Ray Bradbury Dead, Censorship On the Rise

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Ray Bradbury Dead, Censorship On the Rise

By Robert Spencer

The man who wrote the novel about censorship, Fahrenheit 451, died last week at age 91.

Nowadays the really dangerous book-burners are not those who torch an occasional copy of the Qur’an, a futile symbolic act against an oppressive ideology that is everywhere advancing today. No, the censors of note today are the Leftists and Islamic supremacists who want to shut down any truthful speech about how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and the oppression of non-Muslims and women.

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Not only is the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) working to compel Western governments to criminalize criticism of Islam (under the guise of “defamation of religion,” but those who would judge what constitutes that are on record as considering anti-terror analysis that examines the Islamic motives and goals of the jihadis to be such defamation), but also Leftists and Islamic supremacists in the West today are doing everything they can to demonize and silence those who tell the truth about the jihad and Islamic supremacism. A case in point is Reza Aslan’s gunsel Nathan Lean, a creepy thug who has threatened me also; he is not in the least an original thinker, any more than Aslan himself is, but he is indicative of the Left’s totalitarian, anti-free speech mindset:

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By this Lean means freedom fighters, whom he wants people to think are telling the truth about Islam and jihad for money and/or fame (not for veiled death threats from brownshirts like him, although they come in more frequently than do either money or fame). “Silenced.” How? By the state? With rubber truncheons? Re-education camps? Firing squad?

Whatever the case may be, Lean’s anti-free speech stance is clear, and he is not remotely close to being singular in this. Nowadays the Left and the Islamic supremacists, including those who work in the mainstream media, almost never engage the ideas of their opponents; instead, they traffic entirely in smears and ad hominem attacks, trying to portray the defenders of freedom as “racists” and “bigots,” beyond the bounds of acceptable public discourse — an Orwellian tactic that presents as “bigotry” the defense of free speech and equality of rights for all people.

The demonization of Pamela Geller is a key case in point. At the height of her leadership of the nationwide resistance to the Ground Zero Mosque, the Leftist media establishment mounted an all-out assault against her, with hit pieces coming virtually every day, following classic Alinskyite tactics. Oft-repeated were wholly false claims about her positions and associations, with no regard whatsoever for truth or accuracy – and the gutless “conservative” media largely fell into line, hoping to avoid their own guilt-by-association taint.

Leftists in the mainstream media and their Islamic supremacist allies are wholly intellectually bereft — and so they cannot engage their opponents on the level of ideas, but must instead bludgeon them into silence. The treatment of Pamela Geller epitomizes this. It is imperative that conservatives stand up for her and for all voices of freedom; otherwise, she will by no means be the last victim of the vicious politics of personal destruction that the Left pursues so assiduously.

Meanwhile, however, Leftist smear campaigns have met great success: the Obama Administration, spurred on by Leftist pseudo-journalists like Spencer Ackerman and Eli Clifton, is purging military and intelligence training materials of all mention of Islamic jihad and supremacism, without any regard for whether or not it is true. The mainstream media won’t touch the jihad issue with any accuracy, and once again cowardly “conservative” media figures shun anti-jihadists for fear of incurring the Leftist establishment’s wrath. Anti-jihadists continue to be regularly defamed with guilt-by-association smears and misrepresentations of their views.

It is a craven tactic, and a chilling one, recalling the run-ups to the gulag and the Nazi concentration camp; apparently those are the models of society that today’s Left and its Islamic supremacist allies favor.

May Ray Bradbury’s memory be eternal. It is perhaps a mercy to him that he did not live to see the worst.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book, Did Muhammad Exist?, is now available.

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InfidelForLife
InfidelForLife
11 years ago

That is why the Left goes so well together with Islam, just as those other fascists -the Nazis- were best mates with Islam. The same tactics, the same intolerance, the same delusions, the same complete lack of morals and above all… the same (annihilist) goals.
Of course, that only works for them until the islamofascists are in positions of power. Then the first to be rounded up are these so-called “progressives” and other useful idiots.

wb
wb
11 years ago

The Islamic supremacists are hardly unique in their smear of anyone who stands up to their barbaric, medieval, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-civilization, annihilationist ideology and agenda – though it certainly is odious and insidious. Homosexual supremacists have for years smeared anyone who stands up for the traditional definition of marriage as between a man and woman and for Judeo-Christian moral values, as “bigots” and “homophobes” for opposing efforts by the Left to redefine marriage to suit the whims of political correctness and the fads and fashions of the moment (not to mention the homosexual lobby’s own neo-pagan, radical fringe Greenwich Village / San Francisco “values” rooted in the sexual revolution of the 1960’s and formulated after the 1969 Stonewall riots) – and anyone who knows their history, realizes that in other countries (i.e. Canada and Britain), efforts to impose gay marriage and “normalize” homosexuality have not only led to initiatives to end bans on polygamy, incest etc., but also a de facto criminalization of Christianity and the moral teachings thereof, with priests even being forced by “star chamber” tribunals to renounce their faith and moral beliefs. (Just recently, they successfully blackmailed and bullied a leading “pro-straight” psychiatrist into abandoning his practice.)
It may not be a coincidence at all that as the homosexual lobby has advanced their anti-family, anti-Church, anti-morality agenda, Islamic supremacism has reared its ugly head – with negative consequences for everybody.

Asha
Asha
11 years ago

Well Said. The whole world should read this and absorb it.
Then Islamic Ideology would be eliminated. Muslims must leave this evil cult.

Chris Farrell
Chris Farrell
11 years ago

Mr. Spencer, Please read my editorial ‘Independence From Islam’ on thepostemail.com. It was posted on either Dec. 6 or Nov. 29th 2011 – I forget. Multo Grazie, ctf

darmanad
darmanad
11 years ago

Any reason my comment was censored?

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