Tolerance or Death: Eurabia’s Selective Liberalism
- Posted by Beth on December 1st, 2005 filed in General, International, The War
“Liberalism” in the classical sense, of course. Europe, the birthplace of liberalism–that is, the philosophy of freedom–only seems to be “liberal” in the political sense. Freedom of speech and expression is being sacrificed at the altar of political correctness and moral equivalence, and mostly because of dhimmitude. It’s not called “Eurabia” for nothing.
Reason Online has an essential read by Bruce Bawer from yesterday on dhimmitude in European Dar al-Harb:
For some Europeans in the expression business, government limits haven’t been necessary: they’ve opted for self-censorship. After being “warned by Muslim friends” shortly after van Gogh’s murder, Dutch movie director Albert Ter Heerdt decided to “postpone” a sequel to his “multicultural comedy” Shouf Shouf Habibi! And in January producer Gijs van de Westelaken canceled a screening of Submission at the Rotterdam Film Festival, whose theme was “censored films.” (Instead, the audience saw two pictures sympathetic to suicide bombers.)
More dhimmitude, from Dhimmi Watch:
UK: dhimmi bobbies criticize mosque closure plan
British police are afraid that closing down mosque that exhort Muslims to wage violent jihad “may be seen as an attack on Islam,” and assert that there are better ways to deal with the problem.
Sick. Read that one, too.
And yes, one more for today. In Fwance, French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut recently “had to” censor himself after he made some statements that the PC crowd and Islamofascists deemed offensive:
Only hours after publication, leftist organizations were vying with each other over who would be first to sue him or file a police complaint against the philosopher for incitement to racism.
Thursday, after receiving death threats, the philosopher decided to respond and repent. In an extensive interview in Le Monde yesterday, he said he “despised” the man who appeared in the article (in Le Monde). “He is he and I am I. To my shock, since Wednesday, it appears that he and I share the same name.”
Will we oh-so-politically correct Americans be next?
Larry says:
Not that it really has anything to do with this post; but I was reading the Book of Daniel Chapter 7, verses 1-28. It describes a dream Daniel has about the rise of a malevolent Kingdon on earth. It seemed to speak to some of the things going on in our world.
I’m not suggesting this foretells the end times. Please people simmer down out there. I’m merely suggesting it is an interesting juxtaposition against the backdrop of current affairs.
Aaron's cc: says:
dhimmi boobies?
Sorry. Mild dyslexia has its plusses.
basil's blog says:
Lunch 12-01-2005
Try one of these specials with your lunch:
Miss BethMiss Beth looks at Eurabia
Sigmund, Carl & Alfred look at religion and hate
Michelle Malkin tells who bombed the levees
Phin listens to girlie music
Conservative Cat says be paitent with B…