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SVT [swedish state tv] removes from SVT Play Uppdrag Granskning [assignment investigation] about Lars Vilks
An original translation by Michael Laudahn:
h/t Tundra Tabloids
From AVPIXLAT
NON-FREEDOM OF SPEECH, UPDATED: Apparently, Janne Josefsson’s documentary about Lars Vilks and his speech in the USA about his [personal] experience with the islamic threat against freedom of speech was becoming too much for SVT’s management, steered by V and MP [Moderata Samingspartiet, . Now, they have removed the video from SVT Play [SVT’s web tv].
Little doubt, the reason for it is that they were bombarded with complaints by the cultural leftists’ islam huggers, who are outraged over the fact that the video was too objective and contained to little bias and guideposts. Equally doubtless that Sweden’s moslems have made themselves heard, reporting how aggrieved they became that parts of Vilks’ speech were shown, and that his rondellhund cartoons could be seen for a short moment. In a communiqué at SVT’s forum, the company’s politbureau replies to a direct question, stating that the video has been removed, and that they have the intention to publish a new (read: censured) version later.
Unfortunately, we the editors did not anticipate this measure, something we of course should have done, knowing what type of company SVT is. We have therefore not saved the original. If any of our viewers have been more anticipating and saved the video, or know if it has been saved somewhere, then we are obviously grateful for tips about it. SVT Play / Uppdrag granskning
Update 121005 13:45:
Now it seems that the new version has been published. When time allows, we will look at it to see what has been changed/removed. Readers who saw the video when it was broadcast, or during the period where the original version was published at SVT Play, are of course welcome to tell us which changes can be stated. We have asked the editors at Uppdrag Granskning for a comment.
Western Courts Bend to Islamic Practices
Islamist Watch/PJ Media:
by David J. Rusin
PJ Media
September 28, 2012
Judges’ consideration of Shari’a when deciding cases may be the most alarming avenue by which Islam influences Western legal systems, but it is not the only one. With increasing regularity, Islamic practices sway the administration of courtrooms, affecting when sessions are held, who must rise, and what attire is permissible. This trend should not be overlooked. Courts that yield to Islamic norms, even in mundane matters, encourage Islamists and cast doubt on the future of equal rights and responsibilities under the law.
Ramadan. The Islamic month of fasting can require significant shuffling of schedules by devout Muslims, but are secular courts obligated to alter theirs? Some answer in the affirmative.
Muslim convert Mark Edward Wetsch is one recent beneficiary. Charged with robbing 13 Minnesota banks, he objected to a hearing set for July 20, 2012, the first day of Ramadan, and asked that it be pushed back for a month. Though Judge Jeanne Graham initially declined the request, he persisted. Ramadan means “not engaging in conflict and argument,” but rather taking part in “work to reconcile differences and seek peace,” according to a motion filed on his behalf. “Clearly, a contested hearing in which the government is making allegations against Mr. Wetsch and he is fighting against [them] causes him to engage in conflict and argument.” Graham relented and issued the desired continuance.
The U.S. military court that will try five al-Qaeda terrorists accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks bent to similar sensitivities this year. After turning their May 5 arraignment into a circus, the jihadists sought to postpone a hearing scheduled for the week of August 8, near the end of Ramadan. James Connell III, a government-compensated defense attorney, stressed in a filing that “the last 10 days of Ramadan commemorate the night God — Allah — revealed the Holy Quran to the Prophet Mohammed.” Hence, “these 10 days are the most holy period of the Muslim calendar and are typically observed by fasting, prayer, and seclusion.” Despite having previously ruled out Ramadan-related extensions, the judge, Colonel James Pohl, agreed to a delay. Connell was relieved: “It’s very difficult to pay attention to sometimes intricate legal proceedings when you haven’t had any sleep and you haven’t had any food.” (In one bright spot, Pohl rebuffed a petition not to hold hearings on Fridays, the day of communal Islamic prayers.)
Geller Agonistes—Truth in Advertising About the Jihad Against Israel
Andrew Bostom:
Even the NY Times [2] seemed revolted by the glorification of the August 9, 2001 Jerusalem Sbarro Restaurant homicide bombing carnage—an act of jihad terrorism committed by Hamas—“re-created” the next month with ghoulish joy, in a Palestinian Muslim exhibit whose entrance (complete with replicated Sbarro sign) is depicted in the photo above.
The September 26, 2001 Times report [2] included these grisly details:
Created by a student faction of Hamas…The most contentious section is a mock-up of the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem where 15 people were killed in a suicide attack in August including not only gnawed pizza crusts but bloody plastic body parts suspended from the ceiling as if they were blasting through the air
Geert Wilders may well have his visa denied to enter Australia.
Watch some of the Sydney riot videos after or before you watch this one and consider who the Australians do give visas too presumably without too much difficulty.
If the Ozzies deny Geert a visa, it will signal surrender to the most vile, the most illiberal, the most anti feminist and anti equality forces in the world. It will be a genuine modern tragedy. One that Shakespear could not have written about. Becuase he himself would be silenced by fatwa or death.
Subway tracks robber caught in Sweden. No mention of his name in any article.
We posted videos of the cold hearted robery of a man who had fallen down drunk on the railway tracks and left to die. Now Swedish media has lots of stories about his arrest but his name is carefully concealed. I would be willing to bed odds though that I know what at least one of his names is.
Hint: ‘Golden Arches’
H/T Don L
Global Post: (also has video)
Video of the arrest of the man, carefully sanitized.
Banning the cross at work is an ‘attack’ on the Christian faith
I would like to thank EDL Buck, Fjordman, Hermes, Michael Laudahn, and many many more people who are kind enough to send me important news links each day, and who I do not mention or thank often enough. Thank you very much.
From Public Service Europe
by Nigel Farage
05 September 2012
If the right of employers to forbid such acts of expression as wearing a cross at work is upheld, where will it end – asks United Kingdom Independence Party leader
The case of four Christians who have taken cases to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has provided us with one of the most extraordinary sights: that of Counsel for the United Kingdom attacking the right of people to wear an outward assertion of their faith at work. Nadia Eweida, a British Airways worker from Twickenham in south west London, was sent home in 2006 after refusing to remove a necklace with a cross or hide it from view.
An employment tribunal ruled Eweida, a Coptic Christian originally from Egypt, had not suffered religious discrimination but the airline changed its uniform policy after the case to allow all religious symbols, including crosses. Nurse Shirley Chaplin, from Exeter, was moved to a paperwork role by the Royal Devon and Exeter National Health Service Trust, in Devon, after refusing to remove a necklace bearing a crucifix.
People in these islands have been wearing crosses to evince their faith on and off since the third century AD, when Christianity was first practised here in Roman times. Though some wear a cross as an accessory, to the vast majority of those who wear a modest crucifix either around the neck or as a lapel badge – it is no more than a small and discreet statement to the world that the wearer is a practising Christian. For those of faith and those of no faith, it is part and parcel of our British culture and as such part of the fabric of the British nation.
In reality, it is no more and no less than the exercise of the right of freedom of expression. If the right of employers to forbid such acts of expression is upheld, where will it end? Will it be in order to forbid those who wear charity wristbands from such a display? Will employees wearing lapel pins indicating membership of, say, a political party or a trades union – or their former regiment – be similarly forbidden? Yet, now wearing a crucifix is to become the object of state intolerance.
Fascinating lecture by the film maker who made the Obama film.
Meet Bob. He is a racist!
H/T EDL Buck
Canada and Islam: One law for thee, another for me
“Obama deeply concerned” about what it calls a “politically-motivated prosecution,” (re Pussy Riot)
I wonder if a punk band broke into a mosque uninvited and started singing punk songs about how awful Islam is, even if they told the absolute verbatim truth about Mohamed and so on, and also included how pissed off they where at the Obama administration for its complicity in being the single biggest force for the reduction of freedom and safety for all non-Muslim groups in the world, again, arguably very true, and had many of their supporters also enter the mosque and trash the place up during the performance, would Obama make sure that no prosecution took place?
Or would he label it terrorism and go public with how horrible these peoples actions where and apologize to Muslims till the crease in his pants faded a tiny bit around the knee.
I think we all know the answer. And frankly, I gotta go with Putin on this one.
Check this account of the actions of these women. Video of the attack, (and attack it was as one cannot call it a performance when it was not asked for, and specifically not wanted) below.
US Marine arrested, allegedly for his “patriotic facebook posts”. ***But actually because his FB page is psychotic***
New information is that his facebook page genuinely does show material that should be of concern to authorities in some ways. This person likely needs a psychiatric evaluation if indeed one can be justified at all in the interests of preventing a mass killing as we have seen recently. I think it is important to look at this incident in the light of what his facebook page did say, which from what I have been told would be a red light to anyone.
In the light of free speech absolutism it should still not be grounds for arrest. But a psych eval doesn’t sound like such a bad idea.
I will likely delete this post in the next 24 hours.
Eeyore.
I don’t know what, if there is one, the back story is. Based on the Obama administrations cooperation with the Istanbul process and their willingness to use punitive measures against Americans who insult Islam (see Rev Jones) it would not surprise me if this is as advertised.
U.S. keeping tabs on Myanmar violence
H/T Michael Laudahn:
No selective enforcement here at all. None whatsoever.
Think there will be any US demands to allow churches in Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan?
Didn’t think so.
UPI.Com
Published: Aug. 9, 2012 at 3:36 PM
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) — All parties to violence in Myanmar are called on to uphold the basic principles of religious tolerance, a U.S. State Department official said.
Washington in July dispatched Farah Pandith, special envoy to Muslim communities, to Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, to meet with leaders from religious and ethnic groups in the region.
“She discussed areas for cooperation with Muslim communities in Burma, including education, rule of law, and economic opportunity, with a particular focus on young people,” the State Department said in a briefing on her visit.
A youngster punches a police officer’s face four times: Case closed!
DHNet.Be:
Alil does not yet have the habit to ‘beat police officers’!
A youngster punches four times into a police officer’s face: file closed!
Brussels: Alil, 23, has beaten, free of charge, a police officer: He has been acquitted, without any consequences, by the Brussels prosecutor’s office.
Last thursday, around 11 in the morning, Alil rides on his 50 cc moped a one-way street in the wrong direction – Gineststraat, Sint-Joost-ten-Noode towards Sint-Lazarusplaats -, suddenly facing a vehicle. The driver, a 37-year old police officer [apparently in plain clothes] of the Nord [police] zone, prepares to follow his duties. Alil immediately insults the cop – who himself drives in the right direction… ‘You wanted to kill me, dirty son of a bitch. You were trying to drive over me, dirty son of a bitch…’
The officer keeps his cool, responding that it’s he who rides in the wrong direction, that it’s he who rides like a madman, and that it’s he who is wrong. Alil, identifying his victim as a police officer: ‘You are a cop?!’
The officer confirms that Alil’s insight is correct and glances at the rear end of his scooter, hoping to see his licence plate. ‘No chance, there’s no licence plate, but I will stop’, Alil scorns him. The youngster dismounts his moped, resuming the situation the way he perceives it: ‘You don’t even wear a uniform, you have nothing to tell me, you wanted to kill me…’
So the cop tries to call reinforcements, but Alil decides not to wait endlessly. When the officer puts his hand on his forearm, to make him understand to wait for the reinforcements’ arrival, he receives three punches in his face.
As usual, a crowd has formed: The curious crowd demand that Alil ‘calm down’ and that the officer ‘let him go’…
Suddenly Alil realises that he is in the middle of ramadan: ‘You’ve also broken my ramadan, dirty son of a bitch’, he shouts at the officer, while giving him a fourth punch right into his face.
Put at the discretion of the Brussels’ prosecutor’s office, his file was closed within 48 hours. An convenience decision motivated by the absence of previous criminal records on part of the youngster
[Translator: wouldn’t this have been a chance to start with them?]
Put differently, no consequences because Alil doesn’t have the habitude to beat! The officer himself has been put on a six-days sick leave.
Pensioner ranted at police as race row got heated
Worcesternews:
5:00pm Thursday 9th August 2012 in News
Pensioner ranted at police as race row got heatedA PENSIONER who claimed he had been the victim of racist abuse ranted at police because he believed his complaint was not taken seriously because he was white.
Retired mental health social worker James Evans, of Bath Road, Worcester, admitted a section five public order when he appeared before a district judge at Worcester Magistrates Court .
The court heard how the 65-year-old shouted at staff at Worcester police station where he was attempting to report what he believed was an offence against him at around 11am on July 25.
Sam Webley, prosecuting, said Evans became agitated at having to wait and accused one of the counter staff of being incompetent.
A constable asked Evans to calm down and not be abusive to counter staff.
Mrs Webley said: “He is described as red in the face and asked for the PC’s badge number. He said he was being asked to wait like a little dog.” He was arrested and taken to the custody suite where he continued to be abusive. “He said: ‘If I was Asian this wouldn’t have happened,’” said Mrs Webley.
Evans, who represented himself, told the court that he had been distressed at the time and was concerned that the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon people of Britain are completely erased from any considerations of race.
“I went to ask an Asian chap if he would mind moving his car because we couldn’t see to get out of our drive,” said Evans.
“I was met with a tirade of abuse and was told that you whites had better watch your step. I felt really betrayed and distressed. “I know from my experience as a social worker that had my actions been by an Asian person or by any other racial group but my own they would have been taken more seriously and treated in a completely different way.”