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by Soeren Kern • April 19, 2019
at 5:00 am
- "The external
enemies want to tell us how to run our country.... Angela
Merkel and her fellow travelers, George Soros, the immigration
mafias, believe that they can tell us who can and cannot enter
our country. They demand that our boats pluck so-called
castaways out of the sea, transfer them to our ports and
shower them with money. Who do they think we are?" —
Ortega Smith, Secretary General of the Vox party, Spain.
- "These....
groups stand out not because of prejudice ('Islamophobia' or
racism) but due to their being the least assimilable of
foreigners, an array of problems associated with them, such as
not working and criminal activity, and a fear that they will
impose their ways on Europe.... Other concerns deal with
Muslim attitudes toward non-Muslims, including Christophobia
and Judeophobia, jihadi violence, and the insistence that
Islam enjoy a privileged status vis-à-vis other
religions" — Daniel Pipes, historian, "Europe's
Civilizationist Parties," Commentary, November
2018.
- "We all know
about the lack of freedom, if not direct persecution, suffered
by women and Christians in Islamic countries, while here they
enjoy the generosity characteristic of freedom, democracy and
reciprocity, of course, all of which they systematically
deny...." — Santiago Abascal, President of the Vox party,
"Trojan Horse," Libertad Digital, December
2014.
- "The left
defends any gratuitous offense, even the most beastly ones,
against Christians as 'freedom of expression.' At the same
time, the mere fact of criticizing Islam is branded as
'Islamophobia.' .... Is this still Spain or are we in
Iran?" — Elantir, blogger, Contando Estrelas.
Vox, a
fast-rising Spanish populist party, describes itself as is a
socially conservative political project aimed at defending
traditional Spanish values from the challenges posed by mass
migration, multiculturalism and globalism. Vox's foundational
mission statement affirms that the party is dedicated to
constitutional democracy, free-market capitalism and the rule of
law. Pictured: Santiago Abascal, President of Vox, arrives at a
party rally in Granada, Spain on April 17, 2019. (Image source:
David Ramos/Getty Images)
Spanish prosecutors have opened a criminal
investigation to determine whether the secretary general of Vox, a
fast-rising Spanish populist party, is guilty of hate speech for
warning of an "Islamist invasion."
The criminal inquiry, based on a complaint from a
Muslim activist group, appears aimed at silencing critical
discussion of Islam ahead of national elections on April 28. More
broadly, however, the case poses a potentially immeasurable threat
to the exercise of free speech in Spain.
Prosecutors in Valencia, the third-largest city in
Spain, said that they were investigating Javier Ortega Smith, the
second-ranking leader of Vox, for an alleged hate crime after they
received a complaint from a Muslim group called "Muslims
Against Islamophobia" (Musulmanes Contra la Islamofobia).
At a rally in Valencia on September 16, 2018, Ortega
Smith declared that Europe's "common enemy" is the
"Islamist invasion":
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