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The Obama administration, through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, came out strongly today against the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s efforts to get the UN Human Rights Council to adopt resolutions barring the defamation of religion. By “religion,” the OIC means “Islam.” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized ...
Islam, Organization of the Islamic Conference, OIC, United Nations, Free Speech, Blasphemy, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
Paul Mirengoff at Power Line defends Geert Wilders against accusations that he’s a “fascist:” Who are the fascists in Europe? Read the whole thing for the context of Mirengoff’s argument (he quotes from an article at Brussels Journal, a Belgian blog connected to the far right Vlaams Belang that has ...
Geert Wilders, Free Expression, Islam, Free Speech, bigotry, Fascism
The Washington Post has an open letter from Sarah Palin’s attorney (PDF), threatening to sue Alaskan blogger Shannyn Moore and several media sources: To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as “fact” that Governor Palin resigned because she is “under federal ...
Sarah Palin, 2012, Resignation, Alaska, Lawsuit, Blogosphere, Free Speech, Libel
On December 16, 2008, I sent the following email to Geert Wilders: Dear Mr. Wilders, As I’m sure you’ve heard, I am a US blogger who’s very opposed to allowing the Belgian Vlaams Belang party to be involved in any ‘anti-jihad’ movements. I feel that the inclusion of the ...
Geert Wilders, Free Expression, Islam, Free Speech, bigotry, Hate Speech
I see that Robert Spencer is spewing some more insults at me today. Oh well, what are you gonna do? Meanwhile, there’s at least one “anti-jihad” blogger who isn’t being taken in by Geert Wilders’ call to strip Muslims of their right to freedom of religion: The Jawa Report: Cheers ...
Geert Wilders, Free Expression, Islam, Free Speech, bigotry, Hate Speech
The Anti-Defamation League has issued a condemnation of Geert Wilders, currently on tour in South Florida ostensibly promoting “free expression”—except in the case of Muslims: DL Condemns Anti-Islam Remarks Made by Dutch Parliamentarian During Appearances in S. Florida. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly condemns remarks made over the last ...
Geert Wilders, Free Expression, Islam, Free Speech, bigotry, Hate Speech
At Ace of Spades, Uncle Jimbo apologizes: LGF calling me out. For the record the post about the Islam ads in SF that Charles at LGF called me out for was lame and poorly written. If I don’t have time to do a quality piece I will wait until ...
Zombie, San Francisco, Islam, CAIR, ICNA, Dawa, Free Speech
Now Meryl Yourish is calling for LGF to be shut down, for me to be publicly flogged, and for Zombie to be paraded through Ghirardelli Square in shackles: The heck with Little Green Footballs. /sarcasm
Zombie, San Francisco, Islam, CAIR, ICNA, Dawa, Free Speech
Over at Ace of Spades, Uncle Jimbo jumped to a completely unwarranted conclusion and proceeded to slam both Zombie and me, over Zombie’s article on the pro-Islam bus advertising campaign: No ads for Islam. I guess I need a refresher on exactly what this freedom of speech thing is ...
Zombie, San Francisco, Islam, CAIR, ICNA, Dawa, Free Speech
Here’s Christopher Hitchens on the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s latest attempts to use the United Nations to criminalize “blasphemy” (read: criticism of Islam) around the world. [Video]
United Nations, Christopher Hitchens, Free Speech, First Amendment, OIC, Organization of the Islamic Conference, Islam
Lots of support for book-banning in the comments at Hot Air, following Allahpundit’s citing my post on Geert Wilders: Geert Wilders: The British government proved they’re “the biggest cowards in Europe today”. (Also lots of hatred directed at little old me. I’m crushed. OK, now I’m over it.)
Geert Wilders, Netherlands, Vlaams Belang, Free Speech, Islam, Europe, Hate Speech, Britain
Anti-Islam Dutch MP Geert Wilders has been barred from entering Britain, after a protest was lodged by Muslim House of Lords member Nazir Ahmed. Yes, it’s a disgrace. Geert Wilders has the same right to free speech as anyone else, and the government of Britain is demonstrating once again that ...
Geert Wilders, Netherlands, Vlaams Belang, Free Speech, Islam, Europe, Hate Speech, Britain
Here’s Pat Condell on the shameful “hate speech” prosecution of Dutch MP Geert Wilders. [Video] (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Video, Pat Condell, Islam, Netherlands, Geert Wilders, Free Speech
Dutch MP Geert Wilders is going to be charged under the Netherlands’ absurd anti-free speech laws: Islam film Dutch MP to be charged. A Dutch court has ordered prosecutors to put a right-wing politician on trial for making anti-Islamic statements. Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial film ...
Geert Wilders, Netherlands, Vlaams Belang, Free Speech, Islam, Europe, Hate Speech
A columnist for a Saudi newspaper stood up and called for the “religious police” to be abolished. Abdallah bin Bakhit, Saudi liberal and columnist for the Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, stated in an interview on Al-Arabiya that “the time has passed” for the Saudi religious police, and that it should ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Free Speech, Mutaween, Religious Police
At a special session of the United Nations General Assembly, the leader of the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia will sit down in the same room with an Israeli for the first time. What would bring Abdullah to do this, an act that must be repugnant to him? Answer: ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Blasphemy, Free Speech, United Nations
The Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan addressed yet another “inter-faith” conference today, and announced that “equating Islam with terrorism is dangerous.” Because it will lead to ... uh ... terrorism. “It is a great pity that we see incessant attempts to authenticate and unify Islam and terrorism. The doctrinal substance ...
My jaw is officially on the floor. The Barack Obama campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who “lies or runs a misleading TV ad” during the presidential campaign; here’s a video report. UPDATE at 9/28/08 9:31:28 am: A statement from Missouri Governor Matt Blunt on the Obama ...
Ezra Levant’s bizarre Kafkaesque ordeal at the hands of the Alberta Human Rights Commission has ended—with a complete dismissal of all the trumped up “charges:” Punished first, acquitted later.
LGF, Canada, Human Rights, Ontario, Ezra Levant, maclean's, Mark Steyn, Islam, Censorship, Free Speech
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
One of the lessons of Independence Day is that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom; Robert Spencer reminds us that our freedoms are still in need of defense from a very persistent enemy: Jihad Watch: What we should be fighting for this July 4.
LGF, Islam, Militant Islam, Freedom of Speech, Free Speech, Islamic Supremacism
Ezra Levant reports that the Orwellian star chamber known as the Canadian Human Rights Commission has dropped their ludicrous persecution of Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine: The Canadian Human Rights Commission blinks. The Canadian Human Rights Commission, like any petty tyranny, has a strong instinct for survival. As I ...
LGF, Canada, Human Rights, Ontario, Ezra Levant, maclean's, Mark Steyn, Islam, Censorship, Free Speech
Canada is getting incredibly weird. I thought when Stephen Harper was elected that things would take a turn for the better, but the Orwellian madness of the Alberta Human Rights Commission has now entered the realm of the surreal: Alberta’s HRC: breeding the next generation of complainers. Yesterday I ...
LGF, Canada, Human Rights, Ontario, Ezra Levant, maclean's, Mark Steyn, Islam, Censorship, Free Speech
The New York Times, scrupulously fair as always (cough), suggests that it might be time for the United States to reconsider this antiquated idea of “free speech” and join the rest of the world in prosecuting people like Mark Steyn: American Exception - Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend ...
LGF, Mark Steyn, Islam, Canada, Human Rights, Free Speech, New York Times
Mark Steyn is in Kafkaville this week, as the Canadian government demonstrates to the world how badly they’ve gone off the rails. I’m spending this week in a Vancouver “human rights” courtroom - actually a windowless basement whose sole link with the outside world, the clock, is stuck at ...
LGF, Canada, Human Rights, Ontario, Ezra Levant, maclean's, Mark Steyn, Islam, Censorship, Free Speech