Beating Freedom of Speech by Robert Spencer

Islamofacists are continually attacking the freedoms of the West. Our greatest freedoms are freedom of speech and freedom of the press. What will happen if our journalists, and those willing to take a stand against Islamofacism are afraid to write, afraid to speak? Can our fall be more than a few generations behind??

FrontPageMagazine.com | April 25, 2007 By Robert Spencer

On Thursday, April 12, a gang of Somali thugs on a downtown Oslo street attacked Kadra, a Somali woman who now lives in Norway, and beat her senseless, breaking several of her ribs. They were enraged at her for her recent statement that the Qur’an’s views of women needed reevaluation. They also might have been angry because of her role in revealing the widespread support among imams in Norway for female genital mutilation; Kadra exposed their support for this horrific procedure using a hidden camera in a 2000 documentary for Norwegian television.

As they beat her, Kadra’s attackers shouted Allahu akbar – Allah is great – and recited verses from the Qur’an. “I was terrified,” she said. “While I lay on the pavement they kicked me and screamed that I had trampled on the Koran.”