Trying to reason with the violently intransigent and desperately dishonest. “Vilks takes fight to Facebook foes,” from The Local, June 8 (thanks to Fjordman): Swedish artist Lars Vilks has joined a Facebook group entitled Kill Lars Vilks in order to engage in discussion with his antagonists as part of his…
Are we sure Islamic jihad can be resisted by reliance on Western secular values alone?
“So it is made out, George Bush-style, that you are either for freedom of expression or against it!” Yep. “Zapiro: Drawing the Line: Zubair Bayat,” from Dispatch Online, May 29: [...] Two things are wrong with Zapiro’s cartoon. Firstly, any attempt to depict him in illustration is an attempt…
The Qur’an is full of contempt and hatred for the unbeliever, the “most vile of created beings” (98:6). But when the EDL pointed this out on its website, British authorities pulled the plug. Apparently the truth is now illegal in the United Kingdom as well as in the Netherlands, where…
As a matter of principle, Uppsala University should give him the opportunity to finish his lecture, unedited. Otherwise, it is precisely the case that “what you get is a mob deciding what can be discussed at the university.” An update on this story. “Muhammad cartoonist defiant after attack,” by Karl…
Comments by David G. Littman, NGO Representative UN, Geneva: Association for World Education (AWE); World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) In our recent comments on the latest FGM origo mali (origin of evil) event at the UNHRC (Geneva), we announced this revealing video on the landmark 16 June 2008…
He’s not out of danger yet — far from it. This measure is one of damage control in the face of international scrutiny and ridicule, and an effort to buy time while the Saudis weigh their options. It does not change the basic legal situation in the country. An update…
University of Ottawa Vice Provost Francois Houle (artist’s rendering)
By now, some of you may have heard the latest sorry dispatch from up here in Canuckistan.
Ann Coulter is paying her first visit to my “country” this week, visiting three Canadian campuses. Last night, she was welcomed by this slightly sinister, typically passive aggressive email from University [...]
Hat-tip to Queen Kathy Shaidle, who alerted NRB to this MUST READ post at Coren’s Comment:
Dear Ms. Coulter,
I understand that you have been invited by University of Ottawa Campus Conservatives to speak at the University of Ottawa this coming Tuesday. We are, of course, always delighted to welcome speakers on our campus and hope that [...]
The dhimmitude and self-censorship on Facebook’s part, however, may not be a given in this case. The creator of the site says he is redesigning it and that it will be back. We’ll see. Free Speech Death Watch Update: “‘Allah is’… angering Muslims?,” by Rachelle Kliger for The Media Line…
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