{"id":8929,"date":"2013-12-09T04:16:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T04:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8929"},"modified":"2013-12-09T04:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T04:16:45","slug":"something-rotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/something-rotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Rotten…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"surrender\"<\/a>Nick Cohen, writing <\/a>in The Spectator<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Firoozeh Bazrafkan is frightened of nothing. Five foot tall, 31 years old, and so thin you think a puff of wind could blow her away, she still has the courage to be a truly radical artist and challenge those who might hurt her. She fights for women\u2019s rights and intellectual freedom, and her background means her fight has to be directed against radical Islam. As a Danish citizen, she saw journalists go into hiding and mobs attack her country\u2019s embassies just because Jyllands-Posten published cartoons of Muhammad that were so tame you could hardly call them \u2018satirical\u2019. Bazrafkan is also the daughter of an Iranian family, and the Islamic Republic\u2019s subjugation of women revolts her.<\/p>\n

When I met her, she was enduring a crash course in politically correct Europe\u2019s many hypocrisies. White Danes reported her to the police for writing that Muslim men abuse and murder their daughters, and adding for good measure that the \u2018Koran is more immoral, deplorable and crazy than manuals of the two other global religions combined\u2019.<\/p>\n

You could say that her remarks were offensive. You could say that the inattentive reader might just take them to mean that all Muslim men abuse and murder their daughters. But if every remark that someone might find offensive or misinterpret were banned, the human race would fall silent.<\/p>\n

Liberal principles once held that the Danish state should only punish Bazrafkan if her words provoked violence. As it was, the court asked for no proof of actual incitement. (There was none to be had.) Instead, it acted as if criticism of religion \u2014 a system of beliefs which individuals should be free to choose and others should be free to criticise \u2014 was identical to racial prejudice, which all thinking people condemn because no one can choose his or her ethnicity.<\/p>\n

The white \u2018liberal\u2019 judges therefore ruled that the Iranian-born artist was a \u2018racist\u2019 and gave her a criminal record for condemning honour killings and clerical misogyny\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the story gets worse. Read the whole thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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