U.K. travel ban on two European Christians persecuted for their faith is preventing one, a prominent Finnish politician, from speaking to a U.K. legislative body this week. The revocation appears to be based on a wrongful conviction of Finnish Member of Parliament Paivi Rasanen and Lutheran Bishop Juhana Pohjola for publishing a booklet discussing the Bible’s theology of male and female differences, says free speech law firm Alliance Defending Freedom.
France’s highest constitutional authority on Friday struck down the ban on social media for children under 15.
The Constitutional Council ruled that the flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term infringed on freedom of expression.
“By prohibiting minors under the age of 15 from accessing certain online services, the law inherently requires every person, even an adult, to prove their age before accessing them,” it said in its decision.
Good news from France is rare.
Heritage Minister Marc Miller arranged confidential briefings on the United Kingdom Labour government’s plans to combat division, extremism and hate during a July trip to Britain, according to an Access to Information memo.
The discussions included a Labour government “social cohesion” action plan that singled out what it described as “digital grifters” and “politicians of grievance” as having an interest in promoting division.
As we’ve witnessed in Britain “Social Cohesion” means two tiered justice and the criminalization of dissent.
Swedish authorities have charged a 65-year-old pensioner on disability benefits from Växjö with “agitation against a population group” after he posted a critical image of Islam in a Facebook comments section.
Lars-Ivar Carlsén shared the image under a post by the Palestine Group in Malmö on December 11 last year. The text read; Islam is not a religion. It is a death cult for murderers, rapists, incest, and pedophiles.
EDMONTON — Individuals are criticizing the Edmonton Police Service after the agency made a social media post encouraging individuals to report online “hate” comments and used anti-immigration comments as examples.
“You typed it. Someone lived it,” reads the caption of an EPS post made on Friday. “Online hate isn’t ‘just a comment.’ It hurts real people and harms real communities. Hate has no home here…”
The goal always is to criminalize dissent.
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According to the Christian History Institute, many southern Christians felt that slavery, in one Baptist minister’s words, “stands as an institution of God.”
While these southern Christians quoted Bible verses to defend and justify slavery, they completely neglected the context and proper application of these Bible verses.
There are 2 kinds of slavery.
The American public has generally accepted that part of having constitutionally protected speech free of government prosecution means people are able to say mean things. But with leftists’ increasing radicalism and the importation of the Third World, that acceptance is becoming more and more endangered.
Canada likes to describe itself as a mature democracy. We are often told by the Laurentian elite, who have never been shy about lecturing the West, that this country is built on tolerance, debate, pluralism, and peaceful disagreement.
Then Albertans start talking seriously about independence, and suddenly those principles become negotiable.
Lisa Nandy announced last week that she is leaving X. That’s right, the UK culture secretary is leaving one of the biggest communications spaces there is – one that directly and indirectly shapes the culture she is meant to be engaged with.
Those who switched to the news channels of Hungarian public television (M1) and public radio (Kossuth Radio) on Tuesday, July 7, found only a black screen or dead silence. András Horváth, Hungarian public media corporation MTVA’s newly appointed interim CEO, said he “immediately halted the propaganda” on his first day in office and suspended news coverage across all public media platforms.
I bet Carney is smacking his lips.
This is the extraordinary moment two Met police officers tracked down a photographer to a pub over his critical tweets about a local Green councillor – despite admitting he had committed no crime.
Alastair Hilton was having a drink with a friend in Chiswick, west London, on Thursday night when uniformed officers grilled him about his social media posts.
Mr Hilton feared being arrested when he was asked to step outside by two policemen as he celebrated a victory for his community over the Labour-run council and saved outdoor seating outside three much-loved pubs on the Thames.
I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit… pic.twitter.com/r7MDIIdgvc
— Alastair Hilton (@London_W4) July 2, 2026
HE Canadian parliament has passed Bill C-9, known as the Combating Hate Act; it received Royal Assent on June 18 and the provisions come into force on July 18. Mark Carney, the liberal Prime Minister, considers that the legislation is ‘a huge step forward in our mission to build a stronger, safer country’.
Bill C-9 will usher in a ‘dark day’ for Canadians of faith. Conservative MP Brad Redekopp described the Bill as ‘a tool to enforce liberal DEI ideology while leaving fundamental freedoms dangerously exposed’. Such is the danger to the church that the legislation been dubbed the ‘Bible Ban’ Bill.
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees freedom of thought and expression and freedom of religion, among other fundamental rights. These concepts are not abstract — they dictate what Canadians can say, write, or believe every day.
Bill C-9 is proposed legislation currently before the Senate that would regulate certain forms of expression and amend Canada’s hate propaganda laws. Critics argue that it threatens to restrict these freedoms in ways Canadians need to understand clearly.
Wilfrid Laurier University professor David Haskell says proposed legislation that removes religious exemption to hate speech laws would be detrimental to the rights of Christians in Canada, which he argues are already under sustained attack.
Haskell’s comments came during a recent hearing on Bill C-9 before the Senate committee on human rights, and were joined by criticisms from several other expert witnesses who said the bill is too vague to effectively counter hateful incidents or so open to interpretation that it risks infringing on basic civil liberties.
“If this Criminal Code protection is removed, it will be open season on Christians, as ideological opponents increasingly claim [Christians’] beliefs harm society,” Haskell told senators, adding that “it will lead to even more discrimination against Christians in Canada and negatively affect the social good they contribute.”
For years, Europe presented freedom of expression as one of its most recognisable political hallmarks. Almost a foundational principle: the right to express uncomfortable, even unpopular opinions, provided they did not involve violence or coercion. The problem begins when that principle collides with newer and more open-ended legal categories, particularly those linked to hate speech. That is precisely where Päivi Räsänen’s case begins.
