[knighthawk]

There are some omissions in this story:

El Moumni wasn't allowed to be an imam no longer in Morocco, because of his fundamentalist nature. He was asked to become an imam here in the Netherlands in Rotterdam, the city of wich 43% of the citizens are immigrants. Nice people live there:

Suspects in Rotterdam had videotapes Bin Laden (Holland)

Also he said that all homosexuals should be killed. His comments were 'apologized' by an islamic scholar who said he didn't mean it this way: what he ment to say was homosexuals should be killed only when law permits it! (Think Saudi Arabia)

This is the way it goes here. If the islamaniacs call out for hate, death and violence, it's freedom of religion (so they at least admit islam is not a religion of peace and tolerance) it's okay. (Remember Salman Rushdie?)

The muslims are alway able to get away with things like this. Where are the socialists/human rights activists/liberals who condemn people like Pim Fortuyn (calling him a nazi and comparing him to people like Eichmann while Fortuyn is a big Israel supporter!) but are silent now?

[knighthawk]

Religion of peace and tolerance (TM) alert!

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[Lent]

The muslims are alway able to get away with things like this.

Exactly. It's the politically correct religion of peace (TM). If a Christian would have said those things?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

A Dutch court Monday ruled that a Muslim cleric who denounced homosexuality as a contagious disease could not be convicted of discrimination charges because he has a constitutional right to religious freedom.

And the Dutch court figured he'd get beat up and mugged by some angry Afghanis, since so many of them are bone smugglers. After the fall of the Taliban, the Afghanis have to catch up for all the butt pirating that they missed out on during the Taliban rule.

[Shermy]

Mubarak, etc., even Gaddafi have noted that Europe is the haven for Muslim radicalism. They are privileged in Europe, and paid welfare to boot. No surprise they go there.

[aristeides]

Of course, Pim Fortuyn himself, being homosexual, can't have been pleased by this guy's remarks.

By the way, were the remarks provoked by Pim Fortuyn's growing political success?

[xm177e2]

Now: If Muslims can say bad things about homosexuals... can homosexuals say bad things about Muslims?

Go Pim Fortuyn!

[dennisw]

He would have been convicted of hate speech if he were Dutch. He is not Dutch some Islamic clown from Morrocco who moved to Netherlands. So he gets off the hook.

[Frances_Marion]

bttt mark for later...

[B Knotts]

FYI BUMP

[LimitedPowers]

...a Muslim cleric ... could not be convicted of discrimination charges because he has a constitutional right to religious freedom.... Presiding Judge S. van Klaveren said ... the defendant should not be convicted because he was speaking as a cleric.

So only clerics have freedom of religion in the Netherlands, or are there other protected groups as well? Do they also recognise something called "freedom of speech," or is that just an American thing?

I'm inferring that the poster has nothing against "hate speech" laws; there we part company. But I'm not Dutch, so I'll leave them to the mercy of their democratic institutions. At least certain persons are allowed to say certain things at certain times: that's enough "democracy" for most anyone, right?

[ikanakattara]

Eurosocialism is a contagious disease...