Turkey Urges EU Legislation Against Islamophobia
This is frightening!...
Turkey suggests EU should strengthen anti-defamation laws
Turkey, a country that has witnessed nearly 1,200 deaths from honor killings and family feuds in the last five years, has voluteered and is doing a terrific job mediating between the EU and the Muslim World.
Today Agora reports that Turkey is asking the EU to examine its legislation.
Agora also has a report that the EU is considering the Arab demands!
Sure Enough! Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul has called upon EU states to extend their anti-defamation laws to ensure respect for Islam:
The idea was rejected by the Netherlands which also opposes a European Commission initiative for a joint UN resolution with islamic states.The Volokh Conspiracy describes the cartoons in detail today noting how tame the cartoons actually are.
The Turkish minister was attending a two-day informal EU foreign ministers' meeting in Salzburg on Friday and Saturday (10-11 March) where he opened a discussion on the dialogue between Europe and the muslim world on Saturday.
According to a written text of Mr Gul's address circulated among journalists, he stated "We cannot afford to see that people around the world start believing that respect for faith and religion do not make part of European values, whereas the opposite is true."
Mr Gul added "As a matter of fact, there are legal restraints against such defamation. However, these restraints sometimes only apply to the established religions of the concerned countries."
"I would like to call on you here to start a process of re-examination of your legislations to ensure that these restraints apply to all religions equally."
Mr Gul's remarks appear to point to the double standards of EU countries which have legislation against antisemitism, but not against islamophobia.
Asked by reporters about Mr Gul's ideas, the Dutch foreign minister Bernard Bot said "We have freedom of speech. That means that Mr Gul can say what he wants and I can say what I want. And I think that this [Mr Gul's idea] is superfluous."
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posted by Gateway Pundit at 3/11/2006 09:53:00 AM
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How about this: We start demanding that they respect their women's rights. We should say that their women should have the same rights as their men do. We should ask them to let their press people publish what they want without being punished for it. We should tell them that they have to erase their idiotic fatwas from the face of this earth.
Once they seriously consider OUR demands, then we can seriously consider theirs.
And when they say we have no business making such demands from them, then there's our answer to theirs.
You bet it is frightening. This is frightening, too: a Canadian human rights tribunal has decided to hold ISPs responsible for hate speech on the Internet. While in this particular instance it looks like the people in question were white supremists, unless these guys were actually inciting violence, as repugnant as I find their speech, I don't think their ISP should be held responsible for the content of their site anymore than the telephone company should be responsible for the content of their phone calls.
a number of Christians have been hauled before these tribunals for preaching in favor of traditional heterosexual marriage, including the Catholic bishop of Calgary. Luckily those charges have since been dropped. And of course, if the trend continues, anything that is deemed offensive to Muslims will be called Islamophobia.
But it will remain okay to slam Christians, to defame them, to hold them to contempt.
Another good reason to exclude Turkey from the EU sphere of influence; already their Islamists are telegraphing to the world their eagerness to bring the EU under Islamic influence. That's good for us because we can clearly see where Turkey's aim is pushing this and where Turkey is coming from with it's 'Islamic' government. Obviously, Turkey means to make the EU more Islamic and to that end discourages criticism of Islam.
How about the Turks stop disseminating the Blood Libel?
And stop subsidizing the publication of Mein Kampf?
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