This is a glimpse into the future, the near future, of Europe, Canada, and the U.S. The concept of “hate speech” is entirely subjective, such that prohibitions of this kind are tools in the hands of the powerful in order to silence the powerless. Leftists and Islamic groups in the U.S. insist that honest discussion of the motivating ideology behind jihad terror is “hate speech,” although there is no reason why this should be true. When this kind of law comes West, such discussion will be silenced.
“Senate passes bill proposing 10-year jail term for hate speech,” by Dachen Isaac, Ripples Nigeria, July 14, 2021 (thanks to Henry):
The Senate has passed a bill that proposes a 10-year jail term for purveyors of hate speech in the country.
The bill which was passed during plenary on Tuesday, also mandates a fine of N20 million or both to any suspect found guilty of trading hate speech….
Parts of the contentious bill reads:
“Any person who uses hate speech to stir up ethnic, religious or racial hatred, social or political, insecurity or violence, against anyone or group or person, is liable to 10 years in jail or N20 million fine or both.”…
mgoldberg says
some 3,200 persons have been murdered since jan 1 in that nation. I don’t imagine that was discussed since that would be unethical to discuss the motives of the murderers who accomplished this
gravenimage says
Plus, it could end you up in prison…
Wellington says
Wherever the concept of hate speech is codified into law, thereafter is freedom the true victim.
All those, no exceptions, pushing criminalization of hate speech are enemies of liberty. Not one damn exception here. Not one.
Actual physical threats are NOT an example, should not be an example, of something that must be protected if freedom is to survive. But “merely” excoriating ANY belief system must be allowed if freedom is to be sustained.
One knows all this or should know this. Alas, so many don’t for whatever nefarious or stupid reason. Muslims and Leftists come foremost to mind here. I do not wonder why because I have come to know full well what exists in their rank and repressive totalitarian souls.
gravenimage says
+1
Raja says
Good post, Wellington,
Freedom also becomes the first victim.
I don’t know when the push becomes shove!
mortimer says
Wellington is the expert here. Whenever ‘hate speech’ is used as an excuse to silence people, it soon leads to POLITICAL speech from being silenced.
It becomes an open door for a rogue government that wishes to silence anti-government speech as ‘hate-speech’.
Maureen Chaloner says
We are heading in the SAME DIRECTION.We are losing our right to free speech slowly day by day..
mike says
this will be he said I did not say and the I did not say always loses in Islam
Just like the hospital that I can’t remember what country but they blamed a Non Muslim nurse of Blasphemy which in Islam carries the punishment’s of death
gravenimage says
That was Pakistan, mike:
“Pakistan: Christian nurses accused of blasphemy after Muslim nurses take over hospital chapel, demand it be closed”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/05/pakistan-christian-nurses-accused-of-blasphemy-after-muslim-nurses-take-over-hospital-chapel-demand-it-be-closed
But you are sadly right that this could also have happened elsewhere.
gravenimage says
Nigeria: Senate passes bill proposing 10 years prison for using ‘hate speech’ to ‘stir up religious hatred’
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Is this going to be applied to Muslims screaming “Allahu Ackbar!” while murdering Christians? Of course not–it will be reserved for anyone saying anything critcal about the violence of Islam.
Terry Gain says
God gave me free will and freedom. I have every right to hate any ideology. No one has the right to control what I think, nor what I say, so long as I don’t threaten anyone or advocate violence. Islam demands silence because it cannot withstand scrutiny.
Raja says
Amen!
Fitna says
Spot on Terry….ofc ‘hate speech’ is basically blasphemy in disguise. If I recall correctly the PM of Nigeria is a Muslim so naturally they’d want to stop non-Muslims from talking about how Muslims are destroying their rights and taking over the country.
If hate speech was taken seriously then all Muslims should be jailed or deported, because Islam is a giant volcano of hate speech.
Most humans are pretty passive and lazy by nature-only when directly threatened they’ll act. Muslims are using this propensity to their advantage.
The fact is that people need to rise up against this and fight it. This is an act of war-if you have no means to talk about a problem (like Islam) then all that’s left is violence.
People need to organize in western nations and oppose this new form of fascism and tyranny. Freedom is fragile and it took centuries of bloodshed to obtain. It’s our generation’s turn to defend it once again. Once it’s gone it’ll be impossible to get back.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, Terry!
notnolib says
What about “pointing out”? Suppose for example one were to “point out” that islam is a gutter cult, its adherents are gutter-cultists, and their made up moon-god allahahaha was invented by a pedophilic madman named mohammed, who may or may not have existed.
It’s just “pointing out”.
OLD GUY says
Hell here in California they won’t even put you in jail for stealing, or in someplace you don’t go to jail for murder because some dumb ass prosecutor doesn’t make it to court on time. And in Nigeria they will but you in jai for speaking against Islam, that sounds like something the left will put inplace and prosecute here in America if we let them.
gravenimage says
Yes–insanity, OLD GUY. Proposition 47 virtually decriminalized “property crimes”, with the predictable effect that theft of all kinds has gone through the roof here. Add to that the emptying of the jails over Covid 19–even of violent criminals in many cases–and the police being told to wink at riots and large-scale looting this past year, and the crime rate here–which had overall been going down for decades–has skyrocketed in just the past couple of years.
Del says
““Any person who uses hate speech to stir up ethnic, religious or racial hatred, social or political, insecurity or violence, against anyone or group or person, is liable to 10 years in jail or N20 million fine or both.”…
ISLAM, Muslims and the Koran.
Trudeau is trying to pass Legislation in Canada almost exactly like this.