If I was to state all Muslims are the vilest of animals, would you class this as hate speech? I would. But can I draw the readers attention to the 8th sura ayat 55? This verse states that all non believers are the vilest of animals. Surely to define hate speech you can not be bias towards the author. It has to work both ways. If I was write a book stating in over 100 verses to kill all Muslims make religion only for Yahweh, I would be arrested and thrown into prison......And rightly so. Not only are we so tolerant that we build a mosque on ground zero, the site of one of the biggest Islamic attacks since the 7th century, but we are also forbidden to criticise a religion that teaches its followers to kill and harm us. These verses from the Quran dont just stop at killing either, they are taught to torture us in ways such as cutting off finger tips (8:12) The Quran even states that a non believer has three choices, one, die. Two, become Muslim. Or three, pay a forced tax to all Muslims (jizya) (9:29) So to define hate speech you must look to whence this hate speech is coming from. Is it hate speech to have the desire to protect yourself from a force, being or religion that openly wants you dead?
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 23:27:18 +0000
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