Category Archives: Freedoms

The Middle East, women, sex, and the awful double standard

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From People of Shambhala.
What to conclude when an Egyptian newspaper is condemned for reporting gang rapes and sexual assaults on women in Tahrir Square? Or that a self-appointed “morality police” now patrols Egypt’s streets with rods to beat any woman dressed in normal, causal clothes? Should we conclude that, in the Middle East, it is acceptable for men to rape, but not okay for a woman to show the least bit of skin?

A few days ago Egyptian newspaper Bikya Masr reported that an Arab-American woman had been “stripped of her pants, assaulted and beaten by a mob of men in the center of the square.”

“Surprisingly,” says Bikya MAsr, “this led to a… read more.

North Korea threatens to punish mobile-phone users as ‘war criminals’

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The Telegraph:

 North Korea has warned that any of its citizens caught trying to defect to China or using mobile phones during the 100-day mourning period for Kim Jong-il will be branded as “war criminals” and punished accordingly.

North Korea threatens to punish mobile-phone users as 'war criminals'

Kim Jong-il died on December 17 after suffering a heart attack that North Korean media has reported was brought on by overwork Photo: AP

By Julian Ryall, Tokyo

6:55AM GMT 26 Jan 2012

There are reports from within the isolated state that food supplies are again dwindling and that there has been an increase in the number of people attempting to cross the border into China. Many of those that do manage to cross the frontier eventually manage to reach South Korea, where an estimated 23,000 defectors have now settled.

The Workers’ Party has issued the stern warning in an effort to deter more from attempting the already perilous journey, apparently in an effort to ensure the stability of the new regime of Kim Jong-un, who took over from his father, according to Good Friends, a South Korean relief group.

People who are caught attempting to flee the poverty and political oppression in the North, as well as those detained in China and sent back over the border, usually end up in the North’s network of hard labour camps, human rights groups have reported, while repeat offenders can expect to be executed.

Kim Jong-il died on December 17 after suffering a heart attack that North Korean media has reported was brought on by overwork. He was 69.

The regime has been weakened by years of economic mismanagement and stagnation and there are apparently fears in Pyongyang that the death of Kim could trigger public unrest.

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NY Jewelry store forced to remove “offensive” Hindu, Buddhist earrings

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Does "diversity" mean some religious symbols should be banned?

In Indonesia in 2010 a Muslim organization forced a Buddhist temple to remove a Buddha statue from public view. Wouldn’t happen in the US, right? That’s the kind of intolerance Americans are against. As Ron Meier, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League’s New York office told Fox News this week, the city is all about diversity. Oh, sorry, no.

It was an “innocent mistake,” says Meier. But who’s making it? Bejewelled, a jewelry store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn owned by Miss Young Sook Kim, had been selling Hindu/Buddhist swastika earrings for $5.99.  Visit the cozy “lemon hued” shop, and you’ll be given a “silk-lined straw basket for corralling” the shop’s sections, where you can buy  “Totes, evening clutches, and jeweled hair accessories,” says NY Mag

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Forget tactics; the “clash of civilizations” is not what you think

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From People of Shambhala

The words “The Clash of Ideas” are splashed across the cover of the special anniversary issue of Foreign Affair this month. This is of course a play on the “clash of civilizations” narrative that we’ve heard countless times since 9/11, and a nod to the notion that this clash – between radical Islam and the West, or liberal democracy – is fundamentally a “war of ideas.”

I have come to believe that this diagnosis is not only wrong, but a large part of the reason why we, who believe in freedom and the rights of the individual, appear to be losing ground. (For example, we are seeing more sharia in the West, despite us knowing that full sharia demands the execution of homosexuals, the stoning of women who commit adultery, and discrimination against religious minorities. And we are seeing our right to free speech eroded, especially across Europe.)

The battle is not one of ideas. It is a… read more.

Punk’s not dead — in Islam.

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From European Son
The 80s British anarcho-punk band Conflict is hanging in there — like U2, the Rolling Stones, and all the other bands that they no doubt detest. So, as the decades old slogan says, “Punk’s [or ‘Punx’] not dead.” But it’s playing things safe in its old age. On Conflict’s MySpace page there’s a poster for a punk gig with image an of a nun holding a revolver, encircled by the words “Punk illegal” — or “illegal Punk,” perhaps. Only, in Britain, of course, it’s not illegal, and it lost its ability to shock long ago — at least in liberal democracies, that is.

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TUNDRA TABLOIDS’ EXCLUSIVE: LIVE BLOGGING ELISABETH’S APPEAL IN THE HIGHER COURT IN VIENNA

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The Tundra Tabloids will be live blogging the hearing today, December 20, 2011, 9-11 am,(local Viennese time, 10-12am Finnish time). Elisabeth is appealing her wrongful conviction conviction on “hate speech” violations. KGS

UPDATE: First conviction is CONFIRMED!

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff: The question is: Are we allowed to say that Mohammed married a 6-year-old and consummated the marriage when she was nine? Are we allowed this truthful statement in a democratic society of which freedom of speech is or should be a cornerstone? Are we as laypeople required to know the clinical definition of “pedophilia”? And, most importantly, does religious law trump secular law?

Live blogging begins, local time.

All pictures and reporting by Henrik Raeder Clausen

In front of the court house.

Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, Dr. Rami

Court room

The court makes a summary of what the case is about: §188 appeal case. Denigration of legally recognized religion, specifically Muhammad.

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Problem is that Muhammad is considered a perfect example for Muslim men, that is against our laws and public order. He had a large consumption of women, including minors, and in general behaved in ways contrary to modern law. That is all documentable from the Bukhari hadith.

Susanne Winter said similar things and was convicted.

A 54-year having sex with a 9 year old, what do we call this, if not pedophilia?

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Paul Weston: Britain now has a different kind of political party

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From European Son

Paul Weston (right) on the Michael Coren Show.

Last month Britain’s Independent newspaper reported that the controversial English Defence League movement, which campaigns against radical Islam, had signed a “pact” with the relatively new British Freedom Party. The Independent’s headline suggested that, through the alliance, the EDL was preparing to “storm local elections.” According to the article in the Independent, “The English Defence League plans to field candidates for the first time in local elections after an alliance is finalised between the far-right group and the British Freedom Party, which was set up by disgruntled members of the British National Party.”

Being associated with the EDL street protest movement has helped propel British Freedom into the spotlight. Several, largely critical, reports have been published by smaller British media outlets in the last day or two, and the party’s chairman, Paul Weston, was also recently interviewed on the Canadian Sun TV’s Michael Coren Show.

However, this may not be the only association. British Freedom’s name hints at the loose alliance of “freedom” parties in Europe, whose spiritual head is Dutch MP Geert Wilders.

Mr. Weston, a former member of the anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), describes himself as a “classical liberal.” I wanted to ask him about these associations and alliances, and to find out how he sees British Freedom. My interview with Mr. Weston, which took place on December 10, is reproduced below.

 

ES: Congratulations on being on [Canada’s] Sun TV. That’s a pretty big achievement for such a new party. How do you feel the British Freedom Party is coming along?

PW: We’re getting our name out into the mainstream media. We had a piece in The Independent on us. It wasn’t very friendly of course, but it still gets your name out there. People are gradually starting to hear about us, so it’s not bad.

ES: And you’re getting quite a few people joining, I gather.

PS: Yes, yes, we are.

ES: I guess one complaint might be that there are just a lot of these parties out there. So, how is British Freedom different from say UKIP, the Conservatives, the BNP, etc.? Continue Reading →

FINNS MP CONVICTED OF HATE SPEECH FOR TELLING TRUTH ON ISLAM IN FINLAND

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Truth telling, in spite of the overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary (history of former Christian lands in the ME and Maghreb) is considered illegal in Finland. Factual truths are not a defense, just ask Jussi Halla-aho. KGS

H/T: Vasarahammer

The part that was considered illegal by Kouvola Court of Appeals (hovioikeus):

US:”Unfortunately, with rampant Muslim immigration to Finland, there will also be an increase in genuine real racism, which will target especially the Jews, but also the native population and other ethnic groups. And on top of that, discrimination, unbearable arrogance and rude behavior, anger, women’s oppression, child mutilation (TT:FGM), sexual misconduct, persecution of minorities, rioting, flag burning, disturbances, drugs, looting, rape crimes, pedophilia, polygamy, child marriages, shame violence, ritual slaughter, whippings, stonings, and others utterly disgusting and fully twisted traditions and other phenomena. Eventually, even suicide bombings and terrorism. That is, if we do not dance exactly according to their tune.”

Member of Parliament, James Hirvisaari fined for incitement against ethnic group

HS: What True Finns MP James Hirvisaari published in a blog post on 4 February 2010 at the UusiSuomi online newspaper service, has been given a verdict.

Kouvola Court of Appeal has convicted the True Finns MP, James Hirvisaari, with a fine for ethnic agitation. According to the court what he wrote in his blog was offensive to Muslims. The fine was equal to 1425 euros.

Päijät-Häme district court previously dismissed the indictment against Hirvisaari, because it didn’t deem the writings as disparaging. The district court’s view was that a politician has the right to criticize immigration policy.

The Court of Appeal decided the matter differently. According to it Hirvisaari’s web writings was sweeping and discriminatory, and specified a group of people as criminals.

The Court of Appeal took the view that the characterizing of an ethnic group as criminal isn’t within the limits of free speech as generalization and a provocation.

True Finns Party parliamentary group chairman, Pirkko Ruohonen-Lerner believes that they’ll take a position on the case, when the decision is final. Although this might still go to the Supreme Court.

Announcing: JIHAD AWARENESS MONTH

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The latest video from the Christian apologetics ninjas over at AnsweringMuslims.com is a joy to behold. It contains the usual combination of precise and irrefutable scholarship with their unique sense of humour, but this time it’s also a little different.

There’s a really pro-active tone of positivity and empowerment here: watch right to the end to pick up some really useful tips on how you can take positive steps this month (symbolic in its Judeo-Christian festivities of all that is best about Western Civilization) to combat ignorance of Islam.

This guidance follows a characteristically brilliant deconstruction of the utterly mad rhetoric on Islam now coming out of the Obama administration, which just today classified the Fort Hood massacre as “workplace violence”!

To quote from Dr David Wood in the video:

The Anti-American dreamteam then [i.e extremists and the liberal establishment] consists almost entirely of cowards and morons: the ONLY way we could ever be defeated by a force like that, is if we do absolutely nothing.

FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE PRESENTS: THE POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF ELISABETH SABADITSCH-WOLFF

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In living color!

The buffoonery of the Austrian government doesn’t involve just its massive trade dealings with the rogue Iranian regime, it also consists of systematically persecuting its own citizens daring to speak up about Islam. Do you think that they’re connected in any way? KGS

The Political Persecution of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff

On February 15, 2011, the Austrian Counterjihad activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was convicted of “hate speech” in a Vienna courtroom for what she said in a private seminar about Muhammad and Islam.

The original charge was “incitement to hatred”. On the second day of her trial, the judge at her own discretion added a second charge, “denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion.” Elisabeth was acquitted of the first charge, but convicted of the second. She was sentenced to pay a fine of €480. Her case is currently being appealed to Austria’s highest court. If the verdict is upheld, and she refuses to pay the fine, she will spend two months in jail.

How could this happen in a modern European democratic state which recognizes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and enshrines the right to free speech in its Constitution?

Read the rest at FrontPage Mag

Jihadwatch Comes To Town.

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PJG has written a guest post over at JihadWatch about Robert Spencer’s vist to Melbournistan.

I’ve known PJG for quite some time now, and we’ve attended the occasional demo together, so I’m happy to agree with what s/he has to say. Rather than rehash that, I’ll add my observations of the evening. (This is your opportunity to rush over to JW and read the report!)

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“In the past two weeks we’ve witnessed a coup d’état”

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Peter Hitchens chillingly reflects in the London Daily Mail today (How long before the grey dictators march on London?) on how the European Union is entering a frighteningly authoritarian endgame:

Civilian juntas have seized power in Rome and Athens. Soon, similar gangs of grey men may be sweeping aside national governments in Madrid and Lisbon. Nobody much [in the media] is protesting. In time – don’t rule it out – it could be our turn here [in Britain]…

Our ruling Left-wing elite seem oddly untroubled by the ruthless snuffing-out of national sovereignty across southern Europe. If the same thing had been done by a bunch of colonels, they would have been piously outraged…

But of course these putsches are the work of the European Union, a project the Left have long supported. And the EU is more subtle than any colonels. There is no need for midnight arrests or tanks on the streets. The enormous invisible power of the EU’s law and institutions gets its way without any need for such things.

He continues.

The sheer dictatorial nerve of Italy’s new viceroy, Mario Monti, is impressive. He has formed a government without a single elected politician in it…

Once again, please pay close attention. This is the best warning you will ever get of what the EU is really about. It is an empire, in which the great nations of Europe, including ours, are intended to disappear for ever.

What’s taking place in Europe should stagger and frighten us all, but it doesn’t seem to affect the populous, and it’s true horror is not even momentarily permeating the mainstream media. Maybe because it’s all happening so smoothly, so effortlessly? It’s almost as if the European system had been gently and deliberately designed for decades, with the aim of facilitating precisely such a total removal of democracy, and its substitution with a Euro-statist technocracy.

The British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, also this week, very adroitly summarized events in the following speech to the European Parliament.

FREE SPEECH VICTORY IN AUSTRIA, JUDGE RULES ANTI-MINARET VIDEO GAME LEGAL, DELIVERS FULL ACQUITTAL

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Not hate speech or incitement! 

The Tundra Tabloids receives word from Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff -who told the TT the she was elated about this acquittal and offers her congratulations- that SOS Österriech is reporting a major win for the Austrian anti-Islamization movement. Three cheers for the Austrians. KGS

NOTE: Styria, is an Austrian province

Show trial of Styrian FPÖ: ACQUITTAL!

The judge in her ruling declared:

“I did not judge whether the game is tasteful, classy, or ??reverent. But whether it shall constitute an act of incitement. “

“The debate over whether the building of minarets should be banned” a question that is being discussed all over Europe. ” The question was legitimate. “If a game allows for two types of interpretation – incitement to hatred or a mouthpiece for a claim – then it means that is always to choose the cheaper option for the defendant.”

“We have no crosshairs, there is no shot noise, no weapon is present, the building does not collapse. The use of the circle follows logically from the statements which we have heard.
This shows that this game has a very clear distinction to this person shooter games. “

It was “a legitimate representation of the FPÖ opinion.”

He had already read in court records that young people say that the Koran allow them to beat classmates. Therefore: “We are Herinnes probably little affected by the issue, but people in the school farms already.”

“I can still recall the statement made ??by Mr Schakfeh (in each province a mosque with a minaret), and then came the game. This is also logical that comes this way. “

“In Switzerland, no one has thought that this is a shooting game. There was no conviction for incitement. So I do me hard here to see a purpose. “

“Quite the contrary, I find that the game title in Austria is still a bit of harmless than in Switzerland.”

“In summary, based on the grounds of acquittal.”

The prosecutor appealing the decision!

He still maintains the charge of incitement to hatred and punishment and urge imposition of a fine.

We congratulate the Styrian Provincial Gerhard Kurzmann and the Swiss advertising expert Alexander Segert to this acquittal – and make it clear:

No mosques with minarets in Austria!

Matthew Would Like To Say A Few Words.

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Tundra Tabloids posted an article recently about something that happened over in England.

My mate Martin Brennan has been staying with a fellow called Matthew Stiddard. Martin was deported from Australia officially due to a breach of visa, but seeing as Martin had never been in trouble with the police nor had any notification from DIAC about any visa irregularities, I wonder if that was really it.

That’s for another day, so we’ll leave that for now.

Matthew was interviewed by VladTepes, and I’ve also gotten to know him. He’s starting to get a bit of a profile now, and he’s concerned that there might be some misconceptions floating around with respect to his current police…. challenges… and what’s happening with the leadership of the EDL.

For the record, Matthew has never made any comment about why the police would be interested in Martin. In conversation he has made it quite clear that it’s not a path he would like to travel down.

I’ll let him speak for himself*:
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DANISH-INTERNATIONAL FREE SPEECH SOCIETY OFFERING TURBAN BOMB MO-MUGS IN SUPPORT OF KURT WESTERGAARD

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Buy em’ by the crate! KGS

The surplus for the sale goes to Kurt Westergaard and the Free Press Society.

The mug costing 50Kr. (excluding postage) can be ordered by writing to tr**********@**********ed.dk and provide name, address and the number of cups you want.

On the back of mug reads: www.Trykkefrihed.dk and www. International Free Press Society.org.

Right now it is being produced, so you must expect a delivery time of approx. two weeks. DFPS.

H/T: Henrik R.Clausen