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The Death of Free Speech in Europe






















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The Death of Free Speech in Europe

On Trial in Denmark for "Islamophobia"




by Phyllis Chesler

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January 10, 2011



http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/924/the-death-of-free-speech-in-europe















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On February 24, 2011, the distinguished Lars Hedegaard, the President of the Danish Free Press Society and the International Free Press Society, will stand trial for telling the truth about Islamic gender apartheid.


Europe, once the birthplace of freedom, is fast becoming its graveyard.


True, the Church tortured and burned many geniuses as heretics; Dutch Jews excommunicated Spinoza; wars for religious supremacy raged for hundreds of years. Still, concepts such as free speech and individual human rights over and above the divine rights of Kings gradually ruled the European zeitgeist. Americans and other former colonists romanticized Europe as "the" place for artists, free thinkers, and free spirits.



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