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Showing posts with label blasphemy. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 12, 2026

Islamization of Europe > Barcelona bans music in schools during Ramadan; UK schools warned against blasphemy; Banknotes to have Churchill replaced with a squirrel

 

Spanish City Bans Music in Schools for Ramadan


Europe is becoming more Islamized than Iran.

Barcelona (Plaça de Sant Jaume) City Hall by Josep Bracons, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0


Spain’s radical leftist government has proposed legalizing huge numbers of Muslim illegal migrants, protested President Trump’s bombings of Islamic terrorists in Iran, and Barcelona is now cracking down on dancing and music.

At the rate that Spain is going, it’s going to need its own ‘Reconquista’ before it becomes more Islamic than Iran.

The Barcelona City Council, through its Office of Religious Affairs (OAR), has distributed to the city’s schools the guide ‘Guidelines for educational centers on Ramadan‘, in which it recommends that school principals, as a gesture of respect for the Muslim celebration, which this year began on February 18 and concludes on March 20, not carry out extracurricular activities such as music or dance, which may be considered by some people as “inappropriate” in this month “dedicated to spirituality”.

Nearly a month of bans on music and dancing to accommodate Islamic colonialism.

But as the Ayatollah Khomeini (ZBUH) once said, “There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.”

And as countries like Spain choose to Islamize, there will be no fun or joy in them either.

But, as described in George Orwell’s 1984, there will be other pleasures.

“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever. ”

Or as Islam calls it, “Jihad.”

Iranians are rebelling against Islamization, but too few Europeans have the courage to join them in standing up to it.




Somebody didn't get the memo. Blasphemy is not against the law in the UK.



UK: Labour councils warn schools children’s art may be blasphemous to Islam; music and dance classes offend Islam


It is astonishing how so many Westerners, particularly leaders, could ignore so much obvious evidence of how the Sharia insidiously embeds itself into any society, as Muslims manipulate the mores of that society to expand its scope.

The indoctrination of children in schools is particularly effective.

In the case of Western societies, the combination of white guilt, DEI and a phobia of being called “intolerant,” “racist” or “Islamophobic” has been extensively manipulated to transmit Islamic tenets to Western countries and expand their influence within them. This stealthy operation has been patient and successful.

If Labour Councils had warned schools about giving offense to Islam decades ago, the warning would have been recognized as preposterous, but society has become habituated to unreasonable accommodation of Muslims. The ground is now fertile in Britain to expand the Sharia, and now this is happening more rapidly.

Note also the audacity of Labour Councils to include as a guideline in schools that Jesus may not be depicted in images as well, since He is regarded as a prophet in Islam. Few Christians would take any issue with images of Jesus, but  Labour Councils care nothing about offending Christians.

Far too many locations in the West are transforming to look increasingly like Muslim countries, in which Christianity and all other religions are regarded as inferior to Islam.

Photo Credit: Creative Commons


“Pupils’ drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools – while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam,” 

by Francine Wolfisz, Daily Mail, March 11, 2026:

Children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous, while music and dance lessons could contravene the teachings of Islam, local councils have warned schools.

The guidance has been issued to teachers across northern England as part of a publication intended to highlight ‘sensitivity and awareness around faiths and beliefs’.

Sharing The Journey has been designed to help schools ‘demonstrate a sensitive and positive approach to religious and cultural diversity to pupils, parents and carers’.

It adds: ‘Schools will want to be flexible in catering for religious differences.’

This includes being aware of the ‘sensitivities’ that some Muslim parents may have around the ‘teaching of aspects of art, dance, drama, music, physical education, religious education and RSHE’.

The publication cites art as an example, stating that Islamic culture and civilisation has ‘a rich artistic tradition’ – but schools may find there are religious exceptions.

‘A three-dimensional imagery of humans is considered idolatrous by some Muslims,’ the guidance warns.

It is very important that the school understands this and is also careful not to ask its students to reproduce images of Jesus, Prophet Mohammed or other figures considered to be prophets in Islam….

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A squirrel seems somehow quite appropriate for this Labour government


UK to Replace Churchill on Banknotes With a Squirrel, and That’s How Things Are Going There


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Sir Winston Churchill, Yousuf Karsh, Public domain


Britain’s civilizational suicide is taking place, as you might expect, under the politest of veneers. These affairs don’t have to be messy and loud, now, do they? Every act of cultural surrender and self-abnegation is taking place with the most rational of explanations. And so as that once green and pleasant land goes gentle into that good night, it is comforted by the thought that as its demise approached, it never once lapsed into anything so tasteless as “racism,” “Islamophobia,” or a desire to preserve (heaven forfend!) its own history, heritage, and national character.

There is more. Read the rest here.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Free Speech in the UK? High Court dismisses blasphemy charge; Sharia blasphemy law - by the back door

 

A Rare Victory for Free Speech in Great Britain


Hamit Coskun is a native of Turkey who now lives in the U.K., where he sought and was granted the status of political refugee. Coskun is an ex-Muslim who detests Islam, and to make clear his feelings about both Turkey and Islam, he set fire to a Qur’an outside the Turkish Embassy. The Crown Prosecution Service then prosecuted him for this act of what was termed “blasphemy,” and convicted him. He appealed the conviction and was acquitted by a higher court; then the Crown Prosecution, in turn, appealed that decision to acquit and tried to reinstate his conviction. But the High Court has just dismissed that appeal, standing up for the right of Hamit Coskun to express his contempt for Islam by setting a Qur’an on fire.

Qur’an and Rehal by sayyed shahab-o- din vajedi, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0


More on this rare victory for free speech — including “speech” that is non-verbal and performative — can be found here: 

U.K. High Court Denies Prosecutor’s Appeal 

Targeting Free Speech Activist

by Jules Gomes, Middle East Forum, March 5, 2026:

In a humiliating defeat for Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the High Court has dismissed an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) seeking to overturn the acquittal of a free-speech activist previously convicted of burning a Qur’an.

The CPS appealed to the High Court in November 2025 after the Southwark Crown Court dramatically reversed the sentence of the Westminster Magistrates’ Court against Hamit Coskun, who set fire to the Qur’an outside the Turkish Embassy in London on February 13, 2025.

Coskun, a 50-year-old political refugee from Turkey, committed an “act of desecration” while driven by a “deep-seated hatred of Islam and its followers,” provoking Muslims to commit acts of violence, the CPS had argued, seeking a conviction under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

Judge John McGarva convicted Coskun in June 2025, ruling that he had committed a “religiously aggravated” offense. However, Justice Joel Nathan Bennathan quashed the verdict in October 2025, declaring: “There is no offense of blasphemy in our law.”…

As Judge Bennathan said in his opinion quashing the verdict convicting Coskin of blasphemy, there is no “offense of blasphemy” in British law. But there is such an offense in the law of Islam, the Sharia, and it was that “offense of blasphemy” that British judges were attempting to accept, and apply. Judge Bennathan was having none of it. According to him freedom of expression “must include the right to express views that offend, shock, or disturb,” even if it involves burning a Qur’an, “an act that many Muslims find desperately upsetting and offensive,” Bennathan emphasized, handing a victory to the ex-Muslim atheist whose mother’s family was killed in the Armenian genocide.

The CPS told Focus on Western Islamism (FWI) that its case was “always that Coskun’s words, choice of location and burning of the Qur’an amounted to disorderly behaviour, and that at the time he demonstrated hostility towards a religious group.”

Yes, that’s exactly what he did. He was making a statement against Islam; he chose to do so for maximum effect right outside the Turkish Embassy. He did indeed “demonstrate hostility towards a religious group” — Muslims whose ancestors, he knew, were responsible for the murder of his Armenian mother and for another 1.2 million Armenians between 1915 and 1920. Why should he be punished for expressing his view?

The Coskun case will enter the history books as a major step toward retaking intellectual territory that had been conceded to the “sons of Allah,” a sign that we in the West do not punish what any religious group, including Islam, finds offensive.

In the U.K., after the High Court overturned the conviction of Hamit Coskun, no one should worry from now on that “blasphemy” will become a crime. Do what you want, whether you are a refugee from an Islamic regime, or simply a level-headed Western Infidel, to express your opposition to Islam. Hold up a placard depicting 54-year-old Muhammad holding the hand of nine-year-old Aisha. No one can argue that pedophilic coupling did not take place; it’s in the Hadith of Bukhari and Muslim.

Or do as Hamit Coskun did in London and Martin Frost did in Manchester, and burn a Qur’an if you wish, to demonstrate your antipathy toward the faith. You have that right. Or perhaps, most devastating of all, simply hold up a poster that does nothing more than quote from the Qur’an and hadith. Have people at an anti-Islam rally carry posters that say just this: “Muslims are the best of peoples” (Qur’an 3:110) and “Non-Muslims are the most vile of created beings.” (Qur’an 98:6). On other placards have two quotes from Muhammad that can be found in the hadith: “I have been made victorious through terror” and “war is deception.” The display of those four quotations will send Muslims into a rage, not because they are false, but because, far more devastatingly, they are true.





UK: Free Speech Union launches legal war on Labour’s ‘anti-Muslim hatred’ policy strategy


“Blasphemy by the backdoor” is an accurate way to describe the British government’s new definition of “anti-Muslim hate.”

It took years for patriots in Britain (and America) to gain the level of momentum that is now being seen in the significant pushback against forceful attempts to erode the cornerstone of free societies: the freedom of expression. Such freedoms do not exist in those Muslim countries which are oppressed under the Sharia.

Islamic supremacists knew exactly who would help them to establish Sharia tenets in the West: leftists.

Kudos to Britain’s Free Speech Union, established by Lord Young of Acton. It’s doing an honorable duty to Britain in the face of a weak, ruinous government that continues to undermine Britain — its traditions, Bill of Rights, and rule of law.

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Anti-Muslim hostility definition: Free speech group launches legal war on Labour’s plans: ‘Back door blasphemy law’

by Lucy Johnston, GB News, March 11, 2026:

Free speech campaigners are launching a legal challenge against the Government over plans to introduce an official definition of “anti-Muslim hostility”, warning it could become a “blasphemy law by the back door”.

Campaigners warn the outcome of the case could shape the future boundaries of free speech in Britain, particularly when it comes to discussion of religion, belief and cultural issues.

The challenge is being mounted by the Free Speech Union, which says the proposal risks silencing legitimate debate about religion and could lead to tens of thousands of complaints every year.

The group is also challenging the Government’s decision to appoint an “anti-Muslim hostility tsar” tasked with overseeing how the definition is applied.

Critics fear the move could suppress free speech by encouraging organisations and institutions to punish people accused of offending Muslims – even when no law has been broken. They say existing legislation already protects people from discrimination….

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