Posted on 01/02/2006 8:30:52 AM PST by SJackson
From Bangladesh to Paris, speaking out against Islamic outrages can get you in serious trouble --- and worse
Now that Baby New Year is taking over again from Father Time, the observant celebrant might notice something new. In addition to the traditional top hat and diaper, and besides the 2006 banner across his chest, Baby New Year has something else in his kit: a gag. That's because 2006 is shaping up to be the "Year of Speaking Dangerously."
This isn't to suggest that 2005 was a banner year for freedom of speech. But the reaction, tepid at best, to significantly outrageous cases of speech repression during this past year, from Bangladesh to Paris, indicates only one thing: 2006 will be worse.
Take our old friend (making his third appearance in this column) Ali Mohaqeq Nasab, the Afghan editor sentenced in October to two years hard labor. His crime, you may recall, was "blasphemy" — i.e., publishing articles that criticized Islamic law. The magazine he edited questioned the death penalty for converting from Islam; amputation and whippings for certain crimes; and relegating women to legal inferiority. Given that such viewpoints promised to make Islamic reform a topic of debate in post-Taliban Afghanistan, Mr. Nasab's incarceration should have created one of those international incidents you read about, or at least a journalistic cause celebre.
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And people wonder why the history of humankind over the last umpty thou years is just one sad tale of needless human-caused pain and suffering after another.
Occasionally a natural disaster comes by, but can't really compete.
The phrase, "Circle of Fire" used to refer to volcanic ranges. Now, "Circle of Fire" refers to the worldwide borders between Islam and the rest of the world. Where ever they meet, there is spilled blood.
It is a blood cult AND a political nightmare. Worse than communism (but not by much). Nazism was a faith in supremecy as well.
At what point can one be critical of a theocracy which intends to establish a legal system with 3 classes of individual under the law (with muslims at the top)?
Yes. Good.
Islam has defined itself with no outside assistance. It is time that Islamists understand that we are no longer going to play the PC game. Islam is evil and we are engaged in a world war against it.
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