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Posted on 12/31/2015 11:10:34 AM PST by jazusamo
In the days and weeks since the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, Democrats have spent a lot of time worrying about an anti-Muslim backlash, and have proposed a House resolution to "condemn violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States" to deal with the problem. There does seem to have been an uptick in hateful incidents in the past month, although, as PJ Media's Rick Moran reported, one of the incidents turned out to be a fake hate crime. Most of the incidents are still under investigation.
Still, despite Democrat hand-wringing over this Islamophobic "backlash," Jews, not Muslims, are consistently the greatest victims of religiously targeted hate crimes in America.
In 2014, the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports: Hate Crime Statistics found that "of the 1,140 victims of anti-religious hate crimes: 56.8 percent [56.8%] were victims of crimes motivated by their offenders' anti-Jewish bias."
That amounts to approximately 647.52 instances where Jewish individuals, businesses or institutions were targeted. A mere "16.1 percent [16.1%] were victims of anti-Islamic (Muslim) bias," amounting to approximately 183.54 instances where Muslim individuals, businesses or institutions were targeted.
Yet Democrats continue to focus on anti-Muslim hate crimes as if they are by far the most prevalent. Speaking at Muslim Advocates' 10th anniversary dinner on December 3, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that "actions predicated on violent talk toward Muslims will be prosecuted."
Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Thursday warned that the Justice Department could take aggressive action against people whose anti-Muslim rhetoric "edges towards violence" and told the Muslim community that "we stand with you in this."Speaking at Muslim Advocate's 10th anniversary dinner, Lynch said since the terrorist attacks in Paris last month, she is increasingly concerned with the "incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric ... that fear is my greatest fear."
Democratic Reps Don Beyer of Virginia, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, and Joe Crowley of New York made a point of visiting the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, on December 4. This particular mosque is notorious. Some of the 9/11 terrorist hijackers and Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan reportedly attended services there. And Anwar al-Awlaki, who the U.S. government believes was a recruiter for Islamic terrorists, was an Imam at the mosque.
Beyer said he organized the gathering to help counter a wave of anti-Muslim rhetoric that has taken hold in the aftermath of recent terrorist attacks. He also urged House members across the country to attend mosque services to support U.S. Muslims.
Since that visit, Beyer has submitted to Congress a House resolution that deplores violence and "hate speech" directed towards Muslims. House Resolution 569condemns "violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States." The resolution has been referred to the House Judiciary Committee and currently has 82 co-sponsors.
Contained in the resolution is the troubling statement, "Whereas the constitutional right to freedom of religious practice is a cherished United States value and violence or hate speech towards any United States community based on faith is in contravention of the Nation's founding principles."
It's nice to know that Democrats still recognize freedom of religion. Over the past few years, they've spent a lot of time and energy trying to force "reproductive rights" laws and gay marriage on Christian conscientious objectors, so people were beginning to wonder. But the statement does not show the same recognition from Democrats that the constitutional right to free speech is still "a cherished value" in the United States.
There is a reason for this. As Robert Spencer noted in FrontPageMagazine, the language "violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric" is designed to chill ideas and speech the left doesn't like.
But what H. Res. 569 does is conflate violence -- attacks on innocent civilians, which have no justification under any circumstances - with "bigotry" and "hateful rhetoric," which are identified on the basis of subjective judgments. The inclusion of condemnations of "bigotry" and "hateful rhetoric" in this Resolution, while appearing to be high-minded, take on an ominous character when one recalls the fact that for years, Ellison, Carson, and his allies (including groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR) have been smearing any and all honest examination of how Islamic jihadists use the texts and teachings of Islam to incite hatred and violence as "bigotry" and "hateful rhetoric." This Resolution is using the specter of violence against Muslims to try to quash legitimate research into the motives and goals of those who have vowed to destroy us, which will have the effect of allowing the jihad to advance unimpeded and unopposed.
The "progressive" left reflexively sides with medieval Islamic ideals over the American ideals of the Enlightenment. This has been especially true of late as it relates to the First Amendment. The reason for this "unholy alliance" is simple. Progressives and Islamists share a common enemy: us.
Proximate cause?
Absolutely! Fair game.
It appears to be our duty to be hateful to white Christian Males.
Most of the hate I feel and express is towards our government.
Second are Muslim extremists.
Are they going to shut down hate speech against themselves?
Going to post this again before it’s illegal
The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam
John Quincy Adams on Islam
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).
That’s a great graphic...So true!
Bump!
What will the Assmonkey Speaker do?
Because it would “progress” us to the irrational utopian world of Marxists where Up is Down and Males are Females and Good is Evil.
To destroy Western Civilization (Reason and Logic), they have to ban the Truth (God) from the schools and public squares so Fichte’s wet dream is realized where the children grow up so dumb and conditioned to “believe” that “snow is black”.
This control of Words (textbooks/news) has been going on for over 100 years and it is unconstitutional (brainwashing the masses with lies and misinformation and the faith of earth worship).....but it is for “utopia”-—radical egalitarianism so there is no Individualism—NONE-—no ability to “think critically” (outside the allowed Marxist “box”).
All identity (male/female/family) has to be obliterated for the Marxists to be able to erase the understanding (embedded natural emotions) from human beings for their “transhumanism”....make us all “bots” for the State slavery.
Fichte stated in 1810, to collapse Western Civ-—all you have to do is get the children aways from the Natural Family and put them into artificial environments (DONE!!!!) which will allow for Up to be Down—irrationality to dominate (like in feral children)— destroy Free Will (the ability to make a “choice”-—because they are so ignorant of Truth/Reality, etc.-—they literally can NOT think (that which makes us in the image of God).
The Islamonazis terrorist attacks ARE a hateful backlash.
DNC brownshirts are in league with them AGAINT Americanism.
JMHo
Ok, how about, “I love a dead muslim!”
Whatever his Muslim master tells him..
I am sure it is mandatory.
Dear Democrats,
Where were you when the Israeli Olympic team was massacred in Munich in 1972?
Where were you when that fellow in a wheelchair, was thrown overboard the cruise ship attacked by mohammedans?
Where were you when mohammedans flew those planes into the towers in NYC?
Where were you when those folks in California were killed by mohammedans?
You were so busy attempting to shut the mouths of your constituents, so it would not offend these poor misguided people.
Lemme tell ya, I have been around the world, and have seen these mohammedans do what they do, whether it in Europe, Asia, or America.
I ain’t gonna shut up.
A perfect summation of this article:
“Progressives and Islamists share a common enemy: us.”
Good job, Debra Heine.
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