A dhimmi is a second class citizen under Muslim rule.
In an earlier post I mentioned Gert Wilders who has been invited to present his film Fitna to some members of the House of Lords and was blocked and threatened by the only Muslim Lord. Later this was overturned and the trips was allowed to proceed.
That is until now. To put this in context Wilders receives regular death threats for comments on the Koran, using not his own but Islamic sources. He is, like we all should be, an advocate of freedom of speech.
As you can imagine representatives of the British Muslim community, currently representing a single digit percentage of Britons, have complained. The result is that Wilders has been told that he will be arrested if he sets foot in England.
This is worth repeating. The UK, supposedly a Western nation with the basic principles of free speech included in their democratic process, will be arrested if he comes to speak at the House of Lords!
As one MEP put it "Whether our government is actuated by cowardice or authoritarianism, it’s equally ugly. We are a meaner country than we were this morning." It indicates that some Lords do not believe in freedom of speech and as such the UK is essentially finished as a democratic nation.
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