Freedom of Expression~Democracy
Reaffirming also the positive role
that the exercise of the right to freedom of
opinion and expression and full respect for the freedom to seek, receive and impart
information can play in strengthening democracy and combating religious
intolerance, and reaffirming further that the exercise of the right to freedom of
expression carries with it special duties and responsibilities, in accordance with
article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
opinion and expression and full respect for the freedom to seek, receive and impart
information can play in strengthening democracy and combating religious
intolerance, and reaffirming further that the exercise of the right to freedom of
expression carries with it special duties and responsibilities, in accordance with
article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
expression & democracy
- positive role that the exercise of the right to freedom of
opinion and expression and full respect for the freedom to seek, receive and impart
information can play in strengthening democracy
religious intolerance
- combating religious intolerance
In reality, Islam is not a religion: it is a deen; a way of life having religious, social, governmental and military components. Islam's military component, called Jihad, is its highest peak. The quote comes from page 1290 of Tirmidhi.
“Its head is Islam, its pillar is
Salah and the
apex of its hump is jihad.”
Moe said: "I have been raised for Jihad and I am not raised for tillage." He also said that Jihad is the original religion of Islam and Allah will curse Muslims for abandoning it.
Sunan Abu Dawud 23.3455
Does that refer to Jihad an-Nafs: striving against
the ego and temptation? How is that an alternative to agriculture and
trade as a means of deriving income? How does one get killed
or kill others in striving against temptation? How does one injure
or enrage disbelievers in Jihad an-Nafs? Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:
I heard the Apostle of Allah, (peace_be_upon_him) say: When you enter into the inah transaction, hold the tails of oxen, are pleased with agriculture, and give up conducting jihad (struggle in the way of Allah). Allah will make disgrace prevail over you, and will not withdraw it until you return to your original religion.
Was objection to the Nazi invasion of Europe an intolerance to be combated? Was objection to the attack on Pearl harbor an intolerance to be combated? Then neither is condemnation of the doctrines which inspired the Hindu genocide, Armenian genocide, Assyrian genocide or the attacks on Beslan, London, Madrid or New York City and Boston intolerance to be combated.
special duties and responsibilities
It is not possible to be and remain free without free speech. Another critical sentence in the resolution declares that terrorism must not be associated with any religion. Is terrorism an intrinsic sacrament of Christianity or Buddhism? But it is an intinsic sacrament of Islam: 3:151, 8:12,39,57,60,65,67, 9:5,29,38, 39,111,120,123, 33:26,27, 47:4,49:15, 59:2,13, 61:10-13; Sahih Bukhari 1.7.331 & 4.52.220. so why in Hell should we be made to keep silent about it?In the most damnable words of the most damnable engineers of the God damn Abomination:
"Therefore, killing
you and fighting you, destroying you and terrorizing you,
responding back to your
attacks, are all considered to be great legitimate duty in our religion....
So, our religion is a religion of fear and terror to the enemies of God: the Jews, Christians, and pagans.
With God's wiling, we are terrorists to the bone. So, many thanks to God"
attacks, are all considered to be great legitimate duty in our religion....
So, our religion is a religion of fear and terror to the enemies of God: the Jews, Christians, and pagans.
With God's wiling, we are terrorists to the bone. So, many thanks to God"
Our duty is to expose evil, not to conceal it. If exposure of their damnable doctrines & practices pisses off Muslims, their reactions are their own doing and responsibility, not ours. Our lectures, remarks, blog posts and books are for the Western audience of free men who wish to remain alive and free, not for Allah's slaves who are Hellbound to torment us.
There is no duty or responsibility to avoid pissing off evildoers by exposing their evil. Imams are always on the lookout for real or imaginary offenses with which to rouse the rabble to riot. The MoToons did not cause riots: rabble rousing rants at Jumah Salat did. Fitna did not cause riots: rabble rousing rants did. The Innocence of Muslims did not cause riots: rabble rousing rants did. Moe never threw a bomb because he died before the invention of explosives. The MoToons, while exaggerated, were conceptually true. Fitna is well documented. Innocence of Muslims is backed up by authentic texts of Sira.
President Washington said it best:
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be
led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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