EUROPE SO FAR LEFT IT WON’T CALL A SPADE A SPADE IF IT FEARS IT!
May 19, 2006
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The Europeans freely criticize the United States like a junk yard dog, and America does the same to them. Why? One of the reasons is that they are not afraid of being taken over by each other. The practice of freedom of speech must be defended or it will vanish, and we will be as void of it as Islam. Europe is slowly be ing gripped by a fear of riot
ing Muslims in their streets and acts of terror if they fail to curb their right of freedom of speech to criticize the Islamic practices, contrary to the ways of western civilization. The latest Islamic challenge is an objection to the term “Islamic Terrorists.” Are they not of the Islamic faith, and are they not terrorists? Society in the western world has become so ultra refined that it has transformed being “politically correct” into a cowardly monster that is destroying freedom of speech.
We are constantly reminded that “the price of freedom is vigilance,” and “we must stand up for our freedom.” Well, is not freedom of speech the ultimate freedom? Please consider the term “politically correct.” Surely it might be at least considered more valid if “morally” or “compassionately” were substituted for “politically.” Perhaps in the early years of our government the word “politically” might have been appropriate, but the worldwide politicians of today, by and large, have now reached such a state of corruption that the word “politically” just doesn’ t fi
t any more. The United Nations is loaded with groups of “politically correct” politicians that as crooked as a sidewinder, with the morality and compassion of a duck on a June bug.
Fear of Islamic terrorist cells is growing in Europe and al Qaeda is well aware of it. There is no doubt in my mind that al Qaeda will send more Islamic terrorists into Europe to increase that fear to panic. This will generate a spirit of compromise with Islam to blame Israel for it all the trouble that caused Islam to do what it is doing.
The following excerpt from the Guardian Unlimited, by Nick Cohen (Observer, UK), discusses the current predicament Europe finds itself engulfed in.
Begin Excerpt from Nick Cohen Article
EU: We call it Islamic Terrorism because
it is Terror Inspired by Islam!
May 14, 2006
Meanwhile, Franco Frattini, the EU’s Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, has already banned the use of the phrase ‘Islamic terrorism’ to describe Islamic terrorism. ‘You cannot use the term “Islamic terrorism”,’ he insisted. ‘People who commit suicide attacks or criminal activities on behalf of religion, Islamic religion or other religion, they abuse the name of this religion.’
I was brought up as a democratic socialist and abhorred the crimes committed in the name of the left. But I would always agree that Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were inspired by a version of socialism, just as the most liberal American Christian would accept that fundamentalists who bomb abortion clinics are inspired by a version of Christianity.
Yet the EU wishes to deny that political Islam inspires terrorists to blow up everything from mosques in Baghdad to tube trains in London, even when Islamist
terrorists say explicitly that it does. You should always pay your enemies the compliment of taking them seriously.
The EU can’t understand what its enemies are saying, because it won’t call them by their right name.
Keith Porteous Wood, of the National Secular Society, is going to the Council of Europe this week to uphold the battered cause of freedom of speech.
He has files full of policy papers from religious groups agitating for the EU or UN to impose a universal blasphemy law. It won’t work for the same reason that New Labour’s incitement to religious hatred law hasn’t worked. A law that protects all religions is self-contradictory, as each religion
is blasphemous in the eyes of its rivals.
None the less, we should worry about how illiberal ‘liberal’ Europe is becoming.
It’s not only Islam that is provoking censorship.
Bans on Holocaust denial have spread across the Continent. In France, it is an offence to question any genocide, including the Turkish genocide of the Armenians, while in Belgium, the country’s highest court denied Vlaams Blok, a Flemish nationalist party, state funding and forced it to disband after finding it guilty of racism.
The point here is not to argue in favour of Holocaust deniers or Flemish rightists, any more than it is to argue in favour of incitement of religious hatred, except when the religious are hateful.
What matters is that the supposedly liberal states of Europe are showing an indecent eagerness to reach for their lawyers. Their contempt for plain speaking, as much as the refusal of the European Commission to accept the ‘no’ votes in the French and Dutch referendums on the European Constitution, shows their waning faith in liberal democracy. A backlash from Europeans who believe they have the right to speak their minds and have
their votes respected strikes me as inevitable.
End Excerpt from Nick Cohen Article
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