Down With The Speech Gestapo!

Let’s make free speech the great cause of 2019

Andrew Doyle Spiked Online 26th December 2018

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Who would have thought that in 2018 it would be deemed controversial to uphold the principle of free speech? Whatever else the events of this year have taught us, it is now clear that the fundamental human right to express oneself as one sees fit is under threat. With both major political parties supporting further hate-speech legislation and varying degrees of press regulation, and with Silicon Valley tech giants routinely censoring their users, the time is ripe seriously to consider how we might retaliate against the creeping authoritarianism of our age.

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Those who were active in the civil-rights movements of the ‘New Left’ in the Sixties and Seventies understood that free speech is the linchpin of all other struggles for equality. But today it is mostly well-intentioned activists on the left who are calling on the state to constrict the Overton window. Worse still, in a world in which social media have become the de facto public square, and online platforms are controlled by powerful likeminded CEOs, we are left with the paradoxical phenomenon of self-identified leftists seeking to empower huge corporations to set the parameters of acceptable thought.

One of the most troubling developments over the past year has been the politicisation of our law-enforcement agencies. The government recently launched a new campaign to tackle hate crime, defined on their website as ‘any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim, or anybody else, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice’ towards any of the five ‘protected characteristics’ (race, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and disability). It’s not clear why acts that are already criminal should require a separate category at all, let alone on the grounds of ‘perceived’ motive.

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Are Mohammedan Migrants Fleeing From Islam?

Canada: Muslim cleric says wishing Christians “Merry Christmas” is worse than murder

Gaza: Jihadis warn that “celebrating Christmas is evil”

40 Migrants Head to UK on Christmas Day Dash Across English Channel

Are these migrants from Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan running from Islam? No.  Are these migrants devout Mohammedans who want to make the West Islamic? The time to ask them is now.

Channel migrants

Forty migrants were picked up in the English Channel in five separate incidents on Christmas day, believed to be the highest number of illegals and boats intercepted in one day.

The majority are understood to be male, with at least one woman and two children found aboard the separate craft.

British authorities believe all the migrants are from Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

In 2017, Serbia, a non-EU country which borders four EU states, relaxed its visa rules for Iranians in an effort to boost its tourism industry but closed the programme one year later following immigration abuses.

It was reported in Serb media that planes were arriving from Tehran to Belgrade full, but returning empty, the citizens of the Islamic Republic then fleeing to the nearest EU country to travel around the borders-free bloc to claim asylum.

In other news:

Spanish Police Search for Migrant in Connection with Christmas Terror Threat

Spanish Police Spain

Authorities in Barcelona have been placed on high alert after receiving information on a potential planned terror attack and began a search for a Moroccan migrant believed to be connected to the threat.

“Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, and other public areas.”

Emmanuel Macron: French would ‘probably’ vote to leave EU

Macron knows that the globalist dictatorship he’s trying to impose on the French amounts to treason, but he continues along that road anyway, simply because he can.

The French President believes his country might also have quit the bloc if offered the choice in an referendum.

Macron knows the French want out:

“Middle-classes and working-classes – and especially the oldest in your country – decided that the recent decades were not in their favour.”

Emmanuel Macron speaks to the BBC's Andrew Marr
Emmanuel Macron put Brexit down to UK voters losing faith in globalisation and unrestricted free markets

France would “probably” have voted to leave the EU if it had held an in/out referendum, according to the country’s leader.

Emmanuel Macron attributed the UK’s decision to leave the EU to British voters’ loss of faith in globalisation and unrestricted free markets.

The French President suggested there is “always a risk” with votes such as Britain’s 2016 referendum, when asking the public “just ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in a very complicated context”.

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Germany’s Fake News Machine

German Fake News Journo Accused of Embezzling Money Meant for Syrian Orphans

Turkey Looks to ‘Reclaim’ Greece

That was in the making for a long time. We all know that land, all land once conquered by Islam, must remain Islamic forever. Now there’s talk about Greek islands, but what they really mean is all of Greece and all of Cyprus. And then some.

Turkey’s Threats against Greece

Debalina Ghoshal, 

  • The one issue on which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his opposition are in “complete agreement” is the “conviction that the Greek islands are occupied Turkish territory and must be reconquered.”
  • “So strong is this determination that the leaders of both parties have openly threatened to invade the Aegean.” – Uzay Bulut, Turkish journalist.
  • Ankara’s ongoing challenges to Greek land and sea sovereignty are additional reasons to keep it from enjoying full acceptance in Europe and the rest of the West.
In April 2017, Turkish European Affairs Minister Omer Celik claimed in an interview that the Greek Aegean island of Agathonisi (pictured) was Turkish territory. (Image source: Hans-Heinrich Hoffmann/Wikimedia Commons)

Turkey’s “persistent policy of violating international law and breaching international rules and regulations” was called out in a November 14 letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres by Polly Ioannou, the deputy permanent representative of Cyprus to the UN.

Reproving Ankara for its repeated violations of Cypriot airspace and territorial waters, Ioannou wrote of Turkey’s policy:

“[it] is a constant threat to international peace and security, has a negative impact on regional stability, jeopardises the safety of international civil aviation, creates difficulties for air traffic over Cyprus and prevents the creation of an enabling environment in which to conduct the Cyprus peace process.”

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Increasing number of Australians fighting for Islamic State

The pope’s Christmas message. (If you can bear it.)

POPE URGES MORE ‘SHARING AND GIVING’ IN XMAS MASS

Chinese Communists Crack Down on ‘Foreign’ Christmas Holiday…

Increasing number of Australians fighting for Islamic State

Yes, that’s RIGHT NOW!  Who was it who said ISIS is defeated?

They are the Australians who have traded their lives down under for a life of battle and terror, joining the Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East.

And now it has been revealed an increasing number of our citizens are flying to Iraq and Syria to fight for extremist groups.

News Corp reports the AFP has issued 27 arrest warrants for Australian terror suspects fighting for IS in the Middle East, with seven issued since January.

Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, who is likely dead, pictured with his sons in Syria.Australian terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, who is likely dead, pictured with his sons in Syria.

Further disturbing statistics reveal around 230 Australians have travelled to Syria or Iraq to fight with or support extremist groups involved in the conflict.

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It’s a deadly business, with close to 100 Australians losing their life while fighting under the ISIS flag.

It has led to increased concerns the foreign fighters will return to our country and use what they’ve learned in the Middle East to plot mass terror attacks on home soil.

Since 2014, there have been 15 foiled terror plots and seven successful attacks carried out in Australia.

In a recent interview with A Current Affair, RMIT global affairs expert Professor Joe Siracusa warned we’ve been “very lucky” that the attackers had been “lone wolves” using unsophisticated weapons.

Islamic State fighters travelling through the so-called caliphate, pictured in 2013.Islamic State fighters travelling through the so-called caliphate, pictured in 2013. (Supplied)

“We’re about to face people who are probably a lot brighter,” he told the program.

“There’s probably at least 60 people who will be coming back from Syria, from the civil war, and the people who will come back will have more information and expertise about ammunition, about bombs.”

Speaking to News Corp, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said Australia is “not immune to the scourge of terrorism.”

“This government will continue to keep Australians safe and fight for laws like the recent encryption legislation to do so. If people are returning from conflicts overseas they do so into the hands of authorities,” the minister said.

It’s thought around 100 Australians are currently in Syria and Iraq fighting for, or supporting, Islamic extremist groups.

A CULTURED REASON CHRISTMAS

Santa takes off with the loot
Santa takes off with the loot

Back in 2014, the ABC’s Jonathan Green offered his solution to international Islamic terrorism:

Our best defence is of course our cultured reason. Our tolerance. Our audacious confidence in the fundamental goodness of others.

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Christmas in Afghanistan

32 killed in gov’t office attack in Afghan capital

KABUL, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) — At least 28 civilians, one police officer and three attackers were killed after a deadly explosion and ensuing gun firing rocked a government office near a diplomatic district in Afghan capital on Monday, spokesman of Ministry of Interior Affairs said on Tuesday.

Around 20 people, including three policemen, were also wounded. Figures about the casualties may change, spokesman Najib Danish said in a brief message sent to the media.

The latest information found that 357 people were rescued by the Afghan Special Operations Forces from the targeted building, he said.

The attack occurred on Monday afternoon when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the targeted office, which provides service to family members of soldiers and ordinary people who lost their lives during the war or terrorist attacks.

At least two gunmen made their way inside the building after the blast, spreading bullets on the people inside before security forces’ arrival.

The attack occurred in Makruyan-e-Awal locality near Shashdarak, where several foreign embassies located.

The area also gives home to several apartment buildings and several government offices, including Afghan Ministry of Public Works.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far.

Jihad is permanent

Muslim cleric: If al-Qaeda and ISIS disappear, new groups like them will arise, because Qur’an is “permanent”

Said Mullah Krekar: “The Quran and the Sunnah are the sources of guidance, education, social and ideological upbringing, and Jihadi activity. These two sources exist. The Quranic verses exist and the hadiths are permanent. In Sahih Al-Bukhari, there are 55 hadiths about Jihad, and in Sahih Muslim there are sixty-nine. These sources will not cease to exist. Generations to come will continue to be raised on them.”

In this he is assuming that al-Qaeda and ISIS are carrying out the commands for jihad that are in the Qur’an and Sunnah. Will some “moderate” Muslim go into those sources and explain to Mullah Krekar how he is misunderstanding Islam? Don’t hold your breath.

“Norway-Based Jihadi Scholar Mullah Fateh Krekar: New Groups Will Emerge After Al-Qaeda and ISIS Are Gone Because the Quran and Sunnah Are Permanent,” MEMRI, December 20, 2018:

Norway-based Jihadi scholar Mullah Fateh Krekar, who is the former leader of the Kurdish Sunni Jihadi group Ansar Al-Islam, was interviewed on NRT TV (Iraqi Kurdistan)….The interview aired on December 20, 2018.

Erdogan Promises Trump to ‘Eliminate’ Islamic State Remnants in Syria

Sure. The Turkish sultan will do exactly the opposite.

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Turkey vowed to take over the fight against Islamic State in Syria days before U.S. President Donald Trump announced his decision to pull out troops, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly revealed Friday.

Gorka: ‘War Against ISIS Is Not Over Yet’

Susan Rice: Trump Is More Dangerous to America Than ‘Any Foreign Adversary’

Susan Rice: Trump More Dangerous to America Than ‘Any Foreign Adversary’

Pure projection. But Donald Trump may indeed be dangerous to subversives like Rice, Obama, the Clintons and the Deep State operatives who tried to turn the U.S. into an Islamic caliphate.

LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 21: Women's March Co-Chairwomen Tamika D. Mallory (L) and Linda Sarsour speak during the Women's March 'Power to the Polls' voter registration tour launch at Sam Boyd Stadium on January 21, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Demonstrators across the nation gathered over the weekend, one …

Tamika Mallory, co-president of the Women’s March, told the New York Times that “white Jews … uphold white supremacy.” She also told a fellow left-wing activist “that Jews [need] to confront their own role in racism.”

Vanessa Wruble, a self-described Jewish activist and “early organizer of the Women’s March,” told the Times she was pushed out of the political campaign, in part, because of her “Jewish identity.”

She subsequently founded another left-wing political campaign called March On, which describes its members as “allies of the resistance” seeking to “lift up the voices of the marginalized.” The Times described March On as an organization that “supports local women activists,” making no mention of its ideological or partisan politics.

James Comey: ‘There’s No Deep State’

James Comey: ‘There’s No Deep State’

There is no mafia either. If you don’t look, you won’t find it.

Charlie Hebdo journalist gets death threats for holding up Western values

Charlie Hebdo Journalist: ‘Islam Must Submit to Criticism’

“I think that have not only the right to just say these things, but I think that in the current context, I also have the duty, because unfortunately, many voices have given way to the intellectual terror that is trying to impose this wall of silence on us,” explained the French-Moroccan.

Charlie Hebdo journalist Zineb El Rhazoui has received rape and death threats for saying “Islam must submit to criticism”.

The journalist, who has lived under police protection since a number of her colleagues at the satirical magazine were murdered by radical Islamic terrorist devout Muslims for satirising the Prophet Mohammed, said she has received “Insults, racist insults, [and] threats of death or rape” since she insisted: “Islam must submit to criticism, submit to humor, submit to the laws of the Republic, submit to French law.”

“I have not changed my mind since,” she added defiantly in an interview with the Europe 1 radio station.

“Islam has to submit to French laws, humour, reason and any form of criticism just like any other ideology, sect or religion.”

Yes. All should be accountable to the same laws. This should be taken for granted by all French authorities as a requirement for living in France and a prerequisite for entering it as an immigrant. But it isn’t. And that is an indication that France is in an advanced state of degeneration, and is likely not to last much longer as anything resembling a free society.

“Woman threatened with murder after saying Islam should submit to French laws and criticism,” Voice of Europe, December 21, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):

Moroccan-French journalist Zineb El Rhazoui says she has received death and rape threats for saying “innoccous” [sic] things like: “Islam has to submit to French laws, humour, reason and any form of criticism just like any other ideology, sect or religion”.

According to the former cartoonist of Charlie Hebdo “There is no valid reason for Islam to be an exception”.

This woman’s outrage is well justified. The French, and leftist strategy overall, is to lie, to deceive us, and to minimise  the Islamic threat.

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The authorities in Marseille have closed down a clandestine Salafist school.

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WILL THE GLOBAL WARMING RACKET REDUCE POLLUTION?

Of course not.

Truth is, climate change has nothing to do with smog or soot. Global warming is, in fact, blamed on invisible gases such as carbon dioxide.

But this is what we sceptics are now up against — warming believers who are red-hot with religion but stone-cold clueless on the science.

It’s not just the Pope, claiming they “believe the science” the way that Christians say they “believe in God”, and with the same inability to rationalise why.

The United Nations, run by the OIC,  is the most corrupt gang of entitled crooks  plotting and scamming the world for their own benefit. Unelected and unfettered totalitarian control of the world is their aim. The corruption bravely pointed out in this article is only the tip of the  iceberg, The West is being ripped off  to pay for all the sh*thole countries  that will never change.

Hypocritical and parasitical – when the truth is widely known and accepted that climate change as the IPCC portrays it, is a monumental scam.

The Very Model of a Global Green Rorter

Tony Thomas Quadrant Online 20th December 2018

That Third World cesspits sent hundreds — nay, thousands — of freeloading delegates to the latest catastrophist gabfest is, sadly, to be expected. But they have something of an excuse: when it comes to living high on the climate dollar, the UN’s Erik Solheim is the gold standard

From top to bottom, things don’t get more disgusting than at the UN Environment Program, which runs the UN’s anti-emissions campaign. Indeed, UNEP under its director Maurice Strong in 1988 co-founded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In 2005 Strong was caught red-handed at the UN with a $US988,000 cheque from a South Korean business man. Strong fled to the safety of Beijing — China has no extradition treaty with the US — and he lived there, honoured and unprosecuted, until his death in 2015.

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