.... You don’t have to see eye to eye with Hedegaard to think it is probably right that he has now been acquitted, or agree that he has a point in feeling aggrieved that Bilal Philips, who has made a series of decidedly offensive pronouncements, has been given a platform in Copenhagen without facing any legal consequences.
Making unfair generalisations about people – eg Muslims – even just framing fair points in a lurid way – may encourage discrimination and intolerance, and might conceivably act as an indirect incitement to violence.
But Bilal Phillips seems to condone (or not acknowledge) marital rape, and another cleric in Copenhagen, Shahid Mehdi, apparently claimed that women who weren’t wearing hijab were inviting rape. [Harry’s Place] Read more
