Freedom of Speech: Islam Goes Apeshit over Charlie Hebdo Muhammad Cartoons Repub, Quran Eating, and Successful Critical Analysis

Karl gmkarl at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 14:35:54 PST 2020 

On 9/9/20, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Given cryptographic overlay networks are now hosting their
> own full social networking stacks on par with today's social
> media (albeit slower due to overhead)... sites, profiles, chat, forums,

Do you have links to any of these social networking stacks?  Are any
open source?  I don't know how to find them.

> multimedia channels, tweets, etc... where uncensored free speech
> is widely in effect, and enjoyed and valued... what are the expected
> results of such freedom 20 years out?
> A trigs-spent calmed-the-fuck-down chilled-out no-longer-triggerable
> society having by then seen and worked through all the typical stunts.
> A no-stunts-left unoffendable rational society,
> evolved away from the problems with FSM systems?
> Peace loving cryptoanarchic ungovernment?
> An opportunity reachable through uncensorable global conversation?
> Or no change at all?
>
>
> Recall 1988 unhingement around one analysis of one particular FSM...
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_Verses
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Quran
>
> And 2006 and 2020...
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo
> https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/art-culture/129406/charlie-hebdo-republishes-cartoons-depicting-prophet-mohammed/
>
>
>
>
> As to news from today...
> Apparently Sweden is now melting down, again, in part after
> some free speech has perhaps exposed what many say is
> the inherent nature of some "FSM's of peace"...
>
>
>
> https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16457/sweden-violence-crime
> Sweden: The Violence Is "Extremely Serious"
> Authored by Judith Bergman via The Gatestone Institute, 9/9/2020
>
>    Things in Sweden have now deteriorated to such a degree
>    that on August 29, the Swedish police [43]published a
>    statement titled "The trends in violence are extremely
>    serious." It said:
>
>      "Recently, there have been serious incidents and serious
>      acts of violence linked to criminal networks, in which
>      several people have been murdered and others seriously
>      injured...
>
>      "In Stockholm, two people were murdered in the past week,
>      and in Gothenburg, criminal groups have tried to
>      demonstrate power by controlling vehicles entering
>      certain districts. Earlier in August, an innocent
>      12-year-old girl was murdered... [during a gang
>      incident], and in other parts of the country there are
>      conflicts between various criminal networks and other
>      ruthless crime, as well. On Friday night, a violent riot
>      also occurred in Malmö where several police officers
>      were injured..."
>
>    Sweden's National Police Chief, Anders Thornberg, made what
>    sounded like a plea for help from the rest of society:
>    "Swedish police are in a tough operational situation. It is
>    now a matter of society joining forces behind the police,"
>    he [44]said.
>
>      "We will continue to fight organized crime with all the
>      tools we have available. Other good forces in society,
>      everything from municipal officials and civil society to
>      law enforcement agencies and not least the general
>      public, also need to focus on facing the current
>      situation. The police must ensure that the criminals are
>      arrested and can be prosecuted. The criminals need to
>      disappear from our streets and squares so that no more
>      ruthless crimes are committed...
>
>      "The everyday life many police officers face when they go
>      to work right now is worrying and very tiring. We work
>      intensively, around the clock, despite this, the severe
>      violence continues. The police are there 24 hours a day,
>      365 days a year. We do not give up and we do not back
>      down, but the situation is currently very stressful."
>
>    The police statement did not mention that [45]two
>    boys were raped, tortured and nearly buried alive in a
>    cemetery close to Stockholm. The atrocity added to the
>    growing number of so-called "[46]humiliation crimes". These
>    are crimes where the victim is not only robbed, but also
>    violently humiliated to demonstrate the power of the
>    perpetrator. Another such humiliation crime, for instance,
>    took place in Gothenburg in October 2019, when a criminal
>    gang [47]forced their victim to kiss the gang leader's
>    feet, while they filmed him. After that, they stomped on
>    his face until he lost consciousness.
>
>    [48][IMG]
>
>    "Sweden is losing control of its own territory," Ivar Arpi,
>    a Swedish columnist, recently [49]told the Danish
>    newspaper Berlingske Tidende.
>
>      "These heinous crimes and humiliations are connected to a
>      ghetto culture... Journalists do not like to write about
>      it, politicians do not want to talk about it and
>      researchers do not want to touch it. There is a
>      systematic ignorance."
>
>    In the riot that took place in Malmö on August 28,
>    an [50]estimated 300 people burned car tires, shot
>    fireworks and threw stones at the police. The riot occurred
>    close to Rosengård, a so-called "vulnerable area",
>    populated mainly by immigrants. Video footage posted to
>    social media showed the rioters [51]shouting "[52]Allahu
>    Akbar" and "[53]Jews, remember Khaybar, the army of
>    Mohammed is returning" -- a reference to the massacre of
>    the Jews of Khaybar by the Islamic prophet Mohammed and his
>    followers in the year 628, in what is today Saudi Arabia.
>    The Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities released
>    a [54]statement in reaction to the riot, saying:
>
>      "Unfortunately, this is not the first time a crowd has
>      chanted similar threats against Jews in Malmö. The
>      Council of Swedish Jewish Communities takes this incident
>      extremely seriously and calls on the police and other
>      responsible authorities to prosecute those individuals
>      who have thereby committed incitement against an ethnic
>      group."
>
>    [55]According to Swedish media, the riot was a reaction to
>    the burning of a Koran earlier in the day in one part of
>    Malmö and the kicking of a Koran in a central square in
>    the city by followers of the small Danish anti-Islam
>    party, [56]Stram Kurs. The leader of the party, Rasmus
>    Paludan, has previously [57]toured Denmark with his
>    anti-Islam protests.
>
>    Paludan's demonstrations frequently feature a "Koran
>    stunt." In it, he either throws a Koran around, burns it or
>    puts bacon on it. Dan Park, a Swedish street artist, who
>    has been [58]convicted of inciting hatred against an
>    ethnic group, had invited Paludan to Malmö to participate
>    in a demonstration. Paludan was [59]stopped at the Swedish
>    border and denied entry by Swedish police,
>    who [60]told him that he was banned from entering the
>    country for two years.
>
>    "We believe that his actions and freedom of entry would be
>    a threat to fundamental societal
>    interests," [61]said Mattias Sigfridsson, Malmö's Acting
>    Police Chief. Asked whether the decision did not go against
>    the freedom of expression, Sigfridsson said:
>
>      "We see it as the opposite. We do our utmost to protect
>      the democratic values <U+200B><U+200B>that exist. The public
>      gathering for which we have denied permission today would
>      have been a danger to safety and order at the event".
>
>    "I think it is those who react to what I do, who constitute
>    a threat," Paludan [62]told Swedish media. The decision
>    to ban Paludan's demonstration was upheld by the Swedish
>    Administrative Court. It held that while the freedom of
>    assembly and demonstration are constitutionally protected
>    rights and that there is therefore a very limited scope to
>    refuse permission to demonstrate, the threat from the
>    demonstration was so serious that it justified banning him.
>    The Koran burning that ensued despite the police decision
>    happened in contravention of the ban. Three
>    people [63]were arrested and charged with incitement,
>    reportedly for kicking around a Koran in central Malmö.
>
>    In the Gothenburg suburb of Angered, a criminal gang set up
>    roadblocks and manned them with masked armed men who
>    checked the identities of people driving in and out of the
>    area. [64]According to Berlingske Tidende, the
>    roadblocks were set up by a gang centered around the Ali
>    Khan family, who deal in financial fraud and other crimes.
>    The clan has been reported to the police more than 200
>    times but the police have had to close almost all cases
>    because the gang threatens the victims and witnesses to
>    stay silent.
>
>    Also recently in Gothenburg, a teacher at the Lövgärdes
>    School reported two armed men moving around outside the
>    school and notified the police, but by the time they
>    arrived the men had disappeared. When the teacher drove
>    home from school later that day, [65]he was kidnapped and
>    beaten.
>
>    The leader of the main Swedish opposition party,
>    Moderaterna (The Moderate Party), Ulf Kristersson, now says
>    that he wants to make it a crime to be member of a gang.
>
>    "Several children have died only this year in stabbings and
>    shootings," Kristersson [66]wrote in a Facebook post.
>
>      "This weekend, two boys were subjected to terrible
>      atrocities in a cemetery in Solna for an entire night. On
>      Tuesday, a teacher in Gothenburg was kidnapped and beaten
>      after contacting the police.
>
>      "What we now experience almost daily is not normal -- not
>      for Sweden or for Europe. Almost all of us who live here
>      know that. The development is destroying Swedish trust
>      and cohesion, the violence is threatening the system. The
>      criminal gangs terrorize entire residential areas and
>      kill children and adults who happen to be in the way.
>      They set up their own roadblocks and control people's
>      everyday lives. They are like Sweden's domestic
>      terrorists -- and must therefore be met with the full
>      force of our democracy. Pattern-breaking measures that
>      really lead to change, not just adjustments in the
>      margin.
>
>      "Sweden should start by making it a crime to be part of a
>      criminal gang, in the same way that it should be a crime
>      to be part of a terrorist organization. It would thus
>      give the police new opportunities to act against the
>      activities we have seen in Gothenburg in recent days,
>      such as establishing roadblocks or arranging meetings in
>      which various criminal gangs participate."
>
>    In other news, the Västra Skrävlinge church in Malmö was
>    recently [67]vandalized seven nights in a row. Windows
>    were smashed and statues broken, including a statue of
>    Jesus that was smashed to pieces. The perpetrators are
>    unknown, but the Sweden Democrats Party in Malmö
>    has [68]asked the Church of Swedish to look deeper into
>    the matter, adding in a [69]statement:
>
>      "Considering the vandalism of Västra Skrävlinge Church
>      that we have seen and the systematic vandalism we see in
>      our cemeteries, this is an area that the Church of Sweden
>      must work with. Unfortunately, there is a grudge against
>      Christian culture among certain groups and the Church of
>      Sweden in Malmö cannot be passive while the Christian
>      cultural heritage is vandalized."
>
>
>
>   42. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16457/sweden-violence-crime
>   43.
> https://polisen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2020/augusti/valdsutvecklingen-ar-synnerligen-allvarlig/
>   44.
> https://polisen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2020/augusti/valdsutvecklingen-ar-synnerligen-allvarlig/
>   45.
> https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/et-raedselsfuldt-mareridt-paa-en-kirkegaard-ryster-svenskerne
>   46. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15808/fing-swede
>   47.
> https://www.expressen.se/gt/ranligan-tvingar-offret-att-kyssa-deras-fotter/
>   49.
> https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/et-raedselsfuldt-mareridt-paa-en-kirkegaard-ryster-svenskerne
>   50.
> https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/300-blockerade-vag-efter-koranbranning/
>   51. https://twitter.com/lasseburholt/status/1299464629467447296
>   52. https://twitter.com/SVNewsAlerts/status/1299458895396646915
>   53. https://twitter.com/truthandfiction/status/1299825699084283904
>   54.
> https://www.judiskacentralradet.se/single-post/2020/08/30/Centralr%C3%A5det-f%C3%B6rd%C3%B6mer-gravt-antisemitiska-uttalanden
>   55.
> https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/300-blockerade-vag-efter-koranbranning/
>   56. https://stramkurs.dk/om-os/
>   57. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14136/free-speech-denmark
>   58. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14505/self-censorship-artists
>   59.
> https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/uroligheder-er-brudt-ud-i-malmo-efter-afbraending-af-koranen
>   60.
> https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/udland/uroligheder-er-brudt-ud-i-malmo-efter-afbraending-af-koranen
>   61.
> https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/paludan-stoppades-vid-gransen-har-fatt-inreseforbud
>   62.
> https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/paludan-stoppades-vid-gransen-har-fatt-inreseforbud
>   63.
> https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/tre-personer-gripna-for-hets-mot-folkgrupp-i-malmo
>   64.
> https://www.berlingske.dk/internationalt/et-raedselsfuldt-mareridt-paa-en-kirkegaard-ryster-svenskerne
>   65.
> https://www.expressen.se/gt/skolpersonal-kidnappades-och-misshandlades-/
>   66. https://www.facebook.com/UlfKristerssonM/posts/2775651402670532
>   67.
> https://www.varldenidag.se/nyheter/kyrka-i-malmo-utsatt-for-vandalisering/
>   68.
> https://www.varldenidag.se/nyheter/sd-efter-kyrkattackerna-utred-kristofobi/
>   69.
> https://malmo.sd.se/svenska-kyrkan-maste-motverka-kristofobin-i-malmo/
>

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