Story of Mohammed Islam Unveiled

There are of course some well understood exceptions to this principle. Yelling fire in a crowded
theatre, inciting people to violence or harming people and their reputation with lies are examples of
speech which is not protected. Insulting, ridiculing, upsetting or humiliating people (or their ideas)
is protected in a free society. In fact the ability to do this, is the very definition of a free society.
It is important to understand that free speech is not the right to tell people what they want to hear.
Free speech is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. No one in Saddam Hussein’s
Iraq was ever imprisoned for saying what a great guy Saddam was, despite the fact that free speech
was not a right for Iraqis. This is the point about free speech, it is not the ability to say “most”
things, it is the ability to say absolutely anything (outside of the exceptions noted above) without
fear of retribution.
The “problem” with free speech, is that people will invariably say things which you don’t like.
Some people will say that the holocaust never happened or that heroin or slavery should be
legalized. Unfortunately, if you want to have free speech, this is what comes with it.
Votaire realized the importance of this when he declared, “I may not agree with what you say, but
I will fight to the death for your right to say it.”
No matter how much you want to stop people from denying the holocaust or advocating rights for
child molesters, you cannot do this without destroying freedom of speech.
What you must realize is that if you don’t like an idea, then you have the right to argue against it.
If the idea really is bad, then that should be easy.
The notion of Islam as a peaceful and decent religion seems pretty difficult to defend in reasoned
argument. Mohammed, like tyrants everywhere understood that the only way to win this argument
was through violence, threats and intimidation.
This then is the final tactic of Jihad:
Rules of Jihad:
8) Never ever allow criticism of Mohammed, Allah or Islam, destroy free speech.
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