Freedom of speech

Canada Poised To Criminalize Christianity With Ban On Citing Biblical Truths

Canada Poised To Criminalize Christianity With Ban On Citing Biblical Truths

Leftists may claim that they work for the common good, but what really drives them is often nothing less than religious fanaticism.

Case in point: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his new anti-Christian bill (C-9). Not content with the current hate speech laws in force in Canada, Carney is pushing stricter restrictions on speech with a new law that would prohibit using religious texts as a defense of speech the left deems offensive. According to a report in The Telegraph, “Bill C-9, the Act is a wide-ranging piece of legislation aimed at targeting what Carney’s government claims is ‘rising anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia.’”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech

After Oct. 7, hate-speech laws looked like the answer. Europe shows why they aren’t

After Oct. 7, hate-speech laws looked like the answer. Europe shows why they aren’t

On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas carried out the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, recording the horrors and sharing them online. The attack triggered a bloody Israeli invasion of Gaza that killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. It also had immediate consequences far beyond the region.

In Canada, Jewish communities experienced what Deborah Lyons, the former Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, called an “unprecedented wave” of antisemitism involving “harassment, intimidation, threats of violence” and a near tripling of hate crimes. In Europe, pro-Palestinian demonstrations were marred by antisemitic chants. In Berlin, a synagogue was attacked with firebombs while Stars of David were scrawled on apartments housing Jews, reminiscent of Nazi intimidation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Freedom, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech

Europe now treats Christian views as criminal

Europe now treats Christian views as criminal

In what has become known as the ‘Bible trial’, Christian politician Päivi Räsänen was criminally convicted last week of ‘hate speech’ in Finland’s Supreme Court. Her successful prosecution was based on a 21-year-old church pamphlet, which simply re-stated Christian sexual ethics. The verdict, the culmination of a seven-year witch hunt carried out by Finnish authorities, is perhaps the clearest illustration yet of Europe’s censorship crisis.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity and the left, Finland, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech

Why Carney’s liberals are going to war with the Bible

Why Carney’s liberals are going to war with the Bible

Pastor Derek Reimer is not liberal Canada’s favourite free-speech champion. The Bible-bashing leader of Calgary’s Mission 7 ministry has waged a one-man war on his government’s progressive, LGBTQ-friendly agenda – especially its promotion of transgender rights.

In 2023, he was arrested three times after protesting against “family-friendly” storytime events at Calgary’s public libraries, in which local drag queens read to children. He denounced it all as “pervert grooming sessions”, and told a librarian that if she carried on “corrupting kids”, he would post her details online. He also quoted from Deuteronomy 22:5, which states: “A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak.”

So far, his protests have earned him a conviction for harassment, more than 100 days in jail, and limited sympathy from the wider public – who, whatever their views on transgender issues, often see his methods as extreme.

Yet in recent months, his name has frequently been cited in a growing row over freedom of speech – centred around a planned new law that would remove the right of religious activists to quote scripture as a defence against hate crime charges.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech, hate crimes

Finland has Convicted an MP of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ for Publishing Religious Pamphlet

Church arson Finland

Is homosexuality a sin?

That’s like asking whether adultery is a sin, or taking God’s name in vain. The Bible is quite clear on the matter, and for over two millennia, it was uncontroversial to believe that the sexual binary and method of human procreation made clear that God made men and women to be complementary.

Get ready Canada …

Anti-hate bill that provoked bitter debate over religious freedom passes the Commons

Jewish groups welcomed the government’s anti-hate bill passing through the Commons Wednesday evening after months of filibustering and fractious debate about whether it threatens religious freedom.

Bill C-9, as it’s known, would make it a crime, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to obstruct someone from accessing a place of worship or other sites where Jews, Muslims and other identifiable groups gather.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted infreedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech, WTF?

LILLEY: Woman who threatened Mark Carney is no free speech hero

A Toronto woman who made online threats against Prime Minister Mark Carney is being held up as a martyr for freedom of speech when, in reality, she’s a public nuisance and possible danger.

Nicole Pearen Miske, posted about Carney on Feb. 10 and made a threat that police found out about and had to investigate.

It seems a bit overblown to me. A civilian on the receiving end of that nonsense would likely be told the police could do nothing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Criminalizing Dissent", Freedom of speech

Raided Over a Tweet: Munich Prosecutors Target AfD Lawmaker for Digital “Incitement”

Statement regarding the house search: I will take action against this political witch hunt.

The boundary between digital satire and criminal conduct has become the focal point of a major legal dispute in Munich, as authorities conducted a morning raid on the home and parliamentary office of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) lawmaker René Dierkes.

Evidently it is about a tweet made two years ago by an individual no longer employed by the politician.

I learned a cool new word. Hexenjagd = witch hunt. 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom of speech

Closing Debate on Ottawa’s Anti-Hate Bill Risks Undermining Canada’s Religious Freedom

I am writing as a concerned citizen to express my profound concern over the federal government’s March 9, 2026, move to close debate on Bill C-9, Ottawa’s anti-hate bill.

As recently reported by the National Post, Khaled Al-Qazzaz, executive director of the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council, said he and other Muslim groups representing hundreds of Muslim organizations opposed the bill and felt “ambushed” by the government’s decision to limit further debate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, freedom of religious expression, Freedom of speech

Freedom For All: Trump to Give Britons Tools to Bypass Censorship

The redcoats of internet censorship are coming but an American midnight rider is coming to save Europeans from their own governments, the Trump White House teases, stating: “Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.”

A growing number of websites have chosen to simply block users rather than comply with arduous censorship demands in response to Europe’s Digital Services Act and the UK’s Online Safety Act, with many more hidden behind government-mandated age-verification making linking a real-life identity to internet use a prerequisite for access.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom of speech, UK, USA

Carney Liberals push Bill C-16 that could criminalize normal family conversations

Mark Carney’s Liberal government wants to control everything. With Bill C-9, they seek to remove the religious exemption for prosecutable hate speech; MP Marc Miller specifically cited Bible passages as examples. With Bill C-16, they could open the door to criminalizing conversations between family members after the fact.

The new Bill C-16 (not the 2017 bill of the same name, which prohibited “hate speech” on the grounds of “gender identity and expression” and made Dr. Jordan Peterson famous) has been titled the “Protecting Victims Act,” and was introduced by the Liberals in the 45th Parliament. It has not attracted much attention, but as MP Leslyn Lewis recently highlighted, it may have far-reaching effects.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Freedom of speech

EU Launches ‘Hate Speech’ Crackdown in New ‘Anti-Racism’ Drive

The European Union wants to prosecute more people for online “hate speech.”

This week, the European Commission issued a direct challenge to the Trump administration by releasing a sprawling “Anti-Racism Strategy” for 2026–2030. The document heavily prioritizes expanding the policing of “hate speech,” especially online, framing the effort as “Stepping Up Protection Against Racial Hatred.”

Last year, Vice President JD Vance delivered an address to the Munich Security Conference in which he warned, “In Britain, and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEU, Europe, European Union, Freedom of speech

The West is Orwellian, says the Pope

WHEN the Pope addressed the Vatican ambassadors accredited to the Holy See his speech ought to have made the headlines of every free newspaper across the Western world.

Perhaps we should be grateful that Leo XIV used the word ‘Orwellian’ because that caught the attention of a few commentators. Otherwise, one of the most important papal contributions to public cultural and political dialogue I have ever read disappeared into the fog of international news.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inFreedom of speech