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The Suicide of Europe
Townhall.com ^ | May 30, 2018 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 05/30/2018 5:10:59 AM PDT by Kaslin

On Friday, the British police arrested Tommy Robinson, founder and former leader of the English Defence League, a far-right anti-Islam group. Robinson is a controversial character, to be sure, a sort of Milo Yiannopoulos lite. His chief focus is on the threat of radical Islam, which he believes threatens the integrity of the British system.

You don't have to like Robinson. But whatever you think of him, his arrest is absurd by any measure. You see, Robinson was arrested for standing outside a court building and reporting on a trial involving the alleged grooming of young girls for sexual assault by radical Muslims.

Now, what would be illegal about that, you ask? It turns out that Robinson was given a suspended sentence last year for filming outside another court building, where a trial for alleged gang rape by radical Muslims was taking place. He wasn't inside the courtroom. Nonetheless, the judge believed he was somehow biasing the jurors. According to the judge, Robinson was sentenced thanks to "pejorative language which prejudges the case, and it is language and reporting ... that could have had the effect of substantially derailing the trial."

This time, Robinson was again arrested for prejudicing a case, only he wasn't inside the court building. He was outside. And the media were originally banned from reporting on his arrest so that his trial wouldn't be biased. In other words, Britain has now effectively banned reporting that actually mentions the Islamic nature of criminal defendants for fear of stirring up bigotry -- and has banned reporting on reporting on such defendants. It's an infinite regress of suicidal political correctness.

But at least the Europeans have their priorities straight: While it's perfectly legal to lock up a provocateur covering a trial involving Muslims, the European Union is now considering a ban on products like cotton buds, straws and other plastics for fear of marine litter. And just as importantly, it's now perfectly legal to kill unborn children again in Ireland, where voters -- with the help of a cheering press -- decided to lift the ban on abortions until the 20th week, condemning thousands of children to death.

This is how the West dies: with a tut-tut, not with a bang. The same civilization that sees it as a fundamental right to kill a child in the womb thinks it is utterly out of bounds to film outside a trial involving the abuse of children, so long as the defendants are radical Muslims. The Europeans have elevated the right to not be offended above the right to life; they've elevated the right to not be offended above the right to free speech, all in the name of some utopian vision of a society without standards.

Discarding those standards was supposed to make Europeans more free; it was supposed to allow Europeans to feel more comfortable. But the sad truth is that no society exists without certain standards and Europe has a new standard: enforcement of its "tolerance" via jail sentence, combined with tolerance of multiculturalism that sees tolerance itself as a Trojan horse. The notion of individual rights sprang from European soil. Now they're beginning to die there.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: crimeandpunishment; europe; judgesandcourts; tolerance
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1 posted on 05/30/2018 5:10:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The forthcoming suicide is obvious every time a White is harassed for daring to complain about the m*slims being allowed to rape and murder.


2 posted on 05/30/2018 5:18:11 AM PDT by I want the USA back (It's Ok To Be White. White Lives Matter. White Guilt is Socially Constructed)
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To: Kaslin

I must disagree with Shapiro. Well, really more with the conclusion that it’s legal to jail someone for commenting about a trial.

That might be the case in England but the article implies that it’s also the case here.

There are so many factors leading to the suicide of Europe. Banning Q-tips pales in comparison. The stupid EU privacy policy for instance. Why should we in America give a rip about it? Apparently we’re being forced to care.

How about the death panels and nhs rendering sick kids to die because they refuse to authorize care.


3 posted on 05/30/2018 5:23:30 AM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: cyclotic

I agree with you, it’s ridiculous


4 posted on 05/30/2018 5:37:28 AM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: Kaslin

“Far-Right”, “Provocateur”, my ass Shapiro. Just give it up you little punk.


5 posted on 05/30/2018 5:49:02 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Kaslin

You’re a peon union.

Submit dhimmies.


6 posted on 05/30/2018 6:01:14 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: cyclotic

Just keep in mind that Europe has a nasty habit of letting things go to “critical mass” and then looking to US to pull their bacon out of the fire.

That is what should concern us all.


7 posted on 05/30/2018 6:16:22 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: Kaslin

I disagree with the description of the rape/child-trafficking gangs in England as “radical Muslims.” They actually seem to be just ordinary Moslems, not particularly associated with terrorist or extremist groups.


8 posted on 05/30/2018 6:18:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick (I have the easiest life in the history of the world.)
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To: Kaslin

Britain has now effectively banned reporting that actually mentions the Islamic nature of criminal defendants for fear of stirring up bigotry


Actually, if you read the definition of bigotry, it is “fear of eliminating bigotry”.

He was arrested by the bigots who feared the spread of information, which is deadly to bigotry.


9 posted on 05/30/2018 6:18:42 AM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: Kaslin

“The Europeans have elevated the right to not be offended above the right to life; they’ve elevated the right to not be offended above the right to free speech, all in the name of some utopian vision of a society without standards”

Not entirely true. It depends on who is offended.


10 posted on 05/30/2018 6:23:45 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: robroys woman

He was arrested because the case he was covering involves not just the perps, but the police, bureaucrats, and pols who enabled/covered for the the perps.


11 posted on 05/30/2018 6:24:39 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

Why don’t we just let Pootie-Poot have Europe.

The Russians and EU deserve each other.


12 posted on 05/30/2018 6:25:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: The Toll

You see no sarcasm in these statements?


13 posted on 05/30/2018 6:42:05 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Kaslin
Europe has been trying to commit suicide for many years. Maybe now she will succeed.

Even those who love her are tired of saving her from herself.

14 posted on 05/30/2018 6:42:51 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump and His Supporters Are the Resistance! VIVE LA RESISTANCE! KAG!!!!!)
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To: super7man

I do, I just read it as a poor Milo imitation.


15 posted on 05/30/2018 6:47:21 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: Tax-chick

“They actually seem to be just ordinary Moslems”

Are there “ordinary Muslims” that we can trust to not hold the uncivilized beliefs of their religion?

Are “ordinary Muslims” really non-Muslims in their beliefs but afraid to publicly state that?

As a group, I don’t think Muslims are a good thing to be mixing into our citizenry.


16 posted on 05/30/2018 7:05:58 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Kaslin

Well they are committing suicide but it’s suicide by muslim.


17 posted on 05/30/2018 7:57:58 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Howie66
The US let Canada battle the Nazis two years before we got off the couch.
18 posted on 05/30/2018 8:02:28 AM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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To: Does so

You do remember just who was running our country at that time, don’t you?


19 posted on 05/30/2018 8:44:09 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: Howie66

Worse, his Vice President!


20 posted on 05/30/2018 8:47:49 AM PDT by Does so (Let's make the word Mohammedism--adding it to other ISMs...)
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