Media lefties keep cheering as “protests” become more depraved.

Media lefties keep cheering as “protests” become more depraved.

The dull bigotry of BBC Europhiles

By Daniel Hannan:

There was a feeble gag on Radio 4 just now which imagined Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader, protesting that Queen Victoria ‘shouldn’t have married a German’. In Beebworld, obviously, anyone who criticises the EU is secretly motivated by xenophobia. There was, though, a slight flaw in the joke, of which the scriptwriters were evidently unaware. Nigel Farage is himself married to a German.

Never mind, eh? Much easier to pretend that all Eurosceptics are Basil Fawlty than to listen to what they’re actually saying.

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Once Again, Islamists Bully Europe on Free Speech

by Adam Turner:

Recently, French Islamists (presumably) firebombed the office of French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo for its speech. Simultaneously, Charlie Hebdo’s website was also taken down in a cyber-attack by a Turkish hacker. The firebombing and hacking occurred just one day after the magazine, which has a history of equal opportunity offensiveness, cheekily announced that the Islamic Prophet Mohammed was going to be a guest editor for this week’s edition, “(i)n order fittingly to celebrate the Islamist Ennahda’s win in Tunisia and the NTC (National Transitional Council) president’s promise that Sharia would be the main source of law in Libya.”

The weekly’s publisher, Stephane Charbonnier, stated that for this special edition the magazine would be rebaptized “Sharia Hebdo” as a pun on Islamic Sharia law, and would feature on its cover a picture of Mohammed saying: “100 lashes if you don’t die of laughter!” Not surprisingly, Charlie Hebdo’s announcement immediately prompted threats from Islamists in France who oppose any depiction of Mohammed, however benign, as blasphemy. And just a day later, the firebombing followed.

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Freedom of association shouldn’t come with caveats

George Jonas:

If liberty’s watchdogs agree that the exercise of individual rights and freedoms can be suspended in case of an “urgent need” as long as the authorities come up with a persuasive argument to support it, we’re back in the 17th century. Saying to campus bullies: “Sorry, your arguments don’t meet the test needed to justify compulsory student unionism,” is just an invitation to come back and keep arguing until they get it right. But the case for voluntary student unions isn’t based on anyone’s failure to make a case for involuntary student unions; it’s based on the impossibility of making a case for compulsion in a free society. As Frontier’s press release notes, with masterful understatement, “it is morally problematic to compel individuals to belong to and pay dues to organizations whose views and actions they do not agree with.”

You can say that again!

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