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by Yves Mamou
• November 18, 2016 at 5:00 am
- This is the
moment where hate speech laws become a greater threat to democracy
and freedom of speech than hate speech itself.
- In France,
Muslim terrorists are never Muslim terrorists, but
"lunatics," "maniacs" and "youths".
- To attack
freedom of the press and freedom of speech is not anti-hate speech;
it is submission.
- By following
these recommendations, the British government would place Muslim
organizations in a kind of monopoly position: they would become the
only source of information about themselves. It is the perfect
totalitarian information order.
- Created to
guard against the kind of xenophobic and anti-Semitic propaganda
that gave rise to the Holocaust, national hate speech laws have
increasingly been invoked to criminalize speech that is merely
deemed insulting to one's race, ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
- It is
disturbing to wonder how long the EU will strongly engage its
experts and influence to cut through existing legal obstacles, in a
quest to criminalize any type of criticism of Islam, and to submit
to the values of jihad.
According the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
(ECRI) -- part of the Council of Europe -- the British press is to blame
for increasing hate speech and racist violence. On October 4, 2016, the ECRI
released a report dedicated only to Britain. The report said:
some traditional media, particularly tabloids... are responsible for
most of the offensive, discriminatory and provocative terminology. The
Sun, for instance, published an article in April 2015 entitled
"Rescue boats? I'd use gunships to stop migrants", in which the
columnist likened migrants to "cockroaches"...
The Sun newspaper has also published inflammatory anti-Muslim
headlines, such as its front page of 23 November 2015 which read "1
in 5 Brit Muslims' sympathy for jihadis", along with a picture of a
masked terrorist wielding a knife...
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