Month: January 2009

Related:  The Law of Blasphemy 

* Does Blasphemy exist? God does not live in Victoria

                                  

Freedom of speech is under threat – both in Australia and overseas. 

With thanks to the Australian Coalition for Truth

In Australia a national Inquiry is being held on the freedom of religion and belief…

In The Netherlands Geert Wilders is to be prosecuted for ‘inciting hatred’.

Australia – Freedom of Religion and Belief

In Australia, the Australian Human Rights Commission is conducting an Inquiry called ‘Freedom of Religion and Belief’. 

Their aim is NOT to give us MORE freedom but to limit the freedom we have. 

It might sound nice – but this sort of law leads to vilification laws like Victoria’s which have seen two pastors at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal - charged with inciting hatred against Muslims…

The Inquiry asks questions about diversity, sexuality and the involvement of ‘religious’ people in politics!

When HREOC did a similar inquiry in 1998, they proposed a ‘Freedom of Religion Act’. 

This time they are concerned about discrimination and vilification, particularly of Muslims. Any proposals to come out of this Inquiry are expected to restrict free speech. 

Our Constitution already protects the free exercise of religion (S 116). The Inquiry also asks if a Bill of Rights will help protect religious freedom. A Bill of Rights is another avenue of restricting free speech and handing power to the courts so we reject that as well.

                                   

PLEASE send a submission to the Inquiry opposing any limiting of our religious freedom.

Click here for the Inquiry’s home page. The Discussion paper is available there. 

Submissions close on 31 January –

send submissions by email to frb@humanrights.gov.au

 

Overseas – Free Speech threatened – Geert Wilders trial

Freedom of speech is already being restricted overseas. Just last week, Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who released the film Fitna, about radical Islam, has been charged with the inciting hatred against Muslims. 

The Court of Appeal in Amsterdam overturned a decision by a lower court not to prosecute Geert Wilders. They have ordered that he stand trial for “the incitement to hatred and discrimination based on his statements in various media about Muslims and their belief in The Netherlands”.

The outline of the decision by the Amsterdam Court of Appeals is online. Click here.

Read the BBC news report on the decision to prosecute Wilders.

 

Fitna – if you haven’t seen the short film Fitna – it is online…

On Live Leak – click here.  It can be downloaded from this site.

It is also mirrored at this site.

* Garbage from Doha: “Muslim Brotherhood is non-violent”

Melanie Philips, writing in The Spectator in the UK, says it plainly: 

“So the inevitable has now come about in the teetering civilisation of Europe, and it has happened first in the Netherlands. One of the supposedly most liberal societies on the planet wants to criminalise someone for telling the truth.”

She goes on to document the case, outline the message of the Fitna film, before talking of the support given by the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine to Hitler during World War 2 to Hitler, and giving Winston Churchill’s famous quote about Islam in The River War in 1899 and subsequent comments made by him during WW2.

A defining moment

Thursday, 22nd January 2009 – Melanie Phillips, The Spectator

From the Hitman Chronicle

                         

 

Imagine, for a moment, that you’re back in the mid 1940’s, with your 2008 knowledge, attitudes, ethics and morals. The Ku Klux Klan, which has seen it’s power rinse and fall several times over the course if it’s existence, is at the peak of its power in many parts of the country. They aren’t using terror tactics as much as they used to, but the threat of violence is helping them spread their religion of hate and keep critics silent.

Continue reading How to defeat the Islamic scourge

Israel will be blamed, which is why Hamas kills

Andrew Bolt – Wednesday, January 28, 09 (10:06 am)

* Dumber than dirt: U.S. releases Iranian ship believed to be carrying arms for Gaza

We’re dealing with an enemy that respects nothing and will stop at nothing to destroy us. As a result, we wait for UN security council resolutions to defend ourselves with two hands tied behind our backs?

U.S. releases Iranian ship believed to be carrying arms for Gaza

By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz 

The U.S. navy was forced to release an Iranian boat detained in the Red Sea 
on suspicion of carrying arms to Hamas-ruled Gaza. Weapons of various kinds 
were found aboard the ship, which was flying the Cypriot flag when it was 
stopped January 19.

The ship was released Tuesday when it became apparent that there was no 
legal basis for holding it.

                           

At a press conference in Washington, Admiral Mike Mullen, who heads the 
Joint Chiefs of Staff, said although American naval personnel boarded the 
ship and found the weapons, they had no legal authority to impound the arms. 
He suggested that more stringent resolutions by the UN Security Council 
would be required, stating clearly that Iran is violating standards against 
arms smuggling.

Mullen stressed involving Iran in solving regional problems, including the 
deteriorating condition in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but that ultimately the 
matter should be left to diplomats. With regard to the Obama 
administration’s approach to the Iranian threat, he said that the military 
option is not off the table, but that it must remain the last option.

* Its high time to give Mullen a shoe in the ass…. is he making it up as he goes along?

MEMRI

*  Remember:  successive US Presidents Peanut Khadr, Willie Clitman, Papa Bush,  son Bush and now the Obaminator want to “make peace” with these A-soles:

To Mark ‘Holocaust Holiday,’ Egyptian Cleric Amin Al-Ansari Revises History, And Comments On Footage of Prisoners Being Tortured in Dachau, Mauthausen, and Belsen, Saying: ‘This Is What We Hope Will Happen But, Allah Willing, at the Hand of the Muslims’

                                  

“The Holocausts of the Jews In Germany Were Because Of Their Own Deeds – They Were Killing Germans, Kindling Civil Strife, Inciting the People Against Their Rulers, and Corrupting the Peoples”

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“TheseAre [Jewish] Corpses, Allah Be Praised… These Are The Bodies of the Jews Being Loaded Like Animals… This Is What We Hope Will Happen, But, Allah Willing, At the Hand of The Muslims”

MEMRI 

On January 26, 2009, the Al-Jazeera TV website www.aljazeera.net posted an interview with Abu Basir Nasir Al-Wahishi, Emir of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. According to the interview prologue, the interview was conducted as “white phosphorous bombs were raining down on Gaza City” and at the same time as Osama bin Laden’s audio message was released – that is, most likely before the ceasefire in Gaza. The prologue also states that AQAP operatives Nayef bin Muhammad Al-Qahtani and Abu Sufyan Al-Azdi Sa’id Al-Shihri were likewise present; Al-Shihri is a former Guantanamo detainee who recently appeared together with Al-Wahishi in a video.

Continue reading Egyptian cleric calls for Holocaust on Jews "at the hands of Muslims- Allah willing!"

Israel ‘must sack’ military rabbi

* They’re not  beating around the bush, these little commie bastards, do they?

                

A human rights group in Israel has called for the military’s chief rabbi to be dismissed for alleged incitement against Palestinians.

The group, Yesh Din, said Rabbi Avichai Rontzki distributed a booklet to troops in the Gaza offensive, which advised them they were fighting “murderers”.

The booklet, citing an ultra-nationalist rabbi, told soldiers to show no mercy to a “cruel enemy”.

* Hamas executes former B’tselem field worker

The Israeli military has not yet commented on the issue.

Yesh Din, which says it is dedicated to defending human rights in the Occupied Territories, called on Defence Minister Ehud Barak to dismiss the rabbi.

* ‘Two killed’ in new Gaza violence

* EU envoy lays Gaza blame on Hamas

* Obama reaches out to Muslim world

* Israeli PM in war crimes pledge

It said the booklet’s contents could be “interpreted as a call to act outside the confines of international laws of war”.

* F*kcwits should be told to shove it. The Rabbi is right: our enemies have a right to be killed and we have a right to export them to Allah if that’s what they wish for…

Continue reading "Yuman Rites" Crackpots: Israel 'Must Sack' Military Rabbi

Who guessed it? Right after two ex-Gitmo inmates returned to work for Al Qaeda in Yemen

* Former detainees said their detention by U.S. forces only hardened them.

“By Allah, imprisonment only increased our persistence in our principles for which we went out, did jihad for, and were imprisoned for,” said Said Ali al-Shihri.

Source AP

A 9/11 family member chides the new President for closing Guantanamo terror camp

UPDATE:

SAUDI authorities have rearrested nine Islamist militants, including former inmates of the US military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the interior ministry said.

Yemen still has about 94 more jihadists in Gitmo —but we can trust the Yemeni government that has promised “they won’t return to terrorism.”

SANAA: Yemen said yesterday it expected the repatriation soon of 94 Yemenis held at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp, and vowed it would make sure they did not rejoin the ranks of Islamic militants.

Its hard to be a guard in Gitmo

“If a guy’s salad isn’t right, I’ll make a phone call to try and get him the correct salad,”said the 28-year-old guard, who is also a member of a task force.

The block guard recalled being attacked by a “cocktail” of feces, semen, blood and urine thrown by an inmate. He said guards are ordered to walk away.

“It’s humiliating,” the guard said. “A guy throws feces on you, and you’ve got to turn right back around and walk down a block that might have 40 people on it. They’re making their little comments, and you go home and you change and you come back to work. Take a shower. Go to medical, get your screening.”

INSIDE GITMO 

War is deceit

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ABOUT GUANTANAMO BAY 

NY Post via Atlas

Polls show Americans split over Guantanamo, but most of them wouldn’t want these prisoners in their neighborhoods, either.

Continue reading Yemen: Catch and Release Backfires, US Embassy Attacked