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BLASPHEMY CRACKDOWN SURGES –
ACROSS EUROPE! Sports authority imposes 2-month ban
on athlete for filming friend poking fun at Islam, by Bob Unruh 11/6/16
One of Islam’s core beliefs is that
no one is allowed to poke fun at Muhammad or his writings – no one, anywhere,
ever. And Europe more and more seems to be
subscribing to that religious doctrine, according to a new report from Douglas
Murray, an author, commentator and public-affairs analyst, who wrote at the
Gatestone Institute.
He explains that not only is Dutch
politician Geert Wilders now on trial for agreeing with voters that immigration
should be limited, but now a British athlete is being punished for antics,
while drunk, that offended Muslims.
“Europe is currently seeing the
reintroduction of blasphemy laws through both the front and back doors,” he
wrote. “In Britain, the gymnast Louis Smith
has just been suspended for two months by British Gymnastics. This 27-year old
sportsman’s career has been put on hold, and potentially ruined, not because of
anything to do with athletics but because of something to do with Islam.”
Murray explained a video was
uncovered recently of the “four-time Olympic medal-winner and a friend getting
up to drunken antics after a wedding.”
The video revealed “a friend taking
a rug off a wall and doing an imitation of Islamic prayer rituals,” he
explained. The video, from Smith’s phone, ended up in the hands of a newspaper,
resulting in “press castigation and public humiliation” for the young athlete.
“Smith – who is himself of mixed
race – was forced to parade on daytime television in Britain and deny that he
is a racist, bigot or xenophobe,” Murray explained. But then sports officials determined
Smith’s actions warranted a removal of funding and a two-month ban from his
sport.
“This is the re-entry of blasphemy
laws through the back door, where newspapers, daytime chat-shows and sports
authorities decide between them that one religion is worthy of particular
protection. They do so because they take the religion of Islam uniquely on its
own estimation and believe, as well as fear, the warnings of the Islamic
blasphemy-police worldwide,” Murray wrote.
The “front-door” reintroduction
comes in Wilders’ case. He is on trial now for allegedly inciting opposition to
immigrants. “Wilders is being tried because of a
statement at a rally in front of his supporters in March 2014. Ahead of
municipal elections, and following reports of a disproportionate amount of
crimes being committed in Holland by Muslims of Moroccan origin, Wilders asked
a crowd, ‘Do you want more or fewer Moroccans in this city and in the
Netherlands?’ The audience responded, ‘Fewer, fewer.’ To which Wilders
responded, ‘Well, we’ll arrange that, then.'”
“Whether or not one feels any
support for Wilders’ sentiments is not in fact the point in this case. The
point is that by prosecuting someone for saying what he said, the courts in
Holland are effectively ruling that there is only one correct answer to the
question Wilders asked. They are saying that if someone asks you whether you
would like more Moroccans or fewer, people must always answer ‘more,’ or they
will be committing a crime,” Murray wrote.
Only
weeks ago, a single-judge tribunal in
Muslim-dominant Pakistan recommended a review of the nation’s controversial
blasphemy law. It followed by only months a
“landmark” decision by a court there that refused to affirm that criticizing
the nation’s Islamic anti-blasphemy law is itself illegal.
The decision came in the
ever-expanding fallout of the case of Asia Bibi, a mother who was accused and
convicted of blasphemy against Islam and sentenced to death for talking about
her Christian faith. Her case remains on appeal and pending.
But the blasphemy law there – and
even the discussion of its validity has cost numerous lives in a nation where
the accused often are killed by vigilantes before the court system can resolve
their cases.
At the time, the Pakistan Supreme
Court said “criticizing the country’s notoriously harsh blasphemy laws is not
blasphemy,” according to the Barnabas Fund, an organization that serves
persecuted Christians worldwide.
Now
the Barnabas Fund reports the new
tribunal was set up to investigate the riots in Gojra in August 2009 that
killed eight Christians. The tribunal has recommended a review of the country’s
blasphemy law. Worldwide, Islamic nations have been
on a tear to demand non-Muslims be punished for criticizing Islam.
In
2012, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, then Turkey’s
prime minister and now president, demanded that a movie that “insults
religions” and “prophets” is not protected by freedom of speech. He insisted
that international bodies pass laws making criticism of Islam a crime.
The Turkish newspaper Today’s
Zaman reported Erdogan made the
comments before a large crowed in Bosnia. He said he is the “prime minister of
a nation, of [whom] most are Muslims and that has declared anti-Semitism a
crime against humanity. But the West hasn’t recognized Islamophobia as a crime
against humanity – it has encouraged it.”
He provided the comments in response
to the growing controversy surrounding the YouTube movie “Innocence of
Muslims,” made by an Egyptian living in the United States.
Islamic nations for years have been
pushing in the U.N. for a “Defamation of Religions” law that came out of an original
plan by the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation for a “Defamation of Islam”
law to crack down on criticism of the religion.
Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice said at the time it’s nothing “more than an effort to
achieve special protections for Islam – a move to stifle religious speech.”
Critics of the idea say Muslim
nations would simply use it as an endorsement of their attacks on Christians
for statements as simple as their belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ, which
Muslims consider an affront.
In 2010, WND reported the
Islamic-led Defamation of Religions proposal in the United Nations had been
approved again. But its level of support had been declining. According to the
Human Rights First organization, the plan violated fundamental freedom of
expression norms.
“The vote affirms that support for
the defamation concept continues to dwindle. Nevertheless, we deeply regret
that this text continues to distract governments from real issues that deserve
greater attention , such as fighting the spread of religious violence and
hatred, as well as how to counter practices of discrimination that many members
of religious and other minorities face in all parts of the globe,” said Tad
Stahnke of Human Rights First.
He said the vote is “unfortunate for
both individuals at risk whose rights will surely be violated under the guise
of prohibiting ‘defamation of religions,’ as well as for the standards of
international norms on freedom of expression.”
Video: Muslim
delegation meets Pope Francis
http://www.wnd.com/2016/11/blasphemy-crackdown-surges-across-europe/
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Islam is not a religion. It is an invasion strategy.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party
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