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Blasphemy is a basic human right


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2012 Sep 26, 10:40am   9,668 views  24 comments

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http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=439991

The OIC is, in effect, not only announcing that Muslim states in general have no intention of allowing real freedom of conscience and speech, but they want to bully the West into eliminating those freedoms as well.   OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ä°hsanoÄŸlu called on countries that respect free speech to “come out of hiding from behind the excuse of freedom of expression.” OIC governments apparently cannot resist the populist appeal of perversely posing as "defenders of Islam" by attacking free thought and free speech.   Who, after all, will be authorized to define "blasphemy"? Does anything that offends any...

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1   Raw   2012 Sep 26, 10:57am  

This is just the beginning. They will not stop until all women in this free country are in garbage bags.

2   curious2   2012 Sep 26, 3:22pm  

As noted in the article, the OIC position is consistent with our "allies" in Pakistan:

"We would go to the UN and OIC and get a law passed to stop anti-Islam activities, including blasphemy, for-ever."

Blasphemy carries the death penalty there, as per Sharia law. When the governor of Punjab said the penalty should be reduced, he was assassinated. When the assassins were arrested, crowds demanded their release and threw a parade of rose petals in their honor.

BTW, they call President Obama a Muslim apostate because he denies being a Muslim even though his father was a Muslim:

"Muslim law...prohibits punishment for any Muslim who kills any apostate, and effectively prohibits interference with such a killing."

Reportedly this President has received an unusually high number of threats since declaring his candidacy; I don't know where those come from, but am guessing many of them are from followers of Sharia.

3   Raw   2012 Sep 27, 1:38am  

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says

Hey, Allah!

Suck my dick!

Asshole!

I am beginning to like this guy.

4   saroya   2012 Sep 27, 2:14am  

It is easy to agree with most of the reactions and comments on this thread, but I think we are missing the much bigger picture. Any cult/religion that is recognized by a civilized society will have these fundamentalists telling us their definition of god is the one and only. Just about any social psychotherapist will tell us there is a very thin line, if any, between fundamentalism and fascism.

5   Dan8267   2012 Sep 27, 2:31am  

Blasphemy is a basic human duty.

6   Raw   2012 Sep 27, 2:50am  

saroya says

It is easy to agree with most of the reactions and comments on this thread, but I think we are missing the much bigger picture. Any cult/religion that is recognized by a civilized society will have these fundamentalists telling us their definition of god is the one and only. Just about any social psychotherapist will tell us there is a very thin line, if any, between fundamentalism and fascism.

Yes, but only one cult has actually succeeded in curtailing our freedoms. How are we to stop it?

7   resistance   2012 Sep 27, 3:45am  

How about dropping millions of leaflets in Arabic containing this:

http://patrick.net/?p=511

It's sympathetic to their situation, which is a difficult one. Every Muslim must be afraid of all his Muslim neighbors, because they are obligated to kill him if he suggests that Mohammed's robberies, rapes, and murders prove that he was no prophet.

8   mell   2012 Sep 27, 4:04am  

So instead of meddling in the middle east we should take care of our own country and defend freedom of speech. We have soldiers dying in useless wars while we apologize at every incident of freedom of speech in our country. It's very simple, restore and enforce the rule of law within our borders, for everybody. Don't like the rules, move somewhere else..

9   Dan8267   2012 Sep 27, 4:36am  


Every Muslim must be afraid of all his Muslim neighbors, because they are obligated to kill him if he suggests

This is the way all witch hunts work. You get everyone to enthusiastically support the witch hunt out of fear that if they don't, they'll be branded witches.

Examples of witch hunts
--------------------------
McCarthyism
Terrorism
Pedophilia
Patriotism during war
Religion
Airport Security

10   curious2   2012 Sep 27, 4:55am  


How about dropping millions of leaflets in Arabic

It's a good idea but the context suggests mixed results. The history of wartime propaganda leaflets suggests they might be dismissed, and people might be afraid to pick them up and read them. A new issue is the context of the drone war, where people in target areas live in fear whenever they hear a drone, which in some areas can be all day long. Reportedly only 2% of drone kills are "high value targets," the other 98% are either low level or civilian; in this context, dropping more things from the sky might not reach a receptive audience. In other contexts though people might read it and it could make a difference, and it should be done over radio, leaflet, Internet, anything.

11   Patrick   2012 Sep 27, 5:09am  

OK, how about something like Radio Free Europe, which worked pretty well for us in Eastern Europe?

If not radio, it could be some kind of website, though that probably isn't going to reach anyone in Afghanistan.

12   MisdemeanorRebel   2012 Sep 27, 5:15am  

I like the Radio Free Arabia idea. It would celebrate famous heroes like Galileo and Copernicus; I think the listener would get the gist and apply it to his own situation.

13   curious2   2012 Sep 27, 5:24am  

The U.S. sponsors radio networks for Arab audiences, with mixed results:

http://gmc.sagepub.com/content/2/2/183.abstract

14   Patrick   2012 Sep 27, 5:29am  

Good point -- nothing the US says is going to be very credible in the Mideast as long as we have soldiers in Iraq for the oil, and continue to obviously favor Israel over the Palestinians.

16   resistance   2012 Sep 27, 7:30am  

Excellent video!

I have to say I agree with every word. It should definitely always be legal to deny the Holocaust, though I'm personally sure it happened.

And if we're going to ban hate speech, why don't we start with the Koran itself, which is pretty much a continuous stream of hate speech against those who doubt Islam.

17   Raw   2012 Sep 27, 8:03am  

thunderlips11 says

Homo Economicus. A Legendary Creature, like Bigfoot, claimed to exist by Pseudoscientists.

One of the best videos I have ever seen. Thanks thunder.
Islam is clearly a religion of hate and shame on those who stand up for it. It is your standing up for this cult that has led them to take away my basic human rights, endangered the lives of my loved ones, and risk ending the lifestyle I love.
Shame on you all.

18   Dan8267   2012 Sep 27, 9:11am  

Hitchens is one of the most awesome people to ever walk the Earth. People who hate him are loathsome assholes. Hitchens always presents the truth and does so in a clear, concise, and reasonable way that gets at the heart of every issue.

19   Shaman   2012 Sep 27, 9:15am  

Dan, I feel like you are shoving your atheist religion down my throat. It's offensive and possibly blasphemous. Please desist before I and my 5495 closest mosque attenders visit you with torches and anal lube.
*wink*

20   Dan8267   2012 Sep 27, 9:26am  

Good imitation of cloud.

21   Dan8267   2012 Sep 27, 9:36am  

There was one part of the speech that took my by surprise. At the very end, Hitchens gives a shout out to the Winona Ryder flick, Stay Cool. Either that or he was coining a new catch phrase.

23   MisdemeanorRebel   2012 Oct 15, 3:33am  

They're baaaaack. Thousands of Muslims at Google's London Offices.

Limits to Free Speech, Be Civil to the Prophet of our Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9607763/Muslims-protest-age-of-mockery-as-thousands-descend-on-Google-HQ.html

24   Shaman   2012 Oct 15, 4:33am  

"Self-employed businessman Ahmed Nasar said he was worried the video could lead to violence in Britain in the same way as it had abroad. "If you push people too far," he said, "You will turn the peaceful elements into violence.""

People like this piece of shit need to be booted off that island ASAP. If the Muslims try that violent protest bullshit here, they'll get their asses handed to them. Muslims get so outraged about this "blasphemy" because they know it's true, and it makes them look like the pack of inbred camel jockeys that they are.

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