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\"\"<\/a>The European Union has offered to host the next meeting of the so-called Istanbul Process, an aggressive effort by Muslim countries to make it an international crime to criticize Islam.<\/em><\/p>\n

US, EU Spearhead Islamic Bid to Criminalize Free Speech<\/strong><\/p>\n

Soeren Kern | Gatestone Institute<\/a> | January 6, 2012<\/p>\n

The European Union has offered to host the next meeting of the so-called Istanbul Process, an aggressive effort by Muslim countries to make it an international crime to criticize Islam.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes less than one month after the United States hosted its own Istanbul Process conference<\/a> in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

The Istanbul Process \u2013 its explicit aim is to enshrine in international law a global ban on all critical scrutiny of Islam and\/or Islamic Sharia law \u2013 is being spearheaded by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation<\/a> (OIC), a bloc of 57 Muslim countries.<\/p>\n

Based in Saudi Arabia, the OIC has long pressed the European Union and the United States to impose limits on free speech and expression about Islam.<\/p>\n

But the OIC has now redoubled its efforts and is engaged in a determined diplomatic offensive to persuade Western democracies to implement United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) Resolution 16\/18<\/a>, which calls on all countries to combat \u201cintolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of \u2026 religion and belief.\u201d (Analysis of the OIC\u2019s war on free speech can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Resolution 16\/18, which was adopted at HRC headquarters in Geneva in March 2011, is widely viewed as a significant step forward in OIC efforts to advance the international legal concept of defaming Islam.<\/p>\n

However, the HRC resolution \u2013 as well as the OIC-sponsored Resolution 66\/167<\/a>, which was quietly approved by the 193-member UN General Assembly on December 19, 2011 \u2013 remains ineffectual as long as it lacks strong support in the West.<\/p>\n

Hence, the OIC scored a diplomatic coup when the Obama Administration agreed to host a three-day Istanbul Process conference in Washington, DC on December 12-14, 2011. In doing so, the United States gave the OIC the political legitimacy it has been seeking to globalize its initiative to ban criticism of Islam.<\/p>\n

Following the Obama Administration\u2019s lead, the European Union now wants to get in on the action by hosting the next Istanbul Process summit, tentatively scheduled for July 2012.<\/p>\n

Up until now, the European Union has kept the OIC initiative at arms-length. But Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the OIC, says the EU\u2019s offer to host the meeting represents a \u201cqualitative shift in action against the phenomenon of Islamophobia<\/a>,\u201d according to the International Islamic News Agency (IINA), the OIC\u2019s official news\/propaganda organ.<\/p>\n

According to the IINA, \u201cThe phenomenon of Islamophobia is found in the West in general, but is growing in European countries in particular and in a manner different than that in the US, which had contributed to drafting Resolution 16\/18. The new European position represents the beginning of the shift from their previous reserve over the years over the attempts by the OIC to counter \u2018defamation of religions\u2019 in the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations.<\/p>\n

The IINA report continues: \u201cOfficials in the Cultural Affairs Department of the OIC said that the European Union\u2019s offer to host the third meeting (the first was in Istanbul in July and the second in Washington, DC in December) is considered a promising new possibility of solving this problem. The \u2018Istanbul Process\u2019 will have an added momentum by holding the meeting in Europe, which is more affected by the phenomenon of Islamophobia and hostility towards Islam.\u201d<\/p>\n

The OIC is especially angry over its inability to silence a growing number of democratically elected politicians in Europe who have voiced concerns over the refusal of Muslim immigrants to integrate into their host countries and the consequent establishment of parallel Islamic societies in many parts of Europe.<\/p>\n

According to the IINA, \u201cIhsanoglu said that the growing role of the extreme right in politics in several European countries has become stronger than the capacity of the Organization [OIC], explaining that the extreme right, who [sic] hates Muslims, became leverage in the hands of politicians. He added that the rise of the extreme right through elections has become an issue that cannot be countered, considering the democratic way in which these extremists reach their positions. He pointed out to the referendum held in Switzerland, as an example, which resulted in suspending the construction of minarets there following a vote by the Swiss people.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, the OIC is now seeking the support of non-elected bureaucrats at the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels to enact pan-European hate speech legislation to limit by fiat what 500 million European citizens \u2013 including democratically elected politicians \u2013 can and cannot say about Islam.<\/p>\n

To be sure, many individual European countries that lack First Amendment<\/a> protections like those in the United States have already enacted hate speech laws that effectively serve as proxies for the all-encompassing blasphemy legislation the OIC is seeking to impose on the European Union as a whole.<\/p>\n

In Austria, for example, an appellate court in December 2011 upheld the politically correct conviction of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff<\/a>, a Viennese housewife and anti-Jihad activist, for \u201cdenigrating religious beliefs\u201d after she gave a series of seminars about the dangers of radical Islam. The ruling showed that while Judaism and Christianity can be disparaged with impunity in postmodern multicultural Austria, speaking the truth about Islam is subject to swift and hefty legal penalties.<\/p>\n

Also in Austria, Susanne Winter<\/a>, an Austrian politician and Member of Parliament, was convicted in January 2009 for the \u201ccrime\u201d of saying that \u201cin today\u2019s system\u201d the Islamic prophet Mohammed would be considered a \u201cchild molester,\u201d referring to his marriage to Aisha. Winter was also convicted of \u201cincitement\u201d for saying that Austria faces an \u201cIslamic immigration tsunami.\u201d Winters was ordered to pay a fine of \u20ac24,000 ($31,000), and received a suspended three-month prison sentence.<\/p>\n

In Denmark, Lars Hedegaard<\/a>, the president of the International Free Press Society, was found guilty by a Danish court in May 2011 of \u201chate speech\u201d for saying in a taped interview that there was a high incidence of child rape and domestic violence in areas dominated by Muslim culture.<\/p>\n

Hedegaard\u2019s comments, which called attention to the horrific living conditions of millions of Muslim women, violated Denmark\u2019s infamous Article 266b of the penal code, a catch-all provision that Danish elites use to enforce politically correct speech codes. Hedegaard has appealed his conviction to the Danish Supreme Court, where the case is now pending.<\/p>\n

Also in Denmark, Jesper Langballe<\/a>, a Danish politician and Member of Parliament, was found guilty of hate speech in December 2010 for saying that honor killings and sexual abuse take place in Muslim families.<\/p>\n

Langballe was denied the opportunity to prove his assertions because under Danish law it is immaterial whether a statement is true or false. All that is needed for a conviction is for someone to feel offended. Langballe was summarily sentenced to pay a fine of 5,000 Danish Kroner ($850) or spend ten days in jail.<\/p>\n

In Finland, Jussi Kristian Halla-aho<\/a>, a politician and well-known political commentator, was taken to court in March 2009 on charges of \u201cincitement against an ethnic group\u201d and \u201cbreach of the sanctity of religion\u201d for saying that Islam is a religion of pedophilia. A Helsinki court later dropped the charges of blasphemy but ordered Halla-aho to pay a fine of \u20ac330 ($450) for disturbing religious worship. The Finnish public prosecutor, incensed at the court\u2019s dismissal of the blasphemy charges, appealed the case to the Finnish Supreme Court, where it is now being reviewed.<\/p>\n

In France, novelist Michel Houellebecq<\/a> was taken to court by Islamic authorities in the French cities of Paris and Lyon for calling Islam \u201cthe stupidest religion\u201d and for saying the Koran is \u201cbadly written.\u201d In court, Houellebecq (pronounced Wellbeck) told the judges that although he had never despised Muslims, he did feel contempt for Islam. He was acquitted in October 2002.<\/p>\n

Also in France, Brigitte Bardot<\/a>, the legendary actress turned animal rights crusader, was convicted in June 2008 for \u201cinciting racial hatred\u201d after demanding that Muslims anaesthetize animals before slaughtering them.<\/p>\n

In Holland, Geert Wilders<\/a> \u2013 the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party who had denounced the threat to Western values posed by unassimilated Muslim immigrants \u2013 was recently acquitted of five charges of inciting religious hatred against Muslims for comments he made that were critical of Islam. The landmark verdict brought to a close a highly-public, two-year legal odyssey.<\/p>\n

Also in Holland, Gregorius Nekschot<\/a>, the pseudonym of a Dutch cartoonist who is a vocal critic of Islamic female circumcision and often mocks Dutch multiculturalism, was arrested at his home in Amsterdam in May 2008 for drawing cartoons deemed offensive to Muslims. Nekschot (which literally means \u201cshot in the neck,\u201d a method used, according to the cartoonist, by \u201cfascists and communists to get rid of their opponents\u201d) was released after 30 hours of interrogation by Dutch law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n

Nekschot was charged for eight cartoons that \u201cattribute negative qualities to certain groups of people,\u201d and, as such, are insulting and constitute the crimes of discrimination and hate according to articles 137c and 137d of the Dutch Penal Code.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant<\/a>, Nekschot said it was the first time in 800 years in the history of satire in the Netherlands that an artist was put in jail. (That interview has since been removed from the newspaper\u2019s website.) Although the case against Nekschot was dismissed in September 2010, he ended his career as a cartoonist<\/a> on December 31, 2011.<\/p>\n

In Italy, the late Oriana Fallaci<\/a>, a journalist and author, was taken to court for writing that Islam \u201cbrings hate instead of love and slavery instead of freedom.\u201d In November 2002, a judge in Switzerland, acting on a lawsuit brought by Islamic Center of Geneva<\/a>, issued an arrest warrant for Fallaci for violations of Article 261 of the Swiss criminal code; the judge asked the Italian government either to prosecute or extradite her. The Italian Justice Ministry rejected this request on the grounds that the Italian Constitution protects freedom of speech.<\/p>\n

But in May 2005, the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy<\/a> (UCOII), linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, filed a lawsuit against Fallaci, charging that \u201csome of the things she said in her book \u2018The Force of Reason<\/a>\u2019 are offensive to Islam.\u201d An Italian judge ordered Fallaci to stand trial in Bergamo on charges of \u201cdefaming Islam.\u201d Fallaci died of cancer in September 2006, just months after the start of her trial.<\/p>\n

Soeren Kern<\/em><\/a> is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based Gatestone Institute. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat\u00e9gicos \/ Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on <\/em>Facebook<\/em><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter<\/a>.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally published by the Gatestone Institute<\/a> on January 6, 2012.<\/p>\n

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