Free speech, besides the little detail of its being a foundational
principle of Western civilization and any authentically free society,
was in 2008, and will continue to be in 2009, the focus of an all-out
assault by the 57-government Organization of the Islamic Conference,
the UN’s largest voting bloc. The OIC and other Islamic entities want
to curtail the ability of non-Muslims to speak freely about the
elements of Islam that jihadists use to justify violence and Islamic
supremacism. The obvious goal of this initiative is to render the West
and the non-Muslim world in general mute and thus defenseless against
both violent and stealthy efforts to impose Sharia around the world --
which imposition is the ultimate goal of what is generally known in
the mainstream media as the “terror threat.”

Stateside, at this point the anti-free speech initiative advances by
means of a large-scale effort to declare honest discussion of the
historical and authoritative teachings of Islamic sects and schools to
be “Islamophobia,” “bigotry,” and “racism.” And in 2008 we saw the
success of this initiative make immense gains. We saw agencies of the
United States government adopt guidelines of discussing the “terror
threat” that ruled out any discussion of the doctrine and ideology
that underlay it. We saw the mainstream media in the West grow
increasingly supine in the face of the stealth jihad intimidation
tactics practiced by American Muslim advocacy groups. As a result of
the mainstream media’s mischaracterization, misreporting, and
underreporting of the “terror threat,” we also saw the public largely
lose interest in the global jihad at precisely the time that it is
becoming more assertive, and meeting more success, than ever.

Then the public’s loss of interest set off a vicious circle, with high-
profile media figures sharply curtailing their reporting on jihad
activity in all its forms -- and even on the Internet, which at its
best functions as a modern-day samizdat, a last bastion of open
discussion of these matters, some of the erstwhile champions of
resistance to jihad and Islamization decided that other matters were
far more important. History will show in due time which was greater:
the jihad threat, or that of creationism or imaginary neofascism or
what have you.

Amid all this nonsense and cowardice stood Wilders, who produced the
sixteen-minute film Fitna, a rather straightforward depiction of how
jihadists use the Qur’an to justify acts of violence, in March 2008.
Fitna in Arabic means discord or upheaval; after the film was
released, the world held its breath for another outbreak of irrational
violence from Muslims, such as we saw in the wake of the Danish
cartoons of Muhammad and the Pope’s Regensburg address. But the
expected riots and violence did not materialize: the counterattack
instead unfolded in different ways. Iran and Pakistan lodged formal
complaints – Iran with the European Union and Pakistan with the Dutch
Ambassador to Islamabad. Jordan charged Wilders with “blasphemy and
contempt of Muslims,” making it a real possibility that he could be
arrested in a nation that had an extradition treaty with Jordan. There
was also a rapid advance of anti-free speech efforts.

The multinational Islamic body and largest single voting bloc at the
UN, the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference, condemned
Fitna in “the strongest terms,” claiming that Wilders’s movie was “a
deliberate act of discrimination against Muslims” intended only to
“provoke unrest and intolerance.” They succeeded in passing a non-
binding resolution at the UN, outlawing defamation of Islam (defined
by whom?), and are now seeking to pass a binding resolution of the
same kind.

Will these initiatives to muzzle all discussion of the jihad and
Islamic supremacist doctrine and ideology continue to advance in 2009?
Probably. Will the OIC and its allies succeed in criminalizing any
discussion of what the West faces and how we must defend ourselves?
Probably they will advance a great deal farther before they begin to
be turned back. But as another stalwart of Western civilization, Yogi
Berra, once said, It ain’t over till it’s over. And they have an awful
lot of people they’re going to have to shut up. In 2009, let’s get
louder.

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