UK forms no-go zone around Finsbury mosque, terrorist stabbing attack in Jordan: Links 1, November 6, 2019

(Finsbury Park is where the mosque is, where the terrorist imam, Abu Hamza the Egyptian used to preach, and who is now in a US prison for his part of 911. This is an islamic area of London and this tactic is widely used in other European countries to create what we call “No-go zones” but are really zones of no national sovereignty at all.)

3. Amsterdam Schiphol airport evacuated due to ‘situation on plane’

Large areas of Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, including its railway station, have been evacuated while Dutch military police investigate what airport authorities described as a “situation onboard a plane”.

 

Local media said emergency services had been scrambled, a police special operations team was on site and two trauma helicopters were on their way to the airport. There was no immediate official confirmation of what the incident involved.

 

The airport is still operating but all inbound and outbound flights are delayed and some have been postponed indefinitely.

Dutch military police tweeted that they were investigating a “suspicious situation” onboard a plane and said more information would follow.

(Something to do with a hostage taking.)

4. Obama State Department Official Calls for Criminalization of Burning the Qur’an

The totalitarian tendencies of the Left become more obvious by the day, as the Washington Post continues to cover itself in glory. Richard Stengel is a former editor of Time Magazine and was the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs from 2013 to 2016. In this piece, he says the First Amendment is an “outlier” and calls for “hate speech” laws that would criminalize, among other things, the burning of Qur’ans.

 

Stengel claims that he is a convert to authoritarianism, a former believer in the freedom of speech: “When I was a journalist, I loved Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s assertion that the Constitution and the First Amendment are not just about protecting ‘free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.’”

 

His conversion came as a result of his world travel. Travel is supposed to be broadening, but in Stengel’s case it was narrowing. He says that even as he went around the world defending the freedom of speech, he came to despise that freedom: “But as a government official traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech, I came to see how our First Amendment standard is an outlier.”

 

Part of his new dislike for this cardinal American freedom, the cornerstone of any free society, apparently came from his own lack of understanding of why it was so important, and inability to defend it in the face of criticism. He recounts that “even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Koran. Why, they asked me, would you ever want to protect that?”