The verbal assault on Islam (unbelievable!)

WaPost/Newsweak ^ | 5/4/10 | Muqtedar Khan

[pissant]

Director, Islamic Studies, U. of Delaware Muqtedar Khan

Associate professor, political science and international relations; Fellow of the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding.

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Q: What is the obligation of a Western, democratic government to protect individual freedoms in light of a realistic terrorist threat? Are the producers of South Park right to forfeit their freedom of expression in the interests of protecting their employees? Are the governments of Europe right to ban burqas in the interest of fostering a more open society?

It is disingenuous to talk about individual cases of mockery of Islam and Islamic symbols purely in the context of the right to freedom of expression. Every nasty episode designed to deliberately insult and mock Islam and its symbols, even as Western powers occupy Muslim lands, must be seen in the global political context. The verbal assault on Islam can be seen as an extension of the military assault that is waged everyday in Afghanistan and Palestine, and the legal assault that deprives Muslims of the right to free expression. Words and cartoons can be hate crimes too.

[Moltke]

**Standing ovation**

That a$$hat is actually a department director at a US university? The mind boggles.

[goodnesswins]

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[haroldeveryman]

“They have curtailed many civil liberties, reduced the standards of habeas corpus significantly and profiled Muslims legally all in the name of combating terrorist threats.”
“The West continues to brag about its culture of freedom of expression and uses it as an excuse to mock Islam.”

These two statements, made by a disgruntled Islamic studies professor, could just as easily have been quotes made by Baraq Obama or Eric Holder in recent press conferences or speeches. The idea that natural rights like habeas corpus be applied to foreign combatants or terrorists has always been rejected throughout our history in favor of military tribunals, until our dynamic duo decided to put KSM on trial in New York.

And just as the professor wants to limit the right of American citizens to freely express ideas he doesn’t like, our leftist political leadership is currently seeking to intimidate their domestic conservative critics with specious accusations of “sedition”.

Incidentally, I would like to point out to the professor that while making it illegal for Muslim women to wear a burqa was seriously considered in France, nobody would even dream of that happening here. Not unless our concept of “natural rights”, of which he obviously disapproves, is abandoned in favor of European “human rights”. The same can be said about making “holocaust denial” illegal.

[LibertyRocks]

Thank you. I felt like standing up and clapping at the end of that one!!!

I wish your letter could be printed everywhere in America and overseas, too... Just so we can all make ourselves clear and all.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you, FRiend. Saved your post for later reading. What a WEEK! FRegards ....