Calls for violence against anyone should be illegal already. This move against “hate speech” will almost certainly include prohibitions on criticism of or opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, as Leftists and Islamic supremacists have for years characterized all such opposition as “hate speech.” This will be the end of Europe as a home of free societies.
“EU seeks new powers to fight misogyny and hate,” by Clothilde Goujard, Politico, December 6, 2021:
The European Commission wants to amend one of the EU’s founding texts to more forcefully fight violence against women, LGBTQ+ and other minorities, according to a draft plan seen by POLITICO.
The Commission on Wednesday is set to sign off on a plan to criminalize hate speech and violence through EU-wide rules. The rules would enable the Commission to put forward laws to punish misogyny and anti-LGBTQ+ abuse online and offline.
The proposal comes in the wake of social movements like the #MeToo campaign and Black Lives Matter protests.
But the changes are set to put Brussels on a collision course with governments in Warsaw and Budapest, where minorities have come under increasing government pressure in past years and EU attempts to impose legal protections were met with firm objection.
“In the last decades, there has been a sharp rise in hate speech and hate crime in Europe,” the draft communication on hate speech said, pointing to an exacerbation of such speech since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Hate is moving into the mainstream, targeting individuals and groups of people sharing or perceived as sharing ‘a common characteristic,’ such as race, ethnicity, language, religion, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics or any other fundamental characteristic, or a combination of such characteristics,” the text said.
The text is expected to be presented later this week. It’s an early step in a broader plan to overhaul the EU’s rulebook on fighting hateful abuse….
It also noted that online abuse was having a “chilling effect” on freedom of expression online since minorities were too afraid to share their views. A survey of European female politicians quoted in the document found 47 percent of them reported having received death, rape, or beating threats on social media….
John says
I guess that means banning the Koran as it is full of hate speech against Jews, Christians and other non believers of the Islamic cult.
DavidR says
+1. Hate is a central theme in the Quran. There really should be no exemption from hate speech laws for that book. It’s not like God wrote it.
Aussie Infidel says
John, That would be Islamophobic! Islam is a religion of peace – Or so they keep telling us.
mortimer says
The neo-Marxists of the EU have begun the process of throwing their erstwhile allies in the RED-GREEN AXIS OF EVIL under the bus.
They are now denouncing Islam for MISOGYNY and HATE SPEECH, both of which are FULLY ISLAMIC.
The hadiths of Mohammed slandering women are well-known. The CANONICAL Islamic doctrine of hate called AL WALAA WAL BARAA (comradeship with Muslims versus apartheid from kafirs) is an ‘ESSENTIAL’ teaching of Islam required for Islamic salvation.
The EU is BLASPHEMING TWO of Islam’s ESSENTIAL TEACHINGS. Will the mullahs accuse them of BLASPHEMING Islam?
Hank says
+10
The Hate Manual should be checked for “hate speech” by the EU
Big Brother just needs an Orwellian tool to prohibit any criticism or opposition to Leftist-Green agenda, not that they care about anyone. All kinds of things can then be labeled “hate speech” like criticism of: non-Judaeo-Christian values, forced jabs, Hijra, Islamization, Marxist taxes, pronoun “it”, et al.
Infidel says
Yeah, won’t that really put them in a bind? What do they do – clamp down on hate speech, or avoid being seen as islamophobes?
libertyORdeath says
“Hate speech” is a tool of authoritarianism. One man’s “hate speech” is another man’s honest criticism. This is why they have to push this garbage, because their terrible ideas cannot withstand even the slightest criticism.
Can you imagine a society where you are only allowed to criticize someone or something if they are the same race, ethnicity, sex and religion?
Our founders here in the US foresaw this attempt at “tyranny of the minority” and set the first Amendment and the Constitution in general as a bulwark against this type of censorship.
In America we have the right to criticize ANYTHING, including America itself. The left loves to take advantage of these rights while denying the same God given right to others. That should telm you all you need to know.
Would it be “hate speech” to criticize European colonialism? How about calling cops racist murderers? What about pointing out that theres too many white people on a certain TV show? Or how about criticism of Christianity?
They sure love free speech when it comes to these topics.
mortimer says
But, LoD, Islam demands ‘hate speech’ under the teaching of Al Walaa wal Baraa:
-Imam Abdul-Latif ibn Abdur-Rahman Rahimullah said, “It is not possible for someone to realize Tawheed (Islamic faith) and act upon it, and yet not be HOSTILE against the mushrikeen (i.e. wrong worshippers). So anyone who isn’t HOSTILE against the mushrikeen, then it cannot be said that he acts upon Tawheed nor that he realizes it.” [ad-Durar as-Saniyyah 8/167]
– “The Muslim should regard the Kuffaar as ENEMIES and HATE them because of their kufr (wrong belief), just as he hates their kufr (wrong belief) itself.” – from Umar Sulayman ‘Abd-Allaah al-Ashqar, “Belief in Allah”
-“The doctrine of al Walaa wal Baraa is the REAL IMAGE for the actual practice of this faith.” – source “Al Walaa wal Baraa According to the Aqeedah of the Salaf”, by Sheikh Muhammad Saeed al Qatani, authoritative Saudi Sharia lawyer and imam at the Abu Bakr and Al Furqan Mosques in Mecca.
-Shaykh Ahmad ibn ‘Atiq said: “There isn’t in the Book of Allah the Exalted – after the issue concerning the obligation of tawheed and the forbiddance of its opposite (kufr=wrong belief)- any issue which has as so many proofs, nor so clearly explained, than the issue of al-walaa’ and al-baraa’.” (W-B is ‘Islamic apartheid’)
– Dr. Muhammad Saeed Al-Qahtaani said: “Thus, it is clear that Al-Wala’ Wal-Bara calls on Muslims to “love” their fellow Muslims and HATE the non-Muslim (or Kafir).”
– from Sufi scholar Ahmad Sirhindi (1564-1624): “The honour of Islam lies in INSULTING kufr and kafirs. One who respects the kafirs dishonours the Muslims… The real purpose of levying jiziya on them is to HUMILIATE them to such an extent that they may not be able to dress well and to live in grandeur. They should constantly remain TERRIFIED and TREMBLING. It is intended to hold them under CONTEMPT and to uphold the honour and might of Islam.”
– from ibn Taymiyya, “Book of Emaan”: “… true believers show ANIMOSITY and HATRED towards disbelievers and NEVER support them.”
– K. 28:86 says: “Lend not thou support in any way to those who reject Allah’s Message.”
Prebangian says
This report is relevant to the bill being voted on by the House of Representatives tomorrow Dec. 14th.
https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/reps-omar-schakowsky-introduce-combating-global-islamophobia-bill
It is possible that the “combating global Islamophobia” bill will include punishing those who criticize Islam.
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
Johnny B says
The former immigration minister of Denmark, Inger Støjberg, has just been impeached and today she received a sentence of 60 days for separating married immigrant couples where the woman – or girl rather – was less than 18 years old. This all happened in the wake of the 2015 mass migration crisis.
According to our constitution you have to be at least 18 years old to become married. Apparently it was against the European Human Rights Convention to separate those couples. EU law is also above our Constitution which should be serve as a judicial shield for us as citizens. We don’t have that anymore and we’re slowly losing our country as well. I hope countries like Poland and Hungary get out while they can..
somehistory says
Due to the terrorism in which mozlums engage, they carry a lot of weight these days. Poor woman, just following the law, doing her job becomes a victim of islam and those too afraid to speak against it.
gravenimage says
Yes–gross miscarriage of justice. Now trying to protect children against rape is criminalized.
somehistory says
Speech is not free if one cannot say what they *hate* or what they don’t like, or with what they disagree, or what they see as wrong conduct/actions.
Once speech is limited to what another person wishes to hear, who gets to decide whose hearing matters?
mozlums call the Truth about them, their book, islam, its origins, its fake ‘prophet,’ if spoken by an infidel or a critic of these things as *hate speech.* If mozlums get to be the ones whose hearing has to be pleased, then the rest of us are silenced, and if we refuse to be silent, punished for speaking Truth.
This cannot stand for long. Jesus said that the Truth must come out. He said if His disciples did not speak, the “stones will cry out.” And, He said that any thing that is hidden, “will be revealed.”
If mozlums have their way in this, there will be many being punished because people have to know what this evil filth is; the Truth about this lust for blood, rape and spreading tyranny must be made known by all who realize the Truth of it.
Eleanor says
They forgot to add at the end…… “This DOES NOT apply to straight heterosexual white people”.
Istvan Vogel says
So hopefully the Koran will become a banned publication as it is alleged to contain “hate writings”.
Bikinis not Burkas says
“European Union moves to clamp down on ‘hate speech”
So they are closing every Mosque.
OLD GUY says
European Union moves to clamp down on “hate Speech”
If thats true, Islam should be pretty much not allowed throughout Europe. Islam can’t survive without hate of others.
gravenimage says
European Union moves to clamp down on ‘hate speech’
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One can be sure this does not refer to Muslims threatening harm, but just against Infidels daring to criticize Islam. Suicidal madness.