{"id":83664,"date":"2015-12-29T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83664"},"modified":"2015-12-29T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T17:53:14","slug":"house-democrats-move-to-criminalize-criticism-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=83664","title":{"rendered":"HOUSE DEMOCRATS MOVE TO CRIMINALIZE CRITICISM OF ISLAM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Spencer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

December 17, 2015 ought henceforth to be a date which will live in infamy, as that was the day that some of the leading Democrats in the House of Representatives came out in favor of the destruction of the First Amendment. Sponsored by among others, Muslim Congressmen Keith Ellison and Andre Carson, as well as Eleanor Holmes Norton, Loretta Sanchez, Charles Rangel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Joe Kennedy, Al Green, Judy Chu, Debbie Dingell, Niki Tsongas, John Conyers, Jos\u00e9 Serrano, Hank Johnson, and many others, House Resolution 569 condemns \u201cviolence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States.\u201d The Resolution has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right: \u201cviolence, bigotry and hateful rhetoric.\u201d The implications of those five words will fly by most people who read them, and the mainstream media, of course, will do nothing to elucidate them. But what H. Res. 569 does is conflate violence — attacks on innocent civilians, which have no justification under any circumstances \u2013 with \u201cbigotry\u201d and \u201chateful rhetoric,\u201d which are identified on the basis of subjective judgments. The inclusion of condemnations of \u201cbigotry\u201d and \u201chateful rhetoric\u201d in this Resolution, while appearing to be high-minded, take on an ominous character when one recalls the fact that for years, Ellison, Carson, and his allies (including groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR) have been smearing any and all honest examination of how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to incite hatred and violence as \u201cbigotry\u201d and \u201chateful rhetoric.\u201d This Resolution is using the specter of violence against Muslims to try to quash legitimate research into the motives and goals of those who have vowed to destroy us, which will have the effect of allowing the jihad to advance unimpeded and unopposed.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not what this H. Res. 569 would do, you say? It\u2019s just about condemning \u201chate speech,\u201d not free speech? That kind of sloppy reasoning may pass for thought on most campuses today, but there is really no excuse for it. Take, for example, the wife of Paris jihad murderer Samy Amimour \u2013 please. It was recently revealed that she happily boasted about his role in the murder of 130 Paris infidels: \u201cI encouraged my husband to leave in order to terrorize the people of France who have so much blood on their hands [\u2026] I\u2019m so proud of my husband and to boast about his virtue, ah la la, I am so happy.\u201d Proud wifey added: \u201cAs long as you continue to offend Islam and Muslims, you will be potential targets, and not just cops and Jews but everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Samy Amimour\u2019s wife sounds as if she would be very happy with H. Res. 569, and its sponsors would no doubt gladly avow that we should stop offending Islam and Muslims \u2013 that is, cut out the \u201cbigotry\u201d and \u201chateful rhetoric.\u201d If we are going to be \u201cpotential targets\u201d even if we\u2019re not \u201ccops\u201d or \u201cJews,\u201d as long as we \u201ccontinue to offend Islam and Muslims,\u201d then the obvious solution, according to the Western intelligentsia, is to stop doing anything that might offend Islam and Muslims \u2013 oh, and stop being cops and Jews. Barack \u201cThe future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam\u201d says it. Hillary \u201cWe\u2019re going to have that filmmaker arrested\u201d Clinton says it. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, certain that anyone who speaks honestly about Islam and jihad is a continuing danger to the Church, says it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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