A UN Vice for Islam's Critics. How the Organization of the Islamic Conference shuts down free speech about the Compassionate, the Merciful.

By Nat Hentoff

Geert Wilders - a film producer and also a member of parliament in the Netherlands - is facing a prison term there for "insulting" Muslims. His short film "Fitna" in 2008 juxtaposed verses from the Koran with scenes of violence committed by jihadist terrorists. The Dutch appellate court refused a free-speech defense because the insults were so egregious.

If convicted, Wilders faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison. Said the defendant: "I lost my freedom already four and a half years ago in October 2004, when my 24-hour police protection started because of threats by Muslims in Holland and abroad to kill me."

I have heard from Muslims in this country that jihadists around the world have more than insulted traditional Muslim law by their fierce punishments of both non-Muslims and Muslims who have acted in speech or writing against jihadists' reinterpretations of the Quran. Some of these protesters, exercising freedom of conscience, have been killed for their "blasphemy." Read more ...

Source: The Washington Times

Which Speech is Free Speech?
	I am a Muslim
	Inoffensive speech
	Speech offensive for reasons other than listed below
	Defaming one's family & all of the above
	Defaming religion, mocking prophets & all of the above
	Inciting violence & all of the above
	Conspiring to commit violence & all of the above
	I am not a Muslim
	Inoffensive speech
	Speech offensive for reasons other than listed below
	Defaming one's family & all of the above
	Defaming religion, mocking prophets & all of the above
	Inciting violence & all of the above
	Conspiring to commit violence & all of the above