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Why We Fight: #307 In The Series

Because the basic human right of 'Freedom Of Speech' is at peril and with it the core of our civilization.

An Iranian reformist student holds up a placard reading in Farsi 'referendum' during a gathering at Tehran's Sharif university 18 November 2002 in a continuation of rallies initially sparked by the sentencing to death for blasphemy of pro-reform academic Hashem Aghajari. Thousands of Iranian university students defied warnings of a crackdown by stepping their protests demanding greater freedom of speech.

William Nygaard, a Norwegian Publisher, said this in 1996:

"How then can we expect respect from others? Isn't this what we demand? Can we in the West be relied on? We scarcely live up to what we are taught in our childhood. In secret we - EU countries not least - sell arms to Iran, carry out clandestine training of their terrorist agents both at home and abroad. We increase trade, while outwardly we make rhetorical attempts at indignant moral dialogue in meetings with foreign ministers in the capitals of the EU and more exotic locations, at which the fatwa, the death threat against Salman Rushdie, his publishers and translators, is condemned in the "appropriate" phrases in a dutiful effort to maintain a circle around freedom of expression. This is surely what we usually call double standards ..."

William Nygaard is the publisher in Norway of Salman Rushdie's book, "The Satanic Verses". In October 1993, Mr Nygaard narrowly escaped with his life after being shot four times in the back by an Islamic extremist. In addition to this crime, the following have also occured in the name of Islam.

Hitoshi Igarashi - Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses, was stabbed to death in July 1991.

Ettore Caprioli - Italian translator of The Satanic Verses, was attacked with a knife in the same year, but survived

Aziz Nesin - Turkisk publisher and writer, who had printed extracts of The Satanic Verses in a Turkish newspaper, was attacked by a crazed religious mob in 1993. They cornered him in a hotel and set it on fire, killing 37 people, but Nesin, an elderly man in his late 70s, escaped.

If they can kill a Japanese man in Japan, if they can nearly kill a Norwegian in Norway, When they come for you 'dear blogger',where will you hide then? And remember, all of these cases remain unsolved, and all ocurred

Before London
Before Madrid
Before Casablanca
Before Abu-Ghiraib
Before Guantanamo
Before Iraq
Before Afghanistan
Before 9/11
Before Bush was "Selected not Elected"

You may think its all "Bush's war", but its your war too. Where will you be when the first fatwa is issued against a blogger? and which side will you take? if its a right-wing crazy blog, will you gloat and say " they deserved it? If its a left-wing nutjob blog, will you say "they deserved it' as well? Did they? I have one clue for you my friend, they make no distinction, then why should you? They want us all dead, and that is what makes us all equal in the eyes of the Jihadi.

They will come for you one day. One day, they will come for me. The question for you is not " whos fault is it" but " whos side will you take" will you continue to justify their acts under a shield of false premises( Its all about the oil, its all about the jews, its all about our policies, were mean people too) in the hope that you wont have to do something about it?. Like it or not, They will force your hand, they will force you to choose.

Life or death, what will it be?

Go ahead, people of the left, Talk to me about how the "Patriot Act' is an infringement on your 'freedom of speach', because I can think of another.

Posted @ July 12, 2005 12:36 PM | Current Affairs