Accomplishing these (UN) tasks would require Soviet levels of governmentcontrol…countries would be obligated to enforce on their mediathe requirement that Muslims be depicted in a certain way… speechwould have to be monitored to determine whether it was defamatory.
As most of you already know, Geert Wilders is about to be prosecuted for incitement due to his “hate speech” as expressed in Fitna and various statements concerning the Islamization of the Netherlands.
Mr. Wilders is far from the first Westerner to be slapped down fordaring to speak out against Islam. The list of people investigated — orintimidated, or hauled out of bed by the police, or tried, convicted,and fined (and in the case of Susanne Winter, sentenced to jail time) —has grown so long that I can’t easily recapitulate it here.
So far the countries that have cracked down on so-called “racist Islamophobic” speech include:
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Finland
- France
- Sweden
- The United Kingdom
And these are the ones who have merely targeted speech. If youinclude assault on the freedom of assembly, Germany and other countrieswould have to be added to the list.
And these are among the exemplars of the “Free World”, countries inwhich human rights are paramount, and the right to free speech iswritten into their constitutions.
How could this happen? What is causing an iron curtain of repression to descend across the Western world?
A large part of the explanation lies in the soft totalitarianism ofthe European Union, but that can’t account for it all of it, sinceCanada and Australia are included in this roster of infamy.
The ultimate source of all this mischief is the UN, or to be moreprecise, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) workingthrough its compliant mouthpiece, the United Nations.
And, now that Barack Hussein Obama has ascended the throne of TheCountry Formerly Known as the United States of America, the USA willrush to join its enlightened brethren in Europe and crack down onIslamophobia.