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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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To: bayouranger
Criticism of Islam Could Soon be a Crime in America

...given the path that the Zer0 regime has decided to take America over the last 3 years...is there not something that these people will do which is going to push a majority of Americans "over the edge"......and cause us to exercise an "extraordinary" redress of grievances?

....it could be just be a crazy law or regulation like criminalizing the criticism of islam.

Most Americans are Christians.

I only wish "criticism" of Christianity was the norm here. Lies, slander, and an outright ban on Christians seems to be the goal of our government.....and some want to criminalize criticism of islam????...

...people are so nuts that it is embarrassing...

21 posted on 12/09/2011 6:38:20 AM PST by B.O. Plenty (Elections have consequences....)
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To: FortWorthPatriot

As silly as it sounds and as fearful as it could become the revival of the Christian Crusades may be the only hope for most of the planet.


22 posted on 12/09/2011 6:40:00 AM PST by Eye of Unk (Castigo Cay by Matt Bracken, check it out. And his other works.)
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To: bayouranger
So, this would be right out, correct?


23 posted on 12/09/2011 6:42:05 AM PST by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: bayouranger
I slander a Muslim every time I post about Barach Hussein Obama.
24 posted on 12/09/2011 6:44:58 AM PST by ontap
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To: SMARTY
Christianity is not respected, and Christians aren't feared by the establishment (cowards) like Muslims and Islam has been since 9-11-01. Remember that next time someone says violence achieves nothing.
25 posted on 12/09/2011 6:48:30 AM PST by yank in the UK (decapitation before capitulation)
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To: bayouranger
To paraphrase the eloquent Mike Moran shortly after 9/11:

O.I.C., you can kiss my royal Irish ass!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!
26 posted on 12/09/2011 6:52:20 AM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: bayouranger
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27 posted on 12/09/2011 6:55:04 AM PST by ontap
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To: bayouranger

F U B O


28 posted on 12/09/2011 6:55:39 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao << >> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona)
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To: Sacajaweau

It has always been a political movement wrapped in the guise of a religion. ESAD you sons of pig f’n dogs.


29 posted on 12/09/2011 6:57:58 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: bayouranger

“In the name of Allah, The Inexorable, The Irresistible…”


30 posted on 12/09/2011 6:57:58 AM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: bayouranger

The day it becomes a crime, the judge that decided it this way will encounter the same “justice” as Islam gives its apostates.

And I will throw a party after the pictures of what’s remaining of this judge are shown.


31 posted on 12/09/2011 6:59:54 AM PST by Da Coyote (Liberalism - when you absolutely, positively have no ability to produce wealth.)
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To: struggle

Try googling “Silver Bullet Gun Oil” for anti-jihadi bullet lubricant.

Remember, my fellow “infidels”, you “Blaspheme against Allah and his Prophet” just by stepping into your church or synagogue to worship. You also “blaspheme” just by breathing and not being a muzzie.

It’s coming to general global jihad if it’s not already stsrted. Too many millions of inbred moronic savages ready to kill/die for Islam and their passion paradise for that not to happen.

Arm, pray, and be ready. Deus vult!


32 posted on 12/09/2011 7:08:03 AM PST by elcid1970 ("Deport all Muslims. Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind.")
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To: bayouranger

“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.”

I reserve the right to violently resist any government agent or politician who tries to make it a crime to slander Islam,,,,PERIOD.


33 posted on 12/09/2011 7:08:31 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: bayouranger

Mo Foe bookmark.


34 posted on 12/09/2011 7:09:52 AM PST by Lady Lucky ( Merry Christmas to all)
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To: bayouranger

Hey Obama, you can take your government established religion and stuff it up your ass.


35 posted on 12/09/2011 7:11:55 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Sacajaweau
Mohammedism is a cult of hate, founded by a camel-humping pedophile. It's members are required to make an expensive trip to Saudi Arabia to kiss a black rock.

There is no law on this planet that will stop me from telling the truth; consequences be da*ned.

BTW, isn't it more than a little ironic that Mohammed claimed to be a descendant of Abraham, yet Mohammedans are virulently anti-Semitic.

36 posted on 12/09/2011 7:26:34 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: SMARTY
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37 posted on 12/09/2011 7:31:54 AM PST by SkyDancer ("If You Want To Learn To Love Better, You Should Start With A Friend Who You Hate")
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To: bayouranger

muck fuslims


38 posted on 12/09/2011 7:39:37 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: NTHockey

Ironic also that Mohammedans also observe the same general dietary rules as Jews.


39 posted on 12/09/2011 7:54:39 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: bayouranger

Sure, come on down and try to arrest me or force me to go to court over something like this and see where that gets you.


40 posted on 12/09/2011 7:57:52 AM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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