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Virginia Begins Criminalizing Opposition to Islam
Daniel Greenfield ^ | 2026-02-15 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 02/16/2026 5:55:31 AM PST by Salman

Sen. Saddam Azlan Salim’s first priority has been a bill to define ‘Islamophobia’. The most notable thing about his bill SB 624 ‘Assault and battery; definition of “Islamophobia”, penalty’ is how completely unnecessary it is. Virginia already has multiple layers of hate crimes enhancements for assaults motivated by race, ethnicity and religion. During Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s term, the legislature has already passed SB 7 (Senate Bill 7) and its counterpart enhancing the assault charge for anyone who “intentionally selects the person against whom a simple assault is committed because of his race, religious conviction, gender, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, color, or ethnic or national origin.”

That should cover Islam and Muslims. And yet Sen. Saddam introduced a 3 page bill with 10 clauses in its first section a whole lot of whom do nothing more than add (including Islam) where it isn’t remotely needed or useful. For example “because of his race, religious conviction (including Islam), gender, disability, gender identity” or “because of his race, religious conviction (including Islam)”. Islam appears to be the only religion being singled out this way.

Why provide Islam with this privileged status? Because it makes Islam distinct, which is a step towards making it superior, and making Islam distinct and superior is the religious mission of all believing Muslims.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: democrats; dissent; freespeech; islam; virginia

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If opposing Islam is illegal, Islam is the de facto official religion.

Who would have guessed -- even as recently as five years ago -- that Virginia would have an official religion and the religion would be Islam.

Perhaps Virginia should join the EU?

1 posted on 02/16/2026 5:55:31 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

Thomas Jefferson: Senator Saddam Azlan Salim


2 posted on 02/16/2026 5:58:34 AM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: Salman

civil war a’comin’.


3 posted on 02/16/2026 5:59:47 AM PST by an amused spectator (principled conservatism is Lefty subterfuge)
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To: Salman

Some wise person once said:

“The First Amendment is meant to protect unpopular speech. Because popular speech needs no protection.”

That idea is now outdated. Disagree with the today’s radicals, and you’ll be prosecuted. They’ll find a reason easy enough.


4 posted on 02/16/2026 6:04:44 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Salman

If passed, it won’t be long till Virginia will be hearing the call to prayer five times a day


5 posted on 02/16/2026 6:06:30 AM PST by CaptainK ("No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up” )
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To: Salman

“...shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...” Or something like that. Sounds almost quaint.


6 posted on 02/16/2026 6:09:41 AM PST by drwoof
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To: an amused spectator

“civil war a’comin’.”

I don’t know if there is enough manhood left around for that.

Look at Europe and England. Complete natioal annihilation and nothing more than a little protest.

Some years ago in Germany one New Year’s Eve, there was mass rape by Muslims of German women. A large gathering of men put on dresses and marched in protest as a result.


7 posted on 02/16/2026 6:11:14 AM PST by odawg
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To: Salman

If it doesn’t apply to all faiths and religions, you, then are absolutely correct. It is a state ordered religion.


8 posted on 02/16/2026 6:11:47 AM PST by healy61
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To: Salman

is islam a religion?


9 posted on 02/16/2026 6:14:51 AM PST by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: Salman

War with Islam.
Not if, but when.
War with the left.
Not if, but when.
Why not save time and get both over with simultaneously?
And kick BOTH uncivilized groups to the same area where they can infect, rot, and stink only to each other.
Not even close to kidding.


10 posted on 02/16/2026 6:15:18 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Salman

Hey, Virginia, Islam delenda est. Moe Ham Head was a pedophile-child-rapist. But I guess that’s why the left loves him so much. Birds of a feather and all. You can live under sharia law. I won’t.


11 posted on 02/16/2026 6:19:23 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Salman
The people of Virginia would join the E.U. if they could. Since they can't physically. They join spiritually and mentally. Islam was conceived and birthed in the bowels of Hell. But, if that is what the people of Virginia want......And via their vote[s] they are saying it was....
12 posted on 02/16/2026 6:20:31 AM PST by sport
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To: Salman

“Who would have guessed — even as recently as five years ago — that Virginia would have an official religion and the religion would be Islam.”

When the mobs were told to tear down the statue of General Lee you knew something like this - and worse - was straight ahead.

Virginia is the new Cuba; a failed state in every sense of the word. They still have tons of money thanks to continuous transfusions of cash paid to worthless federal employees nesting in northern Virginia.


13 posted on 02/16/2026 6:20:43 AM PST by jeffersondem
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To: CaptainK
The left supports this because Islam encourages hebephilia. (Pedo = before puberty, hebe = after puberty started but very much underage.) The left sees Christians as getting in the way of their lurid desires, and also believes that Islam is a backwards culture that can be easily dealt with.

Or put another way, as Rush often said: "The left never fails to show you whom they fear the most." Hint: it's not Muslims, it's Christians that the left fears. The left sees Muslims as a useful tool to suppress Christians.

14 posted on 02/16/2026 6:22:44 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Da Coyote

**War with Islam. Not if, but when.”

We are at war with Islam now and have been for centuries. The Battle of Tours caused them to retreat. It did not defeat them.


15 posted on 02/16/2026 6:23:27 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: Da Coyote
War with Islam.
Not if, but when.

In effect, war with Islam started in 622 AD. Period.
Islam versus the whole world and only incidentally the USA.

I can't be so glib about the war with the "left", because the "left" is constantly changing its definition.
FDR and Harry Truman were the "left". And even old school Stalinists would be disgusted with all the gay stuff.

16 posted on 02/16/2026 6:25:55 AM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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To: Salman
Anyone unfortunate enough to have endured a DEI session knows that covertly or overtly they have a hierarchy of victimhood. The more 'privileged' in DEI by race, sex, sexuality, religion (you know, all those things the law says not to discriminate by) are at the bottom - the very worst being whitemale "cis" Christian.

Various victimhoods are listed; being female, alphabet sexuality, "POC," etc. These are to be given preference, excuses, and deference which is leftist "justice." (aka revenge -- Devil's dictionary again - every leftist term means the opposite of the normal term it supplants). The kicker is DEI in practice means eventually some "victim" and another "victim" want the same thing and the more victimitude wins.

In DEI, axiomatically, instantly, the same people who preen on about sexism and homophobia and racism and church and state defer to muhammedism. I went looking for a picture and found the best was actually posted by a FReeper already once:



This tells us with working brains what the agenda is: lie, and install muhammedans. The rest is chaff. You can't explain it to a leftist; they get every kind of emotion at once and will scream and reeeee incoherently and call you all the names.

17 posted on 02/16/2026 6:26:57 AM PST by No.6
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America is a country where we allowed “special people.”

Special people: blacks, women, homos...

Every self perceived victim, even if a (((majority))) as with women, has gotten their way and been afforded extra protections, carved out certain policies that make them the default victim, see domestic disputes and divorce as an example.

Why not Muslims?

Let’s add them to the list of special folks too.

If you look at them wrong and they “feel” an offense, you’re guilty!

What’s good for the goose...

If homos can be a special class, a protected class, even if unofficial (mere sexual fetish), why can’t a religion?

If blacks can be a protected class, merely on the basis of skin color, again why not a religion?

I think we should make EVERYONE special, except white, heterosexual, Christian males without a disability and under 55, ~14% of the population.


18 posted on 02/16/2026 6:27:43 AM PST by Red6
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To: bankwalker

If islam is a “religion” instead of the cult it appears to be, it is indeed the Religion of Terror, the ROT of the world ... and this ROT cannot coexist with Western Judeo-Christian values on which our Republic and our Constitution are founded. QED.


19 posted on 02/16/2026 6:27:58 AM PST by glennaro (2026: The year to crush the growing internal communism and jihadism in our free Republic)
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To: Salman

Fools and their freedoms are continuing to part ... every day ... in every way


20 posted on 02/16/2026 6:29:31 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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