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Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech
concealment writes "In the face of the violence that frequently results from anti-religious expression, some world leaders seem to be losing their patience with free speech. After a video called 'Innocence of Muslims' appeared on YouTube and sparked violent protests in several Muslim nations last month, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that 'when some people use this freedom of expression to provoke or humiliate some others' values and beliefs, then this cannot be protected.' It appears that the one thing modern society can no longer tolerate is intolerance. As Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard put it in her recent speech before the United Nations, 'Our tolerance must never extend to tolerating religious hatred.'"
We need to be quite clear here. It is the right of every american to criticize the Islamic religion however we see fit and we need a government that will defend this right and never apologize for it. We will never allow any form of censorship of such criticisms. I find the attacks on free speech to be especially outrageous considering that Muslims repeatedly threaten to kill and destroy the US and yell death to America among other things.
What I found particularly upsetting that was while Muslims were burning down our embassy and so on, Obamas administration could not stop itself from insulting Americans and their free speech rights and apologizing to Muslims. The US government should never dare tell its citizens what to say, apologize for Americans rights and so on. The liberal media predictably went along and helped propogandize on behalf of the Administration and furthermore help cover up the crimes that were occuring. Romney was correct from the beginning to criticize the administrations response. Simply fact that you have a gathering of threatening looking hoards in front of an embassy in a foreign country should be alarming and this situation is not and never should be a situation where its okay for the US government to go about Insulting americans. Romney was right in criticizing the administrations outrageous responses, even while the protests were still just a gathering outside the embassy, that instead of defending Americans free speech rights, the Administration insulted us and our liberties. However, it is now well know that before Mitt Romney criticized the anti-American rubbish coming from the Obama administration, The administration was aware that there was an actual violent attack occuring on the embassy in Libya.
After Obama's response to the events in the middle east, I am convinced that Romney is the right choice for President and we are not safe with Obama who has too many connections to Islam to be trusted.
I would also add that Americans often have signficant difficulty in understanding the real nature of Islam, Muslim populations and the very real danger they pose to western civilisations. Basically the behaviour patterns, ideas about what is reasonable, are completely different, and they are generally incompatable with western values. In Islam, killing your children if they question Islam, stoning apostates to death, destroying christian churches, are all mainstream. It is hard for Americans to understand that these people do not share our values of respecting others religious beliefs or the limits of what religion would drive people to do. Many americans have a rose glasses tinted view of the world filled with peace loving populations filled with love and kindness. they think that everyone in the world is like them. This is not true! The fact there is no common interest between the west and islam, they are totally incompatable. This idea they do is naive and it is wrong. The fact is the world is an extremely dangerous place filled with people that would love to destroy Western Civilisation, christianity and steal the US away from US and attempt to bring it under Islam. The goal of Islam is not only to dominate the Middle East, it is to eventually dominate and take over the entire planet. Muslims will not be satisfied until all non Muslims have been eliminated. Islam has long history of invading and conquering vast areas from West Africa to Indonesia, destroying every religion and civilisation along the way, spreading Islam with the sword and violence. This has not stopped. They have changed their tactics some but there is a continued burning desire for them to take over the world. Muslims are great liars and are great at playing the wolf in sheeps clothing, in wearing a fake facade of pretty words and lying and smiling in your face, they laugh behind your back when they know you are gullible enough to believe their act. They put on a fake facade of smiles and tolerance but in their hearts they know and hope for the day that they can destroy anyone who questions their religi