(Posted on this blog on February 9, 2010.)
Sorry if i (n) Sister again and again with the trial of Geert Wilders. I think it is necessary, because as I said yesterday, " the press almost does not address the issue, which has been confined to the blogosphere, independent (of the power of elites "usual suspects"), which is not the same as "alternative."
Robert Spencer has today published an article, which states:
"It is Not exaggerating to say That the trial Geert Wilders is a defining moment in the history of Western civilization. One Would Have to go back Centuries to find a court case with as Significance much for the future course of the free world. If the farrago of "Hate" Charges Against Wilders stick, and I is convicted, it will herald the end of the freedom of speech in the West, as will precedents in September That Have Been Other Western nations (urged on by the Organization of Islamic Conference, which is the organization most responsible for the global assault on free speech) will be certain to follow. The era of enlightenment and the understanding that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights will be definitively drawing to a close, and a new darkness will descend over Europe and the free world in general. For once the precedent is established that a man can be jailed and destroyed for offending a privileged class, the idea that every human being has rights that cannot be infringed will be damaged beyond repair."
"No es exagerado decir que el juicio a Geert Wilders es un momento definitorio en la historia de la civilización occidental. Uno pudiera ir siglos atrás para encontrar un caso judicial con tanta significancia for the future course of the free world. If the barrage of charges of 'hate' against Wilders prevails, and is convicted, will herald the end of freedom of expression in the West as a precedent to be established, which other Western nations (under pressure from the Organization of the Conference Islam, which is the organization most responsible for this global assault on freedom of expression) will continue with certainty. The Age of Enlightenment and the understanding that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, will definitely close, and a new darkness will descend on Europe and the free world in general. Once the precedent is established a man can be jailed for offending and destroyed a privileged class, the idea that every human being has rights that can not be infringed is damaged beyond repair. "
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" Yet Even If They Do silence him, the truth will Be still the truth. They Will Not Be Able to obliterate it forever. But Will They Be Able to help Initiate a long, Perhaps Centuries long, period of darkness and oppression in Europe and Its civilizational children? Certainly
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" However, even if they are silent, the truth is still the truth. Not be able to erase it forever. But will they be able to help start a long period, perhaps centuries of darkness and oppression in Europe and civilized children? Certainly
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Is it possible to tolerate the intolerant?
important thing now is not whether our civilization will survive or not, but they are not allowed to say who is being threatened, on pain of jail.
What happened Voltaire for his anti-clericalism and anti-Christianity surely? rest in the Pantheon.
If he spent a year (and Wilders asked 15 months in prison), contained in the Bastille, was for having written a satire against Philippe d 'Orléans.
The author of "Traité sur la tolérance", true, had to know the exile ... to be accepted by other countries, which most Christian kings and " the grace of God, "admired and protected.
His" Dictionnaire philosophique ", for example, was banned, and when someone, inspired by the book, mutilated a crucifix and was sentenced, he was responsible and fled to Switzerland.
But today, when he presented his "Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet Prophet will", is suggested as "justification" for publication actually Voltaire's criticism in this play was not against Islam but against Christianity. Needless Voltaire had need of it!
The history of the last two centuries would be aware of a "curious" parable: the results themselves (anti-religious and tolerant) of Lights, lead to a religion such as Islam, with its uncompromising and dominant budgets, reverse any freedom of expression and thought.
In pre-Enlightenment times, even in these (as evidenced in another way, the aforementioned work of Voltaire), on behalf of the Christian religion and to defend the territories where the same woman conquering the threat of Islam, attacked it, claiming their barbarism.
The "death of God" who brought the Enlightenment and what followed as a result, would have produced that one "Allah" (I say "may" because, for example, recently settled a dispute with Arab Christians, who could not use the Arabic word "Allah" to mean "God") claiming the universal application of the Sharia, through Jihad.
If for Judeo-Christian civilization, after the religious Enlightenment became a cultural marker, the anti-religious spirit that caused essentially served to be enthroned, more and more threatening, the obscurantist forces of the Muslim religion, thanks to the so-called "globalization" and the scientific and technical potential, achievement of the West, that it offers. VS Naipaul
As noted, the objective of the current jihadism (as it has always existed since the Hijrah) is to establish Allah's law using of the achievements of a civilization far more materially successful than yours.
Successes were achieved by a freedom of expression, interpretation and philosophical speculation, already implicit in the Judeo-Christian origin (even with its denial) and further propelled Lights. Material
The resounding failure of Islam to be the punishment inflicted on those who have disagreed and dissented from its religious doctrine per se.
A civilization, he says, "they say" was "superior" to European time ago, was lost in the marshes of shackling false theological: "God's word" can not be interpreted.
Without freedom of expression, interpretation and therefore, will return from the political point of view at once obsolete, that even Europe "medieval" knew. Sharia nor has never been strictly applied in their countries of origin.
Does it matter that more than two hundred years ago a Voltaire, among others, had been launched against Christianity? Does it matter that a Baruch Spinoza (ah, took refuge in Holland, what a coincidence: just this once country of religious tolerance "tolerate" Muslims today and be a point of condemning Wilders) was "excommunicated" for your synagogue?
They, among many other milestones, which paved the way freedom (less or more ontological), unimpeded.
Wilders is neither a writer nor a philosopher but a politician who acts on an inheritance and, indeed, on an instinctive conviction.
If this is finally defeated in court by another "conviction" barbaric in nature (ie, foreign), which has obtained the necessary allies in the name of multiculturalism and fear, a crucial part of what has shaped and allowed West will be placed on the Index for a long time: the freedom of expression.
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