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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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To: Whenifhow
The GOP should push for a law making it illegal to criticize Tea Party members... or evangelicals.

Liberals are too vile to catch the insult but it just might give the little totalitarians pause.

81 posted on 12/29/2015 10:33:33 AM PST by GOPJ (Trump's instincts are as formidable as his courage,he sees the nation bleeding out..DWest)
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To: lonevoice

ping!


82 posted on 12/29/2015 10:34:28 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: rigelkentaurus
These "people" in Washington D.C. are NOT human. They are monsters >

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83 posted on 12/29/2015 10:34:59 AM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Whenifhow

What needs to be repeated over and over again is “There is no provision in The Constitution to prevent people from being offended.”


84 posted on 12/29/2015 10:35:28 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: Salvation

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

Just add Christianity.


85 posted on 12/29/2015 10:35:44 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Uncle Miltie

My take on Islam...

Islam is not a religion,
It is a ideology based on world domination masquerading as a religion.
No other religion requires total submission or death.
Islam does.!
ISLAM IS TERRORISM BY IT’S VERY NATURE


86 posted on 12/29/2015 10:37:15 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Whenifhow

THE REFUGEES ARE NOT REALLY REFUGEES.

THEY’RE AN “INVASION FROM ISIS”.

And .. if we don’t figure this out pretty soon .. there isn’t going to be an America to fix.


87 posted on 12/29/2015 10:39:01 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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To: Whenifhow

Islam is a violent world domination ideology cleverly disguised as a religion and the democrat party is their biggest supporter.


88 posted on 12/29/2015 10:40:53 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Whenifhow

There are Jihadists all over Twitter planning their next move.

Let’s not criticize them though.

http://www.popsci.com/terror-on-twitter-how-isis-is-taking-war-to-social-media


89 posted on 12/29/2015 10:44:05 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Soul of the South

Oh yeah. And Linda Graham will be the first one who can’t wait to co-sponsor it and vote for it.


90 posted on 12/29/2015 10:46:27 AM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Whenifhow
Democrats condone be-headings of children, women, Christians, and anyone who does not believe as Muslims/Islamist's do. Democrats cleave to unwanted children being terminated before birth. Democrats are no more....Progressives have replaced any remnant of the original Democrat......

,GO AHEAD AND TRY

91 posted on 12/29/2015 10:50:20 AM PST by yoe (FONT)
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To: DoodleDawg
Someone want to explain to Mr. Spencer the difference between a resolution and a bill?

Understand what you are saying and it is a vital difference BUT do you doubt that these same 'Representatives' would vote in favor of it if it were a bill?

92 posted on 12/29/2015 10:51:59 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: SES1066
Understand what you are saying and it is a vital difference BUT do you doubt that these same 'Representatives' would vote in favor of it if it were a bill?

You can speculate on it all you want. The fact is that either the author of the piece doesn't know the difference between a bill and a resolution, or he does and was being deliberately misleading.

93 posted on 12/29/2015 10:53:30 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Whenifhow
Let me, as one who personally holds no animosity against any religion on earth, observe that such a law as that proposed, is totally in violation of the explicit language of the First Amendment. The right to freely exercise religion cannot be confined in a vacuum; cannot be confined to merely affirming particular beliefs. It inherently includes the right to be critical of other beliefs.

That the Congressional Left does not understand this, demonstrates how clearly we have fallen into a knee jerk acceptance of what is clearly a form of egalitarian/collectivist totalitarianism.

94 posted on 12/29/2015 10:55:51 AM PST by Ohioan
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To: Whenifhow
Official Title as Introduced:

Condemning violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States.

(HERE) IS A LIST OF ALL THE POLITICALLY CORRECT WHO ARE FOR SOCIAL ENGINEERING MAKING FREE AMERICANS BOW TO SHARIA LAW. VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE!! OBAMA BOWS TO ISLAM AND THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY FOLLOWS HIS BIDDING.

If you congress rep. is on this list....surely you know what to do!

95 posted on 12/29/2015 11:02:09 AM PST by yoe
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To: Whenifhow
Official Title as Introduced:

Condemning violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslims in the United States.

(HERE) IS A LIST OF ALL THE POLITICALLY CORRECT WHO ARE FOR SOCIAL ENGINEERING MAKING FREE AMERICANS BOW TO SHARIA LAW. VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE!! OBAMA BOWS TO ISLAM AND THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY FOLLOWS HIS BIDDING.

If you congress rep. is on this list....surely you know what to do!

96 posted on 12/29/2015 11:02:21 AM PST by yoe
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To: Whenifhow

bkmk


97 posted on 12/29/2015 11:06:15 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Campion; DoodleDawg; CodeToad

Thanks to you all for your input

Someone want to explain to Mr. Spencer the difference between a resolution and a bill?
This is H.R. 569
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/569/text

This is H.Res 569
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-resolution/569/text

and

It’s a *resolution*, people, expressing an *opinion*. It doesn’t “criminalize” anything; there is no penalty clause, it doesn’t become a law even if it passes.

and

“, it doesn’t become a law even if it passes.”

But we know liberals will eventually make it law. They always signal their intentions with “resolutions”.


98 posted on 12/29/2015 11:24:13 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow

Keep this list to primary them out. Attack them relentlessly and hang tweet videos of Dr. Warner (Center for Studies of Political Islam) so that all their followers know what they are trying to defend.


99 posted on 12/29/2015 11:35:13 AM PST by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: amorphous
Islam is an ideology...a set of laws, (Sharia Law) none of which are compatible in any way with the United States Constitution or any Free Society.

As stated: Islam has encoded in its teachings- murder, lying, plunder, slavery, rape, warfare, and even terrorism as part of its official religious doctrine. Jesus said that the thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy, and this is exactly what Islam has done from its beginning. No other religion so completely fits the description in the Bible of the beast and false prophet than Islam.

As an IDEOLOGY Islam is NOT religion any more than the EPA is (though some think it is a religion). Islam is a form of Government framed by Sharia Law.....Islam is anything but a true religion, it is not a biblical endeavor any more than drastic social reforms like Snake Handlers or Shakers...a way to control people through a 'religious' Mythology.

Ms. Lynch, from orders issued by her boss who favors Islam over Christianity has threatened our First Amendment, that of free speech....while doing nothing about the Hate Speech bespoken by Black Lives Matter...to Kill Police.....really Ms. Lynch, you are a lap dog for Obama... A disgrace to your race and your citizenship as an American..your word is just as vacuous as his when promising to preserve and protect...........or anything for that matter...just another corrupt little cog in a fraud's wheel.

100 posted on 12/29/2015 11:50:56 AM PST by yoe
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