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 regions 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 areas 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 Ive 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. Its why we came here in the first place. In England, they were using Christianity to further their power in government. Thats 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 nations 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 Clintons special order allowing the reentry of two radical Islamic academics whose terrorist ties have long banned them from the U.S.?
Wasn't Timothy McVeigh an agnostic?
Does this mean that I have to stop calling the Koranimals on their barbarism?
Fine then here’s some things that offend me as a Christian:
* Islam
* Pornography
* Abortion
* etc.
There, I demand that these are all outlawed because they constantly offend me, I consider it religious hatred to allow them.
lol!
I don’t know but our government killed a bunch of Christians.
I didn’t know Eric Holder was a towel head.
Sounds like it.
Timothy McVeigh was not Christian. Love ya Juan, and sorry to hear about what happened with NPR, but Timothy McVeigh was not Christian. He was agnostic. He made the statement many times to newspapers. He also said science is my religion.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2010/10/25/Timothy-McVeigh-Was-Not-A-Christian
A quote from the former SC Senator Fritz Hollings is in order here. The current Administration is the “sorriest bunch of bureaucratic jackasses” ever to hold office.
Hey Eric! Over here! Durka Durka!!
Now you’re in trouble!!!
This is laughable. They’d have to arrest half the country, which would just enrage the other half.
McVeigh would have fit right in at an ANSWER rally.
all pigs are equal except muslims and negros and they are more equal.
Oh, ya...I forgot:
Anyone who supports or obfuscates the goals of Islam is a worthless POS of a human being and a personal enemy of mine.
That includes you, Holder.
Obama is Al Qeda.
He didn’t want to do the raid that killed Osama.
He denied political asylum to the man that turned in Osama to the CIA.
These guys are piss poor bureaucrats that have taken nine months to react to the video that killed 4 in Bengazi
” In England, they were using Christianity to further their power in government. Thats why the First Amendment is there.”
Astounding babble.
" Muslim Minority Affairs" -- more than an organization or a social concept, but a calculated foreign policy of the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs, designed to achieve the following specific goals:
1.) Recruit individual Muslims who live in non-Muslim lands and transform them as a collective unit by establishing Islamic centers, educational programs,mosques,and organizations (like the Islamic Society of North America and the Muslim Students Association) that serve to prevent Muslims from assimilating into the cultures of their non-Muslim host nations.2) Encourage these Muslim residents of non-Muslim host nations to shift the demographic scales in their own favor by means of population growthand separatismthereby enabling them to more effectively advance an agenda based on fundamentalist Wahhabi teachings and the legitimation and spread of Sharia Law in the West.
3) Eventually the proliferation of Muslims in the host nations will hit critical mass,tilting those societies toward majority-Muslim status..
4) Ultimately,the host states will join the Muslim commonwealth
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.