October 20, 2009, - 1:54 pm
Even Lefty Lawyer For Terrorists Upset: “Obama Limits Free Speech to Please Muslims”
This is scary, but not something we didn’t have a warning about. It started when we wouldn’t let American soldiers in Iraq have Playboys or get pork products because we didn’t want to offend the various species we were “liberating” to make a greater Iran. This is just the natural progression of that.
Even Terrorist Sami Al-Arian’s Lawyer, Jonathan Turley, Says . . .
. . . Barack Obama Is Helping Muslims Destroy 1st Amendment
But when even a far-left liberal lawyer, Jonathan Turley, who represented Islamic terrorist Sami Al-Arian, is upset, that should tell you something about the dire nature of the situation we are in–the disturbing extent to which the Barack Hussein Obama administration is willing to take away our freedoms to appease our Islamic enemies. This guy, Turley, is in bed with the worst forces in ACLU-dom when it comes to Muslims and Islamic terrorists, and even he acknowledges that, hey, Obama’s giving up our First Amendment to make nice with the Arab Street.
Around the world, free speech is being sacrificed on the altar of religion. Whether defined as hate speech, discrimination or simple blasphemy, governments are declaring unlimited free speech as the enemy of freedom of religion. This growing movement has reached the United Nations, where religiously conservative countries received a boost in their campaign to pass an international blasphemy law. It came from the most unlikely of places: the United States.
While attracting surprisingly little attention, the Obama administration supported the effort of largely Muslim nations in the U.N. Human Rights Council to recognize exceptions to free speech for any “negative racial and religious stereotyping.” The exception was made as part of a resolution supporting free speech that passed this month, but it is the exception, not the rule that worries civil libertarians. Though the resolution was passed unanimously, European and developing countries made it clear that they remain at odds on the issue of protecting religions from criticism. It is viewed as a transparent bid to appeal to the “Muslim street” and our Arab allies, with the administration seeking greater coexistence through the curtailment of objectionable speech. . . . It is . . . viewed as a victory for those who sought to juxtapose and balance the rights of speech and religion.
In the resolution, the administration aligned itself with Egypt, which has long been criticized for prosecuting artists, activists and journalists for insulting Islam.For example, Egypt recently banned a journal that published respected poet Helmi Salem merely because one of his poems compared God to a villager who feeds ducks and milks cows. The Egyptian ambassador to the U.N., Hisham Badr, wasted no time in heralding the new consensus with the U.S. that “freedom of expression has been sometimes misused” and showing that the “true nature of this right” must yield government limitations.
His U.S. counterpart, Douglas Griffiths, heralded “this joint project with Egypt” and supported the resolution to achieve “tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” While not expressly endorsing blasphemy prosecutions, the administration departed from other Western allies in supporting efforts to balance free speech against the protecting of religious groups.
Thinly disguised blasphemy laws are often defended as necessary to protect the ideals of tolerance and pluralism. They ignore the fact that the laws achieve tolerance through the ultimate act of intolerance: criminalizing the ability of some individuals to denounce sacred or sensitive values. . . .
Blasphemy prosecutions in the West appear to have increased after the riots by Muslims following the publication of cartoons disrespecting prophet Mohammed in Denmark in 2005. Rioters killed Christians, burned churches and called for the execution of the cartoonists. While Western countries publicly defended free speech, some quietly moved to deter those who’d cause further controversies through unpopular speech.
In Britain, it is a crime to “abuse” or “threaten” a religion under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006. A 15-year-old boy was charged last year for holding up a sign outside a Scientology building declaring, “Scientology is not a religion, it is a dangerous cult. “In France, famed actress Brigitte Bardot was convicted for saying in 2006 that Muslims were ruining France in a letter to then-Interior Minister (and now President) Nicolas Sarkozy. This year, Ireland joined this self-destructive trend with a blasphemy law that calls for the prosecution of anyone who writes or utters views deemed “grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion; and he or she intends, by the publication of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.”
Consider just a few such Western “blasphemy” cases in the past two years . . . .The “blasphemy” cases include the prosecution of writers for calling Mohammed a “pedophile” because of his marriage to 6-year-old Aisha (which was consummated when she was 9). A far-right legislator in Austria, a publisher in India and a city councilman in Finland have been prosecuted for repeating this view of the historical record. . . .
The public and private curtailment on religious criticism threatens religious and secular speakers alike. However, the fear is that, when speech becomes sacrilegious, only the religious will have true free speech. It is a danger that has become all the more real after the decision of the Obama administration to join in the effort to craft a new faith-based speech standard.
Uh, no, not “only the religious” will have true free speech. Only the MUSLIM religious will. This is their salvo. And they’re making scary inroads, with Barack Hussein Obama’s help.
G-d save the West. The humans you created are doing everything they can to destroy it.
Tags: 1st Amendment, attorney, Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Obama, Douglas Griffiths, Egypt, First Amendment, Free Speech, Hisham Badr, Islam, Islamic, Jonathan Turley, lawyer, Muslims, Sami Al-Arian, terrorist, U.N Human Rights Council, UN Human Rights Council, USA Today
Since Muslims are in favor of banning “negative religious stereotyping”, then that must mean they’re going remove a few hundred verses from the quran.
Examples: “those who say Jesus is God are blasphemers”, “jews are most greedy of this life”, “the greatest enemies of Muslims are Jews and Pagans”, “Christianity is a monstrous belief”.
There are literally hundreds more just like these.
Double standards are great when they go in your favor.
stevecanuck on October 20, 2009 at 2:40 pm