Dhimmi* Britain

If you don't read Melanie Phillips, you should.

Take this article on Dhimmi Britain (*'Dhimmi' is the status of infidels under Islam who are permitted to live in Muslim jurisdictions but only with restrictions as second-class citizens.)

So there it is in black and white -- proof that the law against incitement to religious hatred, which has the power to shut down legitimate comment about Islam, potentially put Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, secularists and others in the dock for speaking the truth, and make the giving of offence a greater offence than intimidating Britons into silence (and in so doing destroy a fundamental British liberal tradition) is being introduced to buy Muslim votes. The price to be paid for invading Iraq, in other words, is to be Britain's freedom of speech.

As Melanie pointed out in another article this has already happended in Australia.

The judge, Michael Higgins, said they had 'made fun of Muslim beliefs and conduct'. Ridicule in Victoria is thus now a crime. And as Andrew Bolt observes in the Herald Sun, the pastors have been convicted essentially for telling the truth:

She has lots more, including the introduction of Sharia law in the UK.

Combine all this with her recent article on British media abuse and you have a deadly combination. She ended that piece with this warning.

In the war that has been declared upon the free world, the western media’s abuse of power is perhaps the most lethal weapon of all.

Yes, it is.
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