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Officials: Anti-Muslim images are protected speech (Wow! A couple prosecutors get it right)
Yahoo ^ | 1/7/2010 | PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 01/07/2010 7:05:33 PM PST by tobyhill

Two Minnesota prosecutors say they won't file charges against a man who investigators say admitted posting anti-Muslim images in front of a mosque, a Somali-owned store and other spots.

They say the cartoons are protected under the First Amendment.

The posters put up last month in the St. Cloud area depicted images such as the Prophet Muhammad engaged in bestiality and an Islamic crescent with a swastika inside it.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: freespeech; islam; muslim; sharia

1 posted on 01/07/2010 7:05:34 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: tobyhill

They say the cartoons are protected under the First Amendment.

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That’s right A-holes. This ain’t Europe.


2 posted on 01/07/2010 7:08:30 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: tobyhill

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2423537/posts

;-)


3 posted on 01/07/2010 7:09:25 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR... Monthly donors welcome!)
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To: tobyhill

So when will the Federal charges get filed? Since our pathetic Attorney General Holder, is only interested in protecting the rights of Black Panthers and Muslims, I expect he will bring civil rights charges against the protesters and the attorneys who failed to “persecute” them.
BTW: Is Holder his real name or is it the nickname he got when he was busted with somebody else’s blow?


4 posted on 01/07/2010 7:11:22 PM PST by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: tobyhill

btt


5 posted on 01/07/2010 7:11:45 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Marty62

A win for free speech, although personally I thought the images were in poor taste.

I pray for this guys safety though, after a member of the “religion of peace” just recently attacked that Danish cartoonist.


6 posted on 01/07/2010 7:14:51 PM PST by Mikse
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To: Mikse

I didn’t see the cartoons but an Islamic crescent with a swastika inside it has a lot of truth behind it.


7 posted on 01/07/2010 7:17:28 PM PST by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: tobyhill

Now, can someone put a Koran in jar of urine and call it art?


8 posted on 01/07/2010 7:17:38 PM PST by glorgau
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To: tobyhill
The results are good, but I'm not sure the prosecutors got their reasoning right.

They say the cartoons reveal a "misguided attempt to educate" and the suspect's "unsophisticated view of Mohammed's lifestyle and the religious tenets of Islam"

You can read the opinions in their entirety here and see what you think.

9 posted on 01/07/2010 7:19:55 PM PST by Dinah Lord
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To: Mikse

I didn’t see the Cartoons.
True he is probably in danger.

I am only happy that the Islamist learn that yelling hate crime doesn’t work.
Now if the Islamist attack HIM, it definitely WILL be a hate crime.


10 posted on 01/07/2010 7:20:53 PM PST by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: tobyhill

Hooah! I don’t cry about idiots putting crucifixes in jars of urine . . . until my tax dollars pay for it that is.


11 posted on 01/07/2010 7:22:25 PM PST by DesertSapper (God, Family, Country . . . . . . . . . . and dead terrorists!!!)
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To: glorgau

“Now, can someone put a Koran in jar of urine and call it art?”

My thoughts exactly.

I doubt we will ever see a museum director with the balls to do this.


12 posted on 01/07/2010 7:25:18 PM PST by Salmonslayer
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To: tobyhill

Whoaa! A moment of Constitutional sanity. Haven’t had one of those for a while.


13 posted on 01/07/2010 8:06:59 PM PST by The Good Doctor (Democracy is the only system where you can vote for a tax that you can avoid the obligation to pay.)
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To: Marty62

Good post, It is sad that this is even news. The rest of the world is giving in to the spread of sharia law and Islam.


14 posted on 01/08/2010 5:35:50 PM PST by opentalk
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