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       Monday, May 01, 2006

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A Severe Penalty for Speaking out

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a black lady of Muslim origin living in the Netherlands. She has broken with Islam and very courageously speaks out publicly to condemn the abuses of women perpetrated by Islam. She knows of such abuses from her own experiences. She has of course had a "fatwa" issued against her by the "religion of peace". The Dutch government does rightly provide her with bodyguards to ensure that the fatwa is not acted upon but there is obviously still some risk.

And her neighbours in the apartment block where she lives feel that their lives are put at risk too. They reason that some Islamic fruitcake might bomb the whole building to get at her and that might kill them too. So the neighbours have just got a Dutch court to evict Ayaan Hirsi Ali from her own home -- even though she herself has done nothing wrong!

Perhaps the most interesting part of the case is that the court used European human rights law to justify the eviction. It would seem to show that human rights laws can be twisted to give any result you like. Apparently it was not a violation of the human rights of Ayaan Hirsi Ali for her to get tossed out of her own home! A bit like the way Penn State U used "diversity" guidelines to ban an art exhibition by a Jewish student.

Details here.

(For more postings from me, see TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and DISSECTING LEFTISM. My Home Page. Email me (John Ray) here.)



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posted by JR at 8:01 AM  

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