Calls for violence against anyone should be illegal already. This move against “hate speech” will almost certainly include prohibitions on criticism of or opposition to jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, as Leftists and Islamic supremacists have for years characterized all such opposition as “hate speech.”

This will be the end of Europe as a home of free societies.

“EU seeks new powers to fight misogyny and hate,” by Clothilde Goujard, Politico, December 6, 2021:

The European Commission wants to amend one of the EU’s founding texts to more forcefully fight violence against women, LGBTQ+ and other minorities, according to a draft plan seen by POLITICO.

The Commission on Wednesday is set to sign off on a plan to criminalize hate speech and violence through EU-wide rules. The rules would enable the Commission to put forward laws to punish misogyny and anti-LGBTQ+ abuse online and offline.

The proposal comes in the wake of social movements like the #MeToo campaign and Black Lives Matter protests.

But the changes are set to put Brussels on a collision course with governments in Warsaw and Budapest, where minorities have come under increasing government pressure in past years and EU attempts to impose legal protections were met with firm objection.

“In the last decades, there has been a sharp rise in hate speech and hate crime in Europe,” the draft communication on hate speech said, pointing to an exacerbation of such speech since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Hate is moving into the mainstream, targeting individuals and groups of people sharing or perceived as sharing ‘a common characteristic,’ such as race, ethnicity, language, religion, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex characteristics or any other fundamental characteristic, or a combination of such characteristics,” the text said.

The text is expected to be presented later this week. It’s an early step in a broader plan to overhaul the EU’s rulebook on fighting hateful abuse….

It also noted that online abuse was having a “chilling effect” on freedom of expression online since minorities were too afraid to share their views. A survey of European female politicians quoted in the document found 47 percent of them reported having received death, rape, or beating threats on social media