Sunday, January 11, 2015

VDare - John Derbyshire: Pushing Back Against Free Speech Hypocrisy In Britain - 'three stalwarts of Charlie Hebdo (including Stephane ‘Charb’ Charbonnier) had campaigned in their magazine to collect more than 170,000 signatures for a petition calling for a ban on the French National Front party. They did this in the name of the "Rights of Man"’

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Pushing Back Against Free Speech Hypocrisy In Britain

Peter Hitchens, author of The Abolition of Britain (and brother of the late Christopher Hitchens) hits one out of the park in today’s MailOnline, pushing back against the outbreak of mass hypocrisy triggered by last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
We were told on Friday that ‘politicians from all sides’ had lined up to attack Ukip’s Nigel Farage for supposedly ‘exploiting’ the Paris massacre.
Mr Farage had (quite reasonably) pointed out that the presence of Islamist fanatics in our midst might have something to do with, a) uncontrolled mass migration from the Muslim world, and b) decades of multicultural refusal to integrate them into our laws and customs.
Rather than disputing this with facts and logic (admittedly this would be hard), the three ‘mainstream’ parties joined in screeching condemnation. [The sinister, screeching mob who want to kill free speech (And no, I DON’T mean the Islamist terrorists in our midst)”; Mail On Sunday, January 10th.]
So they did, as I reported on Radio Derb.  (I called Farage’s remarks “mild statements of the obvious.”) ...