free speech « Limits to Growth

Leftists Want the Lowry Treatment for Robert Spencer and Other Anti-Sharia Freedom Fighters

There’s nothing like a successful free-speech lynching to get the leftist mob riled up. They are currently doing a celebratory pitchfork dance about Rich Lowry’s recent firing of John Derbyshire from the National Review. The magazine was upset about Derb’s column with a white version of “The Talk” to children about tough race realities that […]

Blacklisted Authors Compare Notes

Juan Williams interviewed Pat Buchanan in the video below on the subject of censorship. Both have been fired from their respective news organizations, Williams from NPR and Buchanan from MSNBC.

Buchanan recounted a recent media history of shows like CNN’s Crossfire, where very different views were aired. Now that attitude of freedom of inquiry has […]

Friend of Enlightenment Values Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62

I was sorry to learn of the death of Christopher Hitchens, the brilliant author, enthusiastic drinker and a fierce defender of free speech.

His finest hour, in my opinion, was his response to the Danish cartoon dust-up, in which Muslims insisted that their religious prohibition against images of Mohammed should supercede the West’s principle […]

Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn Hope for Improved Free Speech in Canada

In the video below, broadcaster Ezra Levant and author Mark Steyn discussed the possibility that Canada might reform its “hate speech” laws that make criticism of Islam illegal. Steyn was put on trial for thought crimes, aka “flagrant Islamophobia,” in Canada a few years ago, and Levant similarly felt the wrath of the censors for […]

Free Speech in Europe Remains under Threat

Over in Denmark, retired cartoonist Kurt Westergaard lives a safe life because he has 24/7 security to protect him from members of the Religion of Peace.

Mr. Westergaard doodled up the infamous Bomb-Turban Mohammed, which outraged hostile Muslims worldwide. It was the most iconic image of the several cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten […]

Canada: Michael Coren Launches New Television Show

Michael Coren is a new name to me, but what I’ve seen of him in the past week is quite agreeable. He has a new talk show on the Sun television network in Canada, which also presents Ezra Levant.

BlazingCarFur tubed up the whole debut episode, which is posted below. The guests included Ann Coulter, […]

German Critic of Muslim Immigration Visits Australia

Author and former official of the German Bundesbank Thilo Sarrazin is visiting Australia to participate in a conference examining free speech and the “pervasive problem of political correctness.”

German elites slammed Sarrazin for his 2010 book Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany does away with itself) which analyzed the negative effects of Muslim immigration, but the […]

Geert Wilders Defends Free Expression at His Hate Speech Trial

Apparently there is no double jeopardy in Dutch jurisprudence, as shown by the recent additional trial of Geert Wilders for his committing free speech, following an earlier show trial last year in which he was exonerated.

At the crux is Wilders’ insistence on warning Europe about the threat of Islam. The fact that the charge […]

Dearbornistan: Muslims Protest Free Speech

The Constitution assures us Americans that we have the right to voice our opinions in public, but Muslims residing in this country don’t believe the First Amendment applies when their religion is correctly criticized for its misogyny, brutality and rejection of reason.

Rev. Terry Jones of Georgia roused Islamic anger when he burned a Koran […]

The Religion of Peace on TV

From MEMRI: an Iranian program discussing the legacy of Saddam Hussein apparently called “The Democratic Club” plumbed new depths of uncivil discourse, Islam style.

“I will chop off your tongue if you talk about Saddam. . . Come here you son of a bitch. . . You dog. . . You low life. . .”

[…]

Danes Permit Dangerous Mega-Mosque

There’s bad news from Denmark, a country which had been so courageous in standing up for free speech during the Mohammed cartoons controversy. Now it is showing signs of weakness in the face of insistent Islam.

A huge mosque is about to be built there, financed by Iran, which Lars Hedegaard describes as being “more […]

Dearbornistan Restricts Free Speech to Protect Islam

What has happened to Americans’ right to free speech when a citizen is jailed for merely planning a protest?

Islamic immigration happened.

Any activity unfriendly to Islam is dicey in Dearbornistan, which is about one-third Middle Eastern and where more than 60 percent of students in the public schools are Arab. For example, several Americans […]

Fair Use: This site contains copyrighted material, the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of issues related to culture and mass immigration. We believe this constitutes a "fair use" of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information, see: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_00000107----000-.html. In order to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond "fair use", you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

Limits to Growth