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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (11894)	5/16/2008 3:22:29 PM
From: Cage Rattler	Respond to of 20106

Another must read. Thank you for finding and posting.

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (11894)	5/16/2008 8:21:57 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Dutch cartoonist arrested for 'insulting people' Cartoonist known for mocking Muslims, leftists has received death threats AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch political cartoonist was arrested this week on suspicion of insulting people because of their race or religion through his work, authorities said Friday. The cartoonist, who works under the pseudonym Gregorius Nekschot, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of violating hate speech laws and held overnight before being released, a spokeswoman for his publisher Uitgeverij Xtra said. "He was arrested with a great show of force, by around 10 policemen," the spokeswoman said. She asked that her name not be used, and declined to give Nekschot's real name, because the cartoonist and publisher have both received death threats. Nekschot is known primarily for cartoons mocking Muslims and leftists, though the spokeswoman said he is a satirist who targets "any strong ideology." Amsterdam public prosecutor spokeswoman Sanne van Meteren said Nekschot remains a suspect in a criminal investigation. "We suspect him of insulting people on the basis of their race or belief, and possibly also of inciting hate," she said. Each is a crime punishable by up to a year in prison under Dutch hate speech laws — or two years for multiple offenses. Police seize computer, sketches Nekschot publishes primarily on several Web sites, including his own, but has also been featured on the Web site of Theo van Gogh, the filmmaker who was murdered by a Muslim radical in November 2004. The cartoonist also works for HP/De Tijd, a major Dutch language weekly news magazine, and he has published two books. One recent cartoon on his Web site caricatured a Christian fundamentalist and Muslim fundamentalist as zombies who met at an anti-gay rally and now wished to marry. Van Meteren said prosecutors were investigating a complaint that dated from 2005. They are now focusing on eight or nine published cartoons, she said, but prosecutors are not disclosing which ones. Nekschot did not answer police questions during his arrest, she said, appealing to his right to remain silent to avoid self-incrimination. The spokeswoman for Xtra said police had seized Nekschot's computer, sketches, CDs, DVDs and telephone at the time of his arrest.

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (11894)	5/16/2008 10:41:24 PM
From: Stan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Reciprocity of altruism is the very basis of civilization. Islam does not share this trait. Islam is the perfect religion for the mostly Arab nations if one considers this ancient prophecy in Genesis 16 from the Angel to Hagar about her son, Ishmael and his nation, the Arabs: "And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. . ."

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (11894)	5/18/2008 3:46:07 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

The end of free expression in Holland Thomas Lifson Something very scary happened in Holland last week. The sort of thing one could imagine under Nazi occupation. The sort of thing against which brave Dutch Resistance fighters fought. Yet it happened at the hands of the government of the Netherlands, and so far the world's major media have uttered not a peep. From Klein Verzet (a Dutch blog in English): When ten police officers (NL) entered the house last Tuesday, they shouted: "Now we've got you!" (NL). They arrested the man and searched his house and photographed everything. They finally had found the proof they where looking for, this was the anonymous cartoonist Gregorius Nekschot (Nekschot means deathblow, litt: "shot in the back of the neck"). This was the cartoonist responsible for those discriminating blasphemous anti Muslim cartoons! During the arrest in his own house, the cartoonist was told by the police officers: "What you make, is much worse than what they made in Denmark. Do you understand what it means when you're identity gets known?". The officers made clear to him: he was no longer anonymous. On national television the Dutch Justice minister Hirsch Ballin (Christian Democrat) defended the arrest of the cartoonist and told that it was a good thing that his identity was finally made public. The police interrogated the cartoonist for thirty hours (NL) for making his cartoons. This is longer than normal, Justice defended their actions by claiming that the cartoonist had "made a living from continuous insulting and hate mongering" they could have jailed him for two more days if they wanted. The police also confiscated the computer, backup disks, usb sticks and mobile phone of the cartoonist, who now cannot make any cartoons anymore. I remember when Holland was known for its "anything goes" public policies, the Dutch being devoted to freedom. Well, apparently some people are still free when it comes to speech: The arrest is based on charged (NL) filed against the cartoonist in 2005 by a well known Dutch Jihadist named Abdul Jabbar Van de Ven. He was not the only one who filed charges in 2005, because he was also the leader of an Internet campaign to get as many Muslims as possible to file charges against the cartoonist. Abdul Jabbar van de Ven is a Dutch convert who is well known for his hate mongering against unbelievers. With the Dutch general public he is best known for calling for the death of Geert Wilders, right after the slaughter of Theo van Gogh, in a live TV show. He was never prosecuted for it, because according to the Dutch government this was within the limits of free speech. This is an amazing capitulation to thuggery and does not suggest a bright future for the Dutch, to say the least.