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Time to End Radical Islam Political Correctness [Aborting the 1st Amendment]
Newsmax ^ | 1/11/2016 | Herbert London

Posted on 01/11/2016 5:16:52 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski

In accordance with a ten year plan of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to implement United Nations’ Resolution 16:18 which criminalizes all criticism of Islam worldwide, the U.S. House of Representatives issued H. Res. 569 condemning violence, bigotry, and "hateful rhetoric" toward Muslims in the United States. This proposal comes on the heels of Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s post San Bernardino promise to prosecute anyone guilty of anti-Muslim speech. It is clear that Ms. Lynch is firing a canon at a fly. According to FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report, there were 1014 hate crime incidents motivated by religious bias in 2014. Of those, 154 – 15.2 percent — were anti-Islamic.

More than half were anti-Jewish incidents. Not only is this yet another example of the Obama administration exaggerating minor threats, but it suggests as well an ignorance or callous avoidance of the First Amendment. Progressive elites have accused those who condemn Muslim extremism of being extremists themselves — claiming that censure of radical Islam is an indiscriminate criticism of all Muslims. Here is an example of what progressives would call "Islamophobia," dubbed appropriately by Andrew Cummins as a word "created by fascists, used by cowards, to manipulate morons." According to a 2013 Pew Research Survey, 10 percent of Muslims (160 million) support religiously motivated violence against civilians in certain situations. Fifteen percent believe that execution is justified for apostasy and almost 23 percent justify killing women who have extramarital sex.

Since 9/11, there have been well over 20,000 terrorist attacks connected to Islam...

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TOPICS: Education; History; Religion
KEYWORDS: constitution; freespeech; hatespeech; hr569; islam; oic; speech
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To: StoneWall Brigade

I agree Stonewall! Additionally, from the other thread, I would not be surprised if the UN ends up in Iraq...Zech 5,


21 posted on 01/12/2016 6:45:33 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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