Freedom To Be Earned And Refreshed Daily
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Mon, 2011-02-21 23:21
A quote from Geert Wilders in The Wall Street Journal, 22 February 2011:
My trial in Amsterdam is not about me, but about freedom of speech in Europe. As Dwight D. Eisenhower, Europe's liberator from Nazism, once warned, freedom "must be daily earned and refreshed—else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die." Today in Europe, freedom is being neither earned nor refreshed.
Blood In Libya, Silence In The Nanny States
From the desk of Lucien Oulahbib on Mon, 2011-02-21 20:37
On the English service of Al Jazeera, it was heartbreaking to hear the opposition under gunfire in Libya and Bahrain begging for an intervention of the "international community". But the international community, so swift to lecture Mubarak and Ben Ali by way of the spokesperson of UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, is doing nothing. What's going on?
Just Like Chamberlain
From the desk of Ernest Baert on Mon, 2011-02-21 18:35
Neville Chamberlain is known as a politician who naïvely believed that Hitler was a reasonable man with whom one could do business. Churchill knew better, and used the word appeaser for someone "who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last".
Convicted For Calling Muhammad A 'Paedophile'
From the desk of Henrik Raeder Clausen on Mon, 2011-02-21 16:26
In Austria, calling Muhammad a ‘paedophile’ constitutes illegal denigration of “religious teachings”. This is what Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff was found guilty of in an Austrian court. Read on for an extensive analysis of the puzzling verdict.
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