Beheadings in the Eyes of Europe

Hat tip Vlad Tepes and Gates of Vienna


A little historical background is in order here. Everybody (with the possible exception of the university crowd) knows that France once used the guillotine as their form of execution. Not so many may be aware that Germany also used the guillotine even before the coming of Hitler. For example, Hans and Sophie Scholl and the other members of the White Rose resistance to Hitler were executed by guillotine in Munich's Stadelheim prison for the "crime" of making and distributing anti-government flyers during the war.

Somewhere along the line, Europe turned against the idea of capital punishment altogether. Meanwhile, the idea of beheading people remained popular in certain Islamic societies and jurisprudence, Saudi Arabia, for example. Then there are the beasts of ISIS, for whom beheading is a specialty deliberately meant to horrify the Judeo-Christian world into submission.

The most recent example occurred in Morocco in December when two young Scandinavian women from Denmark and Norway, were abducted while camping, raped, and beheaded, an act that was captured on video by the perpetrators. Three men, who have been linked to ISIS, have been arrested by Moroccan police. Reportedly, they considered their evil act to be "the will of Allah".

If you are not shocked now, keep reading.

In Sweden, a nation determined to continue its program of Muslim immigration and multi-culturalism no matter how many rapes, murders, riots, and terrorist acts are committed against its people, Swedish state television not only downplayed and omitted the gory details of the murders in Morocco, they even informed their viewers that whoever put up the horrible video on social media could be prosecuted and sent to prison for four years. This was meant not so much as to deter jihadists who were celebrating the horrific act (one of the victim's mothers was actually sent the video by some animal), but also those who felt that it was necessary for the public to understand the true nature of the jihadists and the mortal risk they pose to all of us. It's called censorship. The Swedish government and media do not want to let their citizens think anything negative about Islam-"the religion of peace and tolerance".

If you are still not shocked, keep reading. We now turn our attention back to post-Marie Antoinette France.

Also in December, a group of unhappy Yellow Vesters staged a mock beheading of French President Emmanuel Macron. (For the sake of you American university students, that means it was fake and used a dummy.) But for the French government, it was a macro-aggression as we would say here in America. Not only that, but a crime as well ("provocation not followed by events or a crime or an offense"). Up to five years in the Bastille for that-not only for the mock executioners but for journalists who covered and filmed the act itself).

For you American readers who plan to take that summer vacation to Europe and think you carry your First Amendment rights with you-think again. There is no real freedom of speech in Europe.