Posted on 05/27/2005 6:41:13 AM PDT by Bombardier
Posted: May 27, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Responding to the Middle East riots allegedly sparked by the retracted Newsweek Quran-in-toilet story, Democratic Rep. John Conyers Jr. has proposed a congressional resolution that condemns defamation of Islam's book.
According to Conyers' weblog, the resolution was drafted to "oppose religious intolerance."
The bill would have the House "condemning bigotry and religious intolerance, and recognizing that holy books of every religion should be treated with dignity and respect," according to Conyers, who has one of the nation's larger Muslim communities in his Detroit-area district.
The resolution recognizes Islam as a religion of "peace" and the Quran as the "holy book for Muslims who recite passages from it in prayer and learn valuable lessons about peace, humanity and spirituality."
The House of Representatives, therefore, according to the text:
(1) condemns bigotry, acts of violence, and intolerance against any religious group, including "our friends, neighbors, and citizens of the Islamic faith";
(2) declares that the civil rights and civil liberties of all individuals, including those of the Islamic faith, should be protected;
(3) recognizes that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, as any other holy book of any religion, should be treated with "dignity and respect"; and
(4) calls upon local, State, and Federal authorities to work to prevent bias-motivated crimes and acts against all individuals, including those of the Islamic faith.
Conyers announced the proposal at a news conference along with the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations, an Islamic lobby group that has seen several former staffers convicted on terror-related charges.
CAIR's government affairs director, Corey Saylor, said the resolution is a "winner on every front."
He added that while Newsweek has retracted its piece asserting U.S. interrogators threw a Quran in a toilet, former detainees in Guantanamo and in Afghanistan have made similar allegations.
But White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters Wednesday the Defense Department had yet to find any substance to the allegations.
"We know that members of al-Qaida are trained to mislead and to provide false reports," said McClellan, responding to questions about recently reported FBI summaries. "We know that's one of their tactics that they use."
He added, "If there's any abuse of detainees, we take any such allegations very seriously."
Critics of attempts to enact such laws in the U.S. point to the loss of civil rights experienced in other nations.
Under an Italian law against defaming Islam, best-selling writer and journalist Oriana Fallaci, who resides in the U.S., was ordered this week to stand trial in her home country for what she wrote in a recent book.
Muslim activists accused Fallaci of inciting religious hatred in her 2004 work "La Forza della Ragione," or "The Force of Reason."
Fallaci wrote that terrorists killed 6,000 people over the past 20 years in the name of the Quran and said the Islamic faith "sows hatred in the place of love and slavery in the place of freedom."
Italian state prosecutors originally dismissed accusations brought by a Muslim group, but a preliminary judge in the northern city of Bergamo, Armando Grasso, rejected the advice at a hearing Tuesday.
Specifying 18 sentences in the book, Grasso said some of Fallaci's words were "without doubt offensive to Islam and to those who practice that religious faith."
In Pakistan, controversial blasphemy laws carry a possible death sentence for offenses against the Quran and defamation of Islam's prophet Muhammad.
Critics of the laws, including the Catholic Church, call it a tool in the hands of Islamic fundamentalists in their effort to make the entire country Muslim.
Earlier this year, a Pakistani court sentenced a Christian man to seven years in prison for desecrating the Quran.
Pakistan's Religious Affairs Minister Ejaz ul-Haq admitted last September that the law has been abused. Between 1927 and 1986 there were only seven recorded cases. But since 1986, more than 4,000 have been brought.
Conyors steps out of the closet and tells us how much he hates the US just like like those other Rat congress perons.
Let's just make Islam our national religion and be done with it. After all it is a religion of peace /sarc
With Democrats in congress, who needs enemies.
Cheers,
CSG
So lemme see if I get this straight: Burn the American Flag-Yes, harm the Qaran-No. OooooooKkkkkkk.
Noticeably absent from the resolution is equal protection for the Bible.
The bill would have the House "condemning bigotry and religious intolerance, and recognizing that holy books of every religion should be treated with dignity and respect,"
Do you honestly think the DhimmiRATs would stand up for the Bible? I won't hold my breath waiting for those traitors to give Christianity or Judaism the same protection they give the "Religion of Pieces".
Sure Johnny boy! Add the Bible, Torah, and the American Flag and you got yourself a deal.
That should kill it before it reaches the floor.
Noticeably absent from the resolution is equal protection for the Bible.
When the Muslims occupied the Christian church at Bethlehem a couple of years ago, they urinated and defecated on the floors and walls.
Wouldn't this be in violation of a certain Constitutional Ammendment?
Yes, but don't you find it noteworthy that he mentions the Koran and not the Bible? Last time I checked, more U.S. citizens follow the Bible and you would think it deserved, at the very least, a mention even if it was just a passing reference. I have a real problem with John Conyers - always have. To me, he is a weak-kneed, lili-livered, indivdual who lacks intestinal and testicular fortitude.
He's simply a whore who's pandering to his clientele. Michigan will be the first islamic state in America, and Conyers is facilitating that.
But all he really wants is to be re-elected. Like I said, he's a whore.
So does that mean that it wouldn't be OK if we had a big public event on the National Mall in DC to unveil a great work of art called "Piss Allah" featuring a copy of the Qur'an immersed in a a glass vessel full of urine?
It's hard for me to keep up with the ever-changing received wisdom from the anti-American left.
"{Sure Johnny boy! Add the Bible, Torah, and the American Flag and you got yourself a deal."
"The bill would have the House "condemning bigotry and religious intolerance, and recognizing that holy books of every religion should be treated with dignity and respect," "
Well you've got the Bible and the Torah, no flag though since it is a bill to "recognize" holy books.
Yes, it is noteworhty. However, the original statement said the resolution offered no protection for the Bible. That's incorrect. I was simply making sure the facts were straight.
I am glad you did.
He does nothing, and keeps getting reelected, and the media in Detroit allows this, which is the highest of all betrayals, for a newspaper unable to protect its citizens for political purposes. Corruption of the highest order.
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