Geert de Wilders
The notion of responsible speech appears regularly on college campuses and even in city public meetings in Cambridge MA on police abuses. If you can't talk about a problem how can you solve it? This is liberals censoring factual speech that they find inconvenient.
Oriana Fallaci
[From article]
"As the trial of Dutch MP Geert Wilders for offending Muslims unfolds in Amsterdam, I am reminded of Oriana Fallaci’s post-9/11 writings on how she saw Europe wasted from within by the alien cultural force of Islam.
Fallaci was a fearless journalist and author. And though critics faulted her for intemperate language, especially when it came to writing about Islam, Wilders’ trial might well confirm her fears about Europe and the West were not misplaced."
Fallaci was a fearless journalist and author. And though critics faulted her for intemperate language, especially when it came to writing about Islam, Wilders’ trial might well confirm her fears about Europe and the West were not misplaced."
[. . .]
The demand by Europe’s officialdom — Canada’s officialdom is on the same page — that “free speech” must also meet the requirements of “responsible speech” when the subject is Islam is tantamount to repudiating Europe’s history that made her the cradle of the modern world of science and democracy."
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2010/01/29/12670321.html
The demand by Europe’s officialdom — Canada’s officialdom is on the same page — that “free speech” must also meet the requirements of “responsible speech” when the subject is Islam is tantamount to repudiating Europe’s history that made her the cradle of the modern world of science and democracy."
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2010/01/29/12670321.html
Dutch MP's trial reminiscent of reporter's post-9/11 writings
By SALIM MANSUR, QMI Agency
Toronto Sun
29th January 2010, 6:27pm
By SALIM MANSUR, QMI Agency
Toronto Sun
29th January 2010, 6:27pm
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