Islam and the Left's Assault on Free Speech - Robert Spencer

Twenty years ago, Andres Serrano put a plastic crucifix in a glass of urine, photographed it and called it art. Conservatives in particular weren't pleased: not with Mr. Serrano, not with his picture, and not with the National Endowment for the Arts, which had forked over $15,000 in taxpayer money to support this uretic gesture.

This anniversary comes to mind following the British government's decision last week to ban Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders from British soil as an "undesirable person." Mr. Wilders is also being prosecuted for hate speech in his native Holland, where he faces up to 16 months in prison if convicted. His alleged crime involves making a short film called "Fitna," which draws a straight line between Quranic verses and acts of Islamist terror. Mr. Wilders has also called for banning the Quran, which he labels a "fascist book" on a par with Hitler's "Mein Kampf."

Whatever else might be said about Mr. Wilders's travel ban and prosecution, it helps put into context the events of 1989. In the case of Mr. Serrano, liberal Americans went into a lather about defending his rights to artistic expression and freedom of speech against the parochial leaders of the religious right, men like Jesse Helms and Pat Robertson. Never mind that the worst of their threats involved withholding public funding; fundamental things were said to be at stake.

What's remarkable is that his most serious detractors -- those that aren't themselves Islamists or spokesmen for supposedly mainstream Muslim organizations -- tend to fall to the political left. In Holland, leaders of both the Socialist and Labor parties support the prosecution. In Britain, it's the Labour government of Gordon Brown that has enforced the travel ban. In Germany, the leftish Der Spiegel calls Mr. Wilders "pushy" and accuses him of making "hate-filled tirades." Elsewhere he is described as a "racist," an "Islamophobe," and so on.

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[1001Phoenix]

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[RonaldDumbsfeld]

Geert Wilders was invited to the UK by a member of the British Parliament. Then he was hassled by unelected government officials who feared reprisals by Muslims, many of whom made threats in public.

[RonaldDumbsfeld]

The First Amendment protects so-called hate speech. The American Nazi Party and the KKK are permitted to hold public demonstrations where they spew anti-Semitism and racist hatred. I have also heard radical Muslims express the support for the attack at Fort Hood (94th St. in NYC).

When these idiots exercise their freedumb of speech they alienate rather than influence rational people.

[madsmadser]

Antisemitism and incitement to murder of unbelievers are common on TV channels in Muslim countries, so how dare they try to teach us how to behave?

[machuavel2]

that fifth collumn is the left

[machuavel2]

There is a fifth collumn within the western world that is helping to distruct the basic values of our society.

[ThePe3W3e86]

fuck islam

[you4080]

islam is the NWO's one world religion, that is why obama favors islam, it is the favorite of dictators!!! obama the destroyer!!!

[LibertaerUeberAlles]

Jewish supremacist organizations have been lobbying for anti-free speech and "hate crimes" laws for many decades. The Mathew Sheppard Act is their most recent work. In Europe, historians and scientists are routinely imprisoned for questioning the veracity of claims regarding what Jews refer to as their "holocaust."

You can find plenty of documentaries on YouTube detailing Jewish extremism and its war against free speech in western countries.

[ganzobenstehn]

@RonaldDumbsfeld All right! Thank you.

[RonaldDumbsfeld]

ganzobenstehn:

Geert Wilders was invited to the UK by Members of Parliament last year. Wilders was then banned from the UK by Jacqui Smith the home secretary who said his presence had the potential to "threaten community harmony and therefore public safety".

Wilders got the ban overturned and appeared screened his film "Fitna" for the House of Lords last March.

[ganzobenstehn]

@RonaldDumbsfeld I thought Wilders weren´t allowed in the UK?