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| Free speech dies in Denmark |
| 2011-05-06 |
| Another bad blow against freedom in the west. Lars Hedegaard, President of the Danish Free Press Society and The International Free Press Society, was yesterday found guilty of hate speech under the Danish penal code. His crime – as I wrote previously here, here and here – was to draw attention to child abuse and violence against women in Muslim culture. The day after the interview, he stressed that his opinions were about Islam and not intended to refer to all Muslims. The trial was a show trial in which Hedegaard was unable to mount a defence, because under the Orwellian rules of the Danish legal system he was in effect convicted before his trial even took place. In the lower court, however, he was aquitted – but only on the technicality that he had not known that these remarks, made in an interview, would be made public. A higher court, however, has now decided that Hedegaard did know that his remarks would be made public.And so he has now been convicted of racism. This technicality should not obscure the real issue. The Danish court has convicted Hedegaard of racism for drawing attention to violence in Muslim families. The message Denmark has thus sent out is that it is racist and a crime to seek to defend Muslim women and children from the phenomenon of ‘honour violence’. Where are the western feminists and defenders of free speech now? |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 Where are the western feminists and defenders of free speech now? Why Cozying up the the Islamic dictators who hang homosexuals and adulterers and woman who get raped of course. Did you really think that they gave a rats ass about women's rights or something? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-05-06 17:45 |
| #2 It's a tradition--something rotten in the state of Denmark. Once a while. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2011-05-06 16:05 |
| #1 WTF? I thought the Danes were above this kind of crap. |
| Posted by: Pollyandrew 2011-05-06 14:51 |