The unfree world
The fight for
free speech
and against state
censorship
is really the central issue of the fight
for human freedom.
The Internet is the latest in a long line of technologies that is threatening
to all philosophies
that are terrified of freedom of speech
- such as Islamic fundamentalism
and communism.
I could link forever to information that the thugs and bullies of this world want to prevent people from reading.
Here are just a few examples.
Remember that vast amounts of this information is banned or suppressed in the old media in its country,
but available freely in the Internet,
which shows how threatening the Internet is.
In bold I link to a human rights report on the country.
(Left) Woman in the free world.
(Right) Women in the unfree world.
The Islamists
want to turn all scenes like those on the left
into scenes like those on the right.
Frankly, a man would have to be a sexual pervert to want to do that.
To want to cover up the beauty of women.
What is wrong with a man who wants to do that?
There are millions of such male sexual perverts in the Middle East,
and they run entire countries, such as
Saudi Arabia.
They may claim it is their "culture".
To which the answer is simple: Get a new culture.
After all, your "culture" hasn't been around forever.
Like everything else human, it was just invented
at some stage by your ancestors.
If Europe hadn't changed its culture since medieval times
where would we be?
So abandon the culture of your ancestors,
as we have,
and embrace freedom instead.
Picture credits:
(Left) Photo by Alejandro Páez, Mexico.
From here.
From this set.
For re-use policy see
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.
(Right) Photo by Steve Evans,
Atlanta, USA.
From here.
From this set.
For re-use policy see
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.
As I say,
I'm a libertarian, not a conservative.
I'm in favour of the sexual revolution,
provided people take responsibility for their own actions.
And states with Islamic regions, Islamic insurgencies, etc.
Modern Islamic states
- Iraq
(separate page)
- Iran
(separate page)
- Sudan
- news sites
- politics
- human rights
- Human rights campaigns
- Wikipedia
- Omar al-Bashir,
unelected Islamofascist dictator of Sudan
since 1989.
- The leading Sudanese Islamofascist
Hassan al Turabi
was educated in London and Paris,
yet learnt nothing of liberal values.
Instead he helped impose medieval fascism on Sudan,
leading to the suffering and death of millions.
He was a friend and protector of the butcher
Osama bin Laden.
He helped carry out the racist genocide of the blacks of
southern Sudan.
- The Sudanese jihad and civil war,
1983 to date,
has killed 2 million people.
- The Darfur genocide
-
Persecution of Christians in Sudan
- Darfur genocide
- Divest Sudan
- Save Darfur
- Genocide Intervention Network
-
Symposium: Darfur - Islam's Killing Fields
-
Mark Steyn on the Sudan genocide, July 26, 2004
- "I see the next decade's "Never again" story is here. Just as we all agreed the
1994 Rwandan genocide should never be allowed to happen again, so - in a year or two -
we'll all be agreed that another 2004 Sudanese genocide
should never be allowed to happen again."
-
Why doesn't the west simply attack Sudan militarily to stop the genocide?
Are the "anti-war" left
proud that they have made such an attack now impossible and unthinkable?
- Slavery
- Bizarrely, many leftists are concerned about Sudan,
and want intervention there rather than in Iraq (or Iran).
Don't they realise Sudan is an Islamist jihadi state?
Don't they realise confronting Sudan would mean supporting part of the War on Islamism?
- Michelle Malkin:
on leftists' ignorance of the root cause of the bloodshed
in Sudan: Islamism.
-
Victor Davis Hanson
criticises leftists who opposed the Iraq effort but want a new intervention in Darfur:
"Ditto those who now cry for action in Darfur.
They were some of the harshest critics of trying to help Iraq,
and apparently think we could intervene in the Sudan without the sort of mess
that is intrinsic anywhere Westerners must fight jihadists and Islamicists on the ground.
Saddam killed just as many innocents as the Muslims did in Darfur,
and it would be just as messy in righting that wrong there as it was in Iraq."
- True liberals like Victor Davis Hanson and myself
support action in both places.
It is the left that has made that impossible.
It is the left, by their hysterical opposition to the Iraq effort,
that has made saving Darfur politically impossible.
- What we need - The Genocide Prevention Corps
- Somalia
- Operation Restore Hope, 1992-3
- The warlord
Mohamed Farrah Aidid
and others
helped cause
and prolong the famine
that killed about 500,000 Somali men, women and children in 1991-5.
Aidid and other warlords attacked and stole the famine relief sent by the outside world.
- The Battle of Mogadishu, 1993
- Jihadis drag American bodies through the streets.
- Clinton's spineless response encouraged Bin Laden to
attack America in the late 1990s,
ultimately culminating in 9/11.
- 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings
- Islamic Courts Union, 2006-7
- The extremist, Al Qaeda linked
Islamists of the "Islamic Courts Union"
took Somalia briefly in 2006.
- But they were then routed in a great victory
by Ethiopia (aided by the US),
in which the US returned to target Al Qaeda members.
-
Terrorizing Terrorists, Ralph Peters, January 10, 2007
- On US air strikes against Islamists in Somalia, 2007,
hoping to hit
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed,
the Butcher of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings.
- "the terror regime in Mogadishu crumbled overnight
- collapsing the lie that extremist Islam is on the march to an inevitable victory."
- "The speed of the Ethiopian advance cornered hundreds of hardcore Islamist fighters
in a forlorn backwater,
where they can be killed out of sight of their media defenders.
And be killed they will."
- "Far from being a growing threat - as America-haters insist - al Qaeda's on the run.
Confident that they had a new refuge in Somalia, international terrorists instead find themselves scrambling to escape justice."
- "no amount of rationalizations by anti-American voices can disguise the fact that this has been
a huge defeat for radical Islam and its terrorist vanguard: They're homeless again.
Fanatical dreams of re-establishing - and extending - the Muslim caliphate on the African continent
are suddenly in shambles
...
Far from impressing the world with its strength,
extremist Islam just revealed its inherent weakness again: Average Muslims don't like it and won't defend it."
- "our special operations forces - from all of the services - are greater heroes
than the history books or Hollywood films will ever be able to capture.
Whack 'em again, guys."
Others
And recently ex-communist, still unfree, states.
Modern communist states
Russia (ex-communist but still unfree)
- Russia
- The Soviet democide
- After a brief, fragile experiment with democracy in the 1990s,
Freedom House
now lists Russia as a dictatorship again.
- Putin
was the man who ended democracy in Russia
and returned it to its natural autocratic and imperial rule.
- Freedom of the press in Russia
was mostly ended under Putin.
- 2008 Russia-Georgia war
- Imperial Russia back to attacking its neighbours again.
- Charles Krauthammer
suggests how the West should respond to this new, autocratic and aggressive Russia.
-
There will not be a new Cold War
(mainly because the new Russia has no revolutionary ideology it wants to spread everywhere).
But it should be made clear that Putin's changes
place Russia outside of the civilized countries.
-
There are many actions that could be considered:
- Expand NATO to Georgia and Ukraine.
- Restrict military sales to Russia.
- Restrict technology sales to Russia.
- Restrict Russian access to the Internet.
- Expel Russia from the G-8.
- Expel Russia from the OSCE.
(Although other tyrannies are members.)
- Stop Russian entry to the World Trade Organization.
(Although other tyrannies are members.)
- Russia should of course not have a
UN security council seat
either. (But neither should China.)
Libya (Islamic and socialist)
- Libya
- Human rights
- The mass murderer
Muammar Qaddafi
(see here),
unelected dictator of Libya since 1969,
sponsor of international terrorism.
- Qaddafi's philosophy is like a reading list of failed third world ideas:
"Islamic Socialism" and pan-Arabism.
- In reality, what Libya needs is democracy and a free society.
-
FrontPage articles
-
National Review articles
- Bombing of Libya (1986)
-
The Lockerbie bombing, 1988
(and here)
- 270 utterly innocent men, women and little children
murdered in Britain by the thug Muammar Qaddafi.
This unelected monster is still in power today.
-
Kadafi killed my child
by Daniel Cohen.
"The U.S. has forgiven him, but we'll never forget who bombed Pan Am Flight 103"
- UTA Flight 772, 1989
- 170 innocents killed by the thug Qaddafi.
- The Benghazi Six
- 5 innocent Bulgarian nurses and
1 innocent Palestinian doctor, beaten, raped, tortured
with electricity to the genitals,
and imprisoned for 8 years by the primitive state of Libya,
in a cynical move to get money and to get one of the Lockerbie bombers released.
- Qaddafi
is humanised in a musical
by
Asian Dub Foundation, 2006.
-
They describe
the dictator as:
"this captivating man",
and say:
"He was and is an immensely seductive person, who isn't really a fundamentalist,
conservative or a socialist but is taken for all those things."
Instead of stamping his boot on the Libyan people for 35 years,
they say Qaddafi created
"an idealistic revolution".
-
There is a long tradition of western intellectuals' admiration
for foreign strongmen.
Asian Dub Foundation are simply following in the shameful footsteps of
Shaw,
Francis Stuart,
Salvador Dali,
P.G.Wodehouse,
Bertolt Brecht,
Pablo Neruda,
Picasso,
Peter Ustinov,
Sartre and
Foucault.
- Asian Dub Foundation (of course) opposed the liberation of Iraq.
- Muammar Qaddafi
calls for Islam to conquer the world, starting with Europe,
which he predicts will be Islamic soon,
in a 2006 speech full of religious fanaticism.
Others
- Rwanda
-
The 1994 genocide by the Hutus
(and here)
- War crimes and genocide
- America, under Bill Clinton, did nothing. Why?
Because of Somalia.
- The UN, of course, did nothing. Why?
Well, that's what they always do.
Kofi Annan saw a genocide of black Africans happen on his watch
(as head of UN peacekeeping forces),
and did nothing.
And a genocide of black Africans is happening again in Sudan.
And again, Kofi Annan and the UN are doing nothing.
- France can always be counted on to take the side of evil in foreign policy.
No different in this case.
France actively supported the genocidal Hutu government.
- Treat Africans like adults:
- Despite the shameful inaction of the US, the UN and France,
one must of course never forget where
the blame for the genocide lies.
The blame for the genocide lies with
the Hutus.
- What we need - The Genocide Prevention Corps
Others
One could go on forever with links to information that is banned in the unfree world.
For example, most citizens of the Islamic Middle East are protected from ever hearing the arguments of
atheism from cradle to grave.
They are also, along with citizens of many other countries, prevented from receiving any real information on
homosexuality.
Others
Indonesia is now rated "Free"! Congratulations!
- Indonesia
- Human rights
- East Timor information
(and news)
- news
- The East Timor genocide
- Islamofascist revenge for East Timor
- Leftists on East Timor
- Pilger
and Chomsky
are appalled at the idea
that Islamofascist killings may be revenge for
the liberation of East Timor that they supported.
- Pilger
- Confessions of a Bali bomber
- Oliver Kamm:
"Osama bin Laden declares the now independent Timor
"part of the Islamic world" and rightly Indonesia's.
By his own perverse logic, Pilger - who indecently asserted that
"the bombs of July 7 were Blair's bombs",
on account of the Iraq war -
ought to admit responsibility for provoking Islamist terror."
- Chomsky
- Jose Ramos Horta breaks with Pilger and Chomsky
to support the US war on Islamofascism.
As I say,
people who have experienced tyranny
support the US.
They understand.
-
War for Peace? It Worked in My Country
(and blog)
-
Jose Ramos-Horta on war
-
Sometimes, a War Saves People,
by Jose Ramos-Horta.
He supported the military toppling, without UN approval,
of Pol Pot, Idi Amin,
Bokassa and Milosevic.
"It is always easier to say no to war, even at the price of appeasement. But being politically correct
means leaving the innocent to suffer the world over, from Phnom Penh to Baghdad.
And that is what those who would cut and run from Iraq risk doing."
"I went to Zwolle. ... There was a policeman in uniform, and I felt a sudden fear when I saw him, but he told me politely, "Our center is full, we're not taking any more refugees, but you can go to Zeewolde." He gave me a bus card and a train ticket and instructions for the journey. ... Police to me were oppressors, demanders of bribes. They were never helpful. I asked him "Why are you helping me?" and he smiled and said, "Those are the rules." I asked, "And is every policeman this kind?" and he replied, "I sure hope so." After this, anything was possible. To me, government was bad. It was crooked and duplicitous and it oppressed you. And here all these people were busy helping you and this for foreigners. How on earth did they treat their own clans?"
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
in her book Infidel,
describes life in the unfree world, so alien to us,
where the idea that the government and police might help you is utterly alien.
"Colonel Gaddafi must understand that our country is not a doormat on which a leader, terrorist or not, can come and wipe the blood of his crimes off his feet. France should not receive this kiss of death."
- Rama Yade
(see search),
French minister for human rights,
shows delicious disrespect for the vile dictator
Gaddafi, Dec 2007.
"Let's get rid of them all"
- Tony Blair on the regimes of the unfree world.
He is responding to the "anti-war"
argument on Iraq:
"Why attack Iraq when there are so many other tyrannies?"
Blair brilliantly calls their bluff:
Yes. I agree. Let's do them all.
Of course this is the last thing the "anti-war" people want!
They want all tyrannies to be left alone.
The left wants to leave tyrannies alone.
I want all tyrannies destroyed, everywhere.
This is why I am not a leftist.
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