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Europe's New Blasphemy Courts
Gatestone Institute ^ | 4/11/16 | Douglas Murray

Posted on 11/04/2016 3:14:07 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

Europe is currently seeing the reintroduction of blasphemy laws through both the front and back doors. In Britain, the gymnast Louis Smith has just been suspended for two months by British Gymnastics. This 27-year old sportsman's career has been put on hold, and potentially ruined, not because of anything to do with athletics but because of something to do with Islam.

Last month a video emerged online of the four-time Olympic medal-winner and a friend getting up to drunken antics after a wedding. The video -- taken on Smith's phone in the early hours of the morning -- showed a friend taking a rug off a wall and doing an imitation of Islamic prayer rituals. ...

...warrant a removal of funding and a two-month ban from sport. This is the re-entry of blasphemy laws through the back door, where newspapers, daytime chat-shows and sports authorities decide between them that one religion is worthy of particular protection. They do so because they take the religion of Islam uniquely on its own estimation and believe, as well as fear, the warnings of the Islamic blasphemy-police worldwide.

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But it seems that the Dutch legal system, like the Mounties, is intent on always getting its man. On Monday of this week the latest trial of Geert Wilders got underway in Holland. This time Wilders is being tried because of a statement at a rally in front of his supporters in March 2014. Ahead of municipal elections, and following reports of a disproportionate amount of crimes being committed in Holland by Muslims of Moroccan origin, Wilders asked a crowd, "Do you want more or fewer Moroccans in this city and in the Netherlands?" The audience responded, "Fewer, fewer." To which Wilders responded, "Well, we'll arrange that, then."

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(Excerpt) Read more at gatestoneinstitute.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blasphemy; criminalization; holland; pc
As stated in a previous thread, suppressing legitimate nationalistic sentiment ultimately will lead to the revival of fascism, when the backlash hits.
1 posted on 11/04/2016 3:14:07 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

And all to protect moslems’ delicate feelings - as they disassemble centuries of Western culture.

These idiots are committing national suicide.


2 posted on 11/04/2016 3:28:48 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Eleutheria5

It can, unless there is a white knight like America’s Donald Trump. It would take some subtlety to get that white knight into place in some situations. Maybe it wasn’t time for Wilders to press the “more or less Moroccans” question, but something like “more or less Dutch.” Still wouldn’t it be a hoot for Wilders to get propelled into power after being “convicted” in an ultimate “Fooey on You-ey” move of the Dutch.


3 posted on 11/04/2016 3:30:03 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Jack Hammer

That’s called “being generous to a fault.” The trick is to know where the fault is, and stop at that point. We’ll make a deep sacrifce to help anyone who can legitimately benefit from it to become a good member of society, but we will never, ever be doormats to get imperious feet wiped on us.


4 posted on 11/04/2016 3:33:25 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

America is extremely fortunate to have Donald as presumptive victorious white knight. Hopefully, Wilders will develop into something similar.


5 posted on 11/04/2016 3:55:10 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Jack Hammer

The more you tiptoe around their bloody feelings, the easier they are offended. They start out with black powder feelings, and with enough sensitivity, they become cordite, then mercury fulminate, then finally, when you couldn’t possibly be more sensitive, to nitroglycerin. Better to just plain stomp on them occasionally while they’re still at black powder. At least then they might respect you.


6 posted on 11/04/2016 3:58:38 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

I dare venture to say it would be a positive blessing — and it’s poised to herald blessings around the world. The left will view it as going backward.

Donald is magnanimous, but magnanimous isn’t blind. It has to guard a space in which to BE magnanimous.

We are wise to beseech the good Lord, in whatever ways that we can, to grant such a blessing, and then to be minded to use this blessing as a basis to do things that will glorify the good Lord.


7 posted on 11/04/2016 4:02:48 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Eleutheria5

That’s because it’s a crude domination game that they are playing — not a game of how we can manage to all get along to the reasonable satisfaction of one another’s legitimate interest.


8 posted on 11/04/2016 4:05:23 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Y-y-you mean they’re practicing (GASP! ORGAN CHORD! HYPERVENTILATION!) Taqiya and demandin’ they Jiziya from da dhimmis with their Jimmies, and the useful idiots?


9 posted on 11/04/2016 4:33:29 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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10 posted on 11/04/2016 5:17:11 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Is that what a European looks like nowadays? Why not just write on his mouth: “Insert here. Will felate for piece.”?


11 posted on 11/04/2016 6:09:56 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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