Archive for the ‘Freedom of Expression’ Category

Why Russia Today? Because the Western mainstream media don’t want you to know that he is articulate, intelligent and bang on the money about the threat of Islam to Europe and the rest of the civilised world. They don’t want you to know because his increasing power and influence is scaring them to death.

The fact that the interview was conducted fairly and without the usual barracking, interruptions and bias, should be perhaps taken on board by certain, self-interested ‘its all about me’ journalists here, too..

Once again, Pat Condell eloquently voices what everyone else is thinking. Or would be thinking, if this trial weren’t being ignored by much of the European mainstream media.

Freedom fighter: Wildeers in court yesterday, as show-trial judges barred 15 out of 18 requested witnesses and decreed that the witesses they did allow would be heard in secret

The killer of Theo van Gogh and 14 of the other witnesses anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders wanted to call in his defence against charges of discrimination and inciting hatred have been ruled inadmissible by Amsterdam district court.

But three Islam experts proposed by Wilders will be heard behind closed doors, the judges said on Wednesday afternoon. They include American Syrian psychiatrist Wafa Sultan who believes the world is witness to ‘a battle between modernity and barbarism which Islam will lose’.

The court also turned down Wilders’ request to hear five legal experts on the grounds that the MP will have ample opportunity to say whether or not he agrees with them during the trial. He had wanted to call 18 experts and Muslim radicals. Read the rest of this entry »

Study shows Britons becoming increasingly fed up with the Islamisation of their country

Are people in the UK becoming ‘intolerant or bigoted’? Or is is that are they just beginning to catch on to the tricks of the multiculturalists and enablers of Islamisation?

More than half the population would be strongly opposed to a mosque being built in their neighbourhood, the study found.

A large proportion of the country believes that the multicultural experiment has failed, with 52 per cent considering that Britain is deeply divided along religious lines and 45 per cent saying that religious diversity has had a negative impact.

Only a quarter of Britons feel positive towards Muslims, while more than a third report feeling “cool” towards them.
The findings, to be published later this month in the respected British Social Attitudes Survey, show that far greater opposition to Islam than to any other faith and reveal that most people are willing to limit freedom of speech in an attempt to silence religious extremists. Read the rest of this entry »

Winds of change? Anti-Israel attitudes in Turkey, long unique among Muslim countries for its normalised relations with Israel, are on the rise.

..as Kemal Atatürk’s vision of a secular, West-facing Turkey is steadily dismantled by the AK Party Government:

Although Turks identify themselves as religiously tolerant, they do not behave that way in practice, according to a survey. There has been an increase in the number of people identifying themselves as religious since 1999, which might be related to the political atmosphere in Turkey, an academic says

Turkish people strongly identify themselves as religious and also regard religion as a source of tolerance. But when it comes to religious worship, a significant number are not as tolerant of people from other religions, concludes a survey released Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »

1957-2004: Dutch Artist and Film-maker Theo Van Gogh, murdered in the street for criticising Islam

It was 5 years ago yesterday that Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh was shot and stabbed by a Muslim in Amsterdam, for ‘offending Islam’:

The Dutch marked the fifth anniversary Monday of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim fanatic, a brutal killing that continues to shape politics in the Netherlands.

Van Gogh, a distant relative of the famous painter, was shot and stabbed on an Amsterdam street Nov. 2, 2004, setting off a spate of mosque burnings in a country once renowned for its tolerance. Read the rest of this entry »

From the Undhimmi You Tube Channel via Sky News (note the small-but-repellent protest group from Anjem Choudary’s Islam4UK, towards the end of the clip).

Geert Wlders: Dutch MP and leader of the Netherlands' most popular political party

If only any of our politicians had this much courage and integrity. Read this then see his controversial film ‘Fitna’ here (bottom of page):

Geert Wilders [has arrived in] Britain today after a Government ban, which stopped him entering the country in February, was overturned.

The Netherlands’ Party for Freedom (PVV) leader had intended to show his short film Fitna – which urges Muslims to tear out “hate-filled” verses from the Koran – to the House of Lords.

But then home secretary Jacqui Smith made him turn back after arriving at Heathrow because his presence could “threaten community harmony and therefore public safety”. Read the rest of this entry »