Yes, they were charged with “terrorism” for criticizing Islam. Remember this the next time you hear that cynical and disingenuous Hamas-linked Muslim groups in the U.S. have condemned terrorism.
Meanwhile, this is a glimpse into the future of the U.S. This can’t happen here, you say? We respect the freedom of speech, you say? Maybe that was true at one time, but it is no longer. Cowardice is pandemic. Newspapers all over the country refused to republish the notorious Muhammad cartoons out of a newfound “respect” for Islam that they never showed for negative portrayals of Christianity, which they hailed as “courageous.” Those who call attention to the ideological roots of jihad violence are excoriated as racist, bigoted “Islamophobes,” and most organizations on both the Left and the Right would never dare feature such people as speakers. Any organization that does is immediately denounced and called upon to apologize, and it usually does. So given that this is the climate today, what do you think the situation will be like in ten or twenty years?
“Mauritania: seven people charged with insults to Islam,” translated from “Mauritanie : inculpation de sept personnes pour insultes à l’Islam,” APA News, February 28, 2020:
A Mauritanian judge has charged seven people with “contempt for the Muslim religion” and “terrorism”, APA learned from judicial sources on Friday in Nouakchott.
Arrested in mid-February, the defendants were sent in prison pending the scheduling of their trial, for which no date has been set, the same source said.
The persons in question had participated in Nouakchott in a meeting of an unauthorized association advocating for the refoundation of Mauritania. This association is suspected of promoting secularism in the country and some of its members are even accused of preaching Christianity.
In the same context, the Mauritanian justice system launched arrest warrants against three people living abroad. Recently, audio recordings of conversations between some of the accused have spread widely on social media, causing deep outrage among the population.
These recordings mock the precepts of Islam and contain insulting language about religion. The defendants are being prosecuted in accordance with article 306, which concerns cybercrime in the Mauritanian code of criminal procedure.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
So to Moslems criticizing Islam is terrorism. And the Infidels suspecting terrorism after a man from Syria mows down dozens of people with his car is Islamophobia.
Makes sense. The central question is whether anything in Islam that deserves criticism. Apparently not.
mortimer says
Yes, APF. Verbal opposition to Islam is punished more severely than physical warfare. That is the illogic of Sharia law. Only Mohammed may forgive verbal attacks against Islam and he is no longer alive to do so.
gray says
Mauritania, a bacon of freedom and justice.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/08/the-unspeakable-truth-about-slavery-in-mauritania
Gray says
bacon = beacon
toomanyhobbies says
Oh sure this somehow is a crime, but the slaughter of millions of non CULT members is just fine…
gravenimage says
That’s what Islam is like.
Rene Pomerleau says
Islam is proven to be false and wicked just by the simple fact that 1) it cannot handle scrutiny/criticism and 2) it does not stand under close scrutiny, it falls apart and proven to be a false religion. Therefore, Muslims must silence all opponents, they have no ability to question their own religion. Christianity has always been under attack and continues to strive even under severe persecution. Christianity is the only true religion. Amen.
somehistory says
I agree. islam is from satan the devil, the arch enemy of Truth, Justice and Divine Law, as well as the Ones Who sponsor these virtues, our Creator and His Son, Jesus Christ.
This is why Christians are persecuted and it’s also why islam must, and will, be destroyed, along with its evil source.
mortimer says
“CONTEMPT OF ISLAM” is illegal blasphemy under Sharia law. It is punished with a death sentence whether by the state or by vigilantes. Sharia authorizes vigilantism.
All Muslims are required to hate and fight all forms of disbelief in Islam and to punish blasphemers. All Muslims are part of jihad. They are required to hate the disbelievers ‘for the sake of Allah’. Muslims are required to treat VERBAL FIGHTERS against Islam as MORE DANGEROUS than actual military fighters who fight Islam with their hands and with weapons.
Islamic ‘logic’ goes like this 1) Mohammed assassinated anyone who verbally opposed Islam 2) Mohammed sometimes forgave those who verbally opposed Islam, but his followers do not have the same right to forgive 3) anyone who criticizes or openly opposes Islam must be killed according to Sharia law 4) today’s Muslims cannot reform this death sentence out of Islam.
“There is no indemnity obligatory for killing a non-Muslim (harbi) at war with Muslims.” -Reliance of the Traveller, o4.17, p.593
Sharia law contains no punishment for someone who murders a BLASPHEMER.
That ruling of Sharia CANNOT BE REFORMED out of Islam.
CogitoErgoSum says
Mauritania sounds like a place those migrants at the Greek border should be wanting to go — where they would be safe from all the infidel terrorists out to get them.
mortimer says
The average salary in Mauritania is US$98 per month.
CogitoErgoSum says
And very scant welfare benefits for the unemployed, I’m guessing.
gravenimage says
In Maurtania 17% of the population are enslaved.
mortimer says
An excellent article by Robert Spencer … superb exposé of the craven moral cowardice of the Western elites.
They have made a virtue out of their obvious cowardice, disguising their lack of guts and character.
melek-ric says
Any religion whose adherents can be “terrorized” by mere criticism is a brittle one indeed.
keith says
Once again, people being condemned by Islam for speaking what they think.
No freedom of speech =no freedom of thought. Which is what the mullah’s want, if people started thinking, then they would see that Islam is a fraud and would leave in droves.
DHazard says
Mauritania may be, next to Saudi Arabia, the Muslimest country in the World. It is generally considered to be 100% Muslim. There is absolutely no threat at all to the stability of Mauritania from 7 unarmed non-Muslims. If the situation were reversed, and a 100% Christian nation had 7 Muslim immigrants, there would be a parade with World wide coverage. “Racist regime collapses!” “End of Colonial Rule for Mauritania” “First Muslims in Mauritania Receive Lavish Welcoming” “The future is brighter for Muslims today”, etc., gag, etc. gag, etc.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article, Robert Spencer correctly states:
“Yes, they were charged with “terrorism” for criticizing Islam.”
And Tommy Robinson was charged with “breach of the peace” for criticizing islam and the Pakistani muslim rape gangs.
Even in many Western democracies, telling the truth is no defense…
Wellington says
Truth, I would contend, James, is as fragile as liberty. Indeed, the two are intricately related and both will perish if vigilance to maintain them ceases. When truth is no longer a defense, the Zenger trial of 1735 in colonial New York, which established that it was most certainly an absolute defense against defamation and pioneered the path to the First Amendment to the Constitution in 1791, is in danger of becoming nothing but an historic relic.
Would just like to agree with you from your statement a few days ago on a different thread that mosques need to be monitored and foreign money for mosque building should be contained by finding any legal pretext to do so. I fear though that 1) Islam is so rotten and deceitful; 2) that accurate knowledge of it is still so scarce; and 3) that the laws of the West are simply not at this point adequate enough to know how to protect religious belief while not committing legal and societal suicide protecting Islam, which religion will certainly use freedom and decent legal systems (essentially either Common Law or Roman Law) to insure the death of the West, that it’s going to be a very close call whether Islam will prevail or be finally consigned to the extreme margins of society and an eternal pariah.
So much work yet to be done to deal with the monstrosity of a religion which is Islam. Arguably, the greatest challenge to Western Civilization ever.
Hope you and yours are doing well. Till later.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Yes, islam – if I may add in “synergy” with leftism – is indeed the greatest threat to Western civilization. Nothing else even comes close.
And the United States is not of the woods yet – not by a long shot. And that’s with a very powerful, and clear thinking, POTUS…
You perked my interest, I had never heard of the Zenger case:
https://u-s-history.com/pages/h566.html
Let’s keep up the fight – and best wishes to you and yours.
Wellington says
Hello again, James. The Zenger case stands as a major advancement in the history of liberty. The lawyer who defended Zenger was Andrew Hamilton from Philadelphia (no relation to Alexander Hamilton who wasn’t born until the mid-1750’s) and his defense was so sharp and so revolutionary, not to mention successful, that this is what gave rise to the line, “better watch out for that guy, he’s a Philadelphia lawyer.”
Being a lawyer myself and having been born in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the greatest country on earth, I am sure you will understand why I am doubly proud, though this doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate lawyer jokes, two of them being: “Why did New York get the corporate lawyers and New Jersey the toxic waste dumps?” Answer: New Jersey got to pick first; and “A Cruise Liner went down in the middle of the Atlantic and sharks came up and ate the entire crew and all passengers except the lawyers—why not the lawyers?” Answer: Professional courtesy.
As always, good to hear from you. And as always too, best to you and those you hold most dear.
gravenimage says
There was just a mention of the Zenger case in a short shown on TCM, the “Passing Parade”–I was glad to see it. I doubt many Americans are familiar with this watershed case.
gravenimage says
Good exchange, James and Wellington.
gravenimage says
Mauritania: Seven people charged with “contempt for the Muslim religion” and “terrorism” for criticizing Islam
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Yes–this is the sort of thing Muslims are thinking of when they “condemn terrorism”.
libertyORdeath says
Exactly right. The muslim-left alliance is appropriating the term terrorism to describe anything they disagree with in order to cheapen the effect that the term has and bore the public into submission.
gravenimage says
All too often true, I’m afraid.
somehistory says
Truth is “terrifying’ to moslims. moslims are “terrorized” by Truth. mosliims react with “terror” when they hear the Truth.
And when moslims feel “threatened with the Truth,” someone must pay…speakers of Truth must pay, of course.
Walter Sieruk says
This and absurd recent news report from Mauritania of about seven people charged with “terrorism” for “criticizing Islam” is only an absurd charge but also a lame excuse for the persecution of anyone who may say something that is critical of Islam , no matter how mild that criticism might be.
This is because Islam such a weak and fragile religion that is can’t hold up or stand up to criticism of any kind .
Walter Sieruk says
The Muslims in power in the nation of Mauritania in their harassment of people who may have “criticized Islam” accusing them of “terrorism” in doing so, are the ones who should be ashamed.
This is because the Muslims who made charges of “terrorism’ against those people for “criticizing Islam” are guilty of being so very ignorant that they don’t really understand that terrorism actually is. On the other hand they may well know and understand what terrorism really is but couldn’t care less and only make those charges as an excuse to persecute those people of the “affront of criticizing Islam”
Nevertheless , this is a very fitting time to go over the definitions of Terrorism as in what terrorism is
Thus terrorism is “The use of violence for the achievement of political ends which is common to state and non- state groups.”
Therefore, Islam with its Islamic terrorism actually fits within this definition. As difficult and hard as this might be for some Westerners, especially Americans, to comprehend and understand. For example, many Americans do strongly understand the concept of the “separation of religion and state.”
For Islam is a religious/ political /Sharia law based system that had total and complete control over the thoughts values , lives , behavior of millions of people around the world. This also included the use of violence to achieve the advancement of the power of Islam. As Islam’s “holy book” the Quran does strangely instructs, as in Surah 2:191, 5:33. 9:5, 111, 47:4. So the above definition of “non- state group” describes al Qaeda, Boko Haram , Al Shabaab, etc.
For the definition of “state” terrorism the rough state of Iran serve as good example , is i his Islamic terrors it inflects on the Iranian people though is violent ruffians gangs of Islamic state “police” who are called the “Revolutionary Guards.” Furthermore , the state “mullah regime “ of Iran also funds ,supports and uses in violent and murderous Muslim stooge jihad groups and Hezbollah and Hamas to achieve its religious /political agenda . So indeed Islam is political and with its violence fits the above definition.
Islam is in essence, a religious /political Sharia law based system. As so well explained in brief way, by the Muslim tyrant who and ruled Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini when he stated that “All Islam is politics.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq , page 332.
A Gnostic Agnostic says
The hypocrisy here is the Muhammadan ideology is the terrorist ideology. This,
in conjunction with the fact that Muhammadans religiously scapegoat their own nature
outlines the pathology of Islam: blame others for what one is themselves guilty of.
In religious terms, this is the ‘Mark of Cain’ – to scapegoat the nature of ones own onto others.
In secular terms, this is ‘psychological projection’ – same as above.
The hypocrisy here is that Islam is the terrorist ideology, but
non-Muslims are accused/abused as the terrorists, thus projection/scapegoat.
Don’t allow the Muhammadans to make you/others into their scapegoat:
try “the accuser is the accused” as true/false upon every accusation from
the House of Islam and/or the Left/Liberals/Democrats. They all bear the same Mark.
Connect this to the Left/Liberal modus operandi and you will see that the House of Islam
is behind the Nazism/fascism/socialism and use rogue states (such as Germany viz. WWII)
to breed a social movement that ends up committing genocide. That was an Islamic attempt
to take over the world and install Sharia. It failed. They blamed Jews, just as Muhammad did.
History repeats itself: Islam is the global root of Nazism/fascism/socialism.