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John Cleese Learns The Hard Way: Free Speech Is Only Possible Because Of Christianity

It won’t be conservative Christians who lock people up for speaking controversial opinions, but woke ideologues kowtowing to Muslim immigrants whose countries of origin have no respect for free speech.

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In the latest example of Western governments repudiating their own traditions of liberty, legendary English comedian and actor John Cleese has been reported to Prevent, the British government entity created to deter extremism. 5Pillars, a London-based Islamist media outlet, in a report about the complaint, wrote that Cleese’s jokes and commentary “go beyond legitimate criticism of Islam and instead portray Muslims collectively as violent, criminal and morally depraved.” This behavior, so the complaint alleges, may contribute to “radicalisation, communal tension, and hate incidents.”

There is, of course, the irony of an Islamist organization clutching its pearls over potential radicalization in a country whose own government has consistently publicly acknowledged that Islamic radicalism is a threat, as well as the fact that a large majority of the world’s roughly 50 Muslim-majority countries impose significant legal or practical restrictions on free expression.

But even more infuriating is the fact that so many elites reap the benefits of Western-originating freedoms while simultaneously hindering and prosecuting those hard-earned liberties.

Freedom Declines as Christian Civilization Declines

Cleese and other fellow travelers who appreciate the importance of freedom of speech recognize that the West now stands on a precipice regarding its core values, seemingly willing to repudiate what made them great to appease supposed “victims” who claim they have been offended. They recognize that there is an increasing propensity toward knee-jerk attempts to label various speech as “racist,” “fascist,” or any of the many varieties of “phobic” to silence and even prosecute unpopular opinions. (Cleese was previously attacked in 2019 for complaining that London was no longer “really an English city” anymore, and mourning the loss of the English culture of his upbringing, which he described as “calmer” and “more polite.”) Yet what few seem to perceive is that what they........

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