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If you haven’t been following the Canadian perscution of free speech, as embodied in the Canadian “human rights” commissions, I recommend that you look into it. It’s political correctness taking its next logical and ominous step to destroy freedom of political thought and expression.

Here’s a place to start: ShowTrial by David Warren.

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Canada. It’s that big country north of the USA. Famous for maple syrup, ice hockey, and saying “Eh?”

And now it may well become famous fordestroying the freedoms of speech and press by persecuting the politically incorrect.

But fear not! Sometimes saviors come from the most unexpected places! Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane!

NO! It’s XRAN of the MOXARGON GROUP!

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Visit Iowahawk to enjoy this top-notch satirical piece in the style of the Canterbury Tales, skewering the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.

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The Egyptian Sandmonkey has posted one more blog entry, clarifying his original goodbye message and offering an idea on what people can do to help fight for freedom of speech in the Middle East. Please read his message here.

But there is another battle about to be engaged a bit closer to home. One of our own at ThinkerToThinker blogs has been told by his local police that he is under investigation for “hate speech”, because he has ”merely… pointed out that Islam is a fascist ideology that advocates killing Jews, atheists, homosexuals etc.” Mikko Ellila has received a letter from the municipal police stating that they want to interrogate him over what he writes in his blog, because it may violate the anti-incitement law.

I cannot report first-hand what his blog has to say, because he writes in Finnish. But if you want to read what Mikko wrote to Prodos about this, please go here. Be forewarned: Prodos reprints his reply to Mikko in full, including the F-word.

Another blog following Mikko’s story is Gates of Vienna.

I am naturally wanting to be careful in Mikko’s case, since I cannot read Finnish and don’t yet have a translation of the articles in question. But given what Prodos and I have seen of anti-vilification type laws so far, it’s very likely that Mikkois not a hate-monger.We have seen that the new thought police of the Free World don’tlimit themselves to prosecuting advocacy of violence and persecution. Read the rest of this entry »

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Freedom of speech, of the pen, of the press, of the blog. Those of us who have the freedom to express our minds must guard it as the precious treasure it is.

There are so many on this earth whose governments fail to understand their proper job. The only legitimate purpose of government is to protect the right of each human being to his life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness. That very broad formulation includes – most importantly and fundamentally – the right to use one’s mind honestly and to express oneself honestlywithout being subject to legal punishment. I said “honestly”, which doesn’t guarantee by any means that the honest mind will always be correct in its content or its judgments. But human beings need to be able to seek the truth, make errors, and self-correct. We need to be able to communicate our ideas with others, to discuss and argue,to trade information,etc., without fear that some Big Brother will forbid and punish us when he doesn’t like what we have to say. In doing so we are able to refine our grasp of reality, weed out our mistakes, and over time improve our understanding of whatever it is we care about. Read the rest of this entry »

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I’m posting below an e-mail I sent to Tony Blair regarding a mosque plannedfor the 2012 London Olympics site. I’m sending similar e-mails and letters to other appropriate people, organizations, and London newspapers.

To read background on this issue before readingmy Blair e-mail, go here:

Tension’s Building

and here:

Mega-Mosque Plans Could Make London “Muslim Capital of Europe”

My note:

Dear Mr. Blair,

I have just been reading about a huge mosque that is expected to be built in London with the backing of a radical Muslim group, the Tabligh-i-Jamaat.

According to the article, written by two Muslims, Irfan al-Alawi and Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, the Tabligh is an Islamic Separatist movement, and John Walker Lindh (American Taliban combatant) and two men involved in the London July 7 bombing have been associated with that group. Tabligh preachers reportedly have been crucial in the radicalization of the Pakistani military and intelligence services.

The article states: “The aim of the Tabligh is to unify and segregate “pure” Muslims from their neighbors.” I have little doubt this mosque will be used to radicalize Muslim youth in London and to prepare them to do their duty to bring the West under submission to their “pure” form of Islam.

It was also suggested that this mosque is likely to get some government funding. That would be a travesty, and would be a signal to the whole world that England is surrendering to the mentality that wants to destroy it and the rest of the non-Muslim world (not to mention the destruction of the part of the *Muslim* world that isn’t “pure”).

A huge, dazzling Mosque complex, built next to the site of the 2012 Olympic games, which includes residences, a library, and more, built by a radical sect that discriminates against all other Muslim sects, will tell the world that England is rapidly becoming a dhimmi state. The fact that Lord Mayor Ken Livingstone is welcoming with open arms this monument to overbearing Islamism shouts the message: “England is ripe for submission to Islam;come and hold your basket out, and England will drop right in with the next breeze!”

My English friends here in Australia (I’m an American) have been talking despondently as if the UK is already lost.

I wonder what Winston Churchill would say.

Sincere best wishes,
Sydney Kendall

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Ah-HA! I was just wishing that a recent article published in TIA Daily, which is an e-mail magazine by subscription, was available to the public online for free because I think it should be widely read. And guess what! The author of the article, Robert Tracinski (who is also the editor of TIA Daily), is allowing a few of his articles to be published online for free, and that article is one of them!

Please read The Suicide Bomb Morality.

Also, please have a look at this one: Publish or Perish: The Lessons of the Cartoon Jihad.

And thank you, Rob, for offering some ofyour eye-opening articles to the world at large!

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Here is a link to the FULL translated transcript of the Wafa Sultan/Ibrahim al-Khouly debate on Al-Jazeera TV. The MEMRI transcript that I pointed you to earlier is abridged.

This transcript was translated by Meph at Aqoul, and I found the link to the PDF file on Sandmonkey’s blog.

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In my campaign to celebrate those who risk everything to uphold liberty, I give you Al-afif al-Akhdar. This man has been on the job long time.

The Roots of Jihad

I’ll write more about this when I have time.

Thanks to the Egyptian Sandmonkey for posting excerpts from “The Roots of Jihad” on his blog. “Rantings of a Sandmonkey” has been a great portal for me into the Arab world, where I can find those Arab champions of reason and liberty that I’ve been hoping for.

Comment added March 21, 2006: I wrote the above post before I finished reading that very long article on Akhdar. I planned to finish reading the article (after having read Sandmonkey’s excepts and the first part of “The Roots of Jihad”) and then write about my thoughts on it when I had time. But I was so excited by what I had already read, I wanted to post a link to the article right away.

I’ve now finished reading the article, and I’m disappointed that Akhdar criticizes capitalism and upholds socialism. Read the rest of this entry »

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This time I salute an Iranian blogger, Azarmehr, living in London. He’s not a witty guy like The Sandmonkey, but he gets the job done.

Here is his front page:

Introduction: “For a democratic secular Iran. For peace and prosperity in the Middle East. This weblog was created to act as a platform for the voice of secular pro-democracy activists in and outside Iran who are struggling against the religious dictatorship of the Islamic clerics in Iran. My favourite quote: ‘Evil only prevails when the good stay silent.’ ”

A few of his articles that I recommend:

Going Back to the Repression of 80s?
Iran’s Communists Attack Sun & Lion Flags in Rally to Support Bus Drivers
Another Cartoon that the Clerics Didnt Like
Hamas Victory
Expansion of Havana-Tehran Ties

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