Belgian court condemn two men for online revisionism

BRUSSELS (EJP)--- A Brussels criminal court sentenced two employees of the Belgian Islamic Centre to 10 months jail on Wednesday. They were convicted for inciting race hatred against Jews by spreading revisionist and xenophobic texts via the centre's website.

The plaintiffs’ lawyers said the sentence was “memorable”.

Abdel Rahman Ayachi, 26, and Raphaël Gendron, 30, run the centre's website. When leaving the courtroom, they said the “Jewish lobby” had “inspired” the complaint.

Besides the jail terms, they were each ordered to pay a fine of 15,000 euros and deposit 2,500 euros into the account of the “Centre for Equal Opportunities and Fight Against to Racism”.

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While here you can have any number of "kill the Jews" websites you want to.

Ah, free speech.

Redstone

European warning shots across the Islamist bow.

I haven't seen the material in question personally, but even if it is highly hateful, if it's just being put on private websites and whatnot, I don't see any reason for massive fines and attacks.

I guess anyone should be able to say anything, anywhere they please, no matter how incendiary.

That's free speech, believe it or not!

eradicate any resurgence of Nazi politics. Their laws do not conform to free speech as we know it here, but it's not an arbitrary or groundless crackdown.

You can say whatever you want, whenever you want, and not one prosecutor in this country can harm you. If they try, the ACLU will have a horde of lawyers on your doorstep to help you defeat them and put them in their place.

The only speech that is restricted in the US is speech that it directly threatening harm (you can't threaten to kill anyone, or yell fire in a theatre because the "expected response" will injure people), or speech that directly harms an individual (if I accused you falsely of being a child molester, for example, I could be sued and prosecuted for libel).

Other than that, you're free to say anything you want. The fact that Klan rallies still occur is proof of that.

Given Europe's recent history, they're a bit sensitve to the promotion of Anti-semitism.
Even if it comes from members of the Religion of Peace (TM)

All in one sentence. Come on!

"You show islamophobia while talking about antisemitism"

LOL!!! We are talking about Islamists threatening Jews...It's not islamophobia, it's IslamoReality

Your mileage may vary.

is a hate monger. I wonder if our country will ever wake up to our collective humanity?