The worst aspect of this is that many, many people in the West will read that the Muslim migrant stabbed people because of “repeated insults to God, the Koran and Islam’s Prophet Mohammed,” and will conclude that we simply must not insult Allah, the Qur’an, and Muhammad. Few, and still fewer in positions of power, understand the importance of the freedom of speech, and the dangers to a free society of outlawing insults to any group. Submission is rapidly becoming a habit in the West. Cowardice is near-universal, and courage is derided and ridiculed as poking these poor dears in the eye and needlessly provoking them. It isn’t hard to see where all this is going to end up.
“Afghan migrant says ‘insults to Islam’ motivated Amsterdam attack,” MailOnline, September 4, 2018:
An Afghan migrant who stabbed two US tourists in Amsterdam has said ‘insults to Islam’ and far-right politician Geert Wilders were the reasons for the attack, prosecutors have revealed.
The suspect, identified as Jawed S., 19, is accused of knifing the two 38-year-olds after he arrived at Amsterdam’s Central Station on an international train having travelled from his home in Germany.
The Americans were not targeted because of their nationality, which the alleged attacker did not know, prosecutors said. Instead, his grievance was with the European country where the assault took place, they said.
The alleged attacker is said to have told police he acted over what he called repeated insults to God, the Koran and Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.
‘It is apparent from his statements that he believes that in the Netherlands, the Prophet Muhammad, the Quran, Islam and Allah are repeatedly insulted,’ prosecutors said, noting that the young Afghan man specifically mentioned Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, who is well known for his fierce anti-Islam rhetoric.
‘From the suspect’s statements so far, it is clear the man had a terrorist motive … and that he travelled to the Netherlands for that reason,’ the prosecutors’ said.
Wilders last week called off a planned contest for cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad following death threats and concerns other people could be put at risk. Prosecutors said the suspect did not mention the contest in his statements.
Wilders reacted with a tweet, writing: ‘Muslim terrorists hate our way of life and our freedoms. They answer criticism of Islam with violence.’…