Posted on 11/07/2020 6:22:08 PM PST by marshmallow
Moscow, November 5, Interfax - A ban on insulting the feelings of the faithful should be enshrined in international law, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
At his meeting with representatives from religious organizations on the National Unity Day on Wednesday, one attendee, Ismail Berdiyev, head of the North Caucasus Muslims' Coordinating Center, suggested that the president present to the UN Security Council an idea that all countries introduce a law making it unacceptable to offend religious feelings.
"It is a good proposal. I don't understand, who could be against a ban on insulting the feelings of the faithful in any form. We need to think about it, I will definitely instruct the Foreign Ministry," Putin said.
"This needs to be thought through. As you understand, our initiatives do not always pass international platforms. Although some really prompt quite a big positive reaction, in this particular instance, on the part of UN members," he added.
Stupid idea. Okay, I think we should be respectful but where does one draw the line? Islamic cult okay? Islamic Terrorism?
Does that include the feelings of a Christian baker when asked to bake a cake for a Gay wedding?
What about insulting the Prophet Marx?
I’m shocked by this.
He is supporting the Russian Church so much (i don’t know if it’s for selfish or spiritual reasons).
He MUST know this will only apply to Christians and Jews.
And muslims are a threat to Russia.
This one confounds me
Putin is an atheist, I put no weight on this nonsense at all.
Are you f-ing kidding me?!
While I’d like fewer people insulting Christianity I’m not about to say there should be a worldwide ban on it.
An Anti-Free Speech Conference in Greensboro
11/4/2019, 9:40:10 AM · by karpov · 9 replies
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | November 4, 2019 | Branson Inscore
Scholars gathered October 24 and 25 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to discuss free speech—and focused on its alleged pernicious effects. The takeaway was that the problem is not enough free speech in public, but too much free speech in public. The conference, “Finding Expression in Contested Public Spaces,” featured a keynote address and seven panels of scholars who presented their research and gave their thoughts on free speech. Keynote speaker Eric King Watts, an associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, opened the event with a speech entitled, “Tribalism, Voicelessness, and the Problem of Free Speech.” “There is...
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Washington Post ^ | October 29, 2019 | Richard Stengel
When I was a journalist, I loved Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s assertion that the Constitution and the First Amendment are not just about protecting “free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.” But as a government official traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech, I came to see how our First Amendment standard is an outlier. Even the most sophisticated Arab diplomats that I dealt with did not understand why the First Amendment allows someone to burn a Koran. Why, they asked me, would you ever want to...
The Left’s Dangerous Assault on Free Speech
10/25/2019, 10:57:26 PM · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 9 replies
The Daily Signal ^ | October 24, 2019 | Arthur Milikh
Strange days, indeed, when America’s free press opposes free speech. “Free speech is killing us,” headlined a New York Times op-ed. Its author, New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz, argued that “hate speech” leads to violence. Worse, he claims it can cause totalitarianism and even genocide. To avoid this fate, Marantz says we must rethink the First Amendment, which would include government and private companies striving to limit “hate speech.” He agrees with a former American Civil Liberties Union official that one day in the not-so-distant future, legal “protection of hate speech” will “seem ridiculous in retrospect.” Some governments have...
UN Plots War on Free Speech to Stop “Extremism” Online [End of Free Speech as we Know It]
5/27/2016, 4:05:10 PM · by Jan_Sobieski · 33 replies
The New American ^ | 5/14/2016 | Alex Newman
The United Nations Security Council wants a global “framework” for censoring the Internet, as well as for using government propaganda to “counter” what its apparatchiks call “online propaganda,” “hateful ideologies,” and “digital terrorism.” To that end, the UN Security Council this week ordered the UN “Counter-Terrorism Committee” — yes, that is a real bureaucracy — to draw up a plan by next year. From the Obama administration to the brutal Communist Chinese regime, everybody agreed that it was time for a UN-led crackdown on freedom of speech and thought online — all under the guise of fighting the transparently bogus...
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5/13/2010, 11:26:52 PM · by Fight4Freedom1 · 15 replies · 834+ views
Canada Free Press ^ | 5/13/2010
This is truly one of the most troubling news stories I have come across since President Obama took office, and that says a lot from my point of view. I have tried to warn people in general, but Christian in particular about the evil fruit that Liberalism cannot but produce. We may be about to witness this on a global scale as President Obama will have the United States join the United Nations backed Alliance of Civilizations. From the Associated Press: “The Obama administration is preparing to join an international advisory group that the U.S. has largely shunned due to...
Italian Town to Issue €400 Blasphemy Fines
7/30/2019, 4:17:50 PM · by Kriggerel · 19 replies
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | July 26 2019 | Josephine McKenna
The city council of Saonara, a town with 10,000 inhabitants just outside Padua, has introduced a new law making it illegal “to blaspheme against any faith or religion” and utter foul language in public.
France has turned into one of the worldwide threats to free speech
7/6/2019, 11:12:39 AM · by yesthatjallen · 26 replies
The Hill ^ | 07/06/19 | Jonathan Turley
Just over a year ago, French President Emmanuel Macron came to the United States to import two different species to Washington. One was a French oak tree and the other was a crackdown on free speech. Ironically, soon after the tree was planted, officials quickly dug it up to send it to quarantine. However, the more dangerous species was his acorn of speech controls, a proposal that resulted in rapturous applause from our clueless politicians. Ultimately, the tree died and the acorn has not fared much better. While our politicians may applaud Macron like village idiots, most Americans are hardcore...
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2/28/2019, 5:42:00 AM · by Nextrush · 19 replies
Nextrush Free ^ | 2/27/2019 | Nextrush/Self
“You can see the lengths they go to silence us all. They’re not just censoring me. they’re censoring you. They’re censoring you from the ability to make up your own mind whether you agree with me or not....” TOMMY ROBINSON ‘YOU TUBE’ VIDEO AFTER HIS REMOVAL FROM FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM 2/27/2019 “....high-level pressure is growing for the official adoption of this definition of something called ‘Islamophobia’ in this country...Once they can get the police to accept this, then any criticisms of Islam will become risky, quite possibly a ‘hate crime’. This is absurd. Islam is a set of political opinions,...
Google Approves App For Muslims To Report People Who Commit Blasphemy
12/9/2018, 10:40:07 PM · by MNDude · 72 replies
Big league politics ^
A new Android app has launched with the focus of allowing Muslims to report individuals who commit blasphemy, or insult Islam. No, this is not a joke. The app, “Smart Pakem”, which launched in Indonesia last month at the request of the Indonesian government, will allow users and government officials to uphold Sharia law and target and report people who hold “misguided” beliefs in violation of Islamic law, which forbids insults of Islam, insults against the Prophet Mohammed, or the recognition of any other religion besides Islam.
CAIR Slapped With Investigative Subpoenas Over Coordinating With San Diego Schools
3/16/2018, 8:03:04 PM · by Roman_War_Criminal · 13 replies
Daily Caller ^ | 3/15/18 | Andrew Kerr
Pressure is mounting against the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for its controversial partnership with the San Diego Unified School District in developing an anti-Islamophobia bullying initiative that was enacted last April. Investigative subpoenas were issued Wednesday afternoon to CAIR’s chapter in California that seek all communications and documents concerning its involvement in creating the allegedly unconstitutional initiative. CAIR-California will need to produce the documents within 10 days, or it risks facing legal penalties for being held in contempt of court, according to the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF), a religious liberty group that issued the subpoenas.
Obama’s DOJ Sharia Offensive: Social Media Posts Trashing Muslims May Violate Civil Rights
5/31/2013, 10:34:02 AM · by Perseverando · 18 replies
Atlas Shrugs ^ | May 31, 2013 | Pamela Geller
How is this any different than Islamic law in, say, Turkey (Obama’s favorite and most trusted ally)? In October, 43-year-old Fazil Say went on trial in Turkey for “denigrating” Islam for a series of tweets earlier that year. In one of his messages he had retweeted a verse from a poem by Omar Khayyám, in which the 11th-century Persian poet attacks pious hypocrisy. This is the same thing. If the DoJ pursued the vicious, offensive, racist, antisemitic tweets directed at me (and others) by Muslims and leftists, they would be pursuing little else. But they wouldn’t and they shouldn’t. Note...
Video: Robert Spencer on Newsmax’: FBI Wanted Pamela Geller and Me Dead in Garland Jihad Attack
3/29/2017, 9:16:55 PM · by Titus-Maximus · 37 replies
Jihad Watch ^ | March 28, 2017 | Robert Spencer
VIDEO (Robert Spencer discusses FBI foreknowledge and physical presence at Garland TX terrorist attack at the Draw Muhammad contest.) Video: Robert Spencer on Newsmax’s Malzberg: FBI Wanted Pamela Geller and Me Dead in Garland Jihad Attack MARCH 28, 2017 4:21 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER 54 COMMENTS On Newsmax’s Malzberg show today, I discuss how the FBI knew of the Garland jihad plot beforehand, and not only did nothing to stop it, but actively encouraged it. I explain in more detail... Although we were co-organizers of the event, neither Pamela Geller nor I appear, except in one still photo, in this...
Court: Residents Can’t Mention “Islam” or “Muslim” At Public Hearing on Mosque Construction
8/9/2017, 9:31:05 PM · by marshmallow · 46 replies
Thomas More Law Center ^ | 8/1/17
ANN ARBOR, MI – In a settlement agreement, which reads more like an instrument of surrender, Bernards Township (“Township”), New Jersey officials agreed that, in addition to a $3.5 million payment to Islamic Society of Basking Ridge (“ISBR”), residents and citizens of the Township are prohibited from commenting on “Islam” or “Muslims.” at the upcoming public hearing to approve the settlement. Astonishingly, a federal judge approved the prohibition as a fully enforceable Order of the Court. As a result of this suppression of speech, the Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor,...
Now Western media face wrath of Islamic blasphemy laws
8/3/2017, 10:00:03 AM · by Ray76 · 20 replies
WND ^ | Aug 1, 2017 | Leo Hohmann
A group of international Islamist organizations led by the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC, recently held a two-day conference on countering “Islamophobia” in which it recommends imposing Islamic blasphemy laws on the media worldwide. Under Islamic law, it is considered a serious offense to criticize Allah, Muhammad or Islam. In countries like Pakistan, a Muslim can take a non-Muslim to court and claim he was “offended” by something that was said, resulting in a trial and jail time, even death, for the non-Muslim. But the OIC, which consists of 57 Muslim-majority countries and boasts the largest voting bloc...
Google Manipulates Search Results to Conceal Criticism of Islam and Jihad
8/3/2017, 10:09:53 AM · by Ray76 · 24 replies
PJ Media ^ | Aug 2, 2017 | Robert Spencer
The jihad against the freedom of speech is advancing rapidly, and most people don’t even know it’s happening.Turkey’s state-run news outlet Anadolu Agency reports: Google’s first page results for searches of terms such as “jihad”, “shariah” and “taqiyya” now return mostly reputable explanations of the Islamic concepts. Taqiyya, which describes the circumstances under which a Muslim can conceal their belief in the face of persecution, is the sole term to feature a questionable website on the first page of results. (emphasis added) “Reputable” according to whom? “Questionable” according to whom?Google has bowed to pressure from Muslims such as Texas imam...
US Joins Pro-Muslim ‘Alliance of Civilizations’
5/20/2010, 5:41:44 AM · by Tigen · 18 replies · 814+ views
INN ^ | 05/20/10 | Hana Levi Julian
The Obama administration has announced the United States will join the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, another openly anti-Israel organization. The group was created in 2006 to find ways to bridge the growing divide between Muslim and Western societies – a goal wholeheartedly embraced by President Barack Obama, who has redirected American foreign policy in pursuit of the same goal. The White House announcement stated that the move is intended to realize Obama’s “vision of active U.S. engagement with other nations and international organizations,” a goal sometimes pursued, noted National Review Online columnist Brett D. Schaefer last Thursday, “even when...
US Mosque Holds Memorial For Islamist Assassin
2/17/2017, 9:14:52 PM · by kevcol · 12 replies
The Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | February 17, 2017 | Russ Read
A Maryland-based mosque held a memorial celebration Sunday for an Islamist assassin who was convicted of murdering a Pakistani governor for criticizing the country’s blasphemy laws. The Gulzar E Madina mosque hosted an “Urs” for convicted murderer Mumtaz Qadri, reported Ehsan Rehan of the Rabwah Times, a Pakistan-based news agency. Urs is a traditional death anniversary usually reserved for Sufi saints celebrated by Muslims in South Asia. A Pakistani high court charged Qadri with murder after he killed Salman Taseer, the former governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province. Qadri, who was part of Taseer’s bodyguard, shot him 27 times with an...
Fed. Gov. Authorizes Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to Censor “Anti-Islam” Speech; Lawsuit Filed
7/13/2016, 11:13:08 AM · by Mr. Mojo · 44 replies
American Freedom Law Center ^
Today the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) under the First Amendment. Section 230 provides immunity from lawsuits to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, thereby permitting these social media giants to engage in government-sanctioned censorship and discriminatory business practices free from legal challenge. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, and Jihad Watch. As alleged in the lawsuit, Geller and Spencer, along with the organizations they run, are often...
Alliance of Civilizations / Dialogue of Civilizations. Originally conceived by bt Erdogan of Turkey, Khameinei of Iran, and Zapatero of Spain... pushed also by Macron of France and of course, Obama.
Russia doesn’t have a 1st Amendment. The US does, and it’s one of the most important reason it thrives, well beyond other nations. The 1st Amendment recognizes the right to free speech, assembly and religious practice. These rights are not at all incompatible. It is not without cause that they are all addressed in a single Amendment. They are, in fact, interdependent.
Russia doesn’t have a 1st Amendment. The US does, and it’s one of the most important reason it thrives, well beyond other nations. The 1st Amendment recognizes the right to free speech, assembly and religious practice. These rights are not at all incompatible. It is not without cause that they are all addressed in a single Amendment. They are, in fact, interdependent.
Over 108 parables about death to the infidel... so, it’s the original hate literature.
IS he targeting them?......lol, didn’t thinkso
“unacceptable to offend religious feelings.”
Screw that crap!
Meh the Russian Church is a longtime KBG/FSB front they’re about as serious about the Gospel of Christ as Obama is about free market capitalist principles.
This is just typical Putin, style tyranny under the very guise of something else.
Good call.
Laws should not be based on feelings. There is not a human right against being offended.
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