European Court Creates a Dictatorship of the Easily Offended with Blasphemy Laws

By John Stonestreet | November 20, 2018

We think of Europe as secular, progressive, and confidently post-religious. But try criticizing Islam.

Should governments be in the business of protecting people’s feelings? Most Americans, I think would say no. The European Court of Human Rights, however, thinks otherwise. In a historic move last month, the international court affirmed a conviction by a lower court in Vienna against a right-wing speaker who criticized the prophet Muhammad.

Identified only as “E.S.,” the woman, at a seminar in Vienna in 2009, described the founder of Islam as a “pedophile.” According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad was in his fifties when he married his third wife, Aisha, who was six years old at the time. Tradition also says Muhammad waited to consummate their union until the girl was nine.

For describing this relationship in direct though accurate terms, “E.S.” was reported to Austrian authorities, who charged her with “publicly disparaging religious doctrines,” which, believe it or not, is illegal in that country. The Austrian court convicted, describing her statement as “a malicious violation of the spirit of tolerance,” which was “capable of hurting the feelings” of Muslims, and of putting religious peace in Europe at risk.

After a lengthy appeal, European Court of Human Rights reaffirmed this troubling verdict ruling that the speaker’s remarks about Muhammad were not only “without factual basis,” but went “beyond the permissible limits of an objective debate,” thereby putting religious peace in jeopardy. So, peace is in jeopardy because Muhammad is critiqued, and not because of how his followers react to the critique? ...........To Read More.....

My Take - Her comments were "without factual basis?"  Really?  Muslims believe everything she said is in fact truthful so how could saying what they say they believe put "religious peace in jeopardy"? 

The EU and it's courts are insane, but no matter, soon they won't have to worry about anyone making any comments that are "hurtful" regarding Islam or Muslims because very soon they will have Muslims running these countries and when that happens, whatever freedom of speech is left ......  will end. 

I wonder if these judges have practiced saying Allah Akbar often enough?  You know what allah Akbar means don't you?  It means "I have a bomb strapped to my waist and I m going to try to kill as many kaffirs as I can before I paint the street with my intestines."

Hmmmmm.....would that hurt Muslim feelings?  Well, the fact of the matter is Muhammad was a pedophile, a rapist, a thief, a murderer and a marauder, and Islam isn't a religion, it's a criminal political movement masquerading as a religion.  And the reality is truth isn't hurtful, it's just the truth.  But since it's clear this was a politically predetermined decision, what's truth have to do with anything in EU courts?