~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
A gay rights activist announced he has swapped sides on the same-sex wedding services debate, saying he supports same-sex marriage but doesn’t believe Christians should be forced to write messages they disagree with.
Peter Tatchell’s article centers around Ashers Bakery, a United Kingdom bakery whose owner refused to make a cake with a pro-gay message. A judge ruled last year the Belfast bakery had discriminated and fined it. The case is scheduled to go before the appellate court this week.
While admitting “It pains me to say this,” Tatchell writes in an editorial in The Guardian that the ruling sets a dangerous precedent.
This raises the question: should Muslim printers be obliged to publish cartoons of Mohammed? Or Jewish ones publish the words of a Holocaust denier? Or gay bakers accept orders for cakes with homophobic slurs? If the Ashers verdict stands[…]
You may recall the story of Shachar Rabinovitch, a 13-year-old girl living in Israel. She recently wrote to British academic Marsha Levine, who is reportedly an expert on horses that she was doing a school project and sent her a polite letter asking her for some information about the domestication and breeding of early horse species:
Hello!
My name is Shachar Rabinovitch and I’m from Israel.
I’m doing an assessment for school about horses, and it will be great if you can answer a few questions that I will ask.
1. What ancient horses breeds preserved and were a base to the breeds we know today?
2. How did the ancient humans created new breeds or kept the ones who already were existent?
3. What ancient horse breed the ancient humans used the most and what were those uses?
4. Where did the ancient horses breeds lived?
Thank you for reading my questions,
Shachar Rabinovitch
Levine, who is Jewish (at least genetically) and who still claims to be a researcher at Cambridge University although apparently she no longer is, replied :
Dear Shachar Rabinovich:
I’ll answer your questions when there is peace and justice for Palestinians in Palestine.
I am a member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians. I support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions. You might be a child, but if you are old enough to write to me, you are old enough to learn about Israeli history and how it has impacted on the lives of Palestinian people. Maybe your family has the same views as I do, but I doubt it. […]
You’d think if you were the person behind the ‘Hug a Muslim’ campaign you wouldn’t go around threatening to kill people, but again, some people don’t get the way things work.
‘A WHITE Muslim convert who protested outside Parliament with a sign emblazoned with “I am a Muslim, do you trust me enough for a hug?” is facing jail after threatening to bomb a Tory MPs house.
Craig Wallace, also known as Muhammad Mujahid Islam, used a sign as Stop the War protestors came to Westminster for the vote on British airstrikes in war-ravaged Syria….
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that people have overreacted to Donald Trump’s comments on Muslims, and it would be absurd to ban him from entering the UK.
Speaking on radio station LBC this morning, Mr Farage said any ban on the Republican frontrunner entering the UK would be ludicrous is now “part of the democratic process of the West” and “could be the next President of America.”
Those who have signed a petition calling for the UK to ban Mr Trump, he said, are “the same group of people who it seems want to ban everyone from coming into Britain,” comparing them to student activists who want to “no platform” everyone they disagree with.
Mr Trump “hasn’t encouraged any people being shot or killed or maimed,” Mr Farage added[…]
The following interview with Farage took place three months ago on the subject of the so-called migrant crisis (invasion really), open borders and the Syrian refugees.
The UK experienced another terrorist attack last evening when a lunatic assaulted three people as they exited London’s Leytonstone station with a knife (some reports claim “machete”) in London’s Leytonstone station.
One of the victims, a man in his 50’s was stabbed in the throat whose wounds are not life threatening.
The attack occurred near the ticket barrier of the station where according to witnesses, the 29-year-old assailant seconds before the attack was heard shouting, “This is for Syria.”
The stabbing of three people at a London tube station by a man wielding a large knife is being treated as a “terrorist incident”, the Met Police has said…
Video footage obtained by Sky News shows police officers trying to subdue the suspect with a taser several times before they successfully bring him to the ground.
Sky’s Mark White said: “A man in the main entrance hall by the ticket barrier, we are told, started attacking commuters leaving that station.”
Eyewitness reports said the alleged knifeman spoke of Syria, which has been confirmed to Sky News by sources.
Passengers ran from the scene as the incident unfolded.
One eyewitness, who was outside the station as events unfolded, told Sky News: “I could hear people pleading for help… and all of a sudden people started running out of the station…”
Ex-Muslim and human rights activists, Maryam Namazie, gave it right back to Islamic thugs attending a forum she was addressing earlier this week at Goldsmiths University in London, UK.
Members of the university’s Islamic society took offense when Namazie called out Islam’s intolerance, oppression, denigration and abuse of women.
The reaction to Namazie was “heckling,” very disruptive, aggressive and misogynistic just as one would expect Muslim pigs to behave.
Namazie, who was invited by the Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society campus group, focused her speech on the subjects of apostasy and blasphemy, but about 11 minutes into her talk, things started to unhinge, according to the Independent.
Video of the speech shows Namazie calmly speaking about “Islamism,” but it’s after she refers to it as a “political movement” that is a “global killing machine” that a back and forth develops between her and some audience members sitting in the front row.
“Islamists will hack beloved Bangladeshi bloggers to death in Bangladesh whilst placing Bangladeshi bloggers, who are based in the U.K., on an international death list,” she said, to which one of the students broke out in laughter….
The first disruption occurs around 11:00 of video which for a few moments is TOTAL CHAOS followed by another at approximately 34:00 displayed images (wait for it…..) of the Muslim’s precious Muhammad “in a ‘Jesus and Mo’ cartoon” when one of the hecklers, turns off the projector because while he could bare the images of women being stoned, the Jesus and Mo’ cartoon’ was too painful.
The Q&A session, which followed, had its moments as well as Muslim students chose the use of Alinskyite tactics, play the blame game, expressed outrage and levying accusations at Namazie.
According to media reports, Namazie described: ‘After my talk began, ISOC ‘brothers’ started coming into the room, repeatedly banging the door, falling on the floor, heckling me, playing on their phones, shouting out, and creating a climate of intimidation in order to try and prevent me from speaking.’
The ISOC took to their Facebook page after the event to ‘categorically condemn the vile harassment of our members (both male and female) by the ASH…..’”
Namazie has worked tirelessly for human rights and against their abrogation by some Muslims, concentrating especially on Islamic oppression of women. It’s thus ironic that her talk at Goldsmith’s was opposed by the college Feminist Society, which aligned itself with ISOC, Goldsmith’s Islamic Society….If anybody is creating a “climate of hatred,” it’s these free-speech opposers and professional “I’m offended-ites,” who clearly hate Namazie and want to keep her from speaking…
