Spencer: Free Speech Dies at the UN
JIHAD WATCH: The war against free speech is advancing rapidly: Associated Press reported Thursday that “Muslim countries have won a battle to prevent Islam from being criticised during debates by the UN Human Rights Council.” Council President Doru-Romulus Costea explained that religious issues can be “very complex, very sensitive and very intense…This council is not prepared to discuss religious matters in depth, consequently we should not do it.” Henceforth only religious scholars would be permitted to broach them.

“While Costea’s ban applies to all religions,” AP explained, “it was prompted by Muslim countries complaining about references to Islam.” The ban came after a heated session on Monday, when the representative of the Association for World Education (AWE), in a joint statement with the International Humanist and Ethical Union, denounced female genital mutilation, the penalty of stoning for adultery and child marriage as sanctioned by Islamic law. Egypt, Pakistan and Iran angrily protested, interrupting the AWE speaker, David Littman, with no less than 16 points of order, and succeeding in getting the Council’s proceedings suspended for over half an hour. In the course of this contentious discussion, the representatives from the Islamic countries made numerous revealing statements – statements that are well worth examining as Islamic nations and organizations call with increasing insistence for restrictions on free speech in the West. Free Speech Dies at the UN >>> By Robert Spencer | | June 25, 2008

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The End of Free Speech
DAILYNEWSRECORDOnline: A frightening “hate crimes” trial in Canada offers Americans a look at the future of the First Amendment if Muslim immigration to this country continues unabated. Conservative writer Mark Steyn, it seems, “offended” the Muslims in British Columbia, and now not only the Muslims but also the Canadian diversity police want their pound of flesh.

Steyn’s ongoing legal battle began in 2006, when Macleans magazine published an excerpt of his book, “America Alone.” The excerpt, “The Future Belongs To Islam” said nothing that anyone who reads the newspapers doesn’t know: Islam is conquering Europe. But it was “offensive” because it stated exactly that.

Europe, Mr. Steyn wrote, is dying. The Christian faith is waning. Birth rates have collapsed. His reasonable conclusion is that the growing and angry Islamic horde in Europe is preparing the ground for violence, and, indeed, jihad: Aging Europeans, he wrote, are “being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic. … [A]t the very minimum, this fast-moving demographic transformation provides a huge comfort zone for the jihad to move around in.” The End of Free Speech: Canadian Case an Omen for America >>> Editorial | June 21, 2008

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