First, let me preface this little collection of items with a simple concept.
Freedom of speech as a concept was invented for one thing and one thing only. The right to criticize or mock or say what we like about political and religious authority. Without that, we have no freedoms at all. Not even to criticize something as benign as women’s fashion. Which in Afghanistan is already non existent and is disappearing here as well. Islam is both a religious and political system. So they are fighting tooth and nail to stop any criticism of it in every way they can think of. And it has worked and continues to work at more and more levels of our civilization.
See if you can find a common denominator in these three items:
Number one: an Article from RAIR Foundation with the accompanying video below on the threat Islam poses to freedom of speech in the US
Secondly, in Canada, constitutional lawyers are fighting various new restrictions named in an Orwellian manner as ‘anti-bullying’ when in fact it is bullies creating and enforcing it for their own protection from criticism.
Lastly, a short compilation of contemporary tyrants explaining why you must not be allowed to challenge state narratives.
From the essay that accompanies the novel, 1984 on Newspeak. This could be seen as occurring today in Islam with respect to the words, justice, where it means sharia, or freedom. Which means to implement the sharia. But in terms of Western political freedom, you decide if the direction is headed towards the excerpt below:
Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever. To give a single example. The word FREE still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as 'This dog is free from lice' or 'This field is free from weeds'. It could not be used in its old sense of 'politically free' or 'intellectually free' since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless.
