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HOUSE DEMOCRATS MOVE TOCRIMINALIZE CRITICISM OF ISLAM
Front Page ^ | Dec 29 2015 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 12/29/2015 9:26:08 AM PST by Whenifhow

December 17, 2015 ought henceforth to be a date which will live in infamy, as that was the day that some of the leading Democrats in the House of Representatives came out in favor of the destruction of the First Amendment. Sponsored by among others, Muslim Congressmen Keith Ellison and Andre Carson, as well as Eleanor Holmes Norton, Loretta Sanchez, Charles Rangel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Joe Kennedy, Al Green, Judy Chu, Debbie Dingell, Niki Tsongas, John Conyers, José Serrano, Hank Johnson, and many others, House Resolution 569 condemns "violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States." The Resolution has been referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

That's right: "violence, bigotry and hateful rhetoric." The implications of those five words will fly by most people who read them, and the mainstream media, of course, will do nothing to elucidate them. 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.

That's not what this H. Res. 569 would do, you say? It's just about condemning "hate speech," not free speech? That kind of sloppy reasoning may pass for thought on most campuses today, but there is really no excuse for it. Take, for example, the wife of Paris jihad murderer Samy Amimour - please. It was recently revealed that she happily boasted about his role in the murder of 130 Paris infidels: "I encouraged my husband to leave in order to terrorize the people of France who have so much blood on their hands [...] I'm so proud of my husband and to boast about his virtue, ah la la, I am so happy." Proud wifey added: "As long as you continue to offend Islam and Muslims, you will be potential targets, and not just cops and Jews but everyone."

Now Samy Amimour's wife sounds as if she would be very happy with H. Res. 569, and its sponsors would no doubt gladly avow that we should stop offending Islam and Muslims - that is, cut out the "bigotry" and "hateful rhetoric." If we are going to be "potential targets" even if we're not "cops" or "Jews," as long as we "continue to offend Islam and Muslims," then the obvious solution, according to the Western intelligentsia, is to stop doing anything that might offend Islam and Muslims - oh, and stop being cops and Jews. Barack "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam" says it. Hillary "We're going to have that filmmaker arrested" Clinton says it. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, certain that anyone who speaks honestly about Islam and jihad is a continuing danger to the Church, says it.

And it should be easy. What offends Islam and Muslims? It ought to be a simple matter to cross those things off our list, right? Making a few sacrifices for the sake of our future of glorious diversity should be a no-brainer for every millennial, and everyone of every age who is concerned about "hate," right? So let's see. Drawing Muhammad - that's right out. And of course, Christmas celebrations, officially banned this year in three Muslim countries and frowned upon (at best) in many others, will have to go as well. Alcohol and pork? Not in public, at least. Conversion from Islam to Christianity? No more of that. Building churches? Come on, you've got to be more multicultural!

Everyone agrees. The leaders of free societies are eagerly lining up to relinquish those freedoms. The glorious diversity of our multicultural future demands it. And that future will be grand indeed, a gorgeous mosaic, as everyone assures us, once those horrible "Islamophobes" are forcibly silenced. Everyone will applaud that. Most won't even remember, once the jihad agenda becomes clear and undeniable to everyone in the U.S. on a daily basis and no one is able to say a single thing about it, that there used to be some people around who tried to warn them.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigotry; blasphemylaw; cair; freespeech; hatefulrhetoric; hatespeech; houseresolution; hr569; islam; obamamuslims; radicalislam; resolution; sharia; usblasphemylaw; usjihad; ussharia
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1 posted on 12/29/2015 9:26:08 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

They should call it the “American Shariah Act”


2 posted on 12/29/2015 9:27:45 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Whenifhow

Islam is completely incompatible with our way of life

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.).


3 posted on 12/29/2015 9:28:49 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Whenifhow

Then they need to add Catholicism and all other religions to their bill.


4 posted on 12/29/2015 9:28:50 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Whenifhow

and just one article down the page:

Exclusive - Islamic State ruling aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3377706/posts


5 posted on 12/29/2015 9:28:51 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Whenifhow

“And it should be easy. What offends Islam and Muslims? “

Answer: Everything! They are like Liberal Democrats on steroids! Both groups have made “being offended” their “life’s work.”


6 posted on 12/29/2015 9:29:00 AM PST by vette6387
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To: PGR88

What’s worse is that the GOPe will line up to vote for it!


7 posted on 12/29/2015 9:29:21 AM PST by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: Whenifhow

Islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.


8 posted on 12/29/2015 9:29:31 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Rubio not voting on OmniSpend is RINO for 'smart'.)
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To: Whenifhow

Yes, because chopping off heads and stoning wives is such a respectable thing to do.

Geez. How can these clowns even think about this BS?

Pray America is waking to the left’s brainwashing of the masses.


9 posted on 12/29/2015 9:29:34 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Whenifhow

Islamophobia?

It is not irrational to fear evil


10 posted on 12/29/2015 9:29:53 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Whenifhow
Ha haaaa!!! In your face, DemocRATS!

There ain't no way you're going to get such legislation passed with rock-ribbed Conservatives like Paul Ryan running The House.

Am I right, Paul? Up high!

Paul?

Paul?

Bueller?

Anybody?

11 posted on 12/29/2015 9:30:03 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Whenifhow

Proof that my tagline is our only option!


12 posted on 12/29/2015 9:30:17 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Whenifhow
Where are the liberals screaming separation of church and State?
13 posted on 12/29/2015 9:30:21 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Whenifhow

14 posted on 12/29/2015 9:31:30 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Rubio not voting on OmniSpend is RINO for 'smart'.)
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To: Whenifhow

Good luck with that one.


15 posted on 12/29/2015 9:32:00 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: gr8eman

Yeppers.

Even though the GOP has the majority in both houses, it’s worthless.


16 posted on 12/29/2015 9:32:05 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
...by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion.

Sounds like what democrats do.

17 posted on 12/29/2015 9:32:21 AM PST by HIDEK6
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To: Whenifhow

The true danger here is that the Republicans have a penchant for giving democrats their way.

We may not make it until 2017.


18 posted on 12/29/2015 9:32:24 AM PST by dforest
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To: Whenifhow

The usual suspects.


19 posted on 12/29/2015 9:32:26 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Whenifhow

Anyone remember when Hillary’s State Department condemned free speech immediately following the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Egypt a few hours before the attack in Benghazi? Hillary is all for suppressing free speech as well.

Slaveholders do not like free speech.


20 posted on 12/29/2015 9:32:54 AM PST by petitfour (Americans need to repent.)
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