Posted on 05/30/2013 1:58:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it could constitute a violation of civil rights.
The move comes a few years after the administration became the first in history to dispatch a U.S. Attorney General to personally reassure Muslims that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is dedicated to protecting them. In the unprecedented event, Attorney General Eric Holder assured a San Francisco-based organization (Muslim Advocates) that urges members not to cooperate in federal terrorism investigations that the “us versus them” environment created by the U.S. government, law enforcement agents and fellow citizens is unacceptable and inconsistent with what America is all about.
“Muslims and Arab Americans have helped build and strengthen our nation,” Holder said after expressing that he is “grateful” to have Muslims as a partner in promoting tolerance, ensuring public safety and protecting civil rights. He also vowed to strengthen “crucial dialogue” between Muslim and Arab-American communities and law enforcement.
Evidently that was a precursor of sorts for an upcoming Tennessee event (“Public Disclosure in a Diverse Society”) that will feature the region’s top DOJ official, who serves as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and an FBI representative. The goal is to increase awareness and understanding that American Muslims are not the terrorists some have made them out to be in social media and other circles, according to a local newspaper report. The June 4 powwow is sponsored by the American Muslim Advisory Council of Tennessee.
The area’s top federal prosecutor, Bill Killian, will address a topic that most Americans are likely unfamiliar with, even those well versed on the Constitution; that federal civil rights laws can actually be violated by those who post inflammatory documents aimed at Muslims on social media. “This is an educational effort with civil rights laws as they play into freedom of religion and exercising freedom of religion,” Killian says in the local news story. “This is also to inform the public what federal laws are in effect and what the consequences are.”
The DOJ political appointee adds in the article that the upcoming presentation will also focus on Muslim culture with a special emphasis on the fact that the religion is no different from others, even though some in the faith have committed terrorist acts, Christians have done the same. As an example he offers that the worst terrorist attack in the U.S. prior to 9/11 was committed by American Christians in Oklahoma City. He also mentioned the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting last year in which another Christian, an American white supremacist, fatally shot six people and wounded four others.
“Some of the finest people I’ve met are Muslims,” Killian said, adding later: “We want to inform everybody about what the law is, but more importantly, we want to provide what the law means to Muslims, Hindus and every other religion in the country. It’s why we came here in the first place. In England, they were using Christianity to further their power in government. That’s why the First Amendment is there.”
Over the years the Obama administration has embarked on a fervent crusade to befriend Muslims by creating a variety of outreach programs at a number of key federal agencies. For instance the nation’s Homeland Security covertly met with a group of extremist Arab, Muslim and Sikh organizations to discuss national security matters and the State Department sent a controversial, anti-America Imam (Feisal Abdul Rauf) to the Middle East to foster greater understanding and outreach among Muslim majority communities.
The Obama Administration has also hired a special Homeland Security adviser (Mohamed Elibiary) who openly supports a radical Islamist theologian and renowned jihadist ideologue and a special Islam envoy that condemns U.S. prosecutions of terrorists as “politically motivated persecutions” and has close ties to radical extremist groups.
The president has even ordered the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to shift its mission from space exploration to Muslim diplomacy and the government started a special service that delivers halal meals, prepared according to Islamic law, to home-bound seniors in Detroit. Who could forget Hillary Clinton’s special order allowing the reentry of two radical Islamic academics whose terrorist ties have long banned them from the U.S.?
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Posted on 05/30/2013 1:45:12 PM PDT by george76
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Bump!
“Allah is not HaShem, the G-d of Abrham, Issac, and Jacob. Allah is a nothing.”
Allah was one of thousands of “gods” worshiped in Mecca before Mohammed declared it the one “true” god and forced the pre-Islamic polytheists to convert at the point of a sword.
“Allah” - just like all those other “gods” - was a figment of the polytheist imagination.
Got it. The terrorist death cult of Islam must not be criticized.
We need to reinstate the Crusades and finish the job the Crusaders started.
Yep. Lunatic fur-faced school-bombing death-loving morons with poor personal hygiene and funny hats are people too. We should respect them.
If not, it’ll be eventual dhimmi extinction.
From now on, I will be posting telepathically. If you think of something funny about Muslims, that was me. السلام عليكم
Killian referred to a Facebook posting made by Coffee County Commissioner Barry West that showed a picture of a man pointing a double-barreled shotgun at a camera lens with the caption saying, “How to Wink at a Muslim.”
Killian said he and Moore had discussed the issue.
“If a Muslim had posted ‘How to Wink at a Christian,’ could you imagine what would have happened?” he said. “We need to educate people about Muslims and their civil rights, and as long as we’re here, they’re going to be protected.”
Killian said Internet postings that violate civil rights are subject to federal jurisdiction.
People in this area are fired up about the "meeting" next week. I've lost count of the number of emails I've received about it. I got an email tonight with this Judicial Watch link and sent the link out to everyone on my list who's fired up already. This should fire them up even more. Many will be there in protest of this meeting. I'd be there, too, but have another meeting scheduled at the same time I have to attend.
That's probably a good thing. With my temper, I'd probably end up in the hoosegow. LOL!
This is insanity, pure and simple
This is exactly what Obama means when he talks about “positive rights” as opposed to those silly “negative rights” embodied in that silly obsolete Bill of Rights. The right of Muslims not to be offended apparently being one of them.
Yes. Yes. So what? It still violates the U. S. Constitution, no matter how it’s been used.
Muslims - including actual terrorists who go on to kill people - publish horrible things about Christians and Jews all the time and that seems to go unnoticed by anybody. The councilman’s post may have been in bad taste, but his constituents can punish him for that, not the DOJ.
The truth about any “protected” class will always be deemed an assault, and treated accordingly.
Thanks for the background and feelings of people in the local area, you all have a right to be really worked up.
I wouldn't say unnoticed. It's ignored by the Left but the rest of us notice and disapprove. But as much as we don't like it, we don't throw hissy fits and demand they be arrested for it.
The councilman’s post may have been in bad taste, but his constituents can punish him for that, not the DOJ.
I don't know that his constituents want to punish him. I get the feeling most of them liked it. LOL! Muslims aren't highly favored in these parts.
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