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13 March 2008
Freedom of speech? Not when Islam is concerned
Any Catholic can testify to the unrelenting anti-Catholic bigotry that is spread by the media year in year out. Australia's Philip Adams, funded generously by media companies including the national broadcaster, is the leader of a legion of bigots who will seize any opportunity to vent their sick hatred of something they have little idea about. Any effort to limit these attacks is howled down by an appeal to the right of free speech. Observation of Holland will lead to similar conclusions. If anything, the anti-Catholic bigotry in Holland is more strenuously protected.
Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician who has for months been preparing a film critical of Islam. Nobody knows the content and nobody has seen the work in progress other than Wilders and his close associates. That has not stopped Muslims and Islamic countries from raging and threatening dire consequences if the film is shown.
And how are the brave countries of the European Union reacting to the threats? They are collapsing like a house of cards. Naturally the Dutch Left is calling Wilders a racist (the Left have a special feeling for criminals and deviants) while the majority of politicians are pleading with Wilders not to show it. The Prime Minister of Holland, Jan Balkenende, has just returned from a trip to Brussels where he begged EU countries to support Holland if Wilders went ahead with showing the film.
Hypocrisy and sanctimony are the outstanding virtues of the PC-class. But cowardice does not come far behind.
