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The international establishment media wants you to know that Edwin Wagensveld is “far right.” there is virtually no mention of him that doesn’t include this Homeric epithet, so that all Right-Thinking People, that is, those who are still credulous enough to believe the media, will know that this is a man to be shunned and ignored. Yet it is Wagensveld and others like him who are smeared as “far right” who are standing between ordinary citizens and one of the left’s most sinister agendas: the destruction of the freedom of speech.
Going even farther than most of its establishment media colleagues, Morocco World News recently called Wagensveld, a Dutch human rights activist, a “far-right Dutch extremist.” He deserved the double whammy of media smear terms because last Sunday he once again tore a copy of the Qur’an, in what Morocco World News called “a new provocative Islamophobic act,” in front of Turkey’s embassy in the Netherlands.
This was just one of many recent instances of desecration of the Qur’an, most of which have taken place in Denmark and Sweden. Several Islamic states are using them to attempt once again to intimidate the West into abandoning the freedom of expression and adopting Sharia blasphemy laws. This time, given the Left’s notable hatred for the freedom of speech, it just might work.
Not content with smearing Wagensveld, Morocco World News added the claim that his act “stirred outrage and frustration from many Muslim communities, who have repeatedly called on the international community to intervene to end such provocative acts.” Ever helpful, Turkey’s Daily Sabah chimed in on the same day that “in a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that Ankara condemns the spread of these ‘provocative attacks,’ which are allowed to be carried out in European countries under the guise of freedom of expression.”
Ominously, the Foreign Ministry stated that “the countries where such attacks have taken place must now take effective measures against these provocations, which are recognized by the United Nations as acts of religious hatred and violations of international law.”
Meanwhile, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry issued a statement of its own, condemning these “irresponsible acts that provoke the feelings of two billion Muslims around the world, fuel hatred and threaten peaceful coexistence.” It added that religious symbols must be respected, and that this was a “collective responsibility that everyone must adhere to.”
This initiative has been building for a long time. In response to an earlier act of Qur’an desecration, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry declared, “This senseless and provocative Islamophobic act hurts the religious sensitivities of over 1.5 billion Muslims around the world.” It insisted that such acts were “not covered under any legitimate expression of the right to freedom of expression or opinion, which carries responsibilities under international human rights law, such as the obligation not to carry out hate speech and incite people to violence.”
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Jumbo says
How convenient that Ankara does not condemn the spread of ‘provocative attacks’ against non mohamedans.
Hoi Polloi says
Seems to me that this Turkish Foreign Ministry could better concern itself with its not so hidden efforts to continue the Armenian genocide it still won’t admit to having committed; specifically to ceasing those arms supplies and training.
And I note here that they continue to inflate to 2M adherents.
libertyORdeath says
This is an important case in the fight for free speech and to oppose the creeping shariah we see in Europe these days, but there may be an even more important story in the fight for free speech in the West.
If this has already been covered here, my apologies. I’ve been awayfor a few days.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/exclusive-uk-journalist-arrested-for-reporting-on-ukrainian-nazis-visit-to-parliament-tells-all/
Anyways, a journalist in the UK was just arrested for ACCURATELY reporting on Justin Trudeau inviting a Ukrainian Nazi (an SS soldier from WWII, not a neo-nazi) to the Canadian parliament to celebrate him fighting the Russians in WWII.
He was initially arrested on charges of “malinformation” which means reporting true information that the government or their NGO henchmen don’t like.
This is a red line for free speech, expression and a free press that is independent from the increasingly authoritarian control of the federal government and their deep-state operatives.
The first thing our European brothers and sisters need to do is WAKE THE F@#K UP!!!!!!!!
Your “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” is a poor imitation of the American Bill of Rights that does NOTHING to protect you from losing even more of your God given rights. Most of you have already sacrificed your right to self-defense and to own a firearm to do so, but theres no reason you can’t get it back.
Your governments HATE YOU and are trying to REPLACE YOU with a more compliant population with a much lower standard of living as quickly as possible and yet some of your countrymen are doing everything they can to actually accelerate their own destruction.
Brexit was a start, but we’ve seen what came of it…little to nothing. This must be a coalition of EU states to actually come together for the benefit of the people.
How long will you continue to live as subjects under the boot of the globalist EU and the UN? When will you remember your glorious heritage that produced the most prosperous civilizations in history? It’s time for the people who built this world to take it back.
All you really gotta do is stand up and say NO!
NO to open borders!
NO to climate alarmism!
NO to more sympathy for criminals than victims!
NO to the false claims of racism, xenophobia and misogyny!
NO to revisionist history!
NO to LGBT indoctrination and grooming!
NO to censorship!
NO to the welfare state!
NO to WWIII!
NO to Nuremberg violating “vaccines”!
NO to eating bugs!
NO to killing our livestock!
NO to Replacement Migration!
NO to racial preferences!
NO to “protected” or “marginalized” groups!
NO to censorship based on “antisemitism”, “transphobia”, “Islamophobia” or “hate speech”!
NO to the Great Reset!
NO to the New World Order!
NO to Marxism!
NO to globalism!
NO to c
Hoi Polloi says
Thank you.
Here’s another case of punishing someone for what he wrote: “Swiss Writer Sentenced To 60 Days In Jail For Calling Journalist A “Fat Lesbian”
Apparently both those things are true. I guess KJP can’t call herself a black lesbian? It’s all a bit muddy.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/swiss-writer-sentenced-60-days-jail-calling-journalist-fat-lesbian
OLD GUY says
Free speech is about all that the average person actually has, when that’s gone nothing else will matter.