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In Virginia, You Must Love Islam — Or Else
PJ Media ^ | 6 Feb 2026 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 02/06/2026 8:18:08 AM PST by Rummyfan

In one sense, Saddam Azlan Salim is a classic immigrant success story. Born in Bangladesh, he grew up in northern Virginia and quickly demonstrated an aptitude for the political rough-and-tumble of his adoptive land. Now he is 36 years old, a Virginia state senator, and a rising star in that state’s now-dominant Democrat Party establishment. In another sense, however, Saddam Azlan Salim clearly retains at least some of the sensibilities of the land of his birth, and he wants to bring them to his new land: He has just introduced a bill to criminalize “Islamophobia” in Virginia.

In Bangladesh, criticizing Islam can get you a swift death sentence. Saddam Salim’s Virginia version of Islam’s blasphemy law is much milder. Fox News reported Tuesday that the ambitious young solon’s bill “would define ‘Islamophobia’ ‘as it relates to the crime of assault and battery as malicious prejudice or hatred directed toward Islam or Muslims.’”

This bill is a classic example of the proverbial camel getting his nose under the tent. At first glance, it appears to be crystalline common sense, and something that no one could possibly oppose. After all, no sane person is in favor of assault and battery of any innocent person. To come out against Saddam Azlan Salim’s bill would appear to be tantamount to saying that assault and battery is just fine. Salim is no doubt banking on his colleagues coming to exactly that conclusion and believing that they have no choice but to pass his bill.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: domesticterrorism; domesticterrorists; fakenews; import3rdworld; invaders; virginia

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Do you know whaat the root problem of islam is? Without their religion that treats women as property, these guys are all too ugly to ever get laid.

1 posted on 02/06/2026 8:18:08 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Liberal “women” are too stupid for their own good.


2 posted on 02/06/2026 8:19:18 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Rummyfan

It is either repent and seek Christ........or Christ will introduce you to a compulsion you never wanted.


3 posted on 02/06/2026 8:22:16 AM PST by Salvavida
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To: No name given
Meanwhile, across the pond...

Welcome to England! Welcome to Europe!


4 posted on 02/06/2026 8:22:38 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan

Islam is a cult. I spit on it. If things keep going the way that are, and I live long enough, I’ll be arrested and stoned to death for typing that.

JESUS is the true King!


5 posted on 02/06/2026 8:23:00 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Rummyfan

America is becoming a globalist Walmart parking lot.


6 posted on 02/06/2026 8:23:34 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Salvavida

That’s exactly what is going to happen with
Satan’s Mark of the Beast (in the future)


7 posted on 02/06/2026 8:24:32 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: PGR88

Parking lot, Hell. It IS the globalist Wal-Mart, in which shopping will make you think you’re in the international terminal at a major airport.


8 posted on 02/06/2026 8:28:33 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Rummyfan

So on one side we have Islamists wanting to criminalize ‘Islamophobia’ and at the same time the Jews want to criminalize ‘Antisemitism’.

I’d be all for sending both these bronze-age desert religions and their members back to the sands of the Middle East to squabble about it and leave us the hell alone.


9 posted on 02/06/2026 8:30:14 AM PST by BigJimSportCamper
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To: Rummyfan

Understand... to crimialize “Islamaphobia” is NOT so much pro Islam, as anti-Christian. Modern (misnamed) “progressives” demand “no other gods before them” and have absolute hatred for the Judeo-Christian foundations of the USA... that put the citizen as sovereign and the state subservient. Their goal is a corporate administrative state, feudal in form and a totally anti-republic, totalitarian police state, opposite of our founding. Social credit scores for all the “serfs.” Which #RustyIrony is very compatable with Islamic Sharia law, where ALL human activity is to be controlled by hyper-bureaucrat, hyper-nanny “holy” men.


10 posted on 02/06/2026 8:30:25 AM PST by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!””)
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To: Rummyfan

This law is total BS. There are already laws at both the state and federal level that make it illegal to treat ANY person the way this bill defines the crime. So why is he pressing passage of the bill? It’s an attempt to gain special dispensation for Muslims and a way to chisel a small nick in local, state, and federal law and implement one of the tenants of Sharia law into US penal code.


11 posted on 02/06/2026 8:31:08 AM PST by econjack
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A Constitutional amendment to criminalize Sharia will eliminate this kind of stuff, Republicans need to campaign on it this year


12 posted on 02/06/2026 8:31:20 AM PST by sopo
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“...In Bangladesh, criticizing Islam can get you a swift death sentence...”

And that’s the major problem with his bill. In Bangladesh, they can criticize democracy. So in the US, we can’t criticize islam? We have the freedom to do so that they don’t have...a first amendment. So we don’t kill people for criticizing democracy, or islam. His bill will never make it past the SCOTUS if passed.

wy69


13 posted on 02/06/2026 8:32:30 AM PST by whitney69 (uin.)
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Where’s the LGBTQ community on this?

If they object to Muslims throwing gays off of rooftops is that considered hate speech and/or “assault and battery?”


14 posted on 02/06/2026 8:34:58 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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Not to worry. We don’t have a “phobia” about that loathsome ‘religion’. We simply hate their third-world traditions, their mistreatment of women, and their hate of dogs. As for Virginia, no one gives a shi...er...gives a corrupt Dorkbama about that sorry-assed ‘state’.


15 posted on 02/06/2026 8:44:44 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: sopo

The GOPe does not have the guts to go after the muslim terrorists in the US. That is why they are working so hard to defeat Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate primary.

The only thing that the GOPe is good at is strongly worded letters.


16 posted on 02/06/2026 8:45:29 AM PST by DFG
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” Without their religion that treats women as property, these guys are all too ugly to ever get laid”

Hilarious and true.

The POS who was a big man in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Sayid Qutb (yea, I can’t pronounce it either), went to the University of Northern Colorado for a couple years in the ‘50s and was upset that the women laughed at him.

So he went home and became virulently anti-Western, basically because he wasn’t assigned a blonde. Wrote a lot and started a lot of trouble which we are all still fighting today.

Kinda popped his self image. But the IslamoNazi who now claims to be “American” in Virginia is a spiritual descendant of this guy.


17 posted on 02/06/2026 8:52:12 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Rummyfan

Any group that requires your death if you leave the group is a cult and thereby has no legal claim to religious protection under our Constitution.

I don’t care how long this camel-jockey has lived in the USA. It should be strongly suggested that he move back to Krapistan where his positions are accepted.

Be sure he takes any and all kin-folks with him.


18 posted on 02/06/2026 8:53:04 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Election 2020 was stolen by mail-in voting. Mail-in voting and RCV counting should be abolished.)
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To: whitney69
Singling out Islam and Muslims for protection violates both the first (it's an "establishment of religion") and 14th ("equal protection of the law") amendments.

The shameful thing is that Democrats elected a foreigner to office who is too ignorant to know these basic principles of constitutional law.

19 posted on 02/06/2026 8:53:19 AM PST by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Rummyfan

Do you know what the root problem of islam is? Without their religion that treats women as property, these guys are all too ugly to ever get laid.


Wait a darned minute - there are lots of goats just waiting for them.


20 posted on 02/06/2026 8:59:51 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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