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Book publisher Random House has joined the ranks of Westerners who censor themselves out of fear of Islamist violence: Shades of the Danish Cartoons: Random House in disgrace. Although it has for some time been a division of German media giant Bertelsmann, Random House has been one of the ...
LGF, Islam, Free Expression, Free Speech, Dhimmitude, Mohammed, Aisha, Random House
Islamic countries have succeeded in hijacking the United Nations Human Rights Council and perverting its intent (even more than it was already perverted): Arabs, Muslims battle US, Europeans over free speech at UN. GENEVA: Arab and Muslim countries defended Tuesday a resolution they pushed through at the United Nations ...
LGF, United Nations, Human Rights, Arab League, Antisemitism, Free Expression, Free Speech
Malaysia is going to put a couple on trial for kissing in public. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that two young people accused of kissing and hugging in a public park can be charged with indecent behaviour. The federal court in the ...
Here’s Andrew Bostom on New York University’s cowardly surrender to Islamist intimidation: NYU’s Cartoonish Quarantine. This past Wednesday evening, March 29, 2006, I participated in a panel discussion of the Danish cartoon jihad where life imitated art as depressing farce through the actions of the New York University Administration. The ...
Andrew Bostom, New York University, Danish cartoons, Free Expression
Danish toy maker Lego is upset with the United Nations, after the Office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights published an “anti-discrimination” poster that uses a Lego building block to smear Denmark: Lego Caught Up In Racism Poster Row. “We feel that the message of this poster can ...
Scott Burgess outlines the new procedures put in place by the Church in Wales for dealing with sudden outbreaks of dangerous free speech: Case Study: How a Muslim Offence Emergency was Defused by Experts. The Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, still sounds a bit shaken as he recalls his reaction ...
Daily Ablution, Scott Burgess, Muslim Offense Emergency, Anglican Church, Wales, Free Expression
Utterly embarrassing groveling from the Archbishop of Wales today, after the church’s magazine printed a completely inoffensive cartoon—a cartoon that actually had a message of tolerance: Church recalls ‘Prophet’ magazine. The Church in Wales has recalled 500 copies of its magazine featuring a cartoon caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad. The editor ...
Wales, Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, Free Expression, Dhimmitude
Sweden’s foreign minister Laila Freivald resigned today, after accusations that she acted unconstitutionally by shutting down a web site that published the [Popup]. (Hat tip: Sugiero.) Laila Freivald resigned as Sweden’s foreign minister on Tuesday with immediate effect, after accusations that she acted unconstitutionally by closing a far-right web site ...
Today the “moderate” Islamic government of Malaysia issued a sinister warning to non-Muslims. MALAYSIA’S de facto law minister has threatened to jail or fine non-Muslims who insult Islam, amid concern over recent articles perceived as attacking the religion. Mohamad Nazri Abdul Aziz said the country’s sedition act could be used ...
One of the reasons we see so few rational Muslims speaking out against the tide of jihad is that when they do, this happens. (Or worse.) Abdel Karim Suliman, the Egyptian blogger who was arrested then released for his controversial views, was expelled from his university Al Azhar. Abdel Karim ...
Denmark still refuses to give in to Islamic intimidation: Danish paper faces no charges over Muhammad cartoons. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Denmark’s chief prosecutor says that he will not press charges against the newspaper that first published the Prophet Muhammad cartoons that angered Muslims worldwide. The Foreign Ministry warned that ...
Danish cartoons, Free Expression, Jyllands-Posten, Radical Islam
Mark Steyn’s column is no longer available in the British press; according to the Guardian’s Lionel Shriver, Steyn has now been dropped from both the Sunday Telegraph and the Spectator. (Hat tip: Tim Blair.) And there’s very little doubt that it’s because of his clear-headed, uncompromising writing about Islam. UPDATE ...
Mark Steyn, Censorship, Danish cartoons, Islam, Free Expression
From MEMRI TV, an Iranian television show featuring some of the entries in their Contest for Holocaust Cartoons, accompanied by bland elevator music from hell. [Video] UPDATE at 3/11/06 1:48:45 pm: And as counterpoint to the Iranian insanity above, the Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest.
Danish cartoons, Free Expression, Iran, Holocaust, Cartoons, Antisemitism
At The American Thinker, James Arlandson has a harrowing look at the life of Mohammed, and what happened to those who failed to show him the proper submissive attitude: Muhammad’s Dead Poets Society. (2) March 624: Uqbah bin Abu Muayt A similar story as that of Nadr can be told ...
The author of a book about Islamic repression of women is the latest target of a death sentence from the Religion of Peace™: Call for Internet Publication of Sex, Sharia and Women in the History of Islam. (Hat tip: Paul.) This is a call for the Internet publication (and eventual ...
Wafa Sultan is profiled in today’s New York Times: Muslim’s Blunt Criticism of Islam Draws Threats. LOS ANGELES, March 10 — Three weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims. Today, thanks to ...
Remember that tonight, this event is featured at UCLA in Dodd Hall room 147, at 7 pm: Unveiling the Danish Cartoons: A Discussion of Free Speech and World Response. Maybe they’ll warm up the crowd with a Tom & Jerry cartoon...