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ATTACK WITHOUT FEAR

The Jamaica Gleaner’s Ian Boyne has a message for his fellow progressives:

Don’t tell me how freedom of speech is really restricted in the United States.

What we do know is that Chavez can go to the United States and make a fool of himself, say the most embarrassing (to himself) and clownish things, be undignified to the President of the United States and get coverage on all the networks and in all the leading newspapers of the ruling class. And he can go back to the United States and say even worse next year. If he had ever dared to say that about any revered Islamic leader in that leader’s country, or about any communist leader during the Cold War he might hardly have made it out of the country, let alone to go back.

Boyne concludes his wide-ranging column with: “Just as secular society won over the Jews and Christians, so we must fight the Muslims ideologically and legally in bringing them to their senses. We most not cower under their terror and intimidatory tactics. We must attack them and their religion without fear. And we must warn people about the dangers of adopting a religious faith which is totalitarian and disrespectful of people’s right to dissent.”

Posted by Tim B. on 09/25/2006 at 04:34 AM

  1. Boyne also comes up with the whopper, “By who says the bigots are limited to Muslims? It is just that they have a jihadist ideology which encourages violence and militant protests. The Jews will use their economic and political power to suppress your freedom and squeeze you if you criticise them.”

    It’s a measure of how far the left has fallen that even with that slur this is the most clearheaded piece I’ve seen from a progressive in years.

    Posted by bgates on 2006 09 25 at 04:51 AM • permalink

  2. He also comes up with “He portrayed Islam as opposed to rationality and reason, almost equating it with fideism, when an erudite philosopher like him should know that no world religion puts more emphasis on reason and intellectual search than Islam.”
    I’d like to see that!

    Posted by Observer on 2006 09 25 at 05:23 AM • permalink

  3. It is about time someone on the left said something sensible. We have only been waiting for a few decades.

    Posted by The Best Infidel on 2006 09 25 at 05:26 AM • permalink

  4. The Gleaner eh? Haven’t heard of it for ages.
    Ian Fleming always reckoned it was the best newspaper in the world.

    Just a bit of useless information.

    Posted by Bonmot on 2006 09 25 at 05:27 AM • permalink

  5. Couldn’t work out whether he was covering his butt sliming to Islam or meant it.

    But I guess it’s progressives +=1 seeing who poses the most danger.  At this rate, though, it’s a long, slow haul

    Posted by spyder on 2006 09 25 at 05:38 AM • permalink

  6. I feel the tide of recognition of Islanic violence and the neccesity to confront and defeat it turning around in some media.

    I hope the drip turns into a substantial flow sooner rather than later.

    Posted by LaoHuLi on 2006 09 25 at 05:56 AM • permalink

  7. LaoHuLi

    Don’t count on it.

    Posted by murph on 2006 09 25 at 07:02 AM • permalink

  8. Who said freedom of speech was restricted in the US?

    Posted by slammer on 2006 09 25 at 07:11 AM • permalink

  9. slammer

    I dunno.  Maybe all those twits who say that the USA is a fascist state and Bush is a fascist?  Whaddya reckon?

    Posted by murph on 2006 09 25 at 07:52 AM • permalink

  10. Bring on Black Jack Pershing.

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 09 25 at 08:01 AM • permalink

  11. As usual, John at Wuzzadem has covered the free speech issue (hilariously).

    Posted by paco on 2006 09 25 at 08:11 AM • permalink

  12. This twat’s just a commie dressed up in a pussy suit.

    He’s still choking on his attempt to swallow that red herring of the moderate muslim myth and so lost to reality that he believes rational discussion will win the day.

    You know that joke about the guy that showed up at a gun fight with a knife?
    Well, this form of intellectual inbreed shows up with nothing but party approved rhetoric.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 09 25 at 08:17 AM • permalink

  13. A measure of lefty competence that they are just now discovering free speech in the US.  But, better late than never, so thanks, Hugo.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 09 25 at 08:21 AM • permalink

  14. How long do you think it’ll take before one of his compatriots calls him a facist/racist?

    I do sincerely applaud him for speaking the obvious to insanity.

    Posted by CrankyNeocon on 2006 09 25 at 08:49 AM • permalink

  15. The aforementioned Ross Fitzgerald neo convert from lefty land(denies it but)
    said in his article that Chavez has a new law to convict anyone who criticises him in his own country…

    Posted by crash on 2006 09 25 at 10:29 AM • permalink

  16. OMG!  A typo on Tim Blair’s site! Shouldn’t “We most not cower” be “We must not cower”?  Is this an Australian coloquialism, or did i I actually catch an error?

    In any case, I’m just poking fun at Mr. Blair because he’s set such a high standard for accuracy.

    Posted by blogagog on 2006 09 26 at 09:45 AM • permalink

  17. Err, did you notice the quotation marks around the sentences that include the misspelled word?

    Maybe it’s a Jamaican colloquialism.

    Posted by PW on 2006 09 26 at 10:45 AM • permalink

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