{"id":180,"date":"2008-08-13T20:02:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T00:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/08\/13\/muslims-v-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T23:02:28","slug":"muslims-v-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/muslims-v-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims v. Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muslims are taking time out from murdering their daughters<\/a> and raping women<\/a> for reading the bible to attack one of our most cherished principles: Free Speech.<\/p>\n

In 2006 Mark Steyn published an article<\/a> pointing out that while civilized people are breeding at less than the replacement rate, fundy Muslims are breeding like hamsters. His conclusion: The future belongs to Islam.<\/p>\n

As a result he faced two <\/em>trials for “hate speech.”<\/p>\n

The first one, brought up with the Ontario Human Rights Commission, was thrown out on narrow technical grounds, so the complainants shopped it to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. There Steyn was put on trial for having an opinion and daring to express it.<\/p>\n

The trial was a sham, and Steyn refused to cooperate and defend himself. The judges allowed things written by other people to be introduced into evidence. They whined that he hadn’t included opposing points of view in his article.<\/p>\n

Surprisingly, he was acquitted.<\/p>\n

The real result of this kind of injustice is the chilling effect it has on writers. If I were living in Canada I would think twice about publishing this blog post. With legal fees, winning such a case could be almost as disastrous as losing it.<\/p>\n

This kind of injustice is becoming prevalent in the Western world. In France former sex kitten Brigitte Bardot was recently fined<\/a> 15,000 euros ($23,760) for stating the fact that the the resident Muslim community was “destroying our country and imposing its acts.” It was so nice of the French government to prove her point for her.<\/p>\n

I’ve given up trying to distinguish between so-called moderate Muslims and the fundies. It is quite evident that the fundies are driving the religion, and they are not a tiny minority, as the left would have us believe. In a recent study<\/a> of British Muslim students a third of them espoused violence to support Islam, and forty percent want to force all of us to live under sharia law.<\/p>\n

The more I see of Islam in action, the more it becomes apparent that it’s incompatible with everything we consider important. It is incompatible with free speech. It is incompatible with women’s rights. It is incompatible with racial harmony. It is incompatible with democracy. It is incompatible with tolerance of different beliefs. It is incompatible with civil rights. It is incompatible with human rights. It is incompatible with civilization.<\/em><\/p>\n

Barbarians have taken down civilizations before. They can do it from the outside, with violence and threats, and they can do it from the inside using our own laws and tolerance against us. We need to wake up fast and stop giving into them on everything, even things that may seem trivial<\/a>. Every time we acquiesce we come one step closer to their goal of shira law for us all.<\/p>\n

Further Reading:<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal on Islam and Free Speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark’s Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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