Europe: Illegal to criticize Islam

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This is Europe under Islamic law. And it’s not abstract. It’s real. Just ask Dutch PM Geert Wilders, who was found guilty this week of offending Muslims.

Europe: Illegal to Criticize Islam

by Judith Bergman, Gatestone Institute, December 12, 2016:

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Several European governments have made it clear to their citizens that criticizing European migrant policies or migrants is criminally off-limits and may lead to arrest, prosecution and even convictions. Although these practices constitute police state behavior, European governments do not stop there. They go still farther, by ensuring that Islam in general is not criticized either.

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Finland is the European country most recently to adopt the way that European authorities sanction those who criticize Islam. According to the Finnish news outlet YLE, the Pirkanmaa District Court found the Finns Party politician, Terhi Kiemunki, guilty of “slandering and insulting adherents of the Islamic faith” in a blog post of Uusi Suomi. In it, she claimed that all the terrorists in Europe are Muslims. The Court found that when Kiemunki wrote of a “repressive, intolerant and violent religion and culture,” she meant the Islamic faith.

During the trial, Kiemunki was asked why she did not make a distinction between Islam and radical Islam. She replied that she meant to refer to the spread of Islamic culture and religion, and that she “probably should have” spoken of radicalized elements of the religion instead of the faith as a whole. Kiemunki was fined 450 euros. Her lawyer has appealed the verdict.

Kiemunki issued a press release after the verdict, in which she said:

“I am still of the view that declaring statistical facts or even sharing an opinion is not a crime if someone doesn’t like it… I wrote that I don’t want our country to be overtaken by a culture and law based on a violent, intolerant and oppressive religion.”

According to YLE, she added that her essay did not generalize about Muslims, but pointed out that not all Muslims are terrorists. “In these times, specifically in the recent past and today, all of the perpetrators of terrorist acts have turned out to be Muslim,” she said.

So in Finland, since the court’s decision, citizens are now required to make a distinction, entirely fictitious, between “Islam” and “radical Islam,” or else they may find themselves prosecuted and fined for “slandering and insulting adherents of the Islamic faith.” As Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.” There are extremist Muslims and non-extremist Muslims, but there is only one Islam.

It is a pity that Kiemunki did not present the court with quotes from the Quran, such as, “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them…” (9:5), and “So fight them until there is no more fitna [strife] and all submit to the religion of Allah.” (8:39). Perhaps, then, the court could have at least tried to explain to the public in more concrete detail the differences between “Islam” and “radical Islam.”

In the Netherlands, a state-funded hotline, run by the anti-discrimination bureau MiND, said that it could not act on a complaint about death threats against homosexuals posted to an online forum, in which the Muslim poster called for homosexuals to be “burned, decapitated and slaughtered.” The reason why this anti-discrimination watchdog group could not act on the complaint was that, “The remarks must be seen in the context of religious beliefs in Islam, which juridically takes away the insulting character.” MiND concluded that the remarks were made in

“the context of a public debate about how to interpret the Quran… some Muslims understand from the Quran that gays should be killed… In the context of religious expression that exists in the Netherlands there is a large degree of freedom of expression. In addition, the expressions are used in the context of the public debate (how to interpret the Koran), which also removes the offending character.”

So, while Geert Wilders was prosecuted in the Netherlands for talking about “fewer Moroccans” during an election campaign, a state-funded watchdog group says that threatening homosexuals with burning, decapitation and slaughter is just fine, so long as it is Muslims who are making those threats, as the Quran tells them that such behavior is mandated. This might be one of the most astounding examples of voluntary submission to sharia law in the West thus far.

A spokesman for the MiND hotline later admitted that, after “further research” on the issue, it had concluded that the complaint had been “unjustly assessed” — after Dutch MPs called for the hotline to be stripped of public funding.

In February 2016, a Danish district court found a man guilty of making statements on Facebook that the court found to be “insulting and demeaning towards adherents of Islam.” The man had written:

“The ideology of Islam is as loathsome, disgusting, oppressive and as misanthropic as Nazism. The massive immigration of Islamists into Denmark is the most devastating thing to happen to Danish society in recent history.”

He was fined for “racism.” The High Court subsequently overturned the verdict in May 2016. The court found that the man was in fact innocent of racism, as his statements were “directed at the ideology of Islam and Islamism.”

It is troubling that Western governments are so eager to crack down on anything that vaguely resembles what has erroneously been termed “Islamophobia,” which literally means an irrational fear of Islam. Considering the violence we have been witnessing, it would be irrational not to have fear of its threats. As Shabnam Assadollahi recently pointed out in an open letter to Canadian Members of Parliament, there are quite a few things in Islam of which one legitimately ought to be fearful.

All these governments need to do is consult the speeches of one of the most influential living Islamic scholars of Sunni Islam, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Qaradawi hosts one of Al Jazeera’s most popular programs, Sharia and Life, which reaches an estimated 60 million viewers worldwide. Already in 1995, Qaradawi told a Muslim Arab Youth Association convention in Toledo, Ohio, “We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through the sword, but through dawa [outreach].”

Dawa, the Islamic call to conversion, is the Islamic summons for the non-violent conquest of non-Muslim lands, including Europe. As explained by Qaradawi in a recording from 2007, the aim of the conquest consists mainly the introduction of sharia law. According to Qaradawi, sharia law should be inserted gradually, over a five-year period in a new country, before implementing it in full. This sharia law includes chopping off hands for theft; killing apostates and homosexuals, denigrating and oppressing women, as in polygamy, beating them as a means of “disciplining” them, and so on. For those Westerners who have studied Islam and listened to what the most influential Islamic scholars have to say, there is quite a bit to be “phobic” about. It would be refreshing to hear the views of European leaders and courts on these aspects of sharia law instead of their almost ritual condemnations of those who have actually studied Islamic sources and seek to raise awareness of the nature of sharia law.

While prosecuting and sanctioning people who criticize Islam is becoming more common in Europe, this practice used to be reserved only for Muslim countries officially governed by sharia law, such as Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, where it is forbidden to insult Islam.

It is a pity that European courts and other state bodies have begun taking their cues from Islamic law. Apparently, European judges and politicians are no longer capable of appreciating the immense freedoms that used to be the norm on the continent, and which they seem all too willing, of their own free will, to abolish.

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Jay Dillon
Jay Dillon
7 years ago

With their placards, the Moslems identify themselves as enemies.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

Western europeans will mumble a bit, grumble about alleged freedom, then allow their political masters to first castrate and de-horn the males, breed the females with any muslim thus inclined, and smugly congratulate themselves on being progressive as they are fleeced before butchering. There is no fool like a western european fool. The hatred grass roots, so to speak, citizens are developing for the shameful way their elected politicians have sold them out to islam, will result in a “crusade” that will make the terror muslims used to provoke it look like a tea party.

rickyoo
rickyoo
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Excellent comment. They keep voting for same traitors and expect a different result. Incredible!

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  rickyoo

Western europeans are definitely among the dumbest creatures on the planet.

pipo
pipo
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Thanks for the compliment but in a way you are right. We Western Europeans are not that dumb but the very least very meek. Western Europeans do not like to be disturbed while they are watching all kind of reality shows on telly and certainly they love to go on holiday at least twice a year.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  pipo

You won’t have to go on holidays any more, exotic and mysterious people will colonize western europe, turning it into a unique experience of the middle east with all its intrigue and mysticism, highway robbery, rape and murder, it will be like a real life “Clue” game, that everyone is involved in.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

islam will die by its own hand from its subhuman criminally insane violence.

SRN99
SRN99
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Muslims have killed one another more than they can reproduce.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  SRN99

This is to be encouraged, with the prize of “caliph” up for grabs, wholesale slaughter in islam is guaranteed. The cult of dead will deal death to itself.

wilypagan
wilypagan
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Very Zen.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  wilypagan

Destruction of the caliphate begins with a single demon.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

After over a thousand years of muslums slaughtering/enslaving/persecuting the unbeliever in islam I find it hard to have faith in your statement that islam will destroy itself, especially considering that at no time in islam’s bloody past has it spread to as many continents as it has today.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Things, systems, nations cults, can only get to a certain size, then they collapse under their own weight. Every historical figure that conquered an empire never managed to keep it for long. islam will be no different as the base nature of greed and violence are strongest in islam, which will result in a power trouble within itself. As islam is quick to use death as a deterrent to inappropriate behaviour, it is only a matter of time until the slaughter begins.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I support the Burmese Buddhists and their proactive solution to islam and muslums.

Roar
Roar
7 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Some smart chap will( if not already done) now remind them about Buddha’s message of peace.

Roar
Roar
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Till then,it will have ruined our beautiful earth.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  Roar

The earth will recover, it is necessary to assure islam is eradicated, permanently.

Roar
Roar
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Let your prophecy come true.

aebe
aebe
7 years ago

All the more reason to defend our Constitution , in most countries the people are not citizens , but subjects . Subjects may be granted privileges , but have no rights .

Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights….. Carry

Patrick
Patrick
7 years ago

The silence of the lambs on the way to the slaughterhouse. The left must die!

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
7 years ago

More accommodation of the muzlum savage.
How long before soccer fields are used for public executions?

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soundclick.com/Globalfirm
7 years ago

Where is the love?
Have we lost touch with reality?
We, as people have lost touch with love.

Love is what it should be all about.
From a love & not corrupt perspective we understand the social media posts that condemn the Muhammadism-conspiracy & defend Israel for the sake of human rights.

We are divided & made ineffective because of internationalism instead of globalism, because of regional languages instead of English.

We need a global, English language party & TV-channel to develop an effective human rights protecting culture that condemns the Muhammadism-conspiracy & in an imperialist way enacts ethics, that is human rights & ecology, globally.

We reject any forced idealization of sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, mass-murderer, crucifier, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist, child-rapist & pederast who ‘kissed’ little boys’ penises & sucked boys’ lips & tongues, theist psychopath, who burned people alive for not praying & others to extort them, who gouged out eyes & cut off body-parts, gays-killer, Jews-killer, atheists-killer Muhammad on people.

The constitution is out of touch with reality & love if it doesn’t condemn sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, mass-murderer, crucifier, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist, child-rapist & pederast who ‘kissed’ little boys’ penises & sucked boys’ lips & tongues, theist psychopath, who burned people alive for not praying & others to extort them, who gouged out eyes & cut off body-parts, gays-killer, Jews-killer, atheists-killer Muhammad & doesn’t ban the Islam-conspiracy.

A national constitution that lacks the global big picture about Islam is TREASON. 

We need to look globally & protect the people from Islam instead of letting politicians arm the Islam-tyrannies, instead of letting those politicians organize Muhammadism-conspiracy imperialism invasion & letting those politicians force the glorification of sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, mass-murderer, crucifier, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist, child-rapist & pederast who ‘kissed’ little boys’ penises & sucked boys’ lips & tongues, theist psychopath, who burned people alive for not praying & others to extort them, who gouged out eyes & cut off body-parts, gays-killer, Jews-killer, atheists-killer Muhammad on children, citizens & the world.

Ban Islam, save lives.
Close the mosques, confiscate the Korans.

Muslims know Islam is not ethical, that’s why it’s only right to them to ban Islam.

People with a mind-mix of no love & consequently uncondemning attitude towards Islam have made us be open to a culture that is open to hate against Africans, Jews, Christians, non-Muslims, atheists, women, children, gays, open to enslavement of Africans & girls, rape, crucifixions, stonings, gouging out of eyes, institutionalized & self-inititated decapitations, torture, amputations, clitodirectomies, circumcision, animal torture, pillaging, robbing, burning people alive, according imperialism & war.

We have been lulled into culture of superficiality, products, bad music, nationalism, admiration for Islam, for Muhammad.

We need to integrate ourselves to Islam & Islamic regions by banning Islam, enacting love & human rights, freeing the imprisoned, the Africans enslaved, girls & women forced to sex-slave-marriage & NOT the other way around.

The pathological tolerance for Islam has become a collective dangerous mind-control movement we know from Muhammadism-conspiracy imperialism regions & the Nazi-Muhammadism-conspiracy of Adolf Hitler & Amin el-Husseini that has to be be stopped NOW.

There are those that claim to fight against Nazis but fight for the Nazis:
History is being scrubbed from Hitler’s partnership with Muhammadism-conspiracy Ottoman empire general, Grandmufti of Jerusalem Amin El-Husseini who led the Nazis & Nazi-Muhammadist troops, his nephew Arafat called him the great leader.

Barack Hussein Obama promotes Muhammadism-conspiracy army Boko Haram, who murder, burn alive 100?’s of 1000’s of people as having “legitimate concerns”

& blocked an Israeli arms helicopter-deal to Nigeria to fight Boko haram before the Muhammadist president.

Furthermore I’ve read that U.S.policies equip & arm Islamic State group in Syria for their crucifixion, terror, lynch & rape-campaign by the hands of Turkey & U.S. & E.U.-armed Saudi Arabia & the U.S.-army.
A thorough investigation has to take place.
Read: Russia destroys most Isis heavy weaponry, US promptly airdrops 50 tons of weapons into Syria:
http://www.mintpressnews.com/russia-destroys-most-isis-heavy-weaponry-u-s-promptly-airdrops-50-tons-of-weapons-into-syria/210655/ 

“Harass & kill them until Islamic law is the only governance”, says Koran 8:39.

We need a global empire to ban Islam & free the people.

No tolerance for Islam in society, no African slaves enslaved in Mauritania or Saudi Arabia or elsewhere, no children raped, no people harassed by Islamic-police, no Islamic torture, whippings, stonings, clitodirectomies & crucifixions & torturous animal slaughters & no Muhammadism-conspiracy terrorism & imperialism.
Islam feeds on our tolerance, it needs our tolerance, respect, it breathes on our fear.

Our respect for Islam is it’s oxygen.

Without our tolerance the Muhammadism-conspiracy vanishes into oblivion.

We need a global, ethical imperialism to defeat the Muhammadism-conspiracy imperialism & free the people.

The world should be made an English-language protectorate & English optional official language globally.

Ban Islam, the Muhammadism-conspiracy & democracy, save lives & profound human rights globally.

Did you know: There’s slavery today of Africans in Saudi Arabia, Mauritania(25%,50%?of population), new north Sudan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, Oman, Algeria, Lebanon, Qatar (?), Pakistan, UAE, Niger, Libya, Nigeria, Chad, Mali, Somalia & elsewhere inspired by sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, mass-murderer, crucifier, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist, child-rapist & pederast who ‘kissed’ little boys’ penises & sucked boys’ lips & tongues, theist psychopath, who burned people alive for not praying & others to extort them, who gouged out eyes & cut off body-parts, gays-killer, Jews-killer, atheists-killer Muhammad who owned Africans as slaves & said that his deity turned Africans black, so their descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks (Abeed means African & slave in Arabic,) (Read more about sadist, racist slaver Muhammad at WikiIslam). & IslamicState stated they want to revive enslavement of Africans in America as I’ve read here.
Anti-African racists & Muhammadism Out of Africa!
Ban Islam, the Muhammadism-conspiracy & democracy & save lives & profound human rights globally.
Help me to win the next election with my worldwide low-budget-campaign, for human rights & ecology, globally.

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SRN99
SRN99
7 years ago

Followers of pedophile prophet mohammad, I criticize and spit on your worthless cult. Repent or perish

ml
ml
7 years ago

Danish court convicts man for: “The ideology of Islam is… oppressive and… misanthropic…”

In the first edition of his The River War, published in 1899, Winston Churchill set out a withering critique of the effect Islam has on its followers, its debilitating effect on economies of nations that embrace it, and the enslavement of its luckless women.

While he admits that “individual Muslims may show splendid qualities,” he contrasts this with realities on [a] collective level, where “the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.”

“A collective level” – similar to any grouping with an ideology aligned with violence; eg: lynch mob.

Churchill goes on to warn: “No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Muhammadanism is a militant and proselytizing faith… and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science… the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”

Demonstrably, the Danish court would also have convicted Churchill.

Postmodern liberalism strikes again.

Tm.
Tm.
7 years ago
Reply to  ml

Excellent comment, albeit chilling to the core. The future is dark. Hell has been unleashed. Mankind will likely not survive. If it does, and it is so altered, it would be best if some instantaneous cataclysmic event besieged humanity. It would be a fitting crown for what we have allowed to take place.
There is no reasoning and we all know it, if we tell the truth.
Yet man has an indomitable spirit, so let him organize and prepare and resist and more.

Heltau
Heltau
7 years ago

The ONLY one I am a servant to is my wife, no one else.
Fracken libturds!!!!
Merry Christmass to all.

sailbyme55
sailbyme55
7 years ago

I wipe my ass with the qur’an. Death to all muslims.

AlgorithmicAnalystD
AlgorithmicAnalyst
7 years ago

Muslims are like poisonous spiders or snakes. It may not be possible to eradicate them, but you can keep them out of your house, or in this case, out of your country.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago

Yes we shouldn’t generalize about muslums and in the same way we shouldn’t condemn all nawzis, after all, most nawzis were peaceful, hard working people. Gag, choke, cough.

bannedquran20
bannedquran20
7 years ago

EU is lost and that would have been the case here in the USA as well if Goldwater girl would have won. God Bless America, The Land of The Big PX and President-Elect Donald Trump!

Marino Danielis
Marino Danielis
7 years ago

Europe is heading towards disintegration: now we can no longer criticize islam, in the future we will not be able to go to church if we do not approve of Muslims, finally, islam will impose as a religion in Europe and we will be subject to the new religion or we shall emigrate. It would be time to stop and take back our identity, our culture. Muslims arriving in Europe must adapt to our laws: either they do it or otherwise must return to their countries. There is no other alternative. It is time that Europe wakes up, otherwise the battles fought by our ancestors in Poitiers, at Lepanto, in Vienna were won in vain

Janet
Janet
7 years ago

In the show Family Guy they make fun of Christianity without blinking an eye. I’d love to see them make fun of Islam, Mohammad, Muslims and Sharia Law! All hell would break loose! They would be getting death threats for sure. It seems that it is just expected of us that Islam be off limits. If you don’t respect everything about Islam you are considered insensitive and an Islamophobe. We can’t upset the Muslims so don’t joke about it. There’s no fun in Islam! Oh or free speech either.

Robert Batchelor
Robert Batchelor
7 years ago
Reply to  Janet

There won’t be any freedom at all if Islam is in charge.

edbo
edbo
7 years ago

BAN THE KORAN

BAN ALL WHO PRACTICE ISLAM

pipo
pipo
7 years ago

In that sense no-one could criticize neo-nazis or Hitler and the likes.

Daiseymae
Daiseymae
7 years ago

What is the point for native Europeans to even reside in their homeland? It is being taken away from them each and everyday.

Mary Seres
Mary Seres
7 years ago

You know that’s probably true, they probably will but I doubt they will conquer Eastern Europe because they are not having any of this crap… these people holding their signs look like a bunch of sheep going off the cliff following their stupid leader, they just keep following without even using their brains to think or use common sense. How sad is that.

Robert Kahlcke
Robert Kahlcke
7 years ago

allah is a faggot.

Midniterider
Midniterider
7 years ago

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Oatmealforme
Oatmealforme
7 years ago

I blaspheme Allah, Mohammad, Islam and the Koran in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Oh by the way, there is no proof for the existence of any kind of entity that is a deity. There have been over 10000 named deities and millions of religions and we are to believe there is a true deity or religion. Such beliefs are for weak, infantile minds.

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