By Valentina Colombo
If we consider it from a Western point of view, one of the advantages of armed jihad is that it is patently clear and easily identifiable. Intelligence services only need to look either for arms or for cells of jihad or terror preachers. Unfortunately in the last years another kind of jihad has been gaining ground, which has been spreading especially among Islam ideologically close to the Muslim Brotherhood. It is parallel to the so called “jihad of word” and has become known as “jihad by court”. Any journalist, politician, lawyer or intellectual who talks or writes either about Islam or some representatives of political Islam in a critical way may be charged and taken to court for outraging a “group of people because of their religion”.
The lawsuit the Union of the Islamic Organizations of France and the Great Mosque of Paris raised against the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” for republishing the Danish cartoons about Muhammad is one of the most recent examples of this kind of jihad. In March 2008 the Court of Appeal in Paris wisely rejected all the accusations since , the cartoons “which clearly refer only to a part not to the whole Muslim community, cannot be considered neither an outrage nor a personal and direct attack against a group of people because of their religious faith and do not go beyond the limits of freedom of expression”. Read more ...
If we consider it from a Western point of view, one of the advantages of armed jihad is that it is patently clear and easily identifiable. Intelligence services only need to look either for arms or for cells of jihad or terror preachers. Unfortunately in the last years another kind of jihad has been gaining ground, which has been spreading especially among Islam ideologically close to the Muslim Brotherhood. It is parallel to the so called “jihad of word” and has become known as “jihad by court”. Any journalist, politician, lawyer or intellectual who talks or writes either about Islam or some representatives of political Islam in a critical way may be charged and taken to court for outraging a “group of people because of their religion”.
The lawsuit the Union of the Islamic Organizations of France and the Great Mosque of Paris raised against the satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” for republishing the Danish cartoons about Muhammad is one of the most recent examples of this kind of jihad. In March 2008 the Court of Appeal in Paris wisely rejected all the accusations since , the cartoons “which clearly refer only to a part not to the whole Muslim community, cannot be considered neither an outrage nor a personal and direct attack against a group of people because of their religious faith and do not go beyond the limits of freedom of expression”. Read more ...
Source: The Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam
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