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Posted at 11:13am on Jun. 14, 2008 Betraying Free Speech.

By Paul J Cella

Canada persecutes Mark Steyn for writing that Islam is a threat to the West. The New York Times, having ignored that drama for months, takes the opportunity to dilate tendentiously on the uniqueness of American tolerance for Free Speech, implicitly comparing Steyn to Nazis, and naturally burying his response in the last two paragraphs of a long article. The few European politicians and thinkers with the guts to stand up to creeping Islamization, find themselves betrayed and denounced in America, and likewise compared to Nazis and fascists, by prominent bloggers. Readers will recall the pitifully tepid response from the West to the beleaguered Danes during the Cartoon Jihad.

And now we have this, as reported by Josh Trevino: In Kuala Lumpar, at the Third International Conference on the Muslim World, three prominent Muslim leaders called on the West to renounce Free Speech in order to accommodate Islamic sensibilities; and the three Westerns who spoke uttered not a word of protest.

Read on.

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Posted at 1:38am on Oct. 26, 2007 Andrew Sullivan censors Ron Paul supporters, lies to them about it

By Jeff Emanuel

Here at RedState, we were 100% honest and straightforward about our new policy regarding Ron Paul spammers. It's our site, it's private property, and it's a user-driven community, which means that its functionality is largely dependent on our users playing well with others (which is a large part of why we have the Posting Rules linked at the top of the page, and why we reserve the right to ban folks who come here for the sole purpose of spamming or causing trouble).

After the story of our "ban on Ron Paul supporters" (a misnomer) was taken to the press (without our being consulted about the facts or the details), several stories came out about the policy, and they were, of course, run with by members of the leftosphere and the fake-rightosphere. Included in the latter was fake-conservative (and strikingly detached from reality) Andrew Sullivan, who said:

I don’t think I qualify as a Neo-Nazi or a Code Pink activist. Full Wired story here. But here’s a simple message to Ron Paul supporters. You’re welcome here. The Dish believes in expanding the range of debate among conservatives, not crushing it. And any cursory look at the degenerate state of American conservatism would not lead you to think your problem is too much diversity of opinion.

Need some evidence that Sullivan, whose IQ has apparently deteriorated to a number lower than the aggregate total of letters in his last name, is both detached from reality and 100% not interested in "welcoming" the MoRon wing of the political spectrum to his site?

As usual, he does not have comments enabled, either on that post or on any other. Now, Sully can, of course, feel free to come here, where we have open comments, and explain exactly how it is that having a site that nobody can comment on serves to "[expand] the range of debate among" anybody -- as well as how there is any "diversity of opinion" there, save for counting himself and his opinion multiple times (something which I wouldn't put past him).

You see what you're doing, Sully? You're censoring Ron Paul's supporters. They can't post anything at all on your site -- you are clearly violating their right to freedom of speech.

Oh, and by the way, "the degenerate state of American conservatism"? What's degenerate, friend, is fake-conservative, censoring liars like yourself.

But hey, don't worry -- nobody can tell you that to your online face. After all, comments are disabled at your site.

Leon and Thomas have covered a bit of this ground, as well.

(h/t The Pirate's Cove)

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