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Something that is not getting a lot of play on the media is the Free Speech persecution of a British Blogger known as Lionheart.
The last I heard he was flying back to Britain knowing that he was to be arrested as he stepped off the plane. Why the arrest? Lionheart is an ex-miscreant who turned his life around by becoming a Christian. Stories of turning one’s life around by becoming a Christian are rare stories in Europe these days.
I am unaware what Lionheart does to pay the bills; however his trouble with the British law is over his Blog’s writing about the threat of Islamism to Western society. Evidently a Mohammedan complained to the authorities in Britain that Lionheart’s blogs were incitement to hate-speech. You see there is no First Amendment right of freedom of speech in Britain as it is protected in America. In Britain a simple act of Parliament can redefine the parameters of Freedom of Speech.
This is what Lionheart is a victim of. Britain has a hate crimes law that if publications or speech is offensive to a race, creed, religion, gender etc.; then it is an equivalent of an American felony. That means if you point out acts of hatred as part of a religion, an offended member of that religion can press charges for hate speech.
Not being from Britain this may not be the precise definition; however it is the essence of Lionheart’s legal problems. Lionheart is anti-jihadi and anti-Islamist. Lionheart’s exposés of the jihad-Islamist mentality of much of the British Muslim population is criminal in Britain.
I have not run into any news about what has happened to Lionheart after he stepped off that plane; however I have ran into some information about what Lionheart is doing that the British law enforcement has determined enough to warrant an arrest.
This information comes from the Jillosophy blog. I will post her information with a few formatting changes at this blog.
