Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a black lady of Muslim origin living in the Netherlands. She has broken with Islam and very courageously speaks out publicly to condemn the abuses of women perpetrated by Islam. She knows of such abuses from her own experiences. She has of course had a "fatwa" issued against her by the "religion of peace". The Dutch government does rightly provide her with bodyguards to ensure that the fatwa is not acted upon but there is obviously still some risk.
And her neighbours in the apartment block where she lives feel that their lives are put at risk too. They reason that some Islamic fruitcake might bomb the whole building to get at her and that might kill them too. So the neighbours have just got a Dutch court to evict Ayaan Hirsi Ali from her own home -- even though she herself has done nothing wrong!
Perhaps the most interesting part of the case is that the court used European human rights law to justify the eviction. It would seem to show that human rights laws can be twisted to give any result you like. Apparently it was not a violation of the human rights of Ayaan Hirsi Ali for her to get tossed out of her own home! A bit like the way Penn State U used "diversity" guidelines to ban an art exhibition by a Jewish student.
Details here.
Finnish Doublethink
Some strange logic from Finland:
"Finnish police said Friday it had given the preliminary investigation material pertaining to three individuals it suspects of violating the freedom of worship to Mika Illman, a state prosecutor. The three men are members of Suomen Sisu, a nationalistic movement that has posted Jyllands-Posten's controversial Mohammad cartoons on its website."
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I cannot even THINK how posting cartoons on a website prevents anyone from worshipping as they wish!
May Day
Today looks like being a big day in the USA for demonstrations in support of illegal immigration. It doesn't raise any issues of free speech that I have come across so far so I am not going to be saying much about it here. I have however just put up a lot about it on Dissecting Leftism.
There will be the usual parades here in Australia by and on behalf of labor unions but I will not be going to any. I will be staying home instead and contemplating such important matters as hat hair.
Britain seems to be in the middle of something of a political crisis at the moment -- all of which has just been summarized in his usual inimitable way by Chris Brand. Chris is even more blunt than I am. If anybody deserves the label "Prince of Political Incorrectness", Chris does.
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