3 posts tagged “lionheart”
Here is a supportive update on Lionheart, the British blogger facing hate crimes prosecution if he returns to his homeland.
Evidently there is an attempt to smear Lionheart's anti-Islamist credentials because an interview with a blog that some feel has fascist leanings. I say “some” because in the comment section of the post Lionheart defends his character the commenter decries the white supremacist moniker ascribed to the blog that interviewed Lionheart.
Atlas Shrugs on Lionheart
BlogTalkRadio vindication interview of Lionheart
Read what Lionheart has to say:
JRH 2/11/08
Remember the British blogger with the moniker of Lionheart?
The last I had read he was on a plane on his way back to Britain knowing that the British cops were waiting to arrest him for inciting Hate Speech against Mohammedans (Since it is Lionheart maybe we should use the Crusader term – Saracens).
I have come upon some new information about Lionheart. Primarily he was not on his back to Britain but is in America seeking asylum based on the American system of First Amendment Free Speech, which does not exist in Britain.
Second I have learned that Lionheart although is anti-Islamist, he has political leanings toward the unsavory principles of Neo-Fascism. I am still unaware of how deep Lionheart’s Neo-Fascist sympathies are; however if he is a closet Nazi, that is not good. That would mean he is crying victim about his Free Speech rights while simultaneously being a supporter of racism and hate crimes.
Thus until I discover more data (for me that is running into it by chance), I am uncertain how sympathetic I am to Lionheart’s cause of Freedom of Speech.
Here is the scoop from the Gates of Vienna.
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.
