This is absolutely true. Those who are denying platforms and the opportunity to participate in the public discourse to people they dislike will not be satisfied with anything short of the deaths of those whom they have targeted. You think that’s an exaggeration? Consider the fact that the supposedly egregious statements that the targets have made follow them wherever they go, and are used in whatever context necessary to deny them any opportunity even simply to make a living. Last year, fascist “journalist” Andrew Kaczynski of CNN tried to get the acting director of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley, fired not just for denying the Left’s “climate change” mythology, but also for opposing jihad violence and illegal immigration. The guy is in the Bureau of Land Management. What does that have to do with jihad violence and illegal immigration, much less “global warming”? Nothing. But that doesn’t matter. Kaczynski showed here that the cancel culture wants its targets nothing less than dead: if Pendley had sought a position as a grocery clerk, Kaczynski would have shown up to get him fired, because he departs from the Left’s orthodoxy.
Nor is Kacyzynski alone. A few years ago I was invited to address an education conference in California that had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam; the hate-filled fascist “Islamophobia” propagandist and future real estate agent Nathan Lean got the cowardly Catholic bishop Jaime Soto, under whose auspices the conference was being held, to cancel my appearance. (I spoke at the conference as scheduled, in a venue outside the bishop’s purview.) And also a few years ago, the Washington Post discovered that the Qur’an-burning pastor Terry Jones was driving for Uber; they duly got him fired. I don’t approve of book-burning, but it is not illegal in the United States, and the idea that a man must be hounded forever and prevented from making a living for views that dissent from the Left’s reveals what Leftists really are.
So it has been clear for years that if you dissent from Leftist orthodoxy, you must be destroyed. Not just “debunked” or “discredited” in your field, but also prevented from doing everything else, so that the only option you have is to die. The murder of Samuel Paty is thus the apotheosis of the cancel culture.
“Je suis Samuel: The beheading of a teacher in France is the barbaric logical conclusion to cancel culture,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, October 17, 2020:
Yesterday, cancel culture turned murderous. It became positively medieval. On a suburban street on the outskirts of Paris a schoolteacher was beheaded in broad daylight for the supposed crime of showing caricatures of Muhammad to his pupils during a classroom discussion about freedom of speech. Decapitated for dissing the prophet, in France, in the 21st century. In essence, the teacher was cancelled, in the most thorough and depraved way imaginable. Enough is enough – everyone must now stand against all snivelling apologists for censorship and cancellation and defend unfettered freedom of speech as the cornerstone of civilised society….
Read the rest here.
Tony Naim says
The apotheosis of cancel culture:
A Christian or a Jew living in the Middle East
owensgate says
Probably a good time to do research on “Guillotine” stocks, looks like investment opportunities are coming.
mortimer says
Nope, cruel and unusual punishments are what we are fighting.
John says
It is called Islamophilia, and all who do it are nothing but Traitors, especially to all Women, Children and Civilizations.
Fred van de Bunt says
In the Netherlands all the government leaders and all the political parties were silent about the murder of mister Paty, apart from a quickly spoken obligatory: “My dear, awful”
Mainstream political thinking is behind this in Western Europe.
First there lives the conviction that the head chopping sharia ignorant are only a very few, that have nothing to do with Islam. Apart from that, these ignorant are the result of our own fault, of social and economic neglect, islamophobia, and a lack of not cuddling them enough.
My question is, should we cuddle them before or after the head chopping?
mortimer says
Fred, you are trying to be facetious. Beheading is part of Sharia law. It’s the ideology … NOT ‘nurture’.
Fred van de Bunt says
No more cartoons too, I suppose, mortimer?
mortimer says
Brendan O’Neill raises some good points, but the cancel culture is only a PART of the equation, yet an important one.
Those who force the voices of counterjihad into silence are in effect the ENABLERS of jihad.
The eyes and ears and tongues of the counterjihadists could alert society and the authorities if they were allowed full access to the public square.
The general public is uninformed and thus unprepared to prevent jihad in the West. They don’t know what to look for.
Michael Copeland says
“The don’t know what to look for.”
Nor do the police.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/07/a-triple-unsolved-murder-unconnected-dots/
Agostino Armo Pellegrini says
…Paris a schoolteacher was beheaded in broad daylight for the supposed crime of showing caricatures of Muhammad to his pupils during a classroom discussion about freedom of speech.
We fear sharia will come to our nation(s), but it’s already here. Livelihoods are destroyed, characters defamed, and people go into hiding because the left-islam alliance is destroying free speech. They want religious tyranny for islam, it’s their excuse and tool to oppress our citizens into quiet submission with them at the top. Their method is to do a flip-flop on the true narrative by portraying those who speak against the hate and violence of islam as racist bigots, while violent islam and its faithful are portrayed as peaceful victims for a peaceful religion. It’s a blatant lie of course, but they don’t care any more than Hitler’s propagandists cared. They capitalize on the cachet that islam has as a “religion” but ignore the overt violence and religious bigotry it teaches and causes on a mass scale. Islam’s violence and hate is conveniently packaged in that box of immunity called “religion,” and we’re supposed to feel duty bound to the horrors it causes because some supremacists call it such. But we don’t have to respect bigotry and terroristic threats in the name of the religion, any more than we have to accept the race hate of the KKK because their racist “robe and hood” looks white and clean.
Without free speech democracy fails, and that’s what these supremacists want, to turn our nation into a demonic theocracy where they control us down to the thoughts we think. But we are under no moral or civil obligation to respect demon religions that teach “kill the unbeliever,” as it is murder for religious discrimination. And we don’t have to stay quiet while they mass rape our people and replace our neighborhoods with dangerous enclaves that snub their nose at us. And we don’t have to stay quiet while they cause our freedoms to be crushed and our security diminished for them. Islamic ideology is what inspired the mass murder of our people, it’s why we had to engage in war, and it’s why we spend billions on additional security for our nation. And any one who prevents us from speaking about all this is committing a humanitarian crime by facilitating terror for religion, and are acting traitorously against our nation. Our 1st Amendment is not a mere flourish on the democratic edifice, it is the cornerstone that protects religious liberty and intellectual freedom from totalitarian ideologies like islam. Millions have died fighting for that ideal, I’ll be damned if I’m going to give it away for the demon mentality of islam.
Neville says
Yes being denied a platform to shout bollocks is just like being beheaded by a lunatic who’s mad because someone offended against his mystical sky fairy.
Totally agree.
Do you think Islamist fascists who preach violence and hate against Jews and non believers should get a platform? If not then you must support cancel culture.
gravenimage says
Neville, freedom of speech is indeed crucial–and something that Islam wants to destroy.
Then, the claim that freedom of speech means preaching murder is *quite* mistaken. Perhaps you should reacquaint yourself with what this really means.
Eur says
Islam where what is not prohibited is mandatory Totalitarianism disguised as religion.
Crusades Were Right says
Meanwhile, in the ancient homeland of the Armenian people, a church – filled with terrified civilians taking shelter – is shelled by Muslim Azerbaijan.
And the response of the “humanitarians” around the world: “Meh.”
gravenimage says
Yes–awful.
Martin says
Pakistan’s PM Khan accuses Macron of ‘attacking Islam’
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accused French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday of “attacking Islam”, after the European leader criticised Islamists and defended the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
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“By attacking Islam, clearly without having any understanding of it, President Macron has attacked & hurt the sentiments of millions of Muslims in Europe & across the world,” Khan said.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20201025-pakistan-s-pm-khan-accuses-macron-of-attacking-islam
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twitter Iram Khan
It is unfortunate that he has chosen to encourage Islamophobia by attacking Islam rather than the terrorists who carry out violence, be it Muslims, White Supremacists or Nazi ideologists. Sadly, President Macron has chosen to deliberately provoke Muslims, incl his own citizens,
through encouraging the display of blasphemous cartoons targeting Islam & our Prophet PBUH. By attacking Islam, clearly without having any understanding of it, President Macron has attacked & hurt the sentiments of millions of Muslims in Europe & across the world.
https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1320286663143280640
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Turkey’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun on Sunday said the EU is increasingly becoming dangerous for Muslims.
twitter Fahrettin Altun
Europe’s hostility towards Muslims and efforts to ‘discipline’ them is inseparable from the increasingly widespread hostility towards Islam, Turkey and our president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Here’s what those Europeans need to understand: Muslims won’t go away because you don’t want us. We won’t turn the other cheek when you insult us. We will defend ourselves and our own at all costs.
https://twitter.com/fahrettinaltun/status/1320310317327503360
Pray Hard says
The writer was doing OK until he equivocated about Christianity and other religions. Until a person can write or talk about islam without equivocation and conflation, they are little better than apologists for islam. Death to islam.
Pray Hard says
I see writers struggle daily, trying to get a handle on islam, like this writer is doing. He’s close, but not close enough. Islam cannot be understood or defeated through our Western Civilization eyes by comparing it or contrasting it to anything we know. Like Richard Dawkins once described it, it is “alien”, just as if it came from another planet. Thus, until we can let go of our preconceptions and see it for what it is, we are lost.
tim gallagher says
Good comment, Pray Hard. I agree Islam’s and the Muslims’ view of life is alien to our more evolved, more civilised way of viewing things. To my mind, it is 100% incompatible with our values. My solution is to shut Islam out of our countries, much like Hungary and the other Visegrad bloc countries want to do. Unfortunately I can’t see it happening, but I do believe that it is foolish to let Muslims, who follow such a barbaric and evil ideology and who always want to impose that ideology on everyone, into any western nation. Islam should be kept on its own backward, primitive, violent planet where it can’t harm the non-Muslims of the world.
Michael Copeland says
Islam will never become a part of liberal secularism.
— Mazin Abdul Adhim, imam in Canada
…totally incompatible with Western democracy.
— Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Canada
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/05/it-has-nothing-of-value/
tim gallagher says
Telling quotes, Michael. It seems insane to me for our countries to be allowing incompatible islam to invade. It can never work out peacefully. It is them or us, as the quote you included from the Islamic Circle of North America indicates. i do like that view by Dawkins of Islam as “alien”. To me, Islam seems to be very much like some barbaric thing from another planet. Maybe a better way to put it is another time, ie 7th century Arabia and yet still here poisoning the 21st century.
gravenimage says
‘The beheading of a teacher in France is the barbaric logical conclusion to cancel culture’
……………
Grimly true.
Daniel Sebold says
Robert wasn’t clear on this, but were the perpetrators Muslims? Or were they just run-of-the-mill multiculturalists like the ones at Mankato State University in Minnesota who want to provide third world slave laborers for the American rich. I was recently banned from the school paper for suggesting that the students get a copy of the outgoing university president’s Ph D dissertation in Education to see if it was as horridly written as all the others in the basement of the university library: twenty pages of gobbledygook writing with a hundred pages of footnotes and charts and graphs. He was president there for nineteen years and was being paid a million dollars a year, the first ten years of which involved the celebration of the diversity of Saudi culture while the local gay kids were being bashed and threatened on campus by local and and not-so-local students. It took the State Of Minnesota to put an end to it by passing anti lynching laws of gay students. My, how times have changed. What geniuses we have running our diversity schools. By the way, Covid has put an end to the diversity program there. All the foreign students have gone home. Despite being able to pay in-state tuition tuition at the expense of minimum wage Minnesotans, they couldn’t afford the health insurance in the USA. I kept on asking the paper, what is the purpose of having all these Covid tests if the students have no health care? You loving multiculturalists are just going to let them die. Aren’t you?
Spurwing Plover says
Who ever called Islam the Religion of Peace is either Stupid or Ignorant and they ned a education that dont come from some empty headed liberal Collage Professor
gravenimage says
This term was first used in an article in an Indian publication from 1930 by a Muslim apoogist.