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Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America
radicalislam.org ^ | 12-08-11 | Clare M. Lopez

Posted on 12/09/2011 6:14:07 AM PST by bayouranger

When President Obama delivered his much-anticipated speech to the Muslim world at Cairo University in June 2009, the free world trembled while the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) gushed with praise and begged for a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The OIC is the largest head of state organization in the world after the United Nations (UN) itself and comprises 56 Muslim countries plus the Palestinians. It claims to be the “collective voice of the Muslim world,” i.e., the ummah, and speaks on its behalf in effect as the seat of the next Islamic Caliphate. In 1990, the OIC membership adopted the “Cairo Declaration ,” which officially exempted all Muslim countries from compliance with the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights and replaced it with Islamic law (shariah).

One of the fundamental laws of Islam deals with “slander ,” which is defined in shariah as saying “anything concerning a person [a Muslim] that he would dislike.” At the OIC’s Third Extraordinary Session, held in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in December 2005, the organization adopted a “Ten-Year Programme of Action to Meet the Challenges Facing the Muslim Ummah in the 21st Century.” A key agenda item of that meeting was “the need to counter Islamophobia” by seeking to have the UN “…adopt an international resolution to counter Islamophobia, and call upon all States to enact laws to counter it, including deterrent punishments.” The word “Islamophobia” is a completely invented word, coined by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) front group. OIC adoption of the term reflects the close operational relationship between the OIC and the Ikhwan.

Six years later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is due to host OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Washington, DC in mid-December 2011 to discuss how the United States can implement the OIC agenda to criminalize criticism of Islam. Cloaked in the sanctimonious language of “Resolution 16/18 ,” that was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in April 2011, the WDC three-day experts meeting is billed as a working session to discuss legal mechanisms to combat religious discrimination (but the only religion the Human Rights Council has ever mentioned in any previous resolution is Islam). The UN Human Rights Council, which includes such bastions of human rights as China, Cuba, Libya, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, introduced Resolution 16/18 to the UN General Assembly (UNGA), where it was passed in March 2011.

The Resolution was presented to the UNGA by Pakistan (where women get the death penalty for being raped and “blasphemy” against Islam is punished by death). Ostensibly about “combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and…incitement to violence against persons based on religion or belief,” the only partnership mentioned in the text is the one with the OIC. The U.S., whose official envoy to the OIC, Rashad Hussain, helped write Obama’s Cairo speech, actively collaborated in the drafting of Resolution 16/18.

Now, the OIC’s Ihsanoglu will come to Washington, DC, the capital of one of the only countries in the world with a Constitution that guarantees freedom of speech and a judicial system that consistently defends it, with a publicized agenda to criminalize criticism of Islam. His agenda, and, apparently that of his host, the U.S. Department of State, seek to bring the U.S. into full compliance with Islamic law on slander, as noted above.

Events in the nation’s capital seemed timed to ensure Ihsanoglu a warm welcome. The Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank aligned with the Democratic Party and Obama White House, published “Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America” in August 2011. Disturbingly specific in naming individuals associated with speaking truth about the doctrinal foundations of Islamic terrorism, the report is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and free speech in America—at least as far as Islam is concerned.

The Justice Department soon got on board the “Islamophobia” bandwagon. In the wake of the cancellation of a number of scheduled official training sessions at national security agencies by deeply knowledgeable scholars of Islamic doctrine, law, and scriptures, such as Stephen Coughlin, Steven Emerson, William Gawthrop, John Guandolo, and Robert Spencer, Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed at an 11 October 2011 press conference that the Obama administration was pulling back for review all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities in order to eliminate all references to Islam that Muslim Brotherhood groups have found offensive.

No doubt much encouraged by national capitulation at such a level, Salam Al-Marayati, the president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), an Islamic organization that shares the jihadist agenda and ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood, wrote an op-ed piece that was published in the Los Angeles Times on 19 October 2011. In his piece, Al-Marayati openly threatened the FBI with “collapse of a critical partnership with the Muslim American community.” Later that same day, the Justice Department convened a meeting with Muslim shariah advocates at George Washington University in WDC, chaired by its civil rights division chief, Tom Perez. Dwight C. Holton , the U.S. Attorney in Oregon who was also present, announced that, after speaking with Attorney General Eric Holder, he wanted “to be perfectly clear about this: training materials that portray Islam as a religion of violence or with a tendency towards violence are wrong, they are offensive, and they are contrary to everything that this president, this attorney general and Department of Justice stands for. They will not be tolerated.”

A phobia is an irrational fear. It is not irrational to give warning of an ideology resolutely committed to eradication of free belief, expression, speech, and even thought. It is suicidal for a free society willingly to collaborate with those, like the Muslim Brotherhood and the OIC, which are determined to destroy Western civilization from within—and have told us so, repeatedly, consistently, and publicly. Further, collaboration in such an anti-freedom campaign represents abrogation of the professional oath of office of every federal official who has sworn to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Silencing those who would warn of impending catastrophe only ensures victory to the enemy and loss of our most rare and precious inheritance: the American love of liberty.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cair; christianpersecution; discrimination; freespeech; jihad; oic; religiouspersecution
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1 posted on 12/09/2011 6:14:10 AM PST by bayouranger
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2 posted on 12/09/2011 6:14:24 AM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: bayouranger

A muslim army officer shouting yalley yakbar murdered 14 people at Ft. Hood and the govt has classified this as workplace violence.

and baraq is not a muslim remember?


3 posted on 12/09/2011 6:16:39 AM PST by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: bayouranger

It’s time to declare Islam as a Political Movement and not a Religion.


4 posted on 12/09/2011 6:16:49 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: bayouranger

Not in SW Indiana


5 posted on 12/09/2011 6:18:48 AM PST by wordsofearnest (Proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs it. C.S. Lewis)
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And criticism of Christianity??? How will THAT be handled?

Heck... if criticism of Christianity is criminalized, Hollywood and the MSM will go bankrupt!!


6 posted on 12/09/2011 6:19:56 AM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: bayouranger

Islam is not a religion.


7 posted on 12/09/2011 6:20:40 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny ("Fair share" are the last two words I hear before I stop taking someone seriously.)
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You bet I am afraid of Islam. A person would have to ignorant not to be. Islamic rules for living foment “honor killings”, encourage lying and do not recognize that reasonable minds can differ on religion. And lodge power and authority in vicious old men. The fear of Islam is RATIONAL, not irrational. It is irrational to ignore or smooth over how evil these ideas are.


8 posted on 12/09/2011 6:22:22 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: wordsofearnest

Not in my America...


9 posted on 12/09/2011 6:23:32 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: bayouranger

Check Drudge today for the Islamist in Chiefs latest poke in the eye for the Israeli’s ... mocking Hanukkah ...


10 posted on 12/09/2011 6:23:41 AM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: Sacajaweau

“...It’s time to declare Islam as a Political Movement and not a Religion....”

I did that on the morning of September 11, 2001.


11 posted on 12/09/2011 6:23:57 AM PST by NCC-1701 (In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
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Criticism of Muslims in the future is what will keep a person alive when TSHTF. It will be like wearing a uniform that denotes your servitude.


12 posted on 12/09/2011 6:25:50 AM PST by Eye of Unk (Castigo Cay by Matt Bracken, check it out. And his other works.)
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To: Sacajaweau
It’s time to declare Islam as a Political Movement and not a Religion.

Agreed; islam is not entitled to the constitutional protections accorded religions.

13 posted on 12/09/2011 6:25:56 AM PST by Salvey
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To: bayouranger

1st obammy tries to subvert the 2nd amendment and now he’s after our free speech rights too?
Not surprising.
Soooo, I’ll get it out now while it is still legal,
Hey moose limbs, F.U. and your horse crap “religion of peace”.
Now I gotta go outside and face mecca and take a leak,


14 posted on 12/09/2011 6:27:38 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: bayouranger

Screw O-Ham_Mad, Obama and every last bastard who panders to these homicidal maniacs.


15 posted on 12/09/2011 6:30:35 AM PST by ZULU (Anybody but Romney or Huntsman)
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To: Eye of Unk
"It will be like wearing a uniform that denotes your servitude."

Soon Christians will be wearing yellow crosses on our clothing to identify us. Our Jewish friends can show us how to sew them on after they put their yellow stars back on as well.
16 posted on 12/09/2011 6:31:15 AM PST by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: bayouranger

Would greasing your bullets with bacon be a hate crime?


17 posted on 12/09/2011 6:31:18 AM PST by struggle
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To: bayouranger

Screw Mo-Ham-Mad, Obama and every OTHER last bastard who panders to these homicidal maniacs.


18 posted on 12/09/2011 6:31:29 AM PST by ZULU (Anybody but Romney or Huntsman)
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This needs to become a campaign issue.


19 posted on 12/09/2011 6:32:36 AM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: ZULU

moozlum credo: I love you. I will kill you and your family. Slash! Boom!

religion of pieces.


20 posted on 12/09/2011 6:33:44 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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