A victory for the Jihad Watch Woman of the Year (and next year, too), Ayaan Hirsi Ali. From Expatica, with thanks to Filtrat and RB:
AMSTERDAM - The Hague Court refused to censor MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Tuesday, dismissing a court challenge to her criticism of the Islam faith and a planned sequel to her controversial film "Submission".The ruling comes after several Muslims took legal action against the Liberal VVD MP in a bid to prevent her from making what they believe to be insulting, offensive or blasphemous remarks against the Islamic faith.
They also demanded the court block a sequel to the film Submission, which accused the Islam faith of endorsing domestic violence.
Hirsi Ali made the film in co-operation with Theo van Gogh. The 10-minute documentary is believed to have played a key role in the filmmaker's murder at the hands of a suspected Islamic militant last November.
But the court in The Hague ruled on Tuesday there are insufficient grounds to ban a follow-up film, asserting that Hirsi Ali has not acted illegally with her statements. The court did accuse the MP though of testing the bounds of what is acceptable....
He also said Hirsi Ali is repeatedly asserting that the Islam faith is
dangerous "without making a distinction between fundamentalist Islam and Islam in general". Moszkowicz demanded an end to such sweeping statements....
All right, Moszkowicz. Tell me, please: does Qur'an 4:34, which tells men to beat their disobedient wives, belong to "fundamentalist Islam" or "Islam in general"? A cursory look at the Amnesty International reports for the Islamic world will show that it seems to be taken seriously by men all across those regions.
Hirsi Ali has in the past labelled Islam a backward culture, condemning also its oppression of women under Islam. "For me, it is all about a battle of opinions through peaceful means: words against words. I am not out to hurt or offend people with different beliefs," she was quoted saying earlier this year.
Warm congratulations from Jihad Watch, Ms. Hirsi Ali.
The Dutch Report has more background on this:
http://dutchreport.blogspot.com/2005/03/judge-mohammed-isnt-pedophile.html
The Judge told Hirsi not to refer to Mo as a pedophile anymore!
Thought crime in action.
BWAHA! Hirsi Ali wins.
But what's this nonsense about not referring to Mo-mo as a pedophile? He essentially was one. Sowwy, but that's not Hirsi Ali's fault. Anyway, as she won the court case, what can the judge do? Let him whine; it won't come to the court again no matter what she says.
Geoff
"The court did accuse the MP though of testing the bounds of what is acceptable...."
Too bad (for all of us) the court didn't subject the focus of Ms. Ali's attention to the same test.
Great to hear that there's common-sense and intelligence coming out of the Hague. Congrats Ayaan, I'm thrilled!
So if we can't call Moh a pedophile anymore, can we still call him a liar, thief and mass-murderer? Coz that's what he was.
You can still say "Mohammed committed at least one known act of paedophilia", or "Mohammed was engaged in a paedophilic relationship with a nine-year old girl when he was in his fifties". Both those statements are true beyond any debate. The judge's comments should thus be deliberately construed (whether he likes it or not) in that manner; since otherwise, he's just a crackhead.
Geoff
And don't forget: Mo's exploits were a lot worse than simply engaging in pedophile pleasures! How about rape, murder, incitement, violence, mutilation: Just to list Mo's crimes you would have to increase the bandwidth of JW/DW!
Get stuffed, Dhimmi, ignorant Judge!
How do we know that Mo didn't sexually abuse other children apart from Aisha? Just because he didn't marry them, doesn't mean that he didn't abuse them, doesn't it?
Voltaire
I definitely remember reading, and I'm sure it was here or JW, a chapter where Mohammed watched a very little girl crawl across the floor, and he tells her parents "if she lives I will marry her" but in the event he died shortly after. I was trying to find it this morning but could not. She may have been called Umm something.
Anybody else know this passage? Am I remembering it accurately?