knappen, spoke about the importance of press freedom and stressed that it should be used responsibly and follow ethical and professional values.
Director of the information department of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Maha Mustafa Aqeel explained that the forum is part of the OIC’s media strategy to counter Islamophobia.
“Our strategy focuses on interacting with the media, academics, and experts on various relevant topics, in addition to engaging with western governments to raise awareness, support the efforts of Muslim civil society bodies in the West, and engage the latter in developing plans and programs to counter Islamophobia,” she said.
Aqeel said that, since 2005, the OIC has adopted many resolutions that call for clear and tangible measures to address Islamophobia and counter-terrorism resulting from it. These efforts have included establishing the Islamophobia Observatory, which issues an annual report on countering Islamophobia.
She also pointed out that the OIC has made efforts to engage the media, western governments, civil society and regional and international organizations such as the European Union and UNESCO in order to fight Islamophobia….
Aqeel said that the two-day forum would explore ways to establish cooperation between media professionals from OIC member states and the European Union to help curb hate speech, stereotyping and fake news, “all of which negatively impact society and provoke intolerance.”…
Peter Dale says
And so the dance of the deaf and dumb continues.
Lydia Church says
As usual, they don’t attack the enemy, but the enemy of the enemy.
They don’t go after ‘terrorism,’ but ‘counter-terrorism’!
They don’t go after those who persecute Christians, but they go after those who call out the muslims who persecute the Christians, calling it ‘islamophobia.’ There is no such thing. There is only terrorism and persecution of Christians.
As I said, their agenda is that they are coming for us, and closing in for the kill.
If they silence you, you are already dead.
They will never silence me, even if they kill me, because the truth marches on.
JW_Reader says
Not all Muslims are terrorists. But these Muslims sure do the groundwork for the terrorists. These Muslims keep crying Islamophobia and then blame Terrorist attacks on Islamophobia. These Muslims never hesitate to say ISIS and people who speak against Islam are same.
Hari Singh says
But all Muslims who come to occupy the kafir’s land, teach Islam to the inhabitants, compel rights contrary to the customs of the indigenous people are Jihadis. So too is the harmless Muslim who calls the prayer azan is a Jihadi, as is the one who says his religion is above criticism.The ultimate aim of them all is conquest. Islam has conquered without war as in the case of Malaya and Indonesia.
Muslims know if they can stifle opposition and revelations about the untrue nature of Islam that they are in control.It then and there becomes the state protected religion.
He who is above criticism is in control, those who criticize are the deplorable Islamophobics and they fight Islam’s attempt at control.
If you are Islamophobic, and refuse to criticize Islam’s evils, you are submitting to Islam.
Anne Smith says
Just watch this clip of the excellent Lord Pearson try to raise the Government’s awareness of the hate speech being disseminated in the mosques and madrassas in the UK and you will realise from the reaction to his perfectly sensible question what we are up against in Britain. Some of the silly cries of “nonsense” and the general hostility towards Lord Pearson from the pig headed “Lords” and “Ladies” in the chamber can only make a better informed person despair.
Lord Pearson is extremely knowledgeable about Islam and its direction. A pity some of his fellow members of the House of Lords do not take the trouble to acquaint themselves with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74tQu3NLimg&feature=youtu.be
Julea Bacall says
These people must be required to read it. REQUIRED. Or they can make no statement what-so-ever.
They talk of stopping anti Jewish Semitic hate speech and in the same breath talk of protecting Islam. Who will protect the Jewish from the Qur’an’s bigoted teachings?
gravenimage says
+1
Giacomo Latta says
How is that? Just because they do nothing more than spout ”go ISIS go” they are not terrorists?
Julea Bacall says
I watched the video from Ann Smith and it sounded as if these people did not know the Qur’an is enormously anti Semitic. They talked of trying to stop antiSemitism and then in the same breath said Islam must be protected. They have not Read the Qur’an and yet they are a government making laws. But they have not even read it.And it was obviously a majority who had not read it. How can this be? How can they come to a conclusion with zero knowledge? I am so dismayed.
Julea Bacall says
The Qur’an/Hadiths are nothing but a Warlords manual for control & conquest for an Empire using all the little people to do the dirty work. In some way other, all of them must do something to bring Supremacist Global Islam. Read the Qur’an. It is a manual for Terrorist conquest by all sorts of techniques. violence is only one of many.
J D S says
Anytime the Muslim uppity ups push for equality in news reporting and get involved with the press and press clubs etc and especially OIC member states, one can see the roadmap to sharia law and it’s just sickening to death to see the MSM and even other news outlets as well as our so called leaders wallowing in these murky waters….
I’ve never seen so many blind people in my lifetime as I have in recent years, blinded to the fact that we are drowning in that murky water.
Julea Bacall says
I feel the same and it is so frustrating when its so Obvious. I feel compelled to do something, but what?
JawsV says
“Islamophobia” is deserved.
Joe says
Yes, Islam has killed about 275 million people with 250 million of those deaths occurring after the fighting stopped. If Islam doesn’t scare you, nothing ever will.
DHazard says
You can’t deal with hate speech coming from the Muslim world until you address the hate speech in the Quran. Since that won’t happen all attempts to reconcile Islam with the modern world will fail.
Julea Bacall says
This is exactly what I want brought up Now! Hasn’t anyone mentioned it? Who can I contact?
Julea Bacall says
We have to start asking people to read it. All our politicians, professors, religious leaders, everyone. Ask if they have read it. REQUIRE them to read it first before giving any opinion.
Benedict says
“to help curb hate speech,“ – – –
Sanitize the Quran of hate speech would be a welcome initiative.
Jean Terry says
Truth about Islam is hate speech to people who are ignorant or are pushing an agenda.
When we can no longer speak truth we are in trouble.
No Muzzies Here says
We all know that they are targeting statements of facts unflattering to Muslims, and calling it hate speech so they can suppress it by putting the truth-sayers in prison.
They have no intention of eliminating the true hate speech spoken every day in mosques.
Save Europe says
So true. It was interesting. I arrived home late last night after work, and was bored. There is an Aussie series called ‘Romper Stomper’ based on the VERY old Russell Crowe film of the same name. Thus, I watched the first couple of episodes. Whereas before, it was solely about neo- Nazis, this series was indeed about some people who are ethno-nationalists but also those critical of Islam and the Muslim invasion. The VERY interesting part of the second episode was that they showed a supposedly nice Muslim, venerating within a Mosque and uttering the words – ‘ May Allah give us victory over the non believers.’ For me – I was incredulous – And happy that, finally, someone has shown the truth!
Indiana Tom says
“European-Islamic media forum calls for clampdown on free speech in Western press,”
Fixed it.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
gravenimage says
Islamic-European forum examines ways of cooperation to curb “hate speech”
……………………
Don’t these idiots realize that there is no freedom of speech in the Islamic world? Perhaps that is what they like about it…
“Blasphemy” laws and the crushing of freedom of speech. Shameful.
Julea Bacall says
Who can I contact to stop the hate speech & bigotry coming from the Qur’an/Hadiths.
Its really very shocking.
People cannot be taught these myths, lies, & propaganda inciting the hatred of millions of people. This is not even under ‘freedom of speech’. Not even. The Qur’an/Hadiths cross the line.
Who can i contact?
gravenimage says
You just have to educate people. There is no one person to contact.
Julea Bacall says
Not just one person but people with influence. Some with power and voice who are not entrenched in some other kind of supremacist group that can be blamed.
gravenimage says
True, Julea.
balam says
There is freedom of speech in the Islamic World as long as it is against the Jews and Christians. The TRUTH about ISLAM is considered ISLAMOPHOBIA.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
I thought some might be interested in what the OIC’s “Islamophobia Observatory” has to say. Here is last year’s ‘report’:
https://www.oic-oci.org/upload/islamophobia/2017/10th_islamophobia_rep_en.pdf
Of course, they blame “Islamophobia” in the US on Donald Trump–not on Jihad terror attacks.
In the same way, they blame the “far right” in Europe–not Jihad terror attacks.
It is full of fake “Islamophobic” plots, like the “National Burn a Mosque Night” in the UK of the 5th of November–where, of course, no one burned a Mosque.
They then claim that saying the “Koran is bullsh*t hatred cover to cover” is “hate”–rather than simple common sense. Of course, if some said the same thing about the Bible, it would just be acknowledged as freedom of speech.
They also get unhinged over “The Quran is a hate-filled holy book” and “The Islamization of Europe is underway”–both of which are just obviously true.
The rest is more of the same.
FYI says
Ms Aqeel and the OIC can start ……by dealing with allah’s antichristian and antiJewish HATE speech in his koran.
The koran manages to insult TWO world religions:its teachings are both violently anti-Semitic* and antichristian(deeply offensive to Christians in its theological ignorance)
1.allah CURSES the Jews AND the Christians {koran 9:30}
Why?The Jews are cursed for being Jews and the Christians are cursed for believing in Jesus Christ.Ludicrous!
allah, clearly, is NOT the Biblical God {of Moses,of Jesus Christ}
2.allah says the Jews are “apes to be despised and hated”{ koran 2:65}
Perhaps ms Aqeel/ the OIC can explain 1 why the Jews are to be called apes by allah and 2 why should they be hated and despised?
Isn’t that koranic teaching HATE speech?Moses and Jesus Christ are …Jews:did allah not realize that?
3.allah does not conform to God’s 2nd chief commandment:-
“Oh ye who believe!Take not the Jews and Christians for friends”
koran 5 v 51
How and Why did allah miss that “love thy neighbor” command of God?
allah/islam/the koran..due to the complete absence of God’s 2 Chief commandments.. preaches hatred and violence towards non-muslims
That is a fact.
*Remember too that Jesus Christ is…a Jew.And allah’s hatred of the Jews is the at the very heart of islam and the koran.While allah manages to curse Jews AND Christians,it is mostly the Jews that are the target of allah’s hatred.Consider….
alalh (who curses the Jews k9:30) gave his violently anti-Semitic,antiChristian,misogynistic koran to muhammed(a mass-murderer of Jews ..abu dawud 4390.. and self-confessed false prophet ..al tabari 6:111)with the help of the “angel” jibreel{defined in bukhari as being “THE ENEMY of the Jews}:so many holes in that story!
And the common theme is…”allah’s” antisemitic nature..which is simply ridiculous.. because the God of Moses cannot have such an anti-Semitic bias:but we see that allah does.
balam says
Even GOD IS JEWISH who came to this world in human form as JESUS -THE CHRIST .Likewise ALLAH is SATAN who also came later in human form to misguide humanity and bring death ,deceit and destruction till eternity.
Giacomo Latta says
Read your beloved koran, sport. Jesus is also a prophet of Islam, according to Mo, except he flogged the koran over 600 years before Mo co-wrote it with allah. Sound illogical? Sounds like the koran.
gravenimage says
“Jesus” in Islam is also not the Savior–nor is he a healer or a peacemaker. Instead, his role in Islam is to *kill Christians* in the last days.
utis says
If she wants to kill “hate speech,” how about stopping the stabbings and shootings and car jihadis? By the way, spiffy garb. She’s a regular Dawa Barbie, designed by all the psych-manipulators of the modern Madison Ave. I’m surprised they didn’t get her to radiate light, to show her peaceful, spiritual nature.
Norger says
Spot on.
elee says
They gonna do away with hate speech? Really? No more Kor’an? I can’t wait!
Ren says
Europeans should promote “hate speech” against islam because that is the only way to spread the ugly truth on islam.
Japetto Danatelli says
Islamic-European forum examines ways of cooperation to curb “hate speech”
These connivers complain about hate speech, but they never have a word to say about the hate speech in islam. It’s always us “islamophobes” that get the bad rap, and all we want is to protect our freedoms and lives from the hate and violence of islam. You’d think they’d blush themselves to death with the oversight, not a word do they speak about islam’s doctrinal hate and violence toward “infidels” or the real world violence its causing. It’s an astounding act of stonewalling and obdurate denial on their part. If they truly want to do something about “stereotyping” then they should condemn islam’s view of unbelievers as second class citizens worthy only of death or enslavement. And if they sincerely want to curtail “fake news” then they should address their own lies and intellectual dishonesty for islam. We know what their real goal is by wanting “to establish cooperation between media professionals from OIC member states and the European Union to help curb hate speech,” they want to suppress every rational, humanitarian argument against islam to facilitate its spread. These are the same folks that call Trump a Nazi, but in reality they act more like Nazis who want to destroy free speech in favor of their own fascist ideals. This is what evil looks like when it only pretends to work for the public good, like the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing. Morally these folks are retarded, politically they are corrupt, and their humanitarian “principles” are perverted for islam’s supremacist agenda. They are totalitarian brutes for religious supremacy of the worst kind, they’re Nazis but for religion not race. But I should qualify that last sentence, they’re racist too because they make this issue about race while our argument is based solely on islam’s doctrinal teachings of hate and violence. There’s no silver lining to their methods or goals. They’re just all-around bad people who want destroy our human rights and freedoms for islam’s retarded morality and aggressive supernatural idiocy.
A message to anyone who defends islam and muslim immigration: there’s nothing moral, good, or kind about protecting and helping a belief system that condones bigoted murder and hate as divine truth. Islam is not–and has never been–about spreading godly truths to help humanity, it’s all about total control for the sake of their ignorant, bigoted superstitions. In short, islam promotes crimes against humanity and this is what muslims are bringing into our lands. If you defend that then you declare yourself an enemy of decent humanity, freedom, and good morals. Please take my advice, go look in the mirror and make the change.
RichardL says
It it as if people in full nazi uniform would have met in Erwin in 1942 to combat nazophobia.
RichardL says
Berlin. I hate autocorrect.
Gjallarhornet says
Yes, for at second there we all thought “poor Erwin” and visualized what the guys in nazi uniforms were about to do to him.
Gjallarhornet says
Curb islam, not free speech.
Berengaria says
In the months prior to 9/11/2001, fire-breathing Imams would hold Rallies in DC, urging their Muslim followers to hatred of the US, but President GW Bush never uttered
a word about “HATE SPEECH”.
Once I understood that the US State Dept: signed off on the importation of Allah’s Children, I knew that our own Government was in on the death of America by Islam.
We will never be allowed to criticize the “Hate Speech” of Islam, because Muslims are designated as a GOV PROTECTED GROUP.
White Christian AMERICANS never received that Coveted Honor.
infidel says
Those whose everyday lives are spent in the hatred and condemnation and mass murder of unbelievers are now calling for curbing of hate speech… VOW!! and it is even more mind boggling that the EU is joining them in this…
strong aingel says
Anyone who states “I AM A MOSLEM” (muslim or whatever) in this day and age, given the enormous information as to the fallibility of the quran and its leading characters, is in fact taking the piss out of you to your face. They have zero interest in their own Soul, let alone yours. The only religious attitude a moslem exhibits consistently is that of worshiping deceit and inhumanity as applicable under the koran and koranic law. For those in an islamic state the koran and islam are a birth curse. But for those who have entered into non moslem countries and yet decline the opportunity to apostatise and enjoy Life, “tools of the worshiper” mentality is a number one priority, because they profit by terror, as allah loves. Islam is not a religion, it is an induction into hell.
Kasey says
The first step should be to ban all sales of any Korans which contain any hate speech and make it illegal to possess any such copyof it.
gravenimage says
People like Robert Spencer–who exposes the savagery of Islam–would be arrested.
I’d be arrested, myself–so would a lot of other Anti-Jihadists here.
Muslims wouldn’t stop reading it, though.
strong aingel says
How about cooperating with Fidelis of all democracies and doing a hijrah back to the dumps they come from?
No Muzzies Here says
Playing with words. The purpose is to persecute people who state the truth about the crimes of certain privileged groups.
Johnston says
Is not “May you get cancer, you filthy, far-right cancer Jews” hate speech?
gravenimage says
Good question. (This is from another story from today).
gravenimage says
The Stoning of Soraya M. is an important film–but as brave as it is, it goes out of its way to exonerate Islam itself.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Jay Boo.