Saturday, January 15, 2011  The Roster of the Silenced
Silenced: Lars Hedegaard, Tommy Robinson, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-
Wolff, Geert Wilders, Dahn Pettersson  In my introduction to
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff’s thoughts about her upcoming trial,
I mentioned a number of people who have been threatened with
charges, charged, arrest, tried, or convicted because of their
writings or artwork about Islam. In addition to Elisabeth, I
listed all the other officially persecuted Islam-critics in the
“free” world whose names I could remember off the top of my
head:  Tomashot:A Finnish blogger, who was convicted and fined
under “hate speech” laws for his writings about Muslims. Jussi
Halla-aho:A Finnish writer and Helsinki city councilman who was
convicted and fined for a similar offense. Dahn Pettersson:A
local politician in Sweden who was convicted and fined for
saying that the vast majority of heroin trafficking in Northern
Europe was controlled by Muslims from Kosovo. Gregorius
Nekschot:A Dutch cartoonist who was threa