Zemmour said that Muslims in France should “be given a choice between Islam and France.” There is a clear basis for this statement: Islam is a supremacist ideology that regards non-Muslim polities as intrinsically rebellious against Allah, and requires Muslims to fight to replace those societies with the rule of Sharia. The twentieth-century Islamic scholar […]
European Court of Human Rights acknowledges that converts to Christianity face persecution in Pakistan
If the European Court of Human Rights ever started investigating why exactly Christians are persecuted in Pakistan, it might be moved to pressure European Union officials to end their mass Muslim migration policies. But that’ll never happen. “European Court of Human Rights: ‘Christians [sic] Converts Are Persecuted in Pakistan,’” by Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter, April […]
Turkey: Muslim leaders complain that law combating violence against women aims to destroy the family
No surprise here. The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because […]
European judges rule that UK airport cops breached rights of al-Qaeda chief’s wife, taxpayers must pay her $28,000
How did they breach her rights? By stopping her for questioning. In that case, my rights have been breached in several airports, but no one is giving me a big payout. This is the same court that ruled that criticism of Muhammad is not subject to free speech protection. “Al Qaeda chief’s wife, 49, wins […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Does Europe Still Have Free Speech? (Part Two)
The ECtHR also underlined that it classified the ‘impugned’ statements as “an abusive attack on the Prophet of Islam, which was capable of stirring up prejudice and putting at risk religious peace.” Apparently the factual statement by ES, that 54-year-old Muhammad had sexual intercourse with Aisha when she was nine years old, which can be […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Does Europe Still Have Free Speech? (Part One)
“Insulting Prophet Muhammad not ‘free speech,’ ECtHR rules,” Daily Sabah, October 25, 2018: The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday [October 22] that an Austrian woman’s criminal conviction and fine for her statements accusing the Prophet Muhammad of pedophilia did not breach her right to free speech. The woman, named only as ES by […]
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff responds to EU court’s ruling that speech insulting Muhammad is prohibited
Yesterday, Jihad Watch covered the troubling ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that “an Austrian woman’s criminal conviction and fine for her statements accusing the Prophet Muhammad of pedophilia did not breach her right to free speech.” Insulting Muhammad is now forbidden, according to the ECHR, which has conceded to Sharia imperatives. […]
European Court of Human Rights: Insulting Muhammad not “free speech”
This is clearly the case of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who was fined and given a jail sentence for calling Muhammad a pedophile. He married a six-year-old and consummated the marriage when she was nine, but “the Austrian courts had held that ES was making value judgments partly based on untrue facts and without regard to the […]
European Court stops Germany from deporting “dangerous” Muslim who said he was ready to commit jihad massacre
“Authorities accused him of being capable of planning a terror attack in Germany, arguing that he had sympathies with Isis as well as suicidal thoughts, and alleging that he had told another Islamist from Essen that he was ready to carry out an attack on civilians.” What could possibly go wrong? Only racist, bigoted “Islamophobes” […]
European Court of Human Rights upholds Belgium’s ban on burqas and full-face Islamic veils
Odd and surprising that they didn’t block this ban as “Islamophobic,” but it is refreshing to see common sense prevail. The veil is a security issue: it makes it too easy to commit crimes. And anyway, why are Europeans and North Americans the only ones forbidden to try to protect their cultural identity? “European Court […]