Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Context? What the hell is that?

I was floored when I read this news coming out of a Europe that claims freedom of speech is not only a right but a western tradition that must be maintained at all costs. Carrying the banner of freedom of speech aloft, the Dutch have once again incited,or attempted to incite, the passions of Muslims with the latest project to come from that country, the internet video, "Fitnah".

I have always found it funny that they claim freedom of speech to sling epithets at Muslims and de-contextualize Islamic doctrine, but don't see that same freedom extends to the........Holocaust for example, or to Jews in general. So now comes this

The Central Council of Jews in Germany on Thursday requested that a Hamburg court issue a cease-and-desist order against Google for disseminating what it claims are anti-Semitic videos that incite "racial hatred and discrimination" on its YouTube Web site.

"The radical right-wing scene is using YouTube, massively, as a platform," said Stephan Kramer, the general secretary of the Central Council of Jews, the umbrella organization of Germany's Jewish communities. "We are accusing Google, with its YouTube video platform subsidiary of being an accomplice to inciting racial hatred and discrimination."




I don't recall them making that argument when the time bomb cartoons were all the talk about freedom verses giving in to the Islamists. If anybody does know of such a call by the Jewish community when their semitic brothers the Muslims were protesting the turban time bombs as spiteful and hate-filled, please post a comment and a source.

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