Religion: The Silent Assassin of European Free Speech
By- Jurian Janssen
Free speech, a right very dear to us all. A right which is the cornerstone of our democratic society. We are a generation that has never had to protect its freedom, and it shows.
Haven ' t we all, at one point in our godless lives, seen a theist or a group of theists who genuinely believe that godless speech or speech that opposes their beliefs should be censored? I ' ve seen them, and I ' ve met them. We laugh at their miserable attempts. ' This is never going to happen ' we tell ourselves, and then we laugh some more. We seem to think that we know this idea of selective speech is ridiculous, and yet the truth is finally dawning upon us.
Here in Europe we call our society free and democratic. Are we? Really?
It has come to light that certain mosques in Europe were preaching anti- LGBT and anti-Semitic values to its visitors, even to little children. They were filled with hate from the moment they could read and write. I thought to myself ' Good, now that this has been proven we can do something about it '. I guess I was wrong. The very next day there was no massive LGBTrights protest, there was no massive ' stop anti-Semitism ' protest. No, no, no, the newspapers and internet exploded with progressive( which has nothing to do with human rights anymore) people complaining that it was racist and incorrect to point out that mosques were preaching hateful messages.
Am I the only one who thinks this is crazy?
Remember the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard who made the Mohammed cartoon back in 2006? Of course you ' ve heard. The whole media was filled with stories about how extremely racist the cartoon was and about how hurt the itsy bitsy feelings of the religious were. But did you also hear about the two pieces of human vermin masquerading as journalists who followed the car that was transporting Westergaard to a safe location just to reveal where he was so whoever wanted could plan an attack on him? Or did
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