Europe, the U.S., and the world at large are eventually going to have to choose: freedom of speech, or submission to Sharia blasphemy laws? Which one they will choose is in doubt at the moment. Submission was galloping forward until Samuel Paty was beheaded. That seems to have galvanized the French government into acting to defend free expression. But how long their resolve will last is an open question.
“Al-Azhar Grand Imam calls for int’l legislation to protect Muslims against acts of hate, discrimination,” by Amr Kandil, Ahram Online, October 28, 2020:
Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb called for drafting an international legislation that criminalises acts of hate and discrimination against Muslims worldwide.
El-Tayyeb’s call came at a ceremony to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, which was attended by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, and other state and religious officials.
El-Tayyeb said cartoons insulting to the prophet “are an explicit act of hostility” against Islam and its prophet….
Al-Azhar has also condemned the French president’s charges that Islam encourages “separatism and isolationinsm.”
“Cartoons insulting our great prophet, which are promoted by some newspapers, magazines and even some policies, are absurd. They are a break from all moral restrictions, international customs, and general law.”
The grand imam reiterated the condemnation by the Islamic world and religious institutions of the murder of the recent of French teacher in Paris, after he had exhibited anti-prophet cartoons in his classroom, calling the crime a “painful” incident.
“But it is most regrettable and extremely painful to see insulting Islam and Muslims becoming a tool for mobilising votes and being used in election markets,” he added….
Mount Zion says
Let’s call for international legislation to protect freedom of speech including offending muslims and their false prophet.
Check Burry says
Yes he has a very one sided proposition, no inclusion re murder due to hate of non mus.
juleonly says
No one can criminalise complete revulsion and hate for the ideology of Islam and the Supremacist, apartheid Qur’an as written. It is nothing but a Warlord Manual for conquest and complete control of the members to do the dirty work for ‘Allah’-Warlords. In reality, we need it out of our Free country. Supremacy is opposite Freedom. They cannot exist together. Its not the nature of a Supremacist to give Equality. Seriously, no Supremacy can be allowed in free country or the freedom will b killed. We should not be afraid to protect our freedom. ‘Islamophobia’ is as much a cover as the Neo Dems crying ‘Russia disinformation’ when it is themselves who are doing it.
william Carr says
Yes, perhaps if he reviewed the acts of hatred committed by Moose Limbs against other faiths and non Muslims, including murder and massacre he would see that there is a greater need to criminalise those acts first then non Muslim would not get the idea that I slam is not a religion of peace.
Another brain dead Imam mouthing off in the face of world wide evidence that it is exactly what Macron claims it to be
toomanyhobbies says
Jihad since 670 AD and ignore then???
PRCS says
Always the victim.
Check Burry says
Poor dears aint they.
Dude says
What a clown!
It’s as though he doesn’t know how monstrous his ‘religion’ is.
Or maybe he’s speaking as though he believes what he would like the rest of the world to believe, religion of peace and all that crap.
Dude says
Actually the Grand Warlord should have called for:
“International legislation criminalizing ‘acts of hate’ ‘BY’ Muslims.
Alice says
They should never have been welcomed into the western world, they cannot & will not assimilate.
Now it’s time to send them back from where they came.
Andrew says
It certainly seems like muslims cant take a bloody joke. How thin skinny are these big brave men that my opinion of their religion is worth so much to them that they wish to kill me because I call it a Fascist Religious Cult,which they insist on proving that fact every day it seems.
I can only imagine they are very shallow in their faith.
When they insult me I just shine it on to ignorance and rudeness, but I dont go out and kill the first muslim I see… I guess thats the main difference between civilization and barbaric beliefs.
Check Burry says
Oh yes, Ill drink to that,
vcragain says
Your last statement is completely on the point – most of us in the West are used to all sorts of silly ideologies yelling about their beliefs & saying what they like about other beliefs, we do not get our knickers in a twist & feel compelled to MURDER…..Muslims have ZERO sense of humor or any belief in freedom to think for themselves and therefore are not suited to live in the West as free people. They should go & find a place where they can follow what they are told to follow….and will be fine as long as they have NO differences with the leaders there, otherwise the penalty for having a differing opinion could be death – nice place to live ! The freedoms we enjoy in the West were very hard fought for & living the life of a submissive Muslim is NOT what any of us will agree to !!! The very word ‘Islam’ actually means SUBMISSION not ‘peace’ as they claim !!!
Tony Naim says
Grand wizard of terror, Mr big shot imam, why don’t you request as well to abolish the laws of Dhimmitude, apostasy, heresy and blasphemy within Islam. Level the field for Christians and Jews Like Muslims are treated equally with all citizens in the west.
gravenimage says
That would be un-Islamic.
Fred van de Bunt says
Think it is a matter for Allah.
Shoot him into space direction Allah with his demands, and just wait for him with Allah’s answer to turn back.
Muslims have a new Messiah for the future, and other can live normal up till then.
Melvin Ruebinawitz says
The real enemy is the open borders LEFTIST policy makers that invite invasion.
Westman says
“I demand a law to protect my unproven beliefs from criticism!” – Grand Imam
Sorry, but your beliefs are now on display in the public fishbowl and found wanting. Allah and Muhammad have no standing in the Free West. Egypt failed to destroy Israel and you, Imam, will fail to muzzle the West. Restriction and threatened aggression are the only tools you have remaining. Freedom is the basis of our existence – your “irresistible” force is facing our immovable object. The world is poised to choose its future; making you frightened and angry because Islam has already been rejected as a useful input throughout the Western World.
revereridesagain says
“Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb called for drafting an international legislation that criminalises acts of hate and discrimination against Muslims worldwide.”
I am atheist, which means my deepest metaphysical convictions excluded supernatural realms and beings. I have the same right to view the nature of reality as I choose as do Muslims, and the right to call El-Tayyeb’s gods or anyone else’s Imaginary Friends anything I damn well please. If they are “insulted” they have the right to stop listening and go away. Period.
Exactly how do these slaves of Allah plan to enforce “international legislation” on sovereign states? Such a measure is expressly forbidden by the United States Constitution and must be rebuffed decisively. Any attempt to enforce it should result in the criminalization of the Muslim Brotherhood — which should have been done already on grounds of it being a hostile foreign agent — and the closing of all mosques under the control of that organization. For starters. That would be likely to happen under a Trump second term, but since Biden’s imminent successor Harris is a stooge of Islam El-Tayyeb would probably get his way, somehow. Such a challenge is not unlikely to turn up under a Biden, or more likely a Harris, presidency.
gravenimage says
Muslims hope they can cow the Infidels into enforcing Shari’ah for them.
BegrensEuropa! says
Ah well, such international legislation is already in existence. It’s called sharia, which is islamic legislation with lots of highly discriminatory provisions. Such as the idea that whoever is critical of islam or its so-called prophet must be killed. So, Mr. El-Tayyeb, no thanks. Islam and sharia embody the worst elements of late antiquity for political reasons.They merit all the criticism they get. ‘Political’ here is a euphemism for conquest, genocide and suppression.
CogitoErgoSum says
In other words …… submit to Islam or die.
Istvan Vogel says
It’s a great idea to criminalise acts of hate. I thought they were already criminalised. The murder of gay people is a crime. The murder of women for reasons of honour is still murder and therefore a crime. etc.
Brando says
One of those COINCIDENCES, the KORAN has 114 CHAPTERS, and we non-Muslims say:
1.KORAN= 114 CHAPTERS = Words of Mohammed
2.In the BIBLE the NUMBER 3 appears and reappears in different situations and phrases.Like the number 7 and number 40.
3.REVELATION 13:18:
https://biblehub.com/revelation/13-18.htm
Berean LITERAL Bible:
“Here is the wisdom. The one having understanding, let him COUNT the NUMBER of the BEAST,
for it is a MAN’S NUMBER, and
its NUMBER is 666.”
OTHER TRANSLATIONS
New American Standard Bible
“Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding CALCULATE the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.”
SO?
If you RECOMBINE the number 114 to create a total of THREE different numbers:
114
141
411
AND: make a CALCULATION or COUNTING:
114 + 141 + 411 = 666
Ade Fegan says
What … “Acts of hate” like drinking shandy or owning a dog you mean ?
John Silvis says
What next Europe? Why not a law banning blasphemy against Nazism? Why not? Currently and historically Islam has damaged humankind much more than any Nazis. Fact. Nazis=bad. Islam=much worse by any objective standard. Let’s have holistic realistic thinking and outlaw all criticism of Nazism, it’s only “just”.
John Silvis says
Nazis murdered only 6 million people. Islam has murdered in total 280 million. Fact. Think about it. Which number is bigger?
gravenimage says
The Nazis murdered a lot more than 6 million victims–but their body count was still not as high as Islam’s has been.
elee says
Like Hell. I’ll fight and die for my freedoms first.
John Silvis says
You have already lost that fight! Sorry but you let evil win already.
John Silvis says
Sorry but you already lost that battle. We have let Evil win, big time. No way win now. Political Correctness wins. Sanity loses.
gravenimage says
Don’t preach surrender here. Most of us do not plan on rolling over for the sick demands of Islam.
John Silvis says
Nazis murdered 6 million people. Islam murdered a total of 280 million. Which number is bigger? Think about it?
Kepha says
Very few other countries have free speech written into their Constitutions. Hence, as an American, I believe that any legislator or judge who proposes “hate speech” laws or limitations much beyond prohibitions against shouting “fire!” in a crowded theater needs to be impeached, removed, and disbarred for life–or the next Kalpa, if the Buddhists are right.
somehistory says
“are absurd. They are a break from all moral restrictions, international customs, and general law.”” lied the fool, the not-so-grand moslum.
“General law,” does not include any such thing as saying it’s a crime to draw a cartoon.
International customs,”…can’t all be lumped as if all “customs” are islamic ones. There are more non-moslums than there are moslums…thankfully…and customs differ even among people of the same country.
“Moral resttictions,” is something islam does not possess and moslums do not practice. islam has no moral standards….moslums are commanded to beat their wives, told they may have many wives and more sex-slaves, have ceremonies that give little babies over to males to daily rape, lie about everything, and then lie some more, murder anyone who they determine is not moslum enough…even family members, murder for no reason other than the person is living and breathing close enough to be murdered….take what they want when they want and if it is taken away, claim theft, etc. There are no morals in islam; therefore , moslums have no morals. Sp this fool is claiming that the “moral restrictions” of the infidels ***include*** restrictions on drawing cartoons of their false prophet.
If moslums are not going to live by the “moral restrictions” that infidels, and our Creator, place on humans, they shouldn’t expect a restriction to be placed on their evil being exposed. To stop telling the Truth about islam would be to fail to be completely moral.
What is truly “absurd” is the fact that molums commit crimes of the most demonic nature every day, but they focus on what other people say…the Truth…about them and islam and their fake god and his filthy mass-murdering, raper of children, false prophet…and want to make a law against these truths.
moslums want the people they hate, murder and rape to make a law…for the entire earth to follow…that makes it a crime to tell the Truth about islam, while they, the moslums, go about murdering and raping and lying about it. That is ***absurd***!
Michael Copeland says
The Grand Imam of Al Azhar complains about “an explicit act of hostility”, expecting the listener to agree that hostility is not desirable.
Al Azhar itself teaches that jihad is “a permanent war institution”. Permanent war inexorably means explicit acts of hostility.
Of course, hypocrisy is lost on these scholars.
Michael Copeland says
Islam: A Permanent War Institution
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/10/islam-a-permanent-war-institution/
JamesC. says
Not hypocrisy, so much, perhaps, as simply ignoring all POVs except that of Islam.
*Because Islam is right* – as they see it – all refusal to accept `islam must be wrong, and hostile.
STM the logic of that position is unassailable.
Wellington says
Again I aver you can have Islam or you can have freedom; you can’t possibly have both.
I opt 100% for freedom and am opposed to Islam 100%. At least I can’t be accused of functioning in some wussy-ass, silly moderate gray area.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear!
IanB says
I’m with you 100% Wellington. No other position is rationally or morally possible.
Steve Meikle says
yet hatred of Jews and Christians is a religious principle of Islam. this person is lying of course, taqiyya
Steve Meikle says
imo the biggest outrage in the west, for it is the door and enabling of the others, is leaders in the west making statements about Islam with not the slightest knowledge of what this cult is about.
Given the nature of Islam their ignorance is in fact treasonous.
but leftists like my country’s PM (Jacinda Ardern) will only learn when it is too late, when she is taken as a sex slave by a warlord to be raped by him at will
don vito says
What…..the islaikkkks want to an international criminal out of ol’ kufr don vito? You know hidin obiden would agree with al-azhaz, but what i’d do?
abad says
There is a reason Moslems were better off confined to the Middle East, killing each other, while no one bats an eyelash.
sidney penny says
“Al-Azhar has also condemned the French president’s charges that Islam encourages “separatism and isolationinsm.”
The facts speak for themselves all over the world.
Al-Azhar can condemn but cannot provide facts that would prove otherwise.
gravenimage says
Grand Imam of al-Azhar calls for international legislation criminalizing ‘acts of hate’ against Muslims
……………….
Beheading peacful teachers–not hate.
Condemning beheading peaceful teachers–hate.
Aussie Infidel says
Al Azhar’s Grand Imam wants to criminalize ‘acts of hate’ against Muslims – like drawing cartoons of their Prophet.
Like all Muslim leaders, El-Tayyeb tries to deceive his Western counterparts into believing that Muslims are continually victimised by Western infidels who “hate Muslims” and “insult their Prophet”. But these taqiyya tongued mullahs never address the real reason why there is such a division between the Islamic world and the West. They never blame themselves or their ideology – Islam and its draconian Sharia laws – which discriminate against non-Muslims, and command Muslims to hate them. And they see nothing wrong with those scriptures which continually incite Muslims to commit violence against non-Muslims. They only ever blame those who react against those totalitarian demands.
Two of the foundation stones of Western culture are freedom of speech and freedom of religion. But Islam is an aggressive totalitarian creed, which does not allow such freedoms. In Islamic societies, people are not allowed to speak freely about any matter which contradicts their holy scriptures, or to draw living things because that might lead to idolatry. Under the Sharia, any criticism of Islam or its practices are subject to severe punishments including death. And because Muslim immigrants bring those incompatible beliefs and practices with them when they emigrate to the West, inevitably there will be a clash of cultures.
Non-Muslims don’t necessarily hate Muslims per se, but we utterly reject their totalitarian religion Islam, and its hateful and violent ideology. Non-Muslims will have more respect for Islam, when the deep seated hatred of non-Muslims is purged from the Islamic scriptures – and Muslims adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and throw their discriminatory Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam in the rubbish bin where it belongs.
Prabhakar Shetty says
Ban them internationally. Enough is enough.
OLD GUY says
How about criminalizing islam for discrimination and violence against humanity world wide. If Islam is allowed to spread throughout the world it well send the world back to the dark ages.
Noel says
Let’s call for a legislation to protect any other religion group in Europe and all over the world from Islamic killing, terror attacks and bombings …