Criminalizing Criticism of Islam
We read:
"There are strange happenings in the world of international jurisprudence that do not bode well for the future of free speech. In an unprecedented case, a Jordanian court is prosecuting 12 Europeans in an extraterritorial attempt to silence the debate on radical Islam.
The prosecutor general in Amman charged the 12 with blasphemy, demeaning Islam and Muslim feelings, and slandering and insulting the prophet Muhammad in violation of the Jordanian Penal Code. The charges are especially unusual because the alleged violations were not committed on Jordanian soil.
Among the defendants is the Danish cartoonist whose alleged crime was to draw in 2005 one of the Muhammad illustrations that instigators then used to spark Muslim riots around the world. His co-defendants include 10 editors of Danish newspapers that published the images. The 12th accused man is Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, who supposedly broke Jordanian law by releasing on the Web his recent film, "Fitna," which tries to examine how the Quran inspires Islamic terrorism.
Amman has already requested that Interpol apprehend Mr. Wilders and the Danes and bring them to stand before its court for an act that is not a crime in their home countries. To the contrary. Dutch prosecutors said in July that although some of Mr. Wilders's statements may be offensive, they are protected under Dutch free-speech legislation. Likewise, Danish law protects the rights of the Danish cartoonists and newspapers to express their views.
Neither Denmark nor the Netherlands will turn over its citizens to Interpol, as the premise of Jordan's extradition request is an affront to the very principles that define democracies. It is thus unlikely that any Western country would do so, either. But there is no guarantee for the defendants' protection if they travel to countries that are more sympathetic to the Jordanian court.
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8 comments:
So who died & made the Pope God?
They are only following the far left of this country!
The left here thinks that US law applies to everyone, and that everyone (not just US citizens or people within the US' borders) have constitutional right. How else can they rationalize that non US enemy combatants that have never touched US soil should have these rights?
Another case of the chickens coming home to roost?
In the end, as we all know, the only solution to Islam is total eradication. The only question is, will it be theirs or ours?
"the only solution to Islam is total eradication. The only question is, will it be theirs or ours?"
There's over a billion of them, and they're pretty well organised.
There may be 5 billion of us, but we're fractured into a million splintergroups that fight each other as much as the common enemy.
We're thus easy to take out one by one.
Back on the topic at hand, the only thing I can think of to respond about a country wanting to try someone for a crime that didn't get committed in that country is: WHAT THE....???
Interpol needs to tell them in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS that their request is an abuse of civility and international standards much less free speech.
annon4, they're a lot less organized than you think. Radical zealots are never really organized. Instead, they follow a basic message from a leader-figure, such as Osama Bin Obama or one of his dupes.
The only thing that makes them appear organized is the fact that we're not. And if the free world wants to survive, we had better change that, and quick!
The proper response to the Jordanian so-called "court"'s attempted extra-territorial grab, in words they should understand, goes along the lines of "Go (back) to Na'ar, Mohammedans!" (Na'ar of course being the Mohammedans' word for Hell.)
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