Islam versus Europe
November 15, 2013
France is notorious for the penalties its legal system imposes on free expression. I wasn’t aware that it actually had a mechanism for banning books outright, however.
In summary judgement, the justice system today ordered the ban for antisemitism of a book edited by the essayist associated with the far right Alain Soral, a rare decision, and the partial censorship of four others.
“The anthology of remarks against Jews, Judaism and Zionism” by Paul-Eric Blanrue, edited in 2013 and sold on the web site of Kontre Kulture publications, must be withdrawn from sale “within one month”, according to a decision of the Bobigny court. Certain passages from four other works of the 19th and 20th centuries, republished by Alain Soral, “La France juive” [Jewish France] by Edouard Drumont, “Le salut par les juifs” [Salvation through the Jews] by Léon Bloy, “Le juif international” [The International Jew] by Henry Ford and “La controverse de Sion” [The Zion Controversy] by Douglas Reed must be removed.
The justice system reproaches these works for crimes “of insult towards a group of people for belonging to a specific religion”, of “denial of crimes against humanity” and “provocation to racial hatred”. The judgement also requires the publisher and Alain Soral to pay, “on a provisional basis”, 8000 euros to LICRA [International League Against Racism and Antisemitism], as well as to pay some of the legal costs.
Source: Le Figaro
All of the Counterjihad bloggers and organisations that now bleat about the encroachments on free speech in Europe say not a word about the origins of this movement to criminalise opinion and expression. Holocaust denial laws represented the first major infringement of this basic liberty. Once the principle had been established, of course, it was easy to extend it a bit further in incremental steps so that we arrive at our present predicament, where our continent is being overrun by hostile alien hordes and we’re not allowed to talk about it.
It’s worth noting that these are historical texts. It would be impossible to understand the history of 20th century Europe without examining the growth of anti-Jewish feeling, including the texts that inspired it and reflected it. But no. This is now Verboten.
Note that if this story had been about a Islam-critical book being banned in France, all of the Counterjihad blogs would have linked to it and covered it. But now they know it relates to Judaism, not Islam, they’ll just walk on by. Because all Counterjihad activists cower in fear of being called antisemitic. All except one.