The UK abolished blasphemy laws in 2008. So why was a man arrested in Manchester on Saturday after desecrating a copy of the Koran?
For the record: When I use the term Muslim, I don’t mean people from Pakistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria etc. I mean actual Muslims, those who believe in the ideology.
Post 2008, it would no longer be a punishable offence to speak «contemptuously, scornfully, derisively or ridiculously» about God. No poor soul would be dragged off to prison, let alone the pillory, for blasphemy. Was blasphemy sneaked back into the law books without anyone noticing?
This is what Brendan O’Neill writes in The Spectator. Desecrating a Koran is deadly in today’s Europe. In the past, you could get a fine or a few days behind bars for the crime of blasphemy. Today, the penalty is just as likely to be the death penalty.
Maybe it should no longer be called blasphemy? What about Lèse-majesté? This is also a law that most countries have abolished.
But then millions of new majesties arrived, with a pronounced appetite for violence and an extremely high capacity to feel oppressed and violated by the people they themselves kill, rape and subject to stabbings, arson, bombings and sheer degradation.
When I read about Saturday’s arrest, I wondered what century this is.
Ever since its inception, Islam’s goal has been world domination. European heroes fought Koranic warriors during the Crusades, outside the walls of Constantinople, on the Kosovo plain in Serbia, in front of the walls of Vienna (twice), in Malta (the most incredible story of all) and the naval battle of Lepanto, where the Christian holy league was led by a man with the glorious name of Don Juan (of Austria).
Today, however, European politicians have abandoned the battlefield before the battle, leaving their rank-and-file soldiers in the trenches, without weapons or ammunition. If anyone resists the new majesties, it is precisely they who will be punished.
A brite burned a book in Manchester on Saturday. Police reacted faster than during the ongoing mass rape and torture of British little girls. While the rape jihad was ignored for years, the Koran burner was apprehended within minutes.
Police officers pounced on the man, handcuffed him and took him into custody. How can British police act like this, right after the murder of Salwan Momika?
The man was arrested on suspicion of a «racially aggravated public order offence».
This is a waste of words to say «blasphemy». Or «insult to majesty».
Police in Manchester gave the game away when they said the burning of the Koran could cause «deep concern» in «some of our diverse communities». It could even «cause harm or distress», they said.
But if a Brit feels «deep concern» about the serial rapes of children, or the knife murders in Southport, and believes the new trend of boat migrants in luxury hotels is obviously «causing harm and death», then the police respond by arresting the person who shows their concern.
This is Two Tier-Keir in practice: One law for the Majesties (Muslims), no laws protecting ordinary Britons (or Europeans). The Tories are just as guilty of this tragic development, just as the Conservatives and Labour-party have worked closely together to destroy Norway forever.
Our former Prime Minister Erna Solberg’s great role model Angela Merkel did the same thing, only on a much larger scale.
It is a form of tyranny to prioritise religious sensitivity over individual freedom, to attribute greater moral value to the feelings of believers than to the freedom of non-believers.
O’Neill uses the word «believers», but that’s a bit wrong, in my opinion. You can insult Christians, Hindus and Bahais as much as you like and nothing will happen. It’s the Muslims who need to be protected. The brutal followers of the most oppressive religion in history should be considered oppressed and «vulnerable».
The arrest of a man suspected of desecrating a Koran should outrage liberal sensibilities as much as the inquisitorial assaults on the “unchristian” of the past.
The Inquisition was a walk in the park compared to the suffering Islam has inflicted on Europe. Islam is responsible for at least 50 times as many murders as the Spanish Inquisition managed in 300 years.
Don’t be fooled by the likes of Voltaire and historian Edward Gibbons, who created the myths of paradise in Andalusia to target the Catholic Church.
Free speech must absolutely include the freedom to question all religious claims, to deny all gods and prophets, and even to destroy their books.
In other words, it should be just as acceptable to burn a Koran as it is to read it. Muslims’ feelings have nothing to do with it, they get angry about everything. Should we ban homosexuality because it offends Muslims? What about women’s rights to walk around scantily clad on a hot summer’s day?
What about bacon? A cold beer on the terrace? A glass of red wine with the steak on a Saturday night? This offends a true Muslim. Should we really care?
When was the last time you saw a topless girl on the beach? This was completely normal when I was growing up. What has happened in the meantime?
The «Koran desecration» in Manchester came just two days after Salwan Momika was shot and killed in Stockholm, in what must be considered a straightforward execution for blasphemy. Europe kneels before the tyrants of violence, and this is a pure shame to witness.
Europe’s response to this scandal should have been a loud and unreserved affirmation of freedom of expression, of the hard-won human right to mock all gods, prophets, books and faiths.
Instead, we arrest people for criticising Islam. It’s such a dangerous game.
This happened in Manchester, where a Muslim terrorist slaughtered young girls at an Aria Grande concert. At the time, the reaction was Don’t Look Back In Anger. But apparently burning a Koran is worse than slaughtering nearly twenty young girls.
The Danes have introduced new laws that apparently make it a criminal offence to burn a Koran, even though they try to pretend it’s about protecting all religions with the word salad of all time, without many people being stupid enough to be fooled.
Our Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, was on the front line during the macabre attack on Vebjørn Selbekk during the caricature controversy, while a dozen bearded imams stood grinning in the background.
We never forget, Støre! You are not my prime minister, you don’t deserve an inch of respect, only total contempt, as you and yours kneel with fake smiles for the new majesties.
Action plan against Muslim hostility, you say? How about an action plan against well-deserved politician contempt?
No-one stands to gain from this new crackdown on «Islamophobic» speech. Islam sceptics, including ex-Muslims who want to take a stand against the religion they once followed, are being silenced.
And followers of Islam are being infantilised. They’re like children who don’t get candy in the shop and who have never been brought up. Uncontrolled rage based on perceived offences is completely standard.
Normal people stop this kind of behaviour (tantrums) when they pass the age of four. Really well-behaved kids never behave like this.
But Muslim fanatics continue until they finally reach their goal, believing they are achieving the dream of 72 virgins. Strange dream, if you ask me.
As O’Neill says at the end: Yes, the sight of a burning Koran will offend some people, but you know what? Feeling offended from time to time is a vanishingly small price to pay for living in a free society.
As if anyone thinks that Muslims really want a free society?
