{"id":66772,"date":"2017-06-09T23:36:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T05:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66772"},"modified":"2017-06-09T15:49:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T22:49:42","slug":"why-is-the-european-union-silent-on-hate-speech-against-muslims-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/09\/why-is-the-european-union-silent-on-hate-speech-against-muslims-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the European Union silent on Hate speech against Muslims in Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka news<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The European Union through their representatives have expressed solidarity with Muslims in Sri Lanka by visiting a Mosque in Colombo recently.<\/p>\n<p>They wanted hate speech to be curbed and perpetrators of hate speech to be brought to Justice in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>That is fine talk.<\/p>\n<p>However surfing the Internet shows that it is in Europe that hate speech against Muslims is the highest in the world, accompanied by a deafening silence on the part\u00a0of the European Union, United Nations, UNHRC and the &#8216;do &#8211; gooders&#8217; including the so called &#8216;free press&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This shameless double standard of the EU has not been exposed by the mainstream media in Sri Lanka or any of their \u00a0political commentators who rely on Buddhism Bashing e.g. Don Manus ( Sunday Times), Vishwamithra ( moral cowards who write under pseudonyms to defame people) to earn their supper.<\/p>\n<p>The humbug and the fake news that we see day after day manipulated to serve the neo &#8211; colonial agenda of imperialism working under the banner of &#8216; human rights&#8217;, &#8216;secularism&#8217;, &#8216;pluralism&#8217; and the like, has had one positive result &#8211; the public now increasingly relies on the credible segments of the social media for both news and moral direction.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples of virulent hate speech against Muslims in Europe:<\/p>\n<p>1) Poland to Muslims: &#8221; Here, Jesus is our King so get out &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C_BjPy19bYs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C_BjPy19bYs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0Visegrad Alliance &#8211; Central Europe Rises<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z7rdQNeGECw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z7rdQNeGECw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a04 MORE NATIONS JUST REJECTED THE EU<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MmRiQg-GALA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MmRiQg-GALA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0Anti-Muslim sentiment spreading across US, EU after Paris attacks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LqTgNXcLb3s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LqTgNXcLb3s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5)\u00a0&#8216;Muslims won&#8217;t win against the West&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YgNPaL9CllI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YgNPaL9CllI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6)\u00a0Half of Britain\u2019s mosques have been attacked since 9\/11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/half-of-britain-s-mosques-have-been-attacked-since-911-8679304.html\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/half-of-britain-s-mosques-have-been-attacked-since-911-8679304.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7)\u00a0&#8216;Muslims are the problem, not multiculturalism&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1rAHytLwSKU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1rAHytLwSKU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8)\u00a0\u2018Arabs get out\u2019 \u2013 Violent anti-Muslim protests spark in Corsica, France<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pXrwWpl4JPs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pXrwWpl4JPs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THE EUROPE UNION ( EU ) MUST FIRST PUT ITS HOUSE IN ORDER BEFORE INTERVENING IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF OTHER ( NON &#8211; EUROPEAN ) COUNTRIES TO ADVISE THEM ON HOW THEY SHOULD BEHAVE.<\/p>\n<p>ASIA MUST LEARN TO STAND UP TO THE WEST AND THEIR DOUBLE STANDARDS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka news The European Union through their representatives have expressed solidarity with Muslims in Sri Lanka by visiting a Mosque in Colombo recently. They wanted hate speech to be curbed and perpetrators of hate speech to be brought to Justice in Sri Lanka. That is fine talk. However surfing the Internet shows that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}