[ April 18, 2024 ]
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As if not reporting on the ideology, the motive behind the violence and murder, will change the outcome. It’s the equivalent of the media saying, when a tree falls in the forest, it does not make a sound if the media doesn’t report on it.
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. Brexit will save them.
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The subservience and acquiescence to jihad and sharia is typical of successful Islamic war campaigns throughout history.
This sharia-censorship mandate is consistent with Obama’s statement last month, “We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to.” News curation? Positively Goebbelsque. And Merkel’s sharia policy to silence media and law enforcement agencies where jihad and Muslim attacks are concerned. Yesterday, speaking at a joint press conference with Obama on his farewell tour, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made chilling remarks about her views on the need for government to control the internet. She said the internet is “disruptive” force that has to be “contained, managed, and steered” by government. Hitler did that: “contained, managed and steered” the media.
European Union Orders British Press NOT to Report when Terrorists are Muslims
by Yves Mamou, Gatestone, November 18, 2016:
- 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…
The ECRI report establishes a direct causal link between some tough headlines in British tabloids and the security of the Muslims in the UK. In other words, the British press is allegedly inciting readers to commit “Islamophobic” acts against Muslims.
ECRI considers that, in light of the fact that Muslims are increasingly under the spotlight as a result of recent ISIS-related terrorist acts around the world, fueling prejudice against Muslims shows a reckless disregard, not only for the dignity of the great majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom, but also for their safety.
ECRI is basing its report on a recent study from Matthew Feldman, Professor at Teesside University. This study compiled anti-Muslim incidents before and after terrorist’s attacks.
In the seven days prior to the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, where 12 people were killed, there were 12 reported (anti Muslim) incidents, but in the seven days following, there were 45. This pattern was similar in relation to the terror attacks in Sydney, in December and Copenhagen, in February.
So, according to the ECRI and scholars of Teesside University, when Muslim jihadists murder people and the press reports that killers are Muslims, the press, and not Islamists, is encouraging “Islamophobic incidents” in Britain. According to ECRI Chair Christian Ahlund, “It is no coincidence that racist violence is on the rise in the UK at the same time as we see worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in the newspapers, online and even among politicians.”
For the ECRI, the biggest problem is:
“… where the media stress the Muslim background of perpetrators of terrorist acts, and devote significant coverage to it, the violent backlash against Muslims is likely to be greater than in cases where the perpetrators’ motivation is downplayed or rejected in favour of alternative explanations.”
The report does not explain what could be “alternative explanations.” But we can find examples in French press: when a Muslim attacks a soldier and tries to take his gun, he is not an Islamist terrorist, but a “lunatic.” Such attacks by “lunatics” are very common in France.
The French press downplays attacks by deciding not to name Muslim perpetrators: incriminating a “Mohamed” could, in the minds of French journalists, incite retaliations against Muslims. In another example, Muslim gangs cannot be connected to any form of violence, so they become “youths.” In France, Muslim terrorists are never Muslim terrorists, but “lunatics”, “maniacs” and “youths.”
But that is France. In Britain, tabloids are not so polite, and they understand perfectly the intentions of the ECRI report: to ban the word “Muslim” when it is associated with “violence or terrorism.”
The ECRI Report Marks a U-Turn in Free Speech
This is the moment where hate speech laws become a greater threat to democracy and freedom of speech than the hate speech itself. Prohibiting journalists from naming “Islamic terrorism,” and encouraging them to hide the association of Muslims with terrorism, is an attempt to misrepresent the truth in the same way the former Soviet Union censored the truth. Taking advantage of some real racist articles in tabloids — not many, because not many are quoted in the report — to attack freedom of the press and freedom of speech is not anti-hate speech; it is submission.
The proof of submission lies in ECRI’s recommendations to the British government:
- “establish an independent press regulator”;
- “rigorous training for journalists to ensure better compliance with ethical standards”;
- “review the provisions on incitement to hatred with a view to making them more effective and usable”;
- “establish a real dialogue with Muslims in order to combat Islamophobia. They should consult them on all policies which could affect Muslims”;
- amending the Editor’s Code of Practice to ensure that members of groups can submit complaints as victims against biased or prejudicial reporting concerning their community”
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. If a breach of that kind would open in the future, no doubt all the lobbies would rush into the breach: political parties, Protestants, Catholics, Jews, multinationals, everyone.
The British government did not fall into the trap, and firmly rebuffed ECRI’s demands. It told the European council body:
“The Government is committed to a free and open press and does not interfere with what the press does and does not publish, as long as the press abides by the law.”
In Great Britain, and in all countries of European Union, anti-hate laws already exist. 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.
These laws have also been invoked often by Islamists to sue against anti-Islamist speech (cartoons of Muhammad, blasphemy against Islam, etc.) as manifestations of “racism” — fortunately with little success. Most court cases that Islamists have initiated have failed because Islam is not a race.
Agnes Callamard, expert on human rights, writes in reference to the United Nations Charter:
“ARTICLE 19 recognises that reasonable restrictions on freedom of expression may be necessary or legitimate to prevent advocacy of hatred based on nationality, race, religion that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence. The organisation does not extend such legitimate restrictions to offensive and blasphemous expressions.”
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.
Yves Mamou, based in France, worked for two decades as a journalist for Le Monde.
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42 Comments
7 years ago
I wish i was born in and had lived in the days of the old west,..that way i would not have to deal with all the stupid genocidal idiocy displayed by humanity today
7 years ago
Hillary went to Pakistan after the Benghazi attack to apologize that in America people can record video and upload it to the internet, She promised if elected she would try to amend the 1st amendment to exclude the criticism of Islam, And censor all video uploading pending executive agency approval..
But what is criticism of Islam?
Wearing a bikini, writing a song, or painting a picture, even having a clitoris, being a left handed person or just simply being a free human, are all things that are extremely offensive to Islam,
Hillary ran her campaign on this promise , If we open our borders for ISIS and simultaneously disarm all law abiding Americans nothing will go wrong,,
as long as “our media” report all jihad attacks as” lone wolves” ” Isolated Incidents”
that had ” nothing to do with the peaceful religion of Islam”.
Scarier yet, our Media was behind her, ready and willing to cover up the future murder of American citizens.
This election was about the Washington elite and their media minions against all Americans who possess a logical reasoning ability and even the slightest pride in the concept of what freedom is and why it is worth fighting for..
7 years ago
This makes the EU now a terrorist organization.
7 years ago
Reply to
Wayne Ville ... a Deplorable
I hope Trump sits back and lets Russia take over Western Europe. Putin knows how to deal with islamofascists. Trump should also kick Turkey back to the stone age and support the Kurds. Free Kurdistan!
7 years ago
Reply to
wilypagan
If the muslum Kurds (strangely enough I’ve read the Jewish Kurds have all made aliyah — does anyone have to wonder why?) foment their own state what type of state do you think they’ll form? A free, tolerant democracy? Or yet another muslum pig’s anus state that enthusiastically enforces muslum heresy and blasphemy laws?
7 years ago
Europe today is truly fallen…
7 years ago
Curative: “able to cure something, typically disease.” I wonder what it is that Obama wants cured? The Internet.
The success of the Internet is reflected in it’s massive size. It’s working—-it’s not broken—–don’t fix it.
But, Obama sees the Internet as broken and that it is up to the globalists to fix it.
The UK should tell Merkel to just go away. The Brits are leaving—–they know it—-why kiss Merkel’s butt anymore.
Perhaps we can see the future of the entire Internet by looking at the censorship over at Twitter and Facebook.
Their censorship efforts seem to be accelerating exponentially.
So then—we have the liberal media——the liberal social media. Liberalism equals censorship.
Support Trump. Support the Brexit efforts. Right now. it’s all we have and the future of a free and open Internet is looking grim.
Merkel would have been a good wife for Hitler.
Merkel seems devoted to her path of white Genocide.
Hitler, yes, had his own genocide going as well.
By now it is clear to me that the liberal globalist elites are the new nazis. There is no doubt about that.
If they are not stopped then we know what’s coming.
7 years ago
One more reason to EXIT the EU.
7 years ago
The problem is the distracting, obfuscating regionalization focus of media & governance enhanced by nationalism & language barriers.
The solution is the strategic, global view on the reality of the planet & the use of English as official language.
Having said that we need to use & secure every area as operating zone from which we can think & overthrow the Muhammadism-conspiracy’s influence & tyranny on the conscience & wellbeing of humanity, globally without being bullied & threatened by Muhammadism-conspirators.
Ban Islam, save lives!
Did you know: There’s slavery today of Africans in Saudi Arabia, Mauritania(25%,50%?of population), new north Sudan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, Oman, Algeria, Lebanon, Qatar (?), Pakistan, UAE, Niger, Libya, Nigeria, Chad, Mali, Somalia & elsewhere inspired by sadist, racist slaver tyrant, inventor of slavery of Africans, child-rapist & pederast, mass-murderer, theist psychopath, genital mutilationist, clitodirectomist Muhammad who owned Africans as slaves & said that his deity turned Africans black, so their descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks (Abeed means African & slave in Arabic,) (Read more about sadist, racist slaver Muhammad at WikiIslam). & IslamicState stated they want to revive African slavery in America.
Anti-African racists & Muhammadism Out of Africa!
Ban the Muhammadism-conspiracy & democracy, save lives!
7 years ago
Reply to
billdeserthills
If the scary Jews are giving you conniption fits Adolph, you can always move to any muslum pig’s anus state — where the scary Jews will never bother you again.
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
Funny you say that, only yesterday I coulda swore I read something you said concerning your dislike for zionists
7 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
I support all communtities fought against by the Muhammadism-conspiracy.
7 years ago
So the ‘maniacs’ are running the press now. Just brilliant.
7 years ago
Reply to
Collin R. Hinrichs
maniacs cost less & they make their own drama-
just look at the maniac cops, enough drama to last & last
7 years ago
What a misleading article. Firstly, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) is NOTHING to do with the European Union. The commission is part of the Council of Europe (CoE). The ECRI undertakes at regular intervals reports on human rights in all 57 CoE member countries.
This article ‘cherry-picks’ a paragraph from an 83-page report published last month on the UK. “”Hate speech in some traditional media, particularly tabloid newspapers,
continues to be a problem, with biased or ill-founded information
disseminated about vulnerable groups, which may contribute to
perpetuating stereotypes. An independent press regulator has not been
set up. A particularly high number of violent racist incidents
occurred in 2013 with a sharp rise in anti-Muslim violence…”
The report goes on to say “In this report, ECRI requests that the
authorities take action in a number of areas; in this context,
it makes a series of recommendations, including the
following…” REQUEST is hardly ‘ORDER’!
The report in full is at http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/ecri/Country-by-country/United_Kingdom/GBR-CbC-V-2016-038-ENG.pdf
7 years ago
Reply to
Andy Harley
Pi$$lam isn’t a race lying hawse hole. Furthermore, all the holey books of pi$$lam are chock full of antisemitic vomit. Of course that doesn’t bother a muslum apologist cum sympathizer.
7 years ago
Reply to
Andy Harley
Here’s my request to you, Mr Harley. I notice from your comments history that you live in Gloucester. I am a Bristolian currently living in Gloucester. Have a wander down Barton Street and compare the people living in that area of Gloucester with those whom you are likely to meet when you take a stroll down the towpath which runs alongside the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal. Which one of those areas of Gloucester reminds you of the England of your youth?
Better still, take a trip to Bristol and stand on Midland Road and watch as scores of muslim women take their children to the local school. My previous flat overlooked Midland Road.
If you don’t realise what’s at stake by allowing more muslims to settle in the UK, your grandchildren, if you have any, most certainly will.
7 years ago
Reply to
Andy Harley
There is no such thing as hate speech. That is a fiction created by the left to silence opposition.
And, please do not refer to Islam as a race; it’s a political ideology masquerading as religion. It’s actually a death cult if you really paid attention.
7 years ago
Reply to
Andy Harley
Especially when said censorship is used to shield a fundamentally and explicitly fascist and totalitarian ideology like islam.
7 years ago
The e.u are without a doubt the stupidest most bigoted organization of imbeciles to ever walk on their hind legs. britain is swirling around the bowl, one more juggle of the handle and it will be in the same islamic sewer as every other islamic republic. Describing muslims as what the are and do is perfectly normal, all that is suggested is that when describing the actions of muslims, print or mention the phrase from the qur’an they are using as inspiration.
7 years ago
Muslum collaborators should receive the same punishment nazi collaborators received in France during and following WW2.
7 years ago
European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) never commit on the demands for death and violence against non muslims as presented forcefully in the qur’an. The lying two faced bigots of the e.u are a disgrace to humanity, unfit to have a public opinion. Th e.u is to be ignored ridiculed and treated with distain, contempt and disgust.
7 years ago
Reply to
wilypagan
He would be ok, compared to what the e.u has for leadership now, a bag of squirrels would be better.
7 years ago
Sure cover up for the Muslims because God forbid their might be some backlash which there hardly ever is! They have to be the most protected class of people in the world right now!
7 years ago
Intolerant muslims are so much safer when the citizenry is disarmed, don’t forget that rasher of bacon, it could save your ‘bacon’
Is holding a package of bacon up before a charging terrorist akin to showing a vampire the stake you intend to pierce it’s heart with? Will the jihadist hiss like a vampire when he recognizes the evil pork product that threatens his mortal soul?
7 years ago
More “Democrats” OMG these people are insane.
They can’t even spell the word and certainly don’t know what it means.
7 years ago
If the EU says something in the forest but nobody hears, do the trees still laugh? And they wonder about the success of the Brexit referendum?
7 years ago
Britain, smartly decided to shuck the e.u. for very good reason… Now they are expected to kow-tow to the demands of that e.u. and censor ??
AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN you reprobates !!!
7 years ago
For any government official in the United Kaliphate to state they have a “free and open press” is really gilding the lily — especially WRT pi$$lam or muslums.
7 years ago
“fueling prejudice against Muslims shows a reckless disregard, not only for the dignity of the great majority of Muslims in the United Kingdom, but also for their safety”. So you stunned knobs of the e.u, why are you not telling muslims to show respect for the dignity lives and well being of non muslims? Why is it always all about muslims all of the time? People are learning to hate muslims based on their constant begging , snivelling and criminal activities, aided and abated by the e.u.and its toady supporters.
7 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
In places like:
1. Nigeria
2. Lebanon
3. Thailand
4. Myanmar
5. W. Papua New Guinea
6. Pakistain
7. Bangladesh
8. Syria
9. Iraq
10. Iran
11. E. Timor
12. Cyprus
13. Armenia
the unbeliever in islam has many more concrete reasons to hate muslums than mere begging or sniveling.
7 years ago
If you can’t call Muslims Muslims then call them Merkels. I call Hindus Hindus and nobody gets upset.
7 years ago
How many muslims have been murdered by non muslims? How many non muslims have been murdered by muslims? How many non muslims have been beaten by muslims? How many muslims have been beaten by non muslims? How many non muslims have been raped or enslaved by mulims? How many muslims have been raped or enslaved by non muslims?
7 years ago
Why bother with “exits” Just disband the Cursed EU and be done with it… Re-establish national borders, and at least moderately control who passes borders, and what they carry with them…
Caption Contest…
7 years ago
Well Տhit… id rather be in the EU right now with this r℮tarded snoopers charter…
